Dang. On second thought, Clair/Hollister should’ve just made one huge portal and slammed it down on everyone at ground zero. Well, you know what my doc sez: “The most accurate diagnoses are made … with the retrospectoscope.”
Actually,casting a portal at the ground, more so a giant one, might give the bomb possibility to follow through. I think it would have been safer to cast a big enough portal in the projectiles path, leading to some deserted place.
Anyway, they did nothing, probably wouldn’t have been fast enough anyway, it happened.
Also that explosion probably is wearing plotarmor.
I suspect a portal that hasn’t be pre-prepped requires considerable effort and energy to put up and maintain. Definitely not an in-combat spell.
Otherwise they could have skipped all the fighting outside the walls and just had a column of infantry march right into the city, in front of the capitol or something.
Between retreating and attacking, I favor the latter. Regrouping will just give the superweapon a better opportunity to hit them again. Successful escape means a shattered army while the superweapon remains operational. Running up to take it will mean closing the gap and possibly catching the superweapon in its own blast radius.
That said, NOT IDEAL. It’s possibly also a suicide charge. Destruction with the threat at your back or destruction while facing it.
Footnote: Any Gastonian troops (or is the country called Iwatatani?) who perish at the wrong end of the Rail Cannon missile are not collateral damage at all. They are friendly fire casualties. Just look at the big friendly smile on Taro.
Any ways y’all got another big eyeball to deal with accompanied by a crew of Spitfire wheel faces who look frankly rather pissed. Lets hope Byron can avoid swallowing one this time. (That’s probably too much to hope for.) I was looking forward to Frig and Ardiac fencing for us. I think they are going to have to make nice and double team this new front attacking from the rear. I hope this Eye hates Best’s guitar playing as much the last beast hated WAV’s keyboards. Also Penk will have to delay his proposed slaughter of humans to beat the drum!
Placing bets, there’s gonna be a whole lot of humans attacking that gun alongside the elves/trolls/dwarves/avians/goblins/fuzzy-peeps.
Penk’s charisma stat must be HUGE.
I find it… unfortunate, that Penk used the term “Humans” here instead of “Gastonians” or even “the enemy”. This seems like the sort of thing that starts full-scale genocide.
Player in my gaming group tried to munchkin his way into bullshit damage resistance because he became a sworn blood brother with a troll bandit. DM gave him the blue bolt. Good times, good times.
So assuming no one has already called it, I’m calling that the railgun is actually the plot device that will ultimately blow up H.R. and his army of horror.
Finally commenting for the first time ever to say that if Hollister dies, I shall be very sad. Clair and Hollister are quite possibly my favourite recurring minor characters in Guilded Age!
Dang. On second thought, Clair/Hollister should’ve just made one huge portal and slammed it down on everyone at ground zero. Well, you know what my doc sez: “The most accurate diagnoses are made … with the retrospectoscope.”
Actually,casting a portal at the ground, more so a giant one, might give the bomb possibility to follow through. I think it would have been safer to cast a big enough portal in the projectiles path, leading to some deserted place.
Anyway, they did nothing, probably wouldn’t have been fast enough anyway, it happened.
Also that explosion probably is wearing plotarmor.
I suspect a portal that hasn’t be pre-prepped requires considerable effort and energy to put up and maintain. Definitely not an in-combat spell.
Otherwise they could have skipped all the fighting outside the walls and just had a column of infantry march right into the city, in front of the capitol or something.
The war got real in panel 3
I got a nose bleed when a rugby ball hit me in the face. No one hugged me.
Then again they were all rugby players.
If you were playing rugby, I’m surprised they weren’t all hugging you.
Best to distribute tiny cocktail umbrellas to everyone.
with large tropical mind-smasher alcoholic beverages underneath.
Sounds like a thing Best would do.
Hopefully the weapon can’t be fired too quickly otherwise the World’s Rebellion is going to have MASSIVE casualties.
Ooh, maybe the sky elf will take down the Ultimate weapon.
Step 1: open portal entrance in front of main gun
Step 2: open portal exit behind ultimate weapon.
Cue unintentional self-destruct.
And maybe half of Gastonia, considering this is likely how the ‘blast radius’ would look like.
