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You can’t really fault Germany of 45 for having unarmored infantry catching rides on mules or Syrians using a modern truck mounted trebuchet that one time. When ww3 goes hot for real (or in this case when some fictional space army is pressing us to the wall) you can’t really expect every squad of guys to be chaperoned by an ATV every mission or have trauma kits with that funky medical foam sprayers in said atv’s or have uranium tipped shells for every gun and so on.

I’m not one to treat the imperium charitably for much, all fuck-ups are in part largely self-inflicted after all but you should still give some charitable credit back for keeping their gears turning in the face of a galaxy on fire in spite of themselves. Guard is ‘supposed’ to be well kitted out but le comedy of space dictatorship is what it is and so it’s left footed boots for everyone come next resuply.

Not sure where I was going with all that but I’ll bring this back around to a point about this which really swings odds towards the irl fighting forces and that is that Drones are pretty damn game changing IRL.
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Tau bring Titans down with missiles from their Mantas. They were big missiles, they used a good salvo of the things but they were not nukes and it absolutely works just mustering a lot of shooty at a thing and aiming it at the Titan’s head. Pound away at a thing like it’s a battleship of the land.

Titans and their aproxomates across the setting are gassed up beyond what they actually are.