I am strongly, strongly recommending we throw some sub-capital "love" at the Dragon himself, in addition to striking tactical targets. While ortillery alone can't no-sell his fortifications and the Otomo, it sure as hell can make his bad day worse, and we want to rub it in his face that we are on his literal doorstep and we own the sky above him.
Quest Deep Periphery Quest (Battletech Sandbox Empire Builder)
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Do we know if he is here or gone to deal with his unruly daughter?
Orangeduke38
Well-known member
[X] Use them to equip friendly Home Army forces
[X] Write-in: Stripping and Orbital Bombardment.
-We should use the factories to produce units until the available resources run out and then strip them of valuable machinery. If the Dracs return then whatever we haven't taken should be destroyed. Simultaneously we should conduct orbital bombardment of all enemy military and police targets on the planet.
[X] Write-in: Stripping and Orbital Bombardment.
-We should use the factories to produce units until the available resources run out and then strip them of valuable machinery. If the Dracs return then whatever we haven't taken should be destroyed. Simultaneously we should conduct orbital bombardment of all enemy military and police targets on the planet.
Trashman.exe
Well-known member
[X] Double Down
SuperHeavy
Well-known member
So the two heads of the royal family are throwing down and with any luck the crazy one will have enough loyal forces to drag things out. The bad news is that we could see the smarter one standing at the end of this with a fanatically loyal powerbase after all the other factions have been purged. I will take crazy and dumb over smart and flexible.
PsihoKekec
Swashbuckling Accountant
[X] Produce some material for the Home Army, then strip the factories of useful components and retreat
[X] Prepare to evacuate civilians and withdraw
[X] Prepare to evacuate civilians and withdraw
edofthesquid
Well-known member
[X] Use them to equip friendly Home Army forces
[X] Prepare to evacuate civilians and withdraw
[X] Prepare to evacuate civilians and withdraw
Turn 57 - Our Resolve Relentless
Turn 57 - Our Resolve Relentless
Griffon System
A lone Scout, identified by SARAH as being the same one involved with the cherry blossom, jumps in at the Zenith point under the guns of the jump point defenses. It is carrying a single K-1 Dropshuttle on it’s lone docking hardpoint.
When challenged the jumpship does not answer directly, instead broadcasting the following…
“Gurifon teikoku no sonkei sa reru kōgō ni, aisatsu to aisatsu. Shōgun Kurita Siriwan wa, Takeda Ōmichi ten'nō nikawatte, sono na de, kanojo no shukenja to anata jishin no shoyū-mono to no ma no heiwa o tassei suru tame ni kōshō ni hairu koto o nozonde imasu.”
It takes a few minutes, but you soon have a good translation. “To the revered Empress of the Griffon Empire, greetings and salutations. The Shogun Kurita Siriwan, on behalf of and in the name of Emperor Takeda Daido, desires to enter negotiations to attain peace between her sovereign's holdings and your own.”
You blink a few times, this is rather unexpected, a fission in the Drac ranks, and a Kurita acknowledging herself as serving a non Kurita. Fortunately they seem to be quite patient in waiting for a response, giving you time to do some research with your daughter and SARAH.
One piece of data comes to light pretty quickly, the Takeda are a cadet branch of the Japanese Imperial Clan, and as such a Takeda could, technically, be said to be a rightful link to the Imperial Family. It’s a somewhat indirect path of legitimacy, but it is there. It appears that this Siriwan has discarded the Dragon’s claim to sole rulership and is instead harkening back to the ancient Shogunate, which has… very interesting implications.
QM Note - I apologize in advance, the Japanese above is from Giggle Translate, so is unlikely to be all that good, pretend it is grammatically perfect Japanese of the most formal variety, if you could.
