Vadeli
Nick Brooke asked about them
As he said, brown vadeli are like the bene tleilax in Frank Herbert's Dune.
I picture the red vadeli as the sardaukars, the emperor's elite troops in the same novel. And almost noone know from where they come.
For the blue vadeli, I'll take grand admiral Thrawn, in the Star war novels. By studying a race's art, he can guess their thought process and devise tactics that let them cold in the water. I'll give him a Menilbonean's cruelty too.
All the vadeli have some geas. Sandy Petersen gave some
examples for the brown and the red. My ideas for the blues are:
- - they may only captain a ship (ie they cannot be simple
crewmember)
- - a blue vadeli may only use one (1) of the elemental
weapons
Immortal armies
Do the Brithini have crossbow?
I think that the dwarves invented the crossbow before the
Dawn.
Like the dwarves, the Brithini had to fight the elves and
the trolls, they may be conservative, but if the dwarves
could adopt new weapons, the Brithini can too. And in my
opinion they adopted the crossbow for the same reason the
dwarves did. They had to counter the elf bow and the
troll sling.
Do the Horali fear death?
Like any soldier in the world they do fear death.
But to take an example, if a lunar soldier is killed in
action, the lunar empire does not have to try to resurect
him.
A Horali knows that his commander has to provide for a
resurection if he is killed. True, he remembers comrades
who met their final death when something went wrong in the
ritual, he remembers defeats were whole armies were killed,
but he has a better insurance in this matter than a lunar
soldier.
I think that at least a fourth of the Horali were alive at
the Dawn.
Armies rating
The Brithini and the dwarves are at least as trained, disciplined
and well lead than the lunar soldiers.
They fear death just a little less than a typical lunar.
They deserve a 5 when the lunar have a 4.
The main differences between the Brithini/dwarf armies and the
others is their commanders's view of the casualties.
The Brithini will never have a Camerone, even if it would secure a global victory, because they could not bring back the soldiers bodies or recruit more soldiers to replace the killed.
Since the KoW is able to beat the Brithini or the dwarves, they have a 6.
Peace Jean ------------------------------
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