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Post by gaplant on Dec 16, 2009 17:07:29 GMT -5
Patrols only block things moving in, or building.
However, if they made a Blockade, they could potentially trap one or two people (max) in West Arctic. I'm still not sure that will help them all that much, though.
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Post by Kale on Dec 16, 2009 17:10:52 GMT -5
Since all of their ships are at New Amsterdam, they couldn't blockade us in the West Arctic tonight. They'd have to move from New Amsterdam and then setup the blockade.
All of our PCs who can make it to California will be out of the West Arctic by tonight, so they also wouldn't get stopped.
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Post by gaplant on Dec 16, 2009 17:13:51 GMT -5
Yeah, I don't know.
Ketara did note that the "e-mail" Jojo sent was incredibly confusing, so we'll see what happens. I'm blank on what he could be doing, which is sad because I want to be a tactical forecaster D:
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Post by Kale on Dec 16, 2009 17:20:02 GMT -5
Meanwhile, congrats on post 300 ^_^.
Now I must finish up this book for the final tomorrow!
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Post by Zero on Dec 16, 2009 17:21:37 GMT -5
No, Patrols can still trap people inside of locations, it was the exact same thing that was happening in North Africa, Jane and BD had to break through the patrols in order to get out of the compound, and then out of the region.
Anyways.
It could be possible they intend to attack us with everything they have on New Amsterdam as well. Dunno.
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Post by Kale on Dec 16, 2009 17:25:19 GMT -5
Patrols can trap people inside bases, but not territories. What happened in North Africa was that they were trying to leave the base, and were getting intercepted by patrols because they were technically reentering North Africa from RF-whatever.
Here's what Ketara wrote in an email to me...
And since I just copy/pasted this section, and haven't read the rest of the email lately (so don't know if he rescinded it)... umm... please no bans!
lol
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Post by Zero on Dec 16, 2009 17:36:10 GMT -5
Hm.
For some silly reason I thought they fought the patrols twice. Oh well, ignore me.
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Post by gaplant on Dec 16, 2009 20:08:07 GMT -5
BUY
4 x Dopp (Dragon) - 72 RP
Total = 72 RP
Remaining = 104 RP - 72 RP = 32 RP
FLEET ACTION
- The 9th Combined Operation Fleet is to disband.
- I will retain possession of Stilva and U-88 Baekhesten.
SHIP ACTIONS
- U-88 Baekhesten is to move to West Arctic.
- Stilva is to paradrop to West Arctic and assault New Amsterdam alongside Dragon (assaulting from West Arctic) and Excelsior (paradropping from Europe as well); the strategy for this attack will be described below.
ASSAULT STRATEGY
- The attacking forces (Dragon, Stilva, and Excelsior) are to use the strategy provided by Aldo P. Armistad - with the caveat that use of mega particle cannons is to be expressly prohibited. As we are conducting what is primarily a high-altitude bombing campaign utilizing the ECW capabilities of the Excelsior, low-altitude snowstorms, and aerial superiority, we feel the use of MPC's will unnecessarily expose our aircraft to ground-based firing mechanisms. Additionally, the highest priority for our anti-air defense is to ensure that the Excelsior isn't destroyed. If any of the Gaws are disabled or forced to land, ground troops to launch immediately to protect them, should the Federation launch a counterattack against them with its ground troops.
- This plan mostly calls for mobile suits to refrain from deploying, but if Ando Shoji is forced into battle he will be using the bazooka, heat hawk, and smoke grenades as armaments.
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Post by Kale on Dec 16, 2009 20:21:53 GMT -5
Looks great to me, Matthew.
Just got done with my book. Gonna hit the sack early today, and get back up to study more int he morning. Looking forward to reading the event. Good luck to the fleet.
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Post by gaplant on Dec 17, 2009 6:34:31 GMT -5
Weird Firefox glitch erased this post the first time I tried to write it. Here's to better luck this time!
So basically, the "loophole" Jojo used was that he paradropped from New Amsterdam to assault Dragon, thus nullifying our attack and giving him attack priority / combat advantage. He should be in West Arctic now, though, so he won't be able to do that again.
However, it seems we did okay for ourselves. We should have done some decent damage to the base, and took minimal damage as far as our Gaw forces go. However, we are both fatigued now.
So now I have to wonder: Should we begin the siege as planned today, or go for a killing blow with a single assault?
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Post by Kale on Dec 17, 2009 9:56:03 GMT -5
The way I see it, we have three options…
1) Target Chicken Little
Attack Chicken Little while it’s away from New Amsterdam. We can assume Nigel and Aurem plan to attack us today, so we might as well pull an interception.
We order the Gaws above cloud cover. With no radar, no radio and no visuals, there’s zero reason any GM Sniper should hit a Gaw. If Chicken Little is in the air, we attack it with Dopps and long-range missiles to avoid lighting up our location with MPCs. If the Chicken Little is on the ground, we attack it with bombs from the Gaws (continuing to stay above cloud cover) and a missile strike from the Baekhesten.
The following day, the fleet attacks New Amsterdam.
2) Assault New Amsterdam
Assuming we go ahead and assault the base, same restrictions to Nigel and Aurem apply. Ground units can’t hit us while we’re above cloud cover – furthermore, they can’t travel to the base, or chase after us, in time to defend New Amsterdam. Best they could do is have Chicken Little ambush us en route, and get shredded by the fleet.
The actual assault should start off as a bombardment from above cloud cover, like we planned yesterday. Trick the Federation into believing we’re pulling the same trick, with an additional Gaw. We tear their fighters apart, bomb the port and hangars with Dragon’s silo, Stilva and Excelsior’s missiles, and the Beakhesten’s long range missiles. Then we confirm their casualties, and descend down through the snowstorms.
L5 Gaws should be able to handle the “moderate limitation” of snowstorms, so we can count on them for a round or three of MPC strafing. Go after any ships that need mopping up, or MS positions, using Excelsior to coordinate the fire where it’s most needed. Then we have Dragon and Stilva, one at a time, land while the other two Gaws provide fire support on their positions. MS troops deploy, and Marines and tanks, and we use them to claim the fortress in the name of Zeon.
(Alternatively, we could just bomb today and pull a siege. The only problem I see with this is that it frees Aurem and Jojo up to attack us the following day.)
3) We Run
Retreat into North America. Same principles about Gaws staying above the clouds apply, incase Aurem or Nigel ambush. We then turn around and paradrop New Amsterdam Monday, minus the Baekhesten. The pro to this is that we’d be able to purchase 2 x flight support. The con is that, if Aurem and Nigel don’t attack us today, they get a free movement back to New Amsterdam. And it’s possible that if one of their guys in North America ambushes us, our paradrop becomes a movement into the West Arctic and the Federation officially owns the West Arctic when we return from Christmas break.
I don’t know which option to recommend. My gut says the second, but it assumes the writer will account for the cloud cover and snowstorms in the event of a sniper ambush – which, given our track record, ain’t something to take on faith.
I have finals and then drinking to do tonight. So I won’t be around past noon to help scheme. Sorry guys. Please discuss, choose one, or come up with an alternative plan. Whatever you decide has my support.
I emailed Andrew asking him to have Excelsior join Matthew’s fleet. I’m also going to send an email saying Aldo will participate in whatever plan Ando submits. But I’ll leave it to Matthew to submit a strategy and all that shebang.
Good luck, gentlemen.
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Post by gaplant on Dec 17, 2009 18:41:04 GMT -5
Basically, what I plan to do is bring all of our ships back to North America today (allowing our Fatigue to wear off, and yourself to be repaired), then on Monday we are going to split each ship off individually (as well as splitting up with our PCs).
Then, on Monday, each one of us (the 3 Gaws, the Jukon II, you + MS team, and me + MS team) are going to ambush individual EFGF members (6 of them lewl) and keep them out of the event.
It will be glorious!
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Post by gaplant on Dec 17, 2009 19:03:37 GMT -5
Oh FFS.
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Post by gaplant on Dec 17, 2009 19:28:47 GMT -5
Anyway (last post from me for a while, working tonight), even though ambushes probably won't keep most of them out of the Garma event it should hinder their efforts.
I think that's the best way to go. Also, after the event, with all of us grouped up we could potentially go smash West Arctic pretty easily, or...
We could punch into South America with a combined fleet of 7 or 8 ships and knock the crap out of those Supply Fleets.
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Post by Zero on Dec 17, 2009 23:12:02 GMT -5
Hm. Yeah...Looking on it I think their plan with the Arctic was to get us trapped in North America thusly allowing them to go about ravaging Europe, Asia, and North Africa relatively unopposed. Asshats.
Anywho. I thought if they got damaged they'd have 1/2VP during the event?
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