It's War Time!
Hells yes!
Oh, how I have not been looking forward to writing all of this.
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Did you know that despite being a skilled martial artist and total bad ass, that I absolutely suck at writing Battle Scenes? .....Well, it's true! But I must to try anyway, because my plot line demands it! Hahaha. Anyway, this is going to be a post about battle strategy!
Okay! So, you all know how in movies such as Lord of the Rings and Timeline, (<3) that when two groups meet in battle what they do is line up on opposite sides of the Field facing each other with their catapults and archers and whatever behind them and everybody charges into battle at basically the same time, they meet in the middle and fight to the deaths! Well, I've decided that that's how I'm going to set this war up, because it fits the "time period" that I'm going for with this book. And I find it to be pretty cool. Hahaha.
Now, the question is, how do I position everyone within the lines? From the way I see it, I have two options here. One, segregate everyone into groups. RoQuero soldiers on the left, Rayet's warriors on the right, Zarius in the middle. Or two, Leaders and the Royal Family in the middle, soldiers all mixed in together in the lines. I think that either could work.
However! I thought of something else. Aiden and Hiroshi are worried about their precious children! Eclipse had sworn to the King that he will protect Emma, and now he's her personal guard, which is all well and good. But what about Angel and Fiore? I think that they should have guards too. But not just any guards will do! This is the Prince and Princess of Zarius we are talking about here! Heirs to the Throne! So, the logical choice in my mind would be to pair Fiore with Blaise, because they're buds. And Angel with Andromina, because they've fought together in the past. But then that creates a problem with option one, because if I use Blaise and Andromina as protectors and then segregate the groups, then that means that I have to separate the Royal Family. So, I don't know.
Option One: A
-Royal Family all clustered together
-Armies segregated
........RoQuero........Zarius.........Rayet.........
Blaise.........Emma, Eclipse, Fiore, Angel.......Andromina
Aiden, Hiroshi
Option One: B
-Royal Family separated
-Armies segregated
..........RoQuero...........Zarius.............Rayet...........
Fiore, Blaise.....Emma, Eclipse.....Andromina, Angel
Aiden, Hiroshi
Option Two
-Royal Family spread out a bit, but not separated
-Armies merged together
.....................RoQuero, Zarius, Rayet.....................
..............Fiore..........Emma..........Angel..............
Blaise.....Eclipse....Andromina
Aiden, Hiroshi
Personally, I lean towards Option One: B, or Option Two. I feel like Aiden is very paranoid about his brother, and since he knows that Kerian is going to come straight for him and Hiroshi, that he wouldn't want his children too close to him because it would put them in too much danger. But on the other hand, he probably would want them close to him, so that he could keep an eye on them and make sure that they're safe. I'm not entirely sure which of those feelings would be the strongest, but personally I lean toward spreading them out at least a little bit. Let me know what you think.
Oh! And while we're talking about comments and input. I would like to say to Wolf, Layfon and Damien, that you all suck. I talked to each one of you the other day and you all promised that you'd start helping me more because this book means a lot to me. And guess what? None of you have. -_-"
May I ask what the damned point of reading my blog is, when you refuse to help me when I ask for an opinion? Seriously....
In other news, I showed a little old woman that I like to talk too at the gym, that picture of me and Alice Cooper on my phone and she looked at it and said, well that's you. Who's this, your boyfriend? Hahaha! I nearly died laughing! Alice is old enough to be my Grandpa! It was so funny.
4 comments:
I like Option 2. It just seems right to me.
What do you know?! It CAN in fact give me an opinion! I was begining to wonder if that were even possible for you Damien! -__-
And Thank you for your input. (Finally!) I am rather fond of Option 2 myself.
Also, feel free to offer a different arrangement if you have one.
I'm not an It.
And you're welcome, I can't think of anything better than option 2/
well if you seperater the units like in option one it would be more traditonal just think of the battle of helms deep with the men and elves.
now in regards to the body guards look at it like this. the guards are assigned to a royal right. so... that would mean the guards are taken from their men and put in with the royals. so placing the guards with Zarius would be proper. but if you go with the Kerian thing it would make sence to place the guard and royal in the guards unit.
now giving you the mindset of the Shadow Wolf. i would put the kids as far away from intense fighting as possible. in my writing Shadow Wolf defends and even takes hits for the Fire Fox even though she is a better fighter and stronger angel. which comes from Kayle being a protective person anyway and being Wolf like increases his protectiveness
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