> > People that shouldn't die do (The Pharaoh, frex), things that
> > you take for granted disappear (Orlanth is Dead), Armies that
> > shouldn't win do (err - I'm sure there is some example out
> > there...)
>
> "Orlanth is Dead," again. No fricking way should some rag-tag mob of
> hairy barbarians beat the cream of the Empire's troops, especially
> when all their handy-hearty mumbo-jumbo men have been spiritually
> castrated by imperial heroquesters.
Hmm, there must have been another reason then - maybe the spiritual and
moral bankruptcy of the Lunars and the departure of their fighting spirit.
After all, it couldn't have been the sheer pig-headedness and utter
stupidity of the General Staff. ;-)
RR