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Re: [ORE] [Godlike] If the Japanese have so many fewer Talents...

The other factor I considered was how many fewer talants do the Japanese have, if the ration is of the order of 6 or 7 to 1 it is about the same ration as in conventional forces and so maintains the balace.
Also given that on a straight historical basis the Americans win with no doubts the wild card of talants can only help the Japanese. If we take the example of the german talent in sicily who can sink ships by looking at them if you add him to the 7th fleet at Phillipines sea the result is pretty much the same, if you add him to the combined fleet and he manages to take out a couple of fleet carriers that probably delays the American advance by several months as they replace them. Likewise a kamkiaze pilot who develops the ability to make his plane invulnerable does a lot more harm to the Americans than a Hellcat pilot who cannot be shot down does to the Japanese.

I presume talants are reasonably well used by the USMC but in the island campaigns there is no room for maneuver or flexibility everywhere is in the enemies killing ground and you just have to hammer straight in, even there the Americans normally killed abou 3 Japanese for every dead American and only at Iwo Jima did their total casualties exceed the Japanese dead

Overall the ETO is probably better for a prolonged campaign although Americans in the Phliipines during the Japanese conquest could be interesting , or for a one off newly created American talants at Wake Island 

On 28 September 2015 at 17:54, Gil Trevizo <gtrevizo@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 8:12 AM, 'Andrew Moreton' via Cult of ORE <cult-of-ore@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Further the stress of a fanatical to the last man defense or kamikaze attack looks like the sort of thing to bring out talant's more than the Americans are experiencing on the other side. This means that the Japanese will often have spontaneous talant's manifesting and then getting killed before training which still forces American talant's to be careful.

This is my take as well. There are plenty of Japanese Talents manifesting all over the Pacific Theater, but the few that survive get labeled as Gaki, or monsters. The multitude that die gloriously in battle following manifestation are seen as Nikudan ("human bullets") or Gun-shin ("War Gods"), patriotic heroes empowered by kokutai (national spirit) to achieve great acts and turn back the West and its inhuman Talent monstrosities. There are also Goldberg Scientists that the Japanese military may not even recognize as Talents. And while the Japanese may not (openly) organize native-born Talents into units, they could do so among other populations of occupied and allied nations (Korea, China, Indochina, Indonesia, etc).

The flipside of this is the assumption that the Marines use their Talents as effectively as the Army does in the ETO. Considering the massive waste of life for not-always clear objectives in the island-hopping campaign, it's very possible that Marine SIS squads are ineffectually deployed in battle by the kind of generals that look at a flamethrower and wonder where the bayonet lug is.

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