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As hostilities are brewing between Argentum and Corcyrus, in the novel 'Slaver of Gor', here is a timely reminder of the localised geography of the region (taken from the larger map of Gor that you can find via the ‘reference’ tab on the side bar)
At the present time, Corcyrus has marched three cohorts of warriors across the Issus river, south west of their city, and they now occupy a spearhead position on the Argentum side of that river. One cohort is comprised of professional city regulars, and the other two cohorts are mercenary free companies raised and commanded by the mercenary captain, Dominic of Venna.
A Gorean cohort typically consists of roughly 480 infantry. Bear in mind that this was an age when armies raised by city states ran into thousands of men, maximum. You can assume a typical city state could marshal a maximum of 8,000 warriors at times of crisis, and it would be prohibitively expensive to maintain that size force for too long.
A city state could virtually bankrupt itself by doubling that force with auxiliary mercenary companies.
Dominant city states like Ar could of course field far more troops than the above numbers suggest, not to mention call up troops from vassal states.
So more like Greek city states as opposed to Rome then. Side note:
ReplyDeleteI think you meant "marshal" instead of "martial".
Corrected now! Thank you, Master. And yes, think of city states like in Ancient Greece, or even the Italian Renaissance. Though Ar is clearly modelled after Rome, and Cos seems to be Carthage, in Mr Norman's mind.
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