Fighting phalanxes

From: nilsw_at_ibm.net
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 97 21:32:42


David Cake:

>Now, anyone in our world attempting to charge a phalanx would
>almost certainly fare a lot worse.

The romans proved with perfect adequacy that a phalanx was by no means undefeatable, at Pydna in 167 BC. As a matter of fact they charged the phalanx...


Cremation:

Nick Brooke:

>But Shargash does have a specific mass-cremation ritual, carried out yearly
>on the Day of the Dead in Alkoth. It was discovered by John Medway, adopted
>and adapted by Greg Stafford, and though I can't for the life of me
>remember if it's seen print anywhere (while I *think* it has, it gets hard
>to recall what's in draft and what's been printed), it certainly deserves
>to.

I happened to read this the other day. It's in GRoY, the Ivory Pages edition.


Wachaza:

Peter Metcalfe:

>The Waertagi had to turn to worshipping an even more horrific war cult
>- - Drospoly - before they could make a successful comeback.

Drospoly horrific, sure, but a war cult?

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