Allen, I'm writing a military sci-fi novel right now, and I promise you that there will be a human soldier or war correspondent *somewhere* in the lore named "Alan Xi" or something who absolutely -hates aliens- loves humanity with all his heart.
As a writer, don't you love it when someone says, "Can I be in your novel?" Oh, yeah! Got a vampire story on the back burner, and it's ever hungry for, what's your name again? I've got another book on the back burner called "E.D." (Everyone Dies). When my mood sours it gets another chapter.
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@@robbomegavlkafenryka6158 I mean, that's because they are) They are gods of CHAOS, not gods of effective strategies and efficient planning. It is stated in the lore on numerous occasions that the big four are not actually interested in "winning" anything, they are here for the process (the process of endless and varied human/alien suffering). If they wanted to "win" the imperium, they would have done so during the horus heresy.
The most effective planetary invasion was Alderaanian in 0BBY. Okay it _technically_ didn't capture any territory, but it achieved 100% suppression of the local population.
@@batuhangocer6642 you forgot steve the stormtropper he fell into the planet killing laser because there are no safety rails on the deathstar, there isnt even yellow and black safety tape. Why was health and safety not involved on the design of a giant planet killing laser i will never know.
Funnily in the Books they are like Ironman while in the Movie they are like the Colonial Marines which later inspired the Adeptus Astarties and Imperial Guard respectively. In other words in 40K both versions of the Mobile infantry existed.
@@forickgrimaldus8301 The Adeptus Astartes, better known as Space Marines, are indeed inspired by Heinleins book as he pioneered the idea of power armor. However the Astra Militarum, better known as the Imperial Guard, were introduced to the WH40K universe in 1989. So no.
Yes! Totally. Hah. I just wrote almost exactly the same thing before I noticed your comment here. This one totally needs to be on the list. The "Adama Maneuver"!
when I read Planetary Invasion I first thought of Chronicles of Riddick. That is the most awesome Invasion I have ever seen. Sad it didnt make it into the video.
Did anyone forget about Demeter in Titanfall 1? The first person shot of the drop pods being launched from the station through a space battle is amazing and the shot of the drop ships carrying milita pilots down to the surface then crashing was epic. If you can't tell, I'm a Titanfall fan!
Also cool was Typhon in Titanfall 2, especially because the planned invasion went horribly wrong because the IMC set a trap for the Militia so all the ships were either shot down or retreated
They picked this one because it is somewhat "understandable" to those who know little or know nothing about the Warhammer 40K universe. Plus Graia has been shown by the videogame whereas the ones you listed happened in books and written lore which is hard for most people to understand and getting media about the one you listed is incredibly hard since there are little to no pics & video pertaining to such invasions with most depictions usually being fan art. Try explaining to an non-W40K person about orbital dropping millions of troops that it blocked out the sun in a certain area. Most people can't open their minds or imagine the scope of such a feat.
You mean the operation that was projected to last five years, ended up lasting twenty and left the planet a completely worthless rock, under Inqisitorial quarantine, after costing tens of millions of lives?
@@dickmelsonlupot7697 Arch warhammer's amazing Siege of Vraks series. That's a solid about 20 hours long material divided between 42 videos. I seriously recommend.
TL:DR 1) Battle of Earth | Independence Day (1) 2) Graia | Warhammer 40k 3) Emergence Day | Gears of War 4) First Battle of Mon Cala | Star Wars: The Clone Wars 5) Earth | War of the Worlds P.S. Alan, you forgot the Umbara Arc. Tis the best cinematic landing sequence.
Some of these invasion fails would of been avoided if the invadeing party did scouting and exspensive resharch on the Cultural, Biology, economy, military, or population. Some of these invasion only did a few but not all of these. The marstons forgot the biology of the human world(ie plagues, diseases, vires) the harvesters forgot the human culture and technology adaptation ability. (The lost scout ship) giveing humanity time to develop a computer vires.
@@exploatores True, the computer was Mac, but the virus was an executable file. The executable was in AlienOS, while the monitor was in MacOS. Like a manager reporting how a factory floor is doing; the manager might not speak machinery, but they can be told when a product reaches certain stages of production
War Of The Worlds< H,G, Wells wrote the book during the English occupation of India. It's mainly saying "How would you like it,to be occupied by the invader."
Man, the "defund the police" movement really dropped the ball on their naming and branding. They made a great idea sound idiotic because they cannot think of a better name and idiots can freely misconstrue everything they stand for just because they did not make proper branding.
@@Eanki_ Taking advantage of your enemy's mistake in order to ruin them isn't something an idiot would do. Furthermore, their terrible branding combined with endless rioting, burning, looting, and murdering is what really is destroying that movement.
@@Ariana321 Taking advantage what? Latching on to what amounts to a minor goof instead of tackling on the merits is exactly how idiots act. It does not kill ideas. It just makes them look like snakes trying to sleep with idiot viewers and idiot political supporters. These people would not even be able to talk their way out against a high school debate team in an actual properly moderated debate.
