Aland and Olympia

[Val]

It was planned to move a litle task force in Cambridge. As inRP the system wasn't really defended, the plan consisted in distract the Bretonians and force them to bring back a part of their forces in the system. The RP made previously was only the first step and we couldn't have the time to do more, as Aland has fallen today.

[pulha]

It was planned to move a litle task force in Cambridge. As inRP the system wasn't really defended, the plan consisted in distract the Bretonians and force them to bring back a part of their forces in the system. The RP made previously was only the first step and we couldn't have the time to do more, as Aland has fallen today.

ofc there wasn't time, this all move was made to prevent any RP to happen, there was lots of stuff going on, lots of RP getting built to make move into Cambridge from different factions, that's the main reason why this was made this fast.

[Grumblesaur]

The surviving Clydesdale freighters rammed targeted weak points on the station and began welding open an entry. Several marine fire-teams succeeded in taking command of the Aland’s control center, the other marine teams storming the life support facilities, dispersing sleeping gas into the atmosphere of the station through the emergency sprinkler system. Station lockdown prevented retaliation and compartmentalized the workers into different parts of the station..

This is lunacy. Freighters ramming into a large, heavy space station should have destroyed the freighters at a low speed and freighters and the station at high speed. Ships might kind of bounce off each other in-game, but if you're aiming for any kind of verisimilitude with the story here, it's really not likely that this would work out. The concept of this being "as non-lethal as possible" is roughly on par with railgunning an office building hoping to knock out their wi-fi and nothing else.

Also, if station lockdown prevented retaliation, it should also have prevented invasion in the first place. That's the whole point of a lockdown.

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[Thyrzul]

Is it just me, or did everyone really forget that Bretonia went on to expand towards the Omegas because of Gallia's push on them? I've Ctrl+F-ed my way through over seven pages of this thread looking for "GRN", "Gallic", "Gallia" and the context around them, and not once I've found anyone pointing out that it's the Gallic Royal Navy currently besieging the capital of Bretonia, New London, it's the GRN threatening the very existence of Bretonians, with Southampton destroying the last shipyard accessible from New London (Liberty, Coronado and Newcastle are cut off at this point).

Of course it's a lot more convenient to condemn Bretonia than to have a look at the bigger picture.

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[Vendetta]

Is it just me, or did everyone really forget that Bretonia went on to expand towards the Omegas because of Gallia's push on them? I've Ctrl+F-ed my way through over seven pages of this thread looking for "GRN", "Gallic", "Gallia" and the context around them, and not once I've found anyone pointing out that it's the Gallic Royal Navy currently besieging the capital of Bretonia, New London, it's the GRN threatening the very existence of Bretonians, with Southampton destroying the last shipyard accessible from New London (Liberty, Coronado and Newcastle are cut off at this point).

Of course it's a lot more convenient to condemn Bretonia than to have a look at the bigger picture.

We looked at the bigger picture. For about six hours the other day, actually. Proposed options which - apparently just ended up used on the miners through the magic of retcon anyway.

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[Enkidu]

I would have done the same if I ran Bretonia. As for how it ended, Bretonia didn't have control over that.

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[Lythrilux]

Is it just me, or did everyone really forget that Bretonia went on to expand towards the Omegas because of Gallia's push on them? I've Ctrl+F-ed my way through over seven pages of this thread looking for "GRN", "Gallic", "Gallia" and the context around them, and not once I've found anyone pointing out that it's the Gallic Royal Navy currently besieging the capital of Bretonia, New London, it's the GRN threatening the very existence of Bretonians, with Southampton destroying the last shipyard accessible from New London (Liberty, Coronado and Newcastle are cut off at this point).

Of course it's a lot more convenient to condemn Bretonia than to have a look at the bigger picture.

Bretonian playerbase is being used as the target for people to vent their forced story frustrations on, that's why they're seen as the villians here. In big moments like this, there's a definitely an ooRP element. It's just this one reached more dramatic heights than others.

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[Promotheus]

Bretonian playerbase is being used as the target for people to vent their forced story frustrations on, that's why they're seen as the villians here. In big moments like this, there's a definitely an ooRP element. It's just this one reached more dramatic heights than others.

Eh, I don't agree with you on that one, Bretonia had alternatives, even had one spoonfed by IMGs counterproposal. Their ships now have a very long route to take to get fixed during which they'll no doubt get ambushed by multiple people. Expansion into the Omega's during a losing war is not a winning strategy in my book, admitively, that's my opinion and I'm by no means a tactician, but fighting on multiple fronts when you're already losing and alienating several factions that could've helped you in the proces against Galia seems like a bad move.

That said, I think most people are riled up over the execution of this particular story progression. Undead commander Xander rising from the grave with the Olympia, taking Aland by storm by letting freighter ships ram into a heavily fortified station, breaching it and using sleeping gas..in a sprinkler system? Which worked fast enough to stop anyo-well, you get the point, I'm sure you're no fan of it either.

[Enkidu]

Bretonian playerbase is being used as the target for people to vent their forced story frustrations on, that's why they're seen as the villians here. In big moments like this, there's a definitely an ooRP element. It's just this one reached more dramatic heights than others.

It's really interesting how this flipped the convention that the Gallic Royal Navy (MRG) was the most disliked faction and Bretonia was the underdog everyone was rooting for.

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[WesternPeregrine]

Kind of reminds of the tales of Bretonia trying to expand into the Taus, and getting opposed by others... so I've heard.

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