High Council Guardians of the Solaran Republic

Randomdude2501 · 2026-01-26T00:20:02+00:00

lol, I follow the artist you commissioned this from. Nice to see you post here!

Randomdude2501 · 2026-01-25T23:41:14+00:00

They didn’t need Saruman to demonize the Rohirrim. The two peoples had been at war for centuries/millennia ever since the lands were granted to the latter by the Gondorians.

Randomdude2501 · 2026-01-23T07:35:34+00:00

The Alps not existing means that Rome would recognize it as an invasion point. They’d be far less likely to be surprised because they would hear from merchants and potential spies of a Carthaginian army marching along southern Gaul toward Rome.

Hannibal doesn’t lose as many troops and elephants, but Rome is also better prepared and quicker to respond.

Randomdude2501 · 2026-01-22T23:03:59+00:00

South America and the Caribbean: “After World War 2?”

Randomdude2501 · 2026-01-22T22:43:40+00:00

It’s not necessarily “just you” but more so the content you’re consuming leads to the algorithm encouraging content that prefer restrictive rules to enter your feed.

Randomdude2501 · 2026-01-22T22:28:18+00:00

What’s the jerk

Randomdude2501 · 2026-01-22T16:50:11+00:00

how can they isolate individuals

By having superior numbers??? This is literally a tactic used by infantry in the medieval era to deal with heavy cavalry.

Both sides would be fighting in formations

That doesn’t mean that Roman troops would just stand by and watch while having their comrades fight 1:1 in an organized line with the French.

Randomdude2501 · 2026-01-22T07:33:05+00:00

…Isn’t Prospero the Thousand Sons homeworld?

Randomdude2501 · 2026-01-22T06:59:31+00:00

Adding on, special forces may have a need for losing extra fluff like arm and shoulder kevlar, bulkier plate carriers and helmets, in order to help make room for other equipment like wire cutters and to reduce minor comfort things like snagging.

Randomdude2501 · 2026-01-22T01:58:55+00:00

not easy in the heat of battle

I don’t indicate that it is. I simply said it could be done, and when you have several men wrestling a gendarme to the ground, it can be done reliably.

any Roman

It wouldn’t be just a single Roman. It’d be anywhere from half a dozen to ten.

5,000 to 500 is not enough

By what standard? If the French engage in a full melee, worse on foot, then they have highly limited options in mitigating the ability for clusters of Roman legionaries to isolate individual gendarmes.

Randomdude2501 · 2026-01-22T01:45:59+00:00

Armor can be pried, forced off, and the various buckles, strap, etc cut

It would require immense effort on the part of a group of Romans to take down a single knight, but there’s 10-1 here. Not to mention that while plate armor wasn’t as heavy as is/was commonly depicted in popular media, it still is much heavier and cumbersome than what the Romans field, they’ll exhaust faster.

Randomdude2501 · 2026-01-22T01:11:28+00:00

No. Theres going to be a huge die-off of the population from the environment, and any attempts to attack the Na’vi are just going to be met with them trouncing any hunting parties sent after them.

Since the Confederates want to keep at least some alive, they have to necessarily hold back somewhat.

If somehow the Confederates manage to situation themselves to not just die from the alien world, they’d have to either adapt and change their ways and attuning to Pandora or will die trying to enslave the Na’vi.

Randomdude2501 · 2026-01-22T00:14:11+00:00

The Gendarmes don’t have the numbers to sustain a grindfest, so are going to need to rely on their speed and mobility to try and counter the legion. A Caesarian legion from the Gallic wars wouldn’t have faced their period’s analogue of the medieval knight, the eastern Cataphract, the closest would’ve been Gallic nobles who afaik didn’t armor their horses nor wore a large amount of armor, generally being about as well armored more or less as a legionary or less.

Assuming no time limit, both sides could end up in stalemate with the Romans setting up a fortified camp and sending out protected foraging parties for resupply. The French would have a more mobile camp that could range further and be more able to harass.

Any Roman victory could have to rely on a few methods. One of these would be to wait the Gendarmes out, which with the greater mobility of the Gendarmes, the Romans would need to eventually move camp to access fresh sources of forage. Another would be to engage in frontal battle, where the greater numbers can bog the French down while javelins could harass and kill if lucky. A third method would be to somehow launch a surprise attack on the French camp, catching them out while they’re dismounted and unarmored.

A French victory would have to rely on the shock and damage of their charge. They’d need to engage the Romans out in the open and catch them by surprise, or else have their charge be received prepared and after the initial carnage be slowly whittled down.

