Pitched battles

Nicholas Gevers · 22 Apr 2001, 07:34 · from whorl-v0012.mbox · original

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Subject: (whorl) Pitched battles
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 08:34:47 +0100 (BST)
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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.

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