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peopleofthedas2010-11-20 03:26 pm
zute) wrote in peopleofthedas2010-11-20 03:26 pm
How big is a division?
I apologize for another lame-ass question, but in the story I'm writing now this actually has relevance. It's the difference between paranoia and reasonable concern.
When you rescue Riordan he tells you that Loghain had turned away 200 Grey Wardens and two dozen divisions of cavalry. When I looked up division sizes I got utterly enormous numbers like 10,000 for single light infantry division, in the modern army. I'm sure that must be vastly larger than in middle ages terms.
Does anyone have a feel for how many actually people that would be?
My thanks!
Zute
When you rescue Riordan he tells you that Loghain had turned away 200 Grey Wardens and two dozen divisions of cavalry. When I looked up division sizes I got utterly enormous numbers like 10,000 for single light infantry division, in the modern army. I'm sure that must be vastly larger than in middle ages terms.
Does anyone have a feel for how many actually people that would be?
My thanks!
Zute
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If you talk to Eamon, he's pretty clear on that Loghain is the best/most expected person for the job (other than Alistair, of course). Arguably, he's not fighting a civil war...it's Eamon, Teagan, the Grey Wardens, etc. who are. So he's got a choice to either let all sides pull away from each other (probably dooming the country to a Blight - at least Eamon seems to think so), or force them to all work along.
It's somewhat analogous to Lincoln's decisions in the Civil War (although arguably much less so, as Lincoln may have been acting unconstitutionally, didn't have a Blight as a threat, etc.)