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A hundred gateways next to each other is as good as one giant gateway... Shannow Send a noteboard - 06/06/2010 11:36:48 PM
After all, the a'dam prevents damane from linking, thus severely limiting the size of gateways. Having small gateways may help for scouting or assassination attempts, it won't help much for moving armies. Thus they will be limited at first in their war against Rand. (And I also think that Tuon will see the difficulties here and maybe decide to dispense with the a'dam altogether, at least during the Last Battle.)



If each gateway is 6 feet wide, that means 2 men can run through it quite easily. Multiply that by a hundred if you have 100 damane making gateways side by side, and you can run 200 men through the gateways simultaneously. Let's say 3 seconds per pair, and you can transport 4000 men per minute, and 40000 men in 10 minutes.

That is a pretty useful strategic advantage.
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The logistics would be practically impossible, as even RJ stated (see quote below) darius_sedai - 08/06/2010 01:41:03 PM 1244 Views
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Something from RJ Datakim - 07/06/2010 09:43:16 PM 1198 Views
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