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TheSarmatians or Skythe had fighting women in their tribers, also in India were such forces in the time of the Bactrian realms.

This attitude is right.

Ups, I never envisioned him in the Novel as nearly so experienced. Yes, and I never wanted to say something else. I wanted to say, that in a situation which is neither beneficial to one of them, a Barbarian or a Soldier(civilced fighter) of Quality meet each others, the Soldier/civilced...

And if the Picts goes under favorable conditions against one Bordere at least half a dozen picts die, for one young borderer, and when they met with civiliced warriors on the open field, they get butchered. If they play their woodwarrior trade against the Borderers of Aquilonia it`s an even...

Because you didn`t mentioned that you meant with most of the stories from Robert E Howard, in this case only the Stories of Conan. Second because neither from his Kull, quite the contrary, stories nor from his Bran Mak Morn stories(who are written in the "same" "Cthulhu"verse) i get this...

I believe we posted not really at another. I don`t think, that a barbarian in Howards writings is automatically superior to an civilced conterpart. What counts is in what Arena the game is played, and how strong the conterparts in these Arenas are. The fight against the Acheronians etc I...

No but maybe also the contrary. Yes It could be meant in Beyond the Black River, The Moment that Balbus learns that the Cimmerian was only concerned with the naked fundamentals of life, The warm initmacies civilced men cherished so much were meaningless to him. That`s what I don`t meant, I...

I think not. If I take the other stories of REH which I know together this isn`t the truth. If I take for example Solomon Kane vs Conan, the Cimmerian is IMPOV at a serious disadvantage, or his Outremer Stories, a Frankish knight(Noble - Soldier) met an Officer of the Varangian...

Bought.

Not necessary, at crecy they underestimated their enemy, by Agincourt they were likely forced to attack by thir own support situation, shortage of food for men and horses. By Nicäa look at Crecy, but a Orleans, or under du Guscelin they learned to hit hard, hold their line and so on.

@Old Bear The Problem would be, would the french knights ac as stupid as at Crecy ´, or would they follow Bertrand du Guscelin. But Roman Weapons are not really effective against Steelforged Plate, the arms and armor even of a Bowmen(meant light infantry) would come from a Quality base higher...

They would have not only an Cav against the roman re helpless, but also an inf against teh roaman arms would be useless.

Very unlikely, the roman Weapons are useless against the French, their cav would be routed Most knights weren`t noble, in germany the majority of knights the ministeriales were unfree. btw Knight come from Knecht which means Peasant. You mean as the Englisch Yeomanry or Longbowmen, or...

The Normans did not use the Longbow, they did use a bow which is in Game terms a shortbow. And many of the french were killed in close combat, after the hail of arrows had broken their formation(to close to fight) or were massacred after the king ordered to kill the prisoners.

At Agincourt the french attacked through wet ground, their should hve gon kneedeep in the mud, ths was at 1415, and at Crecy the french knights attacked the english 16 times. The first "perfection" of the plte was about 1450, the same time the longbow went out of use in central europe.