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Randomly looking at Wikipedia, it seems that tsunami wave height is not necessarily correlated with earthquake size . . . you can get pretty tall tsunamis even from fairly small quakes (at least compared to 9.0 monsters like the Tohoku earthquake).  I am thus changing my recommendation of a higher seawall for the generators to some sort of waterproof, tsunami-resistant building that can be opened after the tsunami has receded (it has to be openable since the generators need air to run, but they don't necessarily need to be running right after the tsunami hits . . . the batteries can hold out for a few hours). 

Check if they have weapons?  I didn't say it was easy.  The rebels who do have weapons can take care of themselves.

Well, right now they're mostly just going "Hey, look over there!" to the ground teams, who do the actual arresting.  I'm not sure if they really need weapons, to be honest.  Missiles are expensive, and the drones themselves cost enough already.

Clearly they should simply rebuild with 20 30 (can't be too careful) meter high walls.  That ought to fix the problem.

The problem was that nuclear power plants require constant cooling.  When the earthquake hit, the automatic shutdown systems kicked in nigh instantly.  The problem is that this only reduces the heat output of the reactor core to ~6-10% of its initial heat output, due to residual heat output from unstable fission products decaying, and when the initial heat output was in the gigawatt range that's still a lot of heat.  Since you've obviously shut down the reactor at this point, you can't let it power its own cooling systems like it normally does.  They had diesel generators which were supposed to power the cooling systems in the event of such an emergency.  Unfortunately, the tsunami got to them and completely disabled them (internal combustion engines/electrical systems really, really hate saltwater).  There were also some batteries as a secondary backup, but those only lasted a few hours (ideally, you were supposed to fly in portable generators before those ran out).  Sadly, that didn't happen, and we ended up in this whole fiasco of desperately trying to prevent the reactor cores from retaining enough heat to transform themselves into radioactive lava. 

The intriguing thought is that if the diesel generators had been better protected, this never would have been such a problem. 

Basically, if you hit every time with a hammer, it works well, but as soon as they start dodging or blocking with shields it becomes weaker to things like battleaxes where a single good hit can cause massive blood loss, vs the minor to moderate damage and crippling you get from a hammer strike.

Adamantine axes work great against any armor short of adamantine (including steel armor), and the severs are lovely for killing enemies quickly.  Given that enemies currently don't have access to adamantine armor, adamantine axes are probably the way to go. 

Spears are nice for an adventurer facing large targets that are hard to sever body parts from, since you can aim for the heart/brain for a quick kill, but they aren't very good for the AI, which tends to just stab random body parts until the enemy stops moving.  Spears also definitely get stuck more often.  Swords are intermediate between the two, since they can either slash or stab, but for AI combatants I really prefer axes.