Poll: The greatest army.

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silver wolf009

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Hello Escapist.

The title pretty much says it all, which army would destroy the most land? Which army would kill the most people? Which army would lead to your defeat first? Pretty basic questions, but I wanted to hear what you had to say.

Some qualifying guidlines to start off with.

1, They have to be an organized, structered, regulated army.

I mainly made this a rule because I know a large amount of people are going to jump directly to factions like the Flood, The Necromorph, the Xenomorphs, Predators. Well the reason I dont count them as an army is simple, in the case of the predators, we've never seen a regulated army for their civilization, we've only seen private hunters.

In the cases of the Flood, and Xenomorph, they are feral on their own. With out gravemind or the empress to guide them respectivaly, they degrade into mindless killing machines, they are not supplied, they arent regulated, the flood dont have any hierarchy, and while the xenomorphs do the instant that the queen is far enough away it instantly shatters.

Now I admit that I dont know much about Necromorphs, but they dont strike me as the regulated type. Now feel free to correct me if im wrong, but they are not a choice.

2, Real or not, say what you feel

I started this thread with the intention of all the factions being fictonal, But if you feel that the Roman legions are superior to the hordes of Isengard, then by all means, dont hide this feeling.

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3, Technology dosent equal superiorty

Now i know that if you pit Rohan against the brother hood of steel, the victors would be obvious. This is why im going to ask you to provide 3 awnsers in your post.

One is a high tech or futuristic faction with technology that is superior to military technology today.

The other is armies from todays world or that are on par with todays real world militaries in terms of technology. For example, the Blackwatch have acess to super soilders and U.A.Vs designed to sniff out the virus they hunt, but for the most part they share the same guns, tread jobs, and apperal as the real us army.

The last is a low tech army, I.E. the armies of ancient times or fantasy lands. Things that fall under this catigory would be bronze or iron age forces like the ancient Romans or fantasy armies like Gondor or Rohan.

OK, with that out of the way lets begin.

Put your faith in the Enclave, dear America, and Baseball will live again, Comfort, recreation, healty compatition, all will live again...
John Henery Eden,President of America, Fallout 3.

The Enclave, goverment of the nuclear wasteland that was once america. Claming to want to help the downtrodded citizens of america, they view all life outside of their base on the east coast in raven rock, and some long lost unopened vault, impure, mutated by any number of disease or radiation, and fit only for clensing. Being the snakes that they are, they use thier smooth talk and soothing words to lull the population into a sense of false security before killing them all in their sleep.
They come armed with plasma rifless

Rippers

Power armor

Flame throwers

and theVB-02 Vertibird

Dedicated to their country, they stop at nothing to 'remove' all those who stand in their way.



The covenant
"For your destruction is the will of the gods! And we, are their insturments!"
First recorded covenatnt transmission to humainity

The group of seven advanced alien species, completely dedicated to wiping the human heritic scum from the face of existence and the activation of the Halo rings to follow the Forerunners in the Great Journey. The genocide of humaity is every members single most important goal.
The shock troops of the Covetant, the Elites as they are dubbed, come to battle with personal energy shields.
Plasma shields

Energy swords

Beam rifle sniper

and Plasma rifle

They would die for the gods in order to help the Great Journey.



Coresant will burn! Just like Taris did....
Unkown Sith Trooper, Mannan
With the dark power of the star forge operating at 400 hundred percent capacity, ten thousand ships can be made in a day.
Dark lord of the sith Malak had pushed the Republic to the breaking point in under 3 years. His fleet of ship, which popped up with no warning, had hunted down almost all of the jedi which had not joined the sith. Countless worlds burned in the wake of the dark lords steps.
Malaks army comes equipt with blaster rifles

Destroyer ships

The star forge ship producer

And of course, the infamouse lightsaber


With mastery of the darkest secrets of the force, they crush any enemy foolhardy enough to stand before them

We got nukes, we got knive, we got gun, we got it all!! URAH
The late hudson, united systems marine core

All forms of military operations banded together during the ALIEN occupation of earth, and 6 years later, when the last piece of hive space was scrubbed from the earth, they did not disband for fear of future infestiations.

Standard issue U.S.M.C infantry carry the full automatic, armor piercing 10 mm pulse rifle

Auto tracking Smart Gun

Flamethrower

and through severe training and only when holding the queen at gunpoint, the U.S.M.C has somewhat effectivly managed to use the Xenomorphs as shocktroops


Fear brought all of humanity together, and fear for their survival will forever keep it that way.

When we hunt, we kill! No one is safe! Nothing is sacred! We would burn our own to hold the red line! It is the only line to ever hold!
Blackwatch soilder chant.

