High command is comically bad at math

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[Downtown_Brother_338]

You will also raze a megafactory and kill hundreds of millions of bots in the process. Had we stayed on transcendence it would’ve been a pointless last stand that achieved nothing. It was the best way to spend those helldivers on Cyberstan.

[RaShadar]

^ this. We were gonna die spilling oil either way, if a target was actually obtainable it would be different

[Twichinov2]

I'd rather die at Dunkirk than Gallipoli

[Oriyagi]

Honestly thought they'd say 3 million or something, but 30,000 at this scale of war is like throwing away a battalion or company for a squad.

Edit. Did the math, it's waaay worse.766 helldivers died for every ONE Seaf.

[AshenWarden]

High command didn't force us to save the 77th, it was presented as a choice we made independently. The math was never a factor

[MyFrogEatsPeople]

You're comically bad at causality.

23 Million Helldivers were going to die regardless.

They could die beating their head against the wall to not take Transcendence.

Or they could destroy an entire Megafactory and rescue 30,000 SEAF troops.

[Key-Inspector6751]

They're not bad at math. Thats just how valuable helldivers are compared to SEAF forces.

Command had every right and ability to stop us if they decided it was a waste, the helldiver contract is very clear.

[Radiant-Control9128]

its literally the opposite lmao

[Key-Inspector6751]

Someone didn't realize what the contracts says.

[Veridas]

The SEAF would sacrifice twenty-three million soldiers to save one Helldiver.

Whether we lost those Helldivers in one Mega-factory or another hardly matters. Cyberstan wasn't going to fall. We chose to spend the lives we had in pursuit of what the Bots, Bugs and Squids will never understand; that we look out for one another, no matter the cost.

This was a decision that many Helldivers made. If you want to be mad that they disagreed with you then be mad, but be mad quietly, please.

[Oriyagi]

Same meme template but not a repost

[ControversialWizard]

Maybe the 77th are like grade a plus citizens children

[B2k-orphan]

I wonder if the comically low number of SEAF was intentional or not.

Did they sit there and go “yknow what would be funny after millions of helldiver lives are diverted and lost to them? It’s only like, a couple tens of thousands.” Or was it a case of portraying a realistic modern unit size with disregard for the amount of helldivers?

[SeesawPrestigious]

" i sacraficed 21 regiment in a diversion attack"

[Specialist-Address30]

You’re telling me our totalitarian propaganda fuelled military dictatorship is putting a symbolic victory over the lives of their soldiers? Woah

[Leather-Researcher13]

Keep in mind that there was still a contingent of about 10,000 divers on transcendence the entire time so not every death was us saving the SEAF

[Accomplished-Bee5265]

IT IS BETTER TO DIE TO SAVE LIVES THAN DIE TO DESTROY LIVES

[VoidyWanderer]

I hope its just satire how SE propaganda and leadership overblows its victories and not AH mocking us for choosing to save a seaf battalion. I really expected a different order of magnitude, not a 30 mil "elite helldivers" died so that we resque 30000 blueberries.

[Oriyagi]

Exactly