Attempting to Fulfill the Plan: GDI Edition
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
...Wow. Putting the airborne lasers in seems to have been really popular.
staplesdex2
CLASSFIED
It's Lasers. What do you expect?
[X] Plan Putting the foot down with guaranteed fortresses
[X] Plan Paladins Healing Hands
[X] Plan Rails To The Front
[X] Plan Probably Won't Be Home By Christmas, Shuttle Version
[X] Plan Nuuk and Deployment Prep
Approval voting the plans I like and those I can live with.
Escort Carrier + Frigate + Wingman Drones are must haves, Prototype Plasma seems like a slap-in upgrade and a little advance investment into Power seems reasonable as well.
I think Suborbital Shuttles are important to mitigate the isolation of the Himalayas, even though it wont come close to replacing the cut railways, but I can live with putting them off until next turn since we are getting the jump on the Brotherhood for once.
[X] Plan Paladins Healing Hands
[X] Plan Rails To The Front
[X] Plan Probably Won't Be Home By Christmas, Shuttle Version
[X] Plan Nuuk and Deployment Prep
Approval voting the plans I like and those I can live with.
Escort Carrier + Frigate + Wingman Drones are must haves, Prototype Plasma seems like a slap-in upgrade and a little advance investment into Power seems reasonable as well.
I think Suborbital Shuttles are important to mitigate the isolation of the Himalayas, even though it wont come close to replacing the cut railways, but I can live with putting them off until next turn since we are getting the jump on the Brotherhood for once.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] Plan Nuuk and Deployment Prep
[X] Plan Rails to the Front
[X] Plan Rails to the Front
TortugaGreen
Constantly out of the loop
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I mean yes, but then we'd have to figure out mass chronosphere construction, and we all know how much of a slog that'd be.
Algalon
Herald of the Titans
- Location
- Celestial Planetarium
Haven't been paying much attention recently, but it seems the Karachi Dash idea is dead? None of the plans seem to go for the planned city.
This surprises me, considering the enthusiasm it had in the past.
Was there some big revelation or what happened to change the consensus so quickly?
Would greatly appreciate it if somebody could drop a short summary so I know where to start.
This surprises me, considering the enthusiasm it had in the past.
Was there some big revelation or what happened to change the consensus so quickly?
Would greatly appreciate it if somebody could drop a short summary so I know where to start.
- Location
- The Underdark
You rolled a nat 100 and discovered the timing of a general Brotherhood offensive that just so happened (actual coincidence, the date locked in weeks before the first mention of Karachi sprint as a plan) to fall on the same dates as a planned Karachi sprint.
When was this?
Chimeraguard
We do deserve to exist.
Just last turn.
trooperist
Cinnamon Roll AI
Multiple military branches did tell us the Karachi sprint was a totally viable military strategy and encouraged us to go for it.
But then we backed down because I think it was the risk to the navy and our shipping was too much and we would get better results from a preemptive offensive.
But then we backed down because I think it was the risk to the navy and our shipping was too much and we would get better results from a preemptive offensive.
BoSPaladin
The Paladin
In fairness. If nod wasn't about to launch major worldwide attack 'right now' we might have still gone for karachi.
It's just... Just as navy is a barrier to us for logistics to karachi. theoretically it's a barrier for nod to get stuff from karachi too. So, in this instance, opening up another front in nods back yard potentially makes it easier for nod india to hit us. whereas otherwise they'd have miles of desert/ ocean to cross to attack GDI's holdings in the middle east.
- Location
- Queensland, Australia
Because it's not going to happen anywhere like that... What would have happened if we didn't learn of the offensive until it started? How likely is it that Nod has learned we planned to do the Karachi Sprint?
Because all of a sudden I'm picturing the Nod Offensive starting... Right as the Karachi Sprint starts, with neither side having prepared for the other to do it. It's some rather glorious chaos and explosions occurring...
Durabys
Miaow! Break the Chains!
- Location
- the land of the Boii
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Basically this happening to us and Nod in such a scenario.
All the while, Kane is busy facepalming in the background and mumbling 'stupid monkeys are stupid'.
- Pronouns
- He/It/Argh!
We had intel around the start of this plan that war was around 2 years away. So we knew it was coming anyway. The new intel is just an exact date.
- Location
- Queensland, Australia
Yeah, but there's a big difference between knowing that a war should be happening between this month of this year, and that month of that year compared to learning that Nod just began widespread offensives globally as you see the first wave of troops hit the beaches at Karachi.
Can you explain your reasoning why your going for railgun marvs over green zone intensification? And why specifically those railgun marv factories?
Green zone intensification would enhance all of the combat zones and grant us further income per turn. On top of giving us more abatement. It also would only need one die.
Meanwhile some few harvesters in select areas would get railguns, before we complete the railgun research?
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- Location
- Queensland, Australia
If I had to guess, it's for two reasons. One, I think they are in our South African and Arabia Blue Zones. Which, after the Himalayan Blue Zone are two of the more vulnerable Blue Zones due to distance from support and proximity to very dangerous Nod Warlords which we haven't taken precautions against or recently attacked. The second reason being that they're the two which would beat support the push for Karachi which we need to start next year if we don't do it this year. It IS a Plan Goal after all, and we seem to have a strong enough military that we shouldn't need to drop plan goals due to them being impossible. Unless the war is managed with complete incompetance or WE mess up by not leaving enough time in the plan to achieve the goals. And do you think they'd let us lower the goals if it's our incompetance stopping us from reaching them?
- Location
- Outside the Box
- Pronouns
- She/Her
It's the only adjustment anyone's made to their plan. There have been no new plan variants, and no other plan makers proposing changes. And there hasn't been any big complaints against your plan, either. So in addition to previously having a decent lead, your plan and the discussion around it has been the only really visible plan talked about for the last however-many pages. If one of the other plan makers had been more engaged yesteray, or if more people advocated for those plans over yours, there would likely be more competition in votes currently.
It's probably a budget restriction. Not activating a Tiberium die would be really bad, but the Railgun Harvester Factories are a way to activate Tiberium dice for only 10R each. A die or two on GZ Intensification would maybe be better but would require cutting spending elsewhere. (Also, they're normal harvesters, not MARVs.)
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GZ Intensification is for later.
To me, our best use of Tib dice this turn is a full on investment in YZ Harvesting, to get GDI's military the best position it can to strike out and overrun Nod's jumping off points before Nod starts operations, crippling Nod's ability to initiate its own operations by a rather substantial margin and wrecking its plans.
I'll accept railgun harvesters because they mean we can do with smaller security details for harvesting operations, but, well, if I had to pick between more YZ harvesting or railgun harvesters, at this time I'd go for the former.
To me, our best use of Tib dice this turn is a full on investment in YZ Harvesting, to get GDI's military the best position it can to strike out and overrun Nod's jumping off points before Nod starts operations, crippling Nod's ability to initiate its own operations by a rather substantial margin and wrecking its plans.
I'll accept railgun harvesters because they mean we can do with smaller security details for harvesting operations, but, well, if I had to pick between more YZ harvesting or railgun harvesters, at this time I'd go for the former.
