All Things Vargr

[Grav_Moped]

Why not? The Ancients must have had many iterations of Vargr, and the ones we know of during the Golden Age of Traveller and beyond (with the teeth & claws) are the ones who survived or were the ones not destroyed after all of the tests & experiments were completed. Could be some other reason altogether!

Could be the teeth & claws were made to be viable personal weapons to compensate for being made physically weaker than those furless humans. Would the wolves Vargr are genetically engineered from actually be physically stronger than the average Human when uplifted?

At that size? Not sure on raw strength, but they don't appear to have the skeletal structure for heavy lifting.

 

[Condottiere]

I was sort of lukewarm whether the Vargr developed swords.

I think shortswords, mostly for thrusting through chainmail and padding, or through weak points in platemail.

Reminding me about biting, the countermeasure would be a wooden club, or an iron mace.

I don't think they have the discipline for a phalanx, though that's where being part of a citizenship militia would seem to be a requirement.

 

[Condottiere]

Spears tend to be regarded as the most useful pre modern battlefield weapon system, at least for melee.

I don't think that the Vargr had the strength and endurance to develop pikes, and we don't know if Lair had the critters to breed cavalry mounts.

Spear blocks certainly would discourage Highland charges, but what happens if the defending Vargr are in a dispersed formation?

That's why I think that the club, or clubesque hand weapons, would be preferred to connect with charging Vargr's head.