Securing your position...

[kalos72]

As some of you may know, my campaign that I am working on is based in NYC. Staten Island/Long Island and Manhattan specifically.

After reading all these logs about how certain divisions cant hold the area they have against marauders and that they are losing precious farm lands, it made me wonder, how do you secure your farmland when we are talking about 100-1000's of acres?

I supposes you could build a wall but with this large an area we are talking about 4-8-16 miles of wall for some. Not only that but you would need to patrol or place guard posts on those 16 miles too. Say you place one every 100yards - thats 200-300 posts - thats 600 men - for 2-3 shifts - thats 1800 men to just watch the wall.

Then the question that bothers me most, considering the area I am looking at is listed at almost half a million population according to canon, how do you defend against a swarm of 60000 people trying to run you over to take your food? Remember The Last Submarine tells tales of that happening and wiping out entire military bases.

So considering the concept of a large cantonment of military personal trying to produce food for some large population center, whats to keep that population from just saying "screw you guys" and taking what they want?

The only thing I could come up with is that perhaps if the local population knows you are there only chance then maybe they would work with you instead of against you. Or that perhaps the tales of walls of people over running a base were back when people were still localized and desperate. After a few years the local population has dwindled to only what the area can feed, if not very poorly.

I dont know... :/