From: owner-glencook-fans-digest@lists.xmission.com (glencook-fans-digest) To: glencook-fans-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: glencook-fans-digest V1 #87 Reply-To: glencook-fans-digest Sender: owner-glencook-fans-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-glencook-fans-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk glencook-fans-digest Monday, February 26 2001 Volume 01 : Number 087 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 15:19:39 -0600 From: Steve Harris Subject: Re: Odp: (glencook-fans) Black Company Marching Song??? David, Your points are well-taken on the uses of close-order drill in battle formations. What I had observed was that there are practically no descriptions of such in the BC canon. Most of the well-described fights are urban or are small skirmishes. The largest battle described--the battle at Charm--has the BC pretty much just staying put on the ramparts of the Lady's citadel (or retreating up it). The only example that comes to mind of a described battle where close-order drill on the part of the BC might have had a part, is the disastrous affair at Dejagore--and even then I don't recall the BC itself being described as using such tactics. (Was there a massed battle in the Shadowlands? I don't clearly recall; if there was, it wasn't described in a lot of detail.) The BC having developed a reputation for success over a period of centuries argues for their having available to them the tactics necessary to succeed in a variety of contexts, including massed infantry battles facing various types of opponents. But we just don't see the sort of tactics that lead to the development of marching as a company tradition. Maybe they started to rely too much on Tom-Tom, One-Eye, Silent, and Goblin, in the years leading up to Croaker? Perhaps they once were masters of infantry tactics of the standard sort, but once through Gle-Xle (or whatever it was), picking up Tom-Tom and One-Eye, they got to liking the edge of socery. And they eventually acquired Goblin and Silent--and they got the knack of using all manner of subterfuges to avoid having to engage in massed infantry attacks (except where they had an overwhelming advantage to start with). Remember, they weren't in very good shape in Opal: They were actually losing, and things would have become very sticky without the fortuitous out afforded them by Soulcatcher. Just some possibilities to consider. Steve ======================================================================= To unsubscribe, subscribe, or access the archives of this list, visit . ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 19:43:21 -0700 From: "Amy Weathers" Subject: Re: Odp: (glencook-fans) Black Company Marching Song??? > I walked into a used book store that was going out of buisiness in >Cambridge Ma. (I live on the North Shore of Boston.) I picked up 1 copy of, >"A Shadow of All Night Falling," 2 copies of , "October's Baby," each one >has a slightly different cover from each other. Oh sure, I look for October's Baby for like ten years and you find two copies at one time. Life is cruel. Now that I have a copy, I have not had time to read it. As to the Black Company Music, I took a vote of the three other people currently sitting in my house and they all suggested Metallica's _For home the Bell Tolls_ or _Razorback_. Either of which you could probally find on Nabster, much to their dismay. I am not sure if I agree with either of those two suggestions but I agreed to post my poll findings to the list. I guess I would be more inclined to pick something like, Bad Company's _Bad Company_ but I would have to think about it more. Amy ======================================================================= To unsubscribe, subscribe, or access the archives of this list, visit . ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 00:18:16 -0400 From: Richard Chilton Subject: Re: Odp: (glencook-fans) Black Company Marching Song??? Amy Weathers wrote: > > As to the Black Company Music, I took a vote of the three other people > currently sitting in my house and they all suggested Metallica's _For home > the Bell Tolls_ or _Razorback_. If we are looking at Metallica, one from their first big album comes to mind - Disposable Heroes. Less for the way the Black Company saw itself then the way their employers treated them. The first verse and the two verse chours sums up how much many of their employers cared about. Bodies fill the fields I see, hungry heroes end No one to play soldier now, no one to pretend Running blind through killing fields, bred to kill them all Victim of what sex should be A servant `til I fall Soldier boy, made of clay Now an empty shell Twenty one, only son But he served us well Bred to kill, not to care Just do as we say Finished here, Greeting Death He's yours to take away Back to the front You will do what I say, when I say Back to the front You will die when I say, you must die Back to the front You coward You servant You blindman I was born for dying Richard Chilton ======================================================================= To unsubscribe, subscribe, or access the archives of this list, visit . ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 18:59:10 -0700 From: "Don" Subject: (glencook-fans) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 19:42:23 -0600 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_0015_01C0A02C.3D404040 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hey Eric, are the covers for Red Iron Nights and Cold Copper tears really switched = in the Russian Publications. My ignorance of the Russian language = prevent me from figuring this out on my own. Is anybody else really = annoyed by Garrett always dressed in a suit and trench coat. I know he's = a finder of secrets, but I can't stand the way the covers depict him. = Love the books though. I do kind of like the weird Polish covers though. Don=20 "In time, what's deserved always gets served."- COC - ------=_NextPart_000_0015_01C0A02C.3D404040 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hey Eric,
are the covers for Red Iron Nights and = Cold Copper=20 tears really switched in the Russian Publications. My ignorance of the = Russian=20 language prevent me from figuring this out on my own. Is anybody else = really=20 annoyed by Garrett always dressed in a suit and trench coat. I know = he's a=20 finder of secrets, but I can't stand the way the covers depict him. Love = the=20 books though. I do kind of like the weird Polish covers = though.
 
Don
"In time, what's deserved = always gets=20 served."- COC
 
 
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