Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 27 | 43 | We expected the Kinyanpi to be much View more quotes about less">less effective at a greater distance. |
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Book 18. (7 results) Blood Brothers of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 27 | 40 | These were intended to serve the same purposes as the swaying, almost invisible tarn wire sometimes strung in the high cities, wires which can cut the wings from a bird or tear off the head or arm of a rider. |
| 27 | 41 | Sharpened stakes, too, fashioned from lodge poles, supported by shorter, crossed poles, archers at their base, could be oriented to the trajectory of the attack. |
| 27 | 42 | This would tend to prevent, we hoped, not only swooping, talon attacks but also the close-quarters work of which the red savage, with his small bow, is fond. |
| 27 | 43 | We expected the Kinyanpi to be much less effective at a greater distance. |
| 27 | 44 | Too, if the Kinyanpi were at heights of even fifty or a hundred feet, it would be difficult for them to fire accurately through the overhead network of ropes and cloths which we had suspended between several of the lodges. |
| 27 | 45 | This form of reticulation is calculated to have a confusing and distractive effect on swiftly moving, airborne archers. |
| 27 | 46 | By the time a target can be identified there is usually not enough time to fire. |
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These were intended to serve the same purposes as the swaying, almost invisible tarn wire sometimes strung in the high cities, wires which can cut the wings from a bird or tear off the head or arm of a rider.
Sharpened stakes, too, fashioned from lodge poles, supported by shorter, crossed poles, archers at their base, could be oriented to the trajectory of the attack.
This would tend to prevent, we hoped, not only swooping, talon attacks but also the close-quarters work of which the red savage, with his small bow, is fond.
We expected the Kinyanpi to be much less effective at a greater distance.
Too, if the Kinyanpi were at heights of even fifty or a hundred feet, it would be difficult for them to fire accurately through the overhead network of ropes and cloths which we had suspended between several of the lodges.
This form of reticulation is calculated to have a confusing and distractive effect on swiftly moving, airborne archers.
By the time a target can be identified there is usually not enough time to fire.
- (Blood Brothers of Gor)