Comments by "Helium Road" (@RCAvhstape) on "The Thunderchild - Chapter 17 of War of the Worlds" video.

  1. 9:58 "She seemed, poor woman, to imagine that the French and the Martians might prove very similar." So H G Wells also predicted Drachisms? Amazing.
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  2.  @andrewstrongman305  Admiral Nelson would disagree. He'd be proud to see them get in and mix it up at close range with the Martian bastards.
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  3.  @the_undead  To complete this analysis, we need an estimate on the mass of a tripod.
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  4. Better, yet, Yamato refitted with the wave motion gun. Take the fight to Mars and make the bastards pay for ever leaving their planet.
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  5. The book is so much better than even the best of the films, mainly because the Martians, while unbeatably tough, are not invincible, and do take damage from soldiers and sailors with the guts to stand up and fight them. It's always fun to speculate how the Martians would fare against other ships, such as, for example, a Ticonderoga class guided missile cruiser, popping off Martian tripods at long range with Standard missiles, or Fletcher class destroyers, peppering the tripods with 5" shells.
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  6.  @luketfer  I once ran a BattleTech tabletop campaign that involved BattleMechs duking it out with Tripods, on both Earth and Mars.
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  7.  @WyvernApalis  Same ship according to the anime lore.
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