You know, Reynaldo's done despicable things but I can't help but feel some compassion.
If nothing else because he was willing to court a horrible death,
personally.
To note we still can research Accelerated Spikes it would just be unpopular, and we have done unpopular projects before. I have no doubt that Nod would love the Accelerated Spikes, it gives an econ boost. Why we are not going for such is because it spreads tiberium and we don't know how much it would increase our Resources. If it bumped our RpT up by ~100 it might very well be worth it but it could be as low as ~10, we just don't know enough about the gains of such.
@Ithillid can you give us a rough idea of the RpT increase if we get Accelerated Spikes?
I'm pretty sure the answer is much like the answer to the question "how much Energy will we get from building tiberium power plants?"
Namely: "By as much as can be, depending on just how many of the things we build, subject to the constraint that our citizenry will hate the idea and that the more of it we do, the more likely they are to demand our resignation or, in extremis, our head on a pole."
heck yeah caravanesi getting it done
also I'm glad Reynaldo peaced out since now we don't need to worry about him sabotaging something important for a while.
I mean.
The guy's smart and competent- even Kane thinks so.
Kane's probably got a use for him, and we may very well not like the use he's put to.
Ah, does this mean Reynaldo is top of the list when it comes to running Nod as Kane's right hand?
It's probably grossly premature to predict that.
Reynaldo's just proven his personal love and loyalty for Kane beyond any shadow of a doubt, at the price of putting aside whatever power base he has left and admitting personal defeat.
That's a potent combination of pluses and minuses. Maybe that's what Kane wants for his right-hand man. Then again, maybe Kane will simply make Reynaldo a lesser general within the inner circle, or do something else.
I doubt it, they'd have to take down ASAT first and while we haven't finished upgrading that yet it's still a significantly harder target to take down than it was the first time. We have control stations for it in orbit.
It should be noted that Kane might have the means to strike at the
Philadelphia while bypassing ASAT.
Say, cloaked spacecraft, or a teleporter.
Lol, I never would have thought that the first knocked out warlord would be Reynaldo, and not Gideon / Atomic Shah
Gideon has territorial depth and a lot of resources; he's the big Nod boss of an entire continent. We like to mock him and we've defeated his assault forces several times, but that doesn't mean he's a weakling. If nothing else, consider the implication of the fact that he's been able to raise (and lose, and replace) armies against us 2-3 times in the space of about five years. He's nowhere near being defeated by sheer force, though it's conceivable that if he loses enough times he'll die of Nod politics. Unlikely, though, unless Kane intervenes, because Nod politics is his strength. He's a great example of how in many cases, you don't have to
win to stay in a war, you just have to have the willpower to keep fighting and the ability to inspire continued willingness to fight for you.
The Atomic Shah? Al-Isfahani? I don't think we've ever taken a shot at him, and he seems to be pretty canny about taking shots at us only under special circumstances. At the rate we were going, the only thing likely to knock
him out was old age.
But Reynaldo? Very little territory left, no real heavy metal at his disposal. Was
always the runt of the litter, first compared to his rivals in Europe and then later to his rivals on other continents. The main reason he's even on our radar is because of that shit he pulled off against our glacier mining back in... '54, I believe it was?
Him toppling isn't a big surprise.
Yes. That is the question, isn't it? What if Kane just fucks off and doesn't give us the TCN... /doomer
Then we go to Plan B and evacuate as much of the population as we can into space before the tib gets out of hand.
[shrug]
