Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 27 | 41 | Sharpened stakes, too, fashioned from lodge View more quotes about poles">poles, supported by shorter, crossed poles, archers at their base, could be oriented to the trajectory of the attack. |
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Book 18. (7 results) Blood Brothers of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 27 | 38 | If the Kinyanpi attacked as they had before they would encounter, unexpectedly, sheets of arrows fired from close range. |
| 27 | 39 | They would then, too, if they maintained their early attack pattern, strike into the ropes strung between lodges. |
| 27 | 40 | These were intended to serve the same purposes as the swaying, almost invisible tarn wire sometimes strung in the high cities, wires which can cut the wings from a bird or tear off the head or arm of a rider. |
| 27 | 41 | Sharpened stakes, too, fashioned from lodge poles, supported by shorter, crossed poles, archers at their base, could be oriented to the trajectory of the attack. |
| 27 | 42 | This would tend to prevent, we hoped, not only swooping, talon attacks but also the close-quarters work of which the red savage, with his small bow, is fond. |
| 27 | 43 | We expected the Kinyanpi to be much less effective at a greater distance. |
| 27 | 44 | Too, if the Kinyanpi were at heights of even fifty or a hundred feet, it would be difficult for them to fire accurately through the overhead network of ropes and cloths which we had suspended between several of the lodges. |
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If the Kinyanpi attacked as they had before they would encounter, unexpectedly, sheets of arrows fired from close range.
They would then, too, if they maintained their early attack pattern, strike into the ropes strung between lodges.
These were intended to serve the same purposes as the swaying, almost invisible tarn wire sometimes strung in the high cities, wires which can cut the wings from a bird or tear off the head or arm of a rider.
Sharpened stakes, too, fashioned from lodge poles, supported by shorter, crossed poles, archers at their base, could be oriented to the trajectory of the attack.
This would tend to prevent, we hoped, not only swooping, talon attacks but also the close-quarters work of which the red savage, with his small bow, is fond.
We expected the Kinyanpi to be much less effective at a greater distance.
Too, if the Kinyanpi were at heights of even fifty or a hundred feet, it would be difficult for them to fire accurately through the overhead network of ropes and cloths which we had suspended between several of the lodges.
- (Blood Brothers of Gor)