From: Joerg Baumgartner (joe@toppoint.de)
Date: Fri 05 Jul 1996 - 20:12:00 EEST
Pam about me:
>He then adds some piffle about Lodrilli soldiers [...], overwhelmed by the
>sight of naked, screaming Orlanthi charging down on them. To which I
>say: old hat! That's what they signed up for!
You'll know the difference when you've stood on the receiving end the first
I brought this up because the "furor celticus" was feared all over the
time... Check for instance Sandy Petersen's retelling of some Civil War
reenactment charge against his unit, closing with the comment "next time I
will run"... (I think 'twas on the Rules Digest)
classical world, that's the region which had been fighting in phalanxes for
centuries. It took some military geniuses among the Romans to train the men
to stand through these charges - a bit like the effect of war elephants,
actually. (Now imagine you, a green linesman, are charged by a snake-nosed
mountain of flesh...)
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