US Generals: Military might useless against small, agile foe.

[Doom bucket]

A tiny twin engine airplane has held the entire US military hostage. Neither tanks nor airplanes seem to be slowing it down, and generals have calmly suggested that nothing on Earth could possibly save us. General McDougal points to the tiny crafts high manueverability, twin laser cannons, and ability to blow up everything on screen with a mere button press puts the US army at an extreme disadvantage.

"We simply can't match it's capabilities." explains General McDougal, solemnly. "Although we have hundreds of tanks, planes, and nuclear subs, our foe is too fast for us to stand a ghost of a chance. We have sent wave after wave of blue tanks after it with no success. And becuase the craft seems to upgrade in power after each battle, our defeat seems assured."

General Mcdougal points to how standard tank shells and airplane machine gun bullets actually move so slowly across the screen that the tiny foe, nicknamed "Mosquito" can actually weave through hundreds of shells and bullets with ease. "Our engineers believe that one stray bullet could end this once and for all. But our enemy can even generate a force field that actually entraps bullets and throws them back at us. That isn't even fair." Tears welled in General McDougal's eyes when he told of the thousands of men and woman in the service who have been lost at the mercy of one man.

General Reutger suggests that a reorganization of the military is in order. "Tens of millions of dollars were pumped into the creation of a tank seventy feet long with hundreds of turrets, to combat this new foe. During the projects inception, I believed it to be a wasteful and unstrategic strain on our resources, and this was proven to me when it was defeated in under fourty seconds by the Mosquito."

Asked if the military has learned from it's mistakes, General Reutger replied, "Twelve more projects of such magnitude have already been completed, set to be deployed at the centers of strategic military bases and amongst giant freight trains. Our military commanders have no idea what they are doing."

Update 13:51 : The Mosquito was been shot down over the gulf coast, but seems another craft quickly appeared over the horizon, and the destruction commenced. Current US death toll is placed at 4,531 casualties, and over 400 billion dollars in damage.

[Crowquill]

If you were aiming for the Politics and Religion forum you missed.

[modessitt]

For shame, Crowquill!

An obvious (maybe not?) but well-written account of a wonderful evening of classic gaming...

I was going to say 1942 or 1943, except for the fact that the plane in the game was supposed to be fighting the Japanese military, not the US military....

[Crowquill]

I was going to say 1942 or 1943, except for the fact that the plane in the game was supposed to be fighting the Japanese military, not the US military....

I was perplexed by that part too. I don't think the Strikers 1945 series takes place against the US either. The "mosquito" planes in both series are some of the slowest. Shmups aren't my area of expertise, though. What game has a "kill everything on the screen" button and a shield that deflects bullets? War themes were very common, but not against the US.

[modessitt]

I was going to say 1942 or 1943, except for the fact that the plane in the game was supposed to be fighting the Japanese military, not the US military....

I was perplexed by that part too. I don't think the Strikers 1945 series takes place against the US either. The "mosquito" planes in both series are some of the slowest. Shmups aren't my area of expertise, though. What game has a "kill everything on the screen" button and a shield that deflects bullets? War themes were very common, but not against the US.

Well, Stargate does......but that's not it.....  maybe Raiden?  I know 1942 has a "POW" award on screen that kills everything, but not used as a button, and no shields.  Xevious dropped bombs that killed a large portion of the screen.

[shorthair]

No, Xevious was pretty particular on where you hit. Even Xevious 3D-G, though it gives you three simultaneous shots, and is a little more seek-and-destroy, only hits specific targets within a fairly small range of firing line.

[modessitt]

Xevious dropped bombs that killed a large portion of the screen.
 

Sorry.  I was thinking of Twin Cobra...

[Doom bucket]

creative liberties

[Havok]

Platypus?

[shardian]

Heh. Pretty funny.
Did you write that yourself, or snipe it from the innernets somewhere?