FRIEDA2133 at aol.com wrote: > >My guess is one of the useful tasks an accomplished sorcerer >could do in the Imperial Guard was an anti-arrow spell. This >anti-arrow spell was figured out in the last Athrya reign. > > Similarly, what I've been thinking as I've lurked about watching this thread, is that the ranged attack that archers provided could be just as easily provided by a sorcerer's corps. Not only that, but sorcerers could almost certainly deliver more devastating firepower than just a bunch of pointy sticks--I'm thinking here of say 100 sorcerers all casting something along the lines of the D&D fireball spell. Of course, this leads into the offensive/defensive sorcery arms race that's been discussed before... Latakia the Lemur