[Glorantha] Sartar Army and Dragon Pass Boardgame

[Joerg Baumgartner]

Ian Notter

> In the dragon pass boardgame the army of Sartar is divided into three
> groups, The Sartar City Militia, The Sartar Free Army and the Sartar
> Magical Union.  The Sartar City Militia to my mind represents the bulk
> of the traditional army of Sartar with troops levied from both the
> tribal group and the cities. The Sartar Free Army represents the
> “standing army”.

Not in my understanding. The Free Army are volunteer and mercenary forces.
Your quotes show that the native Sartarite forces - the ones that could
have been mustered by princes before Argrath - mostly were not part of the
Free Army.


> The fact that has been missed from these discussions so far is that the
> majority of the Sartar Free Army do not come from Sartar!

Yep. We were discussing the native Sartarite forces, so musings about e.g.
the Pavis Royal Guard would have been useless. I've been through those
discussion, too.

> “The clans were organized into economic cooperative ventures centered on
> the forts. Their troops, when summoned, formedthe militia of the Sartar
> army.”

That's what Donald and I have been arguing about, using lots of additional
info.

Note that most of those Free Army forces are not available to Kallyr (who
spent her time at the side of Broyan rather than in Pavis County or
elsewhere in Prax). In my opinion, the forces of the Free Army aren't
those of Argrath White Bull - that's the barbarian horde. Whether White
Bull at some time heroforms Jaldon is another question.

In my understanding, the Free Army is mostly post-Dragonkill, and the
Sartar Magical Union may have started as a project at Sword Hill.