Avastan Planning & OOC

[Tiglath]

While getting help to the club isn't immediately doable (and local merc back up is on hand: Cpls Able, baker and their oppos) a more strategic consideration of the consequences of the incident might be worthwhile...

Such as: Let 'em kill each other, fewer for us to fight later? I mean, we were sort of hoping to thin them out in town so it'd be easier to hit their berms.

That's an entirely sound tactic and must surely be to your advantage.

Indeed it seems that the pirates' very nature has started the process for you.

I was idly musing whether you could predict the pirates' reaction/next move and supercharge that process to some sort of industrial level?

[BackworldTraveller]

I was idly musing whether you could predict the pirates' reaction/next move and supercharge that process to some sort of industrial level?

If their QRF were to get shot up, I suspect a complete over-reaction against the supposed ambushers.

[joertexas]

Not that Prerna is in a position to plan anything, but this might be a good time to take down the pirate vessels, as well as thin out the crews.

[joertexas]

Not that Prerna is in a position to plan anything, but this might be a good time to take down the pirate vessels, as well as thin out the crews.

Reiterating this...

[The Bindoner]

Not that Prerna is in a position to plan anything, but this might be a good time to take down the pirate vessels, as well as thin out the crews.

Reiterating this...

Two votes

[joertexas]

Not that Prerna is in a position to plan anything, but this might be a good time to take down the pirate vessels, as well as thin out the crews.

Reiterating this...

Two votes

Wow, it's been almost three months since I first brought this up...

[The Bindoner]

I wonder if we can still pull off the "hijack/clone their vehicle(s) and trojan-horse the pads" plan.

Might need Gaughan to intercept their evac flights.

[joertexas]

I wonder if we can still pull off the "hijack/clone their vehicle(s) and trojan-horse the pads" plan.

Might need Gaughan to intercept their evac flights.

We need to get Frank's input before we go too far..

[shaidar]

Apologies if I;m being denser than a neutron star, but why do we need to take out the pirates? I didn't think that was our mission.

[Tiglath]

Your "anti piracy" mission parameters are broad to allow as much scope for tactical interpretation as possible but as stated by Drace Keening are "Our needs are for a raid within one month to entirely destroy or put beyond use the pirate ground facilities on Avastan".

So, although you are technically/legally directed at the ground facilities, taking out the pirates (and Avastan infantry) who defend them is likely to be tactically sound (but not mandatory).

The other consideration for mercs is that starships are fabulously expensive and that repossessing / stealing them (by lawful piracy) is going to be a real money spinner. Another tactical "given" is that the ships can't fly without crews and must also become less defendable with less folk aboard.

Ref: Inchin: Endgame (page 66)
#1316 Post by Tiglath » Mon Apr 19, 2021 1:35 pm
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[shaidar]

Aha

But do we want to show our hand so quickly without having a chance to complete recon?

[Tiglath]

That's the catch!

It's a perhaps golden yet fleeting opportunity to deal with the pirate starships (which are effectively either super tanks or small forts in a military sense).

The key to having your cake and eating it will be not getting caught! Fortunately Avastan City is definitively not a law abiding place and the nation of Avastan itself is currently engaged in an (out of town) civil war. You also have ample evidence of warfare between the pirate bands.

As far as in game knowledge goes it seems a fair bet that Abyss has already taken significant crew casualties courtesy of the Red Angel.

[joertexas]

Aha

But do we want to show our hand so quickly without having a chance to complete recon?

That's why Frank gets paid the big bucks; to make decisions like this

[Tiglath]

The in play assets are:

the Clubbing crew currently in mufti equipped with sidearms and in two ground vehicles
Gaughan's rangers in their covert(ish) G Carrier (fully equipped and loaded for bear with LAW and two squad support weapons)
Freya's flight of dual purpose recon and comms drones with yet another about to enter the potential battlespace

Secure laser comms (weather permitting) and otherwise encrypted radio

...and very likely surprise!

[The Bindoner]

Well, the friendly approach I'd composed offline is obsolete now...

How many ISS ground-pounders are there around us, and how many departing civilians? I have a feeling things are about to get kinetic, so positioning Jess and Sugar to best advantage before that happens seems useful.

[joertexas]

Prerna did ask nicely, just for the record.

[Tiglath]

There's now only two left after one "firing event"...

One is near Kit and the other is within 10 metres of you all on the other flank.

As for civilians there's a dispersing crowd of standard punters and distinct "knots" of VIPs with bodyguards and at least one ship's crew heading for parked up vehicles (that you can see from your position on foot in the plaza).

[The Bindoner]

Prerna did ask nicely, just for the record.

You did.

Saved some money too.

[shaidar]

"I appreciate the call and the offer Colonel, I'll let my people know your people are around. I'm guessing then that it's not your people that have just opened up with an energy weapon against the imperial assets, but that you have eyes on? We have more people just arriving so we should be OK"

Prerna selects the commanders-only comm net. "Colonel, I recommend that we immediately assault the ships, while their crews are disorganized."

I'm all for this, even though as a player I'm not quite sure where to start.

It's a good job I told Jess to bring the ship seal busting explosives along, but to hide them as there not legal.

[joertexas]

I'm all for this, even though as a player I'm not quite sure where to start.

It's a good job I told Jess to bring the ship seal busting explosives along, but to hide them as there not legal.

This would be an on-the-fly operation, but we have the communications to pull it off, I think. We could use the Aslan, Gaughn's squad, and Kit's squad in their IFV to hit the ships.

I don't know where the rest of Prerna's squad is, nor where Jess's IFV is at the moment, but between them and whomever Voss can round up from the HQ element, we should be able to take out some of the ships.

The two things we need to verify are 1) the location of all of the ships, including the pirated one(s), and 2) where our people are, and what equipment/vehicles they have available.