I'd try and starve them to death. The reapers are going the long way round and have no way to get to the galaxy (that Bioware has told us of). Just keep 'em taking the long way round and by the time we have to fight a real battle, they'll be significantly weaker.
In Mass Effect 3...How would you destroy the Reapers?
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I'd like to think ME3 will be a no win scenario, reapers simply come and crush everything in front of them despite all the effort of the entire galaxy... But of course that's never going to happen. I don't really know what the strategy will be but I'm content to wait and be surprised.
I have a weird idea that the Keepers will somehow be freed from their constraints and used to disassemble the Reapers, that would be kind of cool. Probably not though...
My theory is that it'll have something to do with Haestrom's sun. Why introduce something as being so major and then just drop it, afterall?
No idea how it will happen in game to kill fully grown ones. But I just know that dieing star in Mass Effect 2 will come in to play.
I would go cyber warfare style and use a virus to cuase there fusion plants to go into meltdown.
I would go cyber warfare style and use a virus to cuase there fusion plants to go into meltdown.
1) Something to do with Dark Matter- there are all these off hand comments about it in Mass Effect 2, so I wouldn't be suprised if it pops up as a kind of superweapon.
2) A plan that almost entirely relies on Shepherd and his squad fighting in a cover based system against enemies that, despite being different in every facet of their being, fight exactly like he does.
3) Nukes. If Russia's got 20,000 now, just think of the future possibilities...
4) Resurrecting Isaac Newton to come up with an ingenious plan. He is, after all, the DEADLIEST SON OF A ***** IN SPACE.
5) A plan that involves the Shroud of Turin, several pieces of the One True Cross, and a heck of a lot of Blessed Hosts.
6) Getting the Geth to hack into the Reapers with some Quarian help. This is kinda boring though, so...
7) The Second Coming. Let the Son of the Father judge the crap out of those diabolical machines!
8) An epic space battle over the skies of Britain that FINALLY lets us pilot the Normandy ourselves.
9) Resurrect Merlin and King Arthur. It could be like a Dragon Age crossover- pure awesomeness.
10) Lure the reapers into Wales, to be destroyed by my nations overwhelming hordes of chavs and single mothers. Oh Land of my Fathers...
Oh, and each plan has to involve Shepherd being allowed to go out with Tali again (with a minimum of 9 paragon hug moments), Shepherd being allowed to punch someone or do something badass that isn't automatically labelled renegade, Garrus kicking some ass in whatever manner he sees fit and Legion being made Space Pope. Which would be awesome.
Oh yeah, and something to do with the Rachni.
2) A plan that almost entirely relies on Shepherd and his squad fighting in a cover based system against enemies that, despite being different in every facet of their being, fight exactly like he does.
3) Nukes. If Russia's got 20,000 now, just think of the future possibilities...
4) Resurrecting Isaac Newton to come up with an ingenious plan. He is, after all, the DEADLIEST SON OF A ***** IN SPACE.
5) A plan that involves the Shroud of Turin, several pieces of the One True Cross, and a heck of a lot of Blessed Hosts.
6) Getting the Geth to hack into the Reapers with some Quarian help. This is kinda boring though, so...
7) The Second Coming. Let the Son of the Father judge the crap out of those diabolical machines!
8) An epic space battle over the skies of Britain that FINALLY lets us pilot the Normandy ourselves.
9) Resurrect Merlin and King Arthur. It could be like a Dragon Age crossover- pure awesomeness.
10) Lure the reapers into Wales, to be destroyed by my nations overwhelming hordes of chavs and single mothers. Oh Land of my Fathers...
Oh, and each plan has to involve Shepherd being allowed to go out with Tali again (with a minimum of 9 paragon hug moments), Shepherd being allowed to punch someone or do something badass that isn't automatically labelled renegade, Garrus kicking some ass in whatever manner he sees fit and Legion being made Space Pope. Which would be awesome.
Oh yeah, and something to do with the Rachni.
The problem with that idea is that nukes suck in space afaik. Most of the damage they do on Earth is because they're on earth, not floating around in a vaccuum.Josh12345 said:
I Think that the Reapers will come through a random Mass Relay and before the whole fleet of reapers hit the galaxy you will destroy the mass relay and the few reapers that come will be destroyed by the massive fleet that will await then in the final battle....
And then after credits will show the reapers building another mass relay for then to try to destroy the universe again and leave a open ending for Mass Effect 4, Bioware merc *****...
And then after credits will show the reapers building another mass relay for then to try to destroy the universe again and leave a open ending for Mass Effect 4, Bioware merc *****...
Seeing as how the universe has not been preparing for the invasion and the reapers will be coming with a unified goal in mind.