Lack of Cylons attacking the 12 Colonies or attack on New Caprica along with Adama manouer from BSG is disappointing. Also, Wraith SG:A with their abduction strategy or when they didn't hesitate to sacrificemajority of their fighters ordering them to slam into Altantis' shields during its siege.
Lol plus first! Also the Templin Institute's video series The Greater Terran Union (GTU) stated when Earth was invaded by a virus based alien forces, they failed to control the Blue Marble and the GTU is on a revenge mission to eradicate that alien force.
I love the casual pro-humanism in your videos. And the tactic of sending in the gungangs first so Naboo can restore order. We need people like you in charge.
I liked the first mobile infantry attack from the book. OK technically not an invasion. The preparation with hypnosis battle plans, the drive by manovure of the ship, the coordinated dropping and the unique fighting technique style are more of a symphony than a battle.
@@qaasimmehmood6712 okay let me rephrase can we trust chris chirbnall in not messing it up, like the ideas of the last season were good but the execution was terrible
@@qaasimmehmood6712 like I don't even care about the politics issue like if you wanted to Retcon The first Time Lord to being a black girl I'm for it, the problem is it getting done in such a terrible way Edit: voice to text was terrible
@@qaasimmehmood6712 I'd have a hole in time rip open because of the master premissy trying to escape from some monster he thought to use against the doctor, the master would then find the lab where the timelords learned the secrets of regeneration on the planet where the old timelord royalty were banished to. The doctor would find the hole in time and act to patch it which would require to return the master back. The master would then use the laboratory the laboratory would be like the maze from praise so as to force the timeless child to go through different scenarios in a relatively small space the master would use this repeatedly kill the doctor however under the presumption that everything is going okay because time lord magic is heavily improved on that planet the doctor doesn't question her regeneration too much. Only to find out that this was the place where her mom brought her to in order to find out how to copy her abilities I'm not a writer and this spitball isn't very good either way too many convinces are there
I'm so glad War of the Worlds made the cut. Not only because it was the first terrifying story that dared to wonder if there were intellects, cold and ruthless, that wanted to harm us, but also, Allen has personally defeated the invading Covid. By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain. H.G. Wells
interesting fact about the invaders from the War of the Worlds movie with Tom Cruise: they come from the same place as E.T. the *Star Wars* galaxy. makers of the movie say it in one of the special features videos.
Remember the movie called “Monsters vs Aliens”? What would an action packed version that uses live action versions of “Monster Musume”’s MON Squad vs a more extraterrestrial version of “Heaven’s Lost Property”’s Angeloids and, something I’ve coined, Demonoids look like? I suggest two stories to be told: World Building & then more Personal stories that are likely to occur & such…
They’re references for different titles, Loli4lyf. Actually, much like how the board game Battleship was turned into a movie, I’d like to turn the board game Risk into a movie/franchise…
"Invasion of the body snatchers?" "Alita Battle Angel?" "Mars Attacks!?"-sure it's a parody...but they wiped out every Nation's leadership and militaries...
Titus's balls can't be Adamantium. It is too light to provide proper BALLast to keep him upright. Enriched uranium would not only keep him balanced, but would also cause short and long term damage to any tea-bagged enemy he decides to ignore after knocking them down/ out/ up...
The Battle of Hoth made sense strategically. Plan A was to simply glass over the Rebel Base from orbit. Ozzel screwed that up necessitating a ground assault because of the defensive shield. The Rebel’s tactics and weapons along with the AT-AT Walkers of course didn’t make too much sense.
I would love to see a War of the Worlds movie that is true to the original book. In the book, the tripods are not as invulnerable as in the movies and can be taken down with some ease if the right troops have them targeted.
In the original novel the alien war machines were vulnerable to artillery fire and a torpedo ram (which were the most powerful weapons available at the time), but in the 1953 film the aliens can survive an atom bomb blast, because otherwise they would be defeated very quickly. Apparently, before he started filming George Pal asked a Pentagon representative how contemporary armed forces would do against the Martians from the novel. He was told in no uncertain terms it would be a Curb-Stomp Battle for humanity.
...or the one in Edge of Tomorrow, or Oblivion. Those two were awesome, I thought. Then there was the successful invasion of Earth in The Screwfly Solution.
While smaller in scale, one of the best planetary invasions/assaults in terms of on-screen tension and impact deserves a mention: In the rebooted BSG franchise, when the Battlestar Galactica jumps into the atmosphere of New Caprica, in free-fall during fire-fight, only out to jump out before impact, achieving complete surprise and leaving the counter-attack zero options. Now known as "The Adama Maneuver". Google it!
Also got the Zeon invasion of Earth during the one year war. Sending in squads of 60ft tall mechs AFTER softening earth up following a Colony Drop, and a good week of engagement that resulted in the death of 50% of the human population... both on and off world.
