This got stickied fast!

Also, I totally called the army of Krunch's people.

This got stickied fast!

Also, I totally called the army of Krunch's people.

There are the two moons again... I just get lost in those, and forget about the rest...

And good call gF.

Anywho... I for the next page I predict: The death of more NPCs, familly reunion, harsh words between familly members and some hilarious comments from Richard.

Tell me if I missed anything.

Cool, I'm really anticipating the next comic now.

I liked the line "The warlock has taken to singing during his sessions with the landor. It is a disturbing sight."
Way to go Richard! Freak people out!

All that in one page? That's a bit fast-paced for LFG, don't you think?

And that proved the fact that ideas stemming from these sort of threads
are listened to.Guys!Keep thinking up more crazy ideas!And draw it out!
XDD

Gosh,people create new page!threads really quickly!Wonder if I ever get the chance
to open one...*ponders*

And someone also called Richard singing durin his torture sessions. Dunno who it was though, but they are now officially full of win.

Hmm, and we always believed that Richard's reaction to torture would be something like this.

Well, we didn't see the whole torture session. I'm sure they had Richard singing at one point.

If they've gotten back to Richard on their torture stints, that means Krunch, Benny, and Pella have been tortured as well by now. I wonder how that turned out.

Did you notice? Mr. Man was sending out amessage with his Raven... Probably asking for more troops.

I also wonder where Sooba's been this whole time. Hopefully they didn't leave him on the boat, or in Kethencia. They'd probably be partially screwed then

....unless Richard found the torture sessions such fun that he yelled "Oooh me! Pick me again! I want another ride on the rack!" when the guards dragged Cale back to the cell. (Naa, I don't believe that myself.)

Did you notice? Mr. Man was sending out amessage with his Raven... Probably asking for more troops.

I don't mean to be a jerk (or maybe I do, but just dont want you to think I do), but how does eight legions make for over thirty thousand men?

(snip) how does eight legions make for over thirty thousand men?

Roman legion

(from Latin legio "military levy, conscription", from lego — "to collect") is a term that can apply both as a transliteration of legio ("conscription" or "army") to the entire Roman army and also, more narrowly (and more commonly), to the heavy infantry that was the basic military unit of the ancient Roman army in the period of the late Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. In this latter meaning, it consisted of several cohorts of heavy infantry known as legionaries. It was almost always accompanied by one or more attached units of auxiliaries, who were not Roman citizens and provided cavalry, ranged troops and skirmishers to complement the legion's heavy infantry.

The size of a typical legion varied widely throughout the history of ancient Rome, with complements of 4,200 legionaries in the republican period of Rome (split into 35 maniples of 120 legionaries each), to 5,200 plus auxilarys in the imperial period (split into 10 cohorts of 480 men each, with the first cohort holding 800 men.

As legions were not standing armies until the Marian reforms (c. 107 BC), and were instead created, used, and disbanded again, several hundred legions were named and numbered throughout Roman history. To date, about 50 have been identified. In the time of the Early Roman Empire, there were usually about 25-35 standing legions plus their Auxiliaries, with more raised as needed. See List of Roman legions for a catalogue of known late republic, early Empire and late Empire legions, with dates in existence, emblem and locations of deployment.

Due to the enormous military successes of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire the legion has long been regarded as the prime ancient model for military efficiency and ability.
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Late Republic (107-30BC)

Main article: Marian reforms
See also List of Roman legions for details of notable late Republican legions

Following the Marian reforms of the 2nd century BC, the legions took on the second, narrower meaning that is familiar in the popular imagination as close-order citizen heavy infantry.

At the end of the 2nd century BC Gaius Marius reformed the previously ephemeral legions as a professional force drawing from the poorest classes, enabling Rome to field larger armies and providing employment for jobless citizens of the city of Rome. However, this put the loyalty of the soldiers in the hands of their general rather than Rome itself. In this period all Italian regions obtained full Roman citizenship and provided a larger basis for the army, supplemented by poor urban Romans.

The legions of the Late Republic and Early Empire are often called Marian legions. Following the Battle of Vercellae in 101 BC, Marius granted all Italian soldiers Roman citizenship. He justified this action to the Senate by saying that in the din of battle he could not distinguish Roman from ally. This effectively eliminated the notion of allied legions; henceforth all Italian legions would be regarded as Roman Legions, and full Roman citizenship was open to all the regions of Italy. Thus the three different types of heavy infantry were replaced by a single, standard type based on the Principes: armed with two heavy javelins called pila, the short sword called gladius, chain mail (lorica hamata) or banded armour (lorica segmentata), helmet and rectangular shield (scutum).

The role of allied legions would eventually be taken up by contingents of allied auxiliary troops, called Auxilia. Each legion had an auxilia of similar size, which contained specialist units, engineers and pioneers, artillerymen and craftsmen, service and support personnel and irregular units made up of non-citizens, mercenaries and local militia. These were usually formed into complete units such as light cavalry, light infantry or velites, and labourers. There was also a reconnaissance squad of 10 or more light mounted infantry called speculatores who could also serve as messengers or even as an early form of military intelligence service.

