Orlanthi / Lunar battles

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From: Donald R. Oddy <donald_at_grove.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 13:07:31 GMT

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>From: darvall <madamx_at_ns2.mikka.net.au>
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>Yes it is; but to deliberatly commit your troops to a battle where you know
>you are attacking the enemy strength, such as frontal assault on a formed
>Phalanx, is a tactic of either stupidity or desperation, particularly when
>that Phalanx is at the end of an increasingly attenuated supply line.

I'm interested in hearing how you convince a bunch of Uroxi *not* to charge the phalanx. Of course the Orlanthi warriors will then join them and the fyrd will follow. In my view that's what makes Argarth a hero - the leadership ability to get all those disparate clans and tribes to attack the Lunars most effectively rather than most heroicly.

-- Donald Oddy http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/