#Sid meiers starships ship vetrancy simulator#

>marauders are alright fire support, best utility they have is long-range bombardment and being able to have rifle squads chill between their legs without being obstructed >E-troopers take the role of short-range fire superiority that combat engineers had, but eat absolute shit to scorpions and spitters

>rocket launchers are artillery, AoE, tankerbusters and area denial in one, 2-pop package absolute MVPs >radio officer is decent, but the fleet liaison does their job but better >snipers are deadbeat wankers and can fuck off >Mk ll Moritas are just outclasssed by rocket launcher squads

#Sid meiers starships ship vetrancy simulator#

>combat engineers are relegated to bitchboy turret defense simulator real fucking fast once Tigers show up >rifle squad are the best boys and shotgun barrage is the best ability to stunlock scary bugs or mulch their trash Tossing mini-nukes is cool, but the book is set in the far future so it's about as impressive as firing a bazooka. Only at the end do we finally get the chance to dig them out of their tunnels, and even then it's implied to be brutal close quarters combat. Even then, humanity is mostly knocking out the bugs' unwilling allies from the war and retaking lost planets. Humanity has adopted more mobile troop tactics, using our strengths to play against the bugs' weaknesses. The book starts at the point where the war is starting to turn around. > the bugs are literally modeled after Soviet and Chinese tactics humanity is using NATO/Marine tactics

>bugs are also masters of digging in (literally- they honeycomb entire planets) >initial battles go heavily in the bugs favor, due to humanity not using the right tactics >strong arm neutral and friendly aliens into turning on humanity >have absolutely no respect for life willing to drop asteroids on civilian targets and use terror tactics