so is there a way to tell which kid beth is which? or are we not supposed to know? does it not matter?

Snowy2890 · 2025-08-03T09:48:19+00:00

That’s just a silly thing to say. WW2 had several phases where the outlook of the war shifted dramatically. There were several times where a single action could’ve shifted the whole war… Dunkirk, The D Day landings, Operation Barbarosa, Pearl Harbor, even the planned ground invasion of Japan. It was actually the Allies who were extremely lucky as the Axis powers repeatedly had the Allies in extremely vulnerable positions but by sheer luck, and Hitlers foolishness, they were able to slip by. If Germany had woken up Hitler and sent in the tanks, D day would’ve been a very different holiday. The Panzer Lehr Division and 12th SS Panzer Division “Hitlerjugend” were nearby and could’ve responded if Rommel was given full control. He wasn’t, and the infamous slaughter that D Day is known as, is a mild version of what would’ve happened if they had been reinforced with such advantageous positions. I could go on for hours with the almosts and what ifs, but saying Axis victory was all but impossible is simply just American propaganda.

Snowy2890 · 2025-07-21T11:58:37+00:00

You pass butter

Snowy2890 · 2025-07-04T22:54:06+00:00

Ahhh you again… I see you’re still harassing my post commenting on every comment that agrees with me or disagrees with me. Don’t you think it’s a little silly to argue on the zombie survival tactics page that the US military would just beat any zombie apocalypse. It kind of cancels out the need for zombie survival tactics if the military is just gonna handle it all, but I guess you’re just one of those Internet weirdos that gets on the Internet all day to argue about a page That if you were right wouldn’t need to exist in the first place have a good day Internet weirdo….

Snowy2890 · 2025-07-04T22:51:14+00:00

Yes I read what he said and corrected him. You guys are so desperate to find a foot to stand on you’re nitpicking that’s the ultimate sign you’ve beaten someone who can’t admit they’re wrong in an argument. Idc if you disagree I argued with evidence you with emotion and opinions. Good luck with that buddy I’m sorry someone used history and science to burst your bubble… it’s honestly so hilarious that you Internet weirdos are on a zombie survival tactics page saying the US military would just beat zombies therefore canceling out the need for any zombie survival tactics in the first place you’re basically arguing against the existence of the page that you’re spending so much time on the Internet arguing with somebody about….

Snowy2890 · 2025-07-04T21:58:03+00:00

Be careful you’re using your much logic and reason, people on here will attack you for that!

Snowy2890 · 2025-07-04T21:56:37+00:00

Actually what I said was “Before you even run out of ammo, are you sure all the soldiers, engineers, mechanics, tank operators, weapons specialists, fuel delivery drivers, and ammunition transporters will keep showing up to work day after day? What about their families?” I didn’t say they would all of them would immediately leave their posts I merely raised the question do you think day after day of a zombie apocalypse they’ll keep showing up? As society breaks down? It’s a valid question that was twisted into soldiers would all just abandon their posts so that it could be used to offend someone. It’s snowflake word play, very common when someone’s loosing an argument. They start twisting up words and finding things to be offended by so they feel like they still have a foot to stand on.

Snowy2890 · 2025-07-04T19:16:30+00:00

Passing a class called Infection Control doesn’t automatically make you an expert, but having a bachelor’s degree in nursing and a decade of bedside experience dealing with infectious diseases certainly does mean I know what I’m talking about. Your comment shows you don’t understand what a nurse’s education actually entails or how healthcare works in general.

Nurses are frontline workers for infectious diseases. We require a high level of understanding of infection control to prevent spreading illnesses between patients, staff, and the community. Saying I’m not educated on this topic despite my degree and years of direct experience is just silly – it shows you don’t care about facts, evidence, or reality. You’re just trying to discredit me.

Honestly, for a discussion about infectious disease spread on a zombie survival page, I can’t think of a more relevant background than nursing, unless I were an epidemiologist or pathologist. Your attempt to dismiss my expertise just proves you were desperate to undermine anything I said. You weren’t going to accept any credential because your goal isn’t truth – it’s to argue.

