After spending a day in Tinker Town, he discussed things with the officers again that evening. Perhaps their own troops could wait to be reequipped, leaving all this equipment for the Expeditionary Army Corps instead. After all, those soldiers would put on their armor and head straight onto the battlefield.
There were only a little over 1,800 sets in the warehouse now. If the Expeditionary Army Corps came over and they stalled until mid-January, they could add only a few hundred more sets at most. Whether they could scrape together the full 2,400 sets needed for two regiments was still uncertain.
After discussing it among themselves, the officers agreed, but they hoped to take this opportunity to order a batch of Rare-grade longbows from Quel'Thalas as well. A thousand would be ideal, but a few hundred would do if that was impossible.
The Hinterlands had no bowyers capable of making Rare-grade bows or crossbows. Although bows and crossbows were made of lumber, their manufacture was exceptionally complicated and exacting. Making a good bow was no easy task.
Yu Lin Bloodhawk sent Sylvanas another message, telling her how many sets of armor and weapons they currently had and how many they expected to have by mid-January. He also asked her to help procure a thousand Rare-grade longbows. As long as she could secure them, the price was not a concern.
A few days later, Sylvanas sent him a reply containing just two words: "Got it." Then... that was it. There was nothing more. This left Yu Lin Bloodhawk struggling to tell whether she would actually get him those thousand bows and crossbows.
Over the following days, Yu Lin Bloodhawk kept thinking about the armor problem. With some six thousand people helping forge it now, they could keep going for a while-at