I was going to contest that the Adama Maneuver should make the list, but since it was technically a “rescue mission” rather than an invasion, it would depend on the criteria for this list. Since it seems to be dependent upon the intent of invasion and conquest, it would be disqualified. Same would be true of the Battle of Scarif from Rogue One. That being said, perhaps the list should be about invasions rather than simply planetfalls.
I'm reminded of the Siege of Hydra Cordatus (40k). It involved a blitz of the unsuspecting spaceport. Then when the Iron Warriors needed to figure out where the citadel's minefields were and the range of its guns, they simply dressed up the survivors of the spaceport as their own, gave them fake guns, and sent them home. That was day 2.
If we're including books, then my favorite has gotta be the "Iron Rain" assault on Mars from the Red Rising trilogy. The massive space battle trying to punch a hole for the dropships and pods to go through, followed by the chaotic landing and city assault below is just masterful.
Yes I forgot about the Stargate invasions, will have to watch that series again, but cutting it down to 5 !, that's not possible, every 2nd movie is about an alien invasion. The Riddick movie one is one of my favourites for not wasting time. Master chief, I have been obsessed with this series since the original XBOX games came out, they were good days that no virus would have been able interrupt, never heard him referred to as a petty officer ?, when did that happen ?, but another watchable video. But seriously, do at least the 50 invasion one, cheers.
Best way to invade and take out the rebels on Hoth: My own ideas in opinion 1. Send a much larger fleet of ships in star destroyers + other smaller support vessels in specializations and advance fighters such as the tie defender elite = and completely surround the planet with backup smaller fleets all over the sector to prevent any rebel ships from escaping the blockade with interdictor ships all around in the dozen or more at a further distance in safety under guard from other ships to stop the enemy from going to lightspeed, just in case… while staying just outside of the planetary guns’ range. 2. As Vader: Always make sure beforehand that you’re working with the best of the best of imperial admirals + captains + commanders and officers for the operation = and make sure among all inspections before it starts of them that there are no ambitious + egotistical members among their ranks that might jeopardise the whole operation, deal with them and then replace them with a more obedient and less idiotic member who knows what to do in getting the job done to the letter instructed to them. 3. Send in several task groups in elite forces of imperial or clone commandos to go behind enemy lines down to the planet secretly to destroy the shield generator + sabotage the escape vessels if possible, then go onto another third operation afterwards if plausible to capture or terminate VIPs among the rebel leaders deep inside the base that could force the rebel base and maybe the whole rebellion to completely surrender sooner rather than later. 4. Once the shields are down = bombard the base from orbit with heavy artillery fire until the surrounding base area is completely destroyed with outside rebel forces being taken out with it all as well = in the case that they don’t surrender before-hand. 5. Once both the base and outside resistance forces and escape ships are destroyed = send in Vader along his veteran forces from the 501st legion, and capture or wipe out any survivors that remain on the planet… game over. It might not end the rebellion completely = but it will severely cripple it mostly beyond repair from there on in, and will make later rebellions much harder to form under the empire as it begins to recover from Yavin 4 = with the 2nd death star being completed and with other new fighters + ships and weapons being deployed by the empire as well. ✔🤞✌✨👍😉
In the original "War of the Worlds", the tripods were _NOT_ invulnerable, with one going down to artillery, and two or three (the story leaves in uncertain) to _HMS Thunderchild_ .
1:09 As a long-time resident of northern Virginia, I was always miffed by how the invasion in "Independence Day" occurred over an empty Mall. The Washington, DC Mall on July 3rd is normally chock-full of tents thanks to the yearly Washington Folk Life Festival, which leads right up to the grandiose July 4th fireworks gala. An empty Mall is simply unrealistic, alas.
Zerg invasion of Korhal, Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Or, what about one where the bad guys won? The siege of Shakuras by the forces of Amon, Starcraft 2: Legacy of the Void. Culminated in one of the best cinematics of the series.
alan what did you expected?? those martians were using our body fluids to fill their pods like pools, that was an everything-you-can-infect buffet for the bacteria
I'd give at least an honorable mention to the Necromonger invasion of Helion Prime in Chronicles of Riddick. Silly movie, but show me another group of invaders that ride in on giant spearhead-shaped ships and unleash hell.
Theres a planetary invasion in the red rising series that are damn epic. They call it an iron rain. Soldiers or namely superhuman genetically modified race named golds are clad in power armor called star shells are fired from ships in space into the ground below where their impact can do the most damage.
You should look into the prep work for the invasion of Earth in Starblazers 2199. The Aliens in that series didn't combine teraforming with an invasion; they combined teraforming with the pre-invasion bombardment with the intent of eliminating as many humans as possible before putting boots on the ground. Their highly efficient method of bombardment (using a particle beam to simultaneously irradiate and nudge Kepler Belt Objects so they would hit Earth six months later) brought Humanity to within a year of extinction before an attack against their base on Pluto put an end to the bombardment. Had the crew of the Space Battleship Yamato not done what they did during their mission, Humanity would have been eliminated and Earth invaded with no resistance... You should watch that one, and maybe do a review of that mighty space battleship.....
