Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 40 | 21 | The View more quotes about shield">shield, whatever its attitude, can protect from but a single bearing. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 40 | 18 | Massed infantry has little to fear from tarn attack unless, as suggested, it be combined with an attack on foot, with similar forces. |
| 40 | 19 | Isolated infantrymen fare less well against tarn attack, as the tarnsmen can pick and choose their targets, with relative impunity. |
| 40 | 20 | Too, it is difficult to defend oneself from low-flying tarns, attacking in concert, from two or three sides at once. |
| 40 | 21 | The shield, whatever its attitude, can protect from but a single bearing. |
| 40 | 22 | The attentions of our tarnsmen had been divided between the artillery, the ballistae, the mangonels, the catapults, the springals, on the shore, armed with their missiles and fire, and several galleys offshore. |
| 40 | 23 | The enemy artillery, where it was not burning, had been deserted. |
| 40 | 24 | It had been death to man those engines. |
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Massed infantry has little to fear from tarn attack unless, as suggested, it be combined with an attack on foot, with similar forces.
Isolated infantrymen fare less well against tarn attack, as the tarnsmen can pick and choose their targets, with relative impunity.
Too, it is difficult to defend oneself from low-flying tarns, attacking in concert, from two or three sides at once.
The shield, whatever its attitude, can protect from but a single bearing.
The attentions of our tarnsmen had been divided between the artillery, the ballistae, the mangonels, the catapults, the springals, on the shore, armed with their missiles and fire, and several galleys offshore.
The enemy artillery, where it was not burning, had been deserted.
It had been death to man those engines.
- (Swordsmen of Gor)