Strategy was not an easy discipline, and when it involved armies capable of performing miraculous feats, it was downright hellish. Sometimes, though, the mystical nature of the warriors fighting these mythical battles offered Sunny a great advantage.
The Shadow Legion had countless advantages over a mundane army, even if the overall power of its soldiers was not taken into account.
The silent shades did not need to eat or drink, for example, and neither did they need shelter from the elements. That alone all but eliminated one of the most vital and laborious tasks of military strategy: establishing supply lines and maintaining logistics.
The shades were immune to disease and sickness, as well, which eliminated the main cause of deaths and casualties in the history of war — more soldiers had perished from disease than had been killed by enemy weapons, after all.
