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The mercenaries, obviously, given the nature of their last 'attack', did not fear decimation. - (Avengers of Gor, Chapter 45, Sentence #50)

If something is to be feared more than the enemy, I think it should be that one might, in a moment of terror or self-betrayal, fail to do one's duty. Honor, of course, is involved in such matters. The good officer, I think, should be such that, first, men would follow him gladly into a den of larls, and, second, one who, to the best of his ability, makes certain that he never, if it can be avoided, leads his men into a den of larls. The mercenaries, obviously, given the nature of their last 'attack', did not fear decimation. I suspect that their commanders, their paymasters, feared that the attempt to impose so terrifying a stringency on such troops, hireling troops, might have provoked a mutiny. As we had feared, of course, the failure of their assaults on the town did not result in their withdrawal but rather, in their reconciliation to the possibility of a lengthy siege. We in Mytilene, of course, realized, as the enemy presumably did not, that the siege could not be too lengthy. - (Avengers of Gor)