Re: The Glorantha Digest V8 #172

From: Donald R. Oddy <donald_at_grove.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 13:31:42 GMT


Mikko Rintasaari

>In a nother post, I wrote:
>> << The orlanthi need skirmishers, in addition to their
>> heavy infantry. >>
>>
>> I didn't think the Orlanthi had any heavy infantry. What is the
>> definition of heavy infantry? They've go naked blue painted savages,
>> they've got heroic war and dangerously fearless warleaders, they've got
>> brave farmers with spears and hard hards, they've got ruthless, death
>> obsessed mercenaries. Heavy infantry, I would say, is what they have
>> not got.
>>
>> Keith N
>
>Heavy infantry = troops that fight with melee weapons in hand to hand
> combat.
>
>Light infantry = Troops that fight with skirmish weapons, and avoid
> sustained melee.
>
>This is at least how I've learned the terms.

Isn't that a rather artifical distinction for an irregular army? I would expect most Orlanthi to be capable of both. At the same time they won't always choose to skirmish when that is the appropriate response.

End of The Glorantha Digest V8 #181


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