It's just that Rand doesn't do much army stuff any more
beetnemesis Send a noteboard - 25/02/2010 06:28:39 PM
...and when he does, he cripples himself (like the Seancean battle in PoD) for no reason.
It's still worth noting that it took the combined force of the "Westlands" (man do I hate that name) to throw back just four clans. Rand has ALL of them, less one.
Aiel armies are just better than other Westland armies. They move faster, fight harder, and are just in general amazing.
Only problem is that they're mostly used, as you said, as bogeymen- mostly because Rand doesn't want to have humans killing humans when the Last Battle is right around the corner.
Think about it- the Seancean are, while not incompetent, not nearly as superior as they make themselves out to be. They have two advantages- sul'dam and flying creatures- and that's it. Those are big advantages, but if Rand had made a concerted effort to fight back the Seancean with his massive armies of Asha'man and Aiel and the boundless legions of his "regular" armies, he'd have won. And really, the Seancean are the only military threat left for him to worry about now.
(Well, there's the Borderlanders, but that's a weird situation)
It's still worth noting that it took the combined force of the "Westlands" (man do I hate that name) to throw back just four clans. Rand has ALL of them, less one.
Aiel armies are just better than other Westland armies. They move faster, fight harder, and are just in general amazing.
Only problem is that they're mostly used, as you said, as bogeymen- mostly because Rand doesn't want to have humans killing humans when the Last Battle is right around the corner.
Think about it- the Seancean are, while not incompetent, not nearly as superior as they make themselves out to be. They have two advantages- sul'dam and flying creatures- and that's it. Those are big advantages, but if Rand had made a concerted effort to fight back the Seancean with his massive armies of Asha'man and Aiel and the boundless legions of his "regular" armies, he'd have won. And really, the Seancean are the only military threat left for him to worry about now.
(Well, there's the Borderlanders, but that's a weird situation)
I amuse myself.
Just how badly does Rand really need the Aiel anyway?
- 24/02/2010 03:47:26 PM
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I think you've understating Cairhein
- 25/02/2010 01:57:12 AM
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Good point, I guess. But "boogeymen & placeholders" is a long way from "hard core of mighty army" *NM*
- 25/02/2010 11:18:50 AM
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It's just that Rand doesn't do much army stuff any more
- 25/02/2010 06:28:39 PM
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Actually the Seanchan advantages go much deeper than that, and it ties in with Rand's "crippling"
- 25/02/2010 11:06:30 PM
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- 26/02/2010 08:52:18 PM
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Rumors. Completely unsupported by anything done or said since the lie-capable Darkfriend told him
- 01/03/2010 03:40:10 PM
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Re: Just how badly does Rand really need the Aiel anyway?
- 26/02/2010 05:53:54 PM
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totally agree. Rand did loads of unnecessary stuff just for prophesy 
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- 27/02/2010 12:57:01 PM
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- 27/02/2010 12:57:01 PM
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Moiraine: Rand needs to be near the Stone, so he can take Callandor...and fulfill the prophecy.
- 04/03/2010 11:16:57 AM
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The Point of the Aiel is yet to come
- 01/03/2010 11:50:13 PM
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Here's hoping, but...
- 02/03/2010 12:09:02 PM
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