User blog comment:Morgause5/Speculation and possible spoilers (finale)/@comment-4892425-20121222095305/@comment-4623180-20121222113907

It was an expression, she got her men to fight Gwaine. But knowing the Southrons, they storm villages looking for men to recruit. Many don't have skills equivalent to a Camelot knight who Morgana dryly said are known as the greatest in all the kingdoms (which they actually are). She knew that the men would be defeated when she called them up. So it's as if she used them a sacrifice for the entertainment. Rewatch the scenes. Helios just watched on as his own men died just to, in a way, torture a knight of Camelot and reinforce Morgana's power.