>Being
>relatively friendly with the Aldyami I would have those clever vegetables
>organising them in the first place and sending them to fight foes of the
>forest, later these foes started fighting each other and called on those Bear
>People with their longbows. Elven archers would have explained that longbows
>are best used en masse (see archery discussion) and the primitive but not
>stupid Rathori would have picked up on this.
But the Aldryami do not engage in organized warfare nor do they fire their bows _en masse_, as they are not English Yeomanry. Why would they teach the Rathori how to fight in such a manner?
>In summary - at home, disorganised small little groups, as mercenaries in
>unreasonably large groups of organised longbowmen. Closest Earth Analog I can
>think of is the Ghurkas. (I also just thought of Paddington Bear, a Rathori a
>long way from home)
I believe this when people start hiring Praxian mercenaries to fight in phalanxes. Standing on the battlefield is complete madness: people get _killed_! No way is your average Rathori going to remain standing when he is being charged by the enemy. His style of battle as Alex has pointed out would be ambushes and the like. City folk would hire the Rathori as scouts in units like _Tarsh War's_ Bush Rangers (save they don't ride).
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