Board Thread:Lore/@comment-25931200-20150501141636

Sauron had a huge ass army, by every account the force that assulted Gondor was multiple times greater then the one that assulted Helms deep, the thing is, in medieval times there were many potential soldiers around yet actual armies rarely exceeded 30 000 even for large campaigns. The reason is logistics, when such a huge army moves you need supply trains, man need food, horses need hay, and not less important such huge numbers of people produce a lot of bodily waste, which can cause disease to spread if not properly disposed of. While i imagine that orcs, being creatures living in filth all their lives would be imune to most diseases they still need food, besides not all of Sauron's servants were orcs, in LOTR book Tolkien says that most of the food for Sauron's army comes from Rhun but how is it moved all the way too his armies, we hear of no supply trains or anything of that nature, and that is quite a trip, his armies just seem to move about with no resupply whatsoever. 