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kippurbird in antishurtugal

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Feb 26, 2010 09:41

Did anyone but me notice in the Insubordination chapter of Brisingr, where Roran does his massive body count of kills, that the Varden charged into the village on horseback?

No wonder they were slaughtered.

book three

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darth_gojira February 26 2010, 18:40:06 UTC

All I can think of is the bandits being utterly annihilated in the Seven Samurai when they do the same thing.

kippurbird February 27 2010, 05:02:35 UTC

Charge of the Light Brigade!

predak123 February 26 2010, 22:59:28 UTC

I was too busy going "WTF?!" at the body count. Seriously, in my medieval combat game (Mount & Blade, quite fun) when I cheat and have damage reduction on I can usually only get 50 or so guys (if I'm mounted and they are not on flat ground) before someone pokes me and my pony to death. On foot it's more like 20- if I'm doing a good job and there aren't archers shooting arrows through my skull.
Yeah, yeah, video game =/= actual combat, but it's usually the video games that exaggerate. o_O

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predak123 February 27 2010, 17:00:33 UTC

the guy was protected by magic apparently. That could explain why he got only few injuries. It was a ridiculus number anyway.In truth, Roran could not have been able to beat Guts own record( around 100) from Berserk!!!

darth_gojira February 27 2010, 01:00:01 UTC

I remember getting a Roran flashback when I was watching Apocalypto the other day. Heroes always play with cheat codes.

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ambrmerlinus February 26 2010, 23:44:12 UTC

I know nothing of military strategy. Could someone clue me in as to why charging on horseback is bad? It worked in Lord of the Rings...

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ambrmerlinus February 26 2010, 23:58:33 UTC

Oh, okay. Thanks!

ephemeraldeep February 27 2010, 02:02:48 UTC

I feel like doing one of the tortoise things like the Romans did would've been more effective.
Though I'm no like, tactical anything.

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I can't wait for Paolini to tackle modern warfare anonymous February 27 2010, 04:59:34 UTC

Send the tanks into the city without infantry support!

Napoleon has issues with Paolini's tactics at Waterloo: anonymous February 27 2010, 05:04:35 UTC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97dBfdNrf9A

:P

Re: Napoleon has issues with Paolini's tactics at Waterloo: ephemeraldeep March 1 2010, 14:55:42 UTC

That guy who was all "Think of England!"
All I could think was "close your eyes and think of England."
Heh. :D