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The heavy shields and mighty spears borne by them would alone far outweigh the armament and accouterments of my men. - (Swordsmen of Gor, Chapter 17, Sentence #2)

A hundred maneuvers we had planned and practiced on the field of the sky, feints and encirclements, and sallies and lures, massings and dividings, but these maneuvers were untested in battle, and our men were for the most part new to the saddle. The alarm bars were ringing. The Battle I had no doubt that the cavalries ranked against us, which would intend to confront us and engage in the traditional modalities of Gor's aerial warfare, consisted of veteran tarnsmen. The heavy shields and mighty spears borne by them would alone far outweigh the armament and accouterments of my men. Too, the tarns of some were encumbered by armor, and the beak and talons were still shod with steel, turning their mounts into little more than massive, lumbering aerial tanks. Their missile weapons were the short quarrels and the stout, metal bolts of the stirrup and crank-and-ratchet crossbows. I knew the armament and tactics of such forces well, having been trained in them, and I had designed my forces, following the Tuchuk model, to deal with massive infantry and earth-shaking tharlarion charges, now adapted to flight, to deal with them. - (Swordsmen of Gor)