What weapons would be best to use against an enemy that uses melee attacks exclusively, is blind, and attacks anything that makes the slightest sound?
What weapons would be best to use against an enemy that uses melee attacks exclusively, is blind, and attacks anything that makes the slightest sound?
Man, quiet place was such a great movie.
I guess setting traps would be very effective, so when you're not actually close when once of them gets it.
A truck
a cheap noise maker or radio and some c4
Weren't they extremely, extremely bulletproof? Assuming they were, and ignoring how insane that would actually be, you really have to find something poisonous to them.
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Single earphone speakers clipped onto an AA battery to loop sounds. Everyone is issued a ammo can of them. The monsters will charge around in circles investigating the things until they starve.
They survived in space for thousands/millions of years. They aren't starving anytime soon.
Tape a stick of dynamite to every speaker. When they pounce and swallow it - boom.
I refuse to believe they survived in the vacuum of space without being completely inactive. If such organism were to be awake and active, they would need proper nourishment to keep up with the energy output they spend in being alive.
Unless they found a way to survive off of pure rock, which some organisms do.
Scientists have found little microbes in the rock deep in the ocean that have been dormant for almost 100 million years. When woken up they are active and capable of reproducing.
Just because we can hardly imagine such things in the present context of how life functions right now doesn't mean it isn't possible. There is an idea that Earth was once populated by an intelligent race of beings long before classical antiquity. It's possible Mars was inhabited, and if all life eventually perished and the planet was covered in water for hundreds of millions/billions of years it'd be so deeply buried we might never find it. Same thing could happen to Earth.
Point is, the Earth developed life relatively late into our solar system's existence. Imagine the state of humans if we'd started developing 100 million years ago?
extremely prolonged hibernation?
the backstory of those things was thought out before they shot it. Apparently they were pretty much invincible and unaging with their hardened shell as the asteroids they arrived with were the destroyed pieces of their original planet which they hitchhiked with through the space. Until they crashed on earth.
>Apparently they were pretty much invincible
They die to buck shot.
After they open up.
Most vulnerable during sex
They open up for literally anything.
Thats not true, they open up when they are searching, not when they are fighting.
They clearly can hunt without it, thats just for more fine hunting.
just like anon's sister
only when they expose their sensor organs from their shell
What's the most powerful cartridge we see them resist?
We don’t see them getting shot at, but presumably 30mm and down, since they wouldn’t be able to jink IFVs and attack helicopters/A-10s. I headcanon that they don’t show up on thermals and EM blitz radio guided munitions. There are only so many TOWs and laser guided munitions, and once they start fucking up infrastrcture fuel for tanks and such as well as production starts collapsing.
"Presumably"
That's my favorite word we all use when some sci Fi shit forgot to establish a threat level realistically.
If something uses sound to hunt. I imagine something that makes a very loud bang would probably disorientate it greatly.
Invent an even more stupid counter fantasy since you invented the context.
Sounds like a job for grenades.
Even if their skin is indestructible, because of how science and shit works an MBT firing HESH or an explosive with significant enough overpressure would be able to one shot them
Realistically though any armored vehicle firing APFSDS or HEAT would destroy these fags
This is true, but they look like they could move quick and mission kill pretty much anything.
Buttoned up units would survive, but if the meat that supplies them cant do that, its only a matter of time.
I have no doubt a ABCT or two got spooled up, but i think it was a loseing battle.
>look like they could move quick and mission kill pretty much anything
They're fast, but a turret can traverse quick enough to catch them, especially over open terrain
>Buttoned up units would survive, but if the meat that supplies them cant do that, its only a matter of time.
A cordon could be set up, and I totally forgot air support. An AC130 would obliterate them
>At most I can see them being an extremely disruptive disaster and major pain in the ass for years as the army slowly exterminates them
This
There's some apocrypha that states they generate an EM field that probably fucks with targeting. In addition to being stupid fast and agile, they're probably hard to hit with anything big enough to kill them.
Still, doesn't track that these things took over the planet. At most I can see them being an extremely disruptive disaster and major pain in the ass for years as the army slowly exterminates them
Even if they had some EM, most everything has optics you can use. Shit, even with a Bradley you can get stone age with them. Pic related. At least the US stuff can fight in an EM environment. Use to be sure about the russian stuff, not so sure anymore.
Anyone ever figure out if they could swim?
they can't, but the asteroid/s that brought them here distributed them to the Americas and Asia, so they're probably not in SEA Hawaii or Ingerland
As for targeting, they're still a relatively small, really fast target that takes a heavy hardware to kill. And there's apparently a lot of them. Even if they're not outright indestructible, they'd cause major problems everywhere they go, and would probably merc pussy nations like central yurp and Canada
Speakers mounted inside a heavy cage.
Just hang really sharp sticks at eye level.
Bonus points for it's eye level being slightly taller than your own height.
airplane
Set up remote noisemakers connected to claymores with proximity fuses. When they investigate the noise and open up their faces, they get a ball bearing facial