Berserk Chapter: 279

Post by **stafilo** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 12:14 am

Downloaded it, read it, liked as always..

Thx again EG!

I'm waiting for the neo hawks to show up...

As for software, I used shareaza and zipgenius (http://www.zipgenius.it) without any problem.

Post by **psi29a** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 12:30 am

stafilo wrote:As for software, I used shareaza and zipgenius (http://www.zipgenius.it) without any problem.

Talk about no-name software.

Never heard of 'em.

Azureus and rar/unrar for the win.

Post by **newbified** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 12:37 am

I use Shareaza as well. But I use WinRAR for my unzipping.

Post by **psi29a** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 12:48 am

newbified wrote:I use Shareaza as well. But I use WinRAR for my unzipping.

bah, get back to WoW!

thanks much for the links in PM though.

Post by **Psycho Wolvesbane** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 8:14 am

I have a year or so old copy of WinRar and that still works perfectly especialy with this month's chapter.

Post by **t.A** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 9:42 am

Big thanx EG:)

Post by **Dark_Zilo** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:36 am

Nice chapter this one. The vision of that army is quite something. Good thing the story is progressing, but my feeling is that we wont see any of Guts and CO action on that boat. It will be interesting seing the Neos though, but i think Grifith wont show is face.
I bet all of the Vaticans (is that really a word??) are just waiting for Guts to come back and save them.

Oh... Azureus and WinRar rule this world!!!

Post by **ThunderLudi** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 12:53 pm

good chapter, maybe not so full of violence (lol) but from what we got since last chapters we can have a lil' rest. IMO, Griffith have good opportunity to show Vatican Sponsors how his BOTH great is. In the end Vatican armys will join him and they'll be invincible HAHAHA. ^_^''' Thx anyway.

Post by **42ndEndOfTheWorld** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 2:32 pm

There's one thing i didn't really get. Where is Griffith? He should be in town, because we saw him in prevous episode. And now that Kushan guy is saying that the hawks are on their way to the town (ie they are not yet there). And even if Griffith came to that town with no troops (except flying apostles, which he can only use during night, because they look too demonic), why is he not in that tower with aristocrats scoring political points?

So where is he?

Post by **xebeth** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 6:37 pm

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Post by **psi29a** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 6:42 pm

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Post by **Dagda Mor** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 6:52 pm

42ndEndOfTheWorld wrote:There's one thing i didn't really get. Where is Griffith? He should be in town, because we saw hin in prevous episode. And now that Kushan guy is saying that the hawks are on their way to the town (ie they are not yet there). And even if Griffith came to that town with no troops (except flying apostles, which he can only use during night, because they look too demonic), why is he not in that tower with aristocrats scoring political points?

So where is he?

Good point; wonder if he'll make an appearance in person. We could see a large-scale demonstration of power on his part next issue...

Post by **TheDrizzit** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 8:29 pm

Well he was in a field in the previous chapter and knowing Griffith (if he still follows his tactics from before) He will probably let the Kushans invade and start the battle then ride down and either flank them or ambush them from behind and target the main commanders who usually hide back in the back and just give commands. I'm wondering if he will give the Neo hawks the order not to transform or not while they fight because if the vatican sees that then they will relate him to demons.

Post by **Istvan** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:46 pm

What confuses me is how did the Kushan's get their army there in the first place? Armies that huge do not travel either quickly or stealthily, so everyone should have known that it was coming a loooong time in advance. But from their reactions, it's almost as if the army just matieralized behind the nearest set of hills, or something.

And as a question that it will be interesting to see the answer to, does anyone else wonder if Apostles get tired? I mean physically, from too much exertion. Because based on the size of the Kushan army, to have much impact the Neo Hawks would have to fight more or less all day and all night (and possibly several more days) before killing enough Kushans to turn the battle, and if they do get tired, even normal humans might kill them once the got exhausted enough.

Post by **42ndEndOfTheWorld** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 12:17 am

Good point, Istvan, I kind of noticed that too. Well here's my take:

It seems to me that both Kushan emperor and Griffit have to hide their demonic nature from general audience. That Kushan prince seemed quite impressed when he saw a battle between Griffith's apostles and Kushan's demons. (If you reread that chapter you'll notice that Emperor's castle has two 'sectors', one for humans and one for demons). I, mean Kushan Emperor is more open about his evil, but even he uses his demonic forces rarely (t's allways either in fog or at night). So his demonic soliders are more like attacking force, not invasion force; their task is to kill enemy soliders and leave, not counquer.

I think that his whole invasion plan was this: Use demon soliders to attack the city from sea, and then use regular troops to counquer it and establish his rule there. So when demon troops attacked the city from sea, regular troops had already been dispached (perhaps a week earlier) to attack it from land.

And why people from city were surprised to see troops: Well, it was the aftermath of one bigass demonic battle, so army was in total chaos. They were even leaving city (probably running away from already defeated demons), instead of using it as fortress. It is kind of hard to notice bunch of regular troops, when you have to deal with demons.

Now, I am not one of those people who are desperately trying to rationalize all plot holes, just because they like the story very much. I do love Berserk, but Miura is not perfect, but I really think that we should give him benefit of a doubt here.

And, by the way, thank you for great release, EG!

Post by **TheDrizzit** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 1:29 am

Thats true....the defending soldiers were wondering why the demons retreated so it must have been the diversion to keep them busy and not see the human army coming....wow...good going Kushy!!

Post by **SONGSAN** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:54 pm

I was late for this one but thanks so much EG, as always.

Really have bad feeling towards the 'Til next time', hope it's not negotiating new contract or something...

Post by **Skullkracker** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:28 pm

I guess this little sentence means we will have loads of time to speculate about the invasion

Post by **newbified** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:54 pm

The army undoubtedly had time to move and get into position, as if they marched through the night they could easily have covered quite a bit of ground.

Not to mention with the ball happening with so much aristocracy, I'm assuming they boosted defenses within the castle walls, and weakened defenses outside.

Plus all the mist and Kushan's attacking the city through the night probably pulled all soldiers from outside inside the castle,

Post by **Istvan** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:50 pm

Sure, I agree with all of that, but a large army does well to make ten miles a day in travel (and less at night), so it seems like someone ought to have noticed them coming days ago. Of course, as I think more about it, maybe the Kushan King kept the army surrounded by fog, and quietly killed anyone he sensed getting to close, or something.

Post by **Starnum** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:05 pm

Well, they do have magical powers available to them, after all.

Post by **MrFelony** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 2:52 am

they have some of the BEST assassin clans or w/e in the area working for them...all they need to do is dispose of anyone they come accross

Post by **Dagda Mor** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 5:21 am

Maybe Silas simply won't come to the Kushan's aid. Maybe the BOTH will attack, and then Silas suddenly realizes Griffith is right by him; and instead of attacking, he kneels. Just a thought.

Post by **Chaos_Wanderer** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 5:41 am

the way i see it, everyone knew the Kushan had invaded and that there forces were large in numbers. In theory, all they would have to do to create such a force is: hide and travel in the shadows, travel in small groups, assassinate anyone who saw them, and have a huge distraction on the eve before battle to organise. If they traveled along the coast they would be able to move with much more discretely, especially with the elephants.
So its not that unlikely that the kingdom was caught so off guard

Post by **freegood** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 9:41 am

Thanks for the Berserk fix.

It looks like it's Griffith's band to shine for 3 or 4 chapters...