Talk:Cochlea/@comment-5.228.250.188-20160313202052/@comment-5.228.250.84-20160314142322

actually the rocket itself is hardly "visible", people usually only see the trail it leaves. 115m/s is its STARTING speed. About collateral damage - CCG clearly doesn't care about that either way. IMHO there are 2 in-universe reasons(aside from Ishida not wanting to turn his melee combat manga into a shooting gallery) for CCG sticking to melee weaponry and refusing to use even basic APC - first is Washuu (or what was their name?) being the ruling clan behind CCG. They look to me like some kind of super traditionalists, so it makes SOME sense that they stick to the methods that worked for them for centuries. The second reason is that decent weaponry and ammo, not to mention military equipment costs serious $$. Japaneses government doesn't seem to see ghouls as an extreme threat (perhaps they even actually use them, with 'V' organization to control the overpopulation problem), so they don't fund CCG and as a result CCG can't afford proper gear for its troops, hence its focus on small number of elite troopers equipped with free quinques (as you only need to tear it away from a fallen ghoul and do some modifications to it). The masses of poorly equipped CCG mooks are probably part-timers working for food or something, can't explain their utter inablity to utilize combat tactics otherwise.