I believe the Dev’s desire to create “Hordes” to move into the East is a failure for the monster outbreaks and starvation actively worked against Barca being able to construct a force to achieve that goal. I believe the Dev’s tried to give the hordes a fighting chance after all they did reduce the morale and upkeep penalties but they did not change the equipment damage rate so even though Barca won the initial battles their equipment was almost useless and they took losses they can never replace.
