Please enlighten me (privately) what's an e-group & how does one trap it?
Martin Laurie
>Subject: Orlanthi vs Imperials
<big snip of some interesting insights>
>Uuurgh. Which Imperial soldiers are out of their element in melee?
This question was mooted early in the piece & the reply was that we were limmitting it to the DH Phalanx
And we come to the nub of the matter after a partial listing of an OrBat which was novel to me. I look forward to seeing the entirety & will indeed visit Wesley's sight.
>The Orlanthi advantage in battle is _heroic_.
Requiring, dare I say, a culture which thrusts up Heros. The invasion having destroyed the possibility of their top down creation if it existed at all.
>ie if one applies the basic principles of dislocation theory to a battle
>>between Orlanthi and Imperial forces, the _strength_ of the Imperials is
>>their cohesion and their combined arms capability. The strength of the
>>Orlanthiis their ability to manifest through herofoming some incredibly
>>powerful individual heroes of gods on the battlefield and their inherant
>>mobilty.
In other words don't fight their battle fight your own,
<snipexcellent explanation of dislocation theory as it aplies to DP>
>The Orlanthi win in 1625 by doing this in a huge way.
Darvall
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>From quiet homes & first beginnings
Out to the undicovered ends
Theres nothing worth the wear of winning
But laughter & the love of friends.
Hilare Belloc
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