Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-4531192-20140102134332/@comment-6068707-20140105195043

Camp Half-Blood vs Camp Jupiter.

Wow, simply an violent battle. Now, let's set up the scenerio, if you're mentioning the camp's only defenses are Clarrise and the remaining head consulers I would give an advantage to the Twelfth Legion fulminata. But if we are includng Percy and the remaining six of prophecy then we could say it'd be a very decisive battle.

Now, the obvious thing here would be where is Nico di Angelo, since he is often a traveler I'd say it'd be safe to not include him in this because he's unpredictable as the Greeks are.

01. Camp Half-Blood

They have an experienced army of half-bloods at their disposal. Many demigods of Ares and Hermes are capable of crafty battle tactics alongside the children of Athena who are wise and worthy strategiest. The only thing they'd need is to take on the legion in divisions. Most-likely drawing out their weakness by dividing them up. So let's say Clarisse is the leader of the battle. She could divide the camps leaders into captains of the teams and tell them to draw them away from each other in an five directional plane. This could limit the casualties in the camp and also harbor a blood bath of many roman soldiers' bodies scattered across the battle field.

The children of Hermes and Athena could group together in combined groups to help in combat. Another thing to add in is that many demigods at camp, could be relitively new so that could limit their fighting skills, although their ADHD could kick in another adrenaline boost.

I would say the one person that could handle the entire army is Clarisse because of her blessing, if it works anything like Frank's, she could reactivate it and use it to handle them all.

01 B. Camp Half-Blood with their heroes of Olympus

They have a seasoned strategiest and can devise more intricate plans to divide the camp up into quadrents in order to save many casualties. They have their hero of Olympus, Percy Jackson who was famed for defeating two titans and even taking on Kronus himself.

The heroes of Olympus could also use Piper's powers over charmspeak and Leo's power of fire and strategies to defeat the enemies easier. Not to mention the Argo II would be on their side, they could use the ballistae to destroy most of the legion's defenses.

02. Camp Jupiter

Being within enemy territory it would be difficult for the entire legion to navigate their way around, unless a child of Mercury had knowledge about the camp  by just stepping foot inside the boundaries. Although they could use other meathods, searching the borders isn't as efficient at it looks.

The Roman Legion has one major weakness when it comes to battle. They are inexperienced when it comes to fighting Greek orthodoxed demigods. This is something mentioned in The Son of Neptune. Now, as we all know the demigods of Camp Jupiter are war-like and expert battlers. But when it comes to fighting Greeks they are awe struck and mistified at the idea someone could move like that through an army. The Roman Legion would have to learn the keen prowess of deflection and reflexive fighting styles. Which means, they need to learn how to imitate their enemies in battle styles and deflect anything they can not reflect.

The Romans also seem to have an estimated outnumbered advantage. If that is correct, then they could simply over run the camp and destroy the Greeks forever. The one thing that I see with this is their depencancy with group combat. Take the group away and they are weaker in combat skills because of their harsh training in group depencancy.

The one demigod I see capable of overcoming this thus far is Reyna, the daughter of Bellona, who in fact is a war goddess, so she is also capable of accepting a blessing of war.

02 B Camp Jupiter with their heroes of Olympus

Having Jaso, Hazel and Frank alongside the Roman Legion would greatly increase their battle formation. One, Hazel has now recently obtained the gift of Mist control and has a greater understanding over her Geokinesis and also some Umbrakinetic abilities with her Shadow travel. Two, Frank is shown to have obtained many ability upgrades over the course of the series. I'd say the only draw back would be Jason and his mixed feelings. Not to say he wouldn't fight for his people, just that his love for Piper and understanding for the Greeks would change.

Jason is the only variable that is undecisive and because of this, he could leave it up to the greeks to decide. This also is proven right in THe House of Hades.

So in conclusion I'd say the Greeks win because of their unorthadoxed battle tactics. It would take a lot of different strategies to defeat the Greek demigods in battle. Not to say that the Roman Legion couldn't win out of luck or just good timing. For instance if the Romans were to attack just before sunrise or right after the evening muster, I'm pretty sure the Greeks being caught off gaurd their defenses would be less than average.

It's ironic how Riordan did this power struggle, althoug if you'd look back in history the Greeks weren't as strong as the Romans. The Greek Phlanax did last a relevant amount of time, and of course the Byzantine Empire did last one thousand years longer but the Roman Empire conqured vast lands even took a portion of the Egypitan Empire, so if you'd ask me, they should be tied in strength. I'm also more accustomed to the Roman feel than the Greek Camp Half-Blood although I do respect and appreciate it'd convance.

I voted Camp Half-Blood for this battle. It's a more than accurate win, when it comes to tactics and battle strategy, unless their are many children of Mars in Camp Jupiter, I don't see their being much trouble for Camp Half-blood when the legion takes aim.

I also see Clarisse as the stand in leader of Camp Half-Blood, and Chiron as a great general of war, he's live through many american fought wars: American Revolution, Civil War, WWI, WWII and now Civil War round 2, it'd be interesting if the war does go dow.