: Yes, but remember that the Black Company was a mercinary
: band, with no real ties to the people they were
: encountering. Also most of the men of the company
: (Whitey comes to mind) were thugs who were probably
: running from the law, like One Eye and Tom-tom.
: By the 17th year of war, most of the men of the Northen
: armys where probably from the area of the free citys,
: simply because most of the southern troops had already
: been killed off.
: Yeah, but Croaker did not like camp followers, so I was
: not that supprised.
: But the text was later changed to "...conscripted
: before age 15 to fight the Fallen Lords." Any
: sociaty facing destruction will send even its young
: out to fight.
: Yeah, sucks for them;)
: Drunken Ghol
Regarding the orginal version it's not cruel...
IT'S STUPID.
personally I think that it probably is a cynical take on the final version's plain statement.
that is, every available man is going to be thrown at the Fallen Lords, but just sending the peasants unarmed and unarmored just makes litteral Thrall fodder. It does no good at stoping the advance (maybe for a short time, read: hours at most)
Seraph
