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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Caros" data-source="post: 3708923" data-attributes="member: 43842">Hmm, to understand the idea behind old and aging warriors, you have to understand clan philosophy in one major point.To the clans, its not age thats actually so much the problem. The reason age is a concern is the clan idea that each successive generation is better than the last. Every generation they take the best of the best warriors and use them to breed warriors. Next generation, the best of those warriors breed to create even better warriors and so forth.By the time a bloodnamed clan warrior is in his thirties he could concievably be competeing with his own kids, who, by clan eugenics, should be superior to him in every way. By the time he's fifty, god forbid he's still in a cockpit, he's now fighting the equivilent of his grandkids. Also, you seem to think that the clan warriors don't want to be used as fodder. They look forward to it.  One of the greatest instances of a solahma unit ever had a troop of aging mechwarriors handed machine guns and knives and told to delay enemy mechs as long as possible.The motto for solahma units is pretty much thus. "March forward and shoot. When you run out of ammo, use your knife. When your knife breaks, beat your enemy. If your arms are broken, kick him to death. If your legs are shot off, bite him. When you can no longer move, wait to die. If you can't die, there must be something wrong with your attitude."</blockquote>