Re: [SG/DS] Orbital assault was RE: Troop Quality was RE: [SG2] weapons

At 4:50 AM -0800 11/25/03, John Atkinson wrote:
>
>I'm going to assume that given an entire planet to
>choose from, they are going to live relatively near
>the high-value items that the invading force is going
>to want intact.  Besides which, if the ESU starts
>nuking colony planets clean, then the NAC is going to
>start nuking colony planets clean, and who the hell
>wants that?  You end up with a lot of sterile little
>ex-colonies.

This is the thing that gets me (and I agree with you). If you 
Orb-Bomb the planet from high into submission, why exactly are you so 
hot to take it again? After all, you've now got a planet in the 
middle of nowhere (galactically speaking) that will need aid and 
resources. What population you haven't killed is going to die from 
the after effects of the bombardment and you just tied up lots of 
resources trying to fix a planet. This assumes you're planning on 
staying.

>Which is simply because David Weber isn't interested
>in ground combat and can't write it worth a damn.

John, we need to get you and Ringo together. You can two time weber 
on the next round of books.
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