> Also, they would have to have more than 20 in such a place. The minimum
> garrison in any fort I can see is a
> company/syntagma/century/Eleventh/Hundredth etc. Why? Because they really
> don't garrison the rural areas at all, its all focussed in key points and
> strategic fortresses - think power projection, not activity subjugation.
So you think that the Empire does not permanently deploys troops in the country to make all of Sartar feel its presence? These forts wouldn't be there only to oversee tribal policies, btw, but also to serve as collection outposts (especially in Lismelder lands... Somebody will have to pay for all those duck heads!), missions and legal (lunar) courts.
After all there would be more or less twenty such forts (one for each tribe). So perhaps they can afford a stronger garrison. Changing slightly topic: how many people can be supported with levies? How much is invested locally and how much is sent somewhere else (to the Governor, to the Provincial Overseer, to the Emperor)?
Also, are all the taxes paid in goods (or heads)? No imposed work?
> I can only wonder as to what the poor bugger has done to deserve posting to a
> 30 man fort when he is of general rank. Also, given his Dara Happan status,
> why does he not have a Dara Happan name? Plunder GRoY or FS for sources of
> names for Pelorians and Entekosiad is a great source for Pelandans and
> Carmanians.
Cheap humor, mainly. Lercius Crassus stands for "lercio crasso", that is to say very dirty and coarse. And IIRC it is more or less the same name he has in Tales.
> At best, there might be a small Wyter there, the main defence will be the
> troops and the magics of the troops. If there is a sorcerer there, then
> there might be a little more long term stuff, but HW is ill suited for the
> layered minefield RQ defences we've seen in the past IMO.
No "Protect the perimeter of the fort" ritual/feats? No engineering magic? A pity! IMO he lunar army would have developed such magic, maybe as a part of the unit magic, with every unit having its ways of camping and building defenses but all of them harmonized by Lunar inclusive magic.
-- Regards, Alexandre. "Cos'é venuta prima, l'idea dell'albero o la sua percezione?"
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