Unsounded

Wow this guy is a killjoy.

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are those niggers and if so what's with all of them?

is claggart literally bitching about affirmative action

nice touch on the smoke eels forming in the steam from claggart's tea

>who do you side with?
Isn’t Claggart only like 80 or something? You don’t see Henri (dog spearer Jet) whinging too hard even though he’s 140 and basically just a grunt. But sure, Claggart is entitled to be miffed about officer positions given to people with very little battlefield experience, but Spellmasters ought to be good at their work, regardless of age

The closest to it you’ll get in Alderode
But Duane really is exceptionally talented so it’s still not quite the same. I get the feeling perhaps this is showing that Duane’s idealism and merit-focused views are quick to get him in trouble and that’s he’s a bit of a cocky shit atm with a strong performance. I imagine events to come will temper that some

Oh fuck I hadn’t even noticed

Sounds that way. Claggart even specifically compares him to the Cresciens down south who take "charity" in their socialist hellscape. That is pretty funny.

What if blondes are the blacks of Alderode?

Wonder if Claggy-Kun would be so tsundere if the new spellmaster was a third option or something else “cheating” the system

Jets only start losing their youth past 150 years, I think Claggart could well be approaching his third century already. I think part of his resentment stems from that no rich Jet patron would ever help another Jet out of charity. It's easy to scoff on charity when you know that no one will ever be charitable towards you.

Just like a poor white guy resenting programs to help African Americans or women. It's hard to recognize that there are degrees of privilege when your own privilege ain't that shiny.

This comic really shows how much Alderode depends on Cresce's constant presence as an enemy. Without the Crescians to unite them in hatred, Alderode would have ripped itself apart centuries ago.

Commies make the best enemies.

This is why I'm pretty much one hundred percent sure that Alderode intentionally warmongers with Cresce.

It's rather universal. Especially when the enemy is so very easy to hate.

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How does Alderode even have trouble fighting Cresce? Their nation is literally comprised of people who live for centuries and possess the world's most powerful wrights. Meanwhile their enemy are literally commie nigs. Based on what the comic has shown, I can't see how Alderode is considered roughly on even terms when they've been shown to be largely superior by nearly every metric.

Cresce has giant flamethrowing titty robots, while Alderode doesn't.

I'm pretty sure Cresce has more manpower than Alderode.

How did America have such trouble fighting Communism?

Cresce has better access to first materials if I'm remembering correctly, so they have a better wartime economy going on.

Cresce does have a larger population which means they have more wrights then Alderode. Remember that Alderode knight looking like guy getting his fucking eyes blasted out by a Cresce mech pilot when the war started, I think it sums up both of the nations. They both pretty much fucked but Alderode lost a fucking veteran while Cresce lost some kid, a kid they can easily replace.

Cresce has allies, sheer numbers even without them, and doesn't have a caste system that causes internal strife and misuse of personnel.

In addition to a larger population, Cresce also can devote more of it towards the military as they can use plods and two-toes in labour and servant work that Alderode still has to use humans for. On top of that Cresce has a warmer climate, which probably means bigger harvest and a wealth of plundered two-toe caverns brimming with first materials for anti-wright weapons and constructs.

With all the trouble with Cresce, Alderode must be moronic to divide the country further with the great rebalancing act. I can't wait till we get the justification but it must be years down the line
I'm thinking some influential geffies in Alderode ((((coppers)))) wants to work together with Cresce in some way

>What if blondes are the blacks of Alderode?

They are, didn't the whole "pissmop" thing clue you in?

>Cresce also can devote more of it towards the military

50% more, to be precise, with their whole equality of the sexes thing

What was the rebalancing again?

Seats in the Galactic Senate or whatever are or were determined by population
Eyeballs Plague wiped out Ssaelit by the boatloads
Gefendur Members of Parliament move to suggest the seats be "rebalanced" in light of the new population totals

Funnily enough, what Claggart is whinging about is normal in modern militaries. University brats get to be officers 'right away' (relatively speaking), the path from enlisted to officer is more rarely tread and takes longer.

Of course, no one has anything but the utmost contempt for a school-trained 2nd lt but.

Creasce has more people, more arable land, and far more resources for things like constructs.

