I like how realistic the combat is in this series

[Slayerblade]

In that Ben 10 cartoon, a kid with 0 combat experience could morph into an alien, and wipe a room of armed goons without even trying. In this series, each of the Animorphs can only take on like 3 Hork bajir by themselves and they were usually battered afterward.

[voodooqueen126]

Something that I have often wondered myself: I mean how could the author's (who not being bears or having experience fighting people much less aliens) correctly describe the process of fighting (especially physiological details such as spilt guts and how people die ectera

[Cloudbreaker]

Something that I have often wondered myself: I mean how could the author's (who not being bears or having experience fighting people much less aliens) correctly describe the process of fighting (especially physiological details such as spilt guts and how people die ectera

Perhaps they didn't?

But I'm sure they probably did at least a little bit of research to find out what the Animorphs' major battle morphs were capable of and used their intuition to fill in the gaps.

[musicman88]

I did enjoy the fact that they weren't "naturally" good at fighting, and they usually ended up getting beaten up pretty bad themselves.

[Terenia]

Something that I have often wondered myself: I mean how could the author's (who not being bears or having experience fighting people much less aliens) correctly describe the process of fighting (especially physiological details such as spilt guts and how people die ectera

I think a lot of that knowledge comes from the author's own reading experience, as well as viewing experience. We get a lot of our knowledge of war, fighting, death etc. from what we experience in literature/movies. Applegate and Grant were huge LotR fans, and we know that series has quite a bit of grisly battle in it. They likely drew inspiration from there.