"No," Rao says again. "The original document slated a number of ships for garrison and other backline duty, for various minor points they expected to capture swiftly on their way here. The same as their Iapetus attack fleet. If I had to make a guess, I suspect that they pulled all of those in and consolidated them back into the fleet."
"Even if they win, they won't have any supply lines to speak of, then," Sikes noted. "Not even what little they might have had. An insane gambit, but almost understandable, if they had word that the other major prong of the invasion has already failed."
actually, it was the right move.
if they win here they just
win. Their foes will have their beating heart torn out, facing both utterly untenable strategic losses, and the near-total destruction of their fleets. Sure survivors
might roll up their supply lines immediately after, but well, so what? I'm assuming supplies are still coming in, so they can just hole up somewhere until the next shipment from Jupiter makes it, or failing that loot and pillage smaller orbitals to supply smashing the last few holdouts, or just punch through the remanants and leave. if they
lose here those extra ships are fucked anyways, just maybe in a position to be able to retreat while burning some stuff down.
On a grand strategic scale, the cost is low, ships that would not change the ultimate outcome one way or the other. Sure it makes both a win or a lose blooier, but it's not like those ships would be needed in they win, or enough to really matter if they lose.
[ ] The Inner Fleet defenders rally at the appearance of reinforcements
morale is important, but we have a material disadvantage so I think its more important to spoke the enemies wheels.
[ ] Mosi's intelligence allows the Outer Fleet to eliminate several key targets early on
would you mind explaning what this would mean? like, we got their flagship or we wiped out a class of ship their plans needed?
[ ] The enemy formation is becoming scattered and stretched thin in trying to respond to the Outer Fleet
hmm, this one looks tempting. It speaks of the enemy being vulnerable but still able to hurt us. We probably want to take this if we don't maul the rose, since I suspect it would be able to take advantage of the enemies fucked up sensor nets to do a thing.
[ ] Population centres on Titan's surface take serious damage
I'm leaning no on this, because i'm aiming for a strategic win rather than the draw driving them off but taking heavy pop or industry damage would be.
[ ] Someone you care for is lost
not really sure who we'd lose, no one had any big death flags, but probably not one of the new pilots. their not really
close to us.
[ ] The Rose is severely damaged
If this was at the end of the fight this would be an easy pick. But the fight is ongoing, and I'd put the rose as more useful than any
one mech, so this would do the most damage to our ability to mitigate further harm.
I'm leaning towards characer death.
