(08-28-2014, 02:52 PM)Melkire Wrote:Well yeah, the elementals attacking the entities setting fire to the forest is more than enough to discourage the practice.(08-28-2014, 02:38 PM)Dogberry Wrote: Yeah, burn the magic forest. Worked in Princess Mononoke.
...so you're saying that the Elementals are going to strike out across Thanalan to hit Ul'dah. Or across the sea to hit Limsa. In their weakened state.
The relative distances and proportions don't exactly line up in your comparison... especially if guerrilla warfare is employed. Wouldn't the Elementals go after the individuals setting fire to the forest rather than the abstract entity behind them?
Even siege engines wouldn't be enough, unless they could build them sufficiently large and sturdy enough to withstand the ground itself being pulled from beneath them.
(08-28-2014, 02:52 PM)Melkire Wrote: On-topic... I present William Tecumseh Sherman.The problem with that example is that they were mostly moving through already-settled open areas with plenty of civilization around, not skulking through an incredibly thick, wooded forest with an incredibly hostile defensive force picking at their army from every direction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tec...al_warfare
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman%27s_March_to_the_Sea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorched_earth
(08-28-2014, 02:54 PM)Warren Castille Wrote: You know how I know you don't read comic books?But those are just two individuals! I think it's a very different thing when we're discussing who would win in a three-way FFA between three enormous city-states.
I'm mostly kidding in good spirits; We're just arguing who would win between Spider-Man and Batman.
