War Is Coming: what do we do about it?

[rendelnep]

Well now we got the important issues sorted what about our propaganda machine - Democracy games are nothing without them and as we expect war it would be appropiate to have some speeches ready before the inevitable war of words.
What should we do? mooning is one option, what else?

[lmtoops]

Mooning is as sophisticated as I get.

[redstar1]

We need to start a program of denial...

"There are no weapons here..."

"We are crushing the GS forces on the beaches!" (As a GS tank drives past in the background)

[rendelnep]

So we are going to play 'al sharaf'.
History shows us to be a isolationist country that is percieved to be ruled by a small elite group, an oligarchy.
Nobody really knows anything about our culture, including us I believe.
We are known to be traders, supposibly benevolent (proven by the amensty given to Vox), and that we are peaceful but ocassionally meddle on the world stage. This in turn makes us seem slightly manipulative and selfserving eg: ' they only let vox on their land to serve as a vassal state"

Now i don't know how the war is going to pan out but I propose we play the evil team who have been plotting all this time to unleash some HUGE master plan and not nesscarily the space shipl. So once GS or GOW or even ND attacks we unleash our mighty fury and become utterly merciless against our opponents- attacking us will be like open the pandoras box - without the hope.

[Tiberius]

This sounds good! I wish it was true *sigh*

[vondrack]

Yeah, wishful thinking... not sure if others would buy it though...

[rendelnep]

we could buy the armies of evil on credit

[Tiberius]

Where do you think they will land?

One possibility (if they don't try the Vox thing) is the on the coal mountain W of Invoice, threatening Invoice and Panama Vox in the same time. Having Invoice or Panama Vox would allow them access to our inner sea (Panama Bay or whatever the name is), which would be extremly bad for us (especially if GoW tries a stunt with Port Hammer or Castlea). So I'd certainly fortify something on that mountain (and build a fortress).

Coming from E or N would be too much of a detour (too many turns to reach us)

They will probably kill 3 or 4 of our pickets first, to make us "blind". Hopefully we will have some backup navy in place until then.

[Kloreep]

The coal mountain wouldn't give them access to Panama Vox because of the hills. But it would put them in Tank range of Invoice.

Considering the far south and north are where our pickets get stretched a little thin, I think those extremes are probably a good bet.

[rendelnep]

well with 30 tanks at least , I don't think they'll worry where they land. Especially if they don't know much about our terrain. ASll though I would try and attack where it hurts the most and probably veer towards the capital.

[Tiberius]

True about Panama Vox. However they could land the biggest stack on the mountain, and a smaller stack on the nearby hill. Nevertheless, Invoice would be much better for them than Panama Vox.

As for the far south and north: our north is just too far for GS. It'd take more than 10 turns for them to get there, I think. They could try the south, I agree, but they don't win so much attacking there, especially strategically speaking. Invoice is just so much more closer for their reinforcements.

[Tiberius]

Don't you think that there are a bit too many GoW destroyers in the east? A simple picket network would not justify so many destroyers.
Better keep an eye on them.

[ZargonX]

We have received the save and we will keep it a while I guess. There are certain reasons for the delay I hope it won't last long.

Darekill posted that in the main forum. Shall we let the wild speculation begin?

[vondrack]

Whatever seems or will seem to be going on, I am not going to believe ND is the target until they start losing their core cities.

At first, I thought ND could have perceived our transports moving out from Crossing last turn as a threat - but they are too far from their territory. So it's probably not it. Must be something else.

[ZargonX]

Wow... you know what would be incredibly sneaky? If they faked a war with ND, then had ND beg us for assistance, and once we made a move to help out, all three hit us at once.

Of course, the counter to that is that they may actually target ND because we don't have tanks yet. What would we really do to help out ND? Send a bunch of infantry over, sacrificing our own security?