Lenwen wrote:Killer Cyborg wrote: But even if it WAS asking about the entirety of Splyncryth's resources, it would still take more than a week to get them all to Rifts Earth.
I personally Highly doubt it would.
You obviously have a lot more faith in the organizational ability of the Splugorth and supporting races than I do. Not to mention the size and number of interdimensional Rifts that they're capable of opening on demand.
Lord Splynn could easily bring in an military of tens of Billions .. squash the bugs an have them billions out minus the casualties in a matter of a week easily ..
Source?
And do it with a blood lust not seen ever on Rifts earth .. to date ..
Where do you get that thier "presumably" in limited numbers .. the only thing that Lord Splynn does not allow the Kittani to make are the Dragon Dreadnaughts .. everything is .. is open game for them to make in mass quantities.
There are only 10 million Kittani on Atlantis. How many suits do you think each one needs?
I'm guessing less than one, considering there are other kinds of armor, robots, and vehicles that the Kittani also use.
And Using Kittani based Power Armors for his own military would not be considered "for general use" .. General use means anything sold or anything of that nature .. not something that you yourself use ..
Certainly.
But other than the Kittani, and the small percentage of human-sized slaves who are trained in power armor combat, who do you envision wearing these suits of Serpent armor?
Killer Cyborg wrote: If it gets down to melee combat, the Serpent Armor will have an advantage over a xiticix warrior, but until it gets down to melee the power armor is at a disadvantage; the plasma axe's blasts only have a range of 200', vs. the 4,000' range of a TK rifle.
If it gets down to melee combat .. the Conservators would litterally take out squads at a time of the Xitixic Superbugs.
Odd, considering that 5-6 Super Warriors would dogpile a Conservator to the ground by weighing more than he could lift.
The Conservators are tough, but there's only 100,00 of them.
They're individually stronger than Xiticix, and they have more MDC than the bugs, but they're hardly invincible- they'd still fall to the sheer number of bugs if one of them tried to take on patrol single-handed.
So a squad is equal to no less then 12 and sometimes up to 18 . 1 -18 ratio in kills .. I'd take that any day of the week . 100,000 Conservators = 1.8million + bugs dead and gone.
Congratulations. Going with your estimates, you can manage to take out nearly 1/100th of a hive before your Conservators are all dead.
Thats not even counting the 21million Powerlords each having supernatural strenth that can be boosted further as well as thier Armor's which also grant various powers and what not . And all thier Rune Weaponry they carry thier staffs an other what nots .. those 21 million Kydians how many of them carry a Staff of Command or something similar to that which they could easily take command of several Xit super warriors an turn them on thier own kind .. as a force multiplier ...
Only 6.6 million Powerlords.
Anyway, yeah, there's a lot of powerful warriors in Atlantis.
But they're not likely to
average an 18:1 kill ratio, and in order to win in just a stand-up invasion, that's what they'd have to do.
Killer Cyborg wrote: And the bugs are pretty darned GOOD at melee.
An average warrior has a supernatural PS of 31, so his punch does 3d6 MD, plus another 2d6 if they have a Xiticix Long Sword, for a total of 5d6 MD, almost as good as the Plasma axe's 1d4x10.
Not as good as a Conservator ... run a single combat scenario 10 times ... who is going to win?
One on one?
An unwounded, fully armed and armored Conservator will beat an unwounded, fully armed and armored Xiticix Warrior pretty much every time as far as I can tell.
But his armor will get damaged in the process each time he fights one.
And eventually his armor will get torn away and he'll get wounded.
And unless he has time to fully rest up before each battle, he'll get slowly worn down and killed.
But that's in one-on-one combat.
The more likely scenario is that he's going to be fighting more than one bug.
If he's fighting 10+ at once, they can dog-pile him and drag him down to the ground.
And face it, one-on-one combat isn't going to happen unless the Atlantean forces take their time and choose their battles. If they're wanting to rush in and win in a weak, they're going to have the odd against them far more often than not.
ALSO, I'll point out that Conservators are insane.
Each conservator rolls twice on their insanity table, and each roll gives them:
-A 2% chance of being obsessed with avoiding combat.
-A 4% chance of having an affective disorder (with a 75%+ chance of having a disorder that renders him pretty useless in a war against the xiticix)
-a 6% chance of having a random neurosis (18% chance of being afraid of the dark to the point of total collapse, 14% chance of paranoia against other species- not great when working for Splugorth, 20% chance of having a fear of heights, and a 15% chance of having a fear of success that provides combat penalties in important combats).
-A 6% of having a psychosis (15% chance of having an 89% chance of going blind under pressure, 12% chance of having psychotic paranoia, 20% chance of being manic/depressive, 23% chance of schizophrenia with a 50% chance of alcohol/drug addiction, 16% chance of psychotic mindless aggression, and a 15% chance of thinking that he's a psychiatrist).
So of the 100,000 Conservators, a lot are going to be unfit for combat duty, and of those that ARE fit for combat, they're often still going to be unreliable and/or unfit to work with teams.
And that's not counting the ones who are so obsessed with combat that they take unnecessary risks (like attacking more bugs than they can swat).
The Kydians and conservators will both rip those Xit apart with thier bear hands.
Unlikely, since kydians are slightly weaker than Xiticix Warriors on average.
Powerlords are stronger than the average Warrior, but not by a whole lot, and they're only 5 points stronger than the average Super-Warrior (some Super Warriors are going to be
stronger than the Powerlords).
The Conservators we've already addressed.
The Kittani Serpant Power armors will be there as a support unit to those two forces . Thats how it would happen. Why send in the Kittani when you have 21 million powerlords EACH capable of handling SEVERAL Xit superwarriors at a time .. or even the mighty Conservators .. able to hand at LEAST 3 Xits at a time EASILY ....
Hell, man... why do ANY of that when you can take your time about things and missile the Xiticix for a few months to soften them up first?
For that matter, if it were ME, I'd send in the Sunaj and/or other hit squads to take out the queens directly, and try to bypass a big war in the first place.
In any case, you're once again wrong about the number of powerlords, as well as their capabilities vs. the Super-Warriors.
Killer Cyborg wrote: One thing I noticed this time through though, was that only 30% of Xiticix Warriors carry TK Rifles, so that makes them less deadly in ranged combat than I previously thought.
That means 70% of the Xit military has ZERO range outside of Hand to Hand combat .. and that means loss's of up to 70% within a few days .. easily .. due just to that simple fact .
No, that means that 70% of the Xiticix Warriors carries no TK rifle.
The books don't say how many of the Hunters carry TK Rifles, but it does say that Hunters "like" them. Same applies to Leapers.
As for the Warriors, 25% carry Resin Spike Guns, and 5% carry a Resin Gun.
25% of the Super-Warriors carry TK Rifles, and 5% carry TK Pistols or Resin Rifles.
And the greater percentage of most Xiticix breeds carry a spear (or two), which has a range of 300'.
And I'm not sure how many bugs use them, but they also have Shooting Shoulder Spikes they can wear that have a range of 60'
Also, I tend to think that they'd start carrying more guns if they needed to go to actual war with somebody, especially if the opposition used a lot of ranged weapons.
That would seem like something Splynncryth would do.
