ZGMF - Manila and Malta

Plz give money for Malta reinforcement. =(

(What was supposed to be) A condensed, alternative to the above. (Yay, lack of information!)

I worry about sending any more of our Gaws to East Asia. Excelsior is currently Damaged, while Dragon and Stilva have obstacles back in Europe that demand their attention.

Dragon should be attacking the Baneblade Squadron Monday. Those tanks are very high priority.

Excelsior seems to have been stopped in the West Arctic by Nigel Ferdinand. It's hard to tell, exactly; the site entry says its location is the West Arctic, and its action is Europe (Athens). So far as I know, it wouldn't list Athens if it were merely moving there, so Excelsior might actually be in Europe.

Either way, Ferdinand's ship, the Chicken Little, is heavily damaged in the West Arctic -- but he has enough RP to purchase flight support and possibly finish off Excelsior on Monday, if it is indeed in the West Arctic. Stilva could paradrop in, target the Chicken Little, and wipe it out, while the Excelsior makes for Malta.

Of course, if the Excelsior is in Europe, we could have it join up with the Dragon and attack the Baneblade Squadron instead. We'll just make sure to have it hold back, so it isn't destroyed in the fighting. And at the same time, we could possibly move Stilva into Central Asia as had been considered previously.

If we just go with taking out the Chicken Little and Baneblade, this would secure Europe, but at the cost of moving forces into East Asia. Two options spring to mind, if we end up going this route:

1) We bunker down and try to fight the East Asia battle with what we have available to us now. Realistically, we cannot combat the Federation in the spending battle. They have more men, get more RP per paycheck, and already have a fleet in East Asia -- whereas we have a heavily shelled base and a disabled Gaw, and people split between Africa, East Asia, and Europe. So we continue to try and do what we can with our PCs, while concentrating the majority of our RP into Europe and preparing for the eventual siege of Belfast.

2) We commit to the idea of having Excelsior, Stilva and Dragon defend Malta for the time being. Once they've succeeded in their operations Monday (if Stilva is, indeed, staying in Europe), they can all three move back to the base and provide exceptional defense (defense that could become offense at a moment's notice -- which is one plus, over spending tons of RP to load up Malta with add-ons and stationary guns). Then we use the majority of that 2000 RP mentioned previously to fund the East Asia war effort. We could transfer RP to Duncan Monday, and Tuesday have him carry out a one-Gaw (with fire support assisted) paradrop against what remains of the 187th Integrated Fleet, before they can reinforce it with more ships and fighter craft.

Even if Stilva ultimately turns to East Asia instead of escorting the Excelsior, and we just have Dragon and Excelsior moving to Malta for its defense, it may still be preferable to divert the majority of the 2000 RP into East Asia on Monday. Both because two Gaws seem like adequate defense for anything the Federation could challenge us with at Malta in the next four days, and because if Stilva + a new Duncan-purchased Gaw paradropped the 87th Integrated, it really would wipe them out completely on Tuesday. Still leaves the question of what happens Wednesday, and whether or not we can combat the Federation RP might, but it certainly gives us a better chance of holding them out of Manila for one more week...

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As always, this is just me thinking out loud, and trying to facilitate a discussion amongst the officers. So please, do reply with comments and ideas =).

I had talked about it with Gap, and to get to North America from North Africa would take some working arounds anyways, so I might as well go there by way of East Asia because I don't like the idea of traveling right back to Europe after I just left Europe, and Draco says he'll stay and take RF-1 so the rest of us can do whatever we need to do. Now. I'm thinking Me, Ernest, and Naomi move out to East Asia on Monday (We should arrive there Tuesday, right?) and have MyTitan move up with us as soon as he arrives in North Africa.

Ernest Till is a Zaku II K and he'd be able to bombard the enemy ships, While Me & Titan were still planning on buying Dom's tomorrow, the rest of the RP we're really doing nothing with since we're ditching the Africa idea (Do to nothing really being there), so if you want, we can come to East Asia and help you guys out.


