amysrevenge
Well-Known Member
I'm struggling to keep up with the pace of the discussion (as someone who is still able to work full time while practicing social distancing I have less time, not more, now that I also have to be a part-time homeschool teacher on top of it).
When, a few pages ago, I suggested Bereg take a larger population of Men away, I was throwing a number out at random. I don't literally mean "ten thousand", I mean "a very much larger proportion of the total population than might be there in the PubSil". I don't know what the House of Beor looks like, population-wise, at that point in the story. But what if Bereg walks away with 60% of them? You get two victories then - Sauron wins because so many Men are out of the picture, and real-Amlach wins because it very well could have been almost 100%.
You can still make it all work for later population sizes by making the initial size of the House of Beor enough larger that the remainder are still the same size as what we want to have still around - it's only the people who go away that there are more of.
When, a few pages ago, I suggested Bereg take a larger population of Men away, I was throwing a number out at random. I don't literally mean "ten thousand", I mean "a very much larger proportion of the total population than might be there in the PubSil". I don't know what the House of Beor looks like, population-wise, at that point in the story. But what if Bereg walks away with 60% of them? You get two victories then - Sauron wins because so many Men are out of the picture, and real-Amlach wins because it very well could have been almost 100%.
You can still make it all work for later population sizes by making the initial size of the House of Beor enough larger that the remainder are still the same size as what we want to have still around - it's only the people who go away that there are more of.