In a survial group, yes there are many different duties that need to be completed, right down to latrine trench digger, thank you ElDiaboloKid, that's your job easy. Check the other thread if you don't get it. :-)

Seriously though, in a survival situation most families will tend to double or even triple up, not just to pool resources and raw manpower, but because there is simply so much that would need to be done, and done constantly. At minimum, you need at least two people on watch 24/7 to keep on alert for hostiles, and that's at a minimum. You probably are going to need at least 2 different guard checkpoints because most places have more than one avenue of approach. Then figure at least one individual for communications back at home base for the two separate sentries who would also have to be on call 24/7, a doctor or medic goes without saying, an armorer/weaponsmith, and a general quartermaster. So let's look at numbers here, maintaining 2 posts 24/7 with 2 people at each post, plus someone on comm back at the base also 24/7. We'll really go lean here, an ideal shift would be no longer than 8 hours but let's make it 12. So to keep everything guarded and in touch with home base for a single day, would take at least 10 people. This doesn't take into account the fact that during their 12 hours off would be spent sleeping, eating and whatnot, so forget them being able to do much else to help out around the retreat. So those 10 people would work a relentless shift with not even a day off, and should someone get sick or die, you're shorthanded, and even then we're talking a 12 hours on guard straight, that's LONG time to be freezing your a$ in the winter outside, and that's just to maintain only 2 sentry points.

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