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

Some bosses just aren't into the whole 'guidance' thing.

Chapter 48 – Page 7

on July 17, 2017
Chapter: Chapter 48
└ Tags: Ardaic, Grand Marshall Jarvis
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  1. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    July 17, 2017, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    The last domino will fall like a house of cards. Check mate.

    • biggmac
      biggmac
      July 17, 2017, 12:30 am | # | Reply

      Both I and Uno that the game of Life is an Operation full of Risk.

      • wolfpax
        wolfpax
        July 18, 2017, 9:35 am | # | Reply

        Yahtzee!

    • Nathanyel
      Nathanyel
      July 17, 2017, 6:12 am | # | Reply

      And that how you win the Game of Connect 4.

    • Mordecai
      Mordecai
      July 17, 2017, 8:26 am | # | Reply

      You don’t have a monopoly on these bad jokes.

    • 5-tons-of-flax
      5-tons-of-flax
      July 17, 2017, 9:31 am | # | Reply

      “Dammit, man! This is the last screen of the Warcraft demo! And the player’s playing Horde!”

  2. bargamer
    bargamer
    July 17, 2017, 1:07 am | # | Reply

    Depending on economy is ultimately a losing strategy. If they attack your supply chain, you lose. If you lose too many offensive troops, they can attack your supply chain, and you lose. If for political reasons your supply chain is slowed or stopped, you lose. If your enemy contains you while building up their own economy, you lose. If your enemy offers forth their economy to make your troops defect or surrender, you lose.

    Come up with a better strategy, better intel, or whatever your Ultimate Engine is, will ultimately fail.

    • Messenger
      Messenger
      July 17, 2017, 4:22 am | # | Reply

      I think the side with the exposed supply chain here would be the Savage Races who have Sky Elf dissenters working with them. Since Iwatania is on the defensive and they’d already dealt with the gnomes and the remains of the Adventurer’s Guild in the capitol, Iwatania has the secure supply chain. Yes, Iwatania has lost a ton of their offensive forces, but being on the defensive- on home turf, dug in, fortified- means their supplies are with them and secure. The plan to attack the grounded Sky Elves is meant to cut off constant Savage Race reinforcements- to disrupt the Savage Races’ economy.

      Otherwise, I agree with your assessment. Unless Iwatania’s secret weapon evens things out enough, the Savage Race is going to win.

  3. SteelRaven
    SteelRaven
    July 17, 2017, 1:24 am | # | Reply

    I was actually holding out for more than one Silver Centurion.

    • Mujaki
      Mujaki
      July 17, 2017, 2:30 am | # | Reply

      “Pass the Silver Centurion’s power to another…”
      Sounds like there is more than one. Just maybe not more than one at a time.

      • Sahara
        Sahara
        July 17, 2017, 3:21 am | # | Reply

        Any archive-savvy readers know where the Beacon Hill scene is?

        • Messenger
          Messenger
          July 17, 2017, 4:14 am | # | Reply

          Haven’t checked yet, but there was a scene when the Adventurer’s Guild was working with the Gastonian military (I believe it was right before Gastonian airships were unveiled and the Savage Races’ champs led by Goblaurence first fought as a group). Ardaic and the Silver Centurion appeared together but as separate individuals. We now know that just means he gave someone else the amulet.

        • TxGator
          TxGator
          July 17, 2017, 9:50 am | # | Reply

          Is this what you’re looking for?
          Chapter 29, Pg 17

      • SteelRaven
        SteelRaven
        July 17, 2017, 1:38 pm | # | Reply

        Yes but it also sounds like it has primarily been Ardaic as many predicted. Something about Ardaic having a super-hero like persona just seems little… cliche.

  4. Wyvern
    Wyvern
    July 17, 2017, 3:31 am | # | Reply

    Jarvis is being unusually talkative.

    Fun fact: Beacon Hill is the name of the elementary school I attended.

    • Joe
      Joe
      July 17, 2017, 5:53 pm | # | Reply

      I think panel one alone has more dialogue from Jarvis than the entire rest of the archive.

  5. Amaster
    Amaster
    July 17, 2017, 3:45 am | # | Reply

    Why do I get the feeling that his lack of care will bite them in the ass?

  6. Pylgrim
    Pylgrim
    July 17, 2017, 5:22 am | # | Reply

    I smell a redemption arc coming around.

  7. Nathanyel
    Nathanyel
    July 17, 2017, 6:16 am | # | Reply

    Finally, this Kingdoms of Arkerra legacy server has caught up with Patch 5.4: Siege of Gastonia. I do wonder though whether they retcon out the unpopular storyline where Taro is not killed, just captured, and escapes during his trial, only to travel back in time to mobilize the Iron Gastonian Army.

    • Insufferable Nerd
      Insufferable Nerd
      July 17, 2017, 10:55 am | # | Reply

      They’re bound to do it, because some lore-whore at Hurricane wants to give Harky a role that doesn’t involve dying to give his people a chance.

      • Rules_Lawyer
        Rules_Lawyer
        July 17, 2017, 12:37 pm | # | Reply

        Just change his religion and make him come back as a death-barian. It’s not rocket surgery.

      • Nyzer
        Nyzer
        July 17, 2017, 2:36 pm | # | Reply

        And reinstate Father Tom as a main villain for one more expansion, but this time, without just immediately being discarded by H.R., actually working more closely with him to prove a more potent threat?

  8. Psolo Ghoti
    Psolo Ghoti
    July 17, 2017, 4:09 pm | # | Reply

    That map’s gotta be some kind of magic. And so is the Silver Centurion amulet, obviously. So the question is, is the map also made with some kind of magic artifact, or does Jarvis (or Ardaic, for that matter) have some kind of innate magic ability? I don’t think we’ve seen any indication that humans can do magic unaided before.

    Prediction: Ardaic will don the SC armor, Syr’Nj will mortally wound him, and then find out that it’s him.

    OTOH, I actually think Syr’Nj is capable of killing Ardaic if he insists on standing in the way.

  9. Cassandra / Loki
    Cassandra / Loki
    July 17, 2017, 6:30 pm | # | Reply

    Anyone *else’s* midlife crisis.

    • Tsapki
      Tsapki
      July 17, 2017, 11:21 pm | # | Reply

      Yeah, I caught that too. Is the Grand Marshall referring to himself, or some third person not in the room?

      • Wannes
        Wannes
        July 18, 2017, 7:47 am | # | Reply

        I get the impression he’s referring to himself.

        • TxGator
          TxGator
          July 18, 2017, 9:15 am | # | Reply

          I wouldn’t be surprised. He now finds himself an underling for a preteen and commanding a beleaguered army.

    • Mordecai
      Mordecai
      July 18, 2017, 11:35 pm | # | Reply

      I think it’s just slightly quirky phrasing. If you mentally imagine him stressing MIDLIFE CRISIS instead of ELSE, it just sounds like a patronizing dig about Ardaic not just dealing with shit.

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