History WMG / BattleLosAngeles

[[WMG: The aliens are [[Warhammer40k the Tau]]]]

[[WMG: The initial invasion is an army of misfits ]]
If the aliens have more coming in, perhaps the first wave is convicts, political dissidents and lower tier troops. The kind you could send to die on a low tech planet just in case it's a {{death world}}. Hence the cobbled together tech, cybernetic weapons and the drones. The cybernetics could just could be how they fight, but against even 19th century-era technology, they'd work out well. Since we found their weakness, they next wave is the {{elite mooks}}.

** As I mentioned on the Fridge page, I'm going with a mix of this and the one below - the aliens are using an inefficient implementation of a hydrogen-boron fusion reaction. They electrolyse the necessary hydrogen out of the seawater, and then strain the small amount of available boron from the remnants while stockpiling all the hydrogen they can't use. Then they use the hydrogen and boron that they have to power their land offensive, which as well as being a method for clearing a safe zone is also aimed at finding places where the C&C units can burrow down into the earth and begin extracting boron deposits.

Think about it: They have an initial base, but start off with only basic troops. They have to collect resources before they start putting out more advanced units like aircraft and walking tanks, and they [[TheEnemyGateIsDown instantly lose]] when their base is destroyed.

What we saw in the movie was simply an advanced force of cheeply manufactured Shock Troops. The aliens we see already show signs of being cloned-Shock Troops, weapons grafted to the arms, being hard to kill, etc. Here's the strategy: the aliens send off these Shock Troops as an advanced force, complete with cheaply made drones for support, to a planet to weaken the defenses/gauge the strength of the natives. What we're not seeing is the massive fleet hiding behind Mars.

I'm sure the understand the concept of the wheel and all, have gears, etc. However the two legs on the tank-thing are a little odd. It obviously works for them, though.

They didn't have the time for it to become a GovernmentConspiracy, but astronomers could see something was coming and alerted the government. No one knew if it was friendly or hostile, and they only had a few weeks before it was due to arrive - so all they did was make sure all military bases were stocked up. With so little lead time, it was better to set up a small committee to chew on both options rather than mobilize and tell everyone.

[[WMG: The aliens never developed the wheel as a mode of transportation.]]
Two legs on the tank-thing are a little odd, but obviously works for them.

They didn't have the time for it to become a GovernmentConspiracy, but astronomers could see something was coming and alerted the government. No one knew if it was friendly or hostile, and they only had a few weeks before it was due to arrive - so all they did was make sure all military bases were stocked up. With so little lead time, it was better to set up a small committee to chew on both options rather than mobilize and tell everyone.

Just like oil is refined for various uses, the seawater is refined according to each use the aliens can apply it to. The "command center" isn't just command, it's a refinery. This is why it took the aliens a while to get their vehicles and air units up and going.

Just like oil is refined for various uses, the seawater is refined according to each use the aliens can apply it to. The "command center" isn't just command, it's a refinery.

** [[FridgeBrilliance Fridge Brilliance?]]

The Kuiper Belt and other cometary material in the Solar system contain ''much'' more water in toto than is found on the surface of the Earth. If they just needed liquid water, they could break off chunks of (say) Pluto, and melt it. The reason they're so interested in Earth is that our ocean water has a mix of salts in it that provide ''just'' what they need to use water as a fuel. (There isn't very much sodium chloride in comets, to name just one kind of salt in Earth's ocean water.)

As they are ripping the still-living alien soldier apart to find the weak point, a squad of aliens immediately head back to the police station.

Corollary: a future installment will [[AuthorsSavingThrow address]] the [[ScienceMarchesOn problem]] of astronomers discovering a multitude of water-covered planets in the galaxy not by taking the obvious way out of saying that the salt content in Earth's oceans are what makes it attractive to the aliens, but by having the aliens be ''so'' desperate that distance was the deciding factor and Earth was simply the first one they found. Peace is brokered with an exchange of this information so they can go find other fuel sources. Unfortunately, it turns out that they didn't have the patience to look further than Earth because they're already at war with something even worse and ''losing;'' to add insult to the invasion, humanity can choose to either watch the invaders get curb-stomped only to be destroyed next, or suck it up and form an actual military alliance with the original invaders to give them the manpower they need to route their own enemy.

The aliens seem to be beating the snot out of the buildings in downtown LosAngeles - this is because they don't realize that those buildings are for business and residential usage and not for government. Their own command center is centralized in a large structure so they assume ours is too. A disproportionate amount of their forces are clearing and destroying these buildings, which helped the film's protagonists in the end.

The aliens seem to be beating the snot out of the buildings in downtown LosAngeles - this is because they don't realize that those buildings are for business and residential usage and not for government. Their own command center is centralized in a large structure so they assume ours is too.

[[WMG: The aliens assumed skyscrapers we command centers]]

There's plenty of water worlds out there, and that's what they usually decimate. They just usually have little in the way of land to worry about. Fighting on land is new to them (or it's just been a ''really long time''), but as the first WMG says, they're desperate and had to pick a 70% water planet rather than a safer 90% water planet with water-based intelligent life.

The Aliens aren't resorting to the Alpha Strike yet, [[RocksFallEveryoneDies but when they do...]]

[[WMG: This movie takes place in the [[Iji Ijiverse]] .]]

[[WMG: This movie takes place in the [[Iji Ijiverse.]]]]

[[WMG: This movie takes place in the [[Iji Ijiverse]]. ]]

[[WMG: This movie takes place in the [[Iji Ijiverse]].]]

Corollary: a future installment will [[AuthorsSavingThrow address]] the [[ScienceMarchesOn problem]] of astronomers discovering a multitude of water-covered planets in the galaxy not by taking the obvious way out of saying that the salt content in Earth's oceans are what makes it attractive to the aliens, but by having the aliens be ''so'' desperate that distance was the deciding factor and Earth was simply the first one they found. Peace is brokered with an exchange of this information so they can go find other fuel sources. Unfortunately, it turns out that they didn't have the patience to look further than Earth because they're already at war with something even worse and ''losing;'' to add insult to the invasion, humanity can choose to either watch the invaders get curb-stomped only to be destroyed next, or suck it up and form an actual military alliance with the original invaders to give them the manpower they need to route their own enemy.