Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26863727-20160403215643

I see a problem with this wiki. Many users make idiotic claims that their character/faction will come out on top regardless of the situation, and usually try to say it's logical, by putting out one of the following excuses, which I consider a load of BULLCRAP.

1. "Elves/Maia are innately 1,000,000,000,000xs better than other combatants, just because they have been around a long time." Usually used by the ones I call "Immortal Fanboys". In reality everybody has a peak they reach, which can be very high or very low. This is how we get people like Alexander the Great, Miyamoto Musashi, and various philosophers and inventors, as well as morons who can't do anything right with a chosen pursuit. Being immortal or not is irrelevant as to where this invisible wall in your chosen skill is.

2. "My character/these specific soldiers have amazing gear/training." Don't call me a hypocrite; if a bunch of Tripraetors got ambushed or surrounded by a much larger army, or were up against soldiers who are legitimately better, I would accept my defeat and move on, as long as the way it happened made sense. Personally, if I thought we should go solely off lore in the ranking system they'd be rank 9, but no, I accept the need for balance and let them remain rank 7. Numbers can overwhelm even the best fighters without support. It's why I like the reworking of hero characters and vehicles in the new Star Wars Battlefront- they need support from the little guys to be as strong as they can. Generally used by those who could use a copy of The Art of War.

3. "I'm fighting Humans/Orcs, who stink". This one annoys me the most, I think. Humans are the Race most willing to change. That alone should prove them as good in a fight as Dwarves or Elves given the same training and equipment, or better even. As for Orcs, which Race almost laid waste to the armies of the Iron Hills, Mirkwood, Esgaroth, and the Eagles in one day?

On an unrelated side note, does anyone think I should change Atmora's units on the faction unit count page. 