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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Atridis" data-source="post: 1162531" data-attributes="member: 13919">One of the things that I enjoyed in Harry Turtledove's "World War" series was watching the humans develop creative tactics to attack the advanced-tech aliens. At first, "A Hymn Before Battle" appeared to be setting up the humans for the same sort of brains-vs-brawn combat, but it didn't follow through. I admit that I've only read the first book in the series, but I was disappointed with the combat. I kept thinking that these "soldiers of the future" were less well equipped and less imaginative than our armed forces today. The technology was disappointing; while the hitting power, rate of fire, and effective range of the weapons were 1,000 times greater than what we have today, they were essentially just wicked cool, direct fire small arms. He did provide a reason why air power wasn't practical, which puts a serious crimp in contemporary tactics, but how about a battery of mine-laying MLRS? What about an FAE laid in the enemy's path? (Well, okay, that's sort of what they ended up doing, but it was by accident.) I expect that a battalion of army engineers with the right equipment could give the Posleen a harsh education in the foolishness of human-wave attacks (Posleen-wave attacks). I also felt like I'd read it all before. It seemed very much like a re-make of Heinlein's "Starship Troopers", without offering much that was new or innovative. It had potential, but I felt a little cheated at the end.</blockquote>

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