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Originally Posted by Rjones61
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The problem with humans is that they are likely to start with many foes. I agree they are the more powerful player, but they have some serious proximity issues.
Who are the Barbarians going to attack? Humans. Who will Erudites attack? Humans. Who will Dark Elves attack? Humans. What about halflings? Humans. And the gnolls? Humans.
Throw in the dwarves possibly hopping ship and attacking the humans, they are about to receive a huge bag of whoop ass.
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That is making some big assumptions I think, mainly that races will all attack humans and/or their nearest enemy, which I don't think are fair assumptions. Even if they abide by those assumptions, you'd have RV up against HHK. I think HHK is a much more defensible position. You'd have Neriak vs. FP, with the potential of dwarves coming from the sea, assuming humans didn't take the dwarvish port in BB, which I think strategically would be one of the first things they should do. Even if they don't, you've got OOT in between the two, which could play out like a WW2 pacific island campaign, which I think would favor humans over dwarves. Then you've got Halas and Erudin attacking Qeynos.
Even if all that were to happen, unless it were ridiculously coordinated, which would imply some sort of alliance between those races, I think the human control of logistical factors and potential for reinforcements from the other human cities (a la Rohan showing up to save Gondor, because humans are bosses like that) is still the driving force in a WW-norrath.
"Logistics win wars" -Every General Ever.