Weasel 16 wrote:
In Half-life 2, humanity was a shadow living in constrained concentration cities, like City 17. The forces of the world 20 years previous had put up a war that lasted 7 hours.
My question:
If humanity was faced with an assault from a hostile, xenophobic alien race, like the Combine, how much of a fight do you think we could put up?
Yeah...not a good one...Valve might have it right on the money...a few hours and we’d be done...
Captain Falcon wrote:
We would defend our world, we would fight them on the beaches, in the streets, and in the fields! We would never surrender!
Ok, enough Churchill impersonation.
But the USA would kick the Combines back to hell where they belong. We have nukes, an unbeatable air force, and tactical weapons and soldiers who would engage in guerilla tactics and wear down combine resistance to nothingness.
Other than the US, China would kick some ass with overwhelming nunbers, nukes, and a high-powered air force, Britain would kill a lot too with their snipers, navy, and hardcore resolve.
Combines wouldn’t like the comtemporary Earth very much.....we’d own them eventually, even if they came with massive force and knocked out our armies, we’d never give in...I wouldn’t, anyway. They can crush us, but not our resolve to resist them....
Victory or death!
If Gordon Freeman and his fellow few can resist to the point of being more than just a minor annoyance to the combines, we could certainly become a major pain in the ass.
An empire like the combine could crush earth like a bug...if they didn’t want our resources...that’s the only reason the war took 7 hours in HL2...they wanted to harvest the planet...
Wait, the aliens might not even be able to survive on oxygen. So once they got here they’d all die, and I would say I slayed them with my schlong. Everybody wins.
fuckyfuckerfuckingmcfuckfuck69 wrote:
Wait, the aliens might not even be able to survive on oxygen. So once they got here they’d all die, and I would say I slayed them with my schlong. Everybody wins.
If they are smart enough to travel between dimensions, they’d be smart enough to scan the atmosphere and bring breathing devices if the air couldn’t support them...
I doubt they would be that stupid. The combine aren’t like war of the worlds aliens, they wouldn’t come down and just start randomly eating things until they got sick.
And we are using the combine here, what about the Strogg? They aren’t nearly as interested in resources as they are in flesh. Being torn apart to be recreated in they’re psychotic image.
The covenant, well they’re a bit like islamofascists, they’d fight us in a holy war. To them we would be demons, a vermin to destroyed.
And what of the Borg?
There are a lot of different scenarios.
--- Dogbert said the deepest thing ever.
“It is all a part of the big illusion we perpetuate upon ourselves and which is in turn perpetuated upon us. When we believe we engage the illusion, when we stop believing we shatter the illusion and ourselves in the process because we are part of it."
Captain Falcon wrote:
We would defend our world, we would fight them on the beaches, in the streets, and in the fields! We would never surrender!
Ok, enough Churchill impersonation.
But the USA would kick the Combines back to hell where they belong. We have nukes, an unbeatable air force, and tactical weapons and soldiers who would engage in guerilla tactics and wear down combine resistance to nothingness.
Other than the US, China would kick some ass with overwhelming nunbers, nukes, and a high-powered air force, Britain would kill a lot too with their snipers, navy, and hardcore resolve.
Combines wouldn’t like the comtemporary Earth very much.....we’d own them eventually, even if they came with massive force and knocked out our armies, we’d never give in...I wouldn’t, anyway. They can crush us, but not our resolve to resist them....
Victory or death!
If Gordon Freeman and his fellow few can resist to the point of being more than just a minor annoyance to the combines, we could certainly become a major pain in the ass.
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