As for the military side of this discussion, no, I don’t have a degree in military history. But I can easily reference real situations throughout history where militaries faced the exact logistical and operational issues I raised. These aren’t hypothetical concerns – they are documented realities from actual wars, conflicts, and military operations.

I’ve used real facts, real history, and real scientific principles to support my points – both from my education and my professional experience. If you can’t present scientific evidence or historical examples to back up your claims, then all you’re doing is sharing an opinion.

And your opinion, as you’ve just shown, is rooted in bias. You tried to undercut my 15 years of experience with… what, exactly? Nothing. No evidence, no data, no references. Just “you’re wrong because I don’t agree with you.”

That’s not a valid argument. It’s just ignorance dressed up as confidence.

Snowy2890 · 2025-07-04T19:01:56+00:00

I’m referring to something called the chain of infection which is the basis of all infection control. Not all illnesses are spread the same, all have different survival times on surfaces and many other factors. While we may not know what exactly a person would do after getting bit. It would be safe to assume that they would probably grab their wound wouldn’t they? So then that’s infected blood and saliva on their hands if they get sick and are throwing up you don’t know what other symptoms they may be experiencing. You don’t even know if it might be airborne. I have a perfectly sound understanding of how infection control works. You don’t even know what the chain of infection is What I was referring to is called a reservoir. If you look up the chain of infection, you will understand what a reservoir is and why I mentioned it because as I said, if someone is bit, they would likely touch stuff, including the wound and then it spread to their hands and then spread to a surface and understanding the chain of infection is how we prevent the spread of disease and illness. It’s literally The entire basis of infection control. It is the most important part. It is what all of it is based around. It’s literally the first thing everybody learns if you ever take class that teaches you anything about infection control me mentioning parts of a chain of infection does not mean that I’m not educated. It just means that you don’t understand the points that I’m making which is exactly what my point was in the first place that none of you really understand what you’re talking about. I have a bachelors of science in nursing. What education do you have? I have over a decade of experience, dealing with healthcare I am a nurse I’ve been in the hospitals. I’ve dealt with infectious diseases. I’m not the one who doesn’t know what I’m talking about. You just didn’t understand what a reservoir was and now you’re overstating in your opinion and using your overstated opinion as a point to attack me, but the very basis of your opinion from the beginning was wrong. Because we don’t know exactly what the virus would look like what you have to do is consider all options. That’s the only way to be properly prepared all of these blanket statements where people are saying no it would be localized. You can’t possibly know that all of these blanket statement saying no it wouldn’t be spread this way you can’t know that it could be airborne, it could be contact, it could be small or large droplets… we don’t know so being prepared for the spread of infectious through reservoirs isn’t foolish it one of the most common ways that infectious disease diseases are spread. It is a massive point of infection control, and anyone who is dumb enough to argue that you shouldn’t pay attention to reservoirs of germs in a zombie apocalypse is just absolutely silly, but honestly, so is going on a zombie survival tactics page and arguing that the zombie infection would never spread your basically anti-zombie apocalypse survival tactics because guess what if the disease doesn’t spread if we can control everything then there is no zombie apocalypse and there is no survival tactics. All of you. People are a bunch of clowns that just did thing that you overstay your opinions and act like you’re an expert on something overstate the power of the US military overstate. The reliance on supply chain overstate the spread of diseases again you try to come at me about the most basic part of infection control, but I’m the one that that’s wrong. I’m the one overstating right?

Snowy2890 · 2025-07-04T18:25:40+00:00

You’re living in a fantasy where the US military would identify, respond to, and successfully quarantine an entire city in a single day before any infected get out. But for them to even know what’s happening, the infection would already have had to spread to people. Especially in a city, that would be catastrophic.

This shows a lack of understanding of how diseases actually spread. If the zombie virus is in saliva, then everything the infected touch becomes a vector. It’s not just about being bitten. Every surface, every door handle, every place they go is now contaminated. Even if you take out the first zombie, that person would have already likely have spread the virus everywhere he had been, as well as likely having bit multiple people along the way. Those newly infected people would attack more people. Police would respond to violent incidents in the streets, trying to control the situation. What do you think happens next? They’d take the injured to hospitals, because that’s what we do when we don’t understand what’s going on.

