User blog comment:Ironreaper/Retcons and Contradictions in the Reapers/@comment-2250460-20120415175600/@comment-4950455-20120416023916

I never said that Bioware meant to imply that the war could be won by conventional means, nor do I feel that way myself. Individual Reapers aren't as invincible as you seem to make them out to be, but it isn't as if we have an 8-to-1 numeric advantage over them either. Even the "Refusal" idea ([]) - probably my favorite idea on how to fix the ending, even if it won't be used - still assumes we'll need something beyond just "shoot them until they die", and I don't object to that. My point is just that your argument that the Reapers were retconned to be utterly invincible isn't really accurate.

And for what it's worth, the Codex and what we actually see have always diverged when it comes to space battles - I prefer to go with the Codex just because it's more interesting.