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Ensis Ferrae wrote:

nomsheep wrote:A titans biggest advantage is fear a monsterous robot like that would cause panic not seen since they announced twilight would become a film.

Nom

So what you're saying is that we get super huge projectors, and blast Twilight in the sight radius of the Titan crew, and suddenly the USofA has a 40 meter, bipedal mountain of death on its side?? Sign me up... (as long as I am issued sound/vision proof objects with which to not subject myself to said Twilight exposure)

that is not the case thank god or we would already be wiped. I was comparing the panic and fear as being on a similar scale as a nerds annual bath.

Nom

thats it!!! thats how the US can finally win "the war on terror" forget dropping bombs, just drop tons of copys of twilight on the insurgants. its win win.... stores get rid of the massive over stock that no one is buying, the makers get a feeling of satisfaction knowing that their product is doing more then causing an increase in suicide numbers and self mutilation, and the insurgents all go crazy and surender "to make it stop" plus itll be dirt cheap, since each copy is only worth about half a penny.

and whats better.....itll STILL be a better love story then twilight.

Actually, the military does do stuff like that...

Not quite dropping books on people, but our psych-ops units do use music, publications, and other pop-culture ephemera to destabilize enemy populations, interrogate prisoners, jam radio communications (I used a looped tape of what sounded like a hundred different dogs barking at once to jam radio communications of suspected narco traficante forces in Colombia during Operation: Colombia under Pres. Clinton) and otherwise wage a psychological war.

They will also carpet an area with various pamphlets and propaganda publications, with a myriad of purposes. Some of it is to spread false information, others are to announce bounties for information/capture of enemy personnel, some are offers of amnesty (so that the innocent in an area take these pamphlets and go surrender to US forces at a camp, anyone left in the area is considered a combatant when combat forces roll in the following week).

I dunno about Twilight being dropped on Al Qaeda areas, but I could definitely envision copies of Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses" and such.

Tadashi wrote:

Emerett wrote:We have an awful lot of air defense, I imagine a couple of small nukes to the face would knock it out pretty fast.

Titan shields are starship-grade, meant to handle to torpedo strikes and lance hits, the former of which amounts to tactical-grade nuclear blasts. We have nothing that comes close to a lance cannon. Even a few 'small nukes' would barely register on the Titan's shields. It would then unleash it's own ballistic weapon batteries, and respond in kind.

Alrighty, try the thousands we have... to the face.

Emerett wrote:

Tadashi wrote:

Emerett wrote:We have an awful lot of air defense, I imagine a couple of small nukes to the face would knock it out pretty fast.

Titan shields are starship-grade, meant to handle to torpedo strikes and lance hits, the former of which amounts to tactical-grade nuclear blasts. We have nothing that comes close to a lance cannon. Even a few 'small nukes' would barely register on the Titan's shields. It would then unleash it's own ballistic weapon batteries, and respond in kind.

Alrighty, try the thousands we have... to the face.

Thousands aren't even required. Titan shields are nowhere close to being "starship grade" nor is a titan's weaponry that impressive ( nice, realy nice, but probably not sufficient to destroy entire cities on it's own ) nor is a titan able to survive a plasma torpedo impact ( or stand anywhere near such an impact ). Battletitans are powerful, they reduce entire tank companies to slag, they can, if used in numbers, help to break trough voidshield protected fortresses and they are a great moral boost. They are not a replacement for conventional armies.

Titans do not always explode. Just read Titanicus. Dont think the titans would engage in close combat otherwise.

Alexzandvar wrote:I'm going to throw this in favor of the Titan, we would probably end up surrendering if we saw one.

Not to mention the amount of Nuclear weaponry required to destroy it would probably cause more damage than it already had. The Plasma reactors inside of a Warlord Titan are also enough to power about 10 New Yorks, considering the massive amount of energy required to sustain the Titan and it's weaponry would be unfathomable by our current science. Every shot is almost a nuclear blast.

Eh. There's a big difference between the power of a tactical nuke and the kind of warhead we put on ICBMs. Even so, a tactical nuke would wipe out everything on the board in a game of 40k, even an apocalypse game.

How much damage would 10 Warlord Titans cause supported by say, 2 Imperial Guard Regiments and 1 Company of Ultramarines?

Depends on how many different strike elements theyve broken up into. If theyre all in one place, not much. You just nuke em. If theyre spread out, considerably more. The basic principle of modern war is that if you can see it, you can kill it. The space marines would be far more dangerous than the titans, provided that they didnt wear that dumb armor and used stealth and misdirection rather than a frontal assault.

GreatGunz wrote:

How much damage would 10 Warlord Titans cause supported by say, 2 Imperial Guard Regiments and 1 Company of Ultramarines?

Depends on how many different strike elements theyve broken up into. If theyre all in one place, not much. You just nuke em. If theyre spread out, considerably more. The basic principle of modern war is that if you can see it, you can kill it. The space marines would be far more dangerous than the titans, provided that they didnt wear that dumb armor and used stealth and misdirection rather than a frontal assault.

You mean SPARTAN-II and ODST style? Good point.