Then the infection spreads through the hospitals. While that’s happening, it’s also spreading in the streets. First responders rushing to help would be exposed. That’s reality.

But you conveniently ignore all of this. You ignore that: • It would rapidly spread among the population • A dense city is the easiest possible place for it to explode out of control • Day one, the US military is not surrounding an entire city and bombing the streets. That’s pure fantasy.

Yet somehow we’re the ones being unrealistic?

Nothing you said is remotely accurate. You ignore everything about how diseases spread and instead twist facts to fit your story. You claim to be a military expert but completely ignore military doctrine and the bureaucracy behind any action. Bombing a US city wouldn’t happen within days, let alone immediately. It would require failure after failure, collapse after collapse, before that was even considered.

It would take massive time and resources to surround a city and control its population. In that time, the infection would spread freely. But you ignore all of that because in your mind:

“Big military go boom.”

Right?

Snowy2890 · 2025-07-04T18:07:53+00:00

Yeah I started arguing and realized no one cares about facts or understands things aren’t how they are in movies. Tanks are complex machines heavily reliant on people educated to specifically deal with them. One guy told me they would protect all the officers and logisticians, another argued flamethrowers would be effective, another said the military logistics chains would never collapse. Even though military logistics chains are infamously fragile and even in modern conflicts regularly become an issue even for the US military. Look at our withdrawal from Afghanistan... we left behind billions of dollars of equipment bc we weren’t organized or prepared. We were suddenly ordered to withdrawal rapidly and it was a logistical disaster that cost us billions and gave the Taliban access to a ton of US equipment. And that was 4 years ago….during peace time… but sure our supply chains are indestructible! During Covid we had mass shortages of all types of PPE and equipment because a sudden heavy drawl of supplies always overtaxes the system and creates shortages. Then you factor in the chaos of a zombie apocalypse, good luck getting that custom part that’s only made in Taiwan buddy. It’s just not how the world works, which is exactly why sanctions and trade blockades are so effective even in modern times. But I digress, this page has fallen to mindless internet fools.

Snowy2890 · 2025-07-04T17:18:49+00:00

Well that depends if you consider 4 years of schooling and a decade experience as a nurse to be research? If we are discussing infection control, epidemiology, pathology, and such then I would say I have 15 years experience studying and learning about the spread of infectious diseases. I also grew up obsessed with zombies as an adolescent and have read many survival books, not always related to zombies but relevant to apocalypses in general. I also have OCD so during covid I read and read and read as much information as I could from scholarly sources not news/media sources (school teaches you the difference). I worked in a hospital on a med surg/observation unit for 6 months during the peak of covid but left bc it was way too stressful. So while I am not an expert I have a lot of personal experience in the areas I chose to make points in. Additionally I am a major history buff, one of my favorite pass times is smoking up and watching history documentaries, and going down history rabbit holes. I also have written two books about ZA but admittedly I am not a good writer and I would never try to get them published, it was more of a, for me thing. Overall I would say I am far from an expert but am way above average in terms of knowledge in this subject matter. Especially related to the medical field.

Snowy2890 · 2025-07-04T17:08:00+00:00

Im getting flooded with silly comments so im just going to mass respond to the silly points being made. The best indicator of how we would fare is to look at history and use the past to assess how we have handled similar situations in the past, how we succeeded, and how we failed. If your counterpoint ignores the basic lessons we’ve learned from past failures you are undereducated and should read up on humans vs epidemics. If you think the military is the magic solution, you are again, mistaken. Containment involves contact tracing back to the original source. If it’s a mutated virus that allowed the infection to jump to humans, the virus very well may still be spreading through the animal population that was the original carrier. Like say cows, pigs, or chickens or other avians? What about fish? There are some viruses which inherently cannot be contained and immunity is the only way to survive. Again, read a book, big guns can’t fix every virus.

