(March 20, 2011 at 5:29 am)Aerzia Saerules Arktuos Wrote: Didn't they drop potatoes back then?
If you're going to bomb something: use modern day bombs. Potatoes don't explode. Unless you put them in a microwave. Nukes tend to work well enough. Also, try an assorted variety of bombs (gas/chem/bio/whatever). If you'd like to throw a single potato into each batch, be my guest. I seriously doubt anyone is going to be left to eat its ashes.
Honestly, there isn't much point in carpet bombing a city if you can't kill off the vast majority of the populace. I suspect whatever carpet bombing there was in WWII would have at least met with some success (else why would they continue to do it?).
No they did not drop potatoes back then. They tended to drop bombs, hundreds from each plane even. Nukes are a bad idea, sure you've depopulated the land, but now it's irradiated and you can't get at the resources. Chem is the same story, long term contamination is bad. Bio might work, but if your virus mutates, or it spreads beyond your desired area of effect then you have a serious problem. genocide is extremely difficult and simply not worth the time and effort. You're going to put more resources into killing these people than you're going to get when it's over.
"If an injury must be done to a man, it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared" - Niccolo Macchiavelli
