You caught me once in frustration mode in the mid-ranks. We sat down and actually tried to figure out some kind of strategy.

Summary--
Trewyn: "Can you blind them"
Tahren: "No."
Trewyn: "Can you keep them in combat?"
Tahren: "Not with any consitency"
Trewyn: "What CAN you do?"
Tahren: "Disarm. Charge. Pugil."
Trewyn: "Huh. Good luck."
(edited slightly for comedy's sake)

And it's hard to practice what you preach. Tahren believed in being self-sufficient, including 'earning' equipment ("I don't need your hand-outs!"). That was a tough choice to make. I think every other villager handed me equipment at one time or another and I would drop it or hand it back. If a non-villager handed me something out of pity, I'd drop it and sac it :P. I think I said it when you died off, but Tahren really looked up to Trewyn, being a lightwalking villager and all.