Ngl this was very cool. And the camo cloaks are much more threatening than I gave them credit for. It's clear that they are not jsut copying and repurposing modern technology, but instead improving on it by merging it with chakra tech to overclock it. Camo cloaks are actually pretty scary becasue if they have a nation backing them, with such high level research and development team, they can field mechanized forces that are on par with A to S class ninja.
In fact here comparing it to konoha's warfare system is inappropriate, as this really is an out of context scenario. Vulcan autocannon barges that maneuver like jet fighters at ground level are actually prefect for taking on ninja mooks, and can be fielded in numbers that surpass chunin, so they can't really be countered with a war of scales or economy anymore.
one thing that i want to mention about this update is that the samurai were really cool. The mental image of super enhanced and armored samurai battle lines fighting on par with hyper advanced chakra-based scifi gunships is just awesome. It has almost a grim dark 40k vibe in terms of the aestetic of the flow of battle. Powerful, armoured, extremely fast mobile gunships and landers, with rotary canons are just so cool.
Likewise the mental image of groups of these things screaming out of the mist and zooming over the trenches, and also the fire Ninjutsu vs missiles, and the railgun bombardment, it's all so damn epic.
I'm actually quite concerned about our odds in this battle. It's clear that the camo cloaks don't mess around and that their resource advantage gives them a lot of tricks up their sleeve in the form of powerful technology. For all we know they have a chakra powered laser point defense AA gun or something on one of those warships.
We probably will need to use trickery and deception if we want to survive and protect our teammates from forces that are at least similar to a modern fully industrialized military force.
It is one of the few shinobi advantages that this opponent can't match except with overall deployment orders. That and widescale ninjutsu, but they might have the range advantage on us. I don't know how close we can approach to let off strong ninjutsu without being vaporized by hypersonic projectiles.
Actually this is one of the things that i've always wanted to see how ninja stack up against. Like, stealth and trickery is an option but if that fails, how good are ninja at adapting to modern arms and explosives? Are we too small to aim at at our speeds or do the camo cloaks have some sort of advaned Infrared camera or radar tech or something lol. Irl, AA missiles and guns can shoot supersonic missiles out of the sky even when they are quite evasive, but does that match Hisana's evasiveness?
I'm pretty hyped for the next update rn.