Well, y’know, a housecat can kill a level 1 commoner.
If I had the time, I’d use Pathfinder stats to run a full simulation. What I know is that in Pathfinder, a commoner has 3 HP and can thus survive 1 round (albeit staggered,) and a rifle wielded by a commoner has a 35% chance to kill ~95% of a cat on average (1d10 damage vs 3 HP.) Also cats have +14 Stealth and I assume they wouldn’t be charging through an open field, so a commoner has ~10% chance to notice one (nat 1 or nat 20 required.)
This is assuming those are all housecats.
Let’s say an average Scottish military member is a level 2 warrior with +1 in each physical ability score, Weapon Focus, 2 ranks in Perception, and leather armor.
13 HP, 13 AC, +3 to hit, 1d10 damage, +5 Perception.
50% chance to hit a cat, same 95% kill. Only now the cat has to make 14 hits, and each is only a 60% chance to hit. The cat’s advantage is still 3 attacks per round.
I’m running a quick Python script to simulate this, rolling proper damage. Survey says a cat has ~1.3% chance to kill a soldier. Since all the cat’s damage output is nonlethal, we can assume it heals between fights. Bump that down to 1.2% after factoring in a 10% chance that the soldier sees the cat coming and shoots it from afar.
That means an average soldier should be able to kill ~83 cats before going down. Scotland doesn’t stand a chance.
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so the thing is… with the exception of some feral Parisian cats… I don’t think they’ll work together.
If the scotts work in coordinated skirmishes, they can probably defeat the cats in detail.the real question is… why would they want to? I mean, seriously. All true scottsmen embrace their feline overlords.
truth but… have you try to bathe or clip some cats nails? 114 of them would win even if they didn’t work together
well. no. Unfortunately I’m not entirely at a place where I can manage a pet. I do get to babysit a carrot thieving menance on occasion though. he’s turned into a cat-burrito for nail clipping. (and no, that’s definitely not a purrito.)
All this would do is add 600 million scots
I’m actually surprised that there aren’t more cats than that. People are getting close to 8 billion, and there aren’t even 1 billion cats? I expected their numbers to be much closer to humans.
Fortunately, Scotland is on an island. I think the English Channel is going to do more to protect them from the cats than anything else.
It’s not like they can get invaded by cats across the North Sea.
Maybe 600m cats working together could build a ship
Cats don’t like to get wet.
Except for jaguars. Jaguars swim.
Metalocalypse episode where they drop off their kid(fatty Ding-Dongs) on an island of feral cats which was a tax write-off. https://dethklok.fandom.com/wiki/The_Dethklok_Home_For_Wayward_Kitties
with so many cats i think scotland would find itself shoved off the rest of the island to become its own island
Dude, I couldn’t take one cat.
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Why would they fight them off? Why would they not just put a blanket on their lap and say PSPSPSPSPS
Have you ever seen a highland claymore? They could slice through 10 cats at a time. Never bet against the Scotts.
Have you ever met the Scottish? They are the type of people to extinguish a terrorism that set himself alight.
