Robot armies make no sense one EMP blast can fuck up entire squad why would they be a threat?

Wars just got limited to prevent the escalation, no one is going to launch a bomb as soon as the conflict starts, least of all in our age where it hurts business and it makes you lose voters.

That leads to MAD. You don't play the Nuke card unless annihilation is on the table.

Seriously, do you not understand Mutually Assured Destruction?

Oh look, somebody who doesn't know what EMP is.

Then why SF has EMP grenades?

Because the budget wasn't cut enough

Because SF writers aren't scientists or engineers, they're writers.

escalation of arms and armor's been a thing for a long time.

Eventually some party gives up because they don't think it's worth it then the previously obsolete tech gets relevant again, then the cycle begins anew.

Because robots need a weakness for players to exploit, and gameplay trumps realism.

NUTS says hello.

Exactly so in tabletop terms there is no fucking reason for a robot army to exist.

It's cool enough to warrant its existence.

If you mean for gameplay balance, robot armies usually have other advantages to offset specific vulnerabilities.

Are you talking about this issue as game design, speculative fiction, or some misplaced attempt simulating future reality?

Yeah, we should stick to humans, who have no weakness, with their bulletproof skin, no need to eat food or drink, unbreakable morale, never tire, immunity to poison and disease and more!
After all, it's clear from historical precedence: No-one has ever fielded an army with a weakness before.
And since Games are such serious business, and have in no way any from of pretending or suspension of disbelief, we could never overlook something so major in exchange for fun.
That'd be...wrong.

How do you think EMPs work, exactly? Do you think you can just build a magic EMP machine which automatically fries all enemy electronics except your own?

Plus you're posting Skynet, an example of a mechanical intelligence which actively planned for contingencies and humans figuring it out. It started the war by nuking the world, effectively cutting humanity off from its tech and resources. When shit hit the fan, it built a time machine so it could kill the one guy who figured its shit out. I don't think some kind of EMP shielding like said is outside its capabilities.

The only reason it even started losing was because a renegade commando from before the war knew what was coming and planned for it.

If you're gonna post examples of useless robot armies, why not the Trade Federation or some shit like that?

Why do robots never seem to use radiation, chemical weapons, biological agents, food deprivence, and another thousand unfair ways to cripple and kill as many humans as possible?

When you say "never", you mean "not in the Terminator series", right?

youtube.com/watch?v=B1BdQcJ2ZYY

Poisonous gasses were used in the past, I mean the distant future to poison people's asses

They do it like...once (nuclear war)? They never bother with it again.

>user fails a Comprehend Post check

Writers need a beatable foe, if your fighting 4 legged robots with perfect aim, that "leak" raicin and vx gas all your heros/humans need full mop suits and other protection.
If your robots are swarm based flyers with long long hang time over a battle that shoot from outside your average guns range from above you need to plausibly give enough stinger missiles and such to them and thats hard to do.
If you had robots flying out of range droping canisters of vx gas and other bio weapons, that are emp shielded, ect. You make it unwinnable and thus not a good read or watch

Frequently the reason is poor biochem corpus.

>4 legged

Can you make an emp?
Can your rebels?
Will you win the war of attrition.

Because EMP weapons were a major element of The Matrix and became ingrained in the public consciousness as the ultimate weapon against robots.

Because it's unethical you human shitbird. What just because someones a robot means they have to be a dick without morals?

>i've never watched The Second Renaissance.

>Humans make no sense, one bomb can fuck up entire cities, why would they even be a threat?

Your phone is definitely not shielded. It is easy to but it also increases the size, weight and lowers the speeds of anything that you shield. So no consumer products are not shielded you fucking moron.

>Bombs make no sense, one grenade can fuck up entire groups, why would they be a threat?