Talk:Horn of the Goblin General/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180501225940

The size of the goblin army is not specified. It is significantly more powerful than an army of 5,000 humans, mostly conscripts, but it needs to be considered that this army was already having considerable difficulty with 19 goblins, 5 ogres, and an unknown number of villagers (probably significantly less than a hundred).

In volume 11, it is mentioned that the number of goblin army residents is over 90% of the population of Carne Village. The rest of the population should still be mostly an underpopulated communal villiage (social dynamics of humans would indicate that this would be less than 200 adults, possibly much less) plus the dwarven runesmiths (perhaps a dozen) and the survivors of the original.

So a force size between one and three thousand would be plausible, given this information. A middling-low figure like 1500 seems highly plausible and consistent, a size much over 2,000 far less so.