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Originally Posted by Nuranar
And thanks for the answers, Kransha. So, there's around 100 military types, around 50 king-civilians, and, say, 75 plain civilians? I can work with that.
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Nuranar, this is the number that left fornost. After the engagement with the orcs, I would say that only about 50 or so guardsmen and the king's own guards remained.
When the refugees first arrived in the Dwarven halls, the King ordered the refugees to divide themselves into groups of ten or twenties.
However I don't think Belegorn or Hirvegil would have approved of the king's plan. I assume that depsite his own words, the king's entourage would comprise of the antire 50ish aristocrats, nobles and members of his household together with the entire company of King's bodybody guards. That would easily number over seventy.
With the King's guards gone, what's left would be at the most twenty over guardsmen and the 75 plain civilians (how did you get this number anyway?). To parcel out the 75 with their respective escorts out into groups of at most twenty would dilute the guardsmen's ability to maintain security and lead too greatly, therefore I should think Belegorn only divided the guardsmen and refugees into halves. And because he was ordered by Mellonar to command one column together with carthor in it, it was only logical to assume that the "leaderless" group was assigned with more men to compensate. That would mean that Belegorn's group would have only about ten men or so (he was counting on the elves for their support also).
Carthor took Scout D and a couple of men along (say six) and that left the group with about four left. The remaining followed belegorn around and hence the column was more or less, hehe unguarded!