I thought the Lunars had a big supply of light infantry - I figured that most of the Native Furthest Corps were light inf, though they may be short of light inf in the Heartland Corps. Are all those peltasts light inf?
I agree about the light cav. though, most of the Lunar cavalry is
pretty heavy, and they don't have the light skirmish cavalry troops like the
Bush Range units. Which is probably the reason why they have so many units
in Prax - the nomads, who contain quite a lot of light cav, are very
effective versus the Lunar Sable Riders heavy cav. Which normally wouldn't
be a big problem, because of the Lunar good supplies of Heavy Infantry, but
as the heavy inf are pretty useless on the plains, they are only useful
defensively. In order to actually decisively control the nomads they need to
a) get some light cav from somewhere - not a trivial task, which explains
why they are keen to maintain good relations with the Sable nomads, as it is
a lot easier than training up their own light cav just for the Prax campaign.
or
b) try to control all the oases, where their heavy inf. can usually hold the
field - but they have nowhere near enough troops
or
c) lure the nomads into set piece battles, where their heavy inf and heavy
cav and superiour magical support can really smack the nomads. The nomads
where dumb enough to fall for this at Moonbroth, and wil probably fall for
it again, but it will be more difficult as the Khans learn to avoid it.
The stuff on the Praxians was great!
It has started me thinking about Dragon Pass - in terms of which
forces have which type of troops, etc. - though I have to admit, all this
stuff doesn't come across in the Dragon Pass rules. There, light cav are
rather useless - whereas, it seems, it should be of great strategic
importance, as the best counter to the Lunar good supplies of heavy cav
(making the Grazelanders one of the more important independants).
Cheers
David
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