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written Thursday, December 28 2006 02:27
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Since when that the shapers did trenches and bunkers they don' t need them so why use them? and my second question is when was the last shaper/shaper war? Because it's weird that shapers with their heavy guns plumell them selves in a trench war. [ Thursday, December 28, 2006 03:18: Message edited by: opon mars ] -------------------- You can jump off a bridge, fire a gun in your mouth, drink poison,or going in to the tiger's pit but you will still end up dead it's a mater of time and how . Posts: 312 | Registered: Sunday, November 26 2006 08:00 |
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written Thursday, December 28 2006 03:49
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trenchs where made with advent of the 50 caliber maching gun becuase their simply was no other effective protection. Unless they have an equivlent thier is no reason for them. -------------------- A rock has weight whether you admit it or not Posts: 479 | Registered: Wednesday, July 12 2006 07:00 |
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written Thursday, December 28 2006 23:25
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Yeh but in G1 battle alphas are discribe to dig up trenches and G3 there is a bunker so i'am quite lost on that subject. -------------------- You can jump off a bridge, fire a gun in your mouth, drink poison,or going in to the tiger's pit but you will still end up dead it's a mater of time and how . Posts: 312 | Registered: Sunday, November 26 2006 08:00 |
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written Friday, December 29 2006 07:42
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Bunkers serve the same purpose as castles. The also are a more secertive version of forts. So shapers might be very attrative to bunkers. I'm lost on trenchs mabey it was to counter some type of uber turret. -------------------- A rock has weight whether you admit it or not Posts: 479 | Registered: Wednesday, July 12 2006 07:00 |
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Warrior
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written Friday, December 29 2006 12:07
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Shapers are able to control their creations from a distance. Seems like a bunker would be a good place for them to hide. Trenches are also useful considering the advanced ranged combat. You want an equivalent to a machine gun? How about big flying balls of acid and fire? :P Posts: 70 | Registered: Sunday, December 19 2004 08:00 |
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Agent
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written Sunday, December 31 2006 22:38
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Trenches are just good protection against any projectiles. If an Aura of Flames was advancing toward you I doubt you would question why someone bothered to dig a trench nearby. -------------------- Thuryl: I mean, most of us don't go around consuming our own bodily fluids, no matter how delicious they are. ==== Alorael: War and violence would end if we all had each other's babies! ==== Drakefyre: Those are hideous mangos. Posts: 1415 | Registered: Thursday, March 27 2003 08:00 |
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written Sunday, December 31 2006 22:44
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Originally by Garrison: quote:Unless you jumped inside only to discover that it was dug by and swarming with hostile clawbugs... Dikiyoba. Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00 |
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written Monday, January 1 2007 00:22
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Then shaper versus shaper wars are and were the most horrid things. Another question what sort of creatures and shapers (gardians,agents & shapers) would be present on the battle field ? -------------------- You can jump off a bridge, fire a gun in your mouth, drink poison,or going in to the tiger's pit but you will still end up dead it's a mater of time and how . Posts: 312 | Registered: Sunday, November 26 2006 08:00 |
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Triad Mage
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written Monday, January 1 2007 07:50
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All three types would be on the field, although you'd probably see fewer Guardians as most of the fighting will be between creations and involved long-distance magic spell-flinging. Probably Guardians would stand back and hurl Reaper batons while killing and creations that break through and advance on the Shapers and Agents. -------------------- "At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool." - Menander ==== Drakefyre's Demesne - Happy Happy Joy Joy Encyclopedia Ermariana - Trapped in the Closet ==== You can take my Mac when you pry my cold, dead fingers off the mouse! Posts: 9436 | Registered: Wednesday, September 19 2001 07:00 |
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Agent
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written Monday, January 1 2007 11:07
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I thought the guardians would act more like berserkers and charge their enemies with claymores. But then again creations are more expendable, so I guess that makes sense. Also, quote:I think you would rather have some good and some bad trenches rather than not having any at all. Those clawbug pits are pretty clever though. *Online high five* -------------------- Thuryl: I mean, most of us don't go around consuming our own bodily fluids, no matter how delicious they are. ==== Alorael: War and violence would end if we all had each other's babies! ==== Drakefyre: Those are hideous mangos. Posts: 1415 | Registered: Thursday, March 27 2003 08:00 |
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written Monday, January 1 2007 23:25
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Glaaks are fast, strong and reliable to slow down any troublesome enemy fyoras, cryoas, romers and artilas would spit fire acid and globules of ice, battle alphas would rip a part any thing in it's paths and series of battle betas, you wouldn't to know. But what sorts of defenses would be there to slow down an enemy running beating down turrets and other creations. what sort of wire would stop them? or is it those spiky violet things that you see in the arena that lay a screen between you and the artilas? [ Wednesday, January 03, 2007 01:24: Message edited by: upon mars ] -------------------- You can jump off a bridge, fire a gun in your mouth, drink poison,or going in to the tiger's pit but you will still end up dead it's a mater of time and how . Posts: 312 | Registered: Sunday, November 26 2006 08:00 |
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Warrior
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written Tuesday, January 2 2007 04:21
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I got the impression that battle Alphas were on the front lines, and Gaurdians were the last line of defense. It really isn't pracitcal to charge an enemy if they have that much range(turrets, batons, spells, etc.) -------------------- "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981 "But what ... is it good for?" --Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip. Posts: 152 | Registered: Monday, November 6 2006 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, January 2 2007 11:49
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I sort of thought that from Heustess' description of the first Shaper vs Shaper war that it was wide open, involved "foul magic," and destroyed the rest of her/his/its race. Where did the trenches come up? I never read that, and I think I've covered the whole Sucia Isle. And in answer to the second question, the only Shaper/Shaper war I know of took place thousands of years ago, probably near the area known as "The Sentinels." -------------------- You Shall Die Laughing: http://www.worfthecat.ermarian.net/converted The Roost: www.roost01.proboards104.com. Birds of a feather flock together. Posts: 794 | Registered: Thursday, July 27 2006 07:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Tuesday, January 2 2007 14:56
