> In most ancient armies, the baggage train was bigger than the
fighting
> force - sometimes up to 10 times the men and animals! You have
> wives/husbands, children, slaves/servants, sutlers (merchants
selling goods
> to the soldiers), prostitutes, cooks, baggage handlers, carts,
herds of food
> or draft animals, the officer's hunting dogs/cats/horses, people
looking to
> loot the battlefield, etc. The armies that *don't* have such a
train are the
> exceptions, not the rule.
>
> Roderick
All right.
Is the exception due to circumstances or to culture or to dimension,
I ask?
e.g. a Praxian horde of warriors has a baggage train equivalent?
An Orlanthi Fyrd + weaponthanes at more than two days afar from the
tula, has a baggage train equivalent?
A dragonewt army has a baggage train equivalent?
(ecc.)
GianGero
(having been recently promoted to the rank of wandering monster in
Safelster :-))