Units that should never have been made

[FSTargetDrone]

The Machines must be reading from a playbook that says "In battle you should give the enemy a fighting chance and let him kill some of your units for shit and giggles"

Instead of the normal military playbook that says "Fair play is i bring all of my people home. Fuck the others. "

I s'pose! The thing of it is, the Squids attacked the central tower (with the large crane and multiple turrets) as soon as they had enough units to slam into it. They didn't wait around for too long attacking that structure. And when they destroyed it, they got rid of all of the gun turrets within Zion (as far as I can see, after re-watching the Zion parts of the movie). All that was left were the guns on the APUs and a few rocket-wielding people.

None of the humans are wearing helmets except for a few of the people with energy weapons defending the opening of the section where the APU ammo reloaders run out from. Absolute insanity. Also, someone took the time to throw together some rudimentary missile positions scattered around the city featuring rough armor. How hard can if be to hammer out some simple helmets?

[Srelex]

The Machines must be reading from a playbook that says "In battle you should give the enemy a fighting chance and let him kill some of your units for shit and giggles"

Instead of the normal military playbook that says "Fair play is i bring all of my people home. Fuck the others. "

I s'pose! The thing of it is, the Squids attacked the central tower (with the large crane and multiple turrets) as soon as they had enough units to slam into it. They didn't wait around for too long attacking that structure. And when they destroyed it, they got rid of all of the gun turrets within Zion (as far as I can see, after re-watching the Zion parts of the movie). All that was left were the guns on the APUs and a few rocket-wielding people.

None of the humans are wearing helmets except for a few of the people with energy weapons defending the opening of the section where the APU ammo reloaders run out from. Absolute insanity. Also, someone took the time to throw together some rudimentary missile positions scattered around the city featuring rough armor. How hard can if be to hammer out some simple helmets?

It is possible that the operators simply thought helmets were for wimps. It's a stretch, but with all the stuff seen already...

[Eviscerator]

In retrospect the only way The Matrix makes any sense at all is that The Machines are playing a very great game and there is No Light at the end of the tunnel.

The "free" humans are recycled every few hundreds years by slaughtering them in a fashion that is inefficient and the Savior who rebuilds the next city is actually their greatest patsy and is perpetuating the lie. For hundreds of years now (if that is the actual) elapsed time , the Machines have been chuckling in their City and sayin the equivalent of "3 blind mice, see how they run".

In universe the Machines can certainly fit a city-destroying scale nuke into ONE Ambassador so it makes no real sense to prolong the fight. Dock Fight as It should have gone.

1) Boring machine falls to the ground.
2) The Boring machine's on board hidden nuke starts it's count down.
3) Around the time KNUCKLE UP is shouted, the countdown finishs and a big flash of light is seen.