Bubble March is an actual insight into how commanders are trained to lead nikkes.
>Siren says that she was taught the game by Abe, who was so intertwined with military logistics that she personally designed Old Tales' training regimen and even turned herself into a nikke.
>It's likely Abe either drew from an existing training war game, or invented one whole cloth and taught a modified version to Siren.
>From there, it's a logical leap that this war game was preserved and passed down to the Ark's central government, who implemented it in the training curriculum of the commander academy.
>But the central government's fuckery heavily warped a pragmatic learning tool into a ridiculous martyrdom generator.
The proof is in the pudding, after all, what are the optimal strategies in Bubble March?
>Generate enough income to quickly field a small vanguard party that can pin the enemy in place, eliminate weaker enemies, and buy time to field more units (shield bubbles/elite squads like Goddess, Absolute, and Matis).
>Reinforce the vanguard with massive waves of cheap combatants that wipe out stragglers, push the line forward, and can be easily replaced (sniper bubbles/mass produced nikkes).
>Raptures congregate hordes of weak units around centralized powerhouses, the primary difficulty is reaching the latter (bosses/tyrants).
Lastly, raptures only get tougher and tougher as the rounds go on, this incentivizes us to ignore all other expenditures other than upgrading our existing units and passive income. Nikkes have remained fundamentally the same since the surface wars, only being updated with successive generations that boast better hardware. They're tougher, move faster, hit harder, yet they're virtually identical to the nikkes we were fielding a century ago. Anons complain that the minigame encourages you to throw beefier waves against beefier enemy waves, disregarding the value of individual units in favor of overwhelming the raptures with brute force and sheer numbers, and I tell you that this is what commanders have been taught this entire time!
I rest my case.