kaid wrote:Killer Cyborg wrote:HWalsh wrote:I think it's been established that the Minion War isn't much of a threat.
Care to elaborate?
I am also curious about this. The biggest problem in the minion war is if you can find the hell pits and take them out soon after construction you could heavily blunt the invasion. The problem is the strongest defenders capable of doing this are highly regional actors. Knocking down the hell pits in the midwest/east coast of america is all find and dandy but what about the ones popping up in areas that nobody claims like africa/the outback of australia/ parts of asia/the arctic/the ocean floor you could think you have been winning locally only to find out there are hundreds/thousands of hell pits belching millions of minions in areas you would have had a hard time reaching even when there were no demon gysers.
Really the best bet for local defenders is stymie the demons/devils long enough and hope they get bored and give up or take the fight elsewhere. Neither the demon nor devil forces are that cohesive frustrate them long enough and it is possible that they may beat themselves.
There's a thread about this a few months back... but the gist is:
NA locally is in zero trouble. None. The average demon is weaker than a dog boy with an out of date laser rifle. A CS field army could stop 20-40x their own number of demons without even taking significant casualties. Demons have no way to deal with long range attacks, and no fast attack options. A Linebacker tank can literally kill demons with impunity until it runs out of ammo. They can never catch it and never come into their own range of it.
Earth is also in absolutely zero trouble. Given the "no one is allowed to control all of Earth" policy that guys like Splyncryth have "agreed" to (a kind of megaversal gentlemans agreement), the moment the demons or deevils look like they are going to have any serious chance of "taking over the earth", Splynncryth moves in and puts it down.
Absolute population numbers are given for Hades and Dyval. Splynncryth has more Powerlords on a single planet he controls than the entirety of both planes combined by a large margin. And Powerlords are good for dozens or more demons each. And that's not including Kittani, et al. Or the possibility of other Splugorth lending troops to shut it down (like any of the three or four Splugorth Kingdoms that are 100x the size of Splynncryth's domain in the Three Galaxies alone).
The way it is written, the Minion War is zero threat to earth. It may not feel that way to the inhabitants on the ground in a given location, but that's the long and short of it.