Skelethin said:
I noticed something about Ryuugi's arguments throughout all of this thread that amuses the hell out of me.
The Senshi in this are fighting guerrilla style combat. On the defensive side.
This is NOT productive to getting significantly better. Without the Moon Princess they don't have the firepower at this point to be able to deal directly with this threat.
It doesn't take being extremely skilled to be able survive that long. It takes a relatively incompetent enemy and some luck.
They don't seem to have trained themselves all that much during this, instead simply wishing to find the Princess and then get the hell out of the fighting demon business.
They all have 1, maybe 2 attacks that they know. They tactics are 'spam attack, hope it dies.' Which happens to work when the enemy basically uses zerg rush tactics, without the numbers necessary to overwhelm them.
As for Nanoha, she has had training by a government that specializes in magical combat, and has elevated it to a level the Senshi as they are currently are incapable of even thinking of.
The Senshi to utterly outclass just about everyone in the Nanoha universe in sheer potential... they just have zero way of unlocking any of it.
You would have a point if that was what they were allowed to do.
But since it's not, you don't.
You see, the Senshi don't have any choice in the battlefield, in the target, in the anything. But no matter what happens, guess what? They have to deal with it directly and quickly.
Why? Well, quite simply, the ark Kingdom's goal is to gather energy, and they can do that extremely quickly if not stopped.
So losing a battle against them isn't a situation that results in 'Oh, too bad, we lost the battle, and some people died...but at least we can win the war!' It's a situation that results in 'Oh, fuck, Metallia falls, everyone dies.' They don't have the option of running away.
In addition, you're wrong about anothe thing; their fighting against superior numbers; their enemies totally have the power to gang up on them. But in ddition to being able to do that, the Youma also have the whole shapeshifting thing going for them; they can easily use other tactics (and did, several times). Furthermore, the Youma and the Dark Kingdom have more raw power then the Senshi, by a lot, and really, really want them dead.
And et they have been holding off the Dark Kingdom for a year and a half. It's like the three hundred Spartan's all over againt. Only with just four of them. In fuku's.
Which is to say you're wrong, about everything.
Elvarein: How about no? People are allowed to think whatever they want, but that doesn't have anything to do with me, does it? They can think my arguments flame bait and dismiss everything I write; what do I care? Somebody's ignoring me on the internet? Oh, noes! It's not like most of my points aren't being ignored already.
And note the thing about Spacebattles is bullshit; I didn't start it. Point of fact, I didn't even get involved until several pages of back and forth argument. And even then, I only posted a few times.
Additionally, sum-total across both threads, this argument has lasted five or six pages, tops. If you consider that to be 'into the realms of being a gibbering fanatic' I advise you to shut the fuck up because you have no fucking clue what you're talking about. Arguments have lasted hundreds of pages on this forum alone, and fifty page threads aren't uncommon on the internet.