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# The politicians ultimately decide what resources are used where (Tiger development being the exception, not the rule). At the time the Tigers were developed, the only readily available source of capship-killing railguns was the Galactics, who thanks to Darhel sabotage were dragging their feet on supplying [=GalTech=] weaponry. After there were significant amounts of battlefield salvage, the Tiger development team had decided against using them for Tiger armament (as mentioned a bit before the team deployed in Brunhilda), possibly (and this is pure speculation on my part, no text evidence) still thinking about \
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# The politicians ultimately decide what resources are used where (Tiger development being the exception, not the rule). At the time the Tigers were developed, the only readily available source of capship-killing railguns was the Galactics, who thanks to Darhel sabotage were dragging their feet on supplying [=GalTech=] weaponry. After there were significant amounts of battlefield salvage, the Tiger development team had decided against using them for Tiger armament (as mentioned a bit before the team deployed in Brunhilda), possibly (and this is pure speculation on my part, no text evidence) still thinking about \\\"no alien tech if at all avoidable\\\". There\\\'s hardly a lack of historical support for the notion that people can get stuck in ruts and not think \\\"out of the box\\\" on any given issue.
# First, those open plains mean there\\\'s not much to hide behind, and Posleen accuracy is nothing to be sneered at (even the normals without a tenaar and its targeting computer). That said, while there were some open-field engagements, the Posleen have been shown to focus on cities and industrialized areas (the Georgia thing from \\\'\\\'When the Devil Dances\\\'\\\'/\\\'\\\'Hell\\\'s Faire\\\'\\\' was a \\\"five percenter\\\" who was breaking with Posleen tradition), where a tank the size of a WW1 cruiser would generally be impractical, and overkill given the Posleen lack of using their ships for direct assault on ground targets earlier in the war. (They got over that as the war progressed, yes, but again people getting \\\"stuck in ruts\\\" is a quite defensible notion.)
# The other landers had an entire planet to cover, even ignoring the 3/4ths of the planet that\\\'s water, the mountains, and the mostly inhospitable arctic regions. The books focused on a few specific invasions, but as per the timeline at the beginning of \\\'\\\'When the Devil Dances\\\'\\\' there were a \\\'\\\'lot\\\'\\\' more invasions, and many less militarized countries were simply drowned in Posleen, with the official determination, on October 21, 2008, that were no coherent field forces outside of North America.
As for the Fleet engagements in \\\'\\\'Eye of the Storm\\\'\\\', I\\\'m hesitant to say that competent handling would have made much of a difference in the Posleen invasion. They engaged two (IIRC) ships with that supermonitor and the \\\'\\\'Des Moines\\\'\\\' ({{IN SPACE}} ;) ), not the hundreds of ships that were spawned by breaking up a Posleen globe. I\\\'ll admit, though, that it was pleasing to actually directly see the Fleet in action instead of the [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome Off-screen Moments of Awesome]] for successful Fleet engagements (the relief of Earth at the end of \\\'\\\'Hell\\\'s Faire\\\'\\\', for example).
# First, those open plains mean there\\\'s not much to hide behind, and Posleen accuracy is nothing to be sneered at (even the normals without a tenaar and its targeting computer). That said, while there were some open-field engagements, the Posleen have been shown to focus on cities and industrialized areas (the Georgia thing from \\\'\\\'When the Devil Dances\\\'\\\'/\\\'\\\'Hell\\\'s Faire\\\'\\\' was a \\\"five percenter\\\" who was breaking with Posleen tradition), where a tank the size of a WW1 cruiser would generally be impractical, and overkill given the Posleen lack of using their ships for direct assault on ground targets earlier in the war. (They got over that as the war progressed, yes, but again people getting \\\"stuck in ruts\\\" is a quite defensible notion.)
# The other landers had an entire planet to cover, even ignoring the 3/4ths of the planet that\\\'s water, the mountains, and the mostly inhospitable arctic regions. The books focused on a few specific invasions, but as per the timeline at the beginning of \\\'\\\'When the Devil Dances\\\'\\\' there were a \\\'\\\'lot\\\'\\\' more invasions, and many less militarized countries were simply drowned in Posleen, with the official determination, on October 21, 2008, that were no coherent field forces outside of North America.
As for the Fleet engagements in \\\'\\\'Eye of the Storm\\\'\\\', I\\\'m hesitant to say that competent handling would have made much of a difference in the Posleen invasion. They engaged two (IIRC) ships with that supermonitor and the \\\'\\\'Des Moines\\\'\\\' ({{IN SPACE}} ;) ), not the hundreds of ships that were spawned by breaking up a Posleen globe. I\\\'ll admit, though, that it was pleasing to actually directly see the Fleet in action instead of the [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome Off-screen Moments of Awesome]] for successful Fleet engagements (the relief of Earth at the end of \\\'\\\'Hell\\\'s Faire\\\'\\\', for example).
