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Your point being?

I don't. Because half that shit is pretty stupid. Dodging bullets? Shooting down fighters with one shot? Yeah, okay.

Yeah, I did. Almost like natives won't fight for a puppet government that they view as illegitimate. There is a difference between a state and a nation. Iraq is composed of a handful of ethnic-national identities, that's why when Bush tried to turn it into a Western democracy, it immediately...

Have you SEEN the Ukraine-Russian War? Ukraine went into that war with no real hope of winning and not only did they NOT fold like a house of cards, but they also fought back harder and even drove the Russians out of seized territory. Now they're having a prolonged war with them. And Ukraine is...

In poorly written, novels or if it involves incompetent officers, sure it can happen. Does that mean that this is the way an Astartes chapter would approach the situation? No. They really have no reason to go nuke-happy. No, they really can't. They literally lack the weapons and most major...

Time is money. That's centuries of unusable land, centuries of smaller demographics, centuries of chaos and rebellion from resentment caused by literally nuking the planet, and centuries of struggling institutional power. There is no advantage to just nuking the planet. That's the strategy of...

Yeah, but the point of the Astartes invading Earth isn't to "win at all costs", it's to obtain the demographic and economic power of the planet. Wiping out entire regions of the planet destroys both of those things. To put it shortly, nuking a planet you intend to conquer is mentally retarded...

Decapitation strikes are just as likely to create more problems than they tend to solve and there's a reason why they aren't the first option in most conflicts. The heads of state are the people you are negotiating with. If you kill them, it can cause an internal split within your adversary that...

NYC, June 2nd, 2023.

No, I disagree. It really comes down to how far the Space Marines are willing to go to take the planet. Using nuclear level firepower basically destroys the whole point of conquering a planet. The same reason we generally don't see other nations just blasting another nation into oblivion; the...