Note: I've checked out of the public library the first 10 or so of the Sharpes movies<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpe_%28TV_series%29<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr-KeDrOsHY<br />to watch in a marathon viewing to digest whole of the series- I know they've been popular novels that fans of the Napoleanic wars usually rave about but I didn't really desire to read the series and decided to be lazy about it mostly to bone up on napoleanic rifle units since the gaming club is discussing showing up at the 200th aniversery of Waterloo re-inacting the Royal American Legion unit of rifles<br /><br />anyhow I got thinking about how yazirians would have fought the clan wars and how the advent of gun powder would have impacted that.<br /><br />it occurs to me that yazirians would have been bushwackers/ skirmishers/ guerilla fighters extrodinere<br /><br />with a tendancy toward two types of formations prior to the discovery of gunpowder: celtic style warbands and elite skirmishing units <br /><br />come the advent of gun powder and the difficulties with using it while climbing and gliding it would have seen slow development and spread in yazirian society. eventually you would see elite rifle armed units that wore drab forest colors and were deadly shots. <br /><br />There would still be elite groups that specialized in diving zamra (the honor blade) armed charges and the war band style of mob<br /><br />due to the predominance of forests formed units would have taken a long time to develop. but when the did, combined with gunpowder and the exploitation of yazirian cultural physcololgy, formed units could have enticed warbands into rash charges that mowed them down allowing for the Warhon to beging the process of unifying the planet through conquest.<br /><br /><br />
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