2012-10-03, 06:23 | Link #482 |
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... I still find it strange why the people in the guy's country dislike the archer. what was the most deadly in the battlefield wasn't the skirmish you'd face, but the brutality of the hail of AP arrows that PIERCE THROUGH THE FREAKIN' SHIELDS and possibly the armor you wear. if I remember correctly IRL, Henry IV proved that right at Agincourt with the hails of arrows against the bogged units.
and now, Tigre has a bow that can turn a normal goose-feather AP arrow into a freakin' HVHEAP or HVAP nuke if he wished at the cost of his own life (btw, will he lose a bit of his energy when he uses the HVHEAP mode of that bow?). AWESOME. btw how good is his rapid fire? accuracy isn't doubted since he's a freakin' marskman.
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2012-10-03, 06:47 | Link #483 | |
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Also, they've never had the opportunity to pull off something like the Battle of Agincourt (and I doubt that the author would let one battle suddenly make the knights tactic of Brune obsolete). I imagine he's probably saving it for future installments though. Yes, he can obscenely power up his shot; but the thing is he himself doesn't exactly know how much it drains out of him, and Tir na Fa seems content with not telling him (to push Tigre to make the Black Bow his as soon as possible, I guess). It's powerful doing so, yes, but there's the risk of becoming weak/passing out after having done so, which is definitely a terrible thing in the middle of battle for several obvious reasons. No, he cannot turn it into a nuke yet; he is very much far away from that level, and only his ancestor, the one in Tir na Fa's vision, has managed to do it. Awesome? Yes. Risky and costly? Those too. Once he's exhausted from using the Black Bow's power, he usually has to sleep for quite a while in order to regain the strength it sapped from him. He's the best archer there is, both in terms of accuracy (shooting in the freaking dark and landing headshots wtf) and speed (shoots faster than anyone; his subordinates have just let loose three arrows, he's already on his seventh if I remember it).
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2012-10-03, 07:00 | Link #484 | |
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2012-10-03, 07:29 | Link #486 | |
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2012-10-03, 11:16 | Link #489 |
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No idea. You'd had to read polish history for this. They are used to engaging the golden horde. A comparison can be found in the Battle of Mohi, but the knights weren't fully outfitted with plate-armour yet. The knights lost, but it was actually speculated that gunpowder weapons were actually used by the mongols. Chances however, are that with their superior mobility, the mongols can just outrun the knights lead them into ambushes or simply just kill their horses with their arrows. Horse armour wasn't used until real late middle ages.When facing ranged enemies, there's really only two ways to defeat them:charge at them with sufficient number of men left by the time you reach them; shoot them with your own skirmishers. Crossbows weren't as bad as people put it. They were actually more useful than longbows(if I remember correctly) in penetrating full-plate. The only problem is that unlike the chinese ones, loading takes a long time--which is why they need a long rectangle shield to cover them from arrows(something that the genoese crossbowmen weren't given in Crecy).
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2012-10-03, 21:54 | Link #490 |
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I'm wondering what the specialization/composition of Asvarre's armies are going to be come the second arc. Brune has its knights, Muozinel has its zerg rush, while Zhcted has varying specializations depending on their Vanadis and their territories, and Sachstein (from what little was featured of them in Volume 3) seems to go on marches with siege engines with them (that or they just wanted to be really careful against Roland, not that it did them any good).
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2012-10-03, 23:16 | Link #494 | |
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2012-10-03, 23:21 | Link #495 | |
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Addendum: For what it's worth, they briefly mentioned the use of siege engines in order to tear down a fortification in Volume 2, and the author seemed to know his stuff with it as they emphasized its only purpose (laying waste to fortifications) but also the downsides (time to build, having to defend it, useless against infantry).
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2012-10-03, 23:22 | Link #496 |
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Florza dropped this series after translating 1 chapter, of course cannot be approved into full-fledged project. Not to mention that this series don't get spotlight very much such as, say Campione or DxD, probably we'll need an anime to boost interest of this series.
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2012-10-03, 23:25 | Link #497 |
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Even in the chinese translations of this series, the fan base isn't that high. For some reason, people just don't find interest in this (?) Or this series is just clouded over by other popular novels like campione or dxd ^
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2012-10-03, 23:27 | Link #498 | |
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2012-10-03, 23:44 | Link #499 |
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Like I said before, it was dropped after 2 volumes by original translator. She personally thought there was too much "skin" and fan service. Of course, for the people have stuck with it, you would know that the series starts getting good in volume 3 and then gets amazing in volume 4/5. Volume 1 and 2 were there to introduce the world and set up the meat of the arc.
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good thing they weren't fitted with incendiary purposes.... right?
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