| Re: The necessity for missiles |
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| vonKreedon wrote on Thu, 23 October 2003 17:07 |
I think that much of our differences on this issue because I am thinking in a campaign time frame and LEit seems to be thinking of one turn. (...) So if my maneuver fleet starts off with 1,500 chaff and expends 200 a turn over a five year campaign the fleet will only have 500 chaff left for the penultimate battle. (....) Instead of budgeting for more chaff at the beginning of the operation I would simply take the extra year to conventionally sweep MFs, and suffer some skirmishing loses as my some of my detached Nubians are caught by my enemies forces.
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a) If your invasion is relying on chaff sweeping and you haven't built enough...you deserve what you get (which is the only time I'd imagine chaff sweeping for five continous turns).
b) If you cannot keep your supply lines open while attacking an SD, your path of retreat has been cut off and most likely, that fleet will die.
c) When you have battleships flying around in quantites of more than a few dozen, you can bet there'll be at *least* several thousand chaff with the fleet. By the time nubians are out in force, I expect chaff reserves to be at least 5000+, not taking into account losses directly following a battle.
Chaff is an expendible resource that does not survive a battle. You NEED a steady supply moving up to support your main battlefleet, much like suicide shield sappers, anti-chaff beamers, and similar one-battle-only ships. If you can't get a steady supply to your fleet, your offensive will stall, ceding the initiative to your opponent.
Further you make a note of a "penultimate battle" - if your opponent is cagey, they won't offer battle until they can win anyway (at which point you'll probably see the fleet and back off, perhaps to start an offensive elsewhere)...or inflict attritional losses heavy enough to abort your offensive. So you can't really rely on a penultimate battle. Those sorts of battles require that both sides to agree to fight.
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