Nowa Warszawa System
Sufficient volunteers among the Home Army have been gathered to find pilots for all 72 Jenners that the factories are able to build before running out of essential raw materials. The training is… amusing, and a point is made of recording all of it for a future training montage video. In the end you have 2 battalions of green as grass light mechs stumbling around and not falling flat on their face, and at least managing to usually avoid stepping on things that they shouldn’t. You aren’t all that sure about their gunnery yet, but they’re enthusiastic at practice.
Orbital surveillance has determined that the Dracs remaining forces on the planet are formidable defensively, but not a significant threat to your forces on planet offensively apart from the Otomo, and even that is but a single Assault weight regiment that appears to be glued to the Dragon’s Palace. Orbital strikes have scoured the light outbuildings and office blocks surrounding the palace proper, but it is quickly obvious that the palace itself is a massively fortified and hardened bunker more than capable of holding up to the relatively light orbital bombardment assets you have available.
There is one light Mech unit that appears to be another training unit, judging by the composition and skill level displayed. Multiple very heavy conventional armored regiments that would make any assault very bloody indeed as they appear to be well equipped with Demolisher and Behemoth tanks. Large numbers of infantry units that, unlike the poor saps caught out on your landing, are somewhat better equipped with the PBI supported by Hetzers.
The Dracs have made several attempts to send recon assets to determine your positions and strength, but your absolute ASF dominance allows you to destroy them well short of your positions, denying the Dragon any intelligence about your positions.
With the arrival of the 1st Garrison Division on the planet you are absolutely certain of your ability to hold the continent from any push from the rest of the planet, and so long as you maintain orbital supremacy you are confident that your forces can remain here indefinitely.
You could make a push to take the entire planet at this point, but it would be incredibly risky as the sheer numbers of exceptionally dangerous tanks dug in in cities and the massive numbers of infantry would risk enormous casualties. You’d probably win in the end, but the attrition would be almost Pyrrhic.
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Griffon System
It is that time of year again, and even with your forces deployed on an offensive the budget meetings wait for no Empress.
Or something like that.
General Stewart is up first. “Your Majesty, with your son deployed I will be handling the ground procurement brief.” she says formally. “But before I get into that, we have the ability to produce an additional Heavy or Assault Mech Regiment a year now, however we are still limited to only a single light/medium regiment per year until we expand those factories. We are still bottlenecked on endosteel, although thanks to the push last year we are less bottlenecked on ferrofibrous armor.”
She consults her notes. “For Battlemech procurement we are recommending 3 Assault Regiments for 5th Brigade, 2nd Armored, with the new forces being immediately deployed to Nowa Warszawa. In addition, we recommend the procurement of a single Pathfinder Regiment to flesh out 1st Brigade, 2nd Armored and likewise dispatching that unit to the battle front. For conventional vehicle procurement, we can procure 4 regiments worth of combat vehicles this year thanks to the increased ferrofibrous production. Therefore, we recommend procuring 3 Mechanized Regiments and 1 Armored Regiment, to flesh out 1st and 2nd Brigades of the 1st Infantry Division. We would then rotate both Brigades to Tarentum to relieve 3rd Brigade, 1st Armored, which would be sent to Nowa Warszawa as well.”
General Reyes takes the podium then, once more with her powerpoint of DOOM.
“Your Majesty, we recommend the continued procurement of between 2 and 4 Carrier Wings in order to prepare for the deployment of the White Towers in the near future. In addition, we would like to procure a Planetary Defense Wing to dispatch to Nowa Warszawa in order to boost our aerospace dominance in theater.”
Admiral Benjamin then bounds to the fore, his inevitable flip chart and long-suffering aides in tow. “Your Majesty, we’ve got a lot of slipways open, and many things we need to fill them with, so we’ll get started.” he nods to his minion, who brings up the first chart.
The Admiral waits for the laughter to die down. “But seriously, we do need to be able to train more dropship crews, especially with the PPG-01s.”
