Peter Metcalfe:
> Your saying so doesn't make it so. This is about
> colour and fun not tedious realism.
Hear, hear!
Rules bits: Humakti ten-thanes have a compulsory "tactics" ability.
Role-play bits: if you doubt their ability at tactics, Hereward's Legion invite you to test it, any time you like. Current location, the Rubble (as of 1621, a few weeks post-Cradle).
Over the game, the players have gradually been developing Sword-speech "vocabulary". I do like the signal that consists of drawing a finger across one's throat. Just the right degree of subtelty. But don't worry, there's also a signal for "back off to where we can't be heard so we can talk about it". This language, as used by us, has limits.
And we spent a lot of time on the Cradle sneering at Orlanthi "tactics", which seem in comparison to consist of "charge!" (Or possibly, "run away!").
Jane Williams
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