Warriors Supports/Rowan Robin

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• Robin: Phew, we won. Thank goodness my strategy played out how I hoped.
• Rowan: Your strategy? You mean my skills. Did you see how many enemies I cut down?
• Robin: You still don't trust my tactical sense? I thought I had earned your approval.
• Rowan: Pull your weight in a fight, and you'll always have my approval! But you gotta admit, knights are far more important than tacticians.
• Robin: You still don't understand that there's more to war than just swordsmanship. Let's hold a short symposium on the art of battle. You may learn something.
• Rowan: Art? Knights don't need art! They just need to train and become strong.
• Robin: It's a pity you feel that way. To think, you'd be a splendid knight otherwise. You may not need tactics to charge in headfirst, but there are other ways. Let's say, for example... The enemy has 10 times your forces. Even with strong knights, could you win?
• Rowan: Well, victory in that case would be difficult...
• Robin: But with a keen strategy--sneak attacks, pincers, diversions... See what I mean? You have to admit, strategy and tactics are just as important as any weapon.
• Rowan: Even so, coming up with strategy is a tactician's job. Not a knight's.
• Robin: Not true. A tactician can only plan for the future, not foresee it perfectly. The tide of battle shifts constantly. The front line must know how to adapt. Knights must have good judgment and adapt on the fly; otherwise the plan fails.
• Rowan: In other words...knights can't always just do what the tacticians say?
• Robin: Precisely. Tacticians paint the broad strokes; knights fill in the details.
• Rowan: So if a knight is strong enough to fight and smart enough to employ strategy...
• Robin: I know where you're going with this. If you can protect your friends with your brains as well as your brawn... Your skill as a knight will be peerless.
• Rowan: I like the sound of that. That's what I'll become!
• Robin: That's the spirit. I'm sure you can do it!
• Rowan: In that case, would you mind teaching me strategy?
• Robin: I wouldn't mind at all. I'll teach you everything I know. Let's start with what informs strategy. I have a list right here... ­
• Rowan: That is a really long list...
• Robin: Somewhere out there an enemy knight is actually putting in the time to study.
• Rowan: I can't let some enemy outclass me...All right, I'll do it. You must be a master tactician, huh? Do you know everything about strategy?
• Robin: Hardly. Strategy is always changing, so I'm always studying.
• Rowan: Then let's study together. We'll each grow in our fields!
• Robin: I'm sure you'll one day not only become a fine knight but a fine king as well.
• Rowan: Huh? Become a fine what and a what when?
• Robin: You'll be great, Rowan. Now let's get started!