Richard wonders:
>Actually I wonder if there isn't a remedial class in every
>Sun Domer barracks to beat the cack-handedness out
>of any recruit who tries to face the wrong way during drill=2E
>Such unfortunates would doubtless be looked on with
>suspicion as well as derision.
>Which raises an interesting problem when I get round to recruiting
>some 25mm Sun Dome Templar units - right so I need x% of the
>unit with no helmets, y% with no greave on the left leg etc etc,,,,
Templars whose collection of geases renders them incapable of joining the line of battle are sent to a serve in a specialised unit at Harpoon, as are inveterate left-handers and many other incurable reprobates not bad enough to warrant a spell at Pent Ridge. They guard the giant spear-throwing weapon there, and give themselves the nickname "The Men with the Golden Gun". Although officially designated the XIIIth Century ("the Unlucky Thirteenth"), most people derisively call them the "Cack-Handers".
Led by the senior initiate (and sometimes Light Son) Auric Goldfinger, whose chronic insubordination, chequered career and tumultuous sequence of promotions and demotions has led him to earning a record 67 different simultaneous prohibitions, the Cack-Handers are formed into outsized files of 10 or more, depending on the geases they follow. The lowest of the low are the final file, the "Dirty Dozen" who all share that same unfortunate restriction, "Never bathe".
The only thing more amusing than watching the Cack-Handers try to form a reasonable shield wall is watching them try to eat at dinner time (unless you count their seasonal excursions to the local Uleria brothel)!
Cheers,
MOB
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