# Pitched battles *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 22 Apr 2001* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Nicholas Gevers *22 Apr 2001, 07:34* A further point about defeating the inhumi militarily: the one way to force fugitive guerilla-type fighters into a pitched battle is to attack a location they consider strategically crucial or holy. In the City of the Inhumi and at the wedding, the inhumi are easily defeated in pitched battles; attack their birthing pools--the strategic outcome of the Secret--and they will be forced to fight en masse in defense of the pools, a step fatal for them. --Nick Gevers. ---