Completely irrelevant. You were questioning Rowan's performance when he was fighting on human side, against the demon army. My counterargument was that the results he's achieved back then speak for themselves. Do you really think leading successful defense against prolonged siege, including counters of multiple attacks of overwhelming force ... is something that can be chalked up just to dumb luck, and what a guy who "knows shit about tactics" could achieve? Because if you do, then i'd have to conclude it's you who don't know shit about these matters.
The demons employ Rowan in a very different role, so don't look at his current duties as a display of what he was doing back then.
It is because the suppose brilliant acting during the war pale in comparison during Act I actions since the beginning, it makes me think that in all those suppose acknowledge achievements during War was the work of other men that were in charge and Rowan just has luck to be there, survive and had a rank enough to be recognize as the "mastermind" tactician...
How many peasants do you know who have enough time in the day and physical strength to do both their own labor and full-time skill training of a soldier? Yes, it is unreasonable to expect someone to hold two physically exhausting and time-consuming jobs. Just as it's unreasonable to expect some routine patrols around village will somehow maintain combat skills to the same degree constant, day longs trainings or taking part in actual war does.
Dude, that's exactly the whole point, dammit, do you really think that any of the Independence Revolution in all the America Continent would just have success without people that in some form had formal military studies and experience?, Rowan as a commoner would just had only knowledge of how a Bow can be use, that's was normally the common military knowledge of any peasant in Europe at least because more than that was exclusive job of the Nobility. How the hell Rowan would just did all the stuff attribute to him if he born as a mere peasant? He was just a foot soldier for the nobles, why the nobility would just grab a bunch of peasants and try to instruct them in combat with more weapons than a bow and tactics?.
If Rowan was just well trained and knowledgeable, he wouldn't protect his home village as a job for the community in he were living? Who would deny to pay him in the village for protection against any ex-soldiers from the demon army remains or from bandits knowing of his reputation as a hero? He could just live doing that and not compromise his physical status, but another thing is his intelligence, even if he couldn't workout properly doesn't justify the way he acts by trying to "rescue" his wife.
If you play more than the beginning he shows the legendary hero characteristics he should have in the beginning, has longs has they are not used to rebel to much cause we "cant" have him make meaningful progress on that on act one
I always re-play this game since the beginning until the end from time to time, but as stated before, the details in the narrative and the actions doesn't get along,
if we were told that Rowan came from a noble house in disgrace now in poverty, it would explain better his military knowledge and the reject of the nobles in trying to give him a hand without forgetting his marriage with a commoner woman, plus, if it were told too that The Twins cursed some of the traded food in the Rowan's Home Village to make the people weak at magic, they would just take the village easy, overcome Rowan independently of his physical status for much workout he had, if it were told that after all that, he was put in the prison of the Twins Castle to be torture to make him more weak and threat him to make harm to his wife, it would explain why he sided with The Twins very easy. What i highlighted, how much take to read? 30 seconds? It wouldn't make much sense with a brief text like that what came after in the story of the game later?.
I'm not a narrative genius, but what the narrative tell and what is develop in story is enough to suspect that something isn't just too well about his epic heroism and abilities.
