WHEEL SMASHING LORD 5-142
Chapter: 5
“The dragons of the West are fierce allies, and fiercer enemies. With scale, claw, or tooth, they are the equivalent of thirty men. With spear or mouthblade they are the equivalent of fifty. They are still mortal.”
-Au Vam, Pankrator of the Yellow City
NOOOO MINIMON!!!! HOW WILL THE COUNT BE CONTINUED NOW???
With Frace, With Humility, With Gentleness.
With Overwhelming Numbers.
*Grace
*France
Hang on…. are you Gog-agog with a real mustache? (Mostash)
*Farce
Death appears unimpeded, as usual.
Many reaching Heaven today
The Lady on the Grey rides among these armies today, methinks
I like hamburgers
Go! Go! Camel Scythe!
I wonder how Jagganoth feels about these big guys.
The problem with being succesfull is that you get knock-offs and imitators.
That’s a good question! Considering how much he hates himself and what he’s become, I’ve a feeling he’d despise them.
rip friend 🙁
dudes rock
DUDES ROCK!
Does Dragons of the West imply Dragons of the other directions? Do the Kind People have relatives who are considered Dragons?
Mammon was considered a Grand Dragon. I reckon its just another term for Kind People.
What are they feeding these walking corpses? Jagganoth will be very nonplussed when he learns that his Dead Men found his secret stash of magical protein powder while he was taking his nap.
Just imagine the kind of ‘roids you buy on a street corner in Throne.
Some of those guys are giving me flashbacks to that one creepy dude in blade of the immortal.
I am slightly disappointed that the mention of modern small arms in possession of Jagganoth’s army all the way back in Book 1 hasn’t paid off yet. It is cool to have guys swinging swords at each other, but if there’s a time to have a machinegun it’s this.
It’s not exactly modern, but a guy in the first panel does have a gun.
Jagganoth ain’t the only one with guns.
Mottom’s forces when she broke into Yre seemed to be around WWI-era.
Bring back Oscar and give him an M-60
I don’t think that an MG is gonna do much to a 10 meter Beef McProteinson impaled with iron piercings
also, consider magic exists
Just use bigger bullets.
the blood trail slash in panel three is straight gas dude
… I want to know what that one goblin in the frontline’s story is, he’s the only goblin there so you know he had to push for that spot.
Mouthblades? Why is this not a term I’ve seen before for other fantasy stories?
In’t north, in furs, folk tales
he guards his scars but fails.
Mae e o Stockholm, dw i o Gymru
Typical Caerdydd on a Saturday night
1. Would lips not be helpful for a berserker? it feels like they’d get dry tongues.
2. Are these special spikes that make the bearer stronger, like Jagganoth’s nails? Because I would have thought piercing muscle tissue would make it weaker.
3. Are these regular soldiers of the republic? Or master swordsman or some other supernaturally powerful martial artist? Because regular people would be much better suited to killing god’s armies with a host of automatic firearms and projectile explosives than with swords. I guess Mottom never got around to Earth and so the most advanced firearms in Throne are muskets and flintlocks?
or am I just nitpicking and should suspend disbelief cause its cool. which I am also fine with.
As far as i remember, supply of automatic firearms around the multiverse is difficult because advanced technology decays while being transported along the King’s Road. Which is the only way to get between worlds if you’re not a demiurge.
Such guns would probably be useful in such a situation, but too difficult logistically to equip as standard for a world-hopping military. Which these folks are.
This does imply that a place like our Earth would be pretty hard to invade without help from a demiurge or other supernatural freak with extreme personal power. But the *majority* of armed conflicts in the wheel involve swords and spears.
It seems like, if that’s the case, artillery/field guns/cannons would be the play. Simple and robust, really no more complicated than that flint pistol, far less mechanical complexity than a blowback firearm. Fewer rounds of ammunition, in case the logistics of getting a gun-priest to bless every round or something like that is in play. Still a massive force multiplier. And finally, still metal as fuck, as thus compatible with the general vibe of the setting.
Alternative to my earlier comment, this is a webcomic where the artist draws while listening to heavy metal, so logic need not always apply. The rules of the universe will conspire to create scenes worthy of a metal album cover.
an Oasis is a place for peace, between predators and prey.
This is axiomatic
Don’t you mean
Waxiomatic?
The Berserkers were only human.
Incubus transmuted their flesh – hapazardly and inelegantly, I might add.
They are but primitive machines.
My read is that the Berserkers chewed their lips away while locked up waiting to deploy
No. Not nitpicking. See replies, below.
Also, the Hollywood/Bollywood/Red Chinese studio clash looks awesome, but a movie exception that shows what worked best in such situations is 2011’s adaptation of a 1970s book, The Eagle.
IMDB is worth checking out on that score.
Love the uniforms of the republic! Wish more armies had style like that
I’m very curious about the turtle-shelled Birrin looking fellow at the forefront with the spear
I am also invested in Mx. Spiderturtle’s story! Is the spiral naturally occurring, aesthetic or scars? *what do its hands look like?*
Koopa the Quick
Our erstwhile angel should probably have realized by now that pluck and gumption by themselves tends to get you extremely dead in this multiverse….
As for why everyone doesn’t have guns, I’m assuming this universe is like Zelazney’s Amber, where the physical laws differ subtly in each world and complex devices generally don’t work reliably between them unless they operate on more universal principles like demon engines or karmic injustice, or whatever is powering those warships. Whatever it is, it doesn’t mechanically scale down well – probably because the are hundreds of enslaved psychers powering each ship or something similarly awkward.
It’s nice to see that there are still some people around who have read the classics.
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Those republic soldiers look kinda Sikh ish
They may be sick soon unfortunately
I would say more Arabic mixed with some mid 19th century style army clothes.
Now that’s a lot of Solomons.
me, a sigma NB: “I could take one of those big guys 🙂 ”
You, a beta: “In a fight?”
me, a sigma NB: ” 🙂 “
SHHHHHHHHHHHNK! just might be the final name of Yisun.
I have read the first tome in full within a number of days and make public my aspiration to reach this page, at the time of posting the most recent publication by Lord Abbadon, by the new moon. Pray and spasm for me, kindred scholars, I only know how to read at night, and I am a most eepy boy
Yep, those are some large lads indeed.