GATE - Jieitai Kanochi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri - Vol. 22 Ch. 119

[thedestroyership]

Honestly whats the Empires reason for staying in this war? They’ve lost thousands upon thousands of men they do not have an ace up there sleeve and there leader is the biggest douche there ever is! Can anyone please shed some light on this?

Didn’t stop hitler, didn’t stop Saddam.

Why would another tyrant surprisingly be salty about losing.

 

[RandomAlex99]

Honestly whats the Empires reason for staying in this war? They’ve lost thousands upon thousands of men they do not have an ace up there sleeve and there leader is the biggest douche there ever is! Can anyone please shed some light on this?

Pride ... thats it... ignorant pride.

 

[radstylix]

Oh wow, the JSDF wins with no problems yet again.

 

[DecimusVanGurren]

"The path to carthage is clear" well, it looks like they are going to salt their capital.

Darn, ninja'd

Zorzal and his gang are already super salty after the losses, and now JSDF are going full Salt Bae on them.

 

[Skips]

I'm honestly getting kind of bored with this, it's the same thing every chapter lately. Just tanks and jets blowing shit up for a couple dozen pages.

Yeah, what happened to our main characters? Feel like I haven't seen them in a year of chapters.

 

[RedKingKane]

Honestly whats the Empires reason for staying in this war? They’ve lost thousands upon thousands of men they do not have an ace up there sleeve and there leader is the biggest douche there ever is! Can anyone please shed some light on this?

Idiotic levels of fanaticism. And the threat of having friends and family executed if they under-preform or desert.

 

[popo53414]

Wait until China finds another gate.....

 

[zetsuravez]

At page 32 how do they operate those guns in the tank?... Remote controlled?... They had 3 small arms gun in the turret...

 

[Qelix]

I also have to give credits to the Imperials for both their guerillia ambushes in the forrest area and the idea with the trenches, though the trenches have been meant as a device for hiding and not as an tank obstacle. Still, trench-tactics are really modern afterall. And it worked, as they created confusion among the JSDF. Yet still they underestimated the power of thee JSDF's information network. They can magicaly talk to each other. They created maps of the topography BEFORE attacking. And yes, they could have used thermography as well, but I guess the JSDF felt, they needed some kind of handicap or winning no fun, or something along these lines...

I excuse those stupid forrest generals by assuming they couldn't imagine the JSDF (a force that already wiped the floor with their armies before and showed incredible economic feats by their standards (in other words: are filthy rich/have seemingly endless resources)) couldn't organize accurate maps in the weeks beforehand? Maybe accurate maps are rare in their world, yet still. Okay. I can only excuusee them by so far, taht the guerillia tactics was indeed the best choice.

But no excuses for those jerks in the open terrain on that hill. They take the cake. "What does it matter, if it doesn't hit?" True, but it did hit, didn't it? Even a close impact with the heat, the shockwave and the debris (that double as shrapnels) is enough to count as hit. Poor information situation aside. Those were generals. They should have been briefed about "explosive magic". It's funny how that guy, that went into the shelter, made better use of "What does it matter, if it doesn't (directly) hit (the shelter)?", than the guy who acctually said it. At least that one had some protection from the flying debris. My guess is, he still lives.

 

[HDMI1]

At page 32 how do they operate those guns in the tank?... Remote controlled?... They had 3 small arms gun in the turret...

The two with shields are manned turrets, and the one just above the main barrel is remote controlled from inside the tank.

 

[Krynh]

Yea pretty much all the ambushes could have been avoided if they used thermals since it not like the enemy would have understand it or even have a any ways to combat that. Honestly if your going to make a story about war that is one sided you might as well make it extremely one-sided and show all the cool stuff and how the other side has no hope at all.

They're buried under the earth. Thermals wouldn't show them.

 

[VladDracul2]

Yea pretty much all the ambushes could have been avoided if they used thermals since it not like the enemy would have understand it or even have a any ways to combat that. Honestly if your going to make a story about war that is one sided you might as well make it extremely one-sided and show all the cool stuff and how the other side has no hope at all.

