SirEmilCrane wrote...
Also, on freedom Progress, Prazza was an idiot, those guys weren't marines and YMIR mechs give me trouble, especially on harder difficulties
Would Tali be considered Trained militarily? She's very effective and skilled enough to hang with Shepard's crew so she's not a slouch. I'm not sure how accurate a representation of the average Quarian warrior she represents. No other Quarian has proven such aptitude.
Kal'Reegar is the only Quarian that fits the exception but he is only one Quarian. Let's go over this, the admirality board sent a squad of the fleet's best marines to retake the Alarei. They didn't get past one hallway. A population of 17 million distilled, trained and given the very best gear of their arsenal making them the deadliest sons of b*tches in the entire fleet. Not one hallway reclaimed. Nothing rescued or saved and they lost most of the team too.
They want to fight a war with this? 17 million and I doubt even a good sized portion is military. Kal'Reegar explains vividly that they don't have the gear to outfit an army. They don't even have the antibiotics to survive the kind of long entrenched fighting that it will entail. He said the smart thing to do was to fight the groundside Geth with their fleet from orbit.
He's correct on 2 accounts.
1: Air superiority means life and death in the Mass Effect universe because the one with the skies is the one that can rain down bombardments and meteorities with impunity.
2: Logic states one on one, a Geth will always win a straight fight in a land battle. They have superior fire power and communications, this is Geth territory after all. A shot up Geth can just redownload to another platform, a shot up Quarian is a dead man with a timer ticking over his head. Quarians cannot afford to go toe to toe.
He had one oversight.
The vast majority of Geth are NOT planetside. Even if the Quarians took the homeworld in one single glorious assault wiping out all Geth, they would be met with a near instantaneous mass response from the remaining majority of Geth. Now the tables have turned and the fleet is pinned against the planet and the Quarians get to enjoy the fight from planetside.
I'm forced to side with Zaal'Koris Vas Qwib-Qwib because he's the only one preventing their outright extinction. Hopefully by bad mouthing Xen and Gerrel the Quarians will delay their suicidal urge long enough for Shepard to finish his mission. Then they'll have to ask mighty politely because they'll need Shepard to retake the whole damned planet for them.
"Just my opinion, ma'am"