Talk:Equalists/@comment-5142514-20130112224809/@comment-5480397-20130125165150

The Fire Nation was defeated by 6 teenagers? Hardly. The majority of the army was in Ba Sing Se, which was part of the reason the OWL ended up going there to lay siege, the rest were mostly scattered elsewhere or with Ozai himself. Few remained in the city with Azula. Those 6 teenagers then split up too. 3 of them (Toph, Sokka, Suki) went to stop Ozai's airships, banking on the element of surprise and (yes, really) Sokka's ingenuity (of course, with Toph and Suki's invaluable help). With the airships destroyed (or crippled), all that was left was for Aang to stop Ozai, 1v1. As for Azula, that was banking on her being cocky and arrogant (which as we know, she is). That, and the fact that both Katara and Zuko were pretty powerful benders in their own right. Katara alone had already been seen to, at the very least, match Azula in a fight. The rest of the firebenders would be have extremely demoralized by the defeat of not only their Phoenix King, but their soon-to-be Fire Lord, and their two main armies (that of Ozai's, and the one stationed in Ba Sing Se). So it was more like 6 teenagers managed to strategically take down the power base within the Fire Nation with the help of the OWL - a group of elite benders. They had a plan, and did Ozai really expect that 3 teens would have the guts to attack his fleet? No. They banked heavily on luck and a solid plan, but ultimately a lot could've gone wrong - it only didn't because they are the good guys (IU:lucky).

To say they firebenders of the Fire Nation were "mostly unimpressive" is an incorrect assessment. They managed to keep a war going on 2 different fronts for a hundred years with their own homeland mostly untouched, that's impressive no matter which way you look at it.

The Equalists had more? I'm not so sure. It was the entire nation, I find it hard to believe the Equalists outnumbered them.