Starship Troopers 2 - The Bugs are Back?

Yack, these movies are a complete butchering of what Robert Heinlein set out to accomplish. Read the books people, you’ll be so much better off...
 
I have just one question: in the movie the humans have star ships and suff, they are like really advanced, but they still use bullets, how would you explain that? The feeling of the movie was rather good, but I always wondered why the morons didn't bring some LAWs with them since the bugs always seemed to attack in a rather compact formation? Ant if there is nakedness I'm all for it! :lol:
 
I was wondering exactly the same. To current day we have invented all kinds of nuclear devices and biochemical weapons but when bugs attack, let's tale teh assault rifles (and so big ones thet they are clumsy and useless). Just bomb the bastards aight!?

And it's very near that human can infect all the files or other bugs with diseases (the bugs interract and infect each others). Althought that could be a clobal catastrophere.
 
You wouldn't want a LAW, what you'd really need is a Carl Gustav or some other type of recoilless rifle capable of firing both high explosive shrapnel grenades and AT ones (maybe "bugspray" ones as well)
 
First of all, the marines in the movie had nuclear rifles/bazookas/whatever (they used them on those big bugs that were crapping/shooting flak from their asses on the starships, remember?) and second, bugs and insects are much less vulnerable to disease than humans are, so we could hardly even annoy them with our anthrax or ebola.

Oh, and those dolls had lasers in the training facility in the beginning, when the hillbilly got his brains blown up. Maybe a spray of bullets is more effective against a big target than a spot of light, I dunno.

But yeah, they should have invented a global satellite defense system (i.e Star wars?) to stop all the bug meteors before they can do any damage, instead of beating the shit out of them with their entire army.
 
Yeeeeesh, I know that the biochemical weapons cannot do a thing. What I ment was that scientist are very near to invent a somekind of disease or other way that could kill all insects of specific kind from planet. Just take a pick, bumblebee? Okay, let's onfect some and after a year they all are dead. I don't remember what was this mathod named and Im so lousy english writer that I cant write more specificly about it.

And why didn't they use nuclear missiles? A bazooka nuke was lousy.
 
lousy perhaps, but handy. Seems kinda daft to set up us a 2 megaton fusion bomb a few yards away, when you can blow up a bunch of bugs and still survive, with the nuke bazooka. I'm not sure about radiation, though. Maybe they were so retarded even radiation couldn't affect them :P.
 
Ok, who played the game? There there were plenty of energy weapons and cool stuff. Why the hell did they not think of that when they made the movie? And another cool thing in the game: the sniper rifle, it made a killing! And what about those great combat armours? Why weren't more of them in the movie? They would have been much more effective in the open field, kind of clumsy in enclosed spaces though. And one more thing about those rifles of theirs: they always ran out of ammo in the worst moments! With all that tech advance couldn't they have come up with a gun with a much bigger clip; or at least give the troops enough clips...
 
And what about tanks and other vechiles? Mega-über-super-hyper-tank would make it much more easier.
 
well, if you can accept the existance of giant bugs, and we know it's set in the future, I don't think it's so far fetched to have the humans breed giant anteaters.
 
All of the nukes and bio weapons in the galaxy couldn't save them if the brain bugs spread. The only hope would be the psychics and some sort of testing system.
 
Nukes? Tanks? Lasers? Without mass numbers of uber nazi troops? What's the fun in seeing that? A bunch of bugs get nuked and end of story? You people are dull...bring on the gore I say!

And the hillbilly got his head torn apart by bullets in live fire, the lasers were basically a future version of the Miles System the military (American only I think) uses for training troops nowadays.
 
Paladin Solo said:
Nukes? Tanks? Lasers? Without mass numbers of uber nazi troops? What's the fun in seeing that? A bunch of bugs get nuked and end of story? You people are dull...bring on the gore I say!
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Actually more of a point then some people realize. This is a fascistic world, thus it makes sense to them not to do something rational like nuke them, rather go in with gusto and prove yourself to be better.
 
In the book a Platoon of 30 Mobile Infantry troopers had the firepower equivalent of a 20th century division. The troopers were usually about 2 to 3 MILES apart from each other. Any closer than that and they would get uncomfortable because of the possibility of friendly fire.
The reason that glassing the planet would not work, was that the entire bug society was underground. You had to dig them out planet by planet, they also had their own starships plus the futures version of artillery.

Cheers Thorgrimm
 
Paladin Solo said:
Anyone ever watch the CG show that used to be on the WB (I don't know if it's still on)?
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yup, but it was when I was like 10 and had no idea what I was watching.
 
In the book a Platoon of 30 Mobile Infantry troopers had the firepower equivalent of a 20th century division. The troopers were usually about 2 to 3 MILES apart from each other. Any closer than that and they would get uncomfortable because of the possibility of friendly fire.
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What were those dudes packing? That is like 3-5 km, that is more than the distance from my home to the University, and it takes me about one hour to get there.
 
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