Not to mention the gold Fae brought with them. So why not pay for aditional mages and mercenary troops from Germania, Romalia or even Galia?
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Not to mention the gold Fae brought with them. So why not pay for aditional mages and mercenary troops from Germania, Romalia or even Galia?
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jwolfe_beta
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Another option if they can't have the Halk dragons as screens is to lower the amount of armor slightly and have a double saddle. As a result you get a pilot and a mage or archer serving as a 'gunner' that can convince the Dragon Knights to back off while the dragon makes its run.
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Of those numbers however only a fraction are combat trained and stationed at the Cait Sith Capital.
Point of order - most of the Fae currency was lost during the Transition. Only what they had available, "spawned in" and on-hand during the Transition was created.
Most of the Fae appear to have gone suddenly bankrupt because most of their cash was "in the bank" and no longer exists / never existed.
Um, how many "adult" Fae are combat-capable in an emergency? All of them. They were player characters.
What you should be asking is this:
- How many mages do the Reconquista have to throw at Freelia?
- How many Fae will participate in the defense of the city?
- How many Tristanian mages / dragon knights / under-water-basket-weavers are stationed at Freelia?
- What's the overall "strength" of both opposing forces.
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Okay first off it wasn't Orc's it was Trolls second he didn't turn them to ashes instantly
Sorry this took so long I was looking up cremation temperatures
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revanninja
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Or better yet have the second saddle have a Halk Mage they can cast faster with no sign.
The Fae acts as a heavy gun in terms of spell conserving their MP for big spells while the Halk concerns with keeping the enemy off them.
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Mortimer: Your foe is well equipped, well-trained, battle-hardened. He believes his god is on his side. Let him believe what he will. We have dragons on ours.
Still a lot of gold. Also the traitor's possesions were confiscated - which means more gold. There is also respawned gold in the <<Dungeons>>, although only greedy or desperate people will go for it. Not to mention goldmines near Tautona or Goubniu.
They can also sell some 'safe' Fae goods to Germania, if they wanted. So Tristain and Alfheim aren't poor at all.Edit: Good night, its midnight where are I am from, so see you later.
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Thanks for the correction.
That might actually be worse though given Trolls are something like 10 mails tall.
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Indeed given that they make up 10 percent of the population a much higher percentage than any other nation, even if quite a number of them likely aren't combat mages and others are likely too old or young to take part in any war.
I think you'd do best to look at what the Fae troops do with their "flaming walls of DOOOOOooooom" in Operation Dunkirk. They reduce the orc's iron armor to slag. That takes, at a minimum, around 1000 degrees centigrade. Iron can withstand temperatures of up to 1538 degrees centigrade before melting depending on how it is treated.
The Albionese King referenced that as being Triangle class magic, but I think he might have been understating it. It looks like he thought all the mages spun the spell together instead of each individual, Salamander mage casting one wall.
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Oh yeah...
that battle on the walls
was awesome as the Tiberium Wars Novelization fanfic battles.
The issue with this is that we know many LARGE animals that travel in those areas are very well insulated. Look to whales for a prime example of an animal that dives deep, can survive at depth, and because water is a VERY good conductor of heat is quite well adapted to surviving in an environment that has a much lower temperature than their body. Thus while long term Octavia may not be well adapted to surviving subarctic temperatures she would be quite able to survive them for a good long time. Insulation is importaint, and a mamal (which she appears to be) needs lots of insulation to survive at those extreme depths and temperatures.
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jwolfe_beta
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As has been said by the author, Octavia uses magic to get around a lot of the problems for living in the oceans.
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Not everyone in Helm's Deep was a trained soldier either. But they still contributed because their backs were to the wall and they were facing total annihilation. And it's likely to be the same for every Fae city under siege.
Though with the report of as many humans as Fae living in the Faction Capitals, I'd imagine if Reconquista can't take a Fae city immediately or even directly, they'll appeal to the humans living there and offer to spare them, if they'd only turn on the Fae and let Reconquista in the city.
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How up to date is Reconquista's intelligence about the current population distribution of the fae cities though?
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Helm's Deep wasn't real life.
When similar circumstances happened in Real Life people either bolted or capitulated to the invaders.
It might be the Fae that the offer is made to.
Which brings up the question of how many Fae would abandon the city if Reconquista gives them the chance to safely do so?
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That's was common for any city, castle or under siege, everyone took part because if it fell there would be a sack and a good chance part or all of the population would slaughtered and worse. As for humans turning fae for the Reconquista there is issues other than the big ones of lloyalty and honor that Reconquista are heretics who have resorted to unholy necromancy, I can already picture the preaching of how killing a member of Reconquista cleanses a sin.
You mean only a fraction of the 60,000 players are trained for combat in a combat centered game?
Where do you get that idea?
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In real life most people went to extreme lengths to resist besiegers against forces that outnumbered them by massive amounts that make helms deep look like a walk in the park in comparison even more so against religious enemies and foreign powers which Reconquista is both.
jwolfe_beta
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All their accurate/up to date information on Tristain and the Fae stopped when Henrietta started the purge back in mid/late spring. It is now the middle of summer and Reconquista is going to be attacking the cities sometime in the fall so their info will be five to seven months out of date I'd say.
And considering what the Reconquista are likely to do to any captured/killed Fae they're going to fight all the harder.
Though why would you need to...Vaer right?
Let me guess, he's saying that the moment the Reconquista appear on the horizon, the humans living in the Fae cities will immediately turn on and slaughter their Fae neighbors, throw open then gates and present the bodies to their good and noble Reconquista saviors or something.
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Then don't use Biology as an excuse for why she would be vulnerable to ice, and framed in a way to make it seem especially vunlerable.
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Keeping it logical
Probably up dated enough considering all one needs to do is walk into one, or just be in the country to hear plenty of news about the jobs being offered in the cities, and how displaced people are taking them up.
But frankly if Newcastle was any indication, offering any defenders to be spared if they'd just surrender when initially trying to take it by force failed or proves too costly, is probably Reconquista's modus operandi.
They may try it on the Fae, but only to be laughed at. *imagines Reconquista soldier trying to figure out what 'ROFL!' means*
News flash - neither's this story.
Someone doesn't remember the Alamo.
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jwolfe_beta
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Wait what? I'm simply pointing out what TH has already said in regards to how Octavia gets around various conditions in the ocean. Where did ice come into it?