Exalted DeathMatch II

[Samiel]

Dragon Bloods for all! They're pervasive bastards, after all. In DB societies, prolificacy is seen as a virtue, as the more, the merrier. Thus, you get large numbers relative to the other exalts. And that means large. The DBs are more prone to temptation than mortals, due to their turbulant natures, and think how many bar wenches creation-wide end up bearing a child by some DB soldier or lieutenant after a night out?


I believe that The Outcastes actually gives a number of Lost Eggs, and there are supposed to be something like 20,000 Dynasts, if memory serves. They are many. They are Legion.


And they have airships.


For all that though, in this purely hypothetical battle of the titans, the Autocthonians win out. There is no question that a United Realm could fix Yugash (On its own) real good. But they are far from United, and when they send small armies to deal with full-scale invasions, they lose out to armies of men with superior technology.

 

[Cthulhu_Wakes]

Dragon Bloods for all! They're pervasive bastards, after all. In DB societies, prolificacy is seen as a virtue, as the more, the merrier. Thus, you get large numbers relative to the other exalts. And that means large. The DBs are more prone to temptation than mortals, due to their turbulant natures, and think how many bar wenches creation-wide end up bearing a child by some DB soldier or lieutenant after a night out?
I believe that The Outcastes actually gives a number of Lost Eggs, and there are supposed to be something like 20,000 Dynasts, if memory serves. They are many. They are Legion.


And they have airships.


For all that though, in this purely hypothetical battle of the titans, the Autocthonians win out. There is no question that a United Realm could fix Yugash (On its own) real good. But they are far from United, and when they send small armies to deal with full-scale invasions, they lose out to armies of men with superior technology.

I totally agree, and on another note:


They have airships! *wails on a guitar*

 

[Pheobus Oles]

I'm still not convinced.


The Sidereals pushed the Dragon-Blooded along, ya, but they didn't do any of the grunt work (as far as we know). If anything, we have more examples of Gold-Faction Sidereals physically defending the Solars than we do of Sidereals hunting Solars down.


At any rate, I mean to say, the Sidereals did the whispering but the Dragon-Blooded were the ones who (widely) pushed out the Solars. And ran Creation to the current day.


And having the initiative is only useful for so long. We know for a fact that the revolt did not happen in one night. It was a bloody, drawn-out affair.


By this I mean to say that the Dragon-Blooded have proven their capability. Their weakness in cannon is their lack of cooperation with one another, but this scenario is suggesting that is foregone. Therefore, they're bringing the force of Creation (mainly, the Realm and Lookshy) around to bear against the Autobots.


Their technology isn't as great as it once was and certainly doesn't compare to what Autochtonians have, but its still good. Beamklaves are scary, sure, but they don't do squat against weapons of the 5MM- something the Dragon-Blooded have in spades to go around. Beyond the beamklave, I haven't seen much that I find scary about what Autochtonians can do. The Dragon-Blooded might not have robots and weird technology, but they still have (as said before) plenty of airships and warstriders and all other sorts of crazy shit to throw at 'em.


Even more, their lack of any favored abilities whatsoever kinda puts them down- at least, in my opinion.


Numbers win the day. Dragon-Blooded have them, pure and simple.


Without being rude, I have to say I first wonder if the concensus is so slanted only because so many people here are adamant about being huge fans for the Autochtonians.

 

[Cthulhu_Wakes]

Not really, I'm a huge fan of both parties, I merely have serious doubts about how the DBs can keep it up. Even against the Solars in the Usurpation, the seeds were sown and executed in the days of the fighting of who would come out on top of this fight, and I'm not talking the Solars. I can see a lot of political back stabbing at work.


Conviently, your political rival is dead on the field of battle after a disastrous ambush by the Autos. My consensus is it's going to be a grand cluster fuck all around. You know who wins anyway? The Deathlords, not FaFL overall, but that's a fuckton, yes fuckton of ghosts incoming on the Underworld and all those shiny artifacts getting blown to shit.


To be frank, no one is going to win. I think that will be my stance from here on out, both have great strengths and what not, sure the DBs have numbers and their shiny artifacts, and the Autos have their shinies and city sized Exalts. Who wins? We may never know, BUT I'm still throwing my lot in with the Autos.


Because it doesn't matter who wins, it's the clean up the dead will be doing afterward me thinks  

 

[Persell]

Who made the airship bullshit up? Lookshy is the only second age military to field any number worth mentioning of them and they got ONE which is fully operational...

 

[Cthulhu_Wakes]

Dude, calm down, Lookshy has something of the number of twenty or however many the ST prefers. Plus, the Realm has been hinted at having airboats in books before. So, what does it matter???

