If you were an Animorph, what would your battle morph be?

[DinosaurNothlit]

LOL I just noticed you put walrus on there. 

[Chad32]

I forgot that an auxilary chose Walrus. I guess he just looked at those tusks, and thought they were epic. I'm not impressed by the walrus.

I think another one chose bobcat. I can see the appeal of a cat as a battle morph, but a bobcat isn't much bigger than a house cat. As a standard for battle morph you should be asking "How well does it stand up against a Hork-Bajir?".

That could be a downside to choosing a Hork. Because that Yeerk who has been fighting a war for years as a Hork-Bajir has more experience than you do. Unless my theory about the Empire giving crap soldiers to visser Three is correct. because if you're known for beheading your soldiers after failure, anyone who has any pull in the empire is going to make sure they aren't stationed on the same planet as you.

[DinosaurNothlit]

I changed your vote to hork bajir

Er, I was hoping to still have one vote towards rhinoceros (as my primary battle morph) and one towards Hork-bajir (as my secondary).  I thought we got two votes, right?

Ah, well, I suppose it doesn't really matter how I vote since I'm posting here about what my votes would be, anyway.

I think another one chose bobcat. I can see the appeal of a cat as a battle morph, but a bobcat isn't much bigger than a house cat. As a standard for battle morph you should be asking "How well does it stand up against a Hork-Bajir?".

Keep in mind, though, that the smaller morphs tend to be faster, and present a smaller target.  In a contest of brute force, yeah, a bobcat would probably lose to a Hork-bajir.  But if the Hork can't even hit the bobcat?  As a side note about bobcats, I once camped at a nature center that had a bobcat kitten that they'd adopted.  Those things are stronger than they ought to be.  I watched that kitten, which was a TINY thing, tackle a housecat that was at least four times its size, and sent the bigger cat tumbling down the stairs.  Do not underestimate the power of pure unadulterated wildness.

That could be a downside to choosing a Hork. Because that Yeerk who has been fighting a war for years as a Hork-Bajir has more experience than you do. Unless my theory about the Empire giving crap soldiers to visser Three is correct. because if you're known for beheading your soldiers after failure, anyone who has any pull in the empire is going to make sure they aren't stationed on the same planet as you.

That makes a lot of sense.  I'd actually always wondered how the Animorphs could consistently beat Hork-bajir in combat.  If you showed me a Hork-bajir, and asked me who would win in a fight between that and a tiger/bear/gorilla/wolf, I would put all my money on the Hork-bajir, every time.  I generally tended to think it was because the Hork-bajir had been herbivores with no natural predators, and thus would have no natural instinct for fighting; the Yeerks that controlled them therefore wouldn't have the benefit of that instinctual knowledge, either.

Either way, though, Hork-bajir still makes sense as a battle morph.

[Chad32]

I'm sure some of it was badass decay. hell eventually they brought in Blue Bands, and even they didn't pose much of a threat for long.

[Chad32]

It's a little odd reading about how an Andalite can take on two or three Horks at once, and there aren't really that many Horks to start with, yet the Andalites are still losing the war due to being spread out too much.

[Dylan]

It's a little odd reading about how an Andalite can take on two or three Horks at once, and there aren't really that many Horks to start with, yet the Andalites are still losing the war due to being spread out too much.

That's kinda dumb. Probley,some of the Andalites have moral quairies for killing Hork Bajir.

[Chad32]

Some people would surely have problems with killing the hosts of their enemies, and yet we're supposed to be against a new kind of virus that only targets Yeerks, just because there's an extremely small chance that it will effect humans too. Although admittedly that virus would have killed the YPM as well as the real enemy.

[Dylan]

The plot of The Arrival... I like that book.
I think that for that situation, we hag already seen this quatum virus play out in the HB cronicles. The virus was a horrible mistake as seen in that book, and using the virus in 38 is no better

[Chad32]

In HBC, the virus was aimed at the Hork-Bajir. Not the actual enemy. I took that as the reason for it being so awful. Not the idea of mass murdering people in a way that doesn't also endanger their slaves. YMMV, I suppose. You can't fight Yeerks conventionally, without endangering their victims.

[Chad32]

Even the safest means of doing something still have a small chance of failure. there's always goign to be that 1%. If you're going to give up on something because of a miniscule chance of failure, how do you do anything in life?

[Chad32]

Would it be all of humanity? I thought the little percent mean that some fraction of society might die, as opposed to a more likely chance of Humanity being enslaved.

[Tim Bruening]

I urge that Visser 3's many battle morphs be added as options.

[Chad32]

There wouldn't be much point to any land based battle morph if I had access to that eight headed/legged fire breathing alien.

[Dylan]

Where would you go to get Visser's morphs? You'ld have to go planet hopping, the animorphs didn't do that.

[Tim Bruening]

Where would you go to get Visser's morphs? You'ld have to go planet hopping, the animorphs didn't do that.

Some of them come from the deep valleys of Hork-Bajir.  At least one comes from the Andalite homeworld!