: What in godsname makes you think the Legion was the
: "best trained, best equipped" of the forces
: of Light? For a long while, the Legion was led by
: someone other than Alric, and everything the narrator
: says indicates it was poorly equipped and lacked
: wanted for everything. Moreoever, the
: "Legion" was only a pseudonym, not the
: actual name of that large unit of soldiers; each
: Avatara led his own legion, I'm sure, and the soldiers
: ended up calling it the "Legion" in just the
: same way Roman legionnaires did, even though there
: were dozens of other legions in the empire. Alric only
: took control of the Legion we followed in the story
: because he was rescued by it and brought back.
: But I'm sure it was the most stubborn, yes, like its
: Black Company antecedents.
Yeah, like all soldiers of all armies of the world, they always need more and more. So it's not in myth legions, this happens in all armies in the world. And yes there are more than one legion, like there was one number of the legion(7 i think), it means there were more than one legion in light forces.
: Gene Seabolt proves countless times in GURPS that he
: doesn't know a thing about Myth, and very, very
: clearly -- for the needs of creating a viable and
: entertaining RPG -- improvises and fills in gaps where
: information is unavailable or relatively unattested.
: Take good ideas from that little book as they come,
: but trust not a one.
Completely agree.
: Hehe, nice quote.
: Still, Chess isn't so bad; I actually find HGK unusually
: eloquent on that point. Myth isn't a perfect
: representation of reality either, for the same reasons
: as the ancient boardgame.
Still i think that one army to win battles need a leader, without leader there are no army, and yes without soldiers there are no army too. But Alric had some soldiers, so he had mb small, but had an army. So for me he is still the winner.
HGK
