This question has me wondering - what kinds of weaponry were the non-channeling Shadowspawn infantry using in the war of power? A society that had jo-cars and sho-wings wouldn't be using bows and arrows. In Rand's Rhuidean flashbacks, I remember some mention of shocklances (some kind of laser-ish gun) and maybe soldiers in some kind of tank. So I would expect their battles to be more like something from our future.

Side thought: How could the shadow field armies big enough, quickly enough, to fight the good guys, who also didn't have standing armies at that point? Drill the Bore and BLAM, every third person is a Darkfriend all of a sudden? I read somewhere that society then wasn't "familiar with the concept of war", and that the shadow got a jump on them for that reason, so I guess that could be it. But still. Anyway back to the main point.

Once the Shadow started using Shadowspawn in the War of Power, it's hard for me to picture them fighting with futuristic weaponry, but if they were using swords and axes and stuff, wouldn't they have been mowed down by the good guy modern weapons? I guess they're not so stupid they can't get out of bed, but try to imagine a three-Trolloc laser-tank squad. "RRRAAAAH! Go left!... No, LEFT! GRRRR! KILL YOU, DUMB NARG! Where you learn to drive?! Stop firing, Klag! That our guys! Myrddral going to kill me because of you!"

Demandred or Moridin or somebody said to Rand, I think, "remember when we took that sport called swords and turned it into deadly something-or-other...?" So they had swords then, and swordfought, but why bother when you could shocklance somebody? Baah, I'm having trouble reconciling my anachronisms.