Starsyn wrote...
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Um, depends upon the Army. Many armies have chains of command in order to prevent dissolution, including in the US. I don't think killing the leaders of each faction is going to do a damned bit of good. It'll just create a power vacuum, one that would be quickly filled by the next in command.
There was one army in recent history that was dumb enough not to do that and it did fall apart. However, the majority of the armies in our world have chains of command. I don't see why that would be different in Thedas, especially since we've seen some of the chain of command at work (the Divine, Grand Cleric, Knight-Lieutenant, Knight-Commander, ect ect.)
However look at in this perspective neither of these orgnizations were intended act as traditional armies; They haven't had the training nor the resources to act as one, even in the Templars case which in fact they were orginally formed to act as one, in this situation they both have finite personal and even more finite leadership.
Yes you are correct you could replace some loss, You certainly could overlook one First Enchanter or one Knight Commander going down, But Four First Enchanters, Or Four Seekers or Four Knight Commanders? Much Harder loss to replace, add in the fact that as this war rages on situations such as these likely would occur more and more often considering both of these powerful individuals would likely would need to serve in the field considering for the mages, these are the most powerful members of their order and thus for any battle of note their presence would be needed and as for the Seekers and Templars they are both the most skilled warriors of their order and have the most command and battlefield expreince in most cases.
Namely i drew upon this conclusion because neither of these entities are traditional armies, in fact they more so resemble the older Mercenary Armies such as the Heshens and Dragoons that were once employed, and those were entities that relied upon their most talented and skilled to operate effectively.
Loss could be taken to an extent but it couldn't be replaced overnight, I see this as similar to that.
So my agrument was, if some one was to land a damaging enough blow to the othersides command structure their orginization would begin fragmenting and just adding further stress would just cause collapse.
After all, The Removal of thirty or so Senior Enchanters or Twelve Knight Captain's isn't a loss that can be easily replaced, if at all during wartime. Sure you could have people waiting in the wings to replace them, but that can only go so far and in your statement that this power vacuum would be rapidly filled.
Then the question i would pose to you, would these people replacing them being of equal or greater strength then those they are replacing? Would they be effective replacements? Or would it merely be a show of mouth to avoid showing how much damage was actually done with the loss of the initial person holding the position?
After all having an inept commander can be often as damaging as having no commander at all.
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