User blog comment:D2r/Unanswered Questions of Redwall/@comment-1479469-20100125202212

@ Gander cont.

2. Small bands, granted, but given the amount of arms that larger hordes have, they'd need some kind of mass production to do it...and there don't appear to be any blacksmiths, aside from Boar the fighter that one time. Salamandastron might forge weapons, but leaving aside for the moment where they get the steel from, how would the weapons be shipped to Redwall? No mention is made of a trade route.

I've noticed that the economy questions are the most incontrovertable; most of the other things I've noted are basically quibbles.