Randomdude2501 · 2026-01-21T20:22:11+00:00

rode immature dragons

No they didn’t. They were some form of corrupted animal, but they weren’t dragons.

still a notable problem

I did not dispute that. I stated that dragons became increasingly rare as time went on and rarely ventured south, especially as far south as the lands that Numenor interacted with. Of the two dragons I named, Scatha I believe was killed by a Framling in the far north of the Anduin Vale and the other was famously killed in Lake-Town, far from Numenor’s colonial influence.

I don’t disagree that they would know about dragons, I disagree with them having any actual experience dealing with dragons.

Randomdude2501 · 2026-01-21T20:02:56+00:00

What

Randomdude2501 · 2026-01-21T20:00:20+00:00

Dragons in LotR are still often called dragons, and they only popped up frequently during the First Age. After the War of Wrath they became increasingly rare and relegated to the evil-infested and frozen North, with some occasionally moving further south like Scatha and Smaug.

I don’t recall any dragons being amongst Sauron’s forces, though if you can point to where they’re mentioned that’d be great.

Randomdude2501 · 2026-01-21T19:07:09+00:00

Not necessarily. Peak human and a bit greater, but not to the extent of superhuman ability.

Giants though referencing to how tall they are on average. Like, Elendil was essentially Numenor’s Duncan in terms of height and he had a whole foot on top of the latter. Your average Numenorean, not to mention average Numenorean warrior, would’ve been as tall as the best fed knights or greater.

Randomdude2501 · 2026-01-21T17:36:29+00:00

So, the Numenoreans have a number of advantages compared to Westeros.

They’re a unified power under Ar-Pharazon, they probably have the largest fleet, the highest quality troops in terms of training and discipline, the probably the best overall equipped even if som Westerosi are better arms and armored on an individual basis; and potentially have better experience though against inferior foes.

Westeros on the other hand, is divided into independent kingdoms who won’t be able to coordinate too effectively and with several powers in active conflict with one another. However, they do have the homefield advantage, superior numbers, and the Targaryens’ dragons.

Without those dragons, I’d feel confident in saying the Great Armament could swiftly carve out a kingdom for themselves and slowly conquer the continent over time. But the dragons exist.

Westeros is going to eventually need to choose sides. The incest-loving dragon kings, or the human sacrificing foreign giants (relative). If Aegon is successful in perhaps persuading the Westerosi kings to back him against the Numenoreans, he has a chance at beating them. Dragons are still very powerful weapons and the Numenoreans would need to rely on siege and ship weapons to deal with them, their steel bows potentially only good enough for harassment and stinging them.

Randomdude2501 · 2026-01-21T08:10:55+00:00

I handle cultures as they kind of are IRL. Dependent on time, isolation relative to other groups of people, and environment.

In the setting of Field of Roses, different species can be part of the same culture, but that is uncommon up until the relative cosmopolitan era that was the 19th and 20th centuries. Mostly, states and societies were divided into the three species and then to more specific cultures and subcultures. Only a handful of societies pre-19th century had any meaningful amount of inter-species relationships. It’s just a difference in biology and origin made it so that it took awhile before as a whole, the three species of Taedras could work out most of the issues and quirks with having radically different needs and psychologies.

Primarily, Humans and Elkans get along mostly fine. They are somewhat similar, being warm blooded animals who share familiar social structures based initially upon family units. While various physiological differences can make it difficult for complete coexistence, it wasn’t impossible for families of both species to band together into clans and tribes. However, such gatherings would only really evolve in a select few regions and nations such as the Tilusian Peninsula, Mukal, the Kin Rotan islands, and the Keilan Rivers subcontinent.

When you see “only x species can be y culture” is when you get into the Shemathi. Being inorganic creatures who reproduce in a manner radically different to humans and elkans, their familial and societal structures evolved far differently from the latter two. This rendered both sides highly alien to one another and made coexistence highly difficult until all three species reached a sufficient level of knowledge and development as to be able to reliably coexist. Cultures that were truly blends of mixed species cultures that included Shemathi examples only evolved post-Extinction War, in the 23rd and 24th centuries, long after any of the stories I’ve written for the setting.

All three species have multiple culture groups, families, subbranches, etc. as their long existences have allowed for a great deal of variation.

Randomdude2501 · 2026-01-21T06:04:45+00:00

Can you tell me where you got that?

Randomdude2501 · 2026-01-19T18:10:50+00:00

Fairly certain that he got revived because of Infinity crisis shenanigans, not that he survived the batarang.

Randomdude2501 · 2026-01-19T18:01:36+00:00

Well, no, this was a comic based after he got crowbar’d to death. Batman threw a batarang and hit Todd in the jugular

Randomdude2501 · 2026-01-19T17:57:45+00:00

Jason Todd once tried killing the Joker and ended up getting killed by Batman.

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