How Big Was The Ragni Horde

90 years ago, the biggest horde in recorded history hit Ragni, sending the city's inhabitants into hiding. And I decided to work out roughly how big that horde was. There will need to be a couple of assumptions being as so little is known, but using our knowledge of Ragni and the game present day we can get a rough estimate.

Spoiler: Relevant Maths

10+9+8+4+6=37 hp (Taken from base 10hp plus weakest unique armours in the game)

8+20+3+5=9 dmg (Taken from average of all weakest unique weapons of each class in the game)

I take the weakest unique weapons and armours because the humans had only trained under the Villagers for five years, and high lv armours and weapons took nearly 40 years to develop, so yeh, they would be in the early stages of magic imbued items.


Mage - 29.6 hp. +6.5hp/8s

Warrior - 44.4 hp. +15.3dmg/6s

Assassin - 37hp. +18dmg/4s

Archer - 22.2 hp. +27dmg/6s


Average - 33.3hp + 1hp/s
30.6dmg/12s + 54dmg/12s + 54dmg/12s = 46/12 = 3.8
9+3 = 12dmg/s

Zombie (z)
10 hp
2 dmg/s

To kill a person. (Splash dmg mele)

1z - dead - 1dmg
2z - dead - 3dmg
5z - dead - 9dmg
7z - dead - 13dmg
15z - dead - 29dmg
17z - dead - 33dmg
18z - dead - kills soldier

Spoiler: The Swarm

Judging from the amounts of houses, Ragni would have had around 40 soldiers, and would have received around half of Troms’ force, so ten extra. That's a force of 50 people defending the city.

So my first assumption is the fact that the swarm attacked through the Eastern Gate because they're dumb, and also it would be far easier to congregate the large army needed to take the city in the large field out front of Ragni. So now for some maths. Assuming the archers can shoot the zombies from 100 blocks away and the zombies travel at 1m/s, 50 shots are taken per second by the force of fifty soldiers, each able to one shot a zombie, so that means 50 zombies will die every second for 100 seconds, that's 5000 dead zombies before they even reach the first gate. Next they need to break down the gate which would take about 200s, but they are left be in order for the soldiers to retreat to the inner wall.

Once they break through there is a 20s march to the next gate, causing another 1000 zombies to die. This time the soldiers continue to fire as the gate is broken down, resulting in a further 10,000 dead zombies. Once they break through there is open warfare.

I imagine that around ten of the soldiers would have retreated in order to aid a rebellion to retake the town, so these soldiers would have killed maximum 17 zombies each, so 170 in total. Then the remaining 40 would die in battle, ultimately killing 18 each, that would mean that between 40 soldiers they would kill 720 before dying. With that a further 20 zombies would be needed to clear up the town.

Spoiler: Conclusion

So in conclusion the horde that attacked Ragni 90 years ago, which sent the whole city into hiding would have been a force of roughly 16,910 zombies. So yeh, frikin giant.
BTW if you didn't realise I used stats from the zombies (not weak zombies) found around Ragni, being as they were most likely the mobs in the swarm.

 

If you caculated the ”minute to break down gate” as If zombies used a ram to break down the gate, it is Wrong. The zombies Do not have very much brainpower and the best they can Do is take a sharp thing and smash stuff with it, they Do not have the brainpower to take Hold of a large object as a team, position it properly, Then repeadetly ram into the gate. Moreover, the archer could shoot the zombies holding the ram.

 

How long do you recon it would take for them to break through then, 5 minutes, 10?

 

How is this a guide?

 

In case you want to do a Player Made Invasion of over 9000 zombies (oh god) in Ragni and kill everyone.

 

the server would crash before you can even start the invasion

 

True, I'll change it to No Prefix

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Did some research and found it would take around 200 hits, so 200 seconds I guess, I'll alter the calculations :P

 

Interesting?

 

Must've been very laggy.

 

*Arrow shields* and watches the spray kill everything

 

The invasion would only work with people who are still at around lv 2-10, otherwise you would need way higher lv zombies and way more of them :P

 

surely they wouldn't even have unique weapons or armour, just the standard ones you get from merchants

 

They had been training under the villagers for five years, with a basic knowledge of magic previous to that.
It isn't far fetched to say that humans could imbue tools with magic by this stage.

 

bump
10char :3

 

16,910 zombies wouldn't really be a threat, seeing as though a few bomb arrows could take them all out.

 

This is only 5 years after the villagers arrived in Wynn. We only know that they made magic stronger but being a arrow bomb is quite a high level spell 100 years after the villagers came, I honestly don't think anything of the sort would have been in play during this horde.

 

If someone can level up to 21 in less than 3 hours (equ. to like 9 in game days) I'm sure they wouldn't have a problem.

 

I wonder what would happened if I killed them all with apoc.

 

I'm not sure if this shows you how terrible zombies are or how terrible ragni soldiers are.

 

...both...?