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<blockquote data-quote="Ralts Bloodthorne" data-source="post: 2156056" data-attributes="member: 6390">The city guard has recently been restructed by Antiox Belcallus, a half-orc warrior of great reknown and a veteran of several wars. Despite the nobilities initial scoffing, the guard has become a force to be reconned with, and several nobles are thinking of assissinating Antiox due to his popularity with the gaurd force and the power it brings him with the Soots.Chain shirts, bucklers, hand axes are the standard armor and weapons, and while this does not really change all that much, it is the tactics and the way guard squads are organized and trained that does.Each gaurd patrol has 2 archers, four men with large tower shields and short spears, a cleric, two rogues, and a psychic warrior or psion among them. The men with the tower shields use bullrush to pin thier foes against walls and stab them down, while the archers cover the back of the shield wall creators. The clerics are on hand to take care of any wounded bystanders, provide fire support, and take care of anything within thier range.Many of the squads have been equipped with sorcerers, at Antiox's demands. Both to pay for the sorcerer's training in thier arts, and to put them under his watchful eye.The fact that he recently managed to ram a proclamaition that guardsmen and thier immediate families were exempt from taxation did NOT make the nobility happy, who had managed to tax the guardsmen at 115% of thier pay.Retroactively.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ralts Bloodthorne, post: 2156056, member: 6390"] The city guard has recently been restructed by Antiox Belcallus, a half-orc warrior of great reknown and a veteran of several wars. Despite the nobilities initial scoffing, the guard has become a force to be reconned with, and several nobles are thinking of assissinating Antiox due to his popularity with the gaurd force and the power it brings him with the Soots. Chain shirts, bucklers, hand axes are the standard armor and weapons, and while this does not really change all that much, it is the tactics and the way guard squads are organized and trained that does. Each gaurd patrol has 2 archers, four men with large tower shields and short spears, a cleric, two rogues, and a psychic warrior or psion among them. The men with the tower shields use bullrush to pin thier foes against walls and stab them down, while the archers cover the back of the shield wall creators. The clerics are on hand to take care of any wounded bystanders, provide fire support, and take care of anything within thier range. Many of the squads have been equipped with sorcerers, at Antiox's demands. Both to pay for the sorcerer's training in thier arts, and to put them under his watchful eye. The fact that he recently managed to ram a proclamaition that guardsmen and thier immediate families were exempt from taxation did NOT make the nobility happy, who had managed to tax the guardsmen at 115% of thier pay. Retroactively. [/QUOTE]

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