Massive Interplanetary Battle

I wouldn't mind watching some awesome cut-scenes of space battles...

I wouldn't mind taking part in it. In 3 Mass Effect games and all its DLC content we were not allowed to control a fighter vessel even once. 

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I've been looking at past leak info from different internet sites. This tidbit, peaked my curiosity.

 "...Another slide reveals that Andromeda's story will involve a massive, interplanetary battle..."

Does anyone have a copy of this slide?


link where I copied that tidbit (5th paragraph):
www.gamespot.com/articles/leak-says-mass-effect-andromeda-will-have-seamless/1100-6436122/

Id love to see that.

I presume it will be basically a version of this...



Not going to lie, this scene was badass the first time I saw it...still is in a lot of ways, especially when the Destiny Ascension comes into view.

You are right on one point, charging a Reaper Dreadnought on foot is the only plan that's possibly even more idiotic than attacking
a fleet of Reapers head on, and by all rights Shepard and Anderson should have been vaporized with everyone else.

Regarding the sword fleet, my point is that the "diversion" should have been very short indeed, to the point of not even being worth it.
Keep in mind that the Reapers only need one shot to destroy even a Dreadnought, and they have a fleet of that can constantly fire at you...

Even their fighter-class Occuli have proven themselves capable of cutting through the shields and armor of a top-of-the-line ship a few classes bigger than them
during their fight with the Normandy at the Collector's base.

They are going to destroy the fleet as fast as they can pull the trigger, the fact that they are suspiciously slow about it is says
more about the designers of the cutscene and their general disregard for the established lore rather than the actual validity of the "plan" (such as it is...).

This is not a diversion, this is a waste, you simply don't fight an infinitely superior enemy head on.
Does this sounds to you like a plan any of humanity's great historical strategists would be signed on?

"All warfare is based on deception" is not a recommendation when facing a stronger enemy - it's the only way to do things successfully.
Certainly not a charging ahead like mindless berserkers.

Compared to the relative difference in fire power between the Reapers and the Sword fleet, even the Charge of the Light Brigade can be described as tactical excellence.

I guess it all comes back to Shaperd's "This isn't about strategy or tactics. This is about survival", and the irony is of course that your only chance of survival is
by using superior tactics and fighting smarter than the Reapers, or at the very least smarter than what they expect from you.

As for "Thanix", this cutscene like all other ME3 cutscenes show only regular mass accelerator fire, no glowy blue beams of death like with the upgraded Normandy in ME2.
And if I remember correctly, the codex says something about the Thanix being too big on power draw to be up-scaled to capital ship level.
(which is really strange, usually miniaturization is the problem, not the other way around...)

Not going to lie, this scene was badass the first time I saw it...still is in a lot of ways, especially when the Destiny Ascension comes into view.

You did play the game right? You do know that Sword Fleet is the diversion for the ground war and the Crucible?

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I've been looking at past leak info from different internet sites. This tidbit, peaked my curiosity.

 "...Another slide reveals that Andromeda's story will involve a massive, interplanetary battle..."

Does anyone have a copy of this slide?


link where I copied that tidbit (5th paragraph):
www.gamespot.com/articles/leak-says-mass-effect-andromeda-will-have-seamless/1100-6436122/