Why dont the combine have a hevy wepon

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Tanks don't run on that kind of fuel

 

[ThrasherX9]

A tank taking on a strider is just stupid. There's no strategic advantage. Like Bob_Marley said, having multiple rebels with RPGs is better than a couple of tanks. A one on one with a strider and a tank would end so fast one would barely even notice. A tank could have advantages in say smashing through a city or traversing through rough terrain.

 

[Drudge]

why have loads of rebels if you can have one tank waitin in ambush rebels would be better off takeing out the combine soldiers putting rebels in a fight with striders is like standing in frount of a speeding car

 

[Mechagodzilla]

For the original question, the RPG is a combine weapon.

They just never use it, probably since it's overkill against anything the rebel team has to offer. Other than the buggy.

 

[TerminallYDead]

Back to this i bet that a soldier could take on a vontagaunt any day.

Er. A Combine soldier? Spawn it and try.

Trust me, the solider won't stand a chance.

Playing Garry's Mod I spawned an army of zombies and 5 vortigaunts. The zombies all died. The vortigaunts can take down nearly anything (that isn't a vehicle)

As for the tanks, surely a rebellion works better if it relies on maneuverability (sp?) than brtue force, especially since the combine are probably able to grow new striders/gunships/synths. The strength of the rebellion is that they can strike nearly anywhere, and being infantry based, they don't NEED any big manufacturing plants, etc.

Factories or where ever these tanks are going to be built would be an obvious target for the combine.

 

[Jintor]

Now we've gotton into the problem of 'game world' vs 'fiction world'. In the game world, reality is defined by the engine and its limitations. In the fiction world, reality is defined by... well, our concept of reality.

Unfortunantly fictional reality is that tanks can't pwn strider. Strider just gets up close and stabs tank in the face. Jeez, you need 3 - 5 - 10 straight explosions to take it out (apparently it works with barrels, anyone check?), by the time you've finished then they crush your butt (or tank).

What happened to all our Air Force though? Gunships remind me more of choppers than anti-air defenses... might be something... maybe all the airfields are out.

There is still electricity in most of the Cities, right?

 

[Sulkdodds]

apparently it works with barrels, anyone check?

It does indeed. I don't know about the airfoce; maybe the Combine have something more speedy and plane-like that we haven't seen. Whatever it is, the air force obviously didn't make that much of a difference during the War.

 

[Loc-Dog]

The whole idea of Striders is ridicilous to begin with. In real life it would have no balance, and its armor couldn't even be thick enough to efficiently block a heavy machine gun. Let alone several rounds from an RPG, wich also instantly knock it down.

 

[Sulkdodds]

A fair point. Although does that mean you claim to be an expert in alien technology that doesn't exist yet?

 

[Absinthe]

Sulkdodds is ripping y'all new assholes.

 

[hi_ted]

The whole idea of Striders is ridicilous to begin with. In real life it would have no balance, and its armor couldn't even be thick enough to efficiently block a heavy machine gun. Let alone several rounds from an RPG, wich also instantly knock it down.

If they had managed to build forcefields and laser weapons, wouldn't it be logical that their military would have armour to protect against lasers, bullets and explosives?

 

[Loc-Dog]

If they had managed to build forcefields and laser weapons, wouldn't it be logical that their military would have armour to protect against lasers, bullets and explosives?

If that kind of armor was invented (that was thin and strong enough to protect something as small as a strider turret), then the soldiers would probably wear them aswell, or something similar. Striders are more of a light infantry viechle, and i wouldn't count them as heavy weapons. So then all the combine had in City 17 was the gunships, mortar things, and APCs. It does seem a little weak.

Dont they have like a huge mothership or something in orbit around the earth to shoot lasers and stuff?

 

[Asknoone]

Dont they have like a huge mothership or something in orbit around the earth to shoot lasers and stuff?

No, the Combine aren't that generic. There isn't any hokey space travel in Half-life, the Combine came to earth via teleportation.

 

[Drudge]

cuz when you put the thingy in the spetro thingy bob you rip space and time causing a rift causing nasty little buggers to come to earth

But how did the specimen do that?

 

[Sulkdodds]

That is a very complicated topic for an entirely different thread.

 

[Asknoone]

Mhhmm.

 

[Sulkdodds]

Also, the Combine Soldiers do wear very strong bulletproof vests, far stronger than kevlar. Maybe that's the mystery strider armour (or maybe it's game mechanics...).

 

[Cole]

Heres an idea,
Why spend the resources on creating a strong ass army on pitty humans?
The combine use humans(well mindless..besides the metro police) to control humans. They arn't gonna waste there heavy soliders and what they used to take over earth to defend against something as weak as us. They pwned us in 7 hours with there real army.

Anyway, you see my point? If your a combine leader, you don't just take a look at one part of the scenario but the whole thing.

It's like a grocery store manager. I've seen these guys replace over $150 in items. Why? Because lets say that lady comes in there once a week.(I see people come in daily). They spend $100.
Thats $5,200 a year from that person. Lets see.....loose that person over $150..or keep that person...and keep them shopping at your store. Hard choice... Loose $150 or $5k in the long run...


Obviously you get the point. Why use super strong weapons if you don't need to? Just a waste of resources.

 

[ríomhaire]

Strider V Tank
A tank is a clumzy thing that need more than 1 man to operate it. Even if it had a clear shot a strider is intellegent, it could simply dodge. It could easily just walk over the tank and shoot it from behind or if it's far off just move to the side and boom.
Crab Synth V Tank
Since we don't really know what a crab synth is capeable of it's hard to tell. But I think it charges as an attack so if it tried that and succeded then the tank would be shreded but the tank would probably be able to get a shot in first unless it was a flank manouver. I'd say whover has the flank will win. And the Combine had the eliment of surprise so...
Gunship V Jet
The gunship could shoot down the missles while some direct gunfire from the gunship whould shoot down the jet. And as for tanks the gunship could simly fly over them and laser bomb them.

 

[Ames]

Portal storms weakened the world's armies. Citadels teleported into existence in major cities where most of the armed forces were gathered. Super blitzkrieg took out a majority of the armed forces before they could even react.

 

[Drudge]

it wasnt a war fighting on a frount the army had to cope with xen spawning all over them they were outflanked everywhere they went and they cept on comeing eventually breaking the army with numbers.

 

[DoctorWeeTodd]

If that kind of armor was invented (that was thin and strong enough to protect something as small as a strider turret), then the soldiers would probably wear them aswell, or something similar. Striders are more of a light infantry viechle, and i wouldn't count them as heavy weapons. So then all the combine had in City 17 was the gunships, mortar things, and APCs. It does seem a little weak.

Dont they have like a huge mothership or something in orbit around the earth to shoot lasers and stuff?

You must be talking about the supressor beam.

 

[ríomhaire]

You must be talking about the supressor beam.

You can actually go up to the targeter for it when you're on the roof.

 

[Asknoone]

That you can. It isn't that big, actually, but theres alot of machinery in the Nexus to used to keep it runing.