The Matrix

[NiteFox]

6.  EMP: Not used often enough, or with any tactical acumen, and therefore I judge the people defending Zion are bloody stupid, and wonder how they survived XX years with that sort of dumbassity as their basis for an effective defense against the machines.  EMP traps for the sentinels, right?  Ever heard of an AMBUSH?  Oops, forgot, the video game crowd needs its "shoot everything and get the high score" fix.

Been reading PVPOnline? :)

Sorry for the cut and paste work here. This was written as an agreement with another post (Maeg, as in Maeglin of the original post) on another forum. Just, uh, imagine someone gave a brief explanation why EMP was not employed widely and I agreed with them. That fine with you all?

And I agree with Maeg that EMP devices are either tricky and expensive to recharge or are generally in short supply. If they were so common as to be able to build a perimiter defence, like Scott Kurtz suggests, then they would have blown those few Sentinels away in the first film when we first saw them. After all, if you can easily build several thousand of them to defend the home city what's the loss of one? Just head back to Zion, recharge, and head on back up.

Besides, Zion exists because of the machines. They rebuild it after every time they've destroyed it after the Anomaly has returned to the Source. They know where it is. Hell, they've provided Zion the means with which to survive. They've probably developed the EMP system for the Zionites to use against them, or at least the Zionites believe it will work against them. If the Zionites did build a coherent defence force in time for another invasion, including EMP bombs and the like, I for one wouldn't be surprised if the Sentinels became remarkably immune from the effects.