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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Conaill" data-source="post: 1090116" data-attributes="member: 1264">What size armies does this fort need to defend against? Are we talking thousands? Tens of thoudsands? Or maybe just hundreds at a time, if the Northern lands are a bunch of CE tribes without much unity among them.A standard castle can probably hold up against a 10-to-one force. With excellent use of terrain (as in a mountain pass, where the enemy can only approach and attack the walls in a piecemeal fashion), this could easily climb up to 50-to-1 or more. I'm guesstimating these numbers, so if anyone knows enough about siege warfare to correct me, feel free... (Constantinople was 19-to-1, Alesia 7-to-1 or 2-to-1 depending on who you believe, Dros Delnoch was 50-to-1.)So if in the past the laregest armies that have been repulsed by this fort have been around 10,000 men, then the fort should be able to hold at least around 200 combatants, plus support personnel. If attacks have been sparse or uncoordinated, it may carry a lot fewer than that.</blockquote>