Guilded Age

The Saga of the Working Class Adventurer – New comics every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday!
  • About
  • Cast
  • Crew
  • Downloads
  • Guilded Age Plus
  • Store
  • Contact
  • RSS

Annotations Every Day - Written by T Campbell & Flo Kahn - Illustrated by John & Jason Waltrip

Who's winning?

Chapter 29 – Page 19

on February 28, 2014
Chapter: Chapter 29
└ Tags: Silver Centurion
Comments RSS

Discussion (58) ¬

  1. The Indomitable Eric
    The Indomitable Eric
    February 28, 2014, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Photobomb level: Avian

    • biggmac
      biggmac
      February 28, 2014, 1:23 am | # | Reply

      This image is really a selfie taken by the avian on the top right of the frame.

      • Snowblind
        Snowblind
        February 28, 2014, 2:59 am | # | Reply

        Dude! Hold my beer and watch this!

        • Chris
          Chris
          February 28, 2014, 12:19 pm | # | Reply

          CA-CAWW!

  2. Blitzy
    Blitzy
    February 28, 2014, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Oh man. Those dinosaurs in the back are gonna do some SERIOUS damage. I’m expecting one of the Peacemakers to take one down Legolas-style during this.

  3. Muzzafar
    Muzzafar
    February 28, 2014, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    Crossbow strapped to wings?
    And how do they wind their crossbows after the first shot?

    • MarbleGargle
      MarbleGargle
      February 28, 2014, 12:32 am | # | Reply

      If you look at the Avian in the bottom-left of the image, it has a hand coming out of the wing. So, crossbows are held with hands, and not strapped.

      Still, you are right that pulling back the string would either require both wings or a wing and a foot. Not something easy to do in mid-flight.

      Of course, no quiver or other container for arrows/bolts is visible. I assume the Avians take one shot with the crossbow and then engage in melee combat.

      • Bloodvork
        Bloodvork
        February 28, 2014, 9:11 am | # | Reply

        Actually that looks more like the tickler and less like an Avian hand. You can see the mechanism on the other crossbows.

    • MichaelHaneline
      MichaelHaneline
      February 28, 2014, 2:00 am | # | Reply

      One would think that from that height they could just drop arrows straight down, no?

      • Jack Vermicelli
        Jack Vermicelli
        February 28, 2014, 2:22 am | # | Reply

        Not sure terminal velocity for an arrow would be terribly lethal.

        • Jack Vermicelli
          Jack Vermicelli
          February 28, 2014, 2:23 am | # | Reply

          And it may not even get that fast; they’re only maybe 150 feet up.

      • Snowblind
        Snowblind
        February 28, 2014, 3:05 am | # | Reply

        African or European arrow?

        • Fren
          Fren
          February 28, 2014, 5:59 pm | # | Reply

          Laden or unladen?

      • Slayn82
        Slayn82
        February 28, 2014, 3:59 am | # | Reply

        And here i though the avians would be crap shooters.

        • Guesticus
          Guesticus
          February 28, 2014, 8:30 am | # | Reply

          That might actually have been more effective :P

      • My2Cents
        My2Cents
        February 28, 2014, 4:54 am | # | Reply

        What they need is something along the line of the Roman Plumbata. Barbed iron head, fins at the back, and a mass of lead in between. Both sides used similar weapons in WWI to attack troops on the ground and zeppelins in the air. Attach them to using loops and a common wire for each row for rapidly sequenced drops.

        • Washbourn
          Washbourn
          February 28, 2014, 9:18 pm | # | Reply

          I find your gravatar disturbing. Every day on my way to work I go by a billboard sporting an anti-abuse AD. And now I’m replacing the women on it with Rachel, and that goofy smile. Now I’m going to feel guilty when I laugh at it each morning. Thanks for that.

    • Webmetz
      Webmetz
      February 28, 2014, 10:55 am | # | Reply

      I would assume they’d have repeating crossbows when flying instead of single shot. However, you don’t see the clip on it, so these are single shooters.

    • ThePuck1
      ThePuck1
      February 28, 2014, 12:34 pm | # | Reply

      Easy! Its freaking magic.

    • Zippideedoodah
      Zippideedoodah
      February 28, 2014, 6:37 pm | # | Reply

      +1 to the delicious gravatar/comment combo.

  4. kagato23
    kagato23
    February 28, 2014, 12:47 am | # | Reply

    Nobody is winning@

    • kagato23
      kagato23
      February 28, 2014, 12:48 am | # | Reply

      Aw goddamn it hit enter too soon. The second part of that was supposed to be “EVERYBODY LOSES IN WAR”

      • biggmac
        biggmac
        February 28, 2014, 1:04 am | # | Reply

        HUH. Good God, y’all. What is it good for?

