Thors_Alumni
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they self destructed their ships to prevent capture, so I am pretty sure all the cyborgs on those ships are also dead.
Quest Deep Periphery Quest (Battletech Sandbox Empire Builder)
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Jarow
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Also, pretty sure teleport belts aren't a thing. Beyond materials science, Battletech is a less advanced than most science fiction works.
Though, it's not impossible they've built HPG-based remote control systems for their warships and are using those instead of piloting them directly. But that's probably not very likely, given HPGs do have range limits.
Though, it's not impossible they've built HPG-based remote control systems for their warships and are using those instead of piloting them directly. But that's probably not very likely, given HPGs do have range limits.
Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
That's their 70% of their battleships left as far as we know. Not their fleet. They've suffered around 12% losses as compared to their last known fleet composition a few years ago
Thors_Alumni
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Nope, I think @LordSunhawk meant 70% of their entire fleet.
Jarow
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On one hand: we have no idea how much they lost hitting Kilborrough. On the other: I'm not finding Sunhawk saying that anywhere. Closest would be Knowledge's statement they lost 30% of their known battle line and Sunhawk not commenting.
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Turn 75 - The Metal I Am, The Iron You Feel
Turn 75 - The Metal I Am, The Iron You Feel
It’s been a few months now and no further attacks have materialized as of yet. Forces have gone to a long term rotating alert status but everybody is still on edge.
In the latest dispatches from Okusawa there is a recommendation for a commendation for Ensign Takeda. Evidently the young man has taken it upon himself to transmit counter-propaganda at the Drac defenders, calmly and incisively tearing apart the Dragon’s pretensions of Bushido and outright calling the Dragon a ‘miserable coward who hides behind actual warriors while he chews on his sheets in fear’. The ranting coming from the Dragon is getting all the more unhinged, and there have been multiple small mutinies in the defending forces, although so far the ISF has been able to massacre the mutineers before they spread it is weakening the defenses measurably and allowing for more progress.
There have been several assassination attempts on Ensign Takeda from what are described as ‘bargain basement ninjas’ who, despite having excellent stealth equipment are utterly outclassed by the security forces at HQ. The General in command of 1st Corps has ordered Takeda to remain aboard an orbiting Newport-C and continue his broadcasts from there, routed through the ground HQ.
There are also some preliminary evaluations included in the latest dispatches. The Brigade Combat Team concept of 3 RCTs is proving effective, but it is noted that the current composition is possibly too light. A Standard Mech Regiment, Armored Cavalry Regiment, and Armored Regiment is the current composition, but it has been pointed out that the majority of the mechs in this unit are medium to light and there are no assault class mechs at all. The proposal being floated is to designate the current RCT as a ‘Light Regimental Combat Team’, with a companion ‘Heavy Regimental Combat Team’ replacing the Armored Cavalry Regiment with either an Assault Regiment or a second Standard Mech Regiment. The Brigade Combat Team would then consist of either 2 Light and 1 Heavy RCT in the ‘Light’ configuration or 1 Light and 2 Heavy RCT in the ‘Heavy’ configuration.
The loss of all of your Trenton class transports is making it very difficult to send reinforcements and replacements to Okusawa, the remaining Puller and Vandergrift class vessels are barely managing to handle the burden.
Parliament is willing to pass a bill authorizing the IGN to displace civilian construction at civilian yards to lay down Trentons on an emergency basis. This will be expensive, due to the Navy having to fund the penalty clauses for missed deliveries and such, as well as highly disruptive to the economy, but will allow for the replacement of the lost space lift capacity in the shortest possible time. Only the fact that the Trentons are relatively simple dropships to build allows this.
Industry is willing to accept this, with the caveat that this be something only done in case of severe emergencies. The Aerie is certain that they’ll be able to train sufficient crews to minimal competency in time, although that will come at the cost of the overall crew quality of the new vessels. You’ll also likely need to run the emergency built ships through the Refit Yards in a few years to bring them fully up to standard. But, the argument goes, better inferior ships now than good ships too late for it to matter anyways.
Not related to the ongoing fighting on Okusawa or to the threat from the Black Steel, on both planets in the Nya Kopenhamn system there have been small outbreaks of anti-government violence, so far successfully suppressed by both the religious lunatics and the lunatic hippies, with both factions massacring those who dared to rise up against them. However on both planets a number of senior government officials were killed before the riots were suppressed, slightly weakening both.
Isn’t stopping either from attempting to launch WMDs at each other, or raging impotently at your pickets shooting them down.
