No duh, the heroes exist to fight supervillains. If they were just going to send troopers in why even bother with superheroes? Add to that the troopers would at best cause issues for the Wards by getting in the way.
This is fucking stupid. If they don't sent troopers to things like this what justification is there for the PRT to exist at all. Since they clearly aren't a team that responds to parahuman criminals.
Not to mention a trooper with containment foam is frankly better than quite a few parahumans. Kid win just has a laser gun and hoverboard. The laser can't be much better than foam because it is required to be non-lethal and a hoverboard is only so much of an asset. Clockblockers power barring them being used as a lethal weapon or against the most dangerous capes is basically a shorter term and shorter ranged stand in for containment foam. Aegis is just a meat tank that flies which while useful isn't really all that better than foam. Gallants ability to shoot weak kinetic blasts that make you feel things once again isn't much better than foam, as it is a medium range non-lethal tool for incapacitating foes just like foam, but probably not as effective.
There is no way that a couple adult troopers aren't a stand in for one of them. A proper responce team of a dozen would completely replace them against most non-flying foes. That also disregards the fact that the wards are teenagers with minimal training and questionable judgement (as they are both teenagers and parahumans) for law enforcement and hostage situations are hard for reasons that their powers don't help with in the slightest. Note the giant list of complaints Piggot has about how they handled it. Clearly they aren't qualified to handle very complex situations like hostage crisises, yet they are still expected to handle it alone without support instead of having handlers that know what they are doing giving the orders.
They portray the Wards as a safe place to learn how to be a hero yet all we see is them being ordered to act as heroes without any support or training and punished if they fail.
Missy is still hax though.
Look at the protectorate.
Armsmaster: He is hax and normal agents can't replace him.
Miss Militia: If she is fighting to kill she is pretty damn hax but she is still limited to mundane weapons so if she is being non-lethal like in most cases she is limited to the same kind of equipment as normal agents without the need to reload. Sure not needing to reload is pretty damn awesome but not something that makes her better than half a dozen agents firing the same stuff.
Assault: Ya he isn't replacable with normal agents.
Battery: She is pretty dangerous if she gets the time to charge up but she does need that time. Give her a couple agents to cover her and she suddenly gets a lot better. Also if enough foes get put up against her that she can't stand still long enough to charge or take them down in one burst she is kind of fucked if she is solo.
Velocity: Frankly I don't see how he is much of a threat to anyone if he max speed is 10x and it reduces his force to .1 power. He would be hard to hit but brutes could tank him and normal people probably can to. Real life people don't have hp you can chip down you have to actually do damage. I'd be more afraid of an agent with foam or a thug with a gun. (or him with foam that would make him 100x scarier to me)
Sure agents aren't much use against A-listers but most parahumans are just as useless.
