as I have said, I havent read the posleen, otherwise I would be giving more specific strategies. how does a god king saucer sensor work? bloody silly name, btw. there's usually a weave to stop that sort of thing, I used to write at a wot/modern world combo, and we came up with all kinds of tricks. we are of couse assuming the asha'man know what their facing - otherwise they have a screaming fit the first starfighter thatcomes by.SylasGaunt wrote:And? The smallest regular posleen troop formation would be easily more destructive than almost any WoT army. Of course there is the matter of:Enforcer Talen wrote:-sniffs- I swear, you people have no imagination at all.
I remember in book 5 rand forms a sheild that stops everything, specifically said. considerign he's fighting rahvin at the time, a mage who can do a might more damage then most armouries, channelers have at least some defense capabilities.
a.) whether or not that shield blocks light, if not he still gets sawed in half by the first happy postie with a laser
b.) whether any of the asha'man present are strong enough to make one.
Of course the posties have a lot better range than any archer.but, your assuming he is going to stand there for all the weapons of an army to shoot at him, which is really not what asha'man are good for. their super artillery in a medieval world, but they have to be more subtle against that kind of firepower.
God-King saucer's sensors detect him, auto-target and fire.use a weave of spirit, so that you arent worthy of people's attention, like a gray man. walk past sentries. use a weave of air for invisibility. there are prolly other ways to see a man, I'm not famaliar with the people their fighting, but there's likely a defense against it.
Where has ANY fire weave matched a nuke? Please point me towards where this has ever occured.then you can wander about. a little compulsion, and a commander throws away his forces. a tied off fireball weave, so you can launch heat waves like a nuke, and then travel away before they reply. there are *so* many weaves you can use against a modern society.
And Posleen God-Kings already spend their troops like water.
And this is of course assuming he doesn't run afoul of a five percenter and get swatted by an anti-starship plasma cannon.
I suppose book 1, lews therin melting the earth and making a mountain doesnt count? the typical asha'man doesnt equal the dragon, so I suppose it would be the exception. perhaps 'like a nuke' is an exaggeration, but a tied off fire weave can do damage like you would not believe.
in book 3, a weave was tied off that didnt just stay still, like a wall of air, but continued moving - it was when the black ajah captured the accepted and hit them with air continously, while not wasting much power at all. presumably, you could increase the power into it, and break bones, or, if your particularly strong (circle of 13 perhaps) use it to take out a ship or navy. lots of fun things you can do with tied off weaves.
you weave the air, and it punches. you can tie it off, and it keeps punching. aveindha didnt have to launch dozens of fireballs at the seanchan in book 8 - she could have weaved one fireball, and it launches, and tied it off, so new fireballs are generated. an asha'man could do similar with waves of heat or fire. approach enemy forces, weave a gateway for a quick escape, then weave the most powerful offensive thing you can do, and tie it off. it wouldnt do the damage of a nuke in the first wave, to be sure, but in the hundreth, or thousandth? and if you made repeating balefire, it would be even better. I am doubtful ship hulls would stop it - it cleaves through everything it comes across, including the defenses of cities in the age of legends.
