Hi Don, AClone,
I did bring this up 2-3 pages ago, but it got lost amid more exciting posts apparently.
But I didn't expect RFC to respond given all that was going on at the time; dentists, birthdays, etc.
More combat troops from Chisholm seems a bit too quick, given the extensive practice the ICA's tactics require, possibly more mortar troops, since that could be done faster.
The troops could be fresh marines from Charis, having finished their training on Helen's Island; or specialized support troops, possibly engineers who've just finished their instruction and practice with dynamite and possibly even TNT or at least briefed on it.
They could also be artillery trained on the new breech loaders, or possibly dynamite rockets [much lower firing shock and acceleration].
Plus whatever was made at Eraystor, possibly something for the canal barrier mentioned in the unofficial snippet #2?
We still don't know where the troops that left Port Royal at the beginning of section 10 in September have gone; probably near Silk Town, since Hanth doesn't think of them in his thoughts at the end of October when Delthak is saluted, though that should have been too early for them to arrive, NTM an army corps is too big for him to command with no previous experience.
I thought I'd finished this hours ago.
Perhaps we'll find out soon.
L
n7axw wrote:AClone wrote:All right, so here's another question that struck me.
The roster lists "half a dozen troopships" in the attacked convoy, which was heading from Tellesburg to Siddar City.
I thought all of the Marines and ICA units were either already gone from Old Charis, or still in Chisholm. So...if no one has asked already, where did additional (presumably trained) troops come from?
I would have thought that new enlistees would be heading from Tellesberg, etc, towards Chisholm for training, not the front.
My guess on this is that they would indeed be heading for the front. We know that men are being recruited and freshly trained all the time. This could have been the latest batch.
Don
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