Akashic Soldier wrote:The only thing I THINK that the CS has on its side is numbers (and I have not even checked out that). What I know for sure is that the NGR machinery is (as someone who plays a Giant Robot Pilot and learned what is valuable and what is just useless high numbers) superior in nearly every way that matters.
I never imagined this book would be as good as it is!
I guess my point is (in a round about way) can the NGR defeat the Gargoyles? I havent read the entire book but with tech like this in large enough numbers I think they can!
The CS has to be concerned, at least a little.
nope. the NGR has about 10x the population as the CS, and with total mobilization, can basically have 40% of them in the military at any given time, going by historical examples of such. even allowing for teeth-to-tail ratio, the NGR can boast a combat force larger than the CS's entire population.
the problem with fighting a quasi-nomadic, yet intellegent group like the gargoyle is that numbers alone, nor technology alone, can't win the day. look at Afghanistan. the US and NATO troops generally outnumber the taliban, and have about a centuries worth of technological and training advantage, but finding them and rooting them out has been going on for over a decade and still they aren't gone. take out one base, and the survivors just make another. takeout a major leader, a new one pops up. fighting a normal enemy you take his cities, destroy his supply bases and industry, and you win. fighting a group with no actual cities, no supply bases, no industry...and you pretty much have to wipe them out to the man. which is hard, because in human wars the other side can recruit new members. against something like the gargoyles they just hatch new generations of warriors.
at best the NGR can push them back. take out enough rookerys to give the NGR breathing room, maybe inflict enough damage to cause parts of the gargoyle empire to break away from Zerstrum*, push them out of defensable regions... but they'll always be a core of survivors looking to retake what was lost.