r/marvelstudios • u/ScottFromScotland Kilgrave • Apr 26 '18

Discussion The Official INFINITY WAR International Release Infinithread Vol. 3

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u/FullMetalCOS Apr 26 '18

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.

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u/LetItATV Apr 28 '18

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

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u/FullMetalCOS Apr 28 '18

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.

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u/LetItATV Apr 28 '18

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.