Nice. But I’m afraid she’s not in the mood to be that creative…
What if the portal exit is directly beneath the Unstoppable Superweapon? Like, say, a hundred feet underground?
Between retreating and attacking, I favor the latter. Regrouping will just give the superweapon a better opportunity to hit them again. Successful escape means a shattered army while the superweapon remains operational. Running up to take it will mean closing the gap and possibly catching the superweapon in its own blast radius.
That said, NOT IDEAL. It’s possibly also a suicide charge. Destruction with the threat at your back or destruction while facing it.
Regroup just means to reform or reassemble, not to flee.
We can’t repel firepower of that magnitude!
Footnote: Any Gastonian troops (or is the country called Iwatatani?) who perish at the wrong end of the Rail Cannon missile are not collateral damage at all. They are friendly fire casualties. Just look at the big friendly smile on Taro.
Friendly fire isn’t.
Any ways y’all got another big eyeball to deal with accompanied by a crew of Spitfire wheel faces who look frankly rather pissed. Lets hope Byron can avoid swallowing one this time. (That’s probably too much to hope for.) I was looking forward to Frig and Ardiac fencing for us. I think they are going to have to make nice and double team this new front attacking from the rear. I hope this Eye hates Best’s guitar playing as much the last beast hated WAV’s keyboards. Also Penk will have to delay his proposed slaughter of humans to beat the drum!
You know I just thought. These new beastly things are all purple. So does purple mean they are all of HR.s doing?
Given what HR was doing last we saw him (EATING a Corruptor Beast)…I don’t think they’re his doing, so much as…they’re him.
Make this your theme for the final charge!
That was awesome
Thanks for sharing this. On-point, and I love Irish fighting songs.
Welsh, actually. But who cares when you’re all thumping Saxons!
Who is Gnome-Man, and why does he get to stand in my way?
Gnome Ann is no man, and can stand wherever she wants.
(Though really, it’s probably Bandit with a trick or two still up her sleeve.)
I thought she was a real estate agent.
She can run two jobs. After all, time waits for her.
Gnome Ann can defeat the Nazgul!
MAWP!
Placing bets, there’s gonna be a whole lot of humans attacking that gun alongside the elves/trolls/dwarves/avians/goblins/fuzzy-peeps.
Penk’s charisma stat must be HUGE.
I’m thinking the same thing!
The way he said “warriors”, I think he may get some allies. Even though he blamed “humans”.
Holy shit, Clair’s face is absolutely heartwrenching. :(
She just realized war is NOT all fun and games.
Welcome to the ground, sky elf.
I find it… unfortunate, that Penk used the term “Humans” here instead of “Gastonians” or even “the enemy”. This seems like the sort of thing that starts full-scale genocide.
#notallhumans
Gastonians are the only humans they know. No others have ever made an appearance if they even exist.
Don’t they actually have several humans on their side including Byron, Frigg, the Order of the Open Heart, and Gastonian defectors.
Byron has even said that he isn’t a Gastonian and I don’t think the monks are either.
They are honorary Trolls.
Playing an online rpg, are they… Internet trolls?
*runs off, whooping*
Player in my gaming group tried to munchkin his way into bullshit damage resistance because he became a sworn blood brother with a troll bandit. DM gave him the blue bolt. Good times, good times.
The colors— this page–
Stunning.
This whole thing, all these years; stunning.
Great, inadvertedly Mr Iwatani has done did a plot of C&C 3 TW for all of them. Sort of.
Didn’t they see the last page? There are alien all consuming chaos things coming! Shouldn’t they be preparing for that?
Don’t tell me they don’t read their own comic. Geez.
Ironically, Arkerra gets Guilded Age a week later than Earth does. Licensing restrictions.
Well heck, that’s damn inconvenient!
Sounds like Netflix in Canada…
So assuming no one has already called it, I’m calling that the railgun is actually the plot device that will ultimately blow up H.R. and his army of horror.
Finally commenting for the first time ever to say that if Hollister dies, I shall be very sad. Clair and Hollister are quite possibly my favourite recurring minor characters in Guilded Age!
Cool, I get Byron! Gravedust is my favourite of the Five, but this avatar pleases me.