aye. I am not arguing they are as large as any other nationâs military in WoW. I am just stating that the silver covenant is larger than you think.
No, they donât. However that doesnât mean in the absence of the knowledge of the size of that faction we can make claims like âtheyâre the size of a regimentâ despite no evidence in favour of it and in fact some evidence against it or âI saw a high elf ship therefore they have a navyâ.
Honestly I thought you were more sensible than to keep sticking up for this guy blatantly trying to pass off headcanon as fact.
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So many wow militaries wouldnât exist if they had hard numbers. The orcs almost seem as though they should be of a very small group after SoO. The Blood elves would be very small. The Night elves would have absolutely nothing, but still are mounting a large offense along with the worgen. Gnomes would have a very small presence.
As I go down the list, the only militaries with any kind of might would be the dwarves, humans/ kultirans and maybe the Zandalar at this point.
I guess some people just never played Wrath or something.
Ironic that the term used to be âWrath babiesâ but now it is basically âBFA babies.â
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Ok, and I just did apply real life to it. To move just a battalion is going to need at least 15 ships of the line between troop/mount carriers, logistics, and escorts. To move a regiment would require 45+
To do as you say and use real life, letâs use the Marine Corps where a regiment (not augmented into an RLC or RCT by the addition of armored units) is three fully staffed battalions plus a headquarters company and is augmented by logistics personnel which is, in a MEB, its own battalion. You need armorers, ferriers, supply personnel, cooks, etcâŠto support a military force in the field and they need to move when the troops do.
Now you have (to move a Regiment around) posited that the SC is fielding somewhere between 1500 and 3000 troops (3 battalions which can range in composition from 500-1200 Marines plus support and command personnel) and an additional component easily in the hundreds to support them. Letâs take the low side to be absolutely fair:
1500 (combatant component) plus 300 (support functions) divided by 50/ship with a need for additional supply and escort vessels: Youâre positing that the SC has a fleet of ~50 ships of the line. Where is that fleet hiding?
remember in the MoP cinematic where the alliance are first deployed to pandaria to rescue anduin? In it varian said he had 200 ships at his disposal and throughout the expansion we saw like 20. In game is an extremely scaled down version of canon WoW.
Another example is the assault on icecrown during wrath. In icecrown each faction has a single airship in game. Warcraft chronicles 3 depicts both factions having several during the assault.
I am not allowed to provide the link but you can see it on the wowpedia page for chronicles 3
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Itâs not super clear how many were lost as a result of SoO, but two things that are clear is that prior to being deposed Garrosh pretty significantly increased the size of the orcish population by fully integrating the Magâhar and re-introducing the Eastern Kingdoms orc factions to the Horde (the Blackrock and Dragonmaw) and that it was pretty much just the Korâkron who stayed loyal to him but weâre not even even sure how much of the Korâkron was loyal because there were at the very least some who sided with Volâjin.
I mean, if you wanna get realistic none of the factions should be in super fighting form. Theyâve been engaged in more or less continuous total war for what, like 30 years?
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To be fair I did try to clarify that the SC is definitely a small group
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My biggest reason that they should have a big breather expac between now and the void lord/ old gods⊠itâs crisis after crisis with no end in sight. Idk how they would possibly pull off having a big adventure expac, when the last 8 have had big baddies. MoP was our closest to this since vanilla.
AT least the orcs have the fact they can grow an entire generation in about half the time it takes humans to.
canonically orcs are fully grown by age 12.
Okay, but youâve been repeatedly correcting only people other than the Lance Corporal The Silver Covenant is Regiment Sized.
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I am not saying the silver covenant is a large force though. I am saying it is bigger than you think.
It almost seems like they need to do a time skip to let everyone rebuild and get a few characters up to snuff like Thrallâs son and making Baine turn five.
For reals, Anduin and Baine are way too young to be leading nations.
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I was suspecting some dehumanizing but it is clearly because youâre an alien! 
No, youâre saying theyâre regiment sized and that they have a navy. Which you still havenât backed up with any proof.
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most definitely. Blizzard has set up the next generation of heroes. I want to see little dagran grow up and become king of all the dwarves by inheriting both shadowforge and ironforge and also getting the wildhammers via marrying a wildhammer.
I wouldnât mind if they recreated important old world zones to have us rebuild and gain resrouces and such for⊠maybe make the players involved in the progress of how the towns are rebuilt. It sounds like we are still in dire straits as a result of legion, but itâs not reflected in game, now with BfA itâs gotta be worse.
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Excuse me, he is growing up to be a fantasy version of Brad Pitt. Heâll be the best leader any race will ever have.
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I mean you can be objectively wrong if you like. The best racial leader is and will always be MokâMorokk, chieftain of the Stonemaul.
Yeah thatâs a big problem with telling the story of the war in Azeroth via mission table. The warâs supposed to be absolutely crazy and Azeroth is basically a bonfire but we donât see any of it and everything will be back to normal next xpac.
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Honestly because I could neither confirm nor deny whether or not the term regiment has ever been used to describe the SC in game, nor did I know how large a standard regiment is in reality. My b