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I don't think those were Shaper/Shaper wars. It was the first of the Shapers vs. other races/people. Shapers randomly changed the people they fought against. -------------------- "After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one." - Cato the Elder (234-149 BC) "The mind, if it exists, is nothing but an unfortunate after effect of the brain process." -Kripke "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." -Friedich Nietzche Posts: 333 | Registered: Saturday, May 20 2006 07:00 |
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Guardian
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written Tuesday, January 2 2007 16:28
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The creations would lead, of course. The battle creations in front, followed by the fire, and then magic creations. There would then be human soldiers, baton wielders, and mages behind them. There might be a few Guardians towards the back, but for the most part the Shapers would stay at camp and bless, haste, heal, etc. They are not expendable, and if one of them dies, all of their creations will go rogue. [ Tuesday, January 02, 2007 16:28: Message edited by: Nalyd ] -------------------- May the fires of Undeath burn in your soul, and consume it. Posts: 1636 | Registered: Wednesday, January 5 2005 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Tuesday, January 2 2007 17:13
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From GF3 on Dhonal Island you find out that advanced Shapers can control their creations from great distances compared to lowly apprentice player characters. Creations as most expendable, especially the new charged, short lived ones, would be out in from. Next would be humans using batons and swords. Mages would provide the attack spells and some support spells. The agents and guardians seem to stay in the back ranks from the way Jeff ran them in GF4. Posts: 4643 | Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, January 2 2007 23:27
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The first shapers wars angainst other pepole invovled creations such as artilas, fyoras, battle creation like thads olso battle bettas and shades . The other creations were not created then. But you know those spiky violet things in the arena and resech centers that quep from attacking direcly in face to face with the artilas, would they be use as barbed wire or not? [ Tuesday, January 02, 2007 23:28: Message edited by: upon mars ] -------------------- You can jump off a bridge, fire a gun in your mouth, drink poison,or going in to the tiger's pit but you will still end up dead it's a mater of time and how . Posts: 312 | Registered: Sunday, November 26 2006 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, January 3 2007 10:51
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Shades? Necromancy is outlawed in Shaper lands. Also, the creations from G1 aren't in any way linked to early creatures which could be shaped on the mainland. -------------------- quote: Posts: 1115 | Registered: Sunday, May 15 2005 07:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Wednesday, January 3 2007 12:53
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Maybe he ment thahd shades? Though they were no longer an option in G4. -------------------- "After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one." - Cato the Elder (234-149 BC) "The mind, if it exists, is nothing but an unfortunate after effect of the brain process." -Kripke "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." -Friedich Nietzche Posts: 333 | Registered: Saturday, May 20 2006 07:00 |
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written Thursday, January 4 2007 23:59
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No i meant shades were used by the early shapers such as some creations like fyoras and artialas serviles would be shaped out of humans such as thads and battle alphas known to be the favorite shock troops of the shapers so as the serviles are their prime servants that would show that they have been shaped from humans. Human beings like other human beings therefore those creations shaped out of humans were the first and preferred since they warped humans which were easer to control since the master and his creation understood each other. You can find evidences of artilas and fyoras on runes of early shapers. The shaping dales were in fact to put a being on it to warp him so a human being with shackles on him put on a dal would be easer to be manipulated by magic to be warped. [ Friday, January 05, 2007 00:10: Message edited by: upon mars ] -------------------- You can jump off a bridge, fire a gun in your mouth, drink poison,or going in to the tiger's pit but you will still end up dead it's a mater of time and how . Posts: 312 | Registered: Sunday, November 26 2006 08:00 |
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written Friday, January 5 2007 08:08
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That post is pure speculation. If it helps you enjoy the game more, then it's good, but it's still not canon. Dikiyoba. Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00 |
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written Friday, January 5 2007 10:43
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Yeah but what i said about shades, artilas and fyoras is true there is truth for it. -------------------- You can jump off a bridge, fire a gun in your mouth, drink poison,or going in to the tiger's pit but you will still end up dead it's a mater of time and how . Posts: 312 | Registered: Sunday, November 26 2006 08:00 |
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written Friday, January 5 2007 21:54
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Ah... I think I finally figured out what you meant about the shades. The pre-Shapers never used them in wars or battles as far as I know. They are the spirits of the pre-Shapers trapped by intentional magic in a bid for immortality or by residual magic from their experiments, not creations. They probably didn't show up until the final days of the pre-Shapers on Sucia Island, or even after the survivors left. The Shapers did use created shades occasionally, such as to guard the power core or to act as messengers, but this is outlawed in modern day Shaper society. Dikiyoba. Posts: 4346 | Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00 |
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written Friday, January 5 2007 22:16
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yeah but one of the shades defending heusstes is discibed to be creation so early shpers would out of living beings create shades or it is only the reminisce of the defenses of the early shapers or the soldiers that helped to defeat the early shapers. I am wrong? or there is no better explication than dikiyoba's? -------------------- You can jump off a bridge, fire a gun in your mouth, drink poison,or going in to the tiger's pit but you will still end up dead it's a mater of time and how . Posts: 312 | Registered: Sunday, November 26 2006 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Friday, January 5 2007 22:49
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There are two types of shades that shapers created. The thahd shade is a creation thahd 3 used to guard places and can be created by player characters for combat. Then there are shades used to relay information like Danette's shade in GF1, and others made by powerful shapers to send information to player characters in the later games. These shades can only give limited information and are not for combat. Posts: 4643 | Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00 |
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