Warrior Ancient and Medieval Rules

[Doug]

But are the "retinue" actually good enough at warfare to be class C troops?

Seems to me that most of the knight's servants don't even possess
horses. The squires are properly knights in training, but they would
range in experience from pubescent boys to men days away from getting
their spurs.

If there is justification for allowing the squire to be removed from
his master into a separately deployable element. they should range
from E to D. Add a very few C class elements wherein some Knights
are included to act as the leaders.

The E's would effectively be mounted horse holders following the
knight unit as a detachment.

The rest useful mainly as a morale boost to infantry whom they deploy
behind, but not very combat capable.

>(1) Knights, pages, and squires function overall as a unit to create what we
>call EHK and SHK, and thus both front rank and back rank of units
>should be the
>same;
>(2) Knights occupied the front of the unit, and their lesser-armed mounted
>retinue occupied the back of the unit, and thus the back should be something
>like HK, HC, or MC, depending on time period and nationality.
>-Mark Stone

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Doug
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