Post by borderprince on Oct 8, 2017 5:06:00 GMT
Am I right in seeing a slight disconnect between a couple of the merc theme forces and the wider PP fluff about them?
Two in particular for me:
Kingmaker
Blood of Kings has this army in the fiction. The oddities are Kell, Raluk and...Damiano, none of whom appear in the book. Now I can understand the fiction not mentioning Kell (he's probably skulking around the sidelines somewhere, doing his thing) and Raluk is hardly a major character. But Damiano is a full warcaster and the book does make an issue about the allocation of jacks (especially Galleons) to particular named casters. He just seems like a surprise inclusion to the theme.
Vive le Resistance
Two big ones here. The first is Damiano (again) - in his first appearance in the fiction (Wrath) he's working for the Resistance, so he seems like a sensible character to include in the theme.
The second is the absence of Steelheads. I know they're not directly Llaelese, but they repeatedly appear as working for the Resistance, providing a large part of their manpower. We get large contingents of Steelheads working for the Resistance in Wrath, Through the Darkness (which I think is also the only place we see Macbain working for the Resistance) and Aftershock.
Now I know there are probably game balance issues for this (Damiano is a great warrior caster, might not want him with Stormlances or Exemplar), but does anyone else find this a little jarring?
Just me then?
Two in particular for me:
Kingmaker
Blood of Kings has this army in the fiction. The oddities are Kell, Raluk and...Damiano, none of whom appear in the book. Now I can understand the fiction not mentioning Kell (he's probably skulking around the sidelines somewhere, doing his thing) and Raluk is hardly a major character. But Damiano is a full warcaster and the book does make an issue about the allocation of jacks (especially Galleons) to particular named casters. He just seems like a surprise inclusion to the theme.
Vive le Resistance
Two big ones here. The first is Damiano (again) - in his first appearance in the fiction (Wrath) he's working for the Resistance, so he seems like a sensible character to include in the theme.
The second is the absence of Steelheads. I know they're not directly Llaelese, but they repeatedly appear as working for the Resistance, providing a large part of their manpower. We get large contingents of Steelheads working for the Resistance in Wrath, Through the Darkness (which I think is also the only place we see Macbain working for the Resistance) and Aftershock.
Now I know there are probably game balance issues for this (Damiano is a great warrior caster, might not want him with Stormlances or Exemplar), but does anyone else find this a little jarring?
Just me then?
