He succeeded, but if he hadn't the main army sounds like it would have been in major trouble, and them getting defeated means the dark elves get to kill everybody's homelands, so it's debatable.
I mean, from what I know Malekith's dad supposedly wasn't too bad before he got his hands on the crazy murder sword.
They might easily sleep for the next fifty years while the drau... dwarves are training. I'd say we don't hurry unless it's actually urgent.
But he did succeed, and it was not like he was an inexperienced new recruit, he knew war and thus his decision was informed.
That's nice to say, but if everybody believes it you might as well not have a general. He won, but how likely was it? Command is the art of deciding what to do in order to influence the future to have the highest likelihood of success; if one of your subordinates tries something with a ten percent chance of victory (and the cost of maybe destroying your entire army if they fail) and expects to get off because they beat the roll that just encourages everybody to try that, and nine times out of ten no, they will not actually succeed.
He pulled out a military force mid campaign without orders, while everything went well his actions could have resulted in a major defeat as he either opened up a flank or failed to be there to provide reserves, wandering off mid campaign can backfire horribly.
And that applies to the general population, not to Asarnil, who again, was proven right.
Except if my understanding of the events is correct Finnubar hadn't even made a mention of disciplining him. He asked for Asarnil to show up for a meeting (presumably to get some answers) and Asarnil said "What? You have the temerity to ask why I didnt follow orders instead of giving me a parade?" and then chose exile. Who knows if Finnubar was even going to punish him? Not Asarnil cause he didn't even bother going to meet him.
Could it? Because Asarnil didn't think so and he was right.
Well, the calculus was the same, the roll was just elsewhere.
Because I don't think the orders stopped being relavent.
If you think playing the lottery is a bad idea, and Asarnil plays the lottery and wins, does that mean he is "right" that playing the lottery is a good idea?
And it was, a complete travesty that was.
In elf, "come for a meeting" can also be interpreted as "prepare your backside for a vigorous spanking", and also "you mother like gopher, how are biscuits?" But that was slightly less likely based on context.
" should have made it clear I am an Asarnil fan.
If we are talking about Asarnil, Math PhD and 10 times lottery winner, then yes.
I have to say I have no idea how to parse that second phraseAnd it was, a complete travesty that was.
In elf, "come for a meeting" can also be interpreted as "prepare your backside for a vigorous spanking", and also "you mother like gopher, how are biscuits?" But that was slightly less likely based on context.
It's a funny language like that.
But really, I get the point, the original "
.The DE force that attacked Caledor had to come from somewhere, however. So the main DE army was probably about as weakened by detaching it as Finubar's army was from the loss of Dragons, and didn't intend to attack. It was a distraction that Finubar was falling for and it left Caledor open.
That sort of sounds like Finnubar's preferred interpretation of events.
