Morgan Industries DECLARES WAR!

[Snoddasmannen]

War is expensive.... But it's what we do best.

Remember that the other factions will also lose some trade income from us, so it's not entirely unilateral.

An important thing to do is also to convince the G&A that this is a desperate counter-attack and not phase one in an invasion. We are trying to play weak, so that they will not jump in the war with the Morgans. Another way we intend to do this is to write about a fictional Morgan invasion of our territory in a special Phalanx issue.

[Modo44]

Originally posted by Snoddasmannen
An important thing to do is also to convince the G&A that this is a desperate counter-attack and not phase one in an invasion. We are trying to play weak, so that they will not jump in the war with the Morgans. Another way we intend to do this is to write about a fictional Morgan invasion of our territory in a special Phalanx issue.

Good idea. Our initial attack will halt fairly soon, so the desperation will be sooo obvious. I don't think we should write about a fictional attack. Just describing the fact from our oh-so-weak perspective should do the trick. It's almost as if Morgan planned to help us with this.

[Snoddasmannen]

Just a thought here, isn't it ridiculously expensive to mind control bases with SP's in them? Assuming it is, and the Morgans can't afford it at the time we invade (Like Kass said, having a huge amount of cash in their reserves is probably not part of their war plans). If we capture MI, can we rush-build a colony pod, disbanding the base, not suffering the atrocity crime? We could even disband a rover to make hurrying the cp cheaper.

They'll have time to probe-steal a few techs perhaps ...

[Modo44]

Originally posted by Snoddasmannen
They'll have time to probe-steal a few techs perhaps ...

Which is why we can't keep bases, unless Crypteia are going along. We still have very valuable technology, and it would be foolish to lose it, just because of relatively few energy credits.

[Kassiopeia]

Even more importantly, we mustn't get infiltrated. Apart from our military machine, it's our greatest asset against them, or any human faction for that matter. We're flying with our eyes open, they are blind.

[Snoddasmannen]

You guys are right of course, infiltration would be a disaster, as would losing techs like HEC or SFF.

I was just thinking about this whole ordeal, what a way to behave ... First we kill one of their probe teams and infiltrate them, rather minor incident. They in return mind control one of our laser foils, a rather minor incident. As payback for that, we obliterate their capital, along with the Planetary Transit System, as well as completely destroying another one of their bases. I would say that is a major incident And I seriously doubt they are prepared for it.

[Kassiopeia]

It is a huge rate of escalation. I wonder what would be the appropriate response from the Morganites? A swarm of PBs that leave Sparta mainland a desolate wasteland?

[Modo44]

Originally posted by Kassiopeia
It is a huge rate of escalation. I wonder what would be the appropriate response from the Morganites? A swarm of PBs that leave Sparta mainland a desolate wasteland?

Sure. Only thing is, there will be no Morgan to use PBs.

[Googlie]

S:

Can't get the e-mail addy to work, so have hung the raw logs here

G.

[Googlie]

It's absolutely pissing down rain here in the southern California desert, so I'll set up the simulator so that we can all play at invading Morgan and obliterating the PTS

[Snoddasmannen]

Well I made a little script to parse the dang logs, took me much longer than it should have. I even felt compelled to ad an automatic listing of existing logs, which I ripped from another thing I made so it looks awful But here you go:

http://www2.onyx.nu/pb/chatter/chatter.php

It won't automatically upload anything you convert, though I can add that later, currently it just converts the raw chat log to some primitive html.

[Googlie]

Here it is - open it as a "load Game" and just head 3 tiles east with the Mercury and then you're in Mussels Bay and ready to unload

(Defenders in place are as at 2154 - of course there may be more resitance in 2158)

[Googlie]

Good work, Snoddasmannen

(re the sim raid - the crawler I referred to in the chat is actually by another base - it seems to be clear sailing (driving) for MI after we shut down Morgan Mussels.

And we have lots of mps left with a couple of rovers - we could do serious damage at the rgi base as well before exiting - or 2 rovers could reboard the Mercury that same turn, out of harms way

Just experiment and see the art of the possible

[Snoddasmannen]

Great work Googlie! Wish I had SMAX so I could play with it ...

I'm glad we have some extra MP's, we might need them to destroy the beefed up defenses.

Is it possible to extend the raid to an additional turn? It will be impossible for them to fortify all the cities adjacent to our forces.

[Snoddasmannen]

Kass, how are you doing with the diplomacy efforts in this war, have you had time to send out any offical statements to the other factions?