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SeijiTataki · **12-08-2013, 03:26 AM**

(12-06-2013, 05:26 PM)Ildur Wrote: Are they? Losing a battle doesn't mean they lost the war. The game becomes a bit silly after the main scenario, what with the city-state leaders declaring a new age only because

So I'm not sure we can state that the garleans are effectively weak after the main scenario. Unless, of course, the garleans are stated to retreat en-masse from Eorzea after it (I forgot a lot of the details, so feel free to correct me). But that makes no sense and can't be enforced in-game, where all the garlean enemies and forts remain right where they were.

They are considered 'routed' (though not technically defeated per-se). There are Garlean forces who still remain in Eorzea (there's just too many of them), but their ability to command and control is severely diminished as a result of the main scenario. You can certainly argue that they're being too early on declaring victory, but the significant of their battle is very important;

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SpoilerYou've destroyed the Ultima Weapon, which at the time was the primary threat to all of Eorzea even beyond the Garlean aggression.
You've killed Gaius Van Baelsar, the Imperial Legatus who was the primary general in charge of the Eorzean invasion. You've cut the head off this particular beat, and in doing so have destabilized the entire invasion force - they have no leader and no commander, because you also;
A) Chased off Nero and may have been presumed that he died in the explosion. (He probably didn't, but it's not an unlikely assumption) Nero tol Scaeva is the main intelligence officer for the Eorzean and in his original appearance was shown to be rather competent at his job more so than his fellow intelligence operatives. His death (or at least disappearance) has serious repercussions for the Garlean occupation.
B) You've killed Livia Sas Junius, who is not a ranking 'important' member, per-se, but she's also high enough to be a Tribunus and could be considered one of their 'ace' soldiers.
C) You've killed Rhitahtyn Sas Arvina, who is definitely one of the more important Tribunes under Gaisu' command. He's an excellent soldier and tactician, and he's so important that he's the first person that you are told to strike off the list in your attempt to oust Garlean control of the sector.
D) There are strong rumors that the Emperor is quite ill, which means that without a unified command unit in Eorzea (Nael, the primary commander, was killed prior to 2.0), so the entire network is pretty much thrown into disarray.

You mentioned that the existing keeps were not blown up as part of the battle plan, but several of them *were* occupied, which has greatly reduced the Garlean control. Without their command, with no orders from above, and with all of the forts split or besieged, they pretty much have no hold against Eorzea. The post game emergence of more Primals, however, has pretty much caused the Eorzean Alliance to drop their attention, and while the Garleans are routed, there is not much effort being put into preventing them from reorganizing, largely because they have literally bigger things to worry about. This paves the way for more Garleans to show up in 2.1 (and I am pretty sure they do), but for all intents and purposes they do strongly believe that the Garleans are not a significant enough of a threat right now to consider this grounds for a new era of 'peace'.

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