Two reasons:
•First, they weren't expecting the not-roman army to use guerrilla tactics and ambushes on them; it was only recently that they changed their tactics and it caught the japanese off-guard
•Second, and most important, they're ON A FRICKIN' DESERT, so any kind of thermal signature would most likely be altered by the heat waves emmited by the extremely hot area

 

[RedRoyce]

MAAAAAAAAAN

Do i love this series!
Really wish there were a few more like this :C

 

[RoaringAardvark]

I think it's quite strange that the Japanese don't use thermals for reconnaissance.

I wonder if, at the time this was written, the JSDF had access to that particular tech. Seeing as how the Japanese had been trying to keep the Americans/Chi-coms/Russians out of the picture, maybe in retaliation they're not getting the most current stuff...

 

[HDMI1]

I wonder if, at the time this was written, the JSDF had access to that particular tech. Seeing as how the Japanese had been trying to keep the Americans/Chi-coms/Russians out of the picture, maybe in retaliation they're not getting the most current stuff...

They're purposefully using old tech, like Vietnam War era equipment, in case they need to bail back to Earth and leave the stuff behind. The locals would be able to reverse engineer the stuff to give their technology a boost, but not enough to be a World-Power level threat if they invaded Japan again.

 

[Eeliejun]

Don't get why some of you think the ambush could even work. Like they have swords good luck with using that on tacks. Sure you could ambush troops on foot but that would be hard because most are being transported rather than on foot. Sure the giants could crush a car or something but a tank would just run over the troops.

Also, armies like these would route without a problem. It is not pride or not knowing what the JSDF can do but the slaughter would just force the army to route. Like in our world tactics changed slowly with new tech but here you can see that they would fight in formations and then 1 min later 50% of the troops got blasted by artillery. People would look for cover and formations would stop existing. There is a reason why cav charges were so effective in our world and why it was an important thing to watch out for as a general.

 

[Yokubou]

If they have air superiority why did the helicopters travelling with the armored column not act as a forward recon?

Also, if they were not travelling in a column but in a battle ready formation as depicted, why was there insufficient spacing between the armored units?

 

[N0Mi0]

Pretty cool, GATE used to be unforgivingly one-sided, but now at least we have some realism in actual brain usage and sheer luck.
The casualties of the Japan-Empire coalition must run into dozens now, it's something!
It's obvious who wins the day, but because of it, it's all the more important that the author tries to make it more interesting.

Spearman might not defeat the tank, but try he does.

 

[GodsWeakestSoldier]

This is so fucking cool

 

[DanYHKim]

It is really interesting to me seeing how the "Romans" (I don't know what to call them. "Imperials?") are adjusting to their position at the bottom of an asymmetric conflict. Unlike our own fights in the Middle East, there are no suppliers of kinda modern weapons to the Romans. But they have adjusted somewhat by adopting guerilla tactics, camouflage, and more use of giant beasts and tamers.

Their minds are not easy to understand, because they aren't even thinking like an Enlightenment-era European. Their system had been very successful at raiding other worlds, bringing slaves and treasure back to the Empire without establishing client states on the other side (the Gate, I think, has been operational for an unprecedented length of time now). I don't know how much of a population the Empire can sustain while using premodern agriculture, for instance. I'd think that they might be getting to the end of their human resources, with the slaughter that comes with each encounter with the JSDF. For such an Empire, a few crop failures due to the shortage of labor might cause it to collapse. The bulk of soldiers might normally have expected to fight during the post-harvest season, and then return to their farms to plant. But now they are in a sustained war with a country that is somehow disconnected from the seasons. Japan's ability to preserve large amounts of food, import food using money, and buy from other latitudes whose seasons are at other times of the year can make them seem like they are being sustained by manna from heaven.

If the Japanese Emperor could be received by Empress Pina with suitable awesome splendor, and then name her his cousin, or something, that might lend enough political legitimacy to help stabilize the Empire around her rule. Naruhito would have to dust off the old lacquered armor and giant spear, since his tailored suits will not convey the right image. Heh, seeing the Prime Minister and the Cabinet all in pre-Meiji costume would be quite a show! They could arrive in gilt palanquins like characters in an opera, all wearing scowling red masks. Black-clad Ninja would be appearing seemingly out of nowhere throughout the proceedings, symbolizing the long and mysterious reach of the Emperor whose merest gesture could bring death at their silent hands.

I'm liking the scene more and more!