Thread:ChazmanianDevil/@comment-26210095-20161030030912/@comment-26210095-20161101150350

Conscripts:  Men conscripted from the City-States to fight. They will usually fight for a season then go home and plant their crops. Armed with usualy whatever they can find, including (at its most primitive) stone farming implements and sticks. Most soldiers use clubs topped with a hard ball or rock, ideal for breaking bones.

The Unbroken:  Men from the warrior class not yet tested in battle or who have not taken any captives. Armed with a basic hand-axe or tomahawk of stone or copper.

Tauredain Warriors:  Men who have taken a captive, and proved themselves in the heat of battle. Inducted as a full member of the warrior-class. Armed with axes and the macuahuitl, a deadly club edged with obsidian. The basic Tauredain soldier.

Blowgunners:  Men who fight with blowguns, shooting and dealing death from afar. They often poison their darts with lethal poisons from frogs native to the forest.

Blades of Yirisana:  Men who take to guerilla war in the jungle. Many mystic powers are ascribed to them, such as being able to disappear and make themselves invisible. They paint their faces green to match the land, and often kill many before they even know they are there.

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The Twice-Born: <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> Men who have taken five or more captives, and have proved themselves to be great warriors. Armed with a fine-quality macuahuitl, harpoon-spears tipped with the barb of a giant stingray, and a ceremonial obsidian dagger, and armor of hide. The Twice-Born go through a ceremony inducting them as an elite warrior, which involves ritual tattoos and sacrificing a beating heart to the gods

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The Forsworn: <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> Men who have taken twenty five or more captives and proved themselves as mighty warriors. Armed with a fine-quality macuahuitl, harpoon-spears, axes, and other deadly weaponry. Armed in thick cotton armor, with a brightly colored tunic with emblems denoting one’s family, rank, station, and prestige. Warriors feared throughout the land, the greatest honor one of the warrior class can attain.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Beast-Tamers: <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> Men who train the great beast of the jungles, the Mumakil. They are the terror-weapons of the Tauredain, and ued to deadly effect to trample their enemies.

The Shorn Ones: Men trained from the cradle to fight, put through some of the harshest training in Middle-Earth, the Shorn Ones are in a class all of their own. They are called the Shorn Ones after the fact that they cut off half of the hair of their head in a braid and paint their faces different colors. They incise runes in their skin which they believe will cause all arrows and harm to turn away. These are the deadliest warriors the Tauredain have to offer, and are feared like no others

This good, for Zaltec Empire troops?