Ok. I honestly had no clue what it was supposed to mean and google wasn't being helpful.
Really? You could hold yourself back from flying off the handle when you see people literally mutilated in front of you?
Spoiler, the gate opening was done by a god. the god of the underworld at that. You don't ignore that in a society like theirs.
Duty, loyalty and the fact that not doing what they're told will get them dead.
They have no reason to believe that there are more of these magic crossbows. Also, you don't seem to understand how a military works. It isn't a democracy its a tyranny. The guy in the shiniest armor calls the shots and you do what he says or you get fucked. It's even more true the further back in history you go, as the landed elite/nobility generally commanded the troops.
I'm not entirely sure what you mean here, the Imperator is a bombastic jackass, but he's the boss. Merovich is the one urging caution in the face of all the unknowns they've run into. The Imperator doesn't care because like most of the higher ranks in the military, he's a political beast. He wants glory so he can keep climbing that social ladder and gives exactly one fuck about the men: They can earn him more glory.
The Imperator is higher on the command chain than Merovich is, they are basically operating on divine mandate to go and conquer since a god opened the Gate.
Wait, really? I thought it was the other deity, the one with dragons?
I get em confused, because i equate death and underworld mreh. Fixed though.
I guess you need to re-edit again.
are you people that bloody obsessed about it? He's human, he makes mistakes, he saw people hacked apart in front of him. Jesus the mook fat balding cop gets more discussion than the legion's plans.
Isn't that the plot of The Salvation War?
Nope. I'd run people over. Or pull out the sidearm and start shooting. Or just run and call the rest of the army.. Anything but turning my back on those guys to get the bolt action rifle to futile die.
But also doing it will get them also killed in larger numbers.
Eh. Why do they not have reason to beleive that the magic cross bow that the really really sucky warrior has is particularly unique given the scale of everything that going on and the insane casual wealth that literally trump their entire capital within a five block radius of the area around the gate?
See things this type of political beast, who blatantly doesn't care about the men well seems like he'd lose in the contest of who do we listen to if Merovich hardlined on the caution unless Imperator is like a mage or something. Due to the whole we'd be walking to our deaths for this jackass thing.
I mean I get that milatary indoctrination is a thing but it seemed like he was failing in the whole engender loyalty thing too hardcore.
Fuck my life. In that case, if she wants a good time, maybe she could open one up to Brockton Bay in the middle of an S9 attack.
The Fiend!
Then you have no idea how terrible cars actually are against pedestrians, much less ones weighing something like 200 pounds. He'd get about the same number of people he got with the shotgun.
Victory in the end is what matters. Pyhrrus was an accomplished general before his 'victories' got him dead.
See above.
As the Imperator sees it, the police officer was a random mage. he will gladly trade 4 lives for one when it comes to mages, he even says as much. Merovich and Radomir tried to use reason, but the Imperator didn't want to hear it. Huh, that sounds familiar, almost like the entire theme of Gen Kill. :|
Hey guess what it happens in real life too. Just look at First Recon! They'd all rather do something other than what the bullshit they get put through. But they don't revolt and start murdering their COs now do they?
A Remington 870 isn't a bolt action rifle either.
Anyway, the only issue I have with the chapter is that patrol cops don't have bolt action rifles. They're issued the Colt Automatic Rifle (AR-15) or spare M16s.
Oh, it was a shotgun. My bad.Then you have no idea how terrible cars actually are against pedestrians, much less ones weighing something like 200 pounds. He'd get about the same number of people he got with the shotgun.
Victory in the end is what matters. Pyhrrus was an accomplished general before his 'victories' got him dead.
The Empire doesn't think like the US does.
See above.
As the Imperator sees it, the police officer was a random mage. he will gladly trade 4 lives for one when it comes to mages, he even says as much. Merovich and Radomir tried to use reason, but the Imperator didn't want to hear it. Huh, that sounds familiar, almost like the entire theme of Gen Kill. :|
Hey guess what it happens in real life too. Just look at First Recon! They'd all rather do something other than what the bullshit they get put through. But they don't revolt and start murdering their COs now do they?
A Remington 870 isn't a bolt action rifle either.
This is an 870 Express, shorter pump action but you get the idea.
PFFFtTTTT
Sorry to say, I believe that Alnus is landlocked. The only fun the Navy's likely to get in this story is on the IRL side of the gate.
At least until the Navy builds an aircraft carrier platform on the shell of a dragon turtle.
Sigh
Because it's fun?
Oh yeah, I am pretty sure that will go really well with the judge and your lawyer.
