Bolstering Bill
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==Description== | ==Description== | ||
A good neighbour takes it's name from the [[The Marches|Marcher]] [[Yeomen of the Marches|yeomen]] who make | A good neighbour takes it's name from the [[The Marches|Marcher]] [[Yeomen of the Marches|yeomen]] who make use them in their fighting lines to help reduce casualties. A couple of soldiers armed with these pole-arms provide speedy assistance to a fellow warrior who has collapsed due to injuries, allowing them to move back out of the press under their own steam. A soldiers armed with a good neighbour may be a trained [[Medical skills#Physician|physician]] themselves, but more likely they are expected to keep fighting to cover the retreat of their comrade and keep the line solid. | ||
In other nations one of these weapons may be called variously an ''indomitable hook'', a ''bolstering bill'' or occasionally a ''yeoman's harvest.'' | |||
==Rules== | ==Rules== | ||
Revision as of 17:13, 8 January 2013
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Description
A good neighbour takes it's name from the Marcher yeomen who make use them in their fighting lines to help reduce casualties. A couple of soldiers armed with these pole-arms provide speedy assistance to a fellow warrior who has collapsed due to injuries, allowing them to move back out of the press under their own steam. A soldiers armed with a good neighbour may be a trained physician themselves, but more likely they are expected to keep fighting to cover the retreat of their comrade and keep the line solid.
In other nations one of these weapons may be called variously an indomitable hook, a bolstering bill or occasionally a yeoman's harvest.
Rules
- Form: Pole-arm.
- Effect: Once per day you can use a hero point to use stay with me while wielding this weapon.
- Materials: Crafting a pikeman's press requires seven ingots of weltsilver and five ingots of green iron. It takes one month to make one of these items.