MILITARY SCIENCE FICTION - Terrible Writing Advice

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[carloscaro]

The real love triangle is between a soldier, his power armor, and an even sexier version of power armor.

[coltpiecemaker]

"Most soldiers fight their chain-of-command more than the enemy"


This is so incredibly true that it hurts.

[lucientaylor]

Automatic like for mentioning that military equipment spends more time being maintained than in use

[bugjams]

Don’t forget.

“This tactical decision will save the lives of literally everyone on our side, with little to no downside, however due to some arbitrary Federation law, I’m going to be arrested and stripped of all rank, despite single-handedly saving thousands of lives.

Then, in a _surprise_ twist, only long after I’ve been punished, the government will realize they need my tactical prowess and is willing to bend the rules to allow me to stay in the military.”

[YuzuruA]

"what do you mean space tactics is different from naval combat?"
oh, that would be a video on its own

[patrikcath]

"If railgun no work, use more railgun"
- me, a renowed tactician

[mikaele]

Power armour on Protagonists: Gets shot 5 times to die
Power armour on Antagonists: Get shot once anywhere and dies instantly

[ghidotheone]

The general's chainsaw arm switched arms during the sponsorship.

What an amazing subversion of my expectations of visual consistency!

[taylorgabbey]

5:49 "Let's see how close I can get to accidentally advocating fascism!"
It's funny because it's too real

[thefuzzyvulpine]

There's only one rule of military sci-fi:
Kinetic weapons > arguably everything else.

[evalpenguin]

"military equipment spends more time being maintained than in use"
yep, yep and more yep

[Koshionos]

I'm sensing a distinctive amount of Starship Troopers references coming

[zerogbot]

Don't forget to have a "neutral caught in the middle alien race or faction" This way your protagonist can feel bad about something while still shooting the Evil alien hive

[notablegoat]

Heinlein: Writes Starship Troopers
Every Military Scifi Writer Ever Since: "Same"

[Nethan]

Keep in mind that the most common definition of fascism is "side with really cool military uniforms".

[AnonYmous-dbyy]

“I GIIIIVE MY NOT FOR HONOR, BUT yeah, for honor.”
-Private General In Chief 3rd Class Johnny McProtagonist

[xenan]

I just love how 50% of fictional armys always run without a fight and the other 50% keep on fighting no matter how little damage they do.

[matthewmabry]

Make sure all the villains can’t hit the broad side of a barn with a shotgun.

[calebwheeler]

This made me want a military sci-fi story about a group of badly equipped, poorly trained conscripts, and then I remembered that 90% of stuff about the Imperial Guard fits that description.

[maverickwildwolf]

Warhammer 40k imperial guards be like "what's power armor?"