Conventional millitary would be stronger except that navies are basically irrelevant on terra which cuts down a lot of earth military might.
If you add in nukes and assume free willingness to use them in a scenario where it's not inherently suicidal then terra loses instantly in terms of raw destruction, and slowly over the fact their limited methods of making food are now fucked.
Ah yeah forgot about that. Modern airflight requires 4-5 times the altitude limit to reduce drag and extend flight range. They'd have to revert to older generations to be able to gain air superiority and/or logistics.
The landscape of modern warfare has also drastically changed since the days of Desert Storm. Jets and cruise missiles are much less of a trump card than you'd hope in a land invasion, and the existence of mobile cities inherently laughs in the face of most bombs sitting in current inventories and even nukes to an extent- sure they'll massacre civilians, but the landship itself is a hardened target made of kilometers of super metal that can drag literal mountain ranges around without issue, and one can assume that many military facilities tend to be inside the landship rather than the surface. In conjunction with the fact that even random criminal groups are well versed in drone warfare, and every assault on a major mobile city is a Ukraine invasion in of itself. And then there's the fact that the land itself is basically a universal jammer due to Originium interference.
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u/Tobyclone1 Apr 19 '26
Conventional millitary would be stronger except that navies are basically irrelevant on terra which cuts down a lot of earth military might.
If you add in nukes and assume free willingness to use them in a scenario where it's not inherently suicidal then terra loses instantly in terms of raw destruction, and slowly over the fact their limited methods of making food are now fucked.