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SC = Supreme Commander/Supreme Canadian.
De Facto leader of the military of the APE (Allied Planets Empire).
Coup = Admiral Asskicker, ZPM hive ship
Posted by: grey101
Posted by: SC Matt Klassen
Posted by: Xd00999
Posted by: SC Matt Klassen
Posted by: grey101
You do understand that ships wise the ancients would have as many as the reapers at the most.
So if technology was on the same or similar level it would be a close fight
ZPMs. One advantage.
Drones-which ignore shields. Number two.
Cloaking tech. Three.
I don't know what the turrets on the Aurora-class warships fire, but they're probably energy weapons.
Time dilation fields. Four.
Four advantages for the Ancients.. The Reapers have no power source like the easily -FOR THE ANCIENTS- mass produced ZPM. Plus, megaton yield kinetic weapons do nothing against double gigaton-resistant shields.
Sorry. 2km cuttlefish lose against 3-4km Auroras. And that's not bringing the mighty cityships into this debate. I think the cityships are about 10-15km from end to end?I would not count size as a definitive advantage in this fight. While being 10km long is good if you want more weapons, it does come at the sacrifice of maneuverability and makes you a bigger target.
It's a FLYING CITY. What do you expect? That it's as nimble as a Sabre or a Seraph?
And size is definitely an advantage. Roadkill much? At least when it comes to Atlantis and the other city-ships. The shields could tank that... Megaton yield weaponry =/= gigaton yield weaponry, which the city's shields tanked several googleplexes of. If the Covenant could take the Reapers on and scrape a victory, the Alterans/Old Lanteans would just curbstomp the Reapers.
While they have big and powerful ships they truly do not have alot.
Which is the main reason they had to ascend to begin with due to not being able to fight the Ori,replicators,wraith,etc.
Due to them not having a high amount of ships, population, and inconstancy in technology. the Ancients while strong would still lose to most sc-fi races.
Just not the Reapers, the UNSC, or the Covenant. Plus, by the time they had gone to the Pegasus Galaxy, their empire was on it's last legs, given that they had just been ravaged by a plague.
The Ancients just moved away from the Ori, they didn't engage them in combat.
It seemed like the Ancients did a very good job of wrecking the Asurans before they became a threat... if you say the Milky Way replicators were an example of the Ancients being beaten, keep in mind that that was one scientist, and a handful of civilians, from a twice dead civilization.
The Wraith are the only enemies to actually defeat the Ancients in war, and that's just because the Old Lantean leadership made Hitler look like a tactical genius.
On the subject of numbers, do you think the Forerunners need their entire navy to put the Reapers down? No. One Fortress-class vessel = 1-2k Reapers. Or think about the first encounter that the UNSC had with the Covenant. The UNSC had the advantage of numbers, but the Covenant beat the crud out of them.
Tech > Numbers. Unless the number is insanely high.