WAR with the Vorlon alliance |
Fri, 27 April 2007 13:08 |
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And war, which for a moment was no more, did glut himself again...
I thought it a bit low from the Vorlons to wait until having the ships at the right spots before daring to tell us that they don't want a NAP. And accompying this announcement by the first attacks. Probably the Vorlons are utterly scared by the IA *grin
So, war it is.
Tactical Assessment
Our main problem isn't tech but location and mobility.
We are split apart in 2 factions: east and west.
Actually we ar even more split apart because east and west will each have to face a 2- or even 3-frontier war.
Without gates the incoming attacker has a big advantage.
Our center planets are nearly indefendable.
The obvious conclusion:
Defense is not what will save our necks.
Offensive Options
Combined our enemies have a beautiful halfcircle-empire... perfect for defense with the south and east secured by the the end of the map.
Classic Warfare:
The West must straighten its frontier which means securing the Drakh HW while securing its flank at Black Hole. After having secured the Drakh HW, the fleet advances towards the Earth HW.
The Center goes into cheap defensive measure. Simple pop drops and skirmishes are the usual warfare here... until superiour VA-forces come around and finish it.
The East
Pak'ma'ra go into full defensive stance. Gates are to be reconstructed. The obvios offensive move is to secure the former Narn space and to press on until the natural gap of planets is reached (Linq-Mirror).
Sneak & Surprise Warfare:
Alternatively East and West could try to unite their forces. While going into a defensive stance along the frontiers, building a big bad CC fleet with bombers, lots of minesweepers etc and setting up gates.
Once the fleet is built, it gates to Squidcakes.
First wave has to secure the gate planet, 2nd wave brings in lots of minesweepers (actually those ships could be already included into the 1st wave), then the bombers and auxils follow.
Depending on the tactical situation the fleet advances towards the Ipsha HW, HYak HW or the Vorlon HW Abel.
Misc
Obviously we should try to pick up as much tech from the VA as possible.
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Re: WAR with the Vorlon alliance |
Sat, 28 April 2007 07:03 |
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Skaffen wrote on Sat, 28 April 2007 12:50 | I´ve sent a mail to Steve about stargate level at the moment and if we could vote for inf/800 gates being available, at the moment the vorlons are right in saying that they´re basically useless.
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Gates are inf/300.
The problem about inf/800 gates: usually gates are built by 50-60k pop on red planets. Already a inf/300 gate needs around 5 years to be constructed. Inf/800 gates would need an eternity.
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Re: WAR with the Vorlon alliance |
Sat, 28 April 2007 08:27 |
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I believe that the Shadows want a closer relationship. They have already said they are building Jihad Rogues & gathering them at Skidmark - they will help us fight if needed.
I believe they would allow us to use their gates (mine you, I haven't checked if that would put us any nearer).
Question: My M.T. Probes have a jumpgate. Can you gate a fleet thru a jumpgate without gating the M.T. Probe itself? I thought this might be their best use.
One tactic we could use is to gate a lesser but significant fleet to Magellan & head directly for Mongo or from Pisces towards Doris, hopefully attract a lot of their ships to defend & then gate the main fleet to Squidcakes. It would work better if the lesser fleet were badly cloaked - i.e. we want them to realise that the fleet is cloaked & that they have "discovered" our main attack. Also if they know there is one cloaked fleet around they will probably think others are possible. The problem may be in adding enough cloaking to make it credible. The main fleet would not be cloaked.
Once we have weap12 we should invade as many minor VA planets as possible looking for Con & weap tech.
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