Created in the 1960s by the department of the amry after the Carnival 2 experiment in Hope Idaho, they are trained to counter act all viral agents both natural and man modified on American soil. Once the red line is established, nothing crosses it. Not man, not beast, not machine.
They come armed with the saw heavy machine gun

Grenade launcher

Olifant Mk1B Main Battle Tank

Apache attack helicopter

And geneticly enhanced super soilders


With complete control of any branch of the military when it comes to counter acting viral agents, they control all of the armed forces of america.

Come beasts! We will infest this land!
Glorkil the goblin king, during the siege of the Gray Havens

Fast, evil creatures with no love of sunlight, the goblins tend to stay in their caves unless called to war. Their ruler, Glorkil, is a brutal leader and leads them into war as a single united kingdom.
They come armed with blades and bows dipped in posin which slowly kills.

Cave trolls and mountain giant allies

Spider allies

And Dragon allies


After centuries of disgrace and shamefuly hiding in their caves, the goblin war machine emerges to destroy all those who dare to defy them.

Rome, the greatest and most perfect place to live. It is no question why she took over the world
Unknown roman soilder

The single largest war machine Earth has ever seen, responsible for the greatest empire the world has ever seen. Their signature military legion of 6000 troops and 200 hundred calvery crused every opposing soilder beneath their boots.
They come armed with the Gladius sword, the sword that conqured the world

The Hasta spear

Bronze armor

And geniouse military tactics to spread their empire from the British Isles to the fertile crest.



So escapist, which army do you think is the greatest?




Good lord that was a finger killer.

EDIT: Some of the options blended into another spoiler. let me sort it out.

EDIT2: got it.
 

Layz92

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Well I would say the Adeptus Astartes simply because they have the technology, they have more than enough power in their soldiers, they have psykers and they have some pretty skilled tacticians.
 

Emperor Platypus

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silver wolf009 said:
Romans didn't have the biggest Empire. Mongols beat them (and didn't take even half as long to do it).

I'm still picking the Romans though. First western super power to use discipline and training on such a big scale (ie. numbers of men involved) to create an all conquering army. Damn that has to count for something right?
 

Mechsoap

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the enclave are quite powerful if you think of their limited resources, and none people to recruit.
 

The Ambrosian

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Layz92 said:
Well I would say the Adeptus Astartes simply because they have the technology, they have more than enough power in their soldiers, they have psykers and they have some pretty skilled tacticians.
For the Emperor!
Space Marines will destroy everything. If you read the backstory about their genetic engineering you can see just how powerful they are.
 

silver wolf009

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Emperor Platypus said:
silver wolf009 said:
Romans didn't have the biggest Empire. Mongols beat them (and didn't take even half as long to do it).

I'm still picking the Romans though. First western super power to use discipline and training on such a big scale (ie. numbers of men involved) to create an all conquering army. Damn that has to count for something right?
I didnt say the biggest, I said the greatest. They were the most advanced, the most well maintained. Biggest is a fact, greatest is an opinon.

But yeah they must have done something right.
 

JLML

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Well, for the high-tech army, I have no other choice but to say the god damned SPACE MARINES! (from warhammer 40k that is)

For the mid-tech army, I'd say... Kinda hard actually. US military in crysis perhaps? Those nano-suits are "kinda" realistic, and with those you don't even need an army, just a few guys. And a bunch of aliens for them to actually have a worthy fight. :D

For the low-tech army, I pick the Mongol army. (under Genghis Khan (I really hate that way of spelling the name since it's so incorrect. <.<))
 

Mechalemmiwinks

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Galactic Patrol from the Lensman series. They are Starfleet + The Jedi + Green Lantern Corps. + The Q (if you include the final generation of Lensmen).

The fleet itself is high-tech, but the highest-level Lensmen are no-tech.
 

Neuromaster

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Mass Effect's Reapers. They systematically wipe out all intelligent life in the galaxy. They repeat this roughly every 50,000 years. They have been doing this for at least 37 million years. That means that as a lower bound, they have committed "omnicide" at least 740 times. And their methods make the Borg look cuddly.

I can't think of any other force with a body count anywhere near that order of magnitude.
 

sheogoraththemad

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fantasy: Dwarfs, no matter what game or movie or book dwarfs are awesome.
hi tech: the halo spartans have a special place in my heart but the covenant are an very awesome army the hunters, elite, brutes and all those other race are awesome opponents, except the jackalls, duck like stupid snipey bastards.
 

Layz92

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The Ambrosian said:
Layz92 said:
Well I would say the Adeptus Astartes simply because they have the technology, they have more than enough power in their soldiers, they have psykers and they have some pretty skilled tacticians.
For the Emperor!
Space Marines will destroy everything. If you read the backstory about their genetic engineering you can see just how powerful they are.
Yeah like their rib cages being solid fused plates of bone that are infused with ultra reinforcing chemicals, wounds sealing themselves in seconds, backup internal organs and much much more.