User blog comment:Fliu/My Opinion on the Giants/@comment-3203286-20170917192739/@comment-53539-20170919213352

I have to agree here, as Enel was another case of a character that is powerful but there is others stronger then he is in the blue seas. He would have met strong resistance from such powerful foes.

Luffy himself has a few techniques that reference the power of Giants, so their "normal" strength is nothing to shun.

Here is a famous game for Civ 2 referred to as "the eternal war" by players that got a lot of fame on the net in 2013 because of the situation the player was left in.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/uxpil/ive_been_playing_the_same_game_of_civilization_ii/?st=j7s3g1v1&sh=48d227aa

I like to bring this up because it kinda highlights what a stalemate is like in perspective and how draining it can be on resources and progress. Victories are brief, short lived and the status quo doesn't change for long periods of time kinda making them pointless at times.

Another example I'll give is the impact of handing over weapons to someone and the result it can have;

The first game, my brother was playing a game where he was stuck with catapults. He was the English and they ended up trapped on a tiny island since he was playing the "Earth" map and the British Isles... Aren't that big. Most of the other forces took themselves out overtime and by the time he got out of the island situation, they were exhausting themselves fighting each other. So the 4 sides which controlled Africa, Asia and Europe basically were walked over.

Meanwhile in the Americas, the Americans has only the Aztecs to face, which they took out early on. Since they weren't fighting, they invested their resources into sciences and growth. By the time my brother met them, they had tanks and he was barely breaking towards Gunpower. He managed to grab a single isolated base from the Americans, which lead him to be able to steal a technology. And then he invested in mass producing that advanced unit and then picking off weak cities all over North America.

The tech he originally was basically the one needed to produce nukes, which although can't take cities, destroyed anything protecting them... All you need is a unit to take the city, make peace for a few turns to repair the city and replace the nuke... And advance when you can to the next city. Each time, you pick a technology which allows for the circle to be effectively repeated easier each round.

To me, the whole situation with the yonko basically can be related to these stories.