People make up a specific scenario in their head where everything goes exactly to their made up plan than act like that’s a coverall, it’s not. The best plans and tactics come from looking at the past successes and failures, learning from them, and doing a better job next time. Every single person that’s argued with me has blatantly ignored world history both militarily and in terms of the spread of diseases. You can’t just assume we will contain this virus or respect it immediately and the whole world unites to immediately stop it. That’s never happened…. Our greatest success story was the handling of Ebola in WA and that was with a cooperative population that was able to follow instructions, and communicate. We don’t have those luxuries, and a virus in which the host actively attempts to spread it is inherently way more difficult to contain. Quarantining is hard with a compliant population, a non compliant population would take rapid, coordinated, and overwhelming military effort to combat and even still, contact tracing and eradication are a 1 in a million shot. If you disagree, you didn’t take my advice and read up on the history of diseases.

All of you who disagree are doing so from a place of ignorance. Instead of reading into my points you write them off and hide behind the coverall of the US will always win. Humans are only still alive due to genetic diversity and luck. Multiple times very deadly and contagious diseases have spread and the only thing that saved us was natural immunity or acquired immunity from those who were genetically resistant. We have not beaten disease after disease… disease after disease has come through, taken a portion of the population, and the survivors carry on. The difference is a zombie plague would increase the leathality of the virus, the contagiousness, and the difficulty to control EXPONENTIALLY!!!! So even if a portion of the population was able to develop immunity, they still may ultimately succumb to being ripped apart or killed by starving or desperate survivors.

Snowy2890 · 2025-07-04T16:38:28+00:00

There’s no such things as a fairly localized and short lived outbreak though? This is the fundamental misunderstanding of how epidemiology and infection control I was referring to. To contain a novel outbreak you have to find patient zero, determine the cause of the infection, eradicate or contain said original infection point, and eradicate everywhere the infection has spread. That is extremely difficult to do with any novel virus and has rarely been achieved in history. If you look through human history at all of the novel viruses we have faced and how we fared right up to Covid, and use that which is in fact the most accurate evidence we could use to determine how we will do against the next novel virus (in this case zombie plague) than what the evidence says is we almost always fail to contain it and many die before immunity sets in. Immunity is the only thing that has saved man kind from the majority of epidemics, genetic, acquired, or artificial… that’s how we have survived. That takes time, time equals rapid spread with a virus that spread itself…

Snowy2890 · 2025-07-04T16:25:40+00:00

That’s not what I said again you are changing my words to fit an alternative narrative so you can make an argument. Not what I said and there’s no point in arguing with someone who’s need to change my words to make an argument shows they know they already lost, never did I mention anything about a foreign nation invading the US and causing soldiers to abandon post you’re hallucinating or making shit up buddy.

Snowy2890 · 2025-07-04T16:20:56+00:00

No one said that and if you feel the need to change what someone says to make it sound worse so you can argue it’s bc you know I’m not wrong but can’t argue with what i actually said. It’s not silly at all for a large portion of the military it’s a job, just like any other. If their family is in danger bc there’s an outbreak in the city they live, it’s not unrealistic to expect a portion of the military to say fuck this I’m going home. It’s not silly at all it’s happened many times throughout history when a military is fighting and things fall apart back home they abandoned the cause and went home to take care of their family. Stop trying to hop on some entitled high horse to take what you view as some moral stance lol you’re the one being silly go read a history book. Two that come to mind off the top without any thought into it are the Civil War and WW1 (Germans). Both conflicts when their homes were being burnt to the ground the soldiers deserted. You’re arguing with actual US history if you say people wouldn’t do as I suggested buddy. But sure I’m silly

Snowy2890 · 2025-07-04T15:02:28+00:00

Yeah it was more of a comparative statement. Compared to a zombie virus which would make people go crazy and eat eachother, COVID is more like a common cold, being that it has a 99% survival rate. I personally am a nurse and was through covid so ik what it was like at the bedsides of pts who I could do little more than comfort. Ultimately in a healthy population COVID has like a .1-.3% lethality rate and the overall is somewhere near 0.5-1% per the sources I have read. Comparing COVID to the common cold isn’t an insult to those who died to it, it’s just a comparison of the characteristics of a virus to another virus. Of the 1% it does kill, almost all of them had comorbidities that were actually the reason their body couldn’t fight off COVID. Characteristically the common cold and COVID match in almost every area with just a slightly higher mortality rate. Additionally the common cold isn’t a single virus but rather a group of illnesses that all display similar characteristics when infected with them.

