WilsonTurner said
I'm not starting a war?And I'm not saying that they are all-powerful gods. If anyone has a number of highly-trained, highly-skilled soldiers that were both naturally and genetically altered to war, with proper leadership and loyalty, then they could easily wipe out a superior-numbered force.
The problem with this assumption is that it's speaking in absolutes. On pen and paper, and by technicality, a force with superior numbers simply has more firepower to bring to the field; this same force can also spread out its elements and assets (infantry, armor elements and airborne/spaceborne power) over a wider area than a smaller yet better-trained force can, which will cause problems if this larger army starts disrupting supply lines, forcing choke-points and dominating the field of battle to where the advantages of your Draconians are more or less rendered moot and void. The idea of an all-elite army dominating a significantly larger one each and every time is something that you see in fiction, not in reality (exceptions, of course, do exist)..
Examples of this occurring can be seen in one of Humanity's most famous wars, WWII, where the USSR, which vastly out-performed Nazi Germany's military forces in the numbers department, walked away with a handy victory (though after losing much in the way of war material and men).
Additionally, Draconians dumping that much genetic augmentation and training into each and every solider makes for an extremely strong but ungodly
brittle military force that will never recover once it begins to suffer major defeats. It's unable to wage a war of attrition, as the enemies it's facing can afford to keep throwing bodies on the front lines without taking a second look at their wallet.
The Draconians, however, cannot. Their method of war sounds like it relies on shock value, surprise and running into conscripts/unseasoned soldiers---which are advantages that won't last long once people catch on to how they conduct themselves during war. Soldiers will, inevitably, survive encounters with them, which will gradually see the emergence of a proper force perfectly tailored to doing battle with these supposed 'unstoppable' super-soldiers.you have created.
There's also the issue where being 12 feet tall is not an advantage. You instantly become bait for every anti-material rifle, tank (yes, tank) and aircraft out there.
Anyway, are there any mini plots going on that might concern individual characters rather than whole nations? Or is that something that might come along later?