Hey, now; if we're citing the original source material for War of the Worlds, the Martian Tripods were not completely invincible. Let's not forget the heroic sacrifice of the greatest fictional ironclad of all time; the HMS Thunderchild. Single-handedly saving a mass civilian evacuation and taking three Tripods down with her, the Thunderchild was ultimately lost with all hands, but by God did she do her queen and country proud!
I like Arrival's invasion where the aliens just decided to park their ships over lovely landscapes and chill there until humans come for meet and greet.
All Gundam movies included orbital invasions of earth, with or without the drop of one or more space colonies ! - should not have left out - "For ZAFT"
Allen, I'm writing a military sci-fi novel right now, and I promise you that there will be a human soldier or war correspondent *somewhere* in the lore named "Alan Xi" or something who absolutely -hates aliens- loves humanity with all his heart.
As a writer, don't you love it when someone says, "Can I be in your novel?" Oh, yeah! Got a vampire story on the back burner, and it's ever hungry for, what's your name again?
I've got another book on the back burner called "E.D." (Everyone Dies). When my mood sours it gets another chapter.
Do tell me what this book is gonna be called when it comes out. I might give it a read solely for that reason lol
@@michaelselph3530 The Magellan Initiative
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What of the Fall of Cadia?
Remember,
The planet cracked before they did.
@Chris George
Heretic detected, initiating fire cleansing procedures.
CADIA STANDS
The Fall of Cadia is such a dumbass book, and it makes the chaos gods look like retards.
In the retconned version.
@@robbomegavlkafenryka6158 I mean, that's because they are)
They are gods of CHAOS, not gods of effective strategies and efficient planning. It is stated in the lore on numerous occasions that the big four are not actually interested in "winning" anything, they are here for the process (the process of endless and varied human/alien suffering).
If they wanted to "win" the imperium, they would have done so during the horus heresy.
The most effective planetary invasion was Alderaanian in 0BBY.
Okay it _technically_ didn't capture any territory, but it achieved 100% suppression of the local population.
There Can‘t be planetary resistance if there‘s no planet left
With zero loses.
But then you lose the war in the end.
Joseph Peck Only if you stop after one destroyed planet.
Exterminatus for the win.
@@batuhangocer6642 you forgot steve the stormtropper he fell into the planet killing laser because there are no safety rails on the deathstar, there isnt even yellow and black safety tape. Why was health and safety not involved on the design of a giant planet killing laser i will never know.
"How could we truly see the guts of the Mobile Infantry... without seeing the guts of the Mobile Infantry?"
Funnily in the Books they are like Ironman while in the Movie they are like the Colonial Marines which later inspired the Adeptus Astarties and Imperial Guard respectively.
In other words in 40K both versions of the Mobile infantry existed.
@@forickgrimaldus8301 The Adeptus Astartes, better known as Space Marines, are indeed inspired by Heinleins book as he pioneered the idea of power armor. However the Astra Militarum, better known as the Imperial Guard, were introduced to the WH40K universe in 1989. So no.
Would you like to know more?
best one: BSGalactica where the ship does a FTL jump to inside the new Caprica atmosphere just to launch air support, and jumps back out. What a rush!
Didn't Babylon 5 do something similar on mars?
Oh, The Adama manouver YES!, Beats Cylons nuking all colonies in sync.
@@riku3716 Yeah, but that was a white star on mars
Yes! Totally. Hah. I just wrote almost exactly the same thing before I noticed your comment here. This one totally needs to be on the list. The "Adama Maneuver"!
I was gonna mention the fall of new caprica. Not the most epic on screen, but definatly gut renchimg
when I read Planetary Invasion I first thought of Chronicles of Riddick. That is the most awesome Invasion I have ever seen. Sad it didnt make it into the video.
My first thought too.
For sure. I'm surprised it wasn't there. The necromongers were sick.
Agreed. Those triple-faced ground spear ships were awesome!
Did anyone forget about Demeter in Titanfall 1? The first person shot of the drop pods being launched from the station through a space battle is amazing and the shot of the drop ships carrying milita pilots down to the surface then crashing was epic. If you can't tell, I'm a Titanfall fan!
Also cool was Typhon in Titanfall 2, especially because the planned invasion went horribly wrong because the IMC set a trap for the Militia so all the ships were either shot down or retreated
Rip BT
3:15 did he call a Space Marine a "man" !?!
Yes, lord Inquisitor, this video right here
No, no, this is acceptable. The Adeptus Astartes are, ultimately, just men that have been perfected for war against our greatest threats.
The 'guts' of the Mobile Infantry in Starship Troopers. Pretty literal with that. Haha.
they had lots of guts... until they didn't ;-)
Graia? Look up Siege of Vrax. THAT is epic planetary invasion. Not to mention the Siege of Terra during HH.
