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Quoted By: >>17642554 >>17642670 >>17642694 >>17644133
My opinion? Our new equipment is unserviceable.
Replacing our railguns with lightweight tubas? Where do I even start..
First of all — since killing people with sonic weaponry doesn't leave behind a skeleton like railguns do, we can't extract the calcium for use in later operations.
Moreover, NOT ALL OF OUR CONTACT HAPPENS IN URBAN AREAS! You try killing a dwarf who's just about done sighting his melon-mortar on your squad's position when the distance is 3000 meters out! Do you have ANY idea how hard you need to blow on that tuba? They were barely a nuisance against our railguns!
Forget about the enemy for a second, our friendly-fire rate has gone up over 500% since the introduction of tubas, and you know why? The anti-sonic earplugs get lost, or a specter takes them away, or somebody forgets to make sure they're on correctly, or they happen to be sabotaged, or they just malfunction on their own, or, YOU NAME IT! IT HAPPENS! Every time someone blows on one of those fucking things, at least one person's head explodes! We have just as many casualties in training as we do in combat!
Let's not forget the training costs! People signed up for the army because they wanted to get their hands on a railgun, and now they have to go through a three-year course on how to play a tuba, master what 'music theory' is, and-and-I don't even know!
God-fucking-dammit, and the maintenance - oh god, the maintenance. If there's even a speck of dust or dirt inside of your tuba, good luck having it even hurt an organ-goblin! You spleen will be gone and filling up the enemy's belly before you even know it! Oh, and you're LUCKY if just some dirt is all you have to deal with, god forbid a melon shrapnel hits the tuba, now you need to replace the entire thing!
I just.. Jesus, okay — the one thing that they're good for is crowd-control. Real useful when you got a bunch of 'em in the same place, and you don't even have to aim. That's about as nice as I can be.
..and the music is nice, I suppose.
Replacing our railguns with lightweight tubas? Where do I even start..
First of all — since killing people with sonic weaponry doesn't leave behind a skeleton like railguns do, we can't extract the calcium for use in later operations.
Moreover, NOT ALL OF OUR CONTACT HAPPENS IN URBAN AREAS! You try killing a dwarf who's just about done sighting his melon-mortar on your squad's position when the distance is 3000 meters out! Do you have ANY idea how hard you need to blow on that tuba? They were barely a nuisance against our railguns!
Forget about the enemy for a second, our friendly-fire rate has gone up over 500% since the introduction of tubas, and you know why? The anti-sonic earplugs get lost, or a specter takes them away, or somebody forgets to make sure they're on correctly, or they happen to be sabotaged, or they just malfunction on their own, or, YOU NAME IT! IT HAPPENS! Every time someone blows on one of those fucking things, at least one person's head explodes! We have just as many casualties in training as we do in combat!
Let's not forget the training costs! People signed up for the army because they wanted to get their hands on a railgun, and now they have to go through a three-year course on how to play a tuba, master what 'music theory' is, and-and-I don't even know!
God-fucking-dammit, and the maintenance - oh god, the maintenance. If there's even a speck of dust or dirt inside of your tuba, good luck having it even hurt an organ-goblin! You spleen will be gone and filling up the enemy's belly before you even know it! Oh, and you're LUCKY if just some dirt is all you have to deal with, god forbid a melon shrapnel hits the tuba, now you need to replace the entire thing!
I just.. Jesus, okay — the one thing that they're good for is crowd-control. Real useful when you got a bunch of 'em in the same place, and you don't even have to aim. That's about as nice as I can be.
..and the music is nice, I suppose.
