Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-5441128-20151209151109/@comment-810492-20160501052418

Dragonfly82 wrote: General Heed wrote: Dragonfly82 wrote: General Heed wrote: Well aside from physiology, I think the Gould would lose in an all out battle against the Wraith. After all, the Wraith were the ones that defeated the ancients and as we've seen, Ancient weapons were able to easily wipe out an entire upgraded Gould fleet. Wraith weapons have also been shown to be able to quickly deplete Asgard shields as well. It's safe to say that Wraith weapons would be able to make short work of Gould shields as well. A better challenger against the Wraith would be the Ori since the Ori technology is quite comparable to Ancient tech.

Or maybe the Aschen?

It's hard to say how advanced the Aschen really are. Yes they were capable of defeating the Gould, but keep in mind that the Gould in the grand scheme of things the Gould were pretty easy to defeat and became more of nuisance later on. And considering the Wraith defeated the Ancients despite the technological advantage of the Ancients, I'd say the Aschen most likely would not have been able to defeat the Wraith through conventional means. That being said, the Aschen might've been able to create some kind of biological weapon to defeat the Wraith, similar to the Hoffan drug, but possibly much more effective.

The way Todd explain was that the Ancients was close to destroy the Wraith. Although, the turning point was not because of the Asurans or the Wraith it was because of their hybris.

The Ancients were also defeated because of the Wraith's vastly superior numbers as well as their ability to produce large numbers of forces at a rapid rate. It was enough to overwhelm and push back the Ancients to Atlantis. On top of that, aside from the Asurans, the Ancients were primarily fighting the Wraith conventionally, without much special tactics.