I already post it elsewhere ....
First of all I would like to point on the Reapers tactics and arguments:
1.
Sovergein said that size of Reaper´s army will shroud skies of every world ...
Well it´s obvious that Reapers succesfully occupy only Earth, Thessia, but from some unkown Reasons their forces are scattered and they have a problem with fast advance against some of the key points like Palaven and Turians space, than also avoiding primitive Yagh or smart Salarians...
I can´t disagree that they did major blows succesfuly but Council forces still ressist even if odds are not in our favor.
But what I can say Reapers army is scatered around galaxy and loosing their overwhelming power which they always used on single target in previous cycles...
2.
Why are Reapers realy angry ?...
50 Thousand years ago survivors of Ilos did it via conduit to Citadel and sabotage the Keepers which gave us chance to delay the invasion. This chance which they gave us also interrupt base tactics:
- chance to find a true nature of Citadel and Keepers
- interrupting Reapers tactics: opening Citadel Relay, closing Relay Network
So without using their major tactics they are already weakened and they must face fullscale invasion instead of slow harvest with step by step...
3.
Reaper tactics:
- Basic of Reaper tactics was arrival through Citadel Relay and kill with one shot leaders and network.
This was interrupted which means that they need to get into our galaxy on their own or they need to get to closer Citadel relay to the edge of Galaxy (Arrival DLC) to start invasion.
- indoctrination - it´s their only tactic which is still working
- overwhelming power through technological superiority and focusing force to few points (well technological superioty still remain but their forces are in fullscale invasion)
- Omega 4 Relay and Collectors, it´s pretty clear that Reapers were always walking in the shadows - hard to say if Omega relay was built just after Prothean cycle which took few centuries or before, but what is clear that this was their another shadowy tactics which should serve in their favor.
4.
Fail safe system aka Collectors:
So Collectors served as an observers of Cylce, collecting valuable genetic material and information about Cycle.
They were trying to craft human Reaper which could means that Harb was planning to second ambush of Citadel with Human Reaper, in their favor played a fact that Council was ignoring abductions.
5.
My point is that, even if Reapers are more advanced than we they must lied 3 years ago about their numbers:
If we are taking in fact that Leviathan of Dis was nearly bilion years old and first true Reaper than each cycle is crafted just one capital ship of Sovergein class than there is probably: 20 000 - Sovergein class ships... if we are taking the fact that Reaper came to harvest each 50 thousand years. (atleast - 4 ships. lol Leviathan, Derelict Reaper, Sovereign, Human Reaper...)
But Sovereign class shipt took to craft lot of organic bodies as was told that could cost humanity whole population to craft Human Reaper in ME2, so if only one most succesfull civilization can be transformed into Sovergein than others must serve to craft other class ships.
Sovereign class ships is great 2km
Destroyer class ship is great 160 meters
Processor class ship is great 200 meters
Speculation:
So it means that from other species in each cycle with simple logic with atleast 12 bilion population for one it took craft 10 ships of Destroyer or Processor class ship. Let´s say that each cycle there should be 8 species vital for harvest - it means that each cycle Reapers could refresh their ranks and now they should have 1 600 000 ships of Destroyer and Processor class ships - if we are taking to fact that they didn´t lose single ship - well this would proved Sovergein´s quote from ME1.
6.
Numbers?
With battle over Palaven they were defending orbit of planet with maybe few hundreeds against greates military force in our cycle, even if they are more advanced they shouldn´t disappreciated enemy strenght.
The geth-quarian conflict is infiltrated by one Reaper? If they realy could than they would be storm both fleets on same time instead of that they used geths as tool for their intentions, which is disproving their great and almost limitless numbers and adding one more shadow tactic. If they send few Sovergein Reaper class ships - I would say fine, but they send one destroyer which end on surface of Rannoch like splashed fly...
Again in final battle over Earth we have mostly few hundreed ships which are defending most important thing in Reaper society and they know from TIM that Shepard is planning to deploy most important weapon in war against Reapers, it means two ways:
- they are overconfident about our odds
- Crucible is not supposed to be a weapon (Catalyst is liar - check my signature)
7.
Previous cycles - Numbers
I think that even if Reaper are there for so long that they must took some loses, it´s like said that despite that enemy is advance we can´t make them bleed - even if they just lose lesser class it would be atleast something.
8.
Previous cycle - Protheans fought by attrition and even still it took few centuries to fall of Prothean Empire despite that the relay network was closed.
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Our cycle:
1.
Technology - If we stay in the level technology of Mass Effect 1 than we could say - YEAH WE ARE SCREWED
technology three years ago was limited and primitive in comparison with ME3, it took whole fleet to kill a Reaper and they did it maybe only because Shepard kill Sovereign´s incarnation into Saren.
Thanix cannons - after what we have defeated Sovergein in ME1, our sciencist managed to craft these nice guns which help us to defeat collectors which had technology based on Reaper´s own, so if they managed to upgrade ships with these cannons than I don´t see a point that we cannot beat them in battlefield.
Thanix missiles - this I would love, they were succesful in hitting and damaging Reapers even if just a lesser class like Destroyer.
Cain - again very limited intafry weapons but still effective against Reaper´s on ground advance.
Since Mass Effect 1 we´ve been frequently in contact with many kind of technology, researches, discoveries which bring us to final stage of ME3 where we are facing to Reaper threat in battlefield, even if Citadel took us for fool I don´t think that they ignored technological benefits which brings last few years, only fool would ignore this chance.
2.
Fall of Batarian Hegemony - it´s pretty clear that batarians stayed with technology 3 years ago and also Balak said that they had been sabotaged by indoctrinated agents(shadowy tactics again and same with Protheans), so they fall very quick with no real chance to survive.
3.
Deffense - even if the Homeworlds are under attack most of other worlds are left behind like nothing had happened, there is just few explanations :
- Reapers have smaller numbers than they told us
- Some of the Reapers didn´t make it from dark space
- Arrival put down some of them
- Reapers are so desperate that they are focusing on Homeworlds to bring greater impact on moral of enemy
4.
Fleets - Well it deppends on our decision but with all fleets - we could say that we have a chance to gain greatest fleet.
1. Quarians + Geths (greatest by size)
2. Turians (greatest military by size)
3. Asari (greatest dreadnaughts)
4. Humanity (fleet is smaller but still capable - mostly lesser classes of ships)
5. mixed fleets
5.
Tactics - it was proved that fleets around space can be delayed or destroyed in smaller pockets with succes, so meanwhile that main Reapers forces are focusing on homeworlds their smaller fleets were bleeding.
In ME1 we cannot bring down with whole fleet single Reaper of sovergein class but in ME3 it´s enough 4 ships of lesser class to bring down Sovergein class (Thanix FTW)
Very interesting is part of ground forces achieving victory over surface of Palaven where Reaper took loses just against ground units without support of fleet support.
Even if it´s obvious that we can´t win on long run or with guerila war we are still in power to oppose them, and with good decision in final events we can weaken Reapers and if they will be still passive, than we would be able kill them step by step.
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