We have 2 available clairvoyants, other than our dispatch team. If we only kept 2 teleporters, that would total 4.
We have 4 clairvoyants, one is an elite (Taya). So if we dedicated all of them to the Tokyo mission we'd have enough for two tandem teams (3 vets). My hope is we can get at least 1 clairvoyant worth from one of the local areas. That combiend with making the second clairvoyant team only the first two weeks ought to get us to being able to support the dispatch team and 2 tandem clairvoyant teams.
We're spinning plans here based on speculation about the amount of resources we have. If we don't enough clairvoyants obviously we'll have to come up with something different. (Either go without the 2nd clair team, or have 4 girls on bikes as the dispatch team.)
Given that the clairvoyants generally don't need to be inside Serena's aura, if we can recruit a few from Tokyo itself during this month's contacts, that would be great.
Good point. That could cover our second half of the month need. Another place where if we can find 1 clairvoyant we'd have enough.
However, I'm still pondering the idea that inviting the Nagoya strike team could also work. Given their territory, they could easily have around 20 total elites, and they send a strike team of 5-10 elites. We'd have to keep their exposure to the aura much lower, but a team of 5 elites (and maybe that clairvoyant) would be just what we need to fill out the overkill numbers.
If Nagoya goes into the expedition with the idea that we're doing something similar to what they normally do, they will be completely unprepared for the diplomatic followup. (Heck, we might want to tone down info we pass out to them and areas 13/14 this month to give us an extra edge in prep work.) I really dislike snubbing them on this mission, particularly right after we asked them to help us in their expedition, and the combined work they've already done. The trick is to get them to feel like they contributed, but sweep up territory control before they get the idea that the area should be theirs.
That's the tricky part, and I'm not completely solid on handling that just yet.
My whole position is that Nagoya is unpredictable, and that we aren't powerful enough to deal with any kind of negative reaction. How will they respond to Serena's aura? There might be an instinctive hostility. Or maybe they won't like that she's a foreigner. Or maybe they'll be offended that we hired a legendary.
Now I rank these all as less likