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A hundred gateways next to each other is as good as one giant gateway... Shannow Send a noteboard - 06/06/2010 11:36:48 PM
After all, the a'dam prevents damane from linking, thus severely limiting the size of gateways. Having small gateways may help for scouting or assassination attempts, it won't help much for moving armies. Thus they will be limited at first in their war against Rand. (And I also think that Tuon will see the difficulties here and maybe decide to dispense with the a'dam altogether, at least during the Last Battle.)



If each gateway is 6 feet wide, that means 2 men can run through it quite easily. Multiply that by a hundred if you have 100 damane making gateways side by side, and you can run 200 men through the gateways simultaneously. Let's say 3 seconds per pair, and you can transport 4000 men per minute, and 40000 men in 10 minutes.

That is a pretty useful strategic advantage.
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but no carts or wagons. darius_sedai - 07/06/2010 12:15:29 AM 940 Views
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you are missing the point that this would create several major problems darius_sedai - 07/06/2010 01:49:08 PM 889 Views
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The logistics would be practically impossible, as even RJ stated (see quote below) darius_sedai - 08/06/2010 01:41:03 PM 867 Views
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Egwene to pass information? You're joking, right? Skeeve the Great - 07/06/2010 10:59:25 PM 939 Views
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Thanks! darius_sedai - 08/06/2010 12:02:27 AM 817 Views
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Something from RJ Datakim - 07/06/2010 09:43:16 PM 800 Views
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You misread, IMO newyorkersedai - 07/06/2010 12:59:58 AM 944 Views
Thank you yet again, Etzel newyorkersedai - 07/06/2010 01:07:02 AM 706 Views
Well. Galgan, then. *NM* StinkerSkunk - 07/06/2010 04:05:57 PM 434 Views
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See we can agree on stuff *NM* darius_sedai - 07/06/2010 06:35:52 PM 362 Views
Of course, we can. *NM* Etzel - 07/06/2010 07:26:00 PM 371 Views
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I'm not disagreeing with most of it darius_sedai - 08/06/2010 01:49:54 PM 758 Views
look above, you guys agreed on stuff for 19 hours. New record? *NM* newyorkersedai - 08/06/2010 04:12:47 PM 371 Views
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