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JinjoJess — MIT War Years: Rattata Medic
Published: 2007-10-10 06:55:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 155; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 0
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I got to thinking tonight about how pokemon would actually be used in the military, and one obvious job is supply ferry. I figured rattata would be a good choice for transporting medicines and such because it's small, fast, and a hard target to hit.You know what I found out while doing this? I actually really like rattata.
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inked and colored in Photoshop CS3
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Hmm...
-Dittos would be used to create decoys.
-Koffing and Weezing create a literal fog of war with Fog while producing gas warfare.
-Fire pokemon instead of flamethrowers (or that know Flamethrower) to flush people out of bunkers like in WWII.
-Pidgeys would be ideal for scouting missions, quick and agile and capable of higher flight than -Spearows.
-Bug pokemon hidden in grasses to spring poisonous traps, or put entire battlegroups to sleep. Bioweapons from Venemoth and Butterfree distributing their powders when the wind shifts the right way.
-Electric pokemon would be electrifying barbed wire fences.
-Digletts and Dugtrios would burrow behind enemy lines for surprise attacks on any battlefield not made entirely of mountainous terrain or water. That would really fuck up war strategy as we know it.
-Electrodes, Voltorbs, Gravellers - anything that knows Self-Destruct would just be hurled into the enemy lines like bombs, while rock pokemon would supplement the bombardment with Rock Throw.
-There are of course countless pokemon to be mounted for the cavalry.
-Like you said, water pokemon would ferry supplies, but what would carry them overland? Ponyta and Rapidash are dependent on speed, they probably don't have the strength for heavy hauling. Tauros would work until it got angry.
-Psychic pokemon would just wreak havoc on the enemy morale and do everything they could to drive them at least temporarily insane, bump their guns telekenetically, tip over lamps and light fires from a distance and teleport away if they get discovered.
-Pokemon knowing ice moves could freeze the ground ahead of a charging mass of enemies, causing them all to fall on their asses and leave them wide open to counter attacks of all kinds. Maybe this could be followed up with fire pokemon melting the ice sheet combined with electric pokemon hitting the new pool of water and paralyze or fry everyone in it. There's advanced tactics for you.
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The ditto thing and the bug pokemon never occurred to me actually...that's damn clever.
I think I wrote down somewhere (I'll have to check) that psychic pokemon were outlawed as far as battle goes by an international treaty following the First Great War. They're just too powerful and they create a lot of fucked up veterans so the nations agreed on making them go the way of nukes.
Some people however, still use them illegally for spying and interrogation purposes.
As for land-based supply runners, I was thinking something hardy like Nidoroyal would work pretty well even though they aren't fast.
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Endurance over speed for that sort of thing.
That was a good idea about the psychics. I read the description for Alakazam and I started wondering why a pokemon that was thousands of times more intelligent than a human being would allow itself to be owned by one. And then I realized that most pokemon display at least the intelligence of a child, so wtf?
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The fact that they understand human speech pretty much points out that they're smarter than people.
Perhaps they're all just bondage fetishists?
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Wow, Jess. It makes perfect sense, though.
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