Erfworld #138 - The Discussion Thread

[Whispri]

The hex she started from would have been slightly further away from the ambush site than Gobwin Knob is mind.

Your calender is off. Pason has already completed 5 full turns since he was first summoned. His next turn will be his sixth.

Also, I've seen no actual evidence that he was ever facing 25:1 odds. According to Klog #7, Gobwin Knob had 786 units in it. According to the ErfWorld brochure on page 86, the RCC numbers a total of 9,751 units at that time. That's a 12.4:1 ratio.

When Parson was first summoned things were a bit different, but that difference was actually in GK's favor. Prior to the "donut of doom" fiasco, Parson had an additional 21 or so dwagons, 3 warlords and 3 knights to command, and there has been no mention of any additional forces appearing to offset those loses. So in order to have faced 25:1 odds around day 1, that would mean the RCC coalition would have had to number somewhere around 20,000 units, or roughly 10,000 more units than it has on day 4.

We are told that the donut of doom wiped out 40% of Ansom's siege on page 56, but there's no mention of any other serious casualties. And certainly no one ever reacts as though the gambit annihilated more than half of the RCC's total assault force. So I am forced to conclude that the 25:1 comment was in error.

-H

The twenty five to one thing could have meant a comparison of combat values. Also, Wanda could have been including the reinforcements that are available to the RCC, Translyvyto could have arrived in force before the column did after all, who knows what else could have been whistled up?