Ranger
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| + | Sergeants are the ones who ride cavalry in large scale battle, unless they are a "first sergeant" leading a squad in place of a knight. Rangers' duty is to patrol the wildlands all around Wessex, including spawn points, in and around villages and resource nodes. They will likely do this unmounted. Regular garrisons will rotate patrolling roads only, and it doesn't matter if they wish to ride or not doing this. | ||
Revision as of 17:35, 15 December 2008
This is a special rank for ranged fighters. They are made up of the most skillful bowmen. Rather than serving in the rank and file, they specialize in raiding, patrolling and reconnaissance. Rangers are freemen. They answer only to the Forester and the Duke.
--DR.NUMBERS 23:20, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
Rangers are the best archers or marksmen who have been hand selected by the forester to serve in his landwarding force. Rangers no longer serve in the rank and file of the archery units in warfare. Under the forester, their main duty is to patrol the lands and wilds of Wessex in search of poachers and raiding clans. Rangers should be excellent sharpshooters but also be well armored and skilled in melee combat. In warfare, the ducal rangers will carry out reconnaissance missions and will act as scouts. I am considering declaring rangers to be freemen when they reach this rank.
Coran: Rangers are shire defense forces because they "range" all across a large portion of the map. There wouldn't be much point to having rangers ranging a fief. One would get pretty tired walking circles around a village, I should think. Also, rangers are elite enough of a force that it's unlikely an individual fiefdom would be able to yield more than one ranger, and he of course would join comrades in the shire patrol.
Tencoin: Rangers kill foreign poachers and raiders, and fine domestic ones. Villeins and freemen who do not live on a fief may not harvest that lord's limited resources, so there is a benefit to being a villein. Rangers and footsoldiers patrolling roads, who we'll call roadwardens, can also check on whether a certain foreigner should be there - if they are, they'll be recognized as a legal entity authorized by clerks. Individual foreign traders may also get permission to trade in our lands, and will have a clerk's writ declaring that with their names posted on our forums. A ranger or gatekeeper should be able to open the ingame browser to see the writ.
Griffith: Don't think rangers wouldn't go to war. They serve this scouting purpose in battle.
--Excerpt from the 2nd Fireside Chat.
If you are a footman or man at arms with exceptional skill with a bow you are among the best candidates for promotion to ranger.
Sergeants are the ones who ride cavalry in large scale battle, unless they are a "first sergeant" leading a squad in place of a knight. Rangers' duty is to patrol the wildlands all around Wessex, including spawn points, in and around villages and resource nodes. They will likely do this unmounted. Regular garrisons will rotate patrolling roads only, and it doesn't matter if they wish to ride or not doing this.
