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<blockquote data-quote="darkbard" data-source="post: 8217383" data-attributes="member: 1282">I'm going to suggest a different tack, since your preference seems to be for fictional rather than mechanical components. Read some Steven Erikson, his Malazan Book of the Fallen, particularly Memories of Ice. Some truly grim and gruesome depictions of the horrors of war, exploitation, and cruelty.From the Malazan Wiki, here is a description of one beaten and desperate group:&quot;The Tenescowri were the peasant army of the Pannion Domin. Composed of the famished survivors of the Domin's war on its neighbours, the Pannion Seer purposely let them starve so that he could use them as an expendable infantry component in his army, both keeping his elite forces safe and striking terror into its enemies. The leader of the Tenescowri was Anaster.They fought as a frenzied and indisciplined rabble armed with cleavers, knives, and hatchets. They relied on overwhelming numbers to bring down their foes, climbing atop one another in an effort to reach their opponents. Those who fell were dragged away to be devoured by their own companions.They fed on the dead as their only source of food and mated with dying enemies to replenish their numbers. Those born this way were known as Children of the Dead Seed.&quot;Erikson's vivid and detailed prose makes this ten times more terrifying than the above.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="darkbard, post: 8217383, member: 1282"] I'm going to suggest a different tack, since your preference seems to be for fictional rather than mechanical components. Read some Steven Erikson, his [i]Malazan Book of the Fallen[/i], particularly [i]Memories of Ice[/i]. Some truly grim and gruesome depictions of the horrors of war, exploitation, and cruelty. From the Malazan Wiki, here is a description of one beaten and desperate group: "The Tenescowri were the peasant army of the Pannion Domin. Composed of the famished survivors of the Domin's war on its neighbours, the Pannion Seer purposely let them starve so that he could use them as an expendable infantry component in his army, both keeping his elite forces safe and striking terror into its enemies. The leader of the Tenescowri was Anaster. They fought as a frenzied and indisciplined rabble armed with cleavers, knives, and hatchets. They relied on overwhelming numbers to bring down their foes, climbing atop one another in an effort to reach their opponents. Those who fell were dragged away to be devoured by their own companions. They fed on the dead as their only source of food and mated with dying enemies to replenish their numbers. Those born this way were known as Children of the Dead Seed." Erikson's vivid and detailed prose makes this ten times more terrifying than the above. [/QUOTE]

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