Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-71.61.178.23-20130722105712/@comment-24180901-20140405105248

Nice, this thread and my head are exploding - both.

Spears - totally seconded with the caveat of animating a gazillion moves. In real life swords, axes and so on were side-arms for use once the formation broke down or for spontaneous fights outside warfare. Kind of like Fallout with pistols only.

An explanation for the absence of polearms might be the presence of fireballslinging battlemages who would change engagements to skirmish type (a single 15 foot radius fireball could kill well in excess of twenty men in a dense formation). A soldier with small arms only would be more mobile than a halberdier and thus more survivable on a mageheavy battlefield.

Making the horse fight was an integral part of mounted combat too. Just watch a video of the vienna court riding school (Wiener Hofreitschule) and add a couple infantry in your mind. Those aestheticized moves were originally designed for the horse fighting in conjunction with its rider. Once again - animators needed.

Khajiitity is hands down the bestest evar :-). After one more comment I let this slide as promised: Becoming a predator against your own kind is not as light a decision as transgendering (which does not include alignment with and subservience to a DP to boot).

Ah, to become a Silver Hand and whip that bunch of thugs into a worthwhile shape...