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Originally Posted by mikeo80
he most important thing that will be lost is the ability of the locals to grow food. If the raids are timed to correspond with harvest time, the locals will be forced to abandon the fields to defend their families. I can see the gangs working their way north in August - October to gather as much food as possible before heading south to avoid the winter. A plague of locusts would cause less devastation that the gangs.
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The timing here is everything. Are the marauders going to harvest and process the crops themselves? Not likely. So the raid will have to occur shortly after the harvest. Intelligent marauders are going to wait until the work has been done for them before pillaging the spoils. That said, when the marauders do roll around, it's still going to suck to be a producer.