Durupt Jean says
> Why does the Esrolian military have such a bad reputation?
The RQ Companion may be an old source, but it says that the Holy Land had a strong military force. It also says that the land was governed by 'sixths'; one sixth was Caladraland, one sixth Esrolia, etc. Each part contributed. I would expect the Esrolians to suffer from unbalanced unit types rather than simply be bad. IE, the trolls provided light skirmishers, and the Heortland provided light cav, and ..... Now that these realms are separate, Esrolia may be all light infantry without heavies, or cavalry (?).
> Why do the raiders (Dithali, Solanthi, Wolf pirates and Grazers) have
> such an easy task in Esrolia?
The Grazelanders were firm allies of the Pharaoh. Raids only
started after the Pharoah disappeared...and didn't turn up again. I
can't speak well to the Ditali/Solanthi, but the others:
1) It's hard to turn back raiders unless you have a fast unit (usually
cavalry) near where the raid takes place. Then your fast response team
takes off and tries to give the raiders a licking. This means a fair
amount of standing troops near/at the border, not levies that have to
be raised.
2) The discussions here keep implying that the Esrolians have little/no
cavalry, which makes it hard to catch Grazelanders. The Wolf Pirates are
as bad or worse, since Harrek led them into battle and wiped out most/all
of the Pharaoh's fleet.
3) The other way of stopping raiders is to hit them back, which doesn't
seem to fit the Esrolian mind-set. It is impractical vs the Wolf Pirates
and Grazelanders, who don't have fixed bases. And trying that against
the Ditali et al resulted in the Lion's Feast.
In short, the esrolians will continue to suffer from raids until the come up with something dang innovative.
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