The sorcerer-kings of old could and would employ common soldiery of course. But that's just to be practical. When allowed to play, and when organised in their efforts they made (more literal) puppets. Programmed with knowledge of how to fight, and laden with more arms (if you're creating something new you may as well make an improvement while you're there), these fearless automatons, clad in easily made metal armour riveted to their frames can become cost efficient if done in the right way. So they did, and their legions of dolls marched against their foes. Two bows and many arrows in the hands of implacable, tireless machines can become quite the danger as even one of them is capable of laying down a hail of devastating arrows. Imagine a whole legion. Instinct: To obey

• Lay down a withering hail of arrows
• Suffer a malfunction and attack everything in a blind fury