Do you not understand that we do have an army already. VEE improves what we have, and we already have different people that each have 5 dots paths scattered across the hell. Upping them to 6 dots to make them legendary, a full order of magnitude greater ablity, and power they gain access to. The difference between 5 dot alchemy and 6 dots is vast 6 dot is can make a philosopher stone. And also people with 6 dots are massively better at everything below 6 dots.
The only reason we cannot just take our summoning path people out of the hell, and have them summon up an army is they lack the knowledge of how to work the path outside the hell. VEE their summoning path higher to grant them the knowledge, and we can drop an army of unkillable magictech warriors anywhere we want.
I was against getting a hell like this for this exact reason. We have moved into stomp or be stomped territory, as given any time Molly can just kill about everything with raw numbers of deathless warriors.
1)One: we have a population of people, not an army.
Two: You have shifted the goal posts from talking about people in general to now talking about top tier sorcerers.
Three: Respectfully, you have a habit of making wild claims with no textual backing.
Where do you get this assertion that there are plenty of 5 dots Path Sorcery people in our Hell?
Are you just making assumptions based on population?
Do you know if our culture has promoted multidisciplinary competence instead of monomaniacal focus?
For all you know there's a ton of people with Path 3/4 in a dozen sorceries and psychic numina, instead of Path 5 in one.
I mean, how many people would even bother if there are spirits available to allow you to cheat the process?
The fact that something is possible in theory doesnt mean thats how its worked out in practice.
Notice how there are no wizards in the Brass Courts, despite a lot of humans being here?
2) No we arent in curbstomp territory.
I happen to think that 5 billion people was an order of magnitude too many people, but thats not the same thing as being in stomp territory. Yet.
Once we get the Dragon nest up and running the essanse logistics get a bit easier since we can recover well crafting, reading a book or talking with people.
Not sure how they'll work here.
And it doesnt change the fundamental bottleneck where you can only use VEE once a year per person.
The stuff on hand in the capital, anything man portable will be the best stuff available. Sure if we want tanks or super large stuff we need it brought in from the war city, but so what their is an active teleportation network between all the cities, and the capital.
The US Army does not keep its best stuff in Washington DC. Manportable or otherwise.
We have no reason to assume that the Courts would keep the best military gear in the capital city.
Let alone the kind of covert stuff that you need for operating in another society.
One thing you guys should perhaps consider is that Molly and a shape-shifting monstrosity from the dawn of time are about to go on a mission to assassinate an ancient vampire. Broken Seeker can do veils and he even knows when to use them so if you want a high power strike team right now, you have the opportunity to use it.
Molly has Stealth 0 and feels like a mobile Darkhallow.
I doubt she can pull off the veiled approach thing.
And to be fair, she can come back for that strike team like fifteen minutes or an hour before showtime.
