From: Peter Metcalfe (metcalph@bigfoot.com)
Date: Mon 03 Apr 2000 - 14:30:06 EEST
Martin Laurie:
[on Carmanian tactics]
>Crossbows are popular for this but the most popular form of mercenary
>for this kind of work was the Rathori longbowman, who often get
>recruited in large numbers for wars against the nomads.
I do not believe the Rathori would fight in such a manner as
>(5). Heavy knights. During the campaigns of the Nadar the Avenger,
they fight as hit-and-run skirmishers rather than Agincourt
archers. Secondly the Rathori have bad memories of Carmanian
brutality that precipitated the White Bear wars (and many
veterans of those wars are still alive thanks to the Ban).
>the Carmanians were exposed to the developed Fronelan knight and
>re-integrated some of the tactics that were being learnt in the West.
It depends on what you mean by 'heavy'. The modern Loskalmi
>It was during this time that the Carmanian use of combined arms,
knight is a very recent development again as a result of the
Ban.
>infantry, cavalry and light forces, gave them ten years of
>campaign victories in Fronela. No-one could stand against them.
I think domestic troubles within the Loskalmi Empire had
much more to do with the Carmanian success than combined
arms innovations. And we only have the Carmanians' word
that they were unbeatable.
- --Peter Metcalfe
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