The Starship Troopers game looks awesome

[Valantar]

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Hmm, I’ll admit it’s been 40 years since I read it, but that,s not the takeaway I remember. They did take heavy casualties, but I think that was contrasted with just how much training and expense and the expensive suits. This contradicts the idea that they were considered disposable. You don’t invest in cannon fodder.

Haven’t read the book, and it’s at least a decade since I last saw the film, but what sticks in my mind is the fantastic pastiche of the “reportage of heroic acts on the front lines” form of propaganda, with said propaganda in ST inevitably ending with the soldiers in question being bitten in half by a giant alien bug or meeting a similarly grisly death. Do your part! Join up now!