        • Aslandus
          Aslandus
          February 28, 2014, 9:28 am | # | Reply

          For blood and glory, in the name of CONQUEST!!!

      • Snowblind
        Snowblind
        February 28, 2014, 3:03 am | # | Reply

        A STRANGE GAME. THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS NOT TO PLAY. -WOPR

      • Ed Rhodes
        Ed Rhodes
        March 2, 2014, 8:27 pm | # | Reply

        I would prefer; “Whoever wins, WE LOSE!”

    • Torint
      Torint
      February 28, 2014, 10:32 am | # | Reply

      War. War never changes.

    • SotiCoto
      SotiCoto
      January 23, 2015, 8:48 am | # | Reply

      Charlie Sheen.

  5. DeePseudonym
    DeePseudonym
    February 28, 2014, 1:01 am | # | Reply

    Hmm….. those tanks are pretty effective. And there’s no air support for Gastonia. And…um….GUYS! GUYS! ALL THE GUYS LET’S EAT THEM! GUYS! So round one, advantage Savage Races.

    • Guesticus
      Guesticus
      February 28, 2014, 8:33 am | # | Reply

      Actually, if you look behind the top tank, advantage would be Gastonia: they at least broke through the front ranks of the Savage Races

      • BanditoWalrus
        BanditoWalrus
        March 1, 2014, 10:54 am | # | Reply

        Based on the fact that there are significantly less robotic lance thingies on Gastonia’s side, and the fact that those were behind Gastonia’s front rank, it would appear Gastonia’s front rank has also been broken by the Savage Races. Although it is hard to tell, since all the Gastonians look the same

    • Hertzy
      Hertzy
      February 28, 2014, 9:51 am | # | Reply

      Those hammer tanks are too clumped up. The Silver Centurion is in position to hullfuck all three of them in short order. The landsharks are about to crash in an uncoordinated wave into Gastonian shieldwalls, although those will be slightly less effective for want of spears. When the Rhinosaurs come into play, the savages will probably have the upper hand unless Gastonia has something up their sleeve.

      In the end, it will come up to the champions, like every well designed videogame should.

  6. biggmac
    biggmac
    February 28, 2014, 1:09 am | # | Reply

    The ground troops … remind me of the time I emptied out the animal cracker box and arranged the shapes in rows by animal (yes, I have CDO). (OCD is not in alphabetical order). It was so perfect … until my li’l sis (represented by the goblin tanks) attacked it by eating the center formation.

    • Jack Vermicelli
      Jack Vermicelli
      February 28, 2014, 2:24 am | # | Reply

      Not sure why Gastonia is holding so many infantry in reserve in block formation like that, with only a few engaged in the melee up front.

      • Aslandus
        Aslandus
        February 28, 2014, 9:30 am | # | Reply

        They can’t think of anything better to do with automatic pointy sticks than putting it on the front line just behind the infantry that just got slaughtered…

  7. SteelRaven
    SteelRaven
    February 28, 2014, 1:09 am | # | Reply

    Right now would be a good time for those Airships…

  8. coldelectrons
    coldelectrons
    February 28, 2014, 1:17 am | # | Reply

    GUYS KABOB CART COMING LETS EAT THEM!

    • Snowblind
      Snowblind
      February 28, 2014, 3:04 am | # | Reply

      I HAZ KETCHUP!

  9. Zblackgoat
    Zblackgoat
    February 28, 2014, 2:06 am | # | Reply

    i was going to ask where all the bodies are but then i realised – land sharks

  10. brkh96
    brkh96
    February 28, 2014, 3:36 am | # | Reply

    where’s the alt text? am i only one not seeing it?

    • Marten
      Marten
      February 28, 2014, 4:06 am | # | Reply

      Alt text says: “Who’s winning?”

    • Mujaki
      Mujaki
      February 28, 2014, 7:30 am | # | Reply

      Here, I’ll quote it for you:
      Who’s winning?

  11. Tsenzei
    Tsenzei
    February 28, 2014, 6:54 am | # | Reply

    I’m going to to with the side that has at least some archers, tanks, and monstrous mounts. If I’ve learned anything from playing Warhammer, it’s that blocks of Empire Swordsmen aren’t enough to win battles on their own. I mean come on, you at least need a Bright Wizard or a Steam Tank.