They picked this one because it is somewhat "understandable" to those who know little or know nothing about the Warhammer 40K universe.
Plus Graia has been shown by the videogame whereas the ones you listed happened in books and written lore which is hard for most people to understand and getting media about the one you listed is incredibly hard since there are little to no pics & video pertaining to such invasions with most depictions usually being fan art.
Try explaining to an non-W40K person about orbital dropping millions of troops that it blocked out the sun in a certain area. Most people can't open their minds or imagine the scope of such a feat.
You mean the dozens years long "Wait, there's more!".
You mean the operation that was projected to last five years, ended up lasting twenty and left the planet a completely worthless rock, under Inqisitorial quarantine, after costing tens of millions of lives?
@@weldonwin In other words, a perfectly executed Imperial victory....
@@dickmelsonlupot7697
Arch warhammer's amazing Siege of Vraks series. That's a solid about 20 hours long material divided between 42 videos. I seriously recommend.
8:00 holy shiiii- the pro human dialogue here was top notch
I think you should follow w/ “top planetary defenses”, in which I thoroughly expect the First Contact battle
Great idea!
TL:DR
1) Battle of Earth | Independence Day (1)
2) Graia | Warhammer 40k
3) Emergence Day | Gears of War
4) First Battle of Mon Cala | Star Wars: The Clone Wars
5) Earth | War of the Worlds
P.S. Alan, you forgot the Umbara Arc. Tis the best cinematic landing sequence.
Emergence*
@@yodaslovetoy still working on it
@@newsaxonyproductions7871 no worries
You cover the Battle of Mon Cal, again, but skip Mass Effect 3's Reaper invasion of Earth?!
Not just Earth, but the entire galaxy. And you’re right! It most DEFINITELY should’ve been mentioned!
Some of these invasion fails would of been avoided if the invadeing party did scouting and exspensive resharch on the Cultural, Biology, economy, military, or population. Some of these invasion only did a few but not all of these. The marstons forgot the biology of the human world(ie plagues, diseases, vires) the harvesters forgot the human culture and technology adaptation ability. (The lost scout ship) giveing humanity time to develop a computer vires.
Top 10 planet falls and invasions not fails...although more than a few of them ended in failure.
Chris George most of these worlds or invasions require the planet to be mostly intact or at least the population.
Battle Los Angeles... a perfectly strategically implemented planetary invasion.
In Independence day, the aliens are using a MAC OS. as the closest service center are to far away they where screwd when things when wrong.
I figured that the virus was converted to AlienOS via the research they had already done at Area 51
@@toddkes5890 The inteface on the computor they upploaded it was mac os. a friend recogniced it. when the movie was new.
@@exploatores True, the computer was Mac, but the virus was an executable file. The executable was in AlienOS, while the monitor was in MacOS. Like a manager reporting how a factory floor is doing; the manager might not speak machinery, but they can be told when a product reaches certain stages of production
Who would have thought that not having an Apple App account to download an antivirus program could destroy your invasion!!
@@loukourt1388 Apple considered the Aliens' version to be a bootlegged copy, so antivirus was automatically disabled :D
“Some atmosphere”
Me: *Laughs in ODST*
You know the music, time to dance.
We are green and very, very mean!
No Battle: LA? Love how the Blarg do orbital insertions.
I was hoping to see Battle: LA too.
Nearly mentioned that one, but where do you stop ?.
War Of The Worlds< H,G, Wells wrote the book during the English occupation of India. It's mainly saying "How would you like it,to be occupied by the invader."
*Mentions Klandathu drop...thinks the Spacedock breakdown of it*
Battle: Los Angeles?
Didn't that invasion fail?
Man, the "defund the police" movement really dropped the ball on their naming and branding. They made a great idea sound idiotic because they cannot think of a better name and idiots can freely misconstrue everything they stand for just because they did not make proper branding.
@@Eanki_ Taking advantage of your enemy's mistake in order to ruin them isn't something an idiot would do. Furthermore, their terrible branding combined with endless rioting, burning, looting, and murdering is what really is destroying that movement.
@@twrampage That invasion seemed to be successful really, but humanity was starting to wage an effective counterattack by the end of the movie.
@@Ariana321 Taking advantage what? Latching on to what amounts to a minor goof instead of tackling on the merits is exactly how idiots act. It does not kill ideas. It just makes them look like snakes trying to sleep with idiot viewers and idiot political supporters. These people would not even be able to talk their way out against a high school debate team in an actual properly moderated debate.
Lack of Cylons attacking the 12 Colonies or attack on New Caprica along with Adama manouer from BSG is disappointing. Also, Wraith SG:A with their abduction strategy or when they didn't hesitate to sacrificemajority of their fighters ordering them to slam into Altantis' shields during its siege.
If the Siege of Terra during the Horus Heresy isn't on this list I will revolt
No visuals so it's not on the list.
