*pauses in my game of WC3*
Fucking Murlocks x.x
*opens thread to catch up*
*stares*
I'm too sane for this shit.
I can't help but feel kinda guilty that this is the second mechanics system I've caused you to redesign. Still I'm glad you take (hopefully) constructive criticism into account with these things.
Bitch, please. I'm just happy someone's bringing up a problem when they see it so I can fix it.
I fix it, I know not to do it in the future. I know not to do it in the future, my writing improves. My writing improves, more people read my stuff. More people reading my stuff, Happier I am.
So if problems come up, let me know about it and I'll see what I can fix and what I can bullshit away.
Something I've been meaning to ask for a while: How long can Nepgear sustain her transformation? Oh and does she know how long she can?
/人 ◕ ‿‿ ◕ 人\
isn't as funny anymore. Because it turns out she actually committed genocide. Sure they are demons and evil and all but still genocide!
Octa-standards.
I do remember this. It's just crystalwatcher's statements made it sound more like the various races had weird interactions with dimensional travel so the speed each race could move units around varied.
That it's an actual logistical problem of getting so many troops through small portals comes as a complete surprise to me. Although it does make complete sense. It does however mean that this line:
is kinda odd however. One would think the Akashic Pillar would be pumping out transport vehicles, probably something like armored buses, like crazy. The increased mobility would make deploying the massive elf armies significantly faster even without one of their super gates.
Each race has different ways they travel between dimensions. I think I said something on this before.
As for the Akashic Pillar pumping out military equipment for their allies:
Remember that they had literally
just finished World War III when the Darkness invaded Earth and sent them into the arms of the Light. They've been rebuilding huge swaths of infrastructure back on Earth for years now, as well as improving the quality of life in former third-world countries the world over. The Akashic Pillar was
not ready for joining the Eternal War in any way, they've been playing catch-up resource-wise since the beginning. Our tech advantage is almost overwhelming but we simply don't have the raw material needed to build enough guns to make our victory decisive.
The Elvin Empire has given the Pillar mining rights so they can start collecting those resources, but it's been projected as years before we have anywhere near enough to reach that point. ears that the Unified Light doesn't have with the way things are going.
Being able to create unstoppable blades is neat and all. But not having the metal necessary to make enough of those blade to win the war is another matter altogether.
This brings up something else I've been curious about; why exactly hasn't humanity being deploying it's nuclear weapons before now? They are part of the reason why large congregated armies are no longer a thing; because exposed people are crazy vulnerable to even small nuclear weapons.
Several reasons, but there are two important ones:
1) From Humanity's perspective it's a matter of honor.
Nuclear Weapons are our
ultimate trump card in this war. There is literally nothing any of the other Factions in the Local Dimensional Cluster has that can match them. The White Kingdom? The Fragarach has a better than average chance of killing one of their squid-ships, and everyone knows it. We'd still loose in a straight fight, but the fact we can
make them bleed has given Humanity bragging rights like no one's business.
So, we haven't used them simply because as far as we care, it wouldn't be
fair. For most of the War, Humanity has kind of been distracted by the novelty of going up against the literal Legion of Hell to think about cheating. Up until Hope we've been happily testing our metal against Hell Itself to see how well we stack up. It's only after Hope fell that we realized we weren't taking the War seriously enough and we paid the price for it.
2) We were actually in the middle of decommissioning them.
Human on Human warfare was shaping up to be a thing of the past, so everyone in charge felt that Nuclear Weapons were nothing more than a horrid reminder of darker days that we were better off without. Add in the fact we were also mostly unaware of the greater LDC zone, we saw no reason to keep nukes around at all. So we started with the most dangerous ones and went from there.
The Fragarach and Brahmastras are literally the only nuclear weapons we have left. The Counter Force are scrambling to see if the blueprints for any others are still around, but it's not looking good. So, for now we're stuck with the nukes left over from the initial fusing of Technology and Magic. We've tested newer versions recently, but nothing really serious.
That aside I bet the demons hate humans for our artillery. That stuff is nasty at destroying exposed armies, there is a reason trench warfare became a thing, and modern day (rocket) artillery can easily hit targets 70km away. Although there may have to be some redesign to deal with the lack of GPS satellites.
It's actually somewhat funny.
Instead of coming to dislike the fact that Humans fight from long distance, Demons have actually taken it up as a kind of challenge. Managing to close with a Human position, and forcing the defenders to directly engage you is seen as something of a honor amongst Hell's rank and file. "I survived an Artillery Strike" has become one really badass boast amongst them.
Speaking of massive firepower I wonder if the various Metal Storm weapons systems ever got developed here. They would be great for dealing with the Unified Darkness' massive armies, assuming you can get enough ammo to them:
They didn't. We got a little hooked on the novelty of Magitech, so Metal Storm weapons kind of fell by the wayside without anyone noticing.
thats... ok point. Still kinda wondering what the point of having hell be infinite is though. infinite does weird crap and if the demons all spawn in one concentrated area whats the point of the giant empty infinite mass of whatever the ground is made of?
I mean that from a literary perspective by the way. couldn't hell just be insanely massive but finite?
Heaven and Hell are both infinite, yes. But Angels and Demons are concentrated to hilariously "small" areas. Hell's populated landmass is roughly equal to five times the surface area of the Earth, while Heaven's is closer to just one and a half.
That, and Cosmos doesn't like it when people call her fat when she "isn't".