Bridget takes over, still chuckling a little. “Your Majesty, we have free DoME teams and that’s a terrible thing, because they are having ideas, and bored engineers… ideas…” she shudders dramatically. “We recommend setting them on planting tropical forests on Griffon IV, should help accelerate the planets terraforming and thus ability to support a population. We’re ready to expand those new Mech factories at your word, and build lots and lots of orbital infrastructure, just tell us what to do!”
Isoroku and Jake are both closeted dealing with the repercussions of the transmission from the distaff Kurita, while Mary is on Nowy Gdansk handling some issues there. She does send you a memo, however.
Your Majesty, some of my more… enterprising… engineers here have gone ahead and without authorization conducted some R&D on their own time and dime, but without authorization or permission. The end result is… useful, but I am having to soothe ruffled feathers and deal with this situation. Specifically they have developed a new generation of Industrial Mechs, which is useful from the point of view of making it easier to engage in grand engineering, but annoying in that they’re going to be the ones reaping the financial rewards of the discovery, not us.
In regards to future research, we recommend Electronics and Communications general research. While this will slightly delay HPG research, we feel that the combination of base tech research might be highly beneficial towards HPG work.
Neither Janet nor Harry have any new projects for you to consider.
Griffon System
A lone Scout, identified by SARAH as being the same one involved with the cherry blossom, jumps in at the Zenith point under the guns of the jump point defenses. It is carrying a single K-1 Dropshuttle on it’s lone docking hardpoint.
When challenged the jumpship does not answer directly, instead broadcasting the following…
“Gurifon teikoku no sonkei sa reru kōgō ni, aisatsu to aisatsu. Shōgun Kurita Siriwan wa, Takeda Ōmichi ten'nō nikawatte, sono na de, kanojo no shukenja to anata jishin no shoyū-mono to no ma no heiwa o tassei suru tame ni kōshō ni hairu koto o nozonde imasu.”
It takes a few minutes, but you soon have a good translation. “To the revered Empress of the Griffon Empire, greetings and salutations. The Shogun Kurita Siriwan, on behalf of and in the name of Emperor Takeda Daido, desires to enter negotiations to attain peace between her sovereign's holdings and your own.”
You blink a few times, this is rather unexpected, a fission in the Drac ranks, and a Kurita acknowledging herself as serving a non Kurita. Fortunately they seem to be quite patient in waiting for a response, giving you time to do some research with your daughter and SARAH.
One piece of data comes to light pretty quickly, the Takeda are a cadet branch of the Japanese Imperial Clan, and as such a Takeda could, technically, be said to be a rightful link to the Imperial Family. It’s a somewhat indirect path of legitimacy, but it is there. It appears that this Siriwan has discarded the Dragon’s claim to sole rulership and is instead harkening back to the ancient Shogunate, which has… very interesting implications.
| [] | Accept negotiations, let us see where this rabbit hole takes us |
| [] | A Kurita is a Kurita, regardless of their stripes |
QM Note - I apologize in advance, the Japanese above is from Giggle Translate, so is unlikely to be all that good, pretend it is grammatically perfect Japanese of the most formal variety, if you could.
Nowa Warszawa System
Sufficient volunteers among the Home Army have been gathered to find pilots for all 72 Jenners that the factories are able to build before running out of essential raw materials. The training is… amusing, and a point is made of recording all of it for a future training montage video. In the end you have 2 battalions of green as grass light mechs stumbling around and not falling flat on their face, and at least managing to usually avoid stepping on things that they shouldn’t. You aren’t all that sure about their gunnery yet, but they’re enthusiastic at practice.
Orbital surveillance has determined that the Dracs remaining forces on the planet are formidable defensively, but not a significant threat to your forces on planet offensively apart from the Otomo, and even that is but a single Assault weight regiment that appears to be glued to the Dragon’s Palace. Orbital strikes have scoured the light outbuildings and office blocks surrounding the palace proper, but it is quickly obvious that the palace itself is a massively fortified and hardened bunker more than capable of holding up to the relatively light orbital bombardment assets you have available.
