Okiraku Ryoushu no Tanoshii Ryouchi Bouei: Seisankei Majutsu de Na mo Naki Mura wo Saikyou no Jousai Toshi ni • Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord: Production Magic Turns a Nameless Village into the Strongest Fortified City - Episode 4 discussion

No Tiguan so far, but there will be a Cosworth down the line, which personally gave a me a giggle when I first saw it as a non-British enjoyer of Top Gear and then The Grand Tour

Do we have somebody named Boxster already? Also I could definitely see them making a pun name with the 911.

Also giving it a moment of thought: I would not be surprised if the Ferdinand family name was inspired by Ferdinand Porsche.

True, but let's cut him some slack. He lives in a remote area, so bandits and monsters are probably the majority of what they'll be facing out there.

Not necessarily. If you build a dome, you also wall yourself off from defensive counter fire. Also if an attack breaks the dome ceiling, now you have debris falling into the city. Having a defensive line with the high ground still is a far better defensive fortification than not. As we already seen in this episodes, ranged encampments on top of walls gives them to have better firing range, enhanced line-of-sight, and improved accuracy. This probably also applies to mages defending the city. Place them on top of the wall, have them cast spells back at the attackers.

The other point I want to address is that magic definitely complicates what defensive fortifications should look like. I do think defensive fortifications would evolve differently in a world of magic compared to what we have in real life. Like you stated, there are mages that can easily control terrain. This reminds me of something I read in a D&D 3.5 combat source book where warfare would look drastically different depending on whether the world is high magic or low magic. In low magic worlds, combat would probably not be too different than what we had in our world during the medieval period. Columns of soldiers clashing into each other. But in a high magic world, it would be vastly different. Probably more similar to modern warfare. For instance, troops in a high magic world would no longer be marching in columns against each other. An AOE spell like fireball would basically just nuke most of the troops clustered together like that. So instead soldiers would rely more on run, cover, and fire tactics.

actually, in this series, elemental mages are inferior to technology, since they all have low mana. taking down entire walls is not something they can do. mostly they can manage a hole, but thats about it.

Mages that can alter terrain like Espada are rare. That adventurer girl was not doing heaps of damage when they were defending the village, so the ballistas with their superior range and firepower would make short work of most mage squads.

Basically how I image it working, he's basically making diamond edge weapons with condensed carbon and an elastic enough configuration to not just break immediatly. It's also anime and over-explaining everything would be boring, therefor magic is magical.

The magical bullshit can do whatever the plot needs it to do because it's the magical bullshit.

Don't think about it.

Just look at the maid being cute! Or the tits of the new Viscontess as she's undressing! And Arte is a precious little smol bean that we must protecc!

Just don't think about the bullshit magic. It's just bullshit.

I was thinking the same thing, even without refrigeration they had all kinds of ways to preserve food back then. You can salt it, smoke it, soak it in honey, the method doesn't matter so long as it keeps.

He’s not near an ocean so his powers wouldn’t help him with that and in most medieval settings, salt is a highly sought after product. I’m sure he can afford it now but doing so would require time to transport it

Seems like a great way to compensate for a low population and not have your few villagers actually fight battles for you.

Exactly my thought. Under Van, she will be OP

Yeah it's always a bit awkward for the isekai reborn as a kid to find romance. The adults can't look their way cuz they are in universe a kid and them being with in universe kids is problematic cuz they are way older mentally.

I think it's alright. At this point, he seems to identify himself more with his current child self instead of whoever he was in his past life. Like he's got memories of his old self, but it doesn't define who he is (much), instead he identifies as Van.

He doesn't really act like an adult though, he just acts like a smart kid and they appear to have dumbed down most of the adults around him. He's definitely no Rudeus.

The difference is that they provide corresponding public services and infrastructure; that marquis does not.