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Re: Narn Warships

Sun, 20 May 2007 04:26

AlexTheGreat

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Initially sending this to the IA only for your consideration. Also posting this in the forum.
Questions:
1. What happens to the VA allies if Abel is orbited?
2. Do Shadows win if Abel is defeated in a joint IA/SA mission?

Grand Strategy

It seems to me that recently:
1. The Vorlons have been researching rather than building ships
2. The rest of the VA have been building ships & using them to attack the IA.

If that is so there may be an opportunity to spring a surprise attack against the Vorlon HW. In order to succeed the following is necessary:
1. Some 98% cloaked (Shadow rogue - need only Super Stealth) scouts to check Squidcakes & Abel.
2. The Gate at Squidcakes needs to be operational
3. 4 gates of our own:
(i) IA west (for Gaim/Llort/Drakh)
(ii) IA east (for SPOO/Pak)
(iii) SA west (for Mars/Dilgar)
(iv) SA centre/east (for Shadows/Centauri)
4. Large IA/VA fleets gathered at the gates above to:
(i) To protect against VA gated ships
(ii) Launch the assault against Abel vis Squidcakes
5. Enough minesweepers (fleets of 5 DDs?) to crash sweepers through minefields at full speed.
6. Two small fleets (starting close to the base) to kill the Squidcakes gate & block VA reinforcement fleets.
7. A warship at each IA/SA gate to destroy it (needed?)
8. Divide responsibilities eg. who builds what.

Of course what we need also comes down to the size of the VA home guards at Squidcakes/Abel. There will be damage (not sure if losses are suffered if mass is unlimited) but it is probably still doable - Damage is estimated at:
((gate to gate distance - 300ly) * .0844)%. eg. 800ly = 42%, 1000ly = 58%.
Maybe the ships that will suffered the most damage should be those that will be secondary to fleet to fleet combat - eg. bombers,chaff,overcloakers.

On second thought, maybe we don't need bombers since the mission is simply to orbit Abel. Also need to determine whether the Squidcakes gate should be destroyed in the first or second year - we might need reinforcements of chaff, SFXs, warships & overcloakers (to disguise fleet strengths) in year 2 and the VA are unlikely to be ready to gate ships in the first year.
REMEMBER that the most attractive targets are usually SFXs first, bombers second.

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