AMoL avoided giving numbers for the armies so much, that I had managed to just ignore that this was even going on.....

Still, as I hang out on Vs debating sites so much, I'm well aware of how much BS nurfed the OP..... And most of it I, after a bit of time, have managed to just write off as "well it's a lot more complex magic system then the ones he tends to make(which he normally does well with), and he's not the one who made it, so he couldn't know it as well as one he did, so... While not "good", e really didn't do that bad a job, and likely to best we were going to get."..... Most of it.

The part I find truly "WTF!?!?" is every channeler just forgetting they can make physics raping solid, to barrow a DC Green Lantern term, "constructs" out of the different powers(though normally done with ether Air, or as in the case of Rand's trademark Fire), which not only makes makes up the basic channeler defensive weave "shield of Air" that used a thousand times in the books, but also, in a particularly "how the fuck could you of missed this?!" case, is how their "might as well be TK" weaves work, used every time a channel picked something up, or held someone in place......

But no, when BS-channelers think "what would be the best way to defend ourselves from arrows?" rather then just makes a hard as steel shield, that by WOG is completely unaffected by mundane things like arrows no matter how many get thrown at it, they think "Oh I know, I'll make a small whirlwind around myself!"..... When someone wants to knock someone around in AMoL, do they use the actual cubs of Air they've used for all the books? No, they just use gust of wind....

Like I said, I can just write it off when the mechanics of linking seem to change from book to book, never matching up with what RJ already showed them to be, but how, the, fuck, did, he, miss, every, single, time, a, channeler, caught, someone/thing, in, flows, of, Air, to, say, noting, about, all, the, cases, of, walls, and, shields, of, Air.............

I can get not catching that time Rand(briefly) sword fought a Fade with his fire-sword weave that showed "yes, it is in fact solid fire", but..... The case of Air or all over the place, in all of the pre-BS books, hell, one of the first things Siuan showed the girls WAY back in that lesson on the way to TV in TGH, was her just up and making a perfectly useable dagger out of Air.

Missing all that That's just a "What the bloody fuck?!?!?!" to me.