Outlines which troop types perform which battlefield functions (i.e., breakthrough troops). Orc Strategies and Tactics Strategy focuses on speed and terror, typically by raiding. Orc Troop Types Brief listing of infantry, berserkers, ironbacks (shock infantry), skirmishers, scout, Goblin Bushwackers (ambushers), Wolf Archers (Goblins riding giant wolves), Wolf Spearmen (Orcs riding giant wolves), Flesh Eaters (Orcs riding carnivorous horses), Light Chariots (pulled by giant wolves), Heavy Chariots, Fire-Shot Teams (Orcs throwing incendiaries), Orc Pirates, War Machines (ballista and catapults), Trolls, Dark Minions (evil humans), Hellmounts (demons), and Monsters. Dark lords often use Orc hordes as cannon fodder. They organize into warbands (25-200 Orcs led by a warchief) and hordes (led by a warlord). Orcs are divided into three subgroups: Goblins, Common Orcs, and Great Orcs and also subgroups by terrain (desert, forest, hill, jungle, mountain, sea, swamp and tundra). They are described as violent by nature, nomadic, meat-eating and cannibalistic.
It is divided into four chapters: The Orc Introduction to the Orc race.
This book is an attempt to 'do an Osprey' on a fantasy topic, Orcs. Introduction/contents page, introduction, author and illustrators notes.
