Harbertia wrote:Holy Empire of Avalon wrote:Eh, bureaucracy is a bitch, workplace problems are the same in military affairs, difference is it directly means life and death. In the business world you can guide logistics the wrong way and screw over the guys trying to put the product together, do that in an army and guys are without rations, equipment, and other supplies.
I can figure a guy to be rather pissed off at how things work and having been so for a long time. They perform this invasion and stuff starts falling apart because the dickhead officer in charge, just like the last force this guy was stationed with, refuses to "fix a system that is not broken" even though by the current system equipment is going to divisions that are not even frontline units, some guys are losing morale because they get the crap rations despite fighting all the locals while the "elite" units get all sorts of awesome food and sit in the barracks all day waiting for some special mission. Pissed off and done with it all for the day he goes out on the first patrol, things go sideways pretty fast, the force had been dealing with equipment troubles since they landed - their advanced scopes and highly complicated gear did not like this damn jungle, the gear never liked jungles, but yet the officer kept them here because "We will be harder to see." Yeah, harder see works when you freaking scope is not malfunctioning from the mud caked on it!
He orders a tactical withdraw, what few thermal vision visors the guys have working are not giving much information due to the high heat of the landscape. There comes a crack though and the knight last remembers the trees all turning to black. Coming to he finds himself tied to a tree, his helmet nearby with a massive bullet stuck in the side, what hit him was a fifty caliber round directly to the side of his head, fortunately he had the clear ballistic plastic visor and that kept the bullet from penetrating. Through fuzzy vision he sees his captors, they are yelling and angry, they speak several languages. Finally they grab a notepad and draw on it, the knight motions to his wrist, finally some guy with EOD on his uniform messes carefully with the device as the others back away and now it translates as they speak, both sides sounding rather broken.
While the Knight refuses to fight his own forces he begins to see a side of things he did not really acknowledge before. They conquered, they waged war, and they won, what had they lost though? It all seemed so greedy. Thus with a thorn in his heart the knight devises a plan, for the invasion to retreat with no casualties.
This plan of course goes awry, and in the end the knight (you brought up Rob, and so i will make him far different than Robert) is left to feel a sense of regret. He had long disagreed with the effects of the imperialistic outlook the empire had, but was that the way to resolve it? A situation resulting in the death of the Emperor, the collapse of the entire Empire, and now just a series of wars as someone tries to rebuild the broken throne. Attempting sot bring peace only lead to more war.
*shrug* do with it what you will, I'm gonna eat now.
... that work
I just am not good with sci fi, the magic, the big mechs, technology that is so convoluted.
Hell, I hate smartphones, and those are about ten years old now. I could not imagine having these pieces of crap in your brain.
Indigenous people don't care about your tech level, the natives of north america did not, and even coming forward to a more modern time, the insurgents across the world sure as Hell don't care. They adapted to it, their tactics are beyond barbaric and have been forever, from Vietnam to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria - we outclass them easily, they have guns welded to trucks with freaky JB weld and duct tape, what gives them the ability to not be wiped out in one swoop by our fighters, bombers, and attack craft? They hide in plain sight among people they blend in perfectly with, they have the ability to dictate where the fight happens, Viet Cong had that same ability, that is what happens.
Our alien invaders here have one leg up, no one cares if they burn down a village to kill the militants, so I will say that they have the edge in the fact that no one cares about civilian casualties on their side. Their gear can used against them however, case in point, I had someone using my phone to figure out where I was and it was very inconvenient, so I just started leaving my phone in the barracks when I went out - problem solved because they counted on my not knowing they could do that. Sun Tsu said know your enemy and know yourself and you will win every battle, he was right, so you use their tech against them. After all they likely don't expect some swamp dwelling monkeys to use their own systems against them.
Cause failures in their artillery aiming computers, end up calling in strikes on their own positions, sabotage their medical robots, destroy their supply depot and leave their heavily complicated tools without replacement parts and maintenance.
Heavy Object, an anime, I will admit had some real good moments like that. Use whatever you can against your enemy, look at every detail.
Far as the knight dude goes, he could be part of what gives them the edge in breaking the enemy systems, if he is a junior officer (I figure a knight would be? Seemed a fairly important role) then he likely has some good information on all that stuff.
