Criminy wrote:
Reiterpallasch wrote:
Criminy wrote:
The bulk of the mantid army is ground forces. The ones that can fly over the wall are just a small fraction of the total army. Besides wouldn't you want a wall up to at least slow them down rather than have nothing up?
Yeah that's true. Maybe I'm putting too much thought into it. It just seems like even with a wall they'd be able to simply climb over it, or just go around (which is how I got into dread wastes for the first time anyways....)
-shrug- I am sure there is a good reason why they don't just go around. Going to spoiler the rest since it involves some major lore drops you get at exalted with Klaxxi. They throw themselves at the wall so that the strongest are the only ones to come back and pass on their genes. Essentially each new swarm is stronger than the last. One could argue that, while defeating the Pandaren would be a nice goal, the main goal of the swarm is to just weed out the weak in their population.
You learn some of that even before Exalted, you just gotta use some common sense.
You have to take their personalities into account, and then some tidbits (they mention that freshly 'born' mantids are mindless until they survive a swarm at the very beginning) about it and then put 2 + 2 together to realize what you said in your spoiler (I figured it was something like that and I haven't gotten Exalted with them yet).
If they REALLY wanted to, they could have their swarm travel WAY around the wall quite easily and then kill everything on the continent.
Its just that their current queen has.... issues.