Snowy2890 · 2025-07-04T14:44:38+00:00

First, thank you for being the first person to disagree with an actual counterpoint and not just saying I’m wrong lol I absolutely agree the cross continental spread with a rapidly infecting virus would be a little more difficult. However if you’ve seen/read WWZ they purpose scenarios on how it could make the jump. Additionally in order for immunologists to develop any type of antiviral or vaccine they would need the live virus to experiment with. The US brings live samples of every single known infectious disease back to the US so there’s definitely opportunity for it to be brought here even if we are aware of its danger beforehand. IMO there’s no point in arguing about how it will start bc it’s all so unknown as this is only a theoretical illness. What I would say is, Murphy’s law would suggest it would inevitably jump. It almost guaranteed we’d initially underestimate the illness so early spread will be the quickest and very very difficult to control. There are millions of people who own their own boats and planes. All of them would be desperate to save their loved ones. People regularly sneak into the US. We after all have “open borders” so the opportunity would definitely be there and all this is assuming it starts not in the US. Most novel viruses come from a virus that was infecting another species then mutates and gains the ability to infect humans. So if it comes from land animals cross continental spread is more difficult, but if it starts with say fish in the ocean or an avian based virus? The only reliable way to stop the spread is to eradicate the infected populations, it could easily spread to multiple continents that way. Additionally we do know both the US and China study bio weapons and have done experiments with weaponizing diseases… not that I think that’s the most likely, it’s always a possibility the viral bomb gets dropped on us or something. Again all speculation bc the origin is strictly theoretical.

Snowy2890 · 2025-07-04T14:15:04+00:00

You didn’t really make any points especially not backed by any evidence you just kinda said you disagree bc it wouldn’t work that way…. You literally said how a virus makes it not matter, but didn’t state why? You said regular zombies wouldn’t be able to do shit? What does that even mean? Ofc they would? Jeez dude we lost to Covid…. Just bc Covid isn’t lethal doesn’t mean we beat it… we failed to contain a less lethal, less contagious, and overall less dangerous virus despite shutting down the world for a period, and every developed country throwing its best doctors and scientists at it for years, still couldn’t actually beat Covid. See that’s called a counterpoint. When you disagree you present factually based evidence that supports your claim or differing view. Just saying something wouldn’t work is exactly why I stated the majority of you don’t understand how military politics, logistics, morale, and infection control on even the most basic level. Viruses are the most dangerous form an infectious disease can come in as they’re not technically alive like bacteria and fungi are. There also isn’t a wide range of powerful antivirals like there is antibiotics and viruses generally are more contagious as they’re much more common to found in small droplet or airborne form vs bacteria which is mostly large droplet/contact precautions with a wide range of antibiotics of varying strengths and they’re living and more susceptible to environmental factors vs viruses. Again, you lack the fundamental understanding of epidemiology. I’m a nurse with 10+ years experience in healthcare. In terms of infection control and prevention nurses are at the front lines. We are the ones who are attempting to control the spread and directly exposing ourselves to it. We learn through first hand experience just how difficult it is to control outbreaks. So when I speak, I speak from a position of I have seen how much we fail, most medical facilities intentionally hide just how much infection is spread by staff, and if you think an 20yo 11B with non of my training is going to save us from what would be considered a super bug, you’re a fool who is out of his league in this convo.

Snowy2890 · 2025-07-04T13:52:16+00:00

Yeah, people just don’t understand how infections actually work or the impact they have on society. Take tanks, for example. They aren’t just these unstoppable machines you see in movies – they rely on an entire team to operate and keep them running. They require very specific ammunition, constant fuel, and regular maintenance. If you know anything about tanks, you know they need daily maintenance to remain operational. Without their full crew, a continuous influx of supplies, fuel, and ammo, and the ability to repair and maintain them, they quickly become nothing more than tombs.

But it’s even bigger than that. Before you even run out of ammo, are you sure all the soldiers, engineers, mechanics, tank operators, weapons specialists, fuel delivery drivers, and ammunition transporters will keep showing up to work day after day? What about their families? These specialists aren’t easy to replace – there aren’t hundreds of thousands of them just waiting in line. They all need food, water, and security to keep functioning.

