Talk:Goblin Army/@comment-35924610-20180720124742/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180721021218

It is unlikely that there are 5000 Goblins.

While the Goblin Army was large enough to decisively rout the 5000 men under Barbro, those men were mostly conscripts with a core of 'elites' around level 10. That force was already having severe difficulty overcoming 5 ogres, a few dozen goblins, and less than a hundred human peasents.

If the Goblin Army consists mostly of goblins similar or higher in level compared to the Goblin Troop, it wouldn't really take anything like numerical parity to turn things into a one-sided slaughter.

However, there are 9 times as many goblins as all other inhabitants of the village. Since the children were being evaculated, and the Runesmiths and their immediate families have been added, and probably there has been at least some additional immigration, the non-goblin population should be about 200+, meaning the Goblin army should be 1800+. Two Thousand seems like a nice round number.

If there were 5000 goblins, then that would mean there were over 500 non-goblin inhabitants of the village, and we have no indications that such a radical increase in the village occurred.