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Lame aside, this is a brilliant move. Imagine the sheer high you get in a concert with a hundred thousand people. Even the audience in live TV will get goosebumps.
Kingdom - Ch. 806 - Three Options
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Are they playing tower defence to send wave after wave like that ?
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They gonna eat china like ants now huh? Still pretty cool and they probably gonna get wrecked in some smaller shorter battles but wins the war.
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Real. Tbh, I've been seeing Shin using his brain even less.
I mean, it wasn't much in the 1st place but still
Shin actually was pretty clever early on, Kyokai was always the one with the bigger brain but Shin had a pretty good grasp on small-scale tactics and group psychology like when he gave the speech to the original hundred-man squad during the Ouki battle, or when he came up with the javelin thing against Houken.
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Aye.
Hence why said "wasn't much in the first place" since other character had been shown as the main startegists, not him.
While he is smart, I mean he lerant from Duke... Forgot his name, but the author just make him using less brainpower than before. Shin got all these skillset and you don't show how Shin are utilising them much.
I never really liked Duke Hyou as a representative of "instinctual" generalship, mostly because I really don't like how Hara treats it as damn near close to sorcery. Instinct plays a role but the fact of the matter is that most of the things we call instinct (certainly most of the shit Hara calls instinct) is actually just sublimated experience combined with keen perception. It's not a substitute for good tactics, and really is supplemented by it.
In his first appearance (and in Shin's first battle) Duke Hyou actually shows this off really well where he's getting outmaneuvered by Gokei constantly, losing huge swathes of his army. By any objective standard, the campaign was a failure; Qin lost a ridiculous proportion of their men, their offensive was utterly crushed, and entire cities got massacred by Gokei en-route to his counterattack. Duke Hyou is only saved by Kyokai being able to set up a rallying point by disrupting the chariots. But this also shows Duke Hyou's ability, where he's able to pick out the last rays of hope shining through where any normal strategic general looks at the state of the board and flips the table. He can identify his win condition and his lose condition and leverage changing situations to get the best result he can manage. And really that's a very useful skill, but it's not a skill you want to need to use.
Meanwhile later on Hara seems to have fallen into this trap where instinctual generals can act as if they are made aware of the state of the field via magic, and strategic generals can't get a handle on instinctual tactics, even when the shit they're trying to get a handle on is "where, physically, are the enemy troops, how fast can this kind of troop move, who is leading them, and what parts of my line do they threaten?" which they should absolutely excel at since pushing pieces on a board is all they supposedly do (proper wargames like they play in the manga were not a thing until the Napoleonic era but Hara takes a lot of liberties already, so whatever).
