Chris Ganale

I'm not even going to post a picture and thereby indicate having the gall to assume they'd give us something remotely similar, but I hope there's decently-armored stuff for mechanist so Yuuna can be her pretend ODST.

Caex, you need a wiki for Caex so I can figure out who to bludgeon him with. I feel like your flower can hang out with Tahz and Karu. I really hope I don't wind up regretting that statement later.

Oh, if the dragon mount isn't some MSQ WoL-locked sappy bullshit, you can bet your ass I'm gonna park Tahz on one and use it as an airmobile self-propelled DRG artillery platform.

Yes, that kind of scenario is where actual winged airborne mounts would be appropriate. Close to board with an air battleship and destroy it from within. But in no world would a flying chocobo be able to mount the equipment necessary to get in an actual fight with any kind of military airship.

As to my earlier thoughts now that I have a youtube, I like to imagine the airships less random biker gang and more like this: That said, when I think about it, it's actually closer to feasible with existing tech in Eorzea to make this than it is to make this, much to my regret, or even this. Consider: Given the size of Cid's Enterprise and the airships shown briefly in the opening Heavensward video--which I assume to be single-man models--they're already approximately the size of an X-wing, and therefore would have the space to mount a shielding device ala the type used to not get murdered by Middy in Keeper. From that very same dungeon, Garlean airships seem to have some sort of semi-guided laser-type weapon.

All of my yes, holy shit. Every single one of my characters would've torn ill-bred, lolorito, and every single one of those scrub brass blades/crystal braves apart.

If we got to make live story choices, 2.55 would've had a very different ending. And I may have wound up in charge of Ul'dah via the old "you toppled what passed for government, you're responsible for it now" adage. Regarding Iceheart, there never would've been a Shiva trial because she'd not have made it to that aetheryte at the end of Snowcloak.

Dogberry basically literally took the very thought from my head. I have more thoughts to make but they require videos/gifs so it'll have to wait until after work when I'm using a real internet and not a 3DS.

Revised and updated my list.

"I see you."

Aether imbuement has its limits. By that very logic, if it was that all-powerful, then we'd have slapped Garlemald in their collective dicks already and sent them home with a stern no.

I'm basing my judgment off their big ships, not the dumbass-looking single-man pogo sticks. The Agrius and the ones that look like they took an old WW2-era battleship and put a levitation drive in it. Am I saying they're invincible? No. But can a mechanist with a couple of up-sized versions of his main hand grafted to the side of a chocobo take one down solo? Also no. Until and unless Eorzea acquires some serious firepower in the way of armor-piercing munitions, the only surefire tactics for downing one of their big airships is to board it and destroy it from within (something they're uniquely weak to given their large open-air observation decks) or have a dozen thaumaturges commit suicide by way of completely expending all their aether to magic the hell out of it. Having leveled my first character alongside a summoner and seen pretty well what an egi can do, I doubt a SMN's Garuda can sink one either. Make life difficult for them? Sure. But then they hit you with a cannon.

While I'm sure Garlean armor plating on their airships isn't the same as 600mm of composite steel, ceramics, kevlar, and depleted uranium, the pithy little guns that a MCN carries isn't going to penetrate. Assuming a slight increase in weapon size to accomodate for being able to mount it turret on a flying creature (no flying mount in existence is going to be able to carry proper cannon), it still won't do much more than irritate them. Sorry to come across as negative nancy and counter to good fun, but I take munitions and airframes seriously. Having handled munitions for the Air Force probably has a lot to do with that.

Oh I already plan to take glorious, amazing advantage of their not having thought this through. I'm the guy who's going to take the single-man airships, 11 of my friends, and turn this shit into Ace Combat Eorzea. Because dragons still have maneuver superiority to chocobos and basically anything else we could put into the sky, and would shred any 'airborne chocobo cavalry' with laughable contempt. The Garleans wouldn't even have to laugh, because no weapon that can be carried by a man on bird-back is capable of penetrating their armor.

Seno is MNK or NIN, since we've got no SAM in the game.

Sabine just don't even want to look at Ganale most days, she can't stand him so bad. But really, she's just tsun as fuck, okay.

I wonder if that was the same shit healer I got on Chao yesterday. Very similar actions, not as much epeen tho, until I called her out on her bullshit.

If you want to play the voidsent extermination, there's a couple of Doman swordsmen who specialize in just that. I don't really want to speak for Motoko so I can only really offer Seno, but there you have it.

Crafters build the one-man airships. -Starts charging all his friends who aren't crafters for personal jets-

We're "stuck" on it in that we just as of Sunday can now get cleanly to phase 3...

Most heartily agreed. I'm thinking out a window and into some dumbass storywriter's face.

I thought Ysale was possibly one of those well-intended extremist types that I like -looks sidelong at Chao- up until she went full-on cackling evil after tearing down the first ward of the Steps of Faith. Yes, your plan on stopping the Dragonsong War is to....let the whole goddamned horde into Ishgard where they can murderfuck the hell out of everyone and everything, including civilians and innocents, wholesale? Nope, this calls for a kick in the [REDACTED].

Standing around in the rain near-ass nekkid to cheer up Karu after Nael pounded our faces into the dirt for like the umpteenth time. WTF Tahz, you're supposed to be scrawny as hell in my head when did you get cut?

Power. Changes. Everything.

"According to scouts, the Empire's been poking around the wreck of the Agrius. Must be something valuable still there. Let's go kick 'em over and salvage as much of the parts as we can."