Quote:This is where I get technical:
The first part of the answer was obvious at a glance; the single-piece helms were unmistakable. Probably about two-thirds of the men she was seeing were probably even the usual sorts of pirates she would have expected, but the rest were outfitted with the lamellar armor, huge round shields, and fifteen-foot pikes of a full Islander war levy.
1. What type of armor? Bronze or iron? Possibly even armor like the lorica segmantata?
Light armor? For a raid/reconnaissance, I'd say yes.
Phalanx? Yes, given those 15 foot pig-stickers.
Level of training? Do they know the cadenced beat? (Hup, two, three, four ) Which means that do they know how to march in formation as a single cohesive unit, or are they just a gaggle? As for as i know, only two classical armies used he cadenced beat...the late republic to early imperial romans and the Spartans.
Quote:You channelling Bellevue? If you got a cultivated plant to produces legumes or something close to soya, you got a protein substitute there. Soy mash, mixed with offal.
They were, without a doubt, the largest dogs she'd ever seen, four feet at the shoulder and massively built, probably more than five hundred pounds each... more than enough to carry the weight of the unarmored men walking beside them in the wake of the rest of the Islander group. "Cavalry."
"What?" Dogs large enough to carry a person were expensive to feed, which was why the Dynasty didn't use them. They needed more meat, proportional to their size, than smaller breeds, and the mountains her family ruled were too short of farmland to afford that. Even the River Kingdom, with its endless miles of farmland, couldn't afford to keep more than a few thousand beasts for its military. The Islanders' fishing fleets were enough to support about the same, but keeping them fed aboard ship would be an entirely different order of nightmare.
Quote:Can't be full plate armor, it's be too tough to walk around. Half-armor, I can see.
Her captain just jumped, and landed with a thump that impressed deep footprints into the dry gravel of the creekbed. In full armor. Like it was nothing. There were days that the Royal Guard scared her a little. "They split up and go to work on road maintenance. Bandit hunting. Something like that."
BTW, where are the missle troops for this merry bunch? You got infantry and you got cavalry...no way they'v forgotten the light troops.
I'v played almost all the Total War series and I'm also playing Warhammer Acient Battles. So, I do have some knowledge.
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