.....Now....I do have a semi-devious idea...If all of us (my guys) piled our money together and didn't buy anything else, we'd have 1,200 RP.




I could show up in East Asia and buy one of those, and use it to attack their fleet. It might be able to do some damage, but there is a matter of the pilot. Only 200RP to buying a pilot for it is kind of fail

.....If you could, and want to be super bad-ass, and we go with that plan, set 500RP aside and buy the Mobile Armor an Ace Pilot, and I'll turn it over to Chris as soon as I depart East Asia. Just seems like a pretty decent way of fucking their shit up.

Me and Ernest would also be the ones attacking the fleet, with Naomi and her Gouf's moving to provide more protectiong for Morrigan because I don't want to see the super awesome captain go boom.

It could possibly be indeed. Haha. I know I was getting a little ahead of my self with the Giant Mobile Armor of doom (It sounded like such a good plan).

As for North Africa, they're leaving. They broke free of RF-1 and we doubt they are going to stick around in North Africa long enough to finish repairing so that we can attack them. I know that Nader him self is apparently either heading to East Asia or Belfast, he said there was no point in him staying in Africa any more (Since they're just going to get harassed by the patrols and eventually fatigued) and I can imagine Blue Destiny is going to take off as well.

All in all, we can't have 5 players just idling around in the African desert waiting to see, and it's like I said, we are already going to be heading out to North America anyways. Just planned on stopping by in East Asia (Now with swarm of Doms instead of Mobile Armor) and do as much damage to their fleet as possible, with Naomi still standing guard over the Gaw.

I wouldn't mind having a team of Dom's m'self, but it's a matter of organizing what amount of RP goes where. Draco has a full MS Team, Naomi is only using Goufs and Gouf accessories (Also accepting Zaku II's, cause she's hardcore), Noelle has no MS Team, I need 2 MS To fill my team, Ernest needs 1 MS to fill his team.

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I'm not sure if Naomi would by a Dom into her MS team, so even then if we showed up in East Asia it'd be Me, 2 Dom's, a Zaku IIJ, Ernest, His MS, His Luggun, and a Dom + 3 Goufs.

So we'd have
Dowdage
Dom
Dom
Dom
+Zaku IIK Shelling the fleet with 3 Goufs defending the ever loving shit out of Morrigan.

Then I suppose I'd just ship the remainder of the funds to MyTitan so he can start stocking his MS Team, he'll be coming right along behind us. Draco from what I remembered has opted to staying behind in North Africa for the time being in order to take RF-1 and/or deal with any stragglers.


The ultimate goal I have is to get MyTitan 3 Dom's in His MS Team. It'd cost 900RP for that, but would be hella effective I think. We can probably manage that next paycheck though. Ok lets seeee.

1,200:
-Marko Dresner
-400[2x] Dom
-200[2x] Lvl 3 pilot
--Total Cost: 600

-Ernest Til
-200[1x] Dom
-100[1x] Lvl 3 Pilot
--300 Total

--MyTitan will just keep the RP he currently has.

I'll Transfer 100RP to Ernest and Naomi can transfer 100RP to Ernest, and that would cover this weeks purchases. Doesn't really leave with any money for purchasing support during the engagement though.

Well, I was suggesting Naomi go with the Morrigan because her Goufs aren't going to be of much use in the water, ya know.

Well, I need to know by sunday night/monday morning if this is what we are doing so I can send out an email to the people formerly of the Afrika Korps and inform that about what all needs to be done and such.

I'm not investing alot in the siege, more or less, taking 1 more day on route to North America. My plan was just to stop in and give you some aid in breaking the siege before we continued on to North America. Gap talked to me on IRC and said that since there was no point in us being in Africa, we should be moving to North America to prepare for operations against White Base, so that's basically what we're doing.

Stopping in East Asia was my idea, because it was either depressingly get no VP for this effort of moving, or go to East Asia, take an extra day of traveling, and help blow some stuff up. I decided on helping blow stuff up.