EFSF plans for after Odessa

I'd like to go after Chan's fleet, since he missed the event. Thats if our fleet makes it out ok.

Ok everyone here is the plan as it stands. As soon as the rpg kicks off(Week after next) we will take the fleet and have it join the Luna II Defense fleet and ride it back to Luna II. That way we can still move while having some good firepower to come along with us just in case Chan does attack. I think it is unlikely we will see him so soon since he has some players that may want to rush off to a friendly Zeon base so they can make switches, but you never know. So I would think of this as a hedge against that possibility. Once we arrive at Luna II we will just have the ships repair and we will buy new ships to. Below is what I think we will need in order to have a good fleet for upcoming operations.

2 Colombus Class Ships(800rp)

2 Salamis Class Ships(1600rp)

With these purchases we should have at least 7 respectable warships for when we meet up against Chan to fight him. I didn't go too crazy with ship purchase plans because we have no ideal how much rp we netted for ourselves for after Odessa. I'd have to check that for myself to see. On top of that most of our ms compliments died off in the battle so we will need to bleed off some rp in order to fill out the fleet. We will have to delay purchase of the Gray Phantom by at least at least a week maybe no more then 2 weeks(sorry Zero ) We will need sufficient numbers in order to deal with chan and the Salamis and Colombus combo has done well by us so we should skate by with it this time. My main concern is we still have no clue what Chan is planning with the pirates so we will have to keep on our toes and watch him like a hawk and pay attention where ever that Gwazine goes and where Cid is at all times so we don't have him sneak up on us like he did last time. I have my suspicions about what's being planned, but it isn't worth jumping to conclusions. We just need to keep a eye on the pirates.

We now come to the situation of what to do with our planned mining operation. We had plans to plant 2 mines at Side 7 and to repair Latooni's old mine. That would have given us 3 mines all together to build a rp infrastructure around. We would be netting ourselves 360rp a week. However the two mines will run us 700rp which would burn a hole in our fleet budget. 800rp if you count the repairs for Lat's old mine. Best way to approach this project is to buy 1 mine for one week and the second the next week. The old mine can be repaired when the first new mine goes up sometime in the week. Spade and Pyrefly I think we may make that a job for you two since you plan to come up to space and stuff. That's if you don't mind. If we approach the mining operation in that fashion we should have some rp on hand to buy mobile suits and saberfish for any clashes we have against ZEF while still having rp squared away for the Gray Phantom or a Magellan if we decide to take one of those.

As for when we do set out to attack the ZEF. Our first order of business is to have Overlord 13 destroyed. The ruins of Purgatorio is where it is at or is going to to be traveling to. Chan has it set up as a forward operating base. I guess he plans to have us attack it and destroy it and causing us to get tangled up in that fiasco like he did last time when he did hit and run attacks on us while we sit. I learned from the mistake Latooni and myself made on that one. Our best approach to avoid that is to have half the fleet attack the mine and kill it while the other would go on patrol the very same day as its own stand alone fleet. If Chan and them are nearby and plan to ambush us after we nail the mine they would run into the patrolling force and get dinged up a bit they very next day.

From there it is a matter linking back up and pulling back out of 2e in to either Side 5 to Texas Colony or back to Side 7 for repairs. Once we are able to get out of that situation we could then look toward hitting the Dren Fleet and freeing the Ohm Fleet to do blockades again. I really think we need to secure 2e before we consider mine killing operations against the ZEF. If we could get 2 Feddie NPC fleets blockading around in 2e that could make movement for the ZEF miserable at best.