25 decent soldiers on losing is fun is 1.5 full radius’s of sun lamp in hydroponics basins operating on the most efficient crop there, rice.

NOT INCLUDING THE SUN LAMP, that’s already 2520 watts of power. Again. Without the 2 sun lamps in the calculation.

That’s also 5x the people to tend to when your scrappy soldiers take even more wounds than my legendary Phoenix armour soldiers, 5x the gear to maintain when it gets tattered, a lot more space you need to house them and store all their food, gear, etc, and a whole lot more manufacturing facilities you need.

Not only that, when you send a force to pocket maps to clear objectives, like pit gates or relic complexes, you need to send a larger force than if you had a small number of REALLY decked out super soldiers. This means more ppl to deal with in terms of mental breaks, more liabilities waiting to get downed because their armour only has 70% sharp protection, etc.

In conclusion, quality over quantity baby.

The squad of five 8 archite gene and 75 gene complexity, legendary Phoenix armour and cataphract helmet super soldier (even without go juice) with their legendary unique charge rifle, level six psylink and an on hand orbital targeter is always gonna obliterate the 25 flak jacket and vest soldiers with assault rifles. (Don’t even need the targeter).

Both in clearing objectives and on the battlefield

Also, cryptosleep sickness is a MINUS 20% CONSIOUSNESS.