User blog comment:AYET/Strawhat Pirates Armada/@comment-5387880-20130506185338/@comment-3177945-20130506211105

If you have allies that you can just tell to protect a island and they will, you have a armada, specially because luffy would never be stuck in a place just because a friend ask him to, so it would be a one way kind of favor. You can call it friends all you want, it´s still a armada