DocFrost72 wrote: »

Axoinus wrote: »

Seeing as how arrows, knives and swords can eventually kill anything in Tamriel, AND metal shields and armor offer reasonable protection... against modern technology, nothing would stand a chance against Earth-Tech. You can't cloak-stab a nuke.

Earth vs Tamriel in a war. The only chance Tamriel would have is if they were able to leverage their Washire teleportation as a weapon somehow. Otherwise, Earth-tech would have them beat in both burst and sustain.

Honestly. Tamriel is fascinated by, and cannot duplicate steam-powered technology. Not sure how much of a chance they have if they fail at hot water.

Your gun becomes a solid block of steel because alteration magic exists. I then proceed to roast you alive in flame so cold it burns your skin to a crisp.



As you can see, I fear mages the most. That's scary stuff.

Ok disclaimer. Just playfully arguing here. My response is not intended to be sending a serious or offending retort.

I have not seen alteration magic in this game, except maybe with the god entities. I'm not a lore pro, so I'll give you that one... So I will grant that it is feasible that a single magic user could take out a single grunt with a gun. Keep in mind cast times though and the fact that AK-47s have a pretty decent AOE arc. Oh yeah, and range is pretty solid as well...seeing as how things like wood and metal yield to bullets. On a related note, I have a hard time seeing a bow or two-hand effectively blocking bullets going at supersonic speeds. IMO.

So lets take this to another level. Tamriel is dinky. Super dinky. Let's say you ride a horse at 30 mph in a circumference around all Tamriel. I bet, on a bad day, a really bad day, you could do that in 6 RL hours. I am rounding up ALOT there. So in 6 hours and 30 mph, you have covered a 180 miles circumference.

180mi circumference translates to 2600sqmi. Again, rounding up. That is smaller than freaking Delaware(including water surface area).

So Tamriel is no bigger that Delaware and that is with ALOT of rounding up. Delaware population is less than 1 million. The USA alone has 4,600 hydrogen bombs. Each with the potential to cause third degree burns to anyone within 5 miles of blast radius(at minimum).

5 miles blast radius is 70 square miles(rounded down). That means less than 40 of the 4600 H-bombs available would (at minimum) expose everyone in Tamriel to 3rd degree burns.

Now, Tamriel has superior medical technology. Someone near death can be back swinging within seconds. This is an interesting factor to think about. I suppose we have to assume this means growing back limbs, heads and spines. There is also resurrection in Tamriel.

This means Earth Army will have to hit very very hard, and very very fast to minimize a drawn out and costly war. Can't afford to have healers survive. Lots of underground options available for Tamriel residents as well. This could all present some interesting complexities.

OP asked what we thought about modern armies involved in such a thing. Those are my unqualified thoughts.

Argonian because there slippery when wet

GUARDS !

Oh god the spiders, please not the spiders

Healers....

Every time I go near them, they stick needles in me!

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