In message <Pine.GSO.4.58.0506170014360.26760_at_...> Mikko Rintasaari writes:
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>Hi guys. I took up the subject a few years ago. Greg chimed in and
>confirmed that a unit of blackhorse riders isn't literally 500 men, but
>rather something like a hundread men. It's the _equivalent_ of five
>hundread strong unit of heavy cavalry. I can dig up more of the posts,
>but they are also findable from the yahoo archives.
That's probably the discussion I remembered. The difficulty is the
numbers published in the Hero Wars book, which is the most recent
published source, are incompatable. I'm happy to regard them as a
mistake based on 500 cavalry squadrons rather than 100 which gives
slightly lower figures than yours.
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Donald Oddy
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