michaelsuave wrote:Problems with an all out war are yeah, arcans have shamans, but they don't have a lot of crystals, they don't have a lot of lightning tubes fire tubes, death boxes etc; the humans do. So where as you have 1000 really super soldiers, and the rest of the foot soldiers are stronger and faster than the humans, they still aren't faster or stronger than thousands of fire tubes or lightning tubes (which the army of humans would have*)...
Hmmm ... I'm not sure about that. Since at least
some shaman can make crystals and at least some arcans have worked with alchemists (and at least one alchemist is friends with the masked), the arcans of haven could very will have arms the equivalent or better (better crystals) than the humans.
As to quantity of warriors, that probably depends on who attacks whom. I can't really see the loremasters mustering even half a million. And the real problem is, as always, feeding the army as it moves.
At a guess, the worst thing the loremasters could do would be to conscript most of the arcan slaves and collar them with a collar that makes them attack their brothers and sisters.
I wonder if an alchemical device could be made that drains all cut crystals in a certain area, depower all the collars at once (and all the weapons that would keep the newly freed slaves in check. Imagine loosing that device in Alamar.