>>535953935
>muh immersion in sci-fi
For budgetary reasons, hellbombs must be manually armed by a soldier wearing significantly more expensive gear that can get blown up on the way to arming it.
Super earth can just glass these objectives from orbit without little soldiers throwing beacons for them, our reason for being there is thematic and aesthetic. Only in gloom maps could you say that ground forces are necessary but Eagle-1 could recon and drop strat markers on anything that isn't an anti-air emplacement.
You can make an argument for the galactic war being about population thinning and maintaining a prosperous military industrial complex but at the end of the day it's a video game and is as arbitrary as Fortnite in it's functions, just with a realistic artstyle.
