darkcloudt2
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[X] Dispatch a squadron of Dart and Dagger warships to patrol the frontier
Quest Deep Periphery Quest (Battletech Sandbox Empire Builder)
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[X]Dispatch a squadron of Dart and Dagger warships to patrol the frontier
The light warships are of limited use against Black Steel's heavies anyway.
The light warships are of limited use against Black Steel's heavies anyway.
namar13766
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...Wait a minute. Someone is using Fax Machines/Black Boxes!
[X]
Send three Infantry Divisions to provide ground support on that frontier |
I was thinking about doing this myself, but it pushes out ground forces at the end of a very long logistical chain that will require many moving parts. It doesn't make sense for us to do that, nor do I want our forces to be confused for our ally's ground forces.
Strategically and diplomatically, it makes more sense for these warships to engage Pirate level enemies whereas they perform poorly against Black Steel naval forces.
Unless someone can show me that the squadron we send will leave us vulnerable as a result, I'm inclined to vote this way:
[X] Dispatch a squadron of Dart and Dagger warships to patrol the frontier
Val the Moofia Boss
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[X] Dispatch a squadron of Dart and Dagger warships to patrol the frontier
Officially, Majeure Electrique does not deign to join the lawsuits against the Navy / Admiral Fisher. Unofficially, quite a few members of the design staff happen to make large donations of kazoos to Periphery Studies, along with sheet music for The Grand Old Duke of York and corresponding uniform tailoring 'suggestions' which are best described as pop-culture hybrids of Royal Navy sailor outfits, anime sailor schoolgirl outfits, and modern Griffon Navy outfits.
mmgaballah
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[X] Dispatch a squadron of Dart and Dagger warships to patrol the frontier
Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
Sovereign Engineering Solutions also didn't join the lawsuit. Albeit they haven't been focusing on the design of warships recently but licensing designs and then producing them, and no SES was by no means in charge of building any of the Kongos
Brogatar
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Ah yes a certain Shark's To Boldly Go.
IceWing_mk1
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[X] Dispatch a squadron of Dart and Dagger warships to patrol the frontier
Jarow
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The Pyramid People totally did; after all, how else are they supposed to get beautiful pyramids in the fleet now that all ships are to be designed by the government itself?
Oh yeah,
[X] Dispatch a squadron of Dart and Dagger warships to patrol the frontier
We have enough better ships that it should be safe to send the old obsolete ones pirate hunting.
Thors_Alumni
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Kudos Brogator, 
Turn 91 - Mommy Shark Do Do Dodododo
Turn 91 - Mommy Shark Do Do Dodododo
The expected major attack on Awha finally occurs.
The engagement starts near the Zenith jump point, with a significant Black Steel force centered around a pair of Aegis cruisers and a single Sovietskii Soyuz battlecruiser escorted by a half dozen Essex and ten small warships of an unidentified design, along with a swarm of dropships and drone fighters, assaulted the jump point defenses. The admiral in command of the system defense forces smelled a rat, however, and dispatched only jumpships loaded with parasite battleships and destroyers to assist the White Tower. The battle was brutal, but strangely the Black Steel forces seemed to be holding back, refusing to engage closely and obviously attempting to draw the defending forces to them.
After three days of skirmishing of this sort, additional reinforcements arrived, a mix of NRI Pilum corvettes and jumpships carrying NRR parasite carriers. Fighting remained inconclusive, with the Black Steel forces continuing to skirmish rather than commit to a fleet action.
A day later the reason behind this became clear, a larger Black Steel force, centered around a McKenna with a pair of unidentified 2 million ton warships and two dozen unidentified cruise and destroyer sized vessels jumped in at the Nadir. The admiral in command of the defenses remained cautious, sending his parasite reserves to the support of the White Tower there. Again the force in question skirmishes rather than engaged closely, confirming the suspicion that something was up.
Three days of this later and the main force finally showed up, at a pirate point near the colonized planet in the Awha system. Three Farraguts, a half dozen Aegis and Black Lion cruisers, and a dozen Essex destroyers made up this force, with a significant swarm of dropships and drones. The main elements of the system defense and reaction forces engaged them short of the planetary orbitals in a massive clash.
The outlying forces chose that moment to jump in and join this force, and the local admiral used the same tactic, having the forces he’d had defending the jump points jump in as well. The fighting rapidly became extremely chaotic as attacking and defending forces dueled for supremacy in the region of the planet's pirate point. Additional Black Steel forces jumped in over the next hour or so.
The arrival of a second relief force tipped the balance of forces enough to inspire the Black Steel to retreat, but not before the local forces were destroyed and the colony subjected to an intensive bombardment by the Black Steel. They were driven off before destroying the colony itself, but the battle was brutal with very heavy losses.
The final casualty figures are as follows.
About a dozen or so Black Steel warships managed to escape before the relief force was able to engage them.
