I'm hoping that Really Huge firefights will be relatively common.
I'm imagining things starting off relatively small. The commander of squad A decides he needs help and calls in reinforcements. Squad B's leader, seeing that he's now badly outnumbered, does likewise.
Back and forth, back and forth, till just about every spare body available from both sides is rushing into this giant bloody dog-pile of a fight.
At which point you get to see lots of pretty colors.
At least, that's how I hope it will work.
Does anyone know if there's any way to get down from orbit other than in a drop pod? Say in the aptly-named 'dropship'?
"In the pipe, 5 by 5."
"We're in for some chop."
Lots of potential "Aliens" references here.
I wouldn't be too suprised if all the 'air' craft can handle an orbital insertion. This IS the distant future we're talking about here.
Yet another "wait and see". *sigh*
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