There is one light Mech unit that appears to be another training unit, judging by the composition and skill level displayed. Multiple very heavy conventional armored regiments that would make any assault very bloody indeed as they appear to be well equipped with Demolisher and Behemoth tanks. Large numbers of infantry units that, unlike the poor saps caught out on your landing, are somewhat better equipped with the PBI supported by Hetzers.
The Dracs have made several attempts to send recon assets to determine your positions and strength, but your absolute ASF dominance allows you to destroy them well short of your positions, denying the Dragon any intelligence about your positions.
With the arrival of the 1st Garrison Division on the planet you are absolutely certain of your ability to hold the continent from any push from the rest of the planet, and so long as you maintain orbital supremacy you are confident that your forces can remain here indefinitely.
You could make a push to take the entire planet at this point, but it would be incredibly risky as the sheer numbers of exceptionally dangerous tanks dug in in cities and the massive numbers of infantry would risk enormous casualties. You’d probably win in the end, but the attrition would be almost Pyrrhic.
| [] | Dig in and wait for reinforcements |
| [] | Audacity, Audacity, Forever Audacity |
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Griffon System
It is that time of year again, and even with your forces deployed on an offensive the budget meetings wait for no Empress.
Or something like that.
General Stewart is up first. “Your Majesty, with your son deployed I will be handling the ground procurement brief.” she says formally. “But before I get into that, we have the ability to produce an additional Heavy or Assault Mech Regiment a year now, however we are still limited to only a single light/medium regiment per year until we expand those factories. We are still bottlenecked on endosteel, although thanks to the push last year we are less bottlenecked on ferrofibrous armor.”
She consults her notes. “For Battlemech procurement we are recommending 3 Assault Regiments for 5th Brigade, 2nd Armored, with the new forces being immediately deployed to Nowa Warszawa. In addition, we recommend the procurement of a single Pathfinder Regiment to flesh out 1st Brigade, 2nd Armored and likewise dispatching that unit to the battle front. For conventional vehicle procurement, we can procure 4 regiments worth of combat vehicles this year thanks to the increased ferrofibrous production. Therefore, we recommend procuring 3 Mechanized Regiments and 1 Armored Regiment, to flesh out 1st and 2nd Brigades of the 1st Infantry Division. We would then rotate both Brigades to Tarentum to relieve 3rd Brigade, 1st Armored, which would be sent to Nowa Warszawa as well.”
General Reyes takes the podium then, once more with her powerpoint of DOOM.
“Your Majesty, we recommend the continued procurement of between 2 and 4 Carrier Wings in order to prepare for the deployment of the White Towers in the near future. In addition, we would like to procure a Planetary Defense Wing to dispatch to Nowa Warszawa in order to boost our aerospace dominance in theater.”
Admiral Benjamin then bounds to the fore, his inevitable flip chart and long-suffering aides in tow. “Your Majesty, we’ve got a lot of slipways open, and many things we need to fill them with, so we’ll get started.” he nods to his minion, who brings up the first chart.
- Large Dropships (8 slips)
- 3 Tarawa class Regimental Assault Transports
- 3 Newport class Landing Ship - Regiment
- 2 Newport-C class Attack Transports
- Regular Dropships (39)
- 4 Ensign class Training Dropships
- 15 Bainbridge class Parasite Destroyers
- 20 PGL-50 class Parasite Gunships
The Admiral waits for the laughter to die down. “But seriously, we do need to be able to train more dropship crews, especially with the PPG-01s.”
Bridget takes over, still chuckling a little. “Your Majesty, we have free DoME teams and that’s a terrible thing, because they are having ideas, and bored engineers… ideas…” she shudders dramatically. “We recommend setting them on planting tropical forests on Griffon IV, should help accelerate the planets terraforming and thus ability to support a population. We’re ready to expand those new Mech factories at your word, and build lots and lots of orbital infrastructure, just tell us what to do!”
