For an RP I'm in, I need some info on what High Rock's Military is like.

As in, you know, is the main force made up of Phalanxes, or do they have powerful cavalry, or horse archers (doub that one).

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I'm sure they have many sorcerers and battlemages, and things of that nature.

From what I can gather, High Rock's forces would be like Medieval Europe. Knights, crossbowman, spear men, things like that. Phalanx's and other Greco military formations don't seem to be a High Rock thing.

note: I only say Greco because when you say Phalanx, you usually think of Greece. I know it was wildly used by other military's at the time.

Yes I was thinking heavily of Greece when I said that.

For some reason I thought that High Rock had Phalanxes like that. :shrug:

THank you for the answers.

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Theres nothing that says they can't, but I just don't think it fits there profile, which is very stereotypically based on Medieval Europe, or so it looks like, given all the talks of knights and knightly orders.

From the soldiers they have around the towns it seems they like spearmen in chainmail, axemen in steel, spellswords and battlemages, and good amounts of quick striking cavalry. They also have siege equipment everywhere in the country.

Since High Rock's history is one of squabbling petty kingdoms, and it still is not unified in any sense that matters (though they haven't been fighting openly since the Warp in the West), I'd believe their military to be organized on a feudal model, nothing like the Legion. Kings and nobles would have private armies, the ability to raise forces locally through conscription, and deals with the knightly orders to call on their forces to fight when needed.

Command of feudal armies was always a problem in the real world, as groups and individual soldiers answered to their noble or knight, not to a unified command, and orders would get delayed, garbled, lost, or disobeyed in the path down the chain of command. I wouldn't expect High Rock armies to behave much differently.

Don't mean to hijack the thread or anything, but what about the Skyrim military? If the next game is there, what can we expect from Nords?

Norse or Celtic-inspired, probably.

Thank you all for the answers.

Helped me a bunch, though I mostly went with Lord Tidus post on Midieval-like armies.

Though many of the smaller city states probably wouldn't be able to rally any big armies on their own, and depend on others or mercenaries if they got attacked. Pre-Warp that is, since now that issue has resolved itself as the smaller kingdoms were svcked into the big ones anyway.


Rather than Norse/Celtic, think Italian or German city states - though not as many. Each city is probably capable of calling upon sufficiently large forces for whatever goal they have (an invasion of Morrowind, for example), but they have also been known to employ mercenaries (Orcs seems to be a favourite, but I'm sure they have their own, home-bred mercenary bands as well) to bolster their armies during campains. So, the Nords are pretty medieval as well.

In my own opinion, I think the more rural areas would be rather independant of the cities, though, and have a more Nordic way of organising themselves - smaller households/farmers gathering up under richer/stronger farmers/-lords, lending their (and their households') swords and arms in exchange for protection from raiders and other strong/rich farmers.

I have another question, military related, and I thought I'd use this one instead of starting a new topic.

What is Hammerfell's military like?

I have absolutely no idea. Not even a basic thought of what it could be. :shrug:

The majority of Hammmerfell's tactics in war would be guerilla. Hammerfell may be declared an official province, but the Crown and Forebear social classes make it difficult to organize a solid army. If anything most armies would be privately owned or owned by each city. However, the Redguards are known for being great sailors and Hammerfell in general has a large navy. Not a unified navy, but a large one at that. So a uniform army in Hammerfell would either be a rather small noble owned army or owned by a city. Unless of course you can consider a hundred or so ragtag Forebears an army.

i have to disagree there. sure, hammerfell is not as unified as Skyrim or Cyrodiil, but it is unified enough to form a large and very capable military. the redguards have a long history of military organization and training.

Hammerfell is like Sengoku Nippon: They will be in a constante civil war, with private and city armies. However they will unit whenever there is a war, against another country.

http://www.elderscrolls.com/images/codex/history_daggerfall_center.gif seems to suggest that the medieval theory is the right one