Historically, soldiers have been known to continue fighting after sustaining wounds that appear fatal. Should this also be used in the RPing more often to make combat more dynamic and threatening? Below are some examples.
General Orfeur Cavenagh, 1879,
“A British officer, armed with a long regulation spit (a sabre), ran his sword through a Goor*ha (**urka). Notwithstanding his agony, the wounded man literally forced his way up to the weapon’s hilt, until he could close with his adversary, cutting him down with his kookri (a kukri) and falling dead beside him.*
R*v. Caesar Caine & Pvt. Thomas Malcolm, Barracks and Battlefields in India, 1891,
“The enemy (Sikh swordsmen) received us (the 10th foot) sword in hand (at Mooltan, 1848), and fought like wild men, actually fighting with their swords when our men’s bayonets were in their bodies.”
Account mentioned by Sir Walter Scott in History of Scotland, 1841, at the Battle of Gasclune in 1392,
* . . . Sir David Lindsay, having run his lance through the body of one of the Highlanders (Highland Scot), bore him down and pinned him to the earth . . . in his dying agonies, the Highlander writhed himself upwards on the spear and exerted his last strength in fetching a sweeping blow at the armed knight (Sir David Lindsay) with his two-handed sword. The stroke, made with all the last energies of a dying man, cut through Lindsay’s stirrup and steel boot. . .
Maj. Eden Baker, R.A., quote from Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, 1886,
“In 1879, I saw Captain H., of the Bengal Cavalry, empty five barrels (the chambers of a revolver) into the back of a *hazi (a religious warrior, who apparently was “running amuck through the camp”) at less than five yards’ range without stopping him. A Martini-Henry bullet pierced him as well, and yet he kept on till brought up by an infantry bayonet.”
17-Nov-2015 04:30:47
