“If we live not another day
Say this over our pyre
That we died like Legion hainadar
With our faces to the fire.
“But once we live tomorrow
In a body free of pain
Then bring us ale and whiskey
Until we die again!”
– regimental song of the 22nd “Alatian Highlanders” Legion
(ttto: O’er the Hills and Far Away) The generals ask if we will go To test our strength against the foe And make the host barbarian pay Beyond the stars and far away Chorus Beyond the stars and worlds away In Fringe, in March, or off in Ley The
Horns of Ancyr, blow ye wildly, Thunder forth your brazen fury, Summon every soul who hears ye, To the battlefield. Shields of Ancyr, stand before we, In your lock-step, ever steady, Naught was forged can e’er score ye, Stand and never yield. Spears of Ancyr, sound your brattle, In
(Alternate words: Tear, terms, thinking, tutorial. Actually, I have a pretty good idea for tutorial, but the darn thing just won’t gel. So you get this bit of silliness instead.) The music was pounding again – not that it ever stopped – on the main floor of Polythalience, enough so that
Just been making some adjustments to the Imperial Military Service Table of Ranks today (specifically, adjusting the enlisted ranks to correct some seniorities and fix the missing E-9 grade), so here's the current version, screenshotted from my internal wiki for your convenience: For those playing the game at
In today's recommendations, I should like to draw y'all's attention to The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor, over at A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry. Why? Well, apart from being interesting in its own right, it is one of the latest and best posts whose
So, it has been brought to my attention that back in Chop Shop I used the term “warstrider” without having previously defined said term, on the blog at least. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa – I really thought that those later revisions to the heavy cavalry makeup had come up before,
A perennial problem in extra-infrastructure medical care has been providing the necessary intermediate step between field medicine and the care provided by a hospital, where – thanks to the lack of infrastructure – patients cannot be transferred to the latter with the necessary alacrity. The most recent answer to these problems is