Re: Bowless Bisons

From: markmohrfield <markmohrfield_at_...>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:19:33 -0000

> > Given what Sandy Petersen has said about heavy (melee) cavalry
vs.
> light
> > (missile) cavalry ( link
> > <http://www.pensee.com/dunham/glorantha/aow.html> )
> >
>
> I looked at the article above and it has a few arrors in it - maybe
> quoted from Archer Jones' book?
>
> In general it seems to assume that all missile armed troops were
> light infantry skirmshers whereas in fact many archers drew up in
> close order and didn't skirmish.

snip

> Also many infantry often don't fit neatly into the light or heavy
> model presented.
>

I think the last paragraph addresses these issues. There was a rather lenthy and heated discussion on all this when Sandy first brought it up on the Glorantha Digest.

                                               Mark Mohrfield 

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