Isekai Tensei Soudouki - Ch. 61 - Demons' Glasses

[kp114330]

father in law

 

[Metasepia]

What is this, DBZ????

 

[wow4tr5]

this arc is the best in LN,

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can't wait to see the chapter where he announces himself the descendant of kings & demi humans

 

[quacklling]

Death flag. Sero death flag

 

[ZeroEx94]

@FgoSegul

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Basically "Hanz Bring the Flammenwerfer" and using Crossbow as fire arms, explosive, etc fighting war like WWI and after a war without Honor and out of the world of Knights

 

[Darkblaze6]

@FGOSegul I don't think he's read ahead in the LN. But with never ending build up and based on the WWI era fortification's he's been getting set up last few chapters I think it's pretty obvious the massacre in store for us.

 

[chendu]

@FgoSegul Well if you really, really want to know :

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He lure them into traps, flamethrower, makeshift grenade, makeshift bombs, flooded terrain, carbon monoxide poisoning, until he get pushed back so hard he make a damn mountain collapse on them in desperation

 

[remote_red]

@wow4tr5 That's probably about 20 chapters / 2 years off at this point.

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Even after the war there is the whole thing with Selina and going to Nordland before that announcement.

 

[AIphard]

@wow4tr5 you remember from what chapter of the LN is this?

 

[remote_red]

@alphard Volume 5 is the Antrim War.

 

[Kaarme]

@FgoSegul The old way of fighting, still present in the 19th century, was to send two armies against each other on a preferably open field. The one with more numbers and more experience would typically automatically win. Occasionally some able commanders could pull off nice tricks, but it was still restricted to that open field. Nobody really cared about men dying, though, apart from the officers. It was in poor taste to kill officers. Officers could be returned for ransom, as well. Balud should be sticking to the modern school of strategy of maximising enemy losses while minimising own losses, by any means necessary. Honour, bravery, fairness, and all that stuff can be created by history fabricators afterwards.

And no, I haven't read the novels.

 

[Rayodino]

“I have no experience in an actual war”
Isn’t a part of his soul a skilled general. Is that still a thing cause isn’t the whole reason he’s doing this is because he DOES have experience with wars.

 

[Darkblaze6]

@rayodino They're not really part of his soul, its more like he's got two advisors on his shoulders at all times that sometimes possesses him.

 

[sisio]

so WW2 vs medieval war?

the gramp is from ww2 era right?

 

[mdgtpope]

@wow4tr5 that’s not this arc, though?

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This is the first of 2 fights in Antrim, the one where he first uses the flamethrower. Flanders retreats back to Haurelia after the embarrassing defeat to Baldr. He then will rip out his own eye as a show of devotion to the king and come back with the full army.

The beast king announcement doesn’t come until after all that, AND he has to go to Nordland to meet his grandmother.

 

[Kagami]

@sisio No, he was either a commander or a samurai from the Sengoku period. He probably died during the siege of Hasedou in 1600.

 

[zarian2]

"The time has come! We'll Rush into battle next chapter!!"

Me: Bout. Fucking. Time.

 

[SmuggestOfRats]

@sisio IIRC, the gramps inside Ballud's head is from the Sengoku age, and the teenage high schooler is a Japanese from the modern day who browsed Wikipedia a lot.

However, considering Ballud's defense strategy being focused squarely around multiple trench lines (that can be flooded into a miserable, muddy mess), defensible hard points such as long stone walls and what appear to be concrete pillboxes, barbed wire, open fields with no cover, and massing the medieval equivalent of heavy artillery (trebuchets) -- it seems that he's trying really hard to recreate the miserable slog-fest that was WW1 on the Western Front within the limits of a medieval fantasy world. And if it turns out the same way then very mile, every miserable meter and foot, every inch the kingdom of Haurelia will try to take from Ballud's Antrim, is going to be paid for in rivers of blood and the bodies of entire regiments unless they can pull out some kind of magic or mechanical monstrosity to plow their way through that many fortifications.

 

[Leo80221]

@Rayodino He technically has 3 souls in 1 body, they are separate but they did cause his personality to develop a certain way in some areas, like his weird money obsession was because of the General guy's obsession, while his animal ear obsession is from the Otaku guy. The General guy does take control if they get into a dangerous fight that Balud can't handle himself though, he's practically invincible in that state, though he doesn't help when Balud is training with his mother. Also, Balud himself does not have war experience, he only has a few real combat experiences, and Sero should know that, so it would be strange for him to say anything else.

 

[wow4tr5]

@remote_red LN vol.5