From: David Cheng (cheng@global2000.net)
Date: Sun 14 Dec 1997 - 09:06:54 EET
I have enjoyed the discussion about justifying the combat strength of the
Praxian Agimori. There have been several theories about how they
are/should be armed to be able to stand against the mounted denizens of the
Plaines of Prax.
I forget who mentioned it a few issues back, but it seems to me the best
justification is that the Agimori are just a plain superior race. They
don't call them Men-and-a-Half for nothing.
While we might debate their armament or group military tactics, I think we
all still acknowledge and accept their direct ancestry from Lodril. This is
how they get their neat "powers", like superhuman endurance, strength,
size, and low need for water (a key advantage in the Wastes).
Note how this makes them a baby Elder Race. Aldryami, Mostali, Uz, Broo,
Luathans, et al., are all "closer" to their gods than humans. From an RQ
stat & ability point of view, they are all superior to humans in their own
way. Much like the other Elder Races, if there were more Agimori today,
they'd probably kill all the normal humans and take over. The humans are
fortunate one of their few advantages is numbers.
Forget tactics and group formations. Maybe an individual Praxian Agimori
has just as much one-on-one killing power as a charging Rhino rider (they
both have a 6 combat factor in _Nomad Gods_, which is pretty tough for a
non-magical unit).
Life is not fair, and life in Prax is even less so. Maybe it's just cosmic
unfairness that an Agimori warrior just out of adolescence is already 80%
with his spear, and can throw a javelin three times as far as a normal
human, and have it hit twice as hard, and has as many hit points as that
Sable you're riding, and can run just as fast as it too, and has been
socialized from birth that he is better than any other thinking creature
around him, and thus fears none of those creatures, and rightfully so.
- -DC
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