Re: Glorantha Digest, Vol 11, Issue 143

From: Roderick and Ellen Robertson <rjremr_at_sierratel.com>
Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 08:38:34 -0700


> >The West has always seemed like a terrible anachronism. Late medieval
> >society (platemail clad knights and all) living next to the Celt-like
> >barbarians and Ancient Greek level Solars.
> >
> >It all requires a bit of fixing to me :)
>
> You mean like late medieval Scotland? Where the highland clans
> were still fighting with much the same weapons and tactics they'd
> used for centuries while the knights from the wealthier lowlands
> were pretty well equipped if not to the standard of German, French
> and Italian knights.

Or 1745 Scotland, where the highlanders, using basically those same medieval weapons, faced off against musket-armed British regulars. Having a mix of technology in close proximity is nothing new in the real world...

RR
C'est par mon ordre et pour le bien de l'Etat que le porteur du présent a fait ce qu'il a fait.
- Richelieu


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