Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4975368-20170703025404/@comment-2.24.51.119-20170704180452

To be successful in taking on the UNSC, they'd have to resort to guerilla style attacks. Small, calculated strikes on poorly defended areas like that supply depot they hit in the first episode of Season 15. Going after the UNSC itself on Earth would be suicide because that would be where their defences are the strongest. The factors that would decide this would be

• The UNSC First Fleet blockading Chorus, depriving Earth of one of it's most key defences.

• The effectiveness of the Blues and Reds vs. the might of the UNSC Armed Forces

• The numbers of the Blues and Reds + All the simulation troopers compared to the UNSC

• Specific factors such as resources, allies and equipment. What weapons will the combined Sim troopers have? What vehicles? How many? Will they have any ships? Or robots? Or leftover technology from either aliens or Freelancer? Will they have support? From insurgents (not related to Charon Industries; actual Insurrectionists) who also want to see the UNSC fall? From rogue aliens like the ones FH57 found in Season 14?

• How will the Sim troopers function as a paramilitary force? Will they color code their weaponry to each team because of OCD or some other quirk? Will they bicker and fight like they do even if they're united? Will some doubt the Blues and Reds' actions and consider breaking away?

• Finally, who will they fight against? The UNSC military? the Reds and Blues? The Freelancers? Chorus? Locus? Siris? The Sanghelli? Whilst all of these factions are held up by various factors (spread quite thinly, captured, defected, retired, locked out of the loop. etc), it's certain that at least one of these obstacles will be in the Blues and Reds' way. It'll depend on the actions. Hopefully this goes somewhere interesting.