    Also Silver Centurion’s mount looks like it just kicked one of his own men.

    • Guesticus
      Guesticus
      February 28, 2014, 8:40 am | # | Reply

      No, Silver Cent IV kicked a Silvasi (note the helmet flying off it’s head and the battleaxe beside it)

      Not sure if you are being serious about the Gastonian Infantry, but the good thing about blocks of people: they can split and flow around obstacles

      • Tsenzei
        Tsenzei
        March 1, 2014, 7:26 am | # | Reply

        Well, technically, with the available details, that helm and axe could have been there from before.

        As far as the army, no, I’m not that serious, thus the Warhammer jokes, but I do consider it a major oversight that they don’t have archers at all. They wouldn’t necessarily keep firing into the lines at this point (Avians can do it since they can shoot behind the main battle at the reserves) but they could have helped soften them up. I suppose maybe they left the archers with Bandit to keep the walls of the Fort going if their infantry falls, but…

        Otherwise their formation seems solid considering what they face. The Autolances look like they immobilized at least one hammertank (or just got crushed by it, but they slowed it down at least), and the Savasi forces were basically slaughtered. With the forces they brought, it’s fine. It’s just that it feels like they forgot or simply don’t have one of the basic forces of war in the last two pages: ranged firepower.

        • Tsenzei
          Tsenzei
          March 5, 2014, 5:54 pm | # | Reply

          Follow-up note [spoilers, kinda]: They seem to have been keeping their archers and battlemages in reserve on airships. I still think this is somewhat tactically unsound, given that they’re trying to defend the fort. Going into the field without first peppering the enemy with ranged weaponry is a waste of perfectly good soldiers, unless your ranged weapons need the enemy to be at a very specific location (which, since they are using airships to ferry their archers and such is clearly not the case, that sort of specificity is usually required for em-placed artillery only).

  12. Mordecai
    Mordecai
    February 28, 2014, 7:54 am | # | Reply

    It looks as if almost all the rebellion infantry EXCEPT the land sharks have been routed. I imagine in a weekday or two we’re going to see the Silver Centurion’s holy weaponry as he deals with the hammer tanks.

    • Guesticus
      Guesticus
      February 28, 2014, 8:37 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, can see some of the fuzzies at the bottom running from the big-pointy-stick-that-only-goes-one-way-and-can’t-turn-or-move-very-fast

  13. CorrTerek
    CorrTerek
    February 28, 2014, 8:18 am | # | Reply

    …Did the Gastonian lance thingies pin their own guys?

    • talewinds
      talewinds
      February 28, 2014, 11:38 am | # | Reply

      The land sharks would call that “Friendly Fare”

      • Snowblind
        Snowblind
        February 28, 2014, 8:42 pm | # | Reply

        Land Sharks would call that kabob.

  14. slydragon4
    slydragon4
    February 28, 2014, 8:24 am | # | Reply

    I love how only some of the land sharks seem to have weapons. The rest, apparently, realize that they are weapons.

  15. Guesticus
    Guesticus
    February 28, 2014, 8:42 am | # | Reply

    Just noticed something about the Lance-thingies: they are self-mobile now, guess they just needed a push-start

  16. kitastrophe
    kitastrophe
    February 28, 2014, 8:55 am | # | Reply

    Is this the point where the war machines become sentient? I, for one, welcome our smashy overlords.

  17. Tyris
    Tyris
    February 28, 2014, 1:27 pm | # | Reply

    “Oh well, who wants to live forever? DIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!”

  18. Zippideedoodah
    Zippideedoodah
    February 28, 2014, 6:39 pm | # | Reply

    Oooh, just noticed the self-tpopelled lances doing nice troll-Kebabs. Yummy!

    • Zippideedoodah
      Zippideedoodah
      February 28, 2014, 6:40 pm | # | Reply

      Oops, typo! Meant “self-propelled”.

  19. Necrosis
    Necrosis
    March 1, 2014, 4:42 pm | # | Reply

    Huh, reminds me of Flash Gordon…

Comment ¬ Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

NOTE - You can use these HTML tags and attributes:
<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>



Guilded Age is co-written by T Campbell & Flo Kahn, and illustrated by John Waltrip. Site design by Samantha Kyle. Fonts by Blambot.com.
Stay up to date with Facebook or Google+, or use our RSS Feed!
Privacy Policy
Guilded Age does not claim ownership of any of the corporate branding that appears in this comic, nor does it claim any affiliation, partnership, or endorsement of any kind.
They are used strictly as an artistic choice for the set dressing of the comic.