Is military confidence a projection of how well they expect to do in combat, or something bigger and fuzzier like general morale? I took it to be the latter, but I could be wrong.
Will be. It won't be the core armor pieces, but it will be there for a lot of the secondary and tertiary areas. Even for a four legged vehicle, it is a good idea to cut some weight somewhere, and especially high up.
It's the Admirals and Generals taking a look at what we're generally asking them to do, the supplies and equipment they have compared to their NOD intel and then giving us a general idea of what we can expect. So basically the Ground Forces High Command is as close to absolutely certain as they can be given the vagaries of war that they can kick NOD's pasty white ass up and down the block and steal their lunch money.
The current conflict isn't likely to last very long. It starts a few weeks after the start of the turn and Nod is explicitly noted as basically spent for now if we push hard enough. Not that we have much to deploy beyond Apollo fighters, railgun harvesters (which I do 2 factories of) and OSRCT which may have a long spin-up time for future phases.
Is there reason to be certain that an offensive would go well? We don't know why Nod is choosing now, or what they might have under their hat. (The enemy gets a vote, as the saying goes.)
It's more the former. It's the impression we get by talking to the generals, not to the grunts. Now, morale is a part of that, but so is simple sincere calculation in the odds that branch of the military has of accomplishing its likely goals.
It's what they want most because it's a huge deal, but that doesn't mean they expect to underperform without it.
I think it best to finish Reykjavik Phase 4 first, because we DO want the bonus in hopes of getting cheaper Zone Armor factories and we could definitely use the Capital Goods. I for one intend to make the Bergen superconductor plant the next 'flagship' Light Industry project after that, even if we can't afford to throw all five dice at it on a single turn most of the time.
We rolled a natural 100 on a random event roll for something like "GDI intelligence-gathering on the impending Nod invasion plan."
Nod is choosing now because the Yellow Zones are shrinking and every mile they push us back is another mile for them to spread out a bit. It's also more territory they aren't immediately losing to the Red Zones pushing against them. The two biggest reasons for their push are because they'e being squeezed between us and the Red Zones and we're the only one of those that might get pushed back, but they are also jockeying for position for when Kane returns. The biggest and/or best performing warlord will get handed the keys to the proverbial kingdom as Kanes right hand with the others falling in behind them.
Have a look at my plans just below Simons. My plans are extremely similar to Simons despite being done separately. I do Tactical Lasers and GZ intensification.
I'd rather not, in the interests of being able to follow up with a second phase of Yellow Zone Harvesting easily next turn, along with two phases of Green Zone Intensification once we have a bigger Green Zone to intensify in.
It is, very nice. You forgot to update the dice you're spending on Yellow Zone Tiberium Harvesting, says 5 but I think it's 4 since you're spending 7 total in Tib. I'd also suggest doing the same thing Simon is and use the Admin die on Emergency Electronic Resources Reallocation since that isn't rolling dice at all, so you can reassign that Free die to Plasma and guarantee it.
Thank you for spotting that, the error has been corrected and the admin die has been shifted around.
might I ask why you oppose orbital cleanup? Or is this simply your desire to get GDI entirely into space as quickly as possible?
As far as I see it we can spam out orbital cleanup quickly next plan when money is tight and dice are available. There is nothing cleanup would unlock right now that would fit into our tight orbital schedule anyway.
