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Thanks, guys.
Exalted is a weird world. The Realm's Legions are very much 'Iliad' forces. Take an Early Roman army (complete with foreign levees making up the skirmishers and cavalry), and add epic heroes (the Dragon-Blooded exalts) and some generally minor battlefield support magic.
Then there's Lookshy. The core of their army is essentially Spartans. Elite, raised from birth to be warriors. Add the 'Ashigaru' elite heavy infantry (wearing magical armor that dramatically enhances the wearer's military potential), and armed with magical ranged weapons, who make up 1 in 5 line infantry. Then you add 'Gunzosha,' mortal infantry who trade half their lifespan to take to the field as the equal of the Exalted. They're armed with even more, and more powerful, magical weapons than Ashigaru, but are very rare (about 1 in 25).
As if that wasn't bad enough, then you start adding the really scary hardware: Dragon Armor, which is broadly comparable in power to Gunzosha armor, but is worn by an Exalt. Dragon armor can, depending on the version, fly (Air), double the user's already enhanced running speed (Fire, effectively quadrupling groundspeed), act as a Combat Engineer suit (Earth), act as a unit to handle ghosts, spirits, and the undead (Wood, IIRC), or shut down magic use (Water, although I may have Wood and Water backwards). Lookshy has 10-15 Dragon Warriors (Exalts in Dragon Armor) supporting a Dragon, a unit of 1250 infantry (usually broken down as 2 units of 125 Ashigaru and 8 units of 125 regular infantry).
Then there's the Warstriders. A warstrider is, basically, a giant suit of magical armor 3-4 times the height of a man, and vastly stronger. If you've ever seen 'Escaflowne,' those are Warstriders. While magical weapons were made to fit warstriders, very few people have the spiritual 'oompf' to use both a warstrider and magical weapons. Lookshy fields 10-15 warstriders as support for a Dragon, while the Realm tend to field 10-15 per Legion (5-10 Dragons make up a Legion).
There's a cavalry mount called a Simhata (lion-horse or dragon-horse, in most of the local languages). Basically, imagine a lion or wolf head on a warhorse's body, and it is as nasty as it sounds. I'll just convert those.
The Fair Folk can ride Gryphons, or other fantastic beasts, although they prefer the gryphons. Do you have a recommendation for Gryphons?
Does anyone have preferences for undead (who makes the cheapest, 'cuz ya need lots of the things, or most detailed, or best detail for the $$)?
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