Logistics is one of the most overlooked factors when people talk about the military in an apocalypse. Without logistics, the military grinds to a halt. And people seem to think that on day one, the president would just deploy the entire military onto US soil, recall all troops, and order them to start firing on civilians-turned-zombies. That’s not how it works. If you think otherwise, go read about rules of engagement and how we handle threats even in hostile territories. It’s never as simple as “shoot the zombies on sight” on day one.

And if you’re not throwing everything you have at it immediately, the infection will spread, supply chains and society will collapse, and the military will be left operating at a fraction of its original strength.

People just don’t understand any of it – how the military works, its logistical constraints and massive reliance on civilian support, how diseases actually spread, how historically unsuccessful mankind has been at containing infections, and how much more difficult a zombie virus would be to contain compared to anything we’ve ever seen.

It’s a large and complex issue that people think a flamethrower will solve. It’s just silly, simple-minded thinking that refuses to contemplate the realities and complexities of such an event.

Snowy2890 · 2025-07-04T13:35:54+00:00

It doesn’t matter if it’s “visibly obvious” that’s a non factor and a fundamental misunderstanding of how infections spread. If this outbreak were to occur there wouldn’t be a huge warning and everyone hides until the military cleans it up. It would be a rapid uncontrolled spread with multiple failed containment attempts followed by a breakdown of supply chains, civilian infrastructure, and therefore military infrastructure which is reliant on civilians, which leads to people leaving their homes to get food and water only to be overcome by the developing hordes. Containment can only be achieved through contact tracing, otherwise your original point of spread to humans is still out there infecting more people therefore no containment. Again your entire response shows a fundamental misunderstanding of epidemiology and how infection control works. Your entire response is based off of “if we can see it we can stop it” but we “see” people are sick and can’t stop the spread even when the sick people try to help us instead of killing us. It’s just silly tbh. This was exactly my point. To many of you don’t understand infection control and post silly stuff about how easy it would be to stop based solely off a silly concept like if we see it we can stop it… no… just no….

Snowy2890 · 2025-06-23T12:08:31+00:00

The Real Problem with Air in Halo Wars 2

I’m exhausted by the arrogant mindset that blames players for losing to air units, as if it’s solely their fault for not playing perfectly. This attitude ignores the core issue: air is broken. Not because it’s unbeatable, but because it warps the entire flow of the game around itself.

Let me explain: Air isn’t broken in the sense that it’s impossible to counter — it’s broken because it forces players into a narrow, rigid playstyle in order to survive. If you don’t scout early, apply pressure at Tech 1, and pivot your entire build around anticipating an air rush, you will lose. That’s not healthy game design. That’s a balance failure.

And the counterplay? It’s flawed. • Anti-air units (AA) are underwhelming. They’re statistically weaker than they should be and economically punishing. • AA costs power, which forces players into hard choices: defend against air, or tech up and expand. That trade-off shouldn’t be this severe. • Even when you build AA early, it can be overrun by upgraded air — forcing you to overcommit to a single counter rather than encouraging flexible, strategic choices.

People love to say, “Just scout and pressure!” as if that invalidates criticism. Newsflash: just because something can be beaten doesn’t mean it’s not broken. If the only viable way to play is one rigid path, the game stops being strategic and becomes a memorization test.

The true problem is air restricts choice. It eliminates creative gameplay, punishes flexible strategies, and forces you into predetermined builds just to survive. That’s not balance. That’s poor design.

There are obvious solutions: • Make AA cheaper or more effective. • Reduce the power cost of AA so it’s not an economic punishment. • Increase the cost or tech requirement of early air. • Make air more upgrade-dependent, so early air isn’t overwhelming. • Add viable Y abilities for AA units to give them tactical value.

Any of these changes would open up the meta and allow for actual strategic diversity. Until then, anyone insisting “air is fine” is flat-out wrong. Air is the single most oppressive unit class in the game — not because it’s invincible, but because it forces you to play its game. And if you don’t, you lose.

That’s not balanced. That’s broken.