 

[Persell]

Dude' date=' calm down, Lookshy has something of the number of twenty or however many the ST prefers. Plus, the Realm has been hinted at having airboats in books before. So, what does it matter???[/quote']
Uh, I was not angry or anything, no worries. Lookshy has one skyship without any damage and I really would like to see the book which states that the realm has anything resembling a fleet of skyships... and after all when we are theoretisising we better stick to canon... pitching your version of the realm against somebody else's version of the alchemicals does not make much sense for the rest of us.

 

[Gtroc]

I just like NINJA ROBOTS FROM BEYOND CREATION the idea makes me giggle...in a good way...can there be a good way to giggle? oh well...

 

[Silence In Daylight]

Dude' date=' calm down, Lookshy has something of the number of twenty or however many the ST prefers. Plus, the Realm has been hinted at having airboats in books before. So, what does it matter???[/quote']
Uh, I was not angry or anything, no worries. Lookshy has one skyship without any damage and I really would like to see the book which states that the realm has anything resembling a fleet of skyships... and after all when we are theoretisising we better stick to canon... pitching your version of the realm against somebody else's version of the alchemicals does not make much sense for the rest of us.

 There's a reference in Savage Seas about confusion between the Air Navy, which is the Northern water-based navy, and the Sky Navy, which would be the Realm's aerial navy. I don't have the book in front of me, so the exact details escape me.


 As for Lookshy, I believe that Outcastes states that Skywolf (or whatever its name is) is the only major airship in Lookshy's arsenal that retains all its weaponry; she has several sister ships, but most of their heavy weaponry has been removed for use elsewhere.

 

[Cthulhu_Wakes]

Well think about this, this is where my reasoning comes in. In the beginning of the Exalted line, we here that only, and ONLY Lookshy and the Hslans owns any flying ships...theeeeeen comes Outcastes, which does say on the page where they outline the Skywolf, that a group of pirates in the Western or Southern oceans has one.


Then comes Kingdom of Halta which says good old Bull has numerous flying craft, small and one large one of transport capability. Now all I'm saying is perhaps the Realm has transports. I don't think I said warships, but Mantas or something like them to transport men and material.

 

[Zaramis]

While in my world, no faction has flying airships, except maybe a few broken ones in Lookshy. But then, I have no mechs either, or more or less any First-Age relics that does anything resembling Mech or anime stuff


And Im more and more becoming known as having a rather odd view of the Exalted world, here on the forums.

 

[lowguppy]

Alchemicals because they'd by far be best at working together, especially connected with the hive-mind charms for perfect coordination. Not to mention higher essence Alchemicals with Seige Devastators for their Pulse Cannons. Seige tank? Fuck that, seige CITY!

 

[Cthulhu_Wakes]

Gotta love that enthusiasm our people bring to the table  :lol:

 

[Samiel]

Gotta love that enthusiasm our people bring to the table  :lol:

Is that factionalisation I hear from Cthulthu? I think we should call ourselves the Steam Faction. We believe the Autocthonians are the way to go, with their seige cities and space lasers.

 

[Cthulhu_Wakes]

*draws up the flyers and calls the Union* Yeah, I believe big giant lasers are the way to go for Creation's future Or we could always have Auto rebuild the world, for peace and what not...but lasers are cooler.

 

[Samiel]

It's compatable with the argument that you can achieve anything with melee; writing, cooking, public speaking.


Except with Lasers.

 

[Cthulhu_Wakes]

Exactly! ; . ; God, it makes me sad, I was playing in a game once where someone chopped down trees and made a house...with Dex + Melee, I wept. I wept for hours out of the stupidity.

 

[Samiel]

But there's nothing wrong with using lasers to do the same! Oh, no sir! You just laser it into the right shape. People do it all the time, right? But you've got one in your crazy floating eye

 

[Cthulhu_Wakes]

:lol:  :lol:  Oh man, I think the Steam Faction will catch on quickly! *crickets*

 

[Samiel]

We've got all the features of a functioning Faction: Short sighted obsession with specific strengths and a desire for domination through overwhelming force! Pfft.. we beat the Silver Faction any day!


Now all we need is a lvl 5 manse and some technicians to begin our foothold.. and Craft:Autocthonians and Craftsman Needs No Tools.


Lookshy has caches of unused lasers, right?

 

[Cthulhu_Wakes]

Indeed they do! *procures Level 5 Manse from the Whiny Silver Faction* Ahhhh piss off we've got technology!

 

[Samiel]

There can't be more than five of them anyway, with the numbers of Siddies around! And the Steam Faction exists outside Fate!


Whoop whoop whoop

 

[Hanat-Osul]

You're mad, both of you.


I'm in.

 

[Samiel]

Our power swells! Soon we will have enough clout to topple the incarna themselves!


Wait, dangerous words.. start small Samiel.. Start small..

 

[Hanat-Osul]

Haven't you read the Evil Overlord guidelines?  C'mon, dude.