Oh Towering One: HIS ‘lack’ of self-awareness is known in distant worlds, and mostly is amazed at.
He has a LOT of the more common Great Man ailments….’Only HE can fix it,’
‘All who avoid his rule are stupid’, and he TALKS and talks and talks and makes
many illogical untrue claims.
He has an IQ of around 70. Obviously he cannot handle concepts well.
For somebody who hides and brags about himself so much, he has NEVER
been known to voluntarily place himself in close proximity to a genuine enemy.
We’ve SEEN H.T.’s ACT. Yes, let Unity beat his arrogant pretentions ‘down
around his ears’. REALLY. With H.T.’s hide drying on a WALL, Unity can REALLY
mature.
Reason number 1 why you never send a large army in to defeat a zombie horde: Any casualties you suffer will be added to the horde.
If you’re willing to not only fight a war of attrition, but one in which your attrition feeds their ranks, then fine. Send your troops into the meat grinder and hope you have enough to overcome that handicap.
If not, the problem is usually better solved with small assault teams that can take out as many as possible while only adding a few bodies to the horde if they fail. Or, failing that, a nuke.
The nuke does have the appeal of immediate availability and area effect.
The problem is how does it work on zombies? If they operate strictly in some supernatural principle a nuke will have little effect. They just burn if they get ignited.
If, on the other hand, they operate as some kind of nanomachine network the EMP will knock them out just fine, and strangely I’ve never seen anyone in any portrayal of zombies use a stun gun, taser, or cattle prod on one.
They may not be as efficient, but I’d prefer plain old incendiary bombs to nukes. They don’t leave the area ‐ along with any unfortunate survivors – glowing with radiation. Not to mention that in the Narboniverse, those survivors would probably end up being indestructible mutants that could breathe fiery radiation or something.
If you’re thinking conventional, I’d go with some kind of thermobaric or high-pressure air burst weapon. A firebomb risks the possibility of flaming zombies but not re-dead ones, but a massive pressure wave will shred them. That’s why I suggested a nuke, too.
Last time, the duplicate Tip fell apart in the draft from Nick’s rotors. Would that this army be made of sterner stuff.
Mulching is always responsible, unless you’re watching “Fargo”.
If you have seen it, that makes H.T.’s statement more chilling than the numerous that I’m sure it is supposed to be.
Methinks H.T. is ruminating on his troops marching to a mulching.
While on his foes he’ll be a-munching!
*H.T. * is complaining about his foes being violent??? O_O
Is his lack of self- awareness really that profound? o_O
Is uncomfortably realistic.
Does “H.T.” now stand for “Horticultural Tiger”? 😉
Could well be – I’d assumed it was “Herbaceous Tiger”.
“Hungry Tuber?”
While he’s clearly named after Hungry Tiger from the Oz books, I don’t think it’s ever been revealed what, if anything, HT stands for in Skin Horse.
Which is to say, we can’t necessarily rule it out.
Oh Towering One: HIS ‘lack’ of self-awareness is known in distant worlds, and mostly is amazed at.
He has a LOT of the more common Great Man ailments….’Only HE can fix it,’
‘All who avoid his rule are stupid’, and he TALKS and talks and talks and makes
many illogical untrue claims.
He has an IQ of around 70. Obviously he cannot handle concepts well.
For somebody who hides and brags about himself so much, he has NEVER
been known to voluntarily place himself in close proximity to a genuine enemy.
We’ve SEEN H.T.’s ACT. Yes, let Unity beat his arrogant pretentions ‘down
around his ears’. REALLY. With H.T.’s hide drying on a WALL, Unity can REALLY
mature.
OK we are still talking about HT, right?
. . . Yes . . .
Reason number 1 why you never send a large army in to defeat a zombie horde: Any casualties you suffer will be added to the horde.
If you’re willing to not only fight a war of attrition, but one in which your attrition feeds their ranks, then fine. Send your troops into the meat grinder and hope you have enough to overcome that handicap.
If not, the problem is usually better solved with small assault teams that can take out as many as possible while only adding a few bodies to the horde if they fail. Or, failing that, a nuke.
A large inorganic army would work nicely. Death-bots ahoy!
The nuke does have the appeal of immediate availability and area effect.
The problem is how does it work on zombies? If they operate strictly in some supernatural principle a nuke will have little effect. They just burn if they get ignited.
If, on the other hand, they operate as some kind of nanomachine network the EMP will knock them out just fine, and strangely I’ve never seen anyone in any portrayal of zombies use a stun gun, taser, or cattle prod on one.
That last bit would be interesting to see the effects of.
If they’re within the nuclear fireball, they won’t just burn: they’ll vaporize. Only Elder Gods and Majin Boos come back from that.
They may not be as efficient, but I’d prefer plain old incendiary bombs to nukes. They don’t leave the area ‐ along with any unfortunate survivors – glowing with radiation. Not to mention that in the Narboniverse, those survivors would probably end up being indestructible mutants that could breathe fiery radiation or something.
If you’re thinking conventional, I’d go with some kind of thermobaric or high-pressure air burst weapon. A firebomb risks the possibility of flaming zombies but not re-dead ones, but a massive pressure wave will shred them. That’s why I suggested a nuke, too.
I don’t suppose the next chapter is going to be titled “Mulch Ado About Nothing”?
“The Compost Man Always Calls Twice?”
Well now, this is getting topical.
Hey, regular soldiers are biodegradable too: they’re just rather stinkier while decomposing.