So the Horde has omincide gas that at max strength could’ve killed the Lich King with more exposure, and the Alliance has a space ship that can teleport people and objects in a Star Trek like fashion.
So. Ya know.
Couldn’t any conflict with a Big Bad be ended pretty much instantly by the LForged and Forsaken teaming up to beam doom gas bombs anywhere from orbit?
And the Forsaken actually know how to clean up Blight now. So it wouldn’t even permanently sacrifice the blast zone so long as clean up crews are avaliable to fight a goo kaiju later.
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It’s quite telling that the only times the Horde and Alliance deign to use their superweapons is on each other.
But then Warcraft operates on Comic Book rules, so the Horde football-spiking a Blood-Elven Mana Bomb into Xal’atath would just have her laugh and emerge unharmed.
Or the Alliance uses Jaina’s unlimited arcane power, and is just absorbed by the enemy in the same vein as Khadgar’s khamehameha getting slurped up by Xal’s dragon amulet.
It’s narrative logic.
Eddie Valiant: “You mean to tell me you could’ve taken your hand out of that cuff at any time?!”
Roger Rabbit: “No, not at any time, only when it was funny!”
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Teleportation magic is always overstated when it’s convenient and understated when necessary. That’s not new, and certainly not unique to the Vindicaar. You could replace the Vindicaar with Jaina and the Blight with random Gnome bombs and ask the same question.
Yeah but it’s magic. So it can be countered with other magic.
This would be basically an orbital bombardment.
I think it’s wild to assume that the Vindicaar’s transport system doesn’t involve magic.
It had little ground areas for the teleportation I figured were fired from it. And magic and technology are, pretty blurred in this setting.
I was hoping the Vindicaar would get a throwaway use in BFA showing a few invaders getting orbital’d the moment they set foot on Azuremyst, but that’s long passed. A quick line saying it’s being used to hunt down Legion remnants on the countless conquered worlds would suffice to answer why it isn’t being deployed on Azeroth, I think.
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Honestly I thought it was going to be revealed Aethas and the Belves wrecked the thing. Since that’s what the Belves did to the Dranei stuff in Burning Crusade. But it just never came up.
At least with Blight you can figure people wouldn’t be chill with the flesh melting gas, much like they were IRL.
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Really wish the draenai hologram hearthstone could be used by every alliance race. Thing is so cool.
Would honestly just be cool if every race/or class got a hearthstone
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