Isoroku and Jake are both closeted dealing with the repercussions of the transmission from the distaff Kurita, while Mary is on Nowy Gdansk handling some issues there. She does send you a memo, however.
Your Majesty, some of my more… enterprising… engineers here have gone ahead and without authorization conducted some R&D on their own time and dime, but without authorization or permission. The end result is… useful, but I am having to soothe ruffled feathers and deal with this situation. Specifically they have developed a new generation of Industrial Mechs, which is useful from the point of view of making it easier to engage in grand engineering, but annoying in that they’re going to be the ones reaping the financial rewards of the discovery, not us.
In regards to future research, we recommend Electronics and Communications general research. While this will slightly delay HPG research, we feel that the combination of base tech research might be highly beneficial towards HPG work.
Neither Janet nor Harry have any new projects for you to consider.
Val the Moofia Boss
Well-known member
[X] Accept negotiations, let us see where this rabbit hole takes us
Again, looking hopeful for Gunji here. We should double check to see if they are doing anything super horrible in their system.
If the remaining Drac forces are remaining entrenched, then we could just encircle their fortifications and wait them out. Cut their water lines. Use a megaphone and tell them come out with a white flag and that they will be treated well. Depends on how much food and water their bases have stockpiled, but these Dracs don't strike me as the type that would prepare for the possibility of a protracted defensive campaign.
It's a shame that we will probably have to assault and heavily damage - if not destroy - the Dragon's palace. Would be nice if it could eventually be reopened as an occupation museum. Alas.
[X] Dig in and wait for reinforcements
With confirmation of a Drac civil war happening, and a decent chance of an alliance with Gunji's faction, and our space superiority, I don't think we're on any real timetable here. We don't really lose anything by playing it safe and waiting for reinforcements so we can do things properly. The fact that this is even an option, though, has me worried that I've missed something and that it might actually be good to get a headstart, though I'm not sure why that could be.
Again, looking hopeful for Gunji here. We should double check to see if they are doing anything super horrible in their system.
If the remaining Drac forces are remaining entrenched, then we could just encircle their fortifications and wait them out. Cut their water lines. Use a megaphone and tell them come out with a white flag and that they will be treated well. Depends on how much food and water their bases have stockpiled, but these Dracs don't strike me as the type that would prepare for the possibility of a protracted defensive campaign.
It's a shame that we will probably have to assault and heavily damage - if not destroy - the Dragon's palace. Would be nice if it could eventually be reopened as an occupation museum. Alas.
[X] Dig in and wait for reinforcements
With confirmation of a Drac civil war happening, and a decent chance of an alliance with Gunji's faction, and our space superiority, I don't think we're on any real timetable here. We don't really lose anything by playing it safe and waiting for reinforcements so we can do things properly. The fact that this is even an option, though, has me worried that I've missed something and that it might actually be good to get a headstart, though I'm not sure why that could be.
[X]Accept negotiations, let us see where this rabbit hole takes us
A *sane* Kurita who at least by implication does *not* believe in the idea that House Kurita has an inherent destiny to rule all mankind might actually be someone we could negotiate some form of lasting peace with.
[X] Dig in and wait for reinforcements
Given that we have stable orbital superiority, a strategy of patience is wiser than gambling it all.
[X] Commence Operations to secure the remaining shipyards in the system via either capture or destruction.
- [X] Specifically, send the fast Bainbridges as a reconnaissance-in-force to probe the shipyard defenses.
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[X] Plan: Offensive Turtling
I see Jarow went with my suggestion in the Discord to commission a defense station for "offensively defensive" use. Just imagine how pissed the Dragon will be.
A *sane* Kurita who at least by implication does *not* believe in the idea that House Kurita has an inherent destiny to rule all mankind might actually be someone we could negotiate some form of lasting peace with.