A defeat, in some ways, but by the weight of metal your forces came out well ahead. Unfortunately the admiral who commanded the defense and managed to avoid being suckered by the feints, thus allowing for the relatively successful engagement, was killed in action on the bridge of his flagship. His cool and calculated response to the Black Steel was precisely what was needed in this situation and avoided defeat in detail.
This year Parliament declines to give you any headaches, although they’re also not up to anything all that useful either. The bills that make it to your desk are pretty banal and routine, with nothing requiring much consideration.
The anti-piracy patrols in the NRI have already yielded results, with a number of small raids intercepted by your forces and utterly annihilated. In many ways, despite being utterly obsolete, the Dart and Dagger class vessels are perfectly capable of slaughtering the ramshackle pirate dropships in job lots.
The expected major attack on Awha finally occurs.
The engagement starts near the Zenith jump point, with a significant Black Steel force centered around a pair of Aegis cruisers and a single Sovietskii Soyuz battlecruiser escorted by a half dozen Essex and ten small warships of an unidentified design, along with a swarm of dropships and drone fighters, assaulted the jump point defenses. The admiral in command of the system defense forces smelled a rat, however, and dispatched only jumpships loaded with parasite battleships and destroyers to assist the White Tower. The battle was brutal, but strangely the Black Steel forces seemed to be holding back, refusing to engage closely and obviously attempting to draw the defending forces to them.
After three days of skirmishing of this sort, additional reinforcements arrived, a mix of NRI Pilum corvettes and jumpships carrying NRR parasite carriers. Fighting remained inconclusive, with the Black Steel forces continuing to skirmish rather than commit to a fleet action.
A day later the reason behind this became clear, a larger Black Steel force, centered around a McKenna with a pair of unidentified 2 million ton warships and two dozen unidentified cruise and destroyer sized vessels jumped in at the Nadir. The admiral in command of the defenses remained cautious, sending his parasite reserves to the support of the White Tower there. Again the force in question skirmishes rather than engaged closely, confirming the suspicion that something was up.
Three days of this later and the main force finally showed up, at a pirate point near the colonized planet in the Awha system. Three Farraguts, a half dozen Aegis and Black Lion cruisers, and a dozen Essex destroyers made up this force, with a significant swarm of dropships and drones. The main elements of the system defense and reaction forces engaged them short of the planetary orbitals in a massive clash.
The outlying forces chose that moment to jump in and join this force, and the local admiral used the same tactic, having the forces he’d had defending the jump points jump in as well. The fighting rapidly became extremely chaotic as attacking and defending forces dueled for supremacy in the region of the planet's pirate point. Additional Black Steel forces jumped in over the next hour or so.
The arrival of a second relief force tipped the balance of forces enough to inspire the Black Steel to retreat, but not before the local forces were destroyed and the colony subjected to an intensive bombardment by the Black Steel. They were driven off before destroying the colony itself, but the battle was brutal with very heavy losses.
The final casualty figures are as follows.
- Defending Forces
- Allied Units
- NRI
- 8 Pilum-class corvettes
- NRR
- 12 dropship carriers of various classes
- 9 wings of ASFs
- NRI
- Imperial Griffon Navy
- 2 Silver Tower defense stations
- 2 Exeter-class Heavy Cruisers
- 7 Wichita-class Heavy Cruisers
- 12 Cleveland-class Light Cruisers
- 2 Erebus-class Missile Cruisers
- 15 Stiletto-class destroyers
- 10 Flight I Fletcher-class destroyers
- 39 Independence-class Parasite Carriers
- 59 Majestic-class Parasite Battleships
- 70 Bainbridge-class Parasite Destroyers
- 244 PPG-01
- 41 Carrier Wings
- 6 Fighter Wings
- Damage to the Awha Colony
- -50% GDP
- -75% POP
- Allied Units
- Attack Force
- 1 McKenna
- 3 Farragut
- 4 Unidentified 2 million ton warships
- 3 Aegis
- 2 Black Lion
- 4 unidentified 1 million ton warships
- 14 Essex
- 20 unidentified destroyer class warships
- 150 drone dropships
- 150 wings of drone ASF
About a dozen or so Black Steel warships managed to escape before the relief force was able to engage them.
A defeat, in some ways, but by the weight of metal your forces came out well ahead. Unfortunately the admiral who commanded the defense and managed to avoid being suckered by the feints, thus allowing for the relatively successful engagement, was killed in action on the bridge of his flagship. His cool and calculated response to the Black Steel was precisely what was needed in this situation and avoided defeat in detail.
This year Parliament declines to give you any headaches, although they’re also not up to anything all that useful either. The bills that make it to your desk are pretty banal and routine, with nothing requiring much consideration.
The anti-piracy patrols in the NRI have already yielded results, with a number of small raids intercepted by your forces and utterly annihilated. In many ways, despite being utterly obsolete, the Dart and Dagger class vessels are perfectly capable of slaughtering the ramshackle pirate dropships in job lots.
