- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
[X] Sarang Mikoyan
[X] Seo Thoki
Chicago is a literal gigantic fortress full of troops and guns and GDI armored regiments and what have you. The MARV fleet being completed will certainly thicken the defenses further, but the planned city is not under imminent military threat of being overrun. Nor is it a 'soft' target to Nod harassment fire, because the occupants mostly live in fortified bunkers defended by heavy entrenchments and great big stompy armies.
By contrast, the Colombian hub is isolated and surrounded on all sides by Nod territory. It is far less heavily defended by conventional GDI forces. Constant aggressive patrols by the conventional garrison are required just to keep Nod out of artillery/rocket range of the favelas that have sprung up around the hub, and those favelas are very much soft targets.
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The MARV fleet is the only thing that can protect the hub site in YZ-5a, whereas the Chicago site can defend itself quite well. And one die on the YZ-5a fleet only yields something like a 70% chance of completion. Given the narrative text I read a few hours ago, it is very likely that a failure on that die roll will result in a ferocious Nod attack on the hub that our forces may or may not be able to repel... And Nod success there would be a disaster on several levels.
In effect, Nod is saying
" @marids , if you want to stop tiberium, you'll have to do it over my dead body."
The correct response is
*Bang* "Okay."
But that requires heavy military expenses.
Which is not to say that we should pick the 'military candidate!' But don't forget the lesson that military weakness translates directly into inability to mitigate tiberium. Because Nod actively hates our efforts to mitigate tiberium, wants them to fail, and has millions of fanatically loyal soldiers willing to make them fail.
I should note that from a generational perspective, Anastas' children were born in the 1920s, whereas Sarang was probably born between 1995 and 2020 given that she's under consideration for a senior ministerial position some time in the late 2050s or early 2060s. It'd be a bit of a stretch for her to be only a great-granddaughter.
Lol!Nod's failed attempts to infiltrate us are certainly good news.
Alternatively, [ blame tiberium mutant tumbleweeds.[/url]
And when you're fighting ten million fanatics with laser guns, your desire to not get shot full of lasers is well nigh infinite.
Building more shell plants and myomer doesn't directly increase the demand, it just means more of the people who want it will even bother to ask. You could in principle meet the demand (more likely to happen for shells, where we've met demand we just don't have stockpiles for prolonged intensive use). But it's hard to meet the demand.
It's sort of like how we had to manufacture 75 Consumer Goods to fill a -20 Consumer Goods shortfall.
[X] Seo Thoki
The problem here is that Nod is specifically circling our Colombian hub like sharks circling a bunch of shipwreck victims, whereas the Chicago area is under considerably less direct threat.
Chicago is a literal gigantic fortress full of troops and guns and GDI armored regiments and what have you. The MARV fleet being completed will certainly thicken the defenses further, but the planned city is not under imminent military threat of being overrun. Nor is it a 'soft' target to Nod harassment fire, because the occupants mostly live in fortified bunkers defended by heavy entrenchments and great big stompy armies.
By contrast, the Colombian hub is isolated and surrounded on all sides by Nod territory. It is far less heavily defended by conventional GDI forces. Constant aggressive patrols by the conventional garrison are required just to keep Nod out of artillery/rocket range of the favelas that have sprung up around the hub, and those favelas are very much soft targets.
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The MARV fleet is the only thing that can protect the hub site in YZ-5a, whereas the Chicago site can defend itself quite well. And one die on the YZ-5a fleet only yields something like a 70% chance of completion. Given the narrative text I read a few hours ago, it is very likely that a failure on that die roll will result in a ferocious Nod attack on the hub that our forces may or may not be able to repel... And Nod success there would be a disaster on several levels.
Have you learned nothing from the past few years? Nod's military power can prevent us from working to fight tiberium across much of the Yellow Zones, and unless they are defeated in battle and driven off the tiberium-menaced land, our own ability to continue abatement constantly slams into the limits of their efforts to stop us. We cannot defeat them by depriving them of access to tiberium, because we cannot reach all the world's tiberium, because Nod is protecting the tiberium.
In effect, Nod is saying
" @marids , if you want to stop tiberium, you'll have to do it over my dead body."
The correct response is
*Bang* "Okay."
But that requires heavy military expenses.
Which is not to say that we should pick the 'military candidate!' But don't forget the lesson that military weakness translates directly into inability to mitigate tiberium. Because Nod actively hates our efforts to mitigate tiberium, wants them to fail, and has millions of fanatically loyal soldiers willing to make them fail.
Maybe Sarang will develop a novel form of tiberium mitigation based on ice cream?
I should note that from a generational perspective, Anastas' children were born in the 1920s, whereas Sarang was probably born between 1995 and 2020 given that she's under consideration for a senior ministerial position some time in the late 2050s or early 2060s. It'd be a bit of a stretch for her to be only a great-granddaughter.
Well, I'd rather have had the luck balanced more evenly, but that's... not a result I can really complain about, as such.
Lol!Nod's failed attempts to infiltrate us are certainly good news.
Perhaps because Nod took pains to spread tiberium out in the relatively sparsely populated areas of the Great Plains, on such a large scale and in so many little spots that it couldn't be eradicated in time to matter? Nod has actively spread tiberium in the past, after all.
Alternatively, [ blame tiberium mutant tumbleweeds.[/url]
Indeed, I imagine that the military's demand for ablatives is 'capped' only by their desire to not get shot full of lasers.
And when you're fighting ten million fanatics with laser guns, your desire to not get shot full of lasers is well nigh infinite.
Yes, and no.
Building more shell plants and myomer doesn't directly increase the demand, it just means more of the people who want it will even bother to ask. You could in principle meet the demand (more likely to happen for shells, where we've met demand we just don't have stockpiles for prolonged intensive use). But it's hard to meet the demand.
It's sort of like how we had to manufacture 75 Consumer Goods to fill a -20 Consumer Goods shortfall.
I strongly suspect that at some point it's more economical to just use a shitload of concrete.