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Early Empire (30 BC-284 AD)

See Directory of Roman legions of the early Empire

For political and economic reasons, Augustus reduced the number of legions from nearly 50 at the end of his war against Mark Antony to only 28 which decomposed to 25 after the battle of Teutoburg Forest in which 3 legions were slaughtered. Generals during the recent Republican civil wars had formed their own legions and numbered them as they wished. When these wars ended, Augustus was left with around fifty legions, with several double counts (multiple Legio X's for instance). Beside streamlining the army, and regulating the soldiers' pay, he corrected these numbering anomalies. During this time, there was a high incidence of Gemina (twin) legions, where two legions were consolidated into a single organization (and was later made official and put under a dux and six duces.

At the same time, he greatly increased the number of auxiliaries to the point where they were equal in number to the legionaries. He also created the Praetorian Guard along with a permanent navy where served the liberti, or freed slaves.

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Late Empire (from 284)

See List of Roman legions for catalogue of late Empire legions

In the Later Roman Empire, the number of legions was increased and the Roman Army expanded. There is no evidence to suggest that legions changed in form before the Tetrarchy, although there is evidence that they were smaller than the paper strengths usually quoted. The final form of the legion originated with the elite legiones palatinae created by Diocletian and the Tetrarchs. These were infantry units of around 1,000 men rather than the 5,000, including cavalry, of the old Legions. The earliest legiones palatinae were the Lanciarii, Joviani, Herculiani and Divitenses.

The 4th century saw a very large number of new, small legions created, a process which began under Constantine II. In addition to the elite palatinae, other legions called comitatenses and pseudocomitatenses, along with the auxilia palatina, provided the infantry of late Roman armies. The Notitia Dignitatum lists 25 legiones palatinae, 70 legiones comitatenses, 47 legiones pseudocomitatenses and 111 auxilia palatina in the field armies, and a further 47 legiones in the frontier armies.[2] Legion names such as Honoriani and Gratianenses found in the Notitia suggest that the process of creating new legions continued through the 4th century rather than being a single event. The names also suggest that many new legions were formed from vexillationes or from old legions.

According to the late Roman writer Vegetius' De Re Militari, each century had a ballista and each cohort had an onager, giving the legion a formidable siege train of 59 Ballistae and 10 Onagers each manned by 10 libritors (artillerymen) and mounted on wagons drawn by oxen or mules. In addition to attacking cities and fortifications, these would be used to help defend Roman forts and fortified camps (castra) as well. They would even be employed on occasion, especially in the later Empire, as field artillery during battles or in support of river crossings.

I wonder how much time has passed in between this page and the last one? if Richard has "taken to singing during sessions" he's obviously been in there more than once. So I'm going to assume that it's very possible that all group members have been tortured once, or several times. That's a sad thought.

However, a very happy thought is how loudly I squeaked with joy when I saw the Taureans/Minotaurs coming to the rescue. Huzzah!! Can we finally meet the rest of Clan Bloodrage?? Eeeeeee!!

The artwork in that last panel is gorgeous.

The Taurens are coming...

It's about time we saw more 'Taurens'. I wonder how big this army of the cow people's is...

I wonder if that bit of flesh he's feeding to the messenger crow used to be attached to anyone we know.

I'm guessing thats probably been at least a week, looking at the difference between the moons in page 122 and 127.

I know next to nothing about lunar cycles, but it looks like about a week **shrugs**

Of course , it may differ for a double moon world.

And I predict an troubles ahead, storms a-brewin and death - Astrology told me so.
Krunchs fault for being a Taurus

Going back to Page 124, I don't understand why Commander Kickass wondered who the hell is attacking them and remarked to the bald guy, "No-one is supposed to know we're here." Um, hello? You've built a huge fortress, manned by hundreds of men, in the middle of previously neutral minotaur tribal territory, a fortress that in the real world would need constant supplies, food, horsefeed, fresh water, firewood for cooking and coal for blacksmiths and armorsmiths, stuff like that, and you think no-one has noticed?? Perhaps he is referring to certain power groups in Legara who are not supposed to know such a fortress has been built beyond the borders of the Empire. Still, in the real world it's much harder to hide armies or cities than in generic fantasy novels. Most fantasy authors simply forget about logistic matters, and the smoking cooking fires, not to mention the latrines.

Well now that eight more legions plus dragons and wizards are coming over for a sleep-over and pyjama party, I guess whoever sent that message to the commander decided that hiding the existance of the fortress no longer matters. Or do they have cloaking devices for their armies?

But when the commander says in today's page, "Legarion under Legara. As it was, as it will be again. And no-one saw it coming." I think he's a bit.... deluded? Overly optimistic? I mean, there's this aggressively militaristic Empire, still dreaming of past glories, and he thinks no-one will expect Legara to try and regain former territory? Oh come on!

I'm not sure if I missed someone else commenting on it, but... what is it that is floating in front of the moon? That SCREAMS 'ominous' to me.

And that proved the fact that ideas stemming from these sort of threads
are listened to.Guys!Keep thinking up more crazy ideas!And draw it out!
XDD

Gosh,people create new page!threads really quickly!Wonder if I ever get the chance
to open one...*ponders*

I'm not sure if I missed someone else commenting on it, but... what is it that is floating in front of the moon? That SCREAMS 'ominous' to me.

That would be the crow/raven flying off.

And the two moons are still more or less in the same place relative to eachother, just lower in the sky... that means matter of hours, not days/weeks.