igor
Junior Strategist
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Post by igor on Mar 18, 2022 11:31:16 GMT
From The Orgoth Second Invasion pt1: "...leaving their first target, Khador, utterly unprepared for the battle ahead, decimating all opposition both on land and at sea…" First of all, I do not believe that the Empress would be so unprepared. Secondly, would it have any bearing on the future for Khador (in game terms)? Do I really need to invest in a new army and paint it red... |
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Post by hocestbellum on Mar 18, 2022 12:11:03 GMT
Based on the geography of Immoren and the Orgoth invading from the western sea the only coastal options were us, Cryx, and Ord... Of those, Khador is the traditional lore-based punching bag because it's big and human-bad, whereas Cryx relies on a 'lurk in the shadows' kind of bad that wouldn't really want the narrative spotlight in this way.
It will make absolutely zero difference to the game. There are several characters who are canonically dead and it hasn't slowed them down in the least!
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Post by Havock on Mar 19, 2022 11:08:48 GMT
Makes sense even, if Khador retains mostly garrison and "fast response forces" along the coast to counter Cryx/pirate raids, they are probably woefully insufficient to handle a full blown invasion force.
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Post by elmagnifico on Mar 20, 2022 22:51:47 GMT
I do kind of want the Orgoth to have something planned for Toruk too, after all they've copied the guns and 'jacks that threw them back the first time, it would make sense for them to have tried for something with the Dragonfather, maybe some of the warwitches that stayed in Cryx have been taking notes and passing intel...
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Post by asikari on Mar 21, 2022 12:28:42 GMT
And, to be pedantic, decimated means the killing/destruction of 10 percent of the force, from a Roman punishment where legionnaires were required to kill 10 percent of their members selected at random. People commonly throw that term around as an equivalent of "devastated."
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Post by Soul Samurai on Mar 21, 2022 16:10:06 GMT
And, to be pedantic, decimated means the killing/destruction of 10 percent of the force, from a Roman punishment where legionnaires were required to kill 10 percent of their members selected at random. People commonly throw that term around as an equivalent of "devastated." I was surprised when I first learned this; I guess I had assumed it mean to reduce something to 10% of it's original size. It's like how everyone uses "begs the question" wrong. At what point does the common "incorrect" understand of a word or term become it's new meaning? Man, language is hard. |
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Post by michael on Mar 21, 2022 18:58:36 GMT
I blame Cygnar. Invade ‘em!
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Post by asikari on Mar 22, 2022 12:23:54 GMT
And, to be pedantic, decimated means the killing/destruction of 10 percent of the force, from a Roman punishment where legionnaires were required to kill 10 percent of their members selected at random. People commonly throw that term around as an equivalent of "devastated." I was surprised when I first learned this; I guess I had assumed it mean to reduce something to 10% of it's original size. It's like how everyone uses "begs the question" wrong. At what point does the common "incorrect" understand of a word or term become it's new meaning? Man, language is hard. You and me both.
As we are finding out about the Russians in Ukraine - 10% of an armed force is quite significant. But, looking at it mathematically, it doesn't seem like a large portion. If decimation were leveled against an entire Roman legion, that's around 650 soldiers, which is significant. Human perception then probably did the rest and, in common parlance, when he hear "decimated" we now think something like more than half.
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