#and if he thinks 'oh well Olaf Tryggvason was a tyrant-in-the-modern-sense'

[nimblermortal]

How many warriors are there? About sixty. Ten who look fully trained, 30 who are equipped farmers, and twenty hoodlums.

Saw a figure years ago saying that every one medieval soldier needed a hundred people tilling the land, etc, to support him. So that argues for a thousand people (we're not counting the cops or the priests here, the temples are supporting them externally), which is a weird number combined with 'thirty farmers'. Ten farmers with a shared hobby? Medieval Norwegian definition of 'farmer'? Or, if we assume each farmer has a spouse and five living children and two aged parents at home, and only half the town came to this meeting (which is a high number), that's 60 times 9 is 540. If only half the people at the meeting stayed to fight, that puts us around 1000 again, and I'll admit I'm biased by previous estimates but that's still 25% of the population rising up to overthrow oppressive rule. Tell that to the Three Percenters.

(I suspect Matt meant to say something like, 'This is about half the adult population, if every farmer has a spouse to stay home with the kids, so a population of around 150 or so, but we've established that Matt doesn't know what he's talking about.)

(Not that I want to give the impression that I do. But let's just say that when the King or Norway went to war in the 1000s, he expected to have an army of around 400 most of the time.)

Matt Mercer, a man who has never lived in a small town: Bundles of vegetation being transported from one end of town to another... everything they would need to be a self-sufficient little village... there isn't a lot of talking... multiple may poles... multiple policemen who live locally...