Book 21. (7 results) Mercenaries of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 3 | 173 | Too, many such companies are, for most practical purposes, disbanded during the winter, the captain retaining then only a cadre of officers and professionals. |
| 3 | 174 | Then, in the spring, after obtaining a war contract, sometimes obtained by competitive bidding, they begin anew, almost from the beginning, with recruiting and training. |
| 3 | 175 | It was quite unusual, incidentally, for such men as Raymond and Conrad to be recruiting now, in Se'Kara. |
| 3 | 176 | It was really a time in which most soldiers on gor would be thinking about the pleasures of winter quarters or a return to their own villages and towns. |
| 3 | 177 | There are usually diverse explanations, depending on the situation, for the type of forced recruiting to which men in some of the villages had been subjected. |
| 3 | 178 | Sometimes a passing army desires merely to amplify its forces, or replace losses, particularly among the lighter arms, such as bowmen, slingers and javelin men. |
| 3 | 179 | Sometimes the recruiting is done more for the purposes of obtaining a labor force, for siegeworks and entrenching camps, than for actual combat. |
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Too, many such companies are, for most practical purposes, disbanded during the winter, the captain retaining then only a cadre of officers and professionals.
Then, in the spring, after obtaining a war contract, sometimes obtained by competitive bidding, they begin anew, almost from the beginning, with recruiting and training.
It was quite unusual, incidentally, for such men as Raymond and Conrad to be recruiting now, in Se'Kara.
It was really a time in which most soldiers on gor would be thinking about the pleasures of winter quarters or a return to their own villages and towns.
There are usually diverse explanations, depending on the situation, for the type of forced recruiting to which men in some of the villages had been subjected.
Sometimes a passing army desires merely to amplify its forces, or replace losses, particularly among the lighter arms, such as bowmen, slingers and javelin men.
Sometimes the recruiting is done more for the purposes of obtaining a labor force, for siegeworks and entrenching camps, than for actual combat.
- (Mercenaries of Gor, Chapter )