Attempting to Fulfill the Plan: GDI Edition
Perhaps it is our first major offensive.
- Location
- New York
I wonder how we know that things will heat up next quarter in-universe? Did we capture Nod warlord plans for the big attack?
Perhaps that's the natural 100?
Time to switch to Verizon…
The Warlord sends us a formal declaration of attack, with a time and place attached. Very honorable.
On the plus side, at least we just squeezed by with getting the logistics cushion to probably survive a supply line rush. Had it been delayed any further we likely would have swiftly found ourselves unable to fight a war for very long…
Sailor_Skarro
The Lurker
Seo is now retroactively a military genius and nobody can prove otherwise.
Incorrect, we most definitely are still doing it, just going to REALLY do that, instead of short foot it, we won't be losing track on it.
That's still the plan. Karachi sprint is still going to feature in I suspect a majority of plans for next turn.
- Location
- Pennslyvania
- Pronouns
- She/They
I mean, this doesn't stop us from doing the Karachi Sprint. The military still thinks it's viable or we wouldn't even have the option, which from discord talk, we still do. And aggressively fortifying a Planned City right in Nod's relative heartland certainly won't be fun for them!
Sailor_Skarro
The Lurker
It's better to live in the timeline where we suckerpunch NOD first with Karachi and then dodge/parry their dog pile.
ConfusedCanuck
Where did it all go wrong?
- Location
- Neverland
Is it possible for once that GDI will trigger the 4th Tib war and not NOD? By us attacking them for a change?
- Location
- USA
I would wait until we get the turn results and full information on what the war going hot means before going Y/N on the sprint
Whether we still go for Karachi in Q1 2060 or not depends on the actual fully fleshed out results of this turn IMO. If the Joint Chiefs want us to put all our Tib dice into worldwide YZ spoiling offensives or something then we'll do that instead and bump Karachi back to '61. It really heavily depends on just what intel we got leaked and how specific it is, so I don't want to commit to any course of action yet. My personal gut feeling is that a worldwide set of spoiling attacks in 2060 to make NOD start off the war on the back foot is the better move, followed by landings in Karachi in '61 as the momentum turns in our favor and we want to start pushing deep into NOD's core territory, not just chase them away from our borders.
But again, depends entirely on what the results actually say, so let's not get ahead of ourselves.
But again, depends entirely on what the results actually say, so let's not get ahead of ourselves.
If Nod still plans to open with a masterstroke, it may not involve an attack on our orbital assets, and especially not Philadelphia. A nuclear strike on Chicago might make more sense, though I'm not sure if any warlord is capable of this, even with a Tiberium economy. I suspect the stolen fusion designs were used in Project Varyag.
- Location
- USA
If it's going hot next turn what should we put military dice into?
Plasma, lasers, wingmen, stealth disrupters, hallucinogen defense?
Would any development make a difference at that point?
Plasma, lasers, wingmen, stealth disrupters, hallucinogen defense?
Would any development make a difference at that point?
- Pronouns
- He/It/Argh!
Militarised Refrigeration.
Karachi Sprint aside, I've been looking at some of our other options that could potentially be useful for the upcoming war.
I'm pretty happy all those military options completed this turn.
(Also, wow, the Havoc Mechs are going to finish auto-deploying just in time. How crazy lucky is that?)
We could go hard at this, which looks like it'd be quite useful for the war and is already prepared for deployment.
This seems like a must-have, and something to dump dice into if we don't have any other great options.
This could, potentially, provide some small bonus for our ground forces on a ready-to-deploy level. Don't know if we could finish it in time though.
Could be smart, and it's real cheap in both dice and resources. Would overflow pour into the deployment of said countermeasures?
Real cheap, could provide a huge benefit to all of our ground force… maybe; but we'd have to develop and deploy. Same question about overflow.
We'll probably really need this for serious warfare, whether we want to or not. Same question about whether overflow would work towards deployment.
@Ithillid Would picking this option remove our nuclear stockpiles from the reach of NOD, or do we not currently have a nuclear stockpile? I'm not quite sure.
I'm pretty happy all those military options completed this turn.
(Also, wow, the Havoc Mechs are going to finish auto-deploying just in time. How crazy lucky is that?)
