In respose to more recent:

Fifty million is a great deal, which is why I'm going to call in reinforcements.

It was also pretty much said that I had troops all over, plus Forerunner troops. I left it unspecified for a reason. Putting numbers on things never worked out well for me. I tried to be fair and had a fleet of say 50 ships, and suddenly everyone had 400, and it's just... yeah. 

You have few advantages besides numbers. You currently have orbital superiority, but I have total air superiority, and started with entrenched, fresh, bloodthirsty troops armed with a variety of weapons, with planty of ammunition and supplies, and also energy swords. 

A dropship is great and all, but you've given next to no information about them. Actually, you didn't even mention them until now, in the OOC. The ride from high orbit to the surface is... several minutes long, even in a droppods, and longer in a dropship. You have specified nothing of what you're bringing down. NOTHING. So I'm assuming it's just a Zerg Rush and mowing you down as you come out. I'm set and ready man. You're space Nazis- I'm like a horde of smart entrenched beserkers. They won't run out and meet you in an open field- my soldiers do have discipline- but that doesn't mean you would necessarily have discipline either. You're coming down randomly, officers dying just as much as soldiers, in a great freefall to the surface. Formations will get torn apart in the open, you've got artillery coming down on you, air support

You're just... not in a good position. If you had half the continent and I had half the continent and then we clashed, then yeah, it would probably be much more in your favor than it is now, if for the simple fact that your discipline matters. But... discipline works to get organized and everything. When popping up gets a buncha bullets spray at you, popping up will not be recommended. Running will get you cut down, and the fields will be filled with blood- slipping is a possibility. 

You're at a disadvantage either way. You can call in orbital support, but I can still shred apart all these troops you're sending at me. Take a pillbox and clear out its resident platoon; get a Shrike bomber strike when the soldiers inside go offline. Every advance you make will be pummeled as much as possible. The Draconians will [i]not[/i] give you [i]any[/i] leeway to get organized and counterattack. 

Okay, your main character will be able to clear out a platoon, but now they know about your supergirl, and now they'll be aware. The next post is Draconia hearing your supergirl, and getting superpissed. Better have her run as fast as you can, cause a Shrike bomb strike will come right down on her head as a result. 

I am writing. I am writing a battle where the defenders hold all the cards on the ground. Draconia still is losing ground; so she bombs it to keep technology and strategic position out of their hands. You have said nothing about anti air, tanks, nothing. Just... coming in and shooting and dying. 

I see no vehicles mentioned, so I'm assuming there aren't any on the ground. Maybe these are the droppods, and your dropships are about to land and support. Either way, specify. You send escorts to intercept my aircraft, I'll know when you break atmo. I have the sensors, yes. 

It's like... attacking a castle. The residents are full of great big beserkers who can hold a line, and have some catapults and stuff to take out your own. While you rush up to the gates and walls and try to break in, you'll fall pretty quickly. Every time you take a section of the wall, they throw some dynamite at it and let it explode and turn the upper half of the wall to rubble. You can only attack so much at one time, and they're going to blow up all the advantages you gain. Courtyard? throw some boom-booms and then maybe try to move back into it. 

Do you see? I am being realistic- maybe a bit over the top, but you're bringing in fifty million troops. You can't exactly blame me when you can keep sending soldiers down for days and still have a few thousand. Look at the Abh- they held back Duck's troops for an insane amount of time, killing an insane amount of troops. Except, this is less a few people shooting at a bottleneck, but a well-organized, strategic and tactically superior enemy sitting behind cover and armed with big guns. You're coming down as fast as possible in a general area so you won't get shot out of the sky. 

This is a war already- the warriors won't give you five minutes, much less an advantage. Wars are pressing every advantage you have and trying to eliminate or discourage the enemy from attacking. Alternatively, instead of attacking a planet that is clearly fortified and filled with troops- that was obvious from the very beginning- you could've called a truce and asked for peace. I'll even give you the chance, this next post- state that the planet is a [i]colony[/i], which means that if you have this much trouble taking the outskirts, you'll have a great deal on the inside, the core.

Let me repeat this: You are at a disadvantage, running right into dozen of different guns' barrels with your eyes closed and opening just when you pull out your weapon. And the Draconians will not want to lose, so they will press everything they have. You already said that your character would "break through but probably lose 70%" at the beginning- what, did you mean KEEP 70%?


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You're at a severe, severe, SEVERE disadvantage because you have said NOTHING about who is actually attacking- I am simply assuming that all you have are droppods and infantry. Now, if you specified that there were dropships coming in, loaded with tanks and the like, then you'll have more of an advantage. Shrikes, helicopters, all that can come by and tear you to shreds because you only have what infantry can use. Anti-air units will be targeted, obviously, and may take some time to set up, but it could start making landing zones safer. Armor units can support infantry and help you push through defenses (though they'd still die quite a bit), and if you bring down a crapton of your fighters, you may be able to occupy both the Rebels and Shrikes away from shooting defenseless soldiers. 

This is a story. If it were a story in which the enemy magically throws up their arms and lets you start shooting them, I will let you know. At the time being, the Draconians will kill you with all the advantages they already have. They have weapons to shoot into orbit, they have anti air, they have aircraft, mechanized infantry, tanks of the bunker-buster kind, of the heavy-armor-kill-all kind, of the floaty kind, of the real fast and annoying kind, and more. They have armored suits, power suits, battle suits, and they are entrenched. 

I said earlier in my posts, before you attacked, where Draconia ordered soldiers to take up defensive positions under cover, in case of orbital barrage. They were already in entrenched positions, under cover. It had already been specified that I had anti-orbit weapons. It had also been shown that I have really powerful missiles that can vaporize shieldless ships that get too close. I also have artillery that can reach high-atmo. I have specified everything beforehand, and am not pulling giant flame-breathing superrabbits out of my ass.

This isn't me one-upping you. This is me getting a bunch of people to shoot out like a shooting gallery. First, they are in the sky on predictable trajectories for droppods, maybe less so for dropships, though they are slower and there is more time to hit them. Then you are in the fields between clumps of trees, where soldiers and vehicles are entrenched, as stated before the battle hand begun. Now, four tanks and a regiment of troops is a powerful force, and approaching a small town, it would seem a no-brainer that they'll just sweep through. Then the defenders turn out to have anti-air, artillery, soldiers hiding in the houses, and tanks hiding behind houses, popping out and firing before going back under cover. 

This is fair. Well.. it's logical. I held the cards from the beginning, and you didn't bother trying to send down scouts and marking targets for orbital bombardment, and then bringing down everything at one time, organized like. I simply assumed you're just spamming infantry pods and then dropships. You land, you run out, you get shot because there's nothing to hide behind and you're getting shot from left, right, front, behind, and above. I haven't even brought in the genetically engineered creatures yet, or droppods from my troop transports in orbit. 

You just said you were on the ground and running at the enemy.