From: Mark Sullivan -- Michigan Library Consortium (sullivam@mlc.lib.mi.us)
Date: Wed 10 Nov 1993 - 13:11:56 EET
Nick Brooke had a lot of good stuff to say:
> Clarifying for David: we generated a half-file of Sun Domer characters
> to run Gaumata's Vision. That was the first time we'd ever played
> SunDomers.
(1) What size file do you mean for the Sun Domer's?
If memory serves, Spartan files were 8 phalangists with 3 files + an officer making an enomotia or platoon of 25 men (the officer was an Enomotarch). Two of these platoons (What the heck is the pluralization in Greek?) made up a pentekostyes of 50 men led by a Pentarch. Two pentekostyes made up a lochagos of 100 men led by a Lochagos. Four to six lochagi (I think thats pl,) made one mora led by a Polemarch (rank = trireme captains, I think). Several mora (or morai, who knows, why can't everyone speak a nice easy, reasonable language like American? ;-) ) were commanded by a Strategoi (colonel or general) and this usually made up a Phalanx. Thus the Sun Dome Temple units on the board might be about 1 or 2 morai for your estimated unit sizes in WBRM/DragonPass or 2 to 4 morai if one likes Sandy's estimate better.
LEADER UNIT # MEN file leader file 8 Enomotarch enomotia 25 Pentarch pentekostyes 50 Lochagos lochagos 100 Polemarch mora 400-600 Strategoi phalanx several morai
I *really* like the Sun Domers = Spartans analogy. That really helps to get a different martial feel compared to Celtic/Saxon/Viking warrior Humakti.
> In our regular games, we all play Orlanthi Sartarites, from the
> Lismelder tribe, Greydog clan, and Hodirson household. (Except for
> Corwen the Humakti, who's a foreigner now, and a couple of clanless
> nithing outlaws in Whitewall).
(2) Who/what/where are the Lismelder tribe, Greydog clan, etc.? I am a fairly new subscriber, so if you have already answered you could just tell me what Digest it is in and I can look it up.
Thanks for the Lunar Army number crunching. The premise that only a portion of the Empire's forces are (or can be) allocated to fight in Dragon Pass seems to be a good one.
However, since the Lunar Sable folk have been a part of the empire since the Assault on Glamour (in 1275 or 1/28 according to an old copy of Greg's History of the Lunar Empire), I think that your 20% max mobilization may be too high. Seems like nearly 350 years of exposure to Lunar culture and luxuries may have softened them compared to traditional Praxians.
Same goes for the Char-un. Which may help with those *52* counters. ;-)
Re: My Fair Goddess
Great idea. And I suppose that she will sing
"The rain in Torang falls mainly on the plain"
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