We could go hard at this, which looks like it'd be quite useful for the war and is already prepared for deployment.
This seems like a must-have, and something to dump dice into if we don't have any other great options.
This could, potentially, provide some small bonus for our ground forces on a ready-to-deploy level. Don't know if we could finish it in time though.
Could be smart, and it's real cheap in both dice and resources. Would overflow pour into the deployment of said countermeasures?
Real cheap, could provide a huge benefit to all of our ground force… maybe; but we'd have to develop and deploy. Same question about overflow.
We'll probably really need this for serious warfare, whether we want to or not. Same question about whether overflow would work towards deployment.
@Ithillid Would picking this option remove our nuclear stockpiles from the reach of NOD, or do we not currently have a nuclear stockpile? I'm not quite sure.
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- Location
- his hidden lair
Well I suppose it's best to get started with a fumble than a bang on NOD's end. They must have really fucked up NOD has to just dive into TW4 to try and salvage something from the debacle.
As for Karachi, the sooner we can actually get GDI spooled up and on the offensive the better off we're going to be, given we've been twiddling our thumbs waiting for the conflict to escalate and that warlord's screw up- hopefully we can start launching major offensives sooner or later.
GDI canonically does have an existing nuclear stockpile- one arsenal was hijacked by NOD loyalists to fire on Qatarists and GDI cooperating to fight the Scrin in TW3. I would assume most of the stockpile still exists- I wouldn't be surprised if we expanded it given the threat of the Scrin.
As for other departments, we might want to begin work on Tiberium Vein Mines to raise our income without pushing into Nod territory, and Nuuk to provide Capital Goods. Orbital should probably keep pushing Regolith/Heavy Metals harvesting, or Enterprise, to improve its defenses and provide industrial capacity Nod can't easily strike. Agriculture should increase our Food reserves and develop Tarberries. In LCI, another phase of Reykjavik would decrease the cost of Zone Armor deployment so we could begin rolling it out quicker.
- Location
- USA
We dont have enough cap goods to do any of the dice boosts for Advanced EVA
- Location
- Washington DC
The dice gods gaze upon us with favor! I only had to declare a Grudge on the luck-thief (over in Dwarf Ranger Hold Quest), and the dice smiled down on us! A turn with a 56 average, a crit on the TGlass factory, and a nice little crit in the Random Events leading to a Noddie completely screwing the pooch!
Mind, our poor AI just blew it again, and our income roll was poor, but man, we kicked ass and took names this turn!
Conveniently, not only did we roll well, we didn't blow too much progress on overkill - though when we went hard on the logistics, we really went hard. Like, an average of 2 dice of overcommitment. Hoping we get either added benefit or a little rebate for that much overkill, but I'm not holding my breath. Much of the rest of our projects came right to the line and omake'd over, so we hit them dead on. Beautiful.
Ooh, then Darkandus nailed our Tib rolls, so we pushed back the vore rocks.
And while the IF party rolled stupidly well (grumble, grumble), so they aren't fading into insignificance just yet, politics seems to be just fine, with us able to build a broad coalition of our favored parties again without too much trouble.
On net, this turn covereth a multitude of sins, making up for probably two or three turns of bad rolls. Still puts us in the hole for the overall average, I think, but this is a very positive datapoint. Let's hope that trendline continues positive.
Mind, our poor AI just blew it again, and our income roll was poor, but man, we kicked ass and took names this turn!
Conveniently, not only did we roll well, we didn't blow too much progress on overkill - though when we went hard on the logistics, we really went hard. Like, an average of 2 dice of overcommitment. Hoping we get either added benefit or a little rebate for that much overkill, but I'm not holding my breath. Much of the rest of our projects came right to the line and omake'd over, so we hit them dead on. Beautiful.
Ooh, then Darkandus nailed our Tib rolls, so we pushed back the vore rocks.
And while the IF party rolled stupidly well (grumble, grumble), so they aren't fading into insignificance just yet, politics seems to be just fine, with us able to build a broad coalition of our favored parties again without too much trouble.
On net, this turn covereth a multitude of sins, making up for probably two or three turns of bad rolls. Still puts us in the hole for the overall average, I think, but this is a very positive datapoint. Let's hope that trendline continues positive.