Death From Above/Quotes
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I have heard tales of sorcerers that can forecast your doom, warriors whose screams freeze the blood, machines that fight with the grace of a dancer, and fiery daemons that cannot die. None of these dangers concerned me, except one. When fighting the Eldar, Watch the Skies!
—Colonel Ishmail Mott, Warhammer 40,000
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"Hehe, this is gonna be one hell of a highlight reel." —AC-130 fire control officer and TV operator, Call of Duty 4.
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Then there are the airstrikes. Mercenaries 2 has a massive enthusiasm for airstrikes. They feature prominently in their tutorial, you find them lying innocently by the side of the road next to signs saying, "Boy I hope no one steals me (wink wink)". And every time you die in a mission, the game throws up tips that are usually along the lines of, "See, if you had listened to us and used an airstrike, maybe this wouldn't have happened!"
—Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, Zero Punctuation, on Airstrikes 2: Hooray for Airstrikes
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If at first you don't succeed, call an air strike.
—Mercenaries 2
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Wipe this pathetic planet from the face of the galaxy!
—Darth Malak, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
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Rocks fall. Everybody dies.
—A quote linked to both Game Masters and starship crews engaged in orbital bombardment
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The explosives rained down, and halfway through their fall, the twenty-four plummeting cluster bombs came apart, each deploying twenty-five self-propelled ground-strike munitions. Each bomb had been pre-programmed by a Gabriel using data provided by the EVA wielded by Commander Karrde, using laser targeting telemetry supplied by the individual Caprica teams. It was an example of networked, coordinated warfare at its finest. —Tiberium Wars, Chapter XVII
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Jet fighter, jet fighter —Anthrax, "'Death From Above"
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Maxim 4: Close air support covereth a multitude of sins. |
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Take a look to the sky —Metallica, "For Whom The Bell Tolls"
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Carpet bombing cities —Sabaton, "Firestorm"
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"Contrary to popular belief, we at artillery command do not believe we're God. We merely borrowed His "Smite" button."
—Anonymous
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"Artillery knows neither friend nor foe - only good targets."
—Anonymous (slogan in the German Bundeswehr)
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"I will fly high above Monsteropolis / And I will rain terror down on the general populace..." —The Megas, "The Annihilation of Monsteropolis"
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Close your eyes and see the skies are fallin'
—Queens of the Stone Age, "The Sky is Fallin'"
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(Temple of Nod builds up) —Tiberium Ecstasy
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Herman: When he leaves the Kwik-E-Mart, we start the saturation bombing. You got the water balloons? —The Simpsons, "Bart The General"
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"Yes but - that's not it," words are bursting out between the pulses of shivering - "the other kind, those V-1s, you can hear them. Right? Maybe you have a chance to get out of the way. But these things explode first, a-and then you hear them coming in. Except that, if you're dead, you don't hear them." |
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Wedge: "So, we're going to hit [the Yuuzhan Vong attackers] with an enemy they've never had the displeasure of facing. We're going to hit them with the Empire." |
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Artillery is the god of war.
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"Artillery adds dignity to what would otherwise be a vulgar brawl."
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"A magical item that can allow me to rain death from above my enemies AND lets me reach stuff on the top shelf? Done." —Belkar Bitterleaf, The Order of the Stick
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They stood in the mouth of the cave and watched them. The bombers were high now, in fast ugly arrowheads beating the sky apart with the noise of their motors. "They are shaped like sharks," Robert Jordan thought. "The wide-finned, sharp-nosed sharks of the Gulf Stream. But these, wide-finned and silver, roaring, the light mist of their propellers in the sun, these do not move like sharks. They move like no thing there has ever been. They move like mechanized doom." —Ernest Hemingway, For Whom The Bell Tolls
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