About a week later you receive a priority request from the forces on Okusawa, requesting the deployment of the 1st Special Forces Division. They have put together Operation Don Juan, a deep strike at a hardened production site that has been supplying the Drac defenders yet has so far resisted orbital bombardment. It is hoped that a surgical strike from special forces units stealthily infiltrated into the area could shut down the facility and seriously impact Drac logistics.
These forces are able to deploy using the same light transports used by the Colonial Infantry, apart from the Raider Brigade, which can be loaded up in Independence class carriers with their LAMs staying in fighter mode. This is precisely the sort of operation the Raider Brigade is intended for and could well serve as a proof of concept for the entire idea of LAMs.
In much more grim news, the bodies of your twin brothers and your youngest son, his wife, and their children have been positively identified and recovered from the surface shelters near the race track. The bodies will be transported back to Griffin’s Roost for burial which will, unfortunately, be a closed casket affair for all of them. The reports are quite tactful in that regard, leaving out any descriptions or photographs, and you are rather grateful for that even as your imagination is more than sufficient to fill in the blanks.
It’s not much of a consolation, but the report does indicate that it was very likely that death was ‘most likely’ instantaneous. So there is that at least.
It’s been a few months now and no further attacks have materialized as of yet. Forces have gone to a long term rotating alert status but everybody is still on edge.
In the latest dispatches from Okusawa there is a recommendation for a commendation for Ensign Takeda. Evidently the young man has taken it upon himself to transmit counter-propaganda at the Drac defenders, calmly and incisively tearing apart the Dragon’s pretensions of Bushido and outright calling the Dragon a ‘miserable coward who hides behind actual warriors while he chews on his sheets in fear’. The ranting coming from the Dragon is getting all the more unhinged, and there have been multiple small mutinies in the defending forces, although so far the ISF has been able to massacre the mutineers before they spread it is weakening the defenses measurably and allowing for more progress.
There have been several assassination attempts on Ensign Takeda from what are described as ‘bargain basement ninjas’ who, despite having excellent stealth equipment are utterly outclassed by the security forces at HQ. The General in command of 1st Corps has ordered Takeda to remain aboard an orbiting Newport-C and continue his broadcasts from there, routed through the ground HQ.
There are also some preliminary evaluations included in the latest dispatches. The Brigade Combat Team concept of 3 RCTs is proving effective, but it is noted that the current composition is possibly too light. A Standard Mech Regiment, Armored Cavalry Regiment, and Armored Regiment is the current composition, but it has been pointed out that the majority of the mechs in this unit are medium to light and there are no assault class mechs at all. The proposal being floated is to designate the current RCT as a ‘Light Regimental Combat Team’, with a companion ‘Heavy Regimental Combat Team’ replacing the Armored Cavalry Regiment with either an Assault Regiment or a second Standard Mech Regiment. The Brigade Combat Team would then consist of either 2 Light and 1 Heavy RCT in the ‘Light’ configuration or 1 Light and 2 Heavy RCT in the ‘Heavy’ configuration.
The loss of all of your Trenton class transports is making it very difficult to send reinforcements and replacements to Okusawa, the remaining Puller and Vandergrift class vessels are barely managing to handle the burden.
Parliament is willing to pass a bill authorizing the IGN to displace civilian construction at civilian yards to lay down Trentons on an emergency basis. This will be expensive, due to the Navy having to fund the penalty clauses for missed deliveries and such, as well as highly disruptive to the economy, but will allow for the replacement of the lost space lift capacity in the shortest possible time. Only the fact that the Trentons are relatively simple dropships to build allows this.
Industry is willing to accept this, with the caveat that this be something only done in case of severe emergencies. The Aerie is certain that they’ll be able to train sufficient crews to minimal competency in time, although that will come at the cost of the overall crew quality of the new vessels. You’ll also likely need to run the emergency built ships through the Refit Yards in a few years to bring them fully up to standard. But, the argument goes, better inferior ships now than good ships too late for it to matter anyways.
| [] | Approve |
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| [] | Disapprove |
|
Not related to the ongoing fighting on Okusawa or to the threat from the Black Steel, on both planets in the Nya Kopenhamn system there have been small outbreaks of anti-government violence, so far successfully suppressed by both the religious lunatics and the lunatic hippies, with both factions massacring those who dared to rise up against them. However on both planets a number of senior government officials were killed before the riots were suppressed, slightly weakening both.
