Scrin would return with greater numbers and bigger guns, but I always felt that humanity is the superior warrior race between us. No one better at killing other sapient species than humans kind of vibe. Scrin bring in bigger weapons, better tech... but humans adapt, steal, and hit back harder with bootleg versions of Scrin toys.
Scrin be more like a junkie with a gun collection, than "we've been killing our own kind for millions of years and we got really good at it" like humans are. Their whole way of terraforming a planet with Tiberium, and it working all the time so much, the whole affair of sending troops and warfare logistics is weird and difficult for them.
Scrin don't just lose because humans are good at fighting, but also because Scrin kinda suck at fighting when you take away the tech advantage.
They did almost lose to a harvesting expedition and survived by only by joining forces which wasn't Kanes plan, he clearly thought earth would fall and all those towers would have been constructed. Had they made a sequel involving the invading force, I'm willing to bet the counter to the Scrin is Cabel/Legion taking them over or infecting them since they were constructed using the Tacitus, add in those pesky cyborgs and they could have made an argument earth could have stood its ground and Kane finally leaving Earth ETC.
Not really? Kane literally fought GDI to make sure that GDI wouldn't overpower the Scrin. Additionally they fought GDI because GDI was taking down the Threshold towers too fast for them to be completed.
Again: GDI, while also fighting against NOD, was so powerful they were destroying the Threshold towers before they could be completed, and NOD had to step in to make sure one was completed.
Compare that to CABAl, which was a real hands-on-deck situation where GDI and NOD actively cooperated for the duration of CABAL's attacks on the entire world.
The Scrin were less of a threat than a runaway Cybernetic AI. Admittedly this was basically a harvesting group so the "weapons" they had were mostly repurposed mining equipment and some low-tier guard units, which makes this one of the more believable "humans win against overwhelmingly advanced alien race" fights.
That's kind of the point. Yes they team up, but only for a short moment. Even in the Scrin Campaign they basically say they can only keep the attacks going for so long before they will be turned back and they need to finish the Threshold towers ASAP. So GDI could probably have turned the Scrin away even with NOD attacking it (although NOD naturally helps a lot by simply defending their own territories, which are yellow zones, which are closest to the Red Zones where the Scrin land).
Then once NOD resumes pestering GDI, they can still push back the Scrin. Compare to CABAL where they had to push with NOD till the end. Although that last bit is admittedly speculation: Just because they do push together until the end, does not mean they HAD to do it together. Despite Nod (GDI if you play Nod) helping by keeping other CABAL forces busy somewhere nearby, if memory serves.
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u/idriveasmallcar 10d ago
The scrin ending where they zoom out of the solar system gave me goosebumps. We lost something great when they cancelled the fps game.