[quote=@Eru Iluvatar] Indeed. Terminal and I deduced how many Orcs there would be remaining, and divvied them up between Warbands - but I don't think we wrote anything down. I will double check how large the Warband should be on average. [/quote] We did actually! Each Warband has /approximately/ 5000 Orcs apiece, for free. You can, of course, have fewer Orcs if you would like (you won't get anything for it though). The original forces Sauron was described as being able to field numbered in the hundreds of thousands, partially because of Mordor's excellent strategic placement (impregnable defenses make for an isolated power making military buildups easier without interference) and of course good old-fashioned Maiar Mind Control. Eru reckoned that as much as 80% of those numbers were killed by the Eruption of Mt. Doom alone - a lot of Sauron's legions, even the ones that weren't pulled to Udun, were staged out of the Gorgoroth plains. Only legions remaining in each of the strongholds plus a few oddballs here and there would remain. Most Goblins were similarly killed, and even more by terrestrial and subterranean upheavals (and so there are fewer of them surviving than Orcs). The slave populations around the Nurnen Sea would also have remained unscathed, but would have been comprised largely of Men and Goblins. Alltogether, there should only be between 30-50,000 Warrior Orcs (not counting slaves, of which there could be tens of thousands unaccounted for). remainining in all of Mordor. Less than 10,000 goblins. Less than 2,000 Uruk (most were stationed at Barad-Dur or were on the frontlines). Those numbers may all seem small, but even so they are relatively formidable. Keep in mind that Gonodor, even before marching on the Black Gates, didn't even have ten thousand soldiers to rub together. Even if half of the Orc Warlards completely annihilate their opponents' forces, the remaining Orcs will still outnumber every other military force in Middle Earth. That's part of why the Contention of Mordor is important. It speaks to the premise that, even with Sauron dead, 80% of the military populace killed off, an internal slave rebellion, a complete power/influence fracture, and the loss of all foreign support - Mordor remains the single greatest military power in the setting.