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[Tavor Jeager]

 I have recently been playing a Dragon age origins game again and whilst pondering the strangeness of the plan and fighting style at Ostagar noticed something I hadn't before.

Now in order for Loghain to flank the darkspawn he would need to be south of the fortress since it has a commanding view over a narrow valley with shear cliffs on either side but later with a battle going on inside that valley he retreats without going through said valley. So unless his men can teleport or fly there has to be at leased one more reasonably accessible and nearby path to north of Ostagar which makes me wonder why the giant hoard wasn't going that way as well and why exactly Ostagar was built in the first place.

Of course I am still a bit confused as to why there are no fortifications inside the valley itself where they would be most useful or why they didn't at leased dig a few pit and hill lines and inflict horrendous casualties on any darkspawn that try to force their way through. Can there really be that many ways to just walk around it and the chasind  were too stupid to do so for all those years?

I suppose it is possible that any alternate route is rather small and defensible but that would just make not digging in and daring the darkspawn to attack even more insane since the terrain seems to be basically Thermopylae with a fortress on top.

Modifié par Tavor Jeager, 06 octobre 2013 - 09:48 .

[Ferretinabun]

Realism and battle tactics breaking under the the Rule of Cool.

http://tvtropes.org/...Main/RuleOfCool

It was awesome looking down on the battle from the brindge and you know it, my friend. :-p

[Angrywolves]

It's a game.
So it doesn't have to make sense tactically .
Besides Loghain had made up his mind to betray Caillen well before then, he had given Howe permission to betray the Couslands well before Ostagar.

[metatheurgist]

Ferretinabun wrote...
Realism and battle tactics breaking under the the Rule of Cool.

http://tvtropes.org/...Main/RuleOfCool

It was awesome looking down on the battle from the brindge and you know it, my friend. :-p

I think they could've pulled the Rule of Cool without making the humans at Ostagar look like complete tactical hamsters. But I don't expect writers to be experts at warfare. The funniest thing was seeing that the darkspawn had done more to put defensive siege machines in the right positions when returning to Ostagar.

[Riverdaleswhiteflash]

Angrywolves wrote...

Besides Loghain had made up his mind to betray Caillen well before then, he had given Howe permission to betray the Couslands well before Ostagar.

The level of strategy used would make more sense in this context, but no, that's not what the head writer says happened. (And other things make less sense in this context as well.) So there really is no excuse.

Modifié par Riverdaleswhiteflash, 07 octobre 2013 - 01:39 .