- Location
- Earth
- Pronouns
- He/Him
New crack theory: Humans and wyverns are the result of primordial manakete getting split in half.You sigh; it seems that even after centuries of riding and working with wyverns, humans haven't figured out that just because they think in the short term like a dragon-self doesn't mean they're wrong.
If this somehow gets confirmed, I'd like to pretend I knew this was true all along. If it gets jossed, forget I said anything.
I'm not sure what kind of threat Ryza thought a fleeing horse might cause, but I don't know how to finish this sentence. I'm not trying to make fun of Ryza. I guess it makes some amount of sense that she wouldn't quite grok what ordinary animals are like?"Should we stop it?" you ask, pointing after the fleeing mount.
"Nah, horses aren't as smart as pegasi," she says as she turns back. "It'll get lost and wander back into the Imperial camp long after we're gone."
That's for the people suffering you to decide."We can only hope Alejandro won't be utterly insufferable about his plan going so well when he arrives."
"My dear Artemis!" the myrmidon-lord says as he approaches, his hand over his heart. "I am positively delightful! I would never, ever be insufferable! Certainly not to lovely ladies such as yourself and your little friend!"
The borders are not policed from the outside.
You also don't win a war by slaughtering the enemy. That's not even remotely an option unless you outgun the enemy so badly that you should be able to win by just showing up.Second, this is a war! You do not win a war by sparing the enemy!
You win a war by destroying your enemy's ability to fight. That can involve a setpiece battle that scatters the enemy army, or a siege that takes control of some key strategic or symbolic location, or just making it prohibitively expensive to keep soldiers fed in your vicinity.
As things stand, our alliance is meaningfully disrupting the Empire's supply lines, even though the Imperial army is still in its logistical driveway. Without getting into a tangent about pre-rail logistics, it's much harder to guard the "foraging" parties you need in hostile territory than supply caravans from nearby loyal/compliant towns, and needing to bunch your army up in one place makes that even harder.
If we not only disrupt Imperial supply lines but their supply depot, any general who cares more about keeping his army intact than listening to the Regent's ravings would call an invasion impossible. And yeah, by genre convention the Regent is going to overrule that general and either execute him or demote him to a filler map sub-boss. (Assuming he hasn't already executed or demoted any generals who are more loyal to common sense than to him.) But by genre convention, any plan which prevents war with minimal casualties is always the heroic plan.
[X] Plan: Can't Invade us with no supplies and no weapons, can you?