The population of current earth as well as resources, weapons have been condensed into the the continent of Asia and Europe.
500 million bugs, from Starship Troopers, a mix of the types, are occupying Africa - this includes 5 brain bugs that humanity is aware of but don't know the exact location.
The continents are separated by a magical forcefield, which will disappear on an exact date and time in six months. Other continents are unpopulated. Antarctica is the only continent the bugs won't venture to or attack.
We most certainly already have + nukes and a lot of massive tanks that can simply drive over most bug types.
I like the idea of this thread though
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Nahh, it was plot driven, so they forgot that all insects die if you mess up their nervous system. There are only a few that can resist this approach. Fruit flies for example have a strong resistance to certain types of Raid. We'd easily win trust me, it's the reason why we've been so successful at taming this world.
I don't want to tip it either way but weren't the bugs burrowing into the ground? How do you distribute the chemical agent if even bunker busters won't blow a hole deep enough for it to be effective? And how do the humans defend from the cannon type bugs (who seemingly can shoot into the atmosphere)?
In an infantry confrontation, the bugs would massacre us: I presume our standard issue rifle is less advanced/powerful than the troopers' one.
With artillery and cruise missiles, we'd dominate the battle field; we have much greater weapon variety than the bugs do. As for those underground: we can go bunker-buster, or just wait til they surface: they seem to have to surface before they can be effective. Hell, a single trooper took one out.
Cool thread idea.
The orbital blasters: take out with submarine-launched cruise or ICBMs, nuke or conventional. And this is all in addition to any sort of chemical offensive.
War would be messy nonetheless. IIRC, the bugs breed and adapt quickly. The human price paid will be very high.
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The populance would beg for governments to build a wall.
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The bugs have lots of easily exploited weaknesses that the movie ignores because it is styled after the Vietnam war. There is no reason to have boots on the ground in a battle to completely genocide a species. The characters do all sorts of things that make no sense, but resemble things soldiers fighting Viet Cong did that made sense in that war.
What they should have done was glass the planet from extremely long range. If you can get a ship there, you can get a bunch of unmanned nuclear missiles there. There is zero reason to use police-action tactics in those circumstances.
First question that pops into my mind after he put down the Geographical Rules was...Can the Bugs SWIM? Cause if they can't....building a couple of WALLS could actually work if done fast enough.
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