>>110474174>And as for your monologue on their ground capabilities I think you severely underestimate how good humanity actually is at overkillAnd we have been developing such weapons for use again humans. Gems don't have the same weaknesses as humans.
Like, sure, if you just drop a shitload of bombs on some gems you will probably kill most of them. Thats fine. But you have to recognize that means we have to treat their normal, default INFANTRY the same way we would treat a heavily fortified position.
Because guys with guns are going to get wrecked fighting gems. Each gem only has a single weak spot on their body, and the location of that spot is random with no consistency on a gem to gem basis. Spray-and-pray isn't going to accomplish shit, because any hit that isn't a kill doesn't fucking matter against gems.
If you drop a grenade in the middle of 5 humans, those humans are all either dead or permanantly maimed. If you drop that same grenade in a group of 5 gems, you MIGHT poof all of them (or not, 1 or 2 might survive) and odds are that you would have to get pretty lucky to actually have shattered even one of those gems in the process, so the ones that poofed back be back at 100% fighting strength in a matter of minutes-to-hours.
There is a stunning amount of human firepower that is instantly lethal to a human but just puts a gem in time out. They are much harder to kill than we are, on top of their other advantages.
