Wargames are good Advent but we need to probably look at getting more war materials into the Reaches Armed Forces hands.
We have given them alot already and more importantly they have the rest of Royal Cache hidden. They are nowhere as weak as they are pretending to be. We also already have a Division of troops along their border that has been training and growing their local forces for years.
i dont really know the strenght of the mandate or other powers in our area,so i was based on the comparizons between our state and inner sphere forces,wich came down to ''cant sustain war for long with them even if there is certain technological advantages on niche areas''
The Mandate has next to no military aside from the Big Mac. Mechs are not the end all be all. And yes we can sustain a war dude. Unlike all the other powers our logistics aren't shot to shit or reliant on extremely limited jumpships. We have 900,000 people underarms in the ground forces alone. Of which 300,000 are direct combat troops. We have more Infantry, more Aerospace assets, and more AFV than anyone outside the Great Houses.
I am pretty sure the Taurian Armed Forces is still bigger than ours. For one they have 14 regiments of Mechs at this point. I haven't been able to find numbers for this time period for Infantry or armor but i am pretty sure they have more infantry than us, if only focused on garrison work, and some number of armored vehicles. The big advantage we have over them is Naval and Aerospace assets, were are the only ones creating anything remotely like warships, and are the only ones in the periphery that is making aerospace fighters.
Our formations are all bigger than any BT faction in everything but mechs. And the mechs don't matter because they are an ancillary unit not the main force of anything.
Uh, no. The Outworlds Alliance is the largest maker of ASFs in the Periphery. And the Taurians licensed the Seydlitz design from the Lyrans for manufacture within their borders.
The OWA has the best pilots not the biggest manufacturer. Their industry is more dilapidated than anyone not a pirate realm.
We have a sizable facility, especially for the limited manufacturing present in the Periphery, but we are not in the same realm as Hesperus. What we do have is sufficient naval power ready to deploy for an operation seize jumpships and cut down their dropship fleet.
No dude we have a sizable industry for any world in the IS. We are a fully industrialized, high tech, high standard power. Helghan alone is on par with greatest industrial world in the IS. Do you really think we could support a army of 17 million, warship and dropship construction, a civilian shipping industry, MAWLRs, high level research, and mega engineering projects if we didn't have the industrial might to match it?
And we have 1 battalion of mechs. 1/30th or so of the number the Taurians have. We don't have any information on the ratio of Taurian Mech to other Regiments, but what little information we do have would give them a military roughly 3 times our size, based on the one Great House who actually did get a "regiments other than mechs" number.
Mechs don't matter when we outnumber those mechs at better than 10 to 1 odds. Our army is about the same size as what SLDF during the Periphery Uprising before the Amaris Civil War started. And that was against much stronger forces than what is currently available. Not to mention that we can raise 300,000 more troops 53 times before we reach the limit of what we can support.
Wait, we only have one battalion of mechs across 3 Army groups? Man, I must have glazed over that piece of information. Where was this?
The mechs are not an important part of our military. And we have been building new mechs by "hand" before we built the factory to speed it up. We have one active Battalion. The rest of our mechs our used for training more pilots.
