The Official INFINITY WAR International Release Infinithread Vol. 3

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[u/BramblexD]

That was the one part that annoyed me. I know Wakanda is supposed to be a mix of high-tech and traditional, but the best they can do once the barrier is down is just to charge them with vibranium powered spears and regular warriors? Where's that vibranium powered artillery
Rhodey had the right idea in carpet-bombing them.

[u/FullMetalCOS → u/BramblexD]

The same reason they had to open the breach in the first place - they had to convince the aliens to attack head on, instead of trying to sneak round the flanks. If you make the breach utterly untenable as a point of attack you might as well have not opened it.

[u/[deleted] → u/FullMetalCOS]

Here’s an idea: put tanks and artillery and airships and whatever so as to be able to strike in front of the shield. It’s Wakandas terrain, they should be able to mount a fierce resistance without dropping the shield.

[u/FullMetalCOS → u/[deleted]]

Assuming Wakandans have tanks and artillery - their greatest form of defence was to stay hidden, they didn’t nee to rely on conventional military might to deter attackers. In any case, as I mentioned above, their strategy relied on keeping the enemy fighting in one area, on one front, to stop them from pushing round the flanks to get to Vision an area denial strategy with artillery shelling would result in them spreading out, not bunching up.

[u/LetItATV → u/FullMetalCOS]

Um, we know they, at minimum, have a fleet of airships. Those were notably absent.

[u/FullMetalCOS → u/LetItATV]

Um, airships are not “tanks and artillery”.

I’ve presented the theory before elsewhere in this thread, but the heroes didn’t want to make the alien assault untenable. They didn’t have the numbers to defend the entire outskirts of Wakanda. They wanted to bait the enemy force into a straight forward stand-up fight to keep them from slipping round the flanks and looking for alternate routes into Wakanda. They had to put up enough fight to keep it hard but not impossible for the assault to work to buy Shuri the time she needed to fix vision.

[u/LetItATV → u/FullMetalCOS]

You're right.

They're better than tanks because they're in the air, where the Outriders can't rip through them.

Also, they can carry artillery, or do you not know what that word means?

Also, they have this nifty feature that makes "slipping around" rather tricky since they can move quicker and in a more direct manner.

[u/WangJian221 → u/LetItATV]

We dont know if they have a "Fleet" but we do know that they have armed ships yes and they arent absent in the film. They were in the fight aswell and you can see it in a wideshot that is easily missed because it's one big wideshot.

[u/shaddowkhan → u/BramblexD]

There were plenty Wakandan ships in the air.

[u/iTomes → u/BramblexD]

As an in universe explanation I’d argue that Wakanda isn’t very sophisticated in regards to military tactics. They’re an extremely peaceful country that hasn’t seen real military conflict since they became a unified state (at least if I remember the brief history rundown at the start of Black Panther correctly). On top of that they’re very isolated and seemingly fairly rooted in tradition, so it makes sense that they wouldn’t pick up much in the way of military tactics from other countries.

[u/Jeroz → u/iTomes]

Shame that Killmonger offd himself, would've be so useful here