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Anonymous03/14/26, 08:09No.64968618Design an alien swarm's fighting doctrine against le army of space dudes
You awake after being transported through the fantasy magic of thread prompt to a brainjack that connects your collective /k/ heads to an alien swarm. The swarms had sent down an invading army of runny and bitey monstersthat ran at a chokepoints and got blown up at a thousand to one rates. This Hivemind that created the swam has decided to consult YOU /tg/ on the creation of a version of it'salien gribbly horde. What 'kinds' of monsters are useful basically? Your limitations are only that you should try to err on the side of sticking to what is physically possible to have exist irl or at least not literally have out and out superpowers baked into the design. Just as a point of reference you should err on the side of the Arachnids from the above imaged gif as being about the most exotic and fantastical of biology-as tech that you're going to be able to get away with.
>You can spitball up up better a better fighting doctrine for your tryhard version of a space swarm then pic related right?
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Anon03/14/26, 08:17No.64968631
Thread-twin post on /tg/
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Anon03/14/26, 08:44No.64968669
>I'd tell you you fuck off with off your off topic shitposting and tragic failure at crosspost. but this whole site is on the track of tapering out into extinction anyway and this is admittedly about as on-topic as the average "can mechs work" thread anyway and at least a little bit more novel as ideas go.The swarm could have a locust analogous type of to it, it's one of the few animal problems that to this day make for genuine problems for people as people still don't have it completely able to pest control actively swarming clouds of bugs cost effectively so a refined up alien locust that just dos what locusts already do but in some nebulously better qualities then the real thing is a decent add.
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Anon03/14/26, 09:49No.64968756
>Your limitations are only that you should try to err on the side of sticking to what is physically possible to have exist irl or at least not literally have out and out superpowers baked into the design.
I make bugs that naturally contain Chlorine Trifluoride and Thorium with a biological Teflon-Lead lined body, I also program the bugs to speak in a Jamaican accent since the Human mind is not equipped to deal with a bug shouting “bombaclatt” before exploding
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Anon03/14/26, 09:53No.64968763
As for doctrine, I think the main point is to , when on the defence, use your numbers to your advantage and try to mitigate the range-problem. Go full jap/vc, hide in every nook and cranny, stage ambushes, just make it take as long as possible to clear out an area. On the offense, try as much as possible to avoid getting funneled into choke-points/kill-zones. Hold off and siege rather than trying to fit into a narrow choke-point if at all possible.As for types of bugs, of course you'd need a very large amount of cheap cannon fodder drones with lethal melee abilities (like the arachnid standard bug). Having a bunch of fliers for scouting/harassing would also be very valuable, just like they have in the film. Something I'd like to have would be a type of 'goo sprayer' that could spit corrosive/toxic chemicals. That would force the enemy (which I assume is human) to always try to use nbc-gear, which would be a cost and a hassle.
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Anon03/14/26, 10:05No.64968777
bombs filled with nerve gas and guns that shoot nerve toxins
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Anon03/14/26, 10:30No.64968817
Walk up to them and stab the space menDo this by the thousands because theyre retarded like all aliums in fiction.
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Anon03/14/26, 10:31No.64968822
Killing the bug should release more bugs. All bugs are preganant.
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Anon03/14/26, 10:33No.64968825
Killing the bugs should release corrosives.Also aliens that rely on stabbing or touching in general are dumb.
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Anon03/14/26, 13:13No.64969081
Breed creatures that the space dudes would find sexually attractive and can so be dominated by them. So basically deer.
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Anon03/14/26, 13:30No.64969113
>Jams your retard pheromone signals
SHUT THE FUCK UP RETARD
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Anon03/14/26, 13:59No.64969177
I would design highly intelligent brain bugs that could invent technology and industry and then build spaceships and nukes to blow up the enemy.
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Anon03/14/26, 14:02No.64969183
Honey pots, backronym dryad or nymph
>literally just a giant enemy crab, except when you break open its shell, instead of delicious crabby goodness, delicious crabby goodness (female) spills out
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Anon03/14/26, 14:12No.64969198
Locusts, tiny locusts that shit acid feces that is capable of melting through hardened steel. Individually they're an irritant, but in swarms they can melt tanks down to the treads. Able to drop their loads in flight making them capable of bombing runs. Naturally nocturnal but will swarm in the day if disturbed. Like locusts, they swarm from food source to food source, leaving a deadly wasteland of acid-shit in their wake.Hivemind can override their natural instincts/behavior mitigating nocturnal behavior and allows for coordinated attacks as well as individual units to infiltrate targets to cause destruction.Basically, the day the earth stood still tier shit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU8ttxxukM4
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Anon03/14/26, 14:35No.64969240
>Arachnids from the above imaged gif as being about the most exotic and fantastical of biology-as tech that you're going to be able to get away with.
Reminder that the Arachnids in the book had laser rifles, missiles and spaceships so they could colonise other planets.The sole reason the bugs look like they do in the movie is because the director just found the idea of bugs using rifles or having spaceships silly.https://monsterlegacy.net/2014/07/07/starship-troopers-bugs-klendathu/
>The film adaptation’s version of the Bugs (dubbed the ‘Arachnids’) is widely different from that of the novel, with the major departure lying in the fact that the film Bugs have not crafted any kind of artificial technology. This was a decision taken by the director himself. Neumeier explained: “Heinlein described them as looking like spiders, and yet the Bugs seemed to have evolved physically beyond that because they were able to shoot guns and to behave in an anthropomorphic way. This was one of the earliest things Paul Verhoeven and I talked about; and it became clear that our discussions were leading down the path of anthropomorphic aliens, portrayed by actors in elaborate costumes. Verhoeven quickly put a stop to that line of thinking. He told me, ‘I can’t see a Bug holding a gun.’ He did not want to see some sort of man in a suit with a funny crab claw, or a six-foot-tall ant with its head in a space helmet. Eventually, we came up with the idea that we should do the Bugs as bugs, as believable giant insects.”Bugs that have to physically touch you to kill you are just dangerous pests. Bugs that can nuke your ass, hit you with missiles and zap you with a laser are a geniune threats to any space faring civilization.
>bug doctrine
Any current military doctrine but with swarm tactics focus. When all your insects are connected to a hive and all the warrior bugs are ready to die for the hive and wont spew any lies then that alone would make their morale unbreakable.
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Anon03/15/26, 03:22No.64971428
I want banelings. Rolling balls of acid. Basically just zerg in general would be good. Imagine an offensive nydus popping in your rear.
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Anon03/15/26, 08:16No.64972014
The Movie bugs make sense when you remember they're Psychic and capable of FTL travel and communication. I don't care that they don't sit well with nerds, these are facts in the film, they can shit FTL goo and coordinate via psychic skype calls.Also, being able to bury everything (including your planet-to-orbit-artilery) a mile underground makes it really difficult to nuke you.
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Anon03/15/26, 09:40No.64972133
A lot of the ‘fun’ design of bitey jaws or claws to tear guys apart just don’t add to much to a swarm. If you’ve got your things into meleee with the gungen then those infantry are going to probably be dead at that point even if you’re just shoving the guys over and stomping them as so many stumpy legged bugs without any kind of natural weapons to speak of.It is better to have ‘reached’ the enemy at a quicker speed or have the drones take one more bullet to kill then have them be able to kill faster in melee. “Killing the guys” is never the problem, it’s always the “reaching them” that is the problem.
What the swarm are going to be contending with the most are ‘vehicles’. Those are the things most liable to tear us a new thorax. Maximally Anti-armour setups are the armament of choice on all bugs that can make that switch.