Maybe it's because I'm a fan of House Davion and the Federated Suns in general and this is *my* point. I like the Federated Suns and House Davion to do well, again and again. Like my favourite football team, or national football team - I want them to win. Repeatedly. Now lets say... my favourite football club are playing Barcelona FC - I'd expect my team to lose, Barcelona are one of the top teams in the world. Also my national football team - I'd expect them to win against teams that are comparable - if they played Germany, or Spain, I'd expect them to lose and would not be shocked if they did.
So *my* point is that I'm a Davion fan, I want to see them do well - again and again. If I saw them lose ground in the BT universe, I'd sure as hell hope that it was for a good reason, or against a comparable enemy force or as a stroke of genius by the enemy. Not repeatedly said with the words "TEH DAVION LUZE" repeatedly, again and again, for no reason more than TPTB have a major joy fest at kicking Davion (and to an extent Steiner and Marik too). If House Davion was on the losing side because of valid reasons, I'd be ok(ish) but since the Clan War in 3050 (or nearly 20 years real time) - Davion have been taking it in the shorts - which has me annoyed because a lot of it is just TPTB wanting it to happen that way.
House Davion and the DA timeline have seen the Federated Suns in the worst crisis it has ever faced. Ever. Two enemies almost at the door of New Avalon, who just cant be stopped. The collapse and occupation of the two primary border marches, the First Prince outwith the FedSun borders with one unit in tow having to cross the CapCon to get home. Add to this EVERY border has a hostile nation on it - Raven Alliance, CapCon, Draconis Combine, Taurians (hell we cant even retake a few crappy worlds from a cross eyed bunch of paranoid nutjobs), not to mention our own worlds succeeding. No one will lift a hand to support House Davion at the moment. Oh and add in the fact that 13 units were wiped out in one fell swoop - probably a huge percentage of the available armed forces gone right there and how did this happen? Stupidly that's how.
If there was a darker day... I don't remember it.
TRO FedSuns will be likely to be full of craptastic units that have swallowed the stupidity of more AC is better. Why mount Heavy PPC's or effective missile launchers when you can have multiple AC2 & AC5 combinations..... Any of the decent units will have fallen into the hands of the CapCon, Combine, Ravens, Taurians or Mercenaries (ie an entire Dragoon Batallion made up of Davion salvage). As to craptastic... I'd point to the Omni Garm - crap standard mech, probably en even crapier Omni (with a fixed LRM10) and a variety of ACs to choose from - if this is the highpoint of Davion militech - we're on a quick slide at least.
