How many people were living in Steadhold before the sacking?
More math!
So first let's establish a few things. One the Outer Ring would be considered a Small Town, for my purposes I've always started at the base 600 of a Hamlet and multiplied by 5 for the next tier, i.e. Hamlet:600>>Small Town:3,000>>Large Town:15,000>>Small City:75,000>>Large City:375,000 (This is mostly based on King's Landing have a population of 500,000. Which is absurd, but whatever. I assume the largest player owned holding would be comparable.) Regardless ~3000 is where we're at.
Two, the Malroy forces were 1600 strong (assuming immediately on the onset of Robert's Rebellion), with 100 knights, so 1700.
Third let's assume the castle staff is on the higher side, so 250, and another 50 for personal servants, etc. to give us 300.
In the end that gives pre-Sack Steadhold a population of about 5000. Which is hefty.
House Malroy prior to the Rebellion had 2 primary Domains, with House Redward owning a 3rd and the shared land between Langward and Malroy that the latter now owns fully. They also had a Population score of 29(less than what we're working with now) but only spread out between the primary two, thus giving us a rural population of 5800.
Another bonus thought. I might want to rethink my Populationx200 formula. I don't think it makes a lot of sense in the grander scale of things. I've read that historically it takes 7-10 rural people to provide for 1 urban dweller, the Art of War states it takes 7 people to provide for 1 solider (assuming Chinese systems of 8 per block). So with a city of 5000 people the rural population of 5800 would be too little to properly feed, cloth, arm, etc. the city without constant threat of famine. Beyond that I've read that Westeros on the whole has a population of 40 Million and the Crownlands perhaps owns 1.5 Million of that it would make more sense for Population scores to correspond to a much higher amount of smallfolk rural population. Perhaps Populationx700 would be more appropriate? Not sure.
So first let's establish a few things. One the Outer Ring would be considered a Small Town, for my purposes I've always started at the base 600 of a Hamlet and multiplied by 5 for the next tier, i.e. Hamlet:600>>Small Town:3,000>>Large Town:15,000>>Small City:75,000>>Large City:375,000 (This is mostly based on King's Landing have a population of 500,000. Which is absurd, but whatever. I assume the largest player owned holding would be comparable.) Regardless ~3000 is where we're at.
Two, the Malroy forces were 1600 strong (assuming immediately on the onset of Robert's Rebellion), with 100 knights, so 1700.
Third let's assume the castle staff is on the higher side, so 250, and another 50 for personal servants, etc. to give us 300.
In the end that gives pre-Sack Steadhold a population of about 5000. Which is hefty.
House Malroy prior to the Rebellion had 2 primary Domains, with House Redward owning a 3rd and the shared land between Langward and Malroy that the latter now owns fully. They also had a Population score of 29(less than what we're working with now) but only spread out between the primary two, thus giving us a rural population of 5800.
Another bonus thought. I might want to rethink my Populationx200 formula. I don't think it makes a lot of sense in the grander scale of things. I've read that historically it takes 7-10 rural people to provide for 1 urban dweller, the Art of War states it takes 7 people to provide for 1 solider (assuming Chinese systems of 8 per block). So with a city of 5000 people the rural population of 5800 would be too little to properly feed, cloth, arm, etc. the city without constant threat of famine. Beyond that I've read that Westeros on the whole has a population of 40 Million and the Crownlands perhaps owns 1.5 Million of that it would make more sense for Population scores to correspond to a much higher amount of smallfolk rural population. Perhaps Populationx700 would be more appropriate? Not sure.
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