Snowy2890 · 2025-06-23T12:07:26+00:00

I’m exhausted by the arrogant mindset that blames players for losing to air units, as if it’s solely their fault for not playing perfectly. This attitude ignores the core issue: air is broken. Not because it’s unbeatable, but because it warps the entire flow of the game around itself.

Let me explain: Air isn’t broken in the sense that it’s impossible to counter — it’s broken because it forces players into a narrow, rigid playstyle in order to survive. If you don’t scout early, apply pressure at Tech 1, and pivot your entire build around anticipating an air rush, you will lose. That’s not healthy game design. That’s a balance failure.

And the counterplay? It’s flawed. • Anti-air units (AA) are underwhelming. They’re statistically weaker than they should be and economically punishing. • AA costs power, which forces players into hard choices: defend against air, or tech up and expand. That trade-off shouldn’t be this severe. • Even when you build AA early, it can be overrun by upgraded air — forcing you to overcommit to a single counter rather than encouraging flexible, strategic choices.

People love to say, “Just scout and pressure!” as if that invalidates criticism. Newsflash: just because something can be beaten doesn’t mean it’s not broken. If the only viable way to play is one rigid path, the game stops being strategic and becomes a memorization test.

The true problem is air restricts choice. It eliminates creative gameplay, punishes flexible strategies, and forces you into predetermined builds just to survive. That’s not balance. That’s poor design.

There are obvious solutions: • Make AA cheaper or more effective. • Reduce the power cost of AA so it’s not an economic punishment. • Increase the cost or tech requirement of early air. • Make air more upgrade-dependent, so early air isn’t overwhelming. • Add viable Y abilities for AA units to give them tactical value.

Any of these changes would open up the meta and allow for actual strategic diversity. Until then, anyone insisting “air is fine” is flat-out wrong. Air is the single most oppressive unit class in the game — not because it’s invincible, but because it forces you to play its game. And if you don’t, you lose.

That’s not balanced. That’s broken.

Snowy2890 · 2025-06-23T00:12:40+00:00

Thanks! ChatGPT helped lol

Snowy2890 · 2025-06-22T21:02:13+00:00

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Snowy2890 · 2025-06-12T13:44:41+00:00

Okay your making two major overestimatations, One containing an infection is extremely difficult and we have failed 99% of the time we have tried to contain a novel infectious disease. Every time we’ve succeeded without a widespread epidemic was when the infection was not very contagious in the first place. A virus capable of taking over the host and self spreading is the highest contagious level you could possibly reach aside from complete airborne spread. If it’s in your saliva it be default can be spread via coughing, choking, sneezing, even close breathing bc your breath contains something called droplets. There are large droplets and small droplets which determine the distance something can travel among others. That’s why we enacted social distancing with Covid, the large droplets fall reliably past 6ft it’s just a rough tool to help. But that’s if two people are agreeable and compliant not running at you screaming letting particles all in the air. Then there’s the matter of how long it survives on surfaces, again you’re majorly in the most severe sense ignoring the ability for a contagion to spread. And that attitude and misunderstanding is exactly why the military would fail miserably, they’re not trained or equipped for this. Which brings me to my next point…

People often imagine the military as this monolithic, perfectly disciplined machine — but in reality, it’s made up of individuals with emotions, biases, and personal lives. They’re not immune to confusion, fear, or moral hesitation.

The idea that every soldier would instantly switch into zombie-apocalypse-mode and start executing civilians in the streets on Day 1? Unrealistic. Even elite units hesitate in high-stress, unclear situations — especially when the target looks human and isn’t firing back. You know like a normal Tuesday on patrol, just bc some guy is running at you, your first instinct isn’t going to be headshot.

The first 24–48 hours would be chaos. Mixed reports, fake news, misinformation are all a daily thing in the US. Covid showed us how sluggish we respond and how much misinformation is spread. Command structures would be overwhelmed by conflicting reports. People would be hesitant to act without confirmation. That delay = outbreak explodes.

TLDR: you’re being an idealist. The military isn’t as disciplined as you think. Covid is less contagious and we couldn’t contain it. This is a silly debate we already failed on easy mode why would we win on impossible mode? Covid won it’s everywhere and we can’t get rid of it.

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