User blog comment:Blackendedsoul/Crew Type/@comment-46.116.200.75-20120526070656

We also have to consider the sheer military prowess an armada possess in case of a marine battle. They have MUCH more ammunition and ships - how can inflammable targets such as the wooden OP flagships even SURVIVE such scathing artillery onslaughts as the Buster Call?

I always found it funny that they can't hit a single ship, it always falls MILIMETERS off the ship. You compare those fools to Ussop? He'll just blindside the entire navy with his "Gokiburi Boshi".

BUT the strongest members of the single ship can quickly eliminate the "head" like Kizaru wanted to do or destroy the flotilla like Mihawk or Ace did. I guess other crew members could protect the ship from the canon fire or develop suitable technology to keep the ship intact.

I think that the advantage of a large fleet (in the OP world) is th the ability to rule over vast amounts of territories, spreading across the seas. But how could such a wide scaled operation as "The War of the Best" be carried out with one ship?

The key here is aliances. Forming effective aliances with different crews/ powers = achievements of shared objectives. Remember what Mihawk said? "Luffy holds the most dangerous ability on the seas - turning all to allies", be it enemies or whomever. With whom Luffy maid allies or 'acquaintances'? Marines, Shichibukais, Yonko, Revolutanaries, Pirates - freaking Rayleigh and former Whitebeard's crew - do you even relaize how much power he really has?

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Just some food for though (^_^)