On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Davdi Silverrock wrote: > I understand the point you're making, but I still see problems with it. > Consider: promotions are gradual. Putting Kragar in charge of a > military group large enough to make a difference in a battle, while at > the same time being aware of his... peculiar unnoticibility, means that > whoever was in charge of field assignments was the one who made the > mistake, not Kragar himself. Also, consider this: Before a group goes > into battle, they train and practice maneuvers. Again, ample > opportunity to note that Kragar's group is Not Doing Well because his > subordinates aren't paying attention to him. Brain slow today, hopefully this makes sense: What you say would certainly be valid if Kragar had been in the imperial army, but I've always envisioned it happening with Kragar being a nobleman collecting his surrounding forces in order to join in the larger army to assault the guy over there who pissed off the local lord at the party last night.