I wonder how many females in Alderode would have been genius at spells or some other part of war and help turn the tide of it

At least one

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I think it goes both ways; Cresce is still a hyper-militant warmonger and Ashley has said that if it weren't for Alderode being THE CRUEL CULT OF THE NORTH, they'd have turned their eyes to Rachschane long ago, and I can't imagine having a bunch of greedy Sharties next door is appealing to a conquest hungry Magical Gyno-Communist state. In fact, I'm pretty sure any state would implode on itself if left in a vacuum for too long (see: Japan). But then, Alderode is lead by a {{{caste of people that live for 400 years and probably regularly live well past that, run the government in all but name, and as a rule are uber wealthy while controlling the entire media through a vast propaganda system}}}. After the first century or so, they all probably learn every trick there is on how to keep people from tearing each other apart just enough. A particularly venerable copper, clocking in at past 400 years, would have seen the rise of the entire Sonorie dynasty.

It's also an existential war. If Cresce wins, Alderode goes bye-bye because the Dhammakert will be destroyed. If Alderode wins, the Dhammakert gets spread over their conquered territory.

There were always 4 VITS Council seats, 2 Ssaelit 2 Gefendur. Equal representation n shit

After the plague in Fachlyne wipes out an entire Ssaelit ginnal, geffies started pushing for amending the system to give an extra Council spot to them because they had the bigger population

It happened and apparently Alderode has been getting steadily worse

I would more easily see some Souds working with Cresce to break the Dammerkhert and allow the true Tainish people to form their own state over the bodies of the Aldish castes.

If not for the fact that the Souds and their hill-cousins are almost not Geffer and so would be prime targets for a crusade and they know it.

I don't know about that. If crescians succeeds in destroying the dammakhert, they will take over Alderode. I doubt Cresce would allow the Ssaelits to make a state, they fiercely hate them and consider them heretics of the highest order
When Cresce takes over Alderode, the souds and Ssaelit will be given a choice: convert or die

>tfw you're a ridiculously skilled wright and singlehandedly kept your platoon alive on multiple occasions but your boomer captain won't shut the fuck up about boomer things

>Duane still sends Claggart letters after he leaves the army because he wants to stay in touch with his comrades

I want Duane as my father in law

You better be a woman then 'cause there's only Simon left to marry

What if she isn't dead

Let's see what the ball says

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The Mmatont are a group of Soud Nationalist Rebels living on Anchert island. They're trying to do just that (forge a Tainish state independent of anyone else). Given that they also practice Tainish Paganism (whatever exactly that entails), I'd reckon the moment Cresce got their hands on the Tains they'd just eradicate the Souds as a whole for being DOUBLE HEATHENS.

Claggart is actually kinda attractive when he isn't sneering.
Too bad he's sneering 90% of the time.

they are not niggers

Where are all the niggers?

>what matter my background if i can perform?
Well, he's right.

but if you have to throw away your values and morals to win a war, is it even worth it?

Yeah cause you won

To be fair, given the short lifespans of Plats and Silvers and the fact that they NEED to breed heavily and early to achieve replacement birthrates, it makes sense not to send out girls of those castes to war and instead use them for breeding. It's comically oppressive and dehumanizing, yeah, but then this is Alderode we're talking about here, the only reason the dudes operating The Window don't Sting random Souds for fun is because Souds are immune to it.

I want to help breed Plats and Silvers women!

Although apparently stinging is supposedly meant to only be used in times of crisis like presumably the FoiHellick affair

Not allowed the caste must be kept pure

Don't they know 'pure' breeds just keeps in the worst kind of shit you want.

We’ve seen the limitations

Within its own borders Alderode is effectively invincible. It’s huge, cold, and crawling with Alds

But outside they face issues of logistics, Vliegeng can’t go far from frost giant groves for long, Cresce has them hugely outmatched in First Material production which leads to having way more constructs which even the flying advantage of Vliegeng are closely matched by. Everywhere else in the world hates the Alds and they don’t have commiehueg population to fight amassed forces in lots of places

>Claggart actually responds.

to tell him to stop sending the letters

tsuntsun as fuck

>I can't imagine having a bunch of greedy Sharties next door is appealing to a conquest hungry Magical Gyno-Communist state.

The queen's sister literally threatened to arm and train religious extremists to stir up trouble in Sharteshane if they didn't lick Cresce's feet politically. Of course she caught a bad case of agonizing death for it but eh.

>you're only an officer because you have the training, education and natural talent to be an officer
okay?

but he's an Aldish nigger so that invalidates all the rest and it's only a matter of time before he proves himself unfit

You do see this phenomenon in the modern military too. People respect mustangs, but college boy officers are held as being lower than dickcheese by enlisted until they prove themselves worthwhile.

Yeah. I thought it was cool to see that phenomenon presented in a fantasy comic, honestly.