Isn’t stopping either from attempting to launch WMDs at each other, or raging impotently at your pickets shooting them down.
About a week later you receive a priority request from the forces on Okusawa, requesting the deployment of the 1st Special Forces Division. They have put together Operation Don Juan, a deep strike at a hardened production site that has been supplying the Drac defenders yet has so far resisted orbital bombardment. It is hoped that a surgical strike from special forces units stealthily infiltrated into the area could shut down the facility and seriously impact Drac logistics.
These forces are able to deploy using the same light transports used by the Colonial Infantry, apart from the Raider Brigade, which can be loaded up in Independence class carriers with their LAMs staying in fighter mode. This is precisely the sort of operation the Raider Brigade is intended for and could well serve as a proof of concept for the entire idea of LAMs.
| [] | Approve Operation: Don Juan |
| [] | Deny Operation: Don Juan |
In much more grim news, the bodies of your twin brothers and your youngest son, his wife, and their children have been positively identified and recovered from the surface shelters near the race track. The bodies will be transported back to Griffin’s Roost for burial which will, unfortunately, be a closed casket affair for all of them. The reports are quite tactful in that regard, leaving out any descriptions or photographs, and you are rather grateful for that even as your imagination is more than sufficient to fill in the blanks.
It’s not much of a consolation, but the report does indicate that it was very likely that death was ‘most likely’ instantaneous. So there is that at least.
Thors_Alumni
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[X] Disapprove
[X] Approve Operation: Don Juan
[X] Approve Operation: Don Juan
[X] Approve
We need that transport capability asap, and additional training is mostly done on the job. If the Aerie can provide us with basic trained crews for outfitting our transports, their training will be finished on-the-job then.
[X] Approve Operation: Don Juan
We need that transport capability asap, and additional training is mostly done on the job. If the Aerie can provide us with basic trained crews for outfitting our transports, their training will be finished on-the-job then.
[X] Approve Operation: Don Juan
Thors_Alumni
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all of these deaths in her family are going to be devastating to Ba when she returns.
[X] Approve
This is the direst of emergencies, emergency measures are absolutely called for.
[X] Approve Operation: Don Juan
Bluntly, I'm only voting for this because I consider the LAMs an ill-concieved experimental unit. But they exist, so they should be used.
This is the direst of emergencies, emergency measures are absolutely called for.
[X] Approve Operation: Don Juan
Bluntly, I'm only voting for this because I consider the LAMs an ill-concieved experimental unit. But they exist, so they should be used.
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Val the Moofia Boss
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[X] Approve
[X] Approve Operation: Don Juan
[X] Approve Operation: Don Juan
Yacovo
Occasionally spouting nonsense
[X] Approve
[X] Approve Operation: Don Juan
We have a rainy day fund for a reason, and this is deluge of bad. Mobilizing civilian production is as old as industrial society.
As for the operation, it either proves the viability of LAM, we get experience in what not to do, or we can drop LAM tactics from the main playbook to focus money towards more reliable forces. Better now with a relatively low-risk theater like this.
[X] Approve Operation: Don Juan
We have a rainy day fund for a reason, and this is deluge of bad. Mobilizing civilian production is as old as industrial society.
As for the operation, it either proves the viability of LAM, we get experience in what not to do, or we can drop LAM tactics from the main playbook to focus money towards more reliable forces. Better now with a relatively low-risk theater like this.
Jarow
Well-known member
[X] Approve
Expensive, probably a bit more than I'd like. But I believe it's likely affordable and needed.
[X] Approve Operation: Don Juan
Given defeating the Dragon is still important (not entirely certain if Black Steel is now Enemy #1, or if the Dracs still hold that position), I think this is a reasonable risk. We don't lose too much of value if we lose our Special Forces Division (at least in comparison to our other military losses) and increase our likelihood of defeating the Dracs (or increase the rate at which it happens).
Expensive, probably a bit more than I'd like. But I believe it's likely affordable and needed.
[X] Approve Operation: Don Juan
Given defeating the Dragon is still important (not entirely certain if Black Steel is now Enemy #1, or if the Dracs still hold that position), I think this is a reasonable risk. We don't lose too much of value if we lose our Special Forces Division (at least in comparison to our other military losses) and increase our likelihood of defeating the Dracs (or increase the rate at which it happens).
Trashman.exe
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[X] Approve
[X] Approve Operation: Don Juan
[X] Approve Operation: Don Juan
This will hurt our mother very much.
AlphaOmega
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[X] Approve Operation: Don Juan