Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-262546-20150913044941

Someone's probably thought of this before, but:

Why didn't the wraith just build a fleet of submarines during their initial siege of Atlantis? The whole reason the Ancients submerged the city was so that the Wraith Ships' energy blasts would be dissipated by the water (and it obviously worked). But, if the Wraith got close enough to the city (by getting down into the water) their weapons would have had a greater effect.

Now, I realize, during the initial siege, the Ancients probably fired drones at Wraith ships that got too close to the city. But at some point (during the 10,000 years from when the Ancient left Pegasus to when The Tau'ri arrived) the Wraith would have realized the Ancients had abandoned the city. Thus, they could get as close as they wanted to Atlantis without risk of being fired upon.

They could have approached in a fleet of submersible craft freely, and just pecked away at the shield. Even if they weren't very efficient at it, they had 10,000 years in which to try. And as a result of their efforts, they would have had complete control of the city.

Just seems like something they probably should have pursued... 