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Smaug with OCD:
This is just for a bit of fun. A mental exercise I've been wondering at for a while and haven't really come up with any answers for. So...

How would you do it? Assuming you have
500 Einherjar
The Archive
4 Senior Council members
"A detachment of wardens" (I'm gonna assume between 50 and 100)
A mostly confused and scrambling CPD
The FBI(probably in a similar state to the CPD)
Criminals in the know under Marcone
The Winter and Summer Knights and Ladies(with the Ladies providing roles as described in text)
A family of ghouls
The White Court of Vampires in Chicago
The Svartalfs
2 Knights of the Cross
The Paranet members of chicago(currently hiding)
(other members of the Accords I'm forgetting that showed up)
2 Divine artifact weapons in the keeping of one Harry Dresden, Winter Knight and warden... and Warden

Assume you have at least a few Nemfected companions.

City Conditions: As described in the book, the power is out, people are panicking, and feces is hitting the proverbial fan. You begin with the BFS building as a stronghold. The low-level talents gathering in places like Mac's pub and Saint Marry of the Angels church. People are beginning to panic and riots are starting by the time the battle actually begins. Odin and Ferrovax have prevented the enemy from using Ways and underground travel.

Your goals are to 1) Neutralize Ethniu and the Eye of Balor, 2) Protect the City, and 3) Save as many lives as you can.

How do you begin and proceed?

Conspiracy Theorist:
Use Little Chicago to deploy your forces to force or lure Ethnui towards Demonreach’s maximum range, then Harry and the Knights Harry Ethnui with Harry shooting the Athame from the end of his staff using stored kinetic energy right through the Eye of Balor and Ethnui’s head (parallel with how Balor died). Recover the the Athame with his Earth Magic Spell of magnetism and perform the ritual.

The best lure, probably Mac.

ClintACK:
1) Use the CPD to spread some kind of story (freak storm event took out the power and caused a mini-tsunami on Lake Michigan!) to clear civilians away from the lakefront.

2) Senior Council and Wardens help Dresden to construct a kick-ass summoning circle somewhere near the middle of the lakefront. (Possibly the Svartalves help.) I'd expect aspects of what we saw in Small Favor -- both the ring that held the Archive on the island and the hellfire pentagrams. For symmetry, I'd expect Harry's soulfire to be used. (Recall that Uriel gave Harry soulfire explicitly to balance Lucifer's use of hellfire to make the two giant pentagrams in that book.)

3) Mab is "bait", present in her jumbo-sized aspect so no one can miss it and Ethniu will have to come right for her (or look like she's afraid or avoiding the big fight) -- and into the area with the prepared summoning circle.

4) Knights (Cross and Fairy) are all on "get her blood" duty. When one of them has a sample of Ethniu's blood, they get it to Harry.

Alternate 4) Toot!! and the 'Za Guard get Ethniu's blood. This only works if they can come up with a weapon that Toot can wield that can get through titanic bronze. (Would that fairy athame from Grave Peril work? Mab's got that now, and it's been cleansed, right?)

5) Harry the Warden Binds Ethniu into a Demonreach cell.

6) Everybody else (Einherjar, WCVs, Wardens, Marcone's hitters, Ghouls, etc) are on beachfront duty -- fighting fomor as they emerge from the lake over several miles of lake. It's possible that CPD SWAT and the National Guard and so on could have a role here.

7) Summer brings the donuts and party lights for impromptu victory celebrations all up and down the lakefront.

vultur:
Can the Archive help? Is her neutrality going to interfere?

Two other possibilities not mentioned: Toot-Toot and Harry's other Little Folk allies (possibly very useful for intelligence) and the Alphas (unless you're including them under Paranet members - but I doubt they will hide; they've been fighting the Fomor for a while).

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With the Ways shut down, the Fomor attack is probably constrained to come out of Lake Michigan. Water is bad for mortal magic, but doesn't impede Fomor magic (as seen in Even Hand), so putting the wizards on boats is probably a bad idea.

So I'd station most of the Wardens and the more combative Senior Council members on the shore - within sight of the lake but not close enough for some big monster to grab them without leaving the water. Their job is to burn up the Fomor troops and counter and hopefully kill the Fomor sorcerers (like Mag from Even Hand). The Senior Council should take a shot at King Corb if they can. But they shouldn't engage Ethniu herself directly (if she shows up, pop into the Nevernever).

The Einherjar/Valkyries and the combat-competent White Court should largely be here too, with some of them (those equipped with pretty heavy modern weapons) as a first line of defense here too. (Though not mentioned in the original post, the Alphas probably also will be.) If the First Law keeps the Wardens from killing the Fomor-altered-human-servitors, then these forces will have to handle them.

The other White Council types should be doing intelligence, divinations, coordinating with the Fae and Svartalfar, etc.

While all those people and creatures deal with the Fomor army, Harry, Butters, and Sanya go hunt down Ethniu herself. They're probably the only ones present who could harm her without massive collateral damage. Either Faithsaber-mode Fidelacchius or the Spear of Destiny/Lance of Longinus/Athame is probably needed to draw the blood Harry needs to imprison Ethniu.

Conspiracy Theorist:
All the Swords should be able to cut through Titanic Bronze, the Faithsaber can do it without cutting through innocent flesh beneath as well. That might be important if the Titan is Nemfected.

I really do expect at one point for one of Butters opponents to stop fighting and start geeking out over the Faithsaber.

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