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Connor McKane wrote:

DarknessEternal wrote:The coalition forces in Iraq/Afghanistan expend a quarter million rounds of ammunition for every enemy killed.

Source?

That's actually a rather well known number, Vietnam was a much more direct conflict and even there it was 50,000 rounds expended per enemy killed. The vast majority of bullets fired are for suppression or area clearing where only the tiniest fraction will ever hope to hit anything. Even when fired with direct intent to kill a specific target, rounds are usually expended in bursts where many shots are fired and often none may hit or if they do it's usually only one or two of many.

here's one random article googled on that http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-forced-to-import-bullets-from-israel-as-troops-use-250000-for-every-rebel-killed-508299.html


As for IG, they are fine shots, but they don't have superhuman reflexes or enhanced senses or the finest crafted weapons. Their BS represents an average well trained human soldier. It just so happens that many other things that they fight are just so fantastical/highly evolved/skilled/etc that they far eclipse average human soldiers in ability.