Zoners again are Fd!!

[Thunderer]

The 1.8M Bretonian marines would be an overkill even if Bretonia hadn't been in such dire situation at the time. I think it's safe to assume your ordinary House military personnel is better trained and equipped than any force the ragtag locals of Gran Canaria could scrounge up. Not to mention the support of an entire battlegroup (however ancient its flagship may be).

Still puzzled how we ended up with the number of marines equal to more than twice the entire population of GC. An oversight by those in charge of the story, perhaps? Wouldn't mind, if the 1.8M number got retconned a bit (or explained to be Bretonian propaganda).

I think they are that many because a Corsair counter-attack was expected. The population of Planet Crete is 600 million, so they shouldn't have a problem assembling an army of 2 million. Logistics would be an issue, but devmagic can solve that one.

Alternatively, maybe it was predicted that the planet would come under orbital bombardment, so they used the Chinese strategy against nuclear war: simply have more people than enemy ammunition can kill.

Propaganda originally seemed as the best explanation to me, but I don't know any more, so I just write my RP as if there truly are that many. Not my fault if someone does a retcon

@"Chance" Groshyr is very strange indeed. Sad? Possibly. It's usually sad people that develop a sense of humour as a natural anti-depressant.

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