> I read that and thought how sensible it was - and then realised.
> Specialist types of Vanganthi? Units of them??
>
> These are Orlanthi, not modern soldiers. The "unit" is the clan warband.
> Even in a big army, they don't group by troop type, they group by
> bloodline. And it's rare enough for someone to be as specialist as
> "warrior", to specialise in "flying warrior who skirmishes with javelins
> but doesn't land" seems Silly. How many Vanganthi do we think there are
> per clan warband? How many in the tribal warband? How many in the group
> of mates who got together to give some Lunar patrol a kicking? You're
> not going to run out of fingers counting them. You may not even run out
> of thumbs.
I've had some fun with this. The situation is not all that bad for the prince of Sartar though. His army is made of clan warbands that form larger units of tribal warbands. At least they are used to fighting together.
As for the specialists, I'd think there are (secret?) societies. Obviously Humakti occasionally group together to form larger bands, but propably so do the heleri, or the Vangathi and so on.
So parhaps, in war, the prince could call on a Vangathi warband, whose members are from clans all over Sartar.
-Adept
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