I plan to heroic destroy a handful of reapers over about 50 hours of gameplay and ultimately be overwhelmed by the side that deserves to win. While I wouldn't mind a 'bad guys win' ending, it would really make pretty much all the decisions made over the course of the trilogy rather meaningless (albeit with no loose ends to tie up).
I plan to heroic destroy a handful of reapers over about 50 hours of gameplay and ultimately be overwhelmed by the side that deserves to win. While I wouldn't mind a 'bad guys win' ending, it would really make pretty much all the decisions made over the course of the trilogy rather meaningless (albeit with no loose ends to tie up).
This is Mass Effect so I'm going to recruit a team of badasses after my old team mysteriously went AWOL/I died again/TIM moved them onto a new Normandy without telling me/I'm being forced to work for the Blue Suns and they refuse to join not terrorists, then I'm going to have to travel to the head reaper and shoot it in it's many superfluous eyes which will magically disable all the other ones.
While that's quasi-sarcastic, it's quite obvious that despite the game being built around the badass squad approach, this is not a ground fight, in fact Ashley in ME1 even says that so either some plot device will let us disable them all at once, or there's going to be another suicide mission shoehorned in even less appropriately into this game. I mean, being able to ground fight the collectors was improbably lucky enough, but it's going to take a lot of contrivance for us to do the same to the Reapers, which given the nature of the game is practically mandatory.
Actually no, more realistically it'll probably be a retread of Legion's loyalty mission, if only because then they can at least try to claim foreshadowing despite the Geth Virus never being proposed as a reaper solution for some reason.
While that's quasi-sarcastic, it's quite obvious that despite the game being built around the badass squad approach, this is not a ground fight, in fact Ashley in ME1 even says that so either some plot device will let us disable them all at once, or there's going to be another suicide mission shoehorned in even less appropriately into this game. I mean, being able to ground fight the collectors was improbably lucky enough, but it's going to take a lot of contrivance for us to do the same to the Reapers, which given the nature of the game is practically mandatory.
Actually no, more realistically it'll probably be a retread of Legion's loyalty mission, if only because then they can at least try to claim foreshadowing despite the Geth Virus never being proposed as a reaper solution for some reason.
Shepherd helps the galaxy build its own Mass Relay during the Reaper invasion.
Point said relay towards another, less Reaper-y galaxy.
Evacuate anyone you can into the new galaxy.
Shepherd stays behind to blow up the relay and prevent the Reapers from following/knowing where they went.
You can't beat the Reapers.
Point said relay towards another, less Reaper-y galaxy.
Evacuate anyone you can into the new galaxy.
Shepherd stays behind to blow up the relay and prevent the Reapers from following/knowing where they went.
You can't beat the Reapers.
Nuke.
Honestly, the value of a nuke in space combat would mainly be EMP. Given that the Reapers are machines, it's entierly possible that it could be effective. However, it seems likely that either 1. they don't rely on integrated circuits (which would make the EMP effect entirely useless) or 2. they're EMP-shielded.
The Cain isn't really a nuke launcher, though. It's a 25-gram high-explosive slug accelerated to 5 km/s. The kinetic energy of the slug combined with the explosives result in a mammoth explosion.Danny Ocean said:
Honestly, the value of a nuke in space combat would mainly be EMP. Given that the Reapers are machines, it's entierly possible that it could be effective. However, it seems likely that either 1. they don't rely on integrated circuits (which would make the EMP effect entirely useless) or 2. they're EMP-shielded.
Kinetic barriers are designed to stop fast moving, small objects, like bullets. Land space ships on the reaper hulls, within their barriers, and nuke them.
This will work for numerous reasons:
As proved by sovereign, once their shields are down, they die easy.
A single blast from the normandy's old pathetic gun killed a reaper, so a nuke going off point blank will obliterate it.
Second, nukes deliver a powerful EMP that will fry the important parts of the reaper, along with scions, geth, or husks that are inside. This tactic will work the first dozen or so times before the reapers just blow up anything that comes near.
After that.... Dunno, destroy all the relays so they can't get back? Or at least spend ages rebuilding them.
This will work for numerous reasons:
As proved by sovereign, once their shields are down, they die easy.
A single blast from the normandy's old pathetic gun killed a reaper, so a nuke going off point blank will obliterate it.
Second, nukes deliver a powerful EMP that will fry the important parts of the reaper, along with scions, geth, or husks that are inside. This tactic will work the first dozen or so times before the reapers just blow up anything that comes near.
After that.... Dunno, destroy all the relays so they can't get back? Or at least spend ages rebuilding them.
2 words: Orbital Defence , The Earth is most likely doomed in ME3 but that doesn't mean the other races can't drop some Thannix cannons around their major population centresDanny Ocean said: