why didnt they just nuke the bug planet

why didn't they just take the eagles to mount doom!!???? XD

The same reason they have the worst shooting form of any military or militia ever.

Generally speaking, the Starship Troopers depicted in the movie are beyond completely retarded in terms of tactics and strategies.

>>79672730
BECAUSE BUENOS AIRES WAS AN INSIDE JOB

>>79672730
Why didn't they just slam an asteroid into the bug planet?

Why did it take a firing squad to kill a bug in the beginning but when they had to defend that fortress they could pile up a whole wall of dead bugs from just a couple guys?

no tanks, no support weapons, just grunts pew pewing. muh social commentary about fascism.

>>79672920
Experience in shooting an actual bug.

because they live underground and are probably resistant to radiation

They wanted to capture the brain.

>>79672730
The bugs would just hide underground and keep blasting their spores into space. They had to kill them all, and that means flushing them out of their bug holes.

>>79673073
They are bugs
>>79672730
Any stagnating empire with a standing army needs an enemy to occupy that army. Without the bugs (an inhuman enemy that could provide decades or even centuries of conflict) the Federation was prone to being ruined from within.
Also, population control. Prosperity breeds overpopulation, though I don't doubt the Federation would sterilize whomever it felt like if they weren't citizens.

the bugs had spread across the galaxy, earth needed a brain bug to study

>>79672730
what are /pol/s thoughts on this kino?

>>79673233
better question, what does everyone think about the sequels?

>>79672730
a sustained campaign can be very profitable

It was a fascist regime

>>79673157

No, there's a mention in the films that you need a license.

>>79672839

>airdrop 200k soldiers on ground
>wow, this isnt working
>REEETREEEEAT after less than 3 minutes

embarassing

>>79673233
anti-facism polemic that backfires

>>79673178
they didnt even know bugs were created by a brain when they invaded..it was just theories and speculation on scientists on tv

>>79672730
They needed republican votes

>>79673178
>>79673107
This

>>79673157
And a bit of this

Buenos Aires was an inside job to justify starting the war.
The Federation intentionally sent fresh recruit troopers to mass attack bug home Klendathu not for victory, but as human fodder to test the defence's that the bugs had, same as in Zulu when they send young warriors to stand in range of the Brits and get shot down in order to count the guns and see just what they're up against.

The objective overall was to capture a brain bug and study it, so that the Federation could work on increasing their Psychic weapons and forced evolution program, which is the main priority of the Federation at the time of Starship troopers

Get woke /tv/

>Why didn't they nuke it
Because the Air Marshall literally said the primary objective was to understand the bug, also resources and the Q bomb wasn't developed till ST3
>Why didn't they use tanks
Did you not see the mountainous terrain?
>They only used grunts
I guess you missed the part where Fleet literally fried those bugs to crisp allowing Razcheaks squad to move in
>Buenos Aires was an inside job
No it wasn't. There has always been history between the bugs and The Federation, this wasn't their first skirmish, heck the bugs could have been planning the attack decades in advance.

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>>79673157
>Prosperity breeds overpopulation
I suggest you look at fertility rates of 1st world countries

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>>79672730
they did nuke the bug planet you fucking nerd


>>79672875
GTFO traitor scum day of the lashing is waiting for you

>>79672875
>>79674334
Fuck off cuckvilians

>>79672730
Because they were complete idiots who went into war expecting their perceived innate superiority to buoy them to victory.
Sort of like /pol/.