Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 3 | 194 | In this formation spikes of archers, View more quotes about protected">protected by iron-shod stakes and sleen pits, project beyond the forward lines of the heavily armed warriors and their reserves. |
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Book 21. (7 results) Mercenaries of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 3 | 191 | His campaigns were studied in all the war schools of the high cities. |
| 3 | 192 | I knew him from scrolls I had studied years ago in Ko-ro-ba, and from volumes in my library in Port Kar, such as the commentaries of Minicius and the anonymous analyses of "The Diaries," sometimes attributed to the military historian, Carl Commenius, of Argentum, rumored to have once been a mercenary himself. |
| 3 | 193 | It was Dietrich of Tarnburg who had first introduced the "harrow" to positional warfare on Gor, that formation named for the large, rakelike agricultural instrument, used for such tasks as the further leveling of ground after plowing and, sometimes, on the great farms, for the covering of seed. |
| 3 | 194 | In this formation spikes of archers, protected by iron-shod stakes and sleen pits, project beyond the forward lines of the heavily armed warriors and their reserves. |
| 3 | 195 | This formation, if approached head-on by tharlarion cavalry, is extremely effective. |
| 3 | 196 | It constitutes, in effect, a set of corridors of death through which the cavalry must ride, in which it is commonly decimated before it can reach the main lines of the defenders. |
| 3 | 197 | When the cavalry is disorganized, shattered and torn by missile fire, and turns about to retreat, the defenders, fresh and eager, initiate their own attack. |
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His campaigns were studied in all the war schools of the high cities.
I knew him from scrolls I had studied years ago in Ko-ro-ba, and from volumes in my library in Port Kar, such as the commentaries of Minicius and the anonymous analyses of "The Diaries," sometimes attributed to the military historian, Carl Commenius, of Argentum, rumored to have once been a mercenary himself.
It was Dietrich of Tarnburg who had first introduced the "harrow" to positional warfare on Gor, that formation named for the large, rakelike agricultural instrument, used for such tasks as the further leveling of ground after plowing and, sometimes, on the great farms, for the covering of seed.
In this formation spikes of archers, protected by iron-shod stakes and sleen pits, project beyond the forward lines of the heavily armed warriors and their reserves.
This formation, if approached head-on by tharlarion cavalry, is extremely effective.
It constitutes, in effect, a set of corridors of death through which the cavalry must ride, in which it is commonly decimated before it can reach the main lines of the defenders.
When the cavalry is disorganized, shattered and torn by missile fire, and turns about to retreat, the defenders, fresh and eager, initiate their own attack.
- (Mercenaries of Gor)