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Re-training MHoGatA

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Re: Re-training MHoGatA
Post by Keith_w   » Thu Oct 02, 2014 5:29 pm

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jgnfld wrote:
DrakBibliophile wrote:Yeah.

GRRM might do that "just for the heck of it" but we would have to extremely annoy David Weber for him to do something like that. ;)


Might be fun for him to write that last page though :D :

"Nimue and Merlin repaired to their cave in the Mountains of Light. OWL provided imagery and they watched as the Gbaba fleet closed in on the planet to finish the cycle of destruction they had started so many centuries ago..."

It would probably serve us all right for him to pay us back in spades for all the assumptions of victory!

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Re: Re-training MHoGatA
Post by AncientMariner   » Thu Oct 02, 2014 5:33 pm

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jgnfld wrote:GRRM???


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Re: Re-training MHoGatA
Post by Henry Brown   » Sat Oct 04, 2014 11:02 pm

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lyonheart wrote:Hi Randomiser,

Getting back to the thread topic, I've pegged the MHoGatA's cavalry at around 400,000 so the infantry should be around 1.2 million, while the initial strength of the AoG was 500,000.

The ratio of officers and NCO's at the regimental level in the AoG is just over 4-1 for the infantry and 5-1 in the cavalry.

I suspect the MHoGatA had much higher ratios of officers and NCO's to enlisted, and still will after the additions, while a lot of the AoG pike enlisted would enjoy the higher pay of promotion even with a foreign army so I'd expect many to jump at the chance, besides wounded, and those tired of essentially police duties, NTM those who figure volunteering and getting promoted is better than being volunteered to make up losses in Wyrshym and Kaitswyrth's armies. ;)
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I'm not so sure about that ratio. My understanding of Harchong is that it is a kingdom where the few, privileged, nobles lord over huge hordes of serfs. Based on this culture, I would not be surprised if the Sergeants and Lieutenants of the MHoGatA command oversized squads and platoons of serf conscripts.
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