Assault on Darkshire - Discussion

[Weiss Schnee]

This is new information. Either that or I'm fantastically oblivious, which is also possible, as I tend to do my posting after one in the morning.  

Applying the math and assumptions from the previous figures , that would put Darkshire's forces at between 1000 and 1500 soldiers.

I know there are small villages, but I'm near-to-positive Darkshire doesn't have any outlying military outposts or mines, and there's a fair amount of farmland in the area immediately surrounding the city - or at least, that's how people seem to be playing it, and the 'rolling fields' part of the 'verse description seems to bear it out.  

The other issue with drawing Primes away from the defense is that pretty much every Prime on the defenders side is either deeply invested in Darkshire specifically, a strategist themselves, or not exactly what you'd call a humanitarian. The only outright hero in the group who comes to mind is Ash...ish.

Given Darkshire's "self-sufficient", while if people are really against Darkshire having these things I won't force the issue, They should need to be getting their food, wood, metal, water supply, and etc. from somewhere nearby - It's been noted a bunch that the other verses aren't really closely connected with Darkshire, and given it's actually beefed up it's military recently, to my knowledge, it would need a lot of resources to maintain it.
This is also me thinking that the whole of Darkshire's only a few kilometers large town though - if it's some sprawling thing like minas tirith, much of this could be in the gates - and given that the idea of it being less than 10,000 people instead of 30,000 like was thought before, I had a much different picture of how much land would need to be relegated to crops. that brings it closer to 40 kilometers of farmland instead of around a hundred and fifty.

Regardless, if people are really certain Darkshire has no outlying territories, I guess I won't fight the status quo, though this requires significant retcons to my posts at this point. I would find it odd if the large walled city with a fairly buffed-up garrison wasn't getting resources from somewhere though, to trade if not to actually keep their own quality of life and etc. going. Especially with the necessity for supplies to outlast a siege needed.

Regardless, it was mostly a way for people to look for specific 1v1's they might want OoC, and a way to add a bit more to the siege. If people are uninterested we can say Kerrigan, Illidan and Skeletor rolled through some cocky secondaries, cut off any outlying support, and there's now refugees causing some panic and confusion in darkshire.