Percutio said:
Kurokami said:
Percutio said:
Kurokami said:
kikon9 said:
I'm wondering, I just heard about how in the Harry Potter series, the evil wizards begin attacking the muggles. Fundamentally this seems like a bad idea, given that going to open war with a group that has spent the last century building a stockpile of weapons that could sterilize every continent ten times over with wands that take several seconds to cast something that will kill 1 human. After thinking on this, I figured to make this thread. So my question is this:
Has there ever been a conflict in fiction that was one sided in a way that didn't make sense?
Considering magic has no real limitation and that they could just as well control those weapons you're talking about I don't know where you got the idea we'd come out on top.
Well, even if we talk in terms of WWI era technology, millions of fighting men with rifles and machine guns will eventually shoot every wizard.
While the wizards may be elusive and powerful individually, they are also frail and way too weak in numbers.
Okay, well I can get that I guess, but how will muggles know who the wizards are? And why is it unrealistic to imagine that magic will have some weapon of mass destruction up its sleeve as well? That thing with magic is that everythings possible, even if they have to find the ____ of ____(<-enter bullshit there) in order to accomplish whatever.
Switching sides by the way, I just realized that the evil wizards also targetted half bloods or whatever they called em, (half muggles/wizards) so magic on the side of peoples too.
I'm assuming that the normal people/muggles know how to shoot people with wands or people flying around on broomsticks. This is especially true when/if the wizards try to use powerful/destructive spells.
I just don't see wizards doing to hot once the waves march towards their homes.
There are only 3 spells in that series that are counted as being so bad they're not to be used by anyone, ever. One for torture, one for mind control, one for murder. They have nothing close to a even a tank shell in terms of firepower, let alone sustained artillery bombardments, airstrikes, or nukes. Nor do they have the manpower or resources to fight in open war. Even a hundred thousands wizards can't stand against the combined firepower of an entire nation whith a military numbering millions, and with enough firepower to level one tiny island, and that's before you get the rest of the world involved, which just gets even more exponentially one sided for the non-magicals. Oh and all of those militaries, they're also experts in warfare of all kinds. The wizards don't even have a standing army. They're outmatched, outtrained and outnumbered in every way.
On the Gandalf thing; Gandalf is not a god people, he's a Maiar spirit, a demi-god at best. So are Sauron, Saruman and even Bombadil. They were forbidden by the REAL gods from waging direct war with each other. Not that they'd win against Sauron anyway, seeing as he was once 2nd in command to Melkor, the original evil, who he was just as bad as and in fact who he surpassed in sheer levels of destruction he wrought.
And Gandalf didn't just self ressurect, he was sent back by the gods because he fucked up and needed a retry.