But Graia is here.
Lol plus first! Also the Templin Institute's video series The Greater Terran Union (GTU) stated when Earth was invaded by a virus based alien forces, they failed to control the Blue Marble and the GTU is on a revenge mission to eradicate that alien force.
Hello Allen. I'm glad to see you're doing better. I love u bro. Peace to u and your family and friends
Nothing can beat a planetary invasion of a tyranid it would put any other invasion to shame
Yeah- all of the alien races on this list would run screaming if Hive Fleet Leviathan showed up 👍🏻
I would kill myself before my commisar even got a chance to shot me for thinking of fleeing
I love the casual pro-humanism in your videos. And the tactic of sending in the gungangs first so Naboo can restore order. We need people like you in charge.
Sir, can you go over the tech, world, universe of the movie "Ice Pirates" please?
I liked the first mobile infantry attack from the book. OK technically not an invasion.
The preparation with hypnosis battle plans, the drive by manovure of the ship, the coordinated dropping and the unique fighting technique style are more of a symphony than a battle.
Interesting choices, personally I would of put Zeon's invasion of earth in the One Year War on the list
If Reach is not on here, I'm going to die/be disappointed.
It wasnt...
Well, the book interpretation would be worthy. The video game alternative is very botched, though.
@@KosherPorky it retconed so much of the book
@@CMTechnica yeah for sure, and IMO it wasnt a good decision
I'm sad that the invasion of Gallifrey during the last day of the time war in Doctor Who wasn't mentioned :-(
Is it fleshed out well? As far as I can tell battle positions and heroic feats aren't well documented for gallifery falls
@@qaasimmehmood6712 good point but do you trust the writers in doing a good job?
@@qaasimmehmood6712 okay let me rephrase can we trust chris chirbnall in not messing it up, like the ideas of the last season were good but the execution was terrible
@@qaasimmehmood6712 like I don't even care about the politics issue like if you wanted to Retcon The first Time Lord to being a black girl I'm for it, the problem is it getting done in such a terrible way
Edit: voice to text was terrible
@@qaasimmehmood6712 I'd have a hole in time rip open because of the master premissy trying to escape from some monster he thought to use against the doctor, the master would then find the lab where the timelords learned the secrets of regeneration on the planet where the old timelord royalty were banished to.
The doctor would find the hole in time and act to patch it which would require to return the master back.
The master would then use the laboratory the laboratory would be like the maze from praise so as to force the timeless child to go through different scenarios in a relatively small space the master would use this repeatedly kill the doctor however under the presumption that everything is going okay because time lord magic is heavily improved on that planet the doctor doesn't question her regeneration too much. Only to find out that this was the place where her mom brought her to in order to find out how to copy her abilities
I'm not a writer and this spitball isn't very good either way too many convinces are there
surprised you didnt have Kerrigan and the Swarm invasion on Korhal from Starcraft 2
I kinda think that the Reapers in Mass Effect 3 would be the number one invasion. They invaded EVERY major inhabited planet in the galaxy.
Anything involving the Zerg.... or for comedic relief, Terrans attempt at 'invading' the Zerg homeworld, Char.
@anders pedersen has a card to play!
Was this whole video just for that covid jab at the Tripods?
I'm so glad War of the Worlds made the cut. Not only because it was the first terrifying story that dared to wonder if there were intellects, cold and ruthless, that wanted to harm us, but also, Allen has personally defeated the invading Covid.
By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain. H.G. Wells
Martian scientists warned the military that living off the land on an alien world is not wise. Their military intelligence is kind of like on earth.
Everything on this list could be *insert tyranid invasion*
interesting fact about the invaders from the War of the Worlds movie with Tom Cruise: they come from the same place as E.T.
the *Star Wars* galaxy.
makers of the movie say it in one of the special features videos.
Remember the movie called “Monsters vs Aliens”? What would an action packed version that uses live action versions of “Monster Musume”’s MON Squad vs a more extraterrestrial version of “Heaven’s Lost Property”’s Angeloids and, something I’ve coined, Demonoids look like?
I suggest two stories to be told: World Building & then more Personal stories that are likely to occur & such…
They’re references for different titles, Loli4lyf. Actually, much like how the board game Battleship was turned into a movie, I’d like to turn the board game Risk into a movie/franchise…
I love the subtle humanity first lines in this video
"Invasion of the body snatchers?"
"Alita Battle Angel?"
"Mars Attacks!?"-sure it's a parody...but they wiped out every Nation's leadership and militaries...
... via childish, murderous antics.
Cadia should be number 1 , since its the best planetary invasion i’ve seen.
Titus's balls can't be Adamantium. It is too light to provide proper BALLast to keep him upright. Enriched uranium would not only keep him balanced, but would also cause short and long term damage to any tea-bagged enemy he decides to ignore after knocking them down/ out/ up...
