> > >What strong force? They have "a small number of professional
> > >soldiers"
>
> >What does this mean? Small as opposed to Loskalm? Small as a
> >percentage of population?
>
> A small number seems pretty clear.
>
Not really. What is small? The Gwandor Clan has a small army. They only have 20 huscarls. The Lunar Army is small, less than 5% of the population is under arms. Tarsh has nearly 10%!
How are you defining small? If the Arrolians keep the Dara Happan standards then from the 120,000 population they could easily have 5,000 or more soldiers (plus the ragged peasants and city dwellers).
Also, just because they fled Sheng does not mean they do not know how to fight, it just means they left rather than fight. Sheng's hordes had smashed the cream of the Empire's armies. Why put yourself in his path? Flee to a land where there is no avalanche of horses scouring the land. This does not mean that you cannot fight. It just means that you saw no hope in that fight.
Wesley Quadros
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'Voyage Upon the Oceans of the Mind'
End of The Glorantha Digest V7 #530
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