: If it's Legion vs. Pirates, you don't necessarily have to
: have magic or non-humans, do you? Warriors, Archers,
: and maybe some Heron Guards and Berserks for flavor
: could probably carry the scenario.
: We don't know what they looked like; probably not a whole
: lot like Brigands, since pirates need to be a) fast
: and agile and b) able to at least tread water briefly
: if they fall overboard, and full-body steel armor
: doesn't really help with either of those. But there
: could still be a few Brigand-type pirates who serve as
: the melee core of the enemy. Dark Archers would work
: quite well, since they're unarmored and have a
: long-range attack which would be very useful for a
: group of pirates (thin out the civilian opposition
: before you have to endanger your ship). On the whole,
: if you're using existing collections, I'd expect the
: majority of the pirates to be archers (hacked to be
: faster and better with their knives, but not as good
: with their bows), with a few specially-skilled archers
: and a few armored brigand-types.
: But of course you can have any other unit you want
: to--I'm sure there's evil Zerks and Dwarves out there
: who wouldn't say no to joining a group of pirates. Or
: you could say that, for instance, Leix is a renegade
: colony of northmen, so that the pirates are
: *primarily* Zerks. You could also look into borrowing
: 3rd-party collections. I know some pirate sprites have
: been made.
: --SiliconDream
Hey, I'd never realised how much fun this discussing history could be :)
OK, fair point about the Brigands. I for one would not want to fall overboard wearing full armour. I like the idea of the pirates being zerks, would seem to fit with at least part of their mentality.
Just a thought though, could it be that the story of the pirates is merely 'revisionist history' on the part of the Province's historians. Maybe they weren't pirates in the true, swashbuckling sense of the word but merely a race with different, and therefore alien, set of ideas to the legion. The only reason I say this is that what Maeldun did to the citizens of Leix amounts to wholesale genocide - a whole society wiped out as retribution for the sacking of a city. Maybe history was rewritten to cover up Maeldun's crimes - make them out to be pirates and everyone will forgive us.
Actually having said all that, maybe I'm trying too hard to introduce a 'conspiracy theory' :) Must be the cynic in me.
Bubba
