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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ForceUser" data-source="post: 1087818" data-attributes="member: 2785">If I were tackling this project, I would place the fort across or near the only passable route over the mountains. If raiders from the north were a real problem, I would garrison about fifty to two hundred heavy horse, fifty light calvary, three hundred archers, two to five hundred infantry, and a hundred seige engineers to build, maintain, and man the defenses (ballistae, catapults, pitch reserves, pots to dump boiling oil onto enemies with, pikes, pits, ditches, trenches, wall integrity, etc). Whatever final number of combatants I came up with, I'd double that number by adding a like amount of support personnel (cooks, servants, laborers, grooms, etc.). I'd decide whose benefice the fort falls within (probably a marquis because they are traditionally border lords), how powerful that lord is politically and militarily (likely very powerful because a king is entrusting him in the defense of a border), who his allies and enemies are, who he has appointed as castellan of the border fort, who his most trusted knights are (the most trusted is likely the manorial lord of the fort), how many spellcasters he can call upon for aid in a time of need, how many adventurers he can call upon or hire in a time of need, and which church has a chapel within the border fort's walls. Remember that a highly defensible fortress needs fewer defenders and can withstand more lengthy sieges - about a hundred guys in the Alamo held off the entire Mexican army for several days.</blockquote>

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