From: Joseph Christopher Wehman (jcw7@postoffice.mail.cornell.edu)
Date: Tue 05 Jul 1994 - 08:25:10 EEST
To Bryan Maloney:
Isn't that amazing. Well i know about all that stuff. Hmm, it might be
because I AM the person who plays a Basmoli shaman in your RQ4 play-test.
In response to the other questions:
When I wrote the stuff up I was interested in the Basmoli from a
role-playing standpoint and not a normal-battle-operations standpoint. I
made the cult up based on the social behavior of african plains lions and
not primative man. I don't want to start the ubiquitous arguement of
whether country x represents old earth y because they use shield z. I agree
the weapons that I chose are limited in normal combat. I would suggest
that it is the terrain in which they live that the Basmoli use to their
advantage, the high plains grasses. They would do this by lureing their
attackers into the high grass, setting traps(rock piles,pot holes) to maim
the animals, and where their movement in slowed and they loose sight of the
ground. Then by sneaking around in the grass, virtually unseen, to lay
ambushes on parties.
As far as the hit-and-tactics, a party of say ten Basmoli with mobility,
multi-missle, and protection armed with javelins and spears would be able
to kill a few people and then run to the nearest stretch of grass then set
a trap.
As for the number of Basmoli available to fight a large war party, since a
law shaman resides over 4-5 prides of the same type, that would mean 32-60
Basmoli in a single area. As far as females goes, its a matriarchal
society based on lions, what can I say? In ranged combat I think they would
do fine. Also it is often the bands of banished young males that do most
of the raiding.
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