[X] Dig in and wait for reinforcements
Given that we have stable orbital superiority, a strategy of patience is wiser than gambling it all.
[X] Commence Operations to secure the remaining shipyards in the system via either capture or destruction.
- [X] Specifically, send the fast Bainbridges as a reconnaissance-in-force to probe the shipyard defenses.
Edit:
[X] Plan: Offensive Turtling
I see Jarow went with my suggestion in the Discord to commission a defense station for "offensively defensive" use. Just imagine how pissed the Dragon will be.
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Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
[X]Accept negotiations, let us see where this rabbit hole takes us
[X] Dig in and wait for reinforcements
[X] Commence Operations to secure the remaining shipyards in the system via either capture or destruction.
- [X] Specifically, send the fast Bainbridges as a reconnaissance-in-force to probe the shipyard defenses.
Let's keep the pressure on in space and hopefully greatly increase our Jumpship and dropship production capabilities while we're at it if at all possible
[X] Go on an aggressive Raiding/Recon spree
[X] Dig in and wait for reinforcements
[X] Commence Operations to secure the remaining shipyards in the system via either capture or destruction.
- [X] Specifically, send the fast Bainbridges as a reconnaissance-in-force to probe the shipyard defenses.
Let's keep the pressure on in space and hopefully greatly increase our Jumpship and dropship production capabilities while we're at it if at all possible
[X] Go on an aggressive Raiding/Recon spree
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Thors_Alumni
Well-known member
[X]Accept negotiations, let us see where this rabbit hole takes us
[X] Dig in and wait for reinforcements
[X] Commence Operations to secure the remaining shipyards in the system via either capture or destruction.
[X] Plan: Offensive Turtling
[X] Dig in and wait for reinforcements
[X] Commence Operations to secure the remaining shipyards in the system via either capture or destruction.
[X] Plan: Offensive Turtling
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Thors_Alumni
Well-known member
Point of fact ladies and gentleman, We need to deal with the yards asap lest we be forced to leave before we can later on. we don't want the Drac's to have a reverse Pearl Harbor where they have intact infrastructure in orbit that they can use to rebuild their forces like the US did in the aftermath of December 7th 1941
SuperHeavy
Well-known member
[X]Accept negotiations, let us see where this rabbit hole takes us
[X] Dig in and wait for reinforcements
[X] Commence Operations to secure the remaining shipyards in the system via either capture or destruction.
Here is hoping this asshole doesn't have a nuclear asset denial system in place under the palace waiting.
[X] Dig in and wait for reinforcements
[X] Commence Operations to secure the remaining shipyards in the system via either capture or destruction.
Here is hoping this asshole doesn't have a nuclear asset denial system in place under the palace waiting.
Or to take a reverse approach, start establishing *permanent* security over planetary space. Planetary liberation will be a long process but making the skies and orbitals ours for keeps is a solid second step from our current continental foothold.
And it would surely rankle the Dragon greatly if we're literally taking over and fixing up his own orbital facilities overhead *for ourselves and the Home Army*.
Orangeduke38
Well-known member
[X]Accept negotiations, let us see where this rabbit hole takes us
[X] Dig in and wait for reinforcements
[X] Commence Operations to secure the remaining shipyards in the system via either capture or destruction.
[X] Dig in and wait for reinforcements
[X] Commence Operations to secure the remaining shipyards in the system via either capture or destruction.
Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
Securing the orbital facilities and shipyards also provides us with in system repair and salvage capabilities so unless a ship explodes or is a complete wreck its be returned to active use
Orangeduke38
Well-known member
We'd also get whatever they are working on at the time. If we get lucky they might have an Achilles or Leopard-CV nearly done that we can give to the Home Guard. Also, LordSunhawk can we quickly produce any Sabres with the factories we captured for the home guard? Did we salvage any Sabres from the battle in orbit or other repairable enemy equipment on the ground?