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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NewJeffCT" data-source="post: 1091305" data-attributes="member: 10784">Communication is very important.  What is the magic level of your world?  How far is the distance from Ice Eagle Fortress (IEF) to the two fortresses to the South?  If there is an emergency at Ice Eagle, how do they communicate back to the Church and the other forts to the South for reinforcements?  Is it via magical means, some non-magical signaling, pony express, etc?  How fast could a relief force reach IEF from these locations?  If a message takes a month to get South, then there is time to mobilize the troops and march back north, it could be 80-90 days.Also, there would likely be scouts & rangers about in the mountains ranging for miles into the mountains to warn IEF of possible incoming bad guys.  5,000 goblins are not going to be quiet, even at the night and trying to be quiet.  A ranger or druid may have some animal companion that can fly as well.  In addition, as I and others mentioned above, there are probably smaller watch towers/border forts farther in to the mountains to serve as bases for these scouts & rangers, and a base for more formal patrols.  The paladin guy has been there for a long time, so he will know what is required in the amount of troops stationed in the towers, how big a patrol should be, how many scouts are out and about, etc.It would be very hard for IEF to be surprised by a large force of goblinoids.  Any significant force is going to leave signs and make noise and also move slower than a single scout can move on his or her own, even if they are on a forced march.  This will allow IEF to withdraw the family members back to a safe distance.  The fortress himself would require that at least some support personal stay within the fortress for emergency weapon/armor repairs, new horseshoes, repair of torn leather/clothes, healing, etc.</blockquote>

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