Re: Muster ranged combat style
Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2015 10:01 pm
Wow, we play them different. I've always treated Muster as professional soldiers, using real world examples like the mercenaries the Rhodesians used, or the consultants the US used in Iraq, and I've always played house troops as more like the garrison troops of the Napoleonic wars. House troops are a short step above conscript militia, and Muster are professionals with travel bags packed. Muster are also more likely to know how to make ammunition and armor, repair vehicles, and so forth, while house troops just know whatever skills their noble demands that they know. Hazat troops are probably better than Muster on the whole, while the Decados use cannon fodder to protect their precious artillery, and use elite troops like Cossacks as security battalions to keep the fodder on the line. I've always run the muster soldiers as a true elite, looking down on the amateurs who populate noble armies.
That said, I've also always run Chainers as scum one step above street thugs, so there are Muster and then there are Muster.
That said, I've also always run Chainers as scum one step above street thugs, so there are Muster and then there are Muster.