Seriously, the entire book I was scratching my head wondering why the hell the Channelers
darius_sedai Send a noteboard - 25/01/2013 06:32:26 AM
didn't just grind the shadow armies into pulp. Much like they did at Emaryns manor in Tear. 100,000 Trollcs dead in like 5 minutes.
If you do some quick math we have
500ish AS
2000ish WO (maybe a lot more)
200ish AM
1000 WF (guessing)
1000 damane (guessing, but seems likely given the several hundred Shaido they picked up)
300 Kin (we know the total was 1400 but many never showed up and more would be weak and even more would be in Mayene)
Rough estimate is there should have been something like 5000 Channlers for the Light ... 1000 for each Army of the Light plus Healers in Mayene (seriously stupid idea, but classic AS thinking) and a reserve force for Traveling etc ....
Easiest way around these overwhelming numbers was to just say there were thousands of Sharans ... Even the fight out without being implausible.
Personally I think the book could have been a lot less poorly constructed battle tactics and a whole lot more wrapping up of plot lines. In the end the Battle brought some drama to the book, but served very little purpose to the story as a whole.
If you do some quick math we have
500ish AS
2000ish WO (maybe a lot more)
200ish AM
1000 WF (guessing)
1000 damane (guessing, but seems likely given the several hundred Shaido they picked up)
300 Kin (we know the total was 1400 but many never showed up and more would be weak and even more would be in Mayene)
Rough estimate is there should have been something like 5000 Channlers for the Light ... 1000 for each Army of the Light plus Healers in Mayene (seriously stupid idea, but classic AS thinking) and a reserve force for Traveling etc ....
Easiest way around these overwhelming numbers was to just say there were thousands of Sharans ... Even the fight out without being implausible.
Personally I think the book could have been a lot less poorly constructed battle tactics and a whole lot more wrapping up of plot lines. In the end the Battle brought some drama to the book, but served very little purpose to the story as a whole.
Domani Drag Queen in the White Tower ... Aran'gar watch out!
Where to begin....
- 23/01/2013 05:22:12 AM
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- 23/01/2013 01:18:31 PM
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I think Rand and Moridin sword fought because channeling at SG is v dangerous so they minimised it
- 24/01/2013 12:40:45 AM
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- 23/01/2013 04:11:13 PM
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There was a HUGE goldmine of complexity that RJ planted in the story that BS just completely ignored *NM*
- 23/01/2013 06:35:17 PM
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Seriously, the entire book I was scratching my head wondering why the hell the Channelers
- 25/01/2013 06:32:26 AM
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Hey John
- 24/01/2013 04:04:39 PM
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- 24/01/2013 05:45:30 PM
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Yeah, his writing annoys me greatly at times
- 24/01/2013 06:57:50 PM
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- 25/01/2013 04:55:54 AM
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I'm as much of a "mainstream" reviewer as a fantasy one these days, so... 
- 25/01/2013 05:16:16 AM
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- 25/01/2013 05:16:16 AM
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- 25/01/2013 08:37:48 PM
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- 25/01/2013 08:37:48 PM
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All but remains, for me at least, is a story that isn't as memorable as it could have been
- 27/01/2013 03:03:59 AM
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- 28/01/2013 09:26:24 PM
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Perrin growled. Slayer was too quick! Perrin was fast, too. Sooner or later, one of them would..." *NM*
- 24/01/2013 08:23:12 PM
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At one point he used the word "arabesque" - how can something be that without Arabic culture? *NM*
- 24/01/2013 09:25:54 PM
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Indeed...
- 25/01/2013 03:14:22 AM
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He actually said he took "many advanced courses in linguistics"? That makes it even worse.
- 25/01/2013 02:19:31 PM
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- 25/01/2013 08:53:38 PM
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Well, Brigham Young is the *best* Mormon university out there.
- 26/01/2013 01:37:16 AM
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- 26/01/2013 03:20:09 PM
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You still Trolling the WoTBoards Larry? 
- 24/01/2013 11:06:14 PM
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- 24/01/2013 11:06:14 PM
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Ha! I've mellowed a bit, though! 
- 25/01/2013 04:56:47 AM
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- 25/01/2013 04:56:47 AM
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Been there
- 26/01/2013 09:27:10 PM
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I went to the World's Fair in 1982 with my family - again, small world!
- 27/01/2013 03:08:27 AM
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- 27/01/2013 03:08:27 AM
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Were you the one who came up with "Selene was Mesaana"?
- 25/01/2013 07:44:01 AM
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