in our time
You may not have noticed, but I'm actually quite fine with whacky shenanigans and mission variables. Like... pairing a xenophobic bigot with a xenophobic/specist anthropomorphic dinasaur to flashbang a queen that has taken an OD on narcotics to knock them back into their senses shenanigans... Or dating a demon out of boredom between missions and making that an important plot point 4 threads later... using a character someone else created and just handed to me to run with.
Not like I actually planned any of this stuff 4 years in advance. So calm yo butt.
We're making a pretty unexpected and dynamic entry as it is. We are a 3rd party faction, and the primary (friendly to us) belligerent is a rather shitty local Special-Forces operative that is already on the ground*.
If the enemy has the eye of the hurricane super-defended, then he is being beyond paranoid to the point of being borderline clairvoyant.
Anyways, the point is, we are doing an awesome insertion, under awesome extreme conditions, to stop an awesome weapon and deliver awesome justice within an awesome time-limit.
*And we are complaining?
On top of this, one of these complaints, is that someone on the enemy team apparently expects this level of awesome to crush their nuclear testicles like a legion of Chuck Norris... and he isn't crying for mercy yet, why?
I mean, the only way to make it more awesome, is that we mount horses before jumping out the back of the plane and perform a vertical cavalry charge from space, then escape by surfing sharks with frigg'n lasers strapped to their heads back to a secret underwater seabase manned by talking dolphin-waitresses. AND NOT ONCE DO WE DROP OUR MONOCLES.
Pffft. "Hear me out here; what if we taught catgirls to commit warcrimes." And thus he was tasked with testing the most efficient method of catgirl warcriming with a disgusting budget and an endless supply of socially rejected catgirls. I see potential with this idea.
Airship drop wire exosuit diesel punk infantry raids on trenches would be crazy. Kind of like Iron Harvest with their diesel mechs. Alternatively, hear me out, rocket assisted launch pods for infantry. True bargain bin ODST at that point. Casualty rates are high, but the enemy's are higher.