Edena_of_Neith said:
Forrester, your army sent to fight the robots is reporting overwhelming numbers of men and women killed, and more wounded.
Are you sure you wish to continue this, going after Acererak?
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There are at least 40 million fatalities across the Flanaess.
80 million people are wounded. Either blinded, flashed burned, injured by flying debris, or injured in the many battles.
Cities are burning out of control.
Firestorms are raging in every forest.
Wild magic storms and bizarre phonomenon are occurring world-wide.
Edena, except for in the last battle, I honestly don't see how I've taken severe losses.
I've been involved in four conflicts this turn.
1) The City of the Gods/Lyrn.
I took minor losses, and just as things were getting heavy the Uber-Sandstorm hit the robots. Then they were hit by two big-ass 200megaton missiles. Overall, I didn't lose much.
2) Against the Shade
The Shade had about 200PL (at best) of forces spread out over their domain. I landed there with 100PL of forces that were roughly twice as tough as they were, in attack/defense value.
And Kalanyr landed with 100PL of force.
And Kaboom moved in.
And Dagger.
And the solars/planetars/etc.
And everyone else.
I am thinking I maybe lost 20-30PL there, and so did everyone else. That's assuming the Shade did extremely well, and killed as many PL as they lost. Which they shouldn't have been able to do.
3) Against the Demons
28PL of Demons. ~100PL from Kalanar, ~100PL of my forces. Maybe I lost 10PL. If that.
4) The Final Battle
Here, I probably took heavy losses.
200PL of my forces against 150PL (at best) of robots. And I had the solars, faerie, Iuz on my side. Maybe I took a huge loss here -- 100PL or so. That seems reasonable, if heavy.
Total losses: around 150PL, 200PL on the very very very VERY outside, and that's a huge stretch. Else, having a tech advantage/10th level magic/overwhelming numbers just aren't worth much.
That leaves 350PL to 400PL to play with.
Less than half of this will finish off Acererak. Don't want him causing armageddon next turn.
The other half will do what we can to stop the forest fires, and in other ways heal Oerth.
. . .
You gave me an overwhelming force, Edena. With a tech head start. And I got 10th level magic.
Which means that numerically, my forces are three to six times as powerful as most defenses they face. They're even-up against their most feared opponents, the City of the Gods, and in the biggest battle against THEM, I both personally outnumbered them and had copious allies.
I tried to turn it this force down, tried to come up with some reason it should be lessened, and you refused me.
That's your right.
But if you're going to give it to me, let it do what it's supposed to do. Don't let them die in "heavy losses" like they are a group of farmers wielding pitchforks. They aren't Iuz's evil humans with flintlocks.
They're genetically modified humanoids with the best tech on the planet (robots excepted) AND 10th level magic.
I'm through playing games. We attack.
Forrester
NOTE: Going to be away for an hour or so, I think.