Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 3 | 210 | The shield View more quotes about shed">shed was broken. |
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Book 21. (7 results) Mercenaries of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 3 | 207 | He then advanced his archers in long, enveloping lines; in this way they could muster a much broader front for low-level, point-blank firepower than could the narrower concentrated squares. |
| 3 | 208 | He then utilized, for the first time in Gorean field warfare, first at Rovere, and later at Kargash, mobile siege equipment, catapults mounted on wheeled platforms, which could fire over the heads of the draft animals. |
| 3 | 209 | From these engines, hitherto employed only in siege warfare, now become a startling and devastating new weapon, in effect, a field artillery, tubs of burning pitch and flaming naphtha, and siege javelins, and giant boulders, fell in shattering torrents upon the immobilized squares. |
| 3 | 210 | The shield shed was broken. |
| 3 | 211 | The missiles of archers rained upon the confused, hapless defenders. |
| 3 | 212 | Even mobile siege towers, pushed from within by straining tharlarion, pressing their weight against prepared harnesses, trundled toward them, their bulwarks swarming with archers and javelin men. |
| 3 | 213 | The squares were broken. |
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He then advanced his archers in long, enveloping lines; in this way they could muster a much broader front for low-level, point-blank firepower than could the narrower concentrated squares.
He then utilized, for the first time in Gorean field warfare, first at Rovere, and later at Kargash, mobile siege equipment, catapults mounted on wheeled platforms, which could fire over the heads of the draft animals.
From these engines, hitherto employed only in siege warfare, now become a startling and devastating new weapon, in effect, a field artillery, tubs of burning pitch and flaming naphtha, and siege javelins, and giant boulders, fell in shattering torrents upon the immobilized squares.
The shield shed was broken.
The missiles of archers rained upon the confused, hapless defenders.
Even mobile siege towers, pushed from within by straining tharlarion, pressing their weight against prepared harnesses, trundled toward them, their bulwarks swarming with archers and javelin men.
The squares were broken.
- (Mercenaries of Gor)