The Battle of Hoth made sense strategically. Plan A was to simply glass over the Rebel Base from orbit. Ozzel screwed that up necessitating a ground assault because of the defensive shield. The Rebel’s tactics and weapons along with the AT-AT Walkers of course didn’t make too much sense.
The invasion of Typhon from Titanfall 2 was cool as well.
Another person of culture! Demeter from Titanfall 1 was cooler in my opinion though
10:15 I was NOT prepared for that image.
I would love to see a War of the Worlds movie that is true to the original book. In the book, the tripods are not as invulnerable as in the movies and can be taken down with some ease if the right troops have them targeted.
In the original novel the alien war machines were vulnerable to artillery fire and a torpedo ram (which were the most powerful weapons available at the time), but in the 1953 film the aliens can survive an atom bomb blast, because otherwise they would be defeated very quickly.
Apparently, before he started filming George Pal asked a Pentagon representative how contemporary armed forces would do against the Martians from the novel. He was told in no uncertain terms it would be a Curb-Stomp Battle for humanity.
Somehow you didn't include the necromonger invasion from riddick
...or the one in Edge of Tomorrow, or Oblivion. Those two were awesome, I thought. Then there was the successful invasion of Earth in The Screwfly Solution.
I loved how the battleships landed and saluted the Lord Marshall afterwards.
“Captain Titus has balls of adamantium…”yes,yes he does!
I liked the short visuality of the Chronicles of Riddic planetary invasion
40k’s Decent of the Angels, “Steel Rain” deployments, :(
While smaller in scale, one of the best planetary invasions/assaults in terms of on-screen tension and impact deserves a mention: In the rebooted BSG franchise, when the Battlestar Galactica jumps into the atmosphere of New Caprica, in free-fall during fire-fight, only out to jump out before impact, achieving complete surprise and leaving the counter-attack zero options. Now known as "The Adama Maneuver". Google it!
Remember Reach
I know a one that isn't here
The Gamilas invasion of Alteria
*Just destroys and eliminate an entire civilization*
Also got the Zeon invasion of Earth during the one year war. Sending in squads of 60ft tall mechs AFTER softening earth up following a Colony Drop, and a good week of engagement that resulted in the death of 50% of the human population... both on and off world.
the codex astartes cautions against the action titus took because it is high risk to those perfoming it. but with high risk can come high reward!
invasion sequences are awesome in general, especially in scincie fiction, they are pure epicness!
I was going to contest that the Adama Maneuver should make the list, but since it was technically a “rescue mission” rather than an invasion, it would depend on the criteria for this list. Since it seems to be dependent upon the intent of invasion and conquest, it would be disqualified. Same would be true of the Battle of Scarif from Rogue One. That being said, perhaps the list should be about invasions rather than simply planetfalls.
I'm reminded of the Siege of Hydra Cordatus (40k). It involved a blitz of the unsuspecting spaceport. Then when the Iron Warriors needed to figure out where the citadel's minefields were and the range of its guns, they simply dressed up the survivors of the spaceport as their own, gave them fake guns, and sent them home. That was day 2.
If we're including books, then my favorite has gotta be the "Iron Rain" assault on Mars from the Red Rising trilogy. The massive space battle trying to punch a hole for the dropships and pods to go through, followed by the chaotic landing and city assault below is just masterful.
Love this Channel!! No Alien Lovers like Avatar!
Humanity number 1 Baby!!!
Yes I forgot about the Stargate invasions, will have to watch that series again, but cutting it down to 5 !, that's not possible, every 2nd movie is about an alien invasion. The Riddick movie one is one of my favourites for not wasting time. Master chief, I have been obsessed with this series since the original XBOX games came out, they were good days that no virus would have been able interrupt, never heard him referred to as a petty officer ?, when did that happen ?, but another watchable video. But seriously, do at least the 50 invasion one, cheers.
Best way to invade and take out the rebels on Hoth: My own ideas in opinion
1. Send a much larger fleet of ships in star destroyers + other smaller support vessels in specializations and advance fighters such as the tie defender elite = and completely surround the planet with backup smaller fleets all over the sector to prevent any rebel ships from escaping the blockade with interdictor ships all around in the dozen or more at a further distance in safety under guard from other ships to stop the enemy from going to lightspeed, just in case… while staying just outside of the planetary guns’ range.
2. As Vader: Always make sure beforehand that you’re working with the best of the best of imperial admirals + captains + commanders and officers for the operation = and make sure among all inspections before it starts of them that there are no ambitious + egotistical members among their ranks that might jeopardise the whole operation, deal with them and then replace them with a more obedient and less idiotic member who knows what to do in getting the job done to the letter instructed to them.
3. Send in several task groups in elite forces of imperial or clone commandos to go behind enemy lines down to the planet secretly to destroy the shield generator + sabotage the escape vessels if possible, then go onto another third operation afterwards if plausible to capture or terminate VIPs among the rebel leaders deep inside the base that could force the rebel base and maybe the whole rebellion to completely surrender sooner rather than later.
4. Once the shields are down = bombard the base from orbit with heavy artillery fire until the surrounding base area is completely destroyed with outside rebel forces being taken out with it all as well = in the case that they don’t surrender before-hand.
5. Once both the base and outside resistance forces and escape ships are destroyed = send in Vader along his veteran forces from the 501st legion, and capture or wipe out any survivors that remain on the planet… game over.
It might not end the rebellion completely = but it will severely cripple it mostly beyond repair from there on in, and will make later rebellions much harder to form under the empire as it begins to recover from Yavin 4 = with the 2nd death star being completed and with other new fighters + ships and weapons being deployed by the empire as well.
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In the original "War of the Worlds", the tripods were _NOT_ invulnerable, with one going down to artillery, and two or three (the story leaves in uncertain) to _HMS Thunderchild_ .
Scubatrooper is just a fun word. :)
1:09 As a long-time resident of northern Virginia, I was always miffed by how the invasion in "Independence Day" occurred over an empty Mall. The Washington, DC Mall on July 3rd is normally chock-full of tents thanks to the yearly Washington Folk Life Festival, which leads right up to the grandiose July 4th fireworks gala. An empty Mall is simply unrealistic, alas.
Zerg invasion of Korhal, Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm
Or, what about one where the bad guys won?
The siege of Shakuras by the forces of Amon, Starcraft 2: Legacy of the Void. Culminated in one of the best cinematics of the series.
I was hoping the battle of Reach would've been on here
No Reapers from ME3?? That was some epic stuff right there.
i can only imagine a true 40k open world game in the image of games like conan exiles or even a destiny2. that would be utterly amazing
Coral invasion from old mans war was my favourite.
First Tyrannic War. Enough said.
alan what did you expected??
those martians were using our body fluids to fill their pods like pools, that was an everything-you-can-infect buffet for the bacteria
I'd give at least an honorable mention to the Necromonger invasion of Helion Prime in Chronicles of Riddick. Silly movie, but show me another group of invaders that ride in on giant spearhead-shaped ships and unleash hell.
Really think the Seven Hour War needs a shoutout here.
Theres a planetary invasion in the red rising series that are damn epic. They call it an iron rain. Soldiers or namely superhuman genetically modified race named golds are clad in power armor called star shells are fired from ships in space into the ground below where their impact can do the most damage.
For the record I like the Gungans, also I believe they were the natives to Naboo before the humans showed up.
Great video, we need a part 2. There are a lot more cool planetary invasions you can check out.
The Fall of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol as featured in BSG: The Plan.
You should look into the prep work for the invasion of Earth in Starblazers 2199. The Aliens in that series didn't combine teraforming with an invasion; they combined teraforming with the pre-invasion bombardment with the intent of eliminating as many humans as possible before putting boots on the ground. Their highly efficient method of bombardment (using a particle beam to simultaneously irradiate and nudge Kepler Belt Objects so they would hit Earth six months later) brought Humanity to within a year of extinction before an attack against their base on Pluto put an end to the bombardment. Had the crew of the Space Battleship Yamato not done what they did during their mission, Humanity would have been eliminated and Earth invaded with no resistance...
You should watch that one, and maybe do a review of that mighty space battleship.....
A worthy submission is the Necromongers invasion of Helios Prime in Riddick
0:52 "top 10"
Title "top 5"
Me: *visible confusion*
Exactly...and ends with "5". I'm temporarily believing it's part one of two but perhaps it's a simple mistake
albert also apparently this is generation tech now
Chronicles of Riddick and Oblivion have the best planetary invasions.
It’s on the generation films channel but he said “Generation Tech” instead
4:13 HE SAID THE LINE!
How about the Invasion of Naboo, the Battle of Malacore V and the Republic Invasion of Mandalore in Season 7 of the clone Wars?
Why is the Thumbnail a Venator ship falling down with Half-Life's Alyx Gun in the foreground?
Glad to see you back.
Oh I thought that I was in "Generation Films"... sorry wrong channel. Lol
Good to see you looking well, Allen.
What if Sera from Gears of War is just a lost human world in the 40K universe?
Hey, now; if we're citing the original source material for War of the Worlds, the Martian Tripods were not completely invincible. Let's not forget the heroic sacrifice of the greatest fictional ironclad of all time; the HMS Thunderchild. Single-handedly saving a mass civilian evacuation and taking three Tripods down with her, the Thunderchild was ultimately lost with all hands, but by God did she do her queen and country proud!
I like Arrival's invasion where the aliens just decided to park their ships over lovely landscapes and chill there until humans come for meet and greet.
Good video
You forgot one of invasion
V the original TV/Movie show, they took over earth without firing one shot and replaced all leaders
Too many other planetfall invasions missing. One of the best ever, Chronicles of Riddick.
All Gundam movies included orbital invasions of earth, with or without the drop of one or more space colonies ! - should not have left out - "For ZAFT"