If aliens invaded Earth, what would be the most realistic

All of humanity being dead.

If aliens invaded Earth, would you rather purge xenos or try to make peace and get a qt alien gf?

>>376186443
EDF because they're massive Marry Sues

>>376186443
XCOM 2

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>>376186559
Purge them obviously

>>376186817
THERE IS NO GOD BUT THE COMMANDER AND BRADFORD IS HIS PROPHET
VIGILO CONFIDO
VIGILO CONFIDO
VIGILO CONFIDO

>>376186443
>invaded
Why wouldn't you just drop shit on the planet from orbit until you get unconditional surrender? Not like we could do anything about it

>>376186443
To save our mother Earth from any alien attack!

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>>376186559
>Offer a good relationship
>If things get fucky go full on space Hitler

>>376187547
>missions 0
>kills 0

>>376187292
The only problem is that humanity dies in the end. So a final hurrah I guess.

>>376186559
>aliens invaded Earth
>try to make peace and get a qt alien gf

I'd purge you first then aliens second.

How would an advanced space faring civilization react if the got BTFO by the primitives of Earth during a war

>>376186443
XCOM ayylmaaosss will shit their pants against EDF since those guys seems to destroy more shit than they suppose to protect.

XCOM will shit their pants against mass big ass ants.

>>376186536
First reply gets it.

Any civilization that could cross the vastness of space to reach us would have no problem wiping us out without the slightest hint of resistance.

>>376188647
Sue for peace, then alliance, then uplift the primitives to show that there are no hard feeling and then aim them at whoever pisses you off

You posted this thread this morning or last night, I'm not sure. But the image was with xcom on top and EDF on bottom.

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WE WOULD FUCK THEIR SHIT UP.

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>>376186443
If an alien civilisation invaded earth, it would most likely be an unwinnable scenario.

If they came for our resources they would just steamroll through all the cities as they travel around harvesting whatever they come across, and military forces would be unlikely to do anything about it.

A ship that can travel vast distances in space would need to be able to withstand forces far stronger than nuclear bombs, which is the most dangerous weapon we have as far as I know.

Computer systems are more than likely going to be indecipherable to human understanding, so you can't hack a self destruction into the mother-ship.

Biological warfare could be effective, if weren't for the fact that any aliens inside the ship would be fully aware of the dangers of micro-origins and would have countermeasures.

This is all not even mentioning the possible weapons a civilization capable of space travel would have access too.

>>376189342
this is always brought up in these scenarios. while it's plausible, it goes both ways. aliens wouldn't be able to comprehend our biology, language, and mannerisms either (maybe not even our tech). sure they'd obviously have advanced spacecraft, but who's to say their weaponry (if they even had any) would be effective against people?

>>376189342
EMPs

>>376189657
Its not difficult to make weaponry effective against flesh.
And they don't need much. Kinetic impactors are more than enough.

On the other hand, this will never happen.
Because galactic travel is impossible.

>>376189657
odds are that they are gonna send drones and robots to the surface to scan everything, they traveled millions of light years of distance, why risk their own existence.
I bet they also understand laws of physics and probably know a lot more than we know, and use them against us

What if Aliens were a advanced version of us that had more time to develop technology?

>>376186443
EDF certainly would be more fun

>>376188876
You say that, but then why hasn't the worlds strongest military won against primitive cave dwellers after nearly two decades?

>>376186443
Stargate assuming we didn't get killed off initally, which is effectively XCOM

>>376190013
If they're shielded against radiation well enough to cross galaxies EMPs would do fuck all against them

>>376190180
>>376189342
The other point to consider is that there's no practical reason to invade Earth, it would have to be for something other than resources. Maybe either for religious reasons, entertainment, or just sport.

>>376186443
EDF. Since they point out that other militaries and countries are doing their part, as well as there being massive casualties and losses of entire cities/countries. Do you have a girl back home?

>>376187435
Yeah, we'll be the only ones to destroy it!
Ain't no aliens gonna do that for us!

>>376190913
>romans from space
>earth becomes a massive coliseum
fucking badass

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>>376190773
Because they're fighting an ideology, not an actual big baddie. Sure you have ISIS, Alibabadingdong and Al-Qaeda, but you destroy them, the ideology they stand for will just resurface somewhere else.

Plus it doesn't help that we keep supplying the "freedom fighters" in the areas that will rise to power and then become the corrupt governments that we'll be fighting in 10-20 years anyway just like Al-Qaeda was back during the Gulf War.

If something like aliens invaded, the most realistic scenario would definitely be XCOM, but EDF would definitely be better.

>>376190992
spotted the xcom player

>>376190994
>>earth becomes a massive coliseum
It already is, mortal.

>>376190913
But Anon, there are over seven billion of us.
What if we're the resource?

>>376190773
If you mean the wars in the middle east, those cave dwellers still have guns so they are close to a modern military just lacking vehicles and other support
We are probably a thousand or two years from intergalactic travel it would pretty much be godzilla vs an ant

>>376190773
>>376191005
The US government isn't actually 'fighting' anyone to any end.

They're just running a business. The military business. There's no end goal. They don't plan on there being an end to international warfare.

It's in their best interest that the warfare never ends, which is why they run those rebel groups, and are now, as we speak, fighting against people who are actively fighting ISIS in over eight countries.

>>376191121
>aliens in need of water
>humans are 70% water and are portable
makes sense

>>376191251
>run
Fund*

Although maybe run isn't so far off either

>>376191251
>The US government isn't actually 'fighting' anyone to any end.
Kekekekekekekekekekekekekekeke

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>>376189294
KING KITTAN

GIGAAAAAAAAA DRILLLLLLLLL BREEEEEEEEEEAAAKEEER

>>376186443
>If aliens invaded Earth, what would be the most realistic scenario?
Orbital superiority followed by kinetic kill weaponry on anything that looks remotely like rockets or artillery.
Warning shots each aimed just outside of our major cities.
Terms of surrender.

Now, granted, guerilla fighters are pretty damn likely because kinetic kill weaponry isn't very effective for policing and control.
Likely, microwaves from space will be beamed directly into dissidents (the NSA can do this already, thought their power is on the order of milliwatts rather than the kilowatts you'd need to disable someone)

Depending on how effective the aliens' detectors are, they might be able to pinpoint underground humans by searching for gamma rays typical of Potassium-40 decay.

Either way, Guerilla fighters must avoid detection to not die, and operate very sparse and loosely-connected cells so that one may strike at the Ayylmaos without retaliation wrecking all of them. Propaganda is their best weapon because fatality/capture rates per mission should exceed 50%, they'll need a constant string of new recruits.

Having no idea what the Ayylmao's goals are, you aren't gonna be able to boot them out of orbit, so your victory condition is making so much trouble on the ground that the Ayylmaos agree that peace with humanity paying taxes to the ayys is more cost effective than keeping humanity fully under control.

>>376191258
>massive need of water
>in a galaxy literally full of easily mined comets and ice worlds

really tinkles your dinkle

>>376186443
Depends on what the alien intentions are.

XCOM lore states that if the aliens had the intention to fuck humanity over, we would have lost in the first week.

Then we have UFO lore that states that the aliens at the start are just toying with us, like a farmer picks up a plant he sow, checks the leaves and tastes it to know if its ready for harvest or not.

By the point the aliens are ready to invade, XCOM goes to Mars and fucks over the brain of the operation.

Neither XCOM or EDF represent a realistic scenario since they are small battles fought over the course of years.

EDF is the glorification of anime shit or overpowered shit ala 40K, XCOM is just a operator game.

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>>376191258
>They're turning us into freakin' juiceboxes!

I'd wish for EDF but realistically probably XCOM.

>>376190773
>implying ayy lmaos wouldn't just nuke you pathetic monkeys

Xcom if the zenos are intelligent and humanoid
EDF if giant space slugs invade

>>376188762
>since those guys seems to destroy more shit than they suppose to protect.

I take it as you havent played the older XCOM games then?

>>376190773
Why didn't the worlds strongest military win against chinks in a jungle fighting with sticks and rocks?

>>376191892
Though one wonders what the Ayy's goals are.

If it's natural resources then there's no need to police anything. Nor is there any need to go this deep into the Sun's gravity well. Ram kuiper belt objects.
If it's energy, you'll get literally billions of billions times more from the sun.
If it's biochemicals, you can quite literally buy them from humans by deorbiting rare earth rich asteroids, assuming you can't just make them with molecular assemblies.
Again I wonder what biochemical by itself is worth the energy you'd need to pull it out of the sun's gravity well.

Most likely, what an ayylmao would invade earth for is as a vassal state.
Why bother adapting a species loyal to you to live on earth, and shipping them over here, then wiping out the locals, when you could just adapt the locals?

Presumably they'd have us build telescopes or rockets for them.
If this is their goal, them offering us their protection from a (possibly manufactured) space threat, the very real threat of just being exterminated with a plague and replaced, plus the surprisingly lucrative offer of literally kilotons of neodymium and potential alien knowledge, you'd expect humans to accept the offer.
And if humans, as a whole, don't accept the offer?
"It looks like humans have tons of internal conflicts. Hey, dissident group. We'll give you artillery support from space for your retaking of your nation, if in turn you build a massive fuckin telescope/rocket once you're done. Deal?"

>Fewer Ayyys, but you can't fucking hit them
>Accurate weapons, but there's too many fucking Ayyys
The horror

>>376192478
EDF just leaves a lot of accidental collateral damage

X-Com will burn down your farm/apartment block because it's quicker than walking around.

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>>376191892
>implying they'd be able to tell the militants from the regular humans

Everybody has gasoline, and pretty much anything will die if you burn it enough.

>>376192596
>Why didn't the worlds strongest military win against chinks in a jungle fighting with sticks and rocks?
Because the hardware suppliers for the war and its financiers were one of the major reasons for the war.
A won war is not in their interests. A protracted slog that costs tons of money is.
The instigators of that war got exactly what they wanted.

>>376192701
>when you see a chrysallid and start gunning down the civilians so the ayys can't get to them

>>376192701
>X-Com will burn down your farm/apartment block because it's quicker than walking around.
Xcom.
Can't hit the broad side of a barn
but can splatter the broad side of the barn across the countryside, ensuring anything hit is at least 5% broadside of barn remains.

>>376192701
>>376192785
I had times where aliens would run inside warehouses or convince stores with civilians inside.

I usually nuked the fucking place because i wont risk having my soldier getting shot by reaction fire.

Killing the alien is the priority, whatever happens next is just collateral damage.

>>376192785
When I see Christmas presents I get my troops to a 2nd floor of a building and shoot the stairs.

Or alternatively I throw high explosives everywhere, so that any chrismas present wishing to approach must advance over open terrain and thus be exposed to massed fire.

Actually I mostly throw the high explosives regardless.

Chryssalids ARE a major threat if you're trying to ground assault a Snakeman Terrorship or Battleship.
On open terrain though they're sort of cannon fodder.

>>376192821
Someone needs to email Gollop and tell him to put collateral damage % in the mission stats for Phoenix Point

>>376192904
Xcom's goal is "Prevent damage to the earth by aliens"
If Xcom kills a civilian or destroys a building, that's something the aliens CAN'T damage (since it's already gone). Damage prevented.
Xcom can fund their operations by selling weapons to whatever drug lord camelfucker dissident bosnians want them. After all, human on human violence isn't Xcom's problem.
In fact, if you provoke more alien missions against Earth (shoot down their ships and sometimes they'll send more ships), then that's more potential alien threat, more things potentially damaged ...
which means MORE DAMAGE IS PREVENTED by you blowing up all the shit first.
Check the end of month score. More xenos missions = more dead xenos = more score. It makes sense.

Therefore, provoking a world war (to jack up the price of sold weapons), provoking a massive alien attack (to loot weapons), and outright destroying anything the aliens even remotely approach (to prevent them from doing so), means you are fulfilling your job to protect the earth from aliens.
Xcom, fuck yeah.

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The only thing i wish XCOM had are some features from Xenonauts.

Like the news reports you get on the geoscope, telling you that aliens sunk a ship, destroyed some buildings, did some circles in the crops, burnt down a forest or shit like that.

And then having allied civilians, like the military, police man and armed farmers.

>>376190180
impossible until some motherfucker dares to have the audacity to actually do it

>>376193592
Well, galactic travel is very possible. It just takes Galactic timescales.
Humans won't do it, but some kind of computer systems that's happy to just idle about for 10,000years will like it just fine.

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Today I will remind
>giant
>flying
>french people

>>376186443
better question, would xcom aliens win against EDF?

lobstermen would literally claw their tanks apart

>>376194187
Considering some of the new aliens in EDF 5 are literally giant Sectoids, they probably wouldn't do much against the EDF

>>376194447
sectoids are the trash mobs of XCOM, and even then they can fuck everything up with a blaster launcher

chryssalids can reproduce infinitely provided there's enough civilians, lobstermen are nearly invincible to anything that isn't a massive drill and can rip a tank apart with their big meaty claws, tentaculats are basically underwater chryssalids, and sectopods are basically walking tanks

>>376189294
>tfw yoko will never give you the kiss of death

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>>376187547
>>376187635

>>376194562
Fencers and Wing Divers could take care of those easily, Fencers have Drills and and can shoot up to 20 homing missiles at once and Wing divers have the flying advantage

>>376194562
EDF is just a much larger scale, bigger tanks, bigger guns, bigger artillery and bigger aliens. Compare a sectopod to a Hector or a Deroy and there's no contest.

>>376186443
aliens so far ahead of us technology wise would probably just bombard our planet till were dead

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>tfw you will never perform exterminatus on xenos scum

>>376190774
And in Stargate, a big part of why we didn't get BTFO was because of a treaty between two alien powers...

>>376193995
And pillbugs.

We're gonna need a bigger rocket launcher.

>>376190773
Because the worlds strongest military's still have to follow the geneva convention as well as retain popular support at home.

>>376189657
A big rock travelling at half the speed of light would be effective enough

>>376192758 This
That wasnt a war of winning or losing it was a war of money and prolonged contracts to make money.

What if humanity just turtled up and dumped all their research into weapons while everyone else expanded?
https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken.pdf

>>376187635
It should actually be

>Missions 1
>Kills 77