Originally posted by Burning thought
Te combined armies are not as large as your bringing up. The Darkspawn maybe but throughout DAO the humans were on their back foot throughout, and when they did come together their army was trivial yet they still managed to put up a very good fight agaisnt the Darkspawn in the beginning of the game, if it was not becuse of Logain (Simon templeman played the voice of this guy as well didnt he?) holding back his forces, he would have done devasating damage to the lot of them.And Raziel could easily kill the Dragon, canonically the majority of the greater Darpspawn including the dragon were killed by a few Grey Wardens which if you want to compare to Raziel then youve not played LoK enough, their not much better than humans. Raziel would rip the Dragons head off with a hand.
Lok armies would arguably be larger, youve got the human race in the form of the Sarafan, vampire hunters and later the higher tech humans in SR who had flamethrowers and hand canons...so their tech and possibly numbers are superior. Their armies are more disciplined, sure youve got a few generals on the DAO side but how do they compare to ancient vampire generals whove had experiance thousands years their senior?
Then the vampire armies, in BO, BO2 and pre-eras their superior to humans by far in statistics, have mental, magcial and physical prowess that is mountanous in their advantage and in the SR era? dont get me started, even the fledlings can trade blows with Raziel and their resistance to his hundred tonnes of strength (multiplied by claws) force him to find other ways to truly kill them. An army of them lead by Kain and his sons.....DAO would be a joke.
Hell, its a joke with just Kain on the battlefield, throwing their armies at kain? they may as well order them to jump off a cliff.
Time for your lesson then.
The reason they would have beaten the darkspawn then was simply because there was no archdemon present. When you give the darkspawn leadership they become a totally different animal than when they don't have direction.
Raziel is the same guy who gets tossed around like a toddler by Kain. Raziel is the same guy who failed against a possessed Hylden Lord Janos because he lacks the stomach to get what needs to be done.
Raziel would be absolutely demolished by the archdemon. The archdemon takes on armies while raziel has his hands full with single foes he isn't capable of dismantling huge armies while taking on the four party members you choose to battle against him.
Their armies aren't bigger by any stretch of the imagination. I mean look at the pathetic resistance offered by vorador and the cabal in part 2. They'd be mincemeat and their leadership is pathetic.
The only two major threats are the eg and Kain. Too much for these two to overcome.
Loghain, Arl Eamon, Greagoir, and Harrowmont/Bhelen, Witherfang,Uldred, Swiftrunner, Zathrian are just too much. You had loads of experience on this side as well maybe not as much as the thousands of Kain but it's just too much for him to overcome.
They could create masses upon masses of golems, werewolves, possessed mages through Uldred's guidance and this becomes drastically unfair.
Throw in the vampires weaknesses to water and they literally get routed.
I mean if the human beings could crush the vampires from this game mages, werewolves, golems, darkspawn, archdemon, templars, warriors, rogues, dalish, blood mages, fade demons, blight wolves and assassin groups all along with huge glaring exploitable weaknesses and this is just plain unfair.
Lok is mighty indeed but dragon age would eat them for breakfast. Kain goes down in glorious fashion.