I did not think of the problem of indoctranation with using Reaper tech, that is a good point. They did not have the variety of ships and weapons that we have in ME3. Javik also stated that they lost because the Protheans themselves became predictable. They are only capable of twice the FTL speed of the Normandy, so they must use the relays to travel. They must travel to each planet and harvest. The USA loses tanks, vehicles, and people because they have to follow predictable paths (supply lines, roads, bases). You can pull a BSG and hide in areas with high EM interference, or just split up into small strike forces that are more difficult to locate. While we can't hide in the jungle, I remind you that space is a rather large place. If it was, they would just burn planets from orbit and not even bother with ground forces. I am assuming that the Catalyst is not lying, and that the Reapers need to harvest people. Have to go to work, but I look forward to continueing this arguement later. And the recovering and/or use of Reaper technology (following your analogy, ammo for example, or weapon upgrades) could be extremely dangerous and lead to indoctrination, not even mentioning the amount of time it would take analyze and implement it. The whole idea of guerrilla war against the Reapers is entirely futile, as shown by the fall of the Prothean Empire (from the mouth of Javik himself - my interpretation though -). If USA tanks get destroyed in such way its because your forces don't completely obliterate any opposition at the mere sight of them. They don't care about public opinion, and as I said, they have no pity or remorse.

You bring up guerrilla warfare concepts against a force that destroys planets? Reapers won't let this cycle 'hide in the jungle', or 'avoid hitting civilian hubs'. Goal, they will have to reconsider their mission. Technological singularity, once we proove that they cannot achieve that Wont surrender due to lack of resources or loss of political support, YouДon't just line up all your troops and charge at them. This is how you fight a war against a technologically superior foe. They also use our own munitions against us.

No problems taking out our tanks and aircraft with bags of fertilizerДЄnd vehicle ignition coils. Our enemies in the middle east seem to have This is a tactical problem that can be overcome. We can kill individual Reapers, there are just a metric Frack-ton of them. Then something like the Battle ofВ Thermopylae would have been a better analogy. So yeah, while it is possible to destroy a reaper, if you consider it's kill ratio, a race could lose its entire armada before it even creates a dent in a ReaperВ attack force. My point when utilizing the caveman concept was to clearly show how vastly superior theВ Reaper forces are compared to this cycle's races. While it's true thatВ Reapers have been destroyed before, the amount is insignificant compared to their overall numbers. Man going up against a 4WD pickup truck, from 1987. Reaper, and we have killed several of them.

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