CantBreathe wrote:Le-Petit-Mort wrote:Someone in the
Breaking Dawn- I didn't like it thread brought up an interesting point. If the Cullens knew all these fancy foreign covens, why didn't they call them up when the newborns were going to attack in Eclipse?

I think they pretty much thought they had it covered between themselves and the wolves plus they didn't have much time to spend running around trying to track down all these nomadic vampires. But also, as in Breaking Dawn, I don't think they wanted to go out of their way asking for people to fight with them.
This is an excelent question!
To be honest I found all the vampire covens, with a few exceptions, quite hesitant when it comes about a battle. Even Peter and Charlotte, who were pretty close to Jasper didn't really wanted to get involved in a struggle. Not because they are a bunch of cowards, but they seemed to me pretty too much concerned with the structure of their covens. Loosing members to Volturi seems to be a constant corncern. "cough"Bejamin"cough"
But try to picture in Eclipse a huge group of vampires arriving Forks. The werewolves/shapeshifters would have freaked. They wouldn't have accepted this kind of intervention. So, I believe, the story was developed the way it suppose to be. The shape-shifters became allies, instead of enemies.