
Originally Posted by
masamuneehs
But stop and think for a minute. Those fucking people were fighting in modern day Japan (or not far from modern day), and they were fighting some fucking killer enemies. The Unknown Soldier said it himself, that they lost, but, at the same time, that some small remnant of humanity got to live on. Then you have the scene where the Princess herself comes in to rescue a single soldier.
It leads me to believe two things: A) Those opponents were jamming the living shit out of the humans. If they had to resort to audio communication like that, they were getting killed, and getting flanked the way Felicia's unit did had to be a common thing for front line units like hers. B) The humans knew (at least at the end) that they were going to lose a lot. The Princess was fighting for one individual as if she knew that one day all that might be left would be one or two people. It's not unthinkable that the entire war was fought just to make the Earth so unihabitable that the opponent couldn't/wouldnt want to continue after it. One tank kills one unit and sounds an advance so more units can get in range and take out one more unit a piece, and it really doesn't matter if each tank gets killed after they knock out an opponent, so long as they all move forward. That's power in numbers and an absolute objective.