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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Water Bob" data-source="post: 7376309" data-attributes="member: 92305">AQUILONIA - THE AQUILONIAN MILITARYThe third chapter is useful, devoted as it is to the Aquilonian military.  There are notes on how big the kingdom's military is as a whole and what type of units are used by the Aquilonians.This chapter can be useful to a GM in a number of ways, from informing the GM on how to describe troops as NPCs to how to describe a large host when the PCs encounter the army.  There are lots of notes for building certain types of character types, useful to the GM in creating NPCs and to players for PCs.  Much of the information in the chapter can be transplanted for use by PCs who are members of mercenary groups.  And, some of the notes can be easily used in a normal adventure based campaign--useful to anyone who participates in combat.The chapter is also useful for a GM who wants to run a large scale battle, whether he's using some rules for this or just describing the battle in the background of the PC's actions.WAR FORMATIONSDescribes the units used by the Aquilonian military and provides notes for characters.  Includes suggestions for Soldier class combat formation choices.THE LIFE OF THE COMMON AQUILONIAN SOLDIERThis is a neat section that describes the day-to-day life of a soldier.  Notes, as an example, include suggestions like using Perform (guard mount) for inspection checks, or, if a character has Craft (Cooking) or Profession (Cook), he will usually make slightly more money because good cooks are very popular among the troops.  There's stuff on Allegiance, down time, respect of rank, hunting, etc.SIGNALS & AFTERMATH OF WAR & WOMEN IN WARThese shorter sections contain useful info.  The Signals section is neat, giving certain commands used in the military and discussing oliphants.  The Aftermath section addresses characters getting injured and then healed on the battlefield, the chance for disease and such.  The GM can take some of this info and use it in his non-military game, if he wishes.  The Women section discusses the Aquilonian point of view of the fairer sex participating in war.REGULAR ARMY & MOUNTED MEN-AT-ARMS & THE ARCHERS & THE INFANTRYThese are all excellent sections that go into detail about each subject.  There is a fantastic section on caring for horses that a GM can use in any game where the PCs have mounts.  Too often, horses are treated like cars that never need gas and never break down in RPGs.  They're used to get the PCs from one point on the map to another, and that's it.  This excellent section brings rules to the long term use of horses, and PCs may be encouraged to develop skills to help them care for their mounts.There's another part of this section of the book that addresses care of equipment.  I like this kind of detail.  From a GM's point of view, it forces PCs to spend money on upkeep and encourages them to spend skill points on skills that will help them maintain their gear.THE BLACK LEGION & THE BLACK DRAGONSNo chapter on the Aquilonian military wouldn't be complete without some discussion of these two famous elite units.<img src="http://www.beastsofwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Circle-of-Iron.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></blockquote>

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