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I hear you on that, Quantum. Thing is, that's more a problem with the quality of players who choose Gallic factions, not the actual developments themselves.
If you think about it, the GRN is basically a Xeno ID with access to battleships, so I guess it's not really surprising that the sort of people you dislike are attracted to it. :lol:
As someone who's mucked with system editing, I've a suggestion to how one could change the mod through successive small changes to enact such a plan with a minimum of labor.
Take Leeds as is.
Design in the first layer of changes, say, rings of minefields around the Tau 31 gate and around Leeds.
Save the file, as, say, Leeds week 1
working with Leeds week 1:
Destroy a base. Add a wreck or a few to the system, move a Gallic BS into the system, add patrols
Save as Leeds week 2
Working with leeds week 2:
Wreck some tradelanes, add more wrecks, move the Gallic BS closer to the front lines, add in some Bretonian BS (say, bs being pulled back from newcastle)
Save as week 3
Working on week 3:
Finalize the system, destroy things, litter it with wrecks, etc. Add/change patrols
Save as week 4
Flhook can be used to conquer bases, so that takes that step out of it. All you have to do is a little bit of cosmetic work to a system each week (and, maybe, have some overlap when the front moves into multiple systems) But the point is, little changes saved at intervals during a single hours long overhaul, such that you can roll out the takeover in an elapsed time manner.
If they are getting hammered so hard that they are down to their last core worlds, and still slowly losing, they will need to try anything. Contact the Mollys, contact the Outcasts, hell, contact Kusari if you have to. Get anyone you can - Sirius in general doesn't like Gallia. If Bretonia screams about how bad it will be when there is no Bretonia left and the Valors start rolling into Liberty and he Omegas, somebody might start to listen.
I see a problem on the horizon and it's sailing under storyline update colors. We know nothing about what's going to be in the .87 and when it will be done. That makes small updates hard to time.
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' Wrote:There are other options for Bretonia.
If they are getting hammered so hard that they are down to their last core worlds, and still slowly losing, they will need to try anything. Contact the Mollys, contact the Outcasts, hell, contact Kusari if you have to. Get anyone you can - Sirius in general doesn't like Gallia. If Bretonia screams about how bad it will be when there is no Bretonia left and the Valors start rolling into Liberty and he Omegas, somebody might start to listen.
Rheinland and Kusari are at peace with Gallia and actively trading with them.
The Ronin are too small to really globally influence anything.
Liberty will already be fighting in Manchester and probably Magellan, to try and break through / hold the line.
The Mollys already have a love/hate relationship with the BAF and will be fighting any GRN they encounter anyway.
The Outcasts are busy in the Taus, dealing with the GRN there.
Then you factor in the Corsairs, who will probably use this as an opportunity to pour into Cambridge (so long as the Hessians don't stop them, which they possibly could, considering the Corsairs have refocused on Omega 47 and 49) and Dublin through Omega 49.
Jamez, I'm pretty sure its going to be Liberty riding to the rescue. Molly's may be borderline helpful in making Dublin a hellhole for whomever tries to claim it, and rhienland might possibly pitch in. Kusari right now is cowering behind the shadow of Gallia, the Outcasts are trying pretty hard to make inroads into Gallia.
so the picture's not so grim as Bretonia getting wiped out. World War style bombardments across two solar systems, sure...but whole nations did endure such things and get back up on their feet...in Europe, twice in 50 years. Sure, rebuilding will take a while, and yes, I do expect Bretonian space to look pretty barren after the war. It should.
' Wrote:Rheinland and Kusari are at peace with Gallia and actively trading with them.
The Ronin are too small to really globally influence anything.
Liberty will already be fighting in Manchester and probably Magellan, to try and break through / hold the line.
The Mollys already have a love/hate relationship with the BAF and will be fighting any GRN they encounter anyway.
The Outcasts are busy in the Taus, dealing with the GRN there.
Then you factor in the Corsairs, who will probably use this as an opportunity to pour into Cambridge (so long as the Hessians don't stop them, which they possibly could, considering the Corsairs have refocused on Omega 47 and 49) and Dublin through Omega 49.
Wow.. You guys are boned. *salutes*
You have a crippled military, a tiny squad of angry Kusari pilots and the mollies against a wall of Valors.
' Wrote:I respectfully disagree. The war above sounded very rapid - almost blitzkrieg level of speed - and in that sort of war you need to press an advantage and rush forward before the enemy has a chance to establish defences. A fort such as planet Leeds would have little offensive capabilities and could be crushed in an offensive entirely separate from the one happening in space.
Mm, you may be right. However, consider the fact that Leeds has been being developing into a fortress world for awhile now, what with Kusari edging closer. They're digging in for a long siege, and in an era of orbital bombardment it'd be impossible to defend a planet with primarily ground/atmospheric forces. Planet Leeds most likely has a sizable stockpile of snubcraft and munitions, maybe even some larger ships (gunboats, maybe), and would be capable of striking out against an unwary opponent.
Gallia obviously has the military resources and manpower to push hard and fast, but if they push past Leeds too quickly I think they might find themselves paying for it. A wise, cautious admiral would probably realize this, but since Gallia seems to be riding high on firepower and hubris, they might not.
30:120 battleship ratio pouring down our gullet. something like 1:10 cruisers...etc. only thing we're on evenish terms with is snub fighters. Course, here's the bowex players asking for it, too. Cause the proper and rightful Bretonia getting boned didn't happen.. =(
Course, I'd not call our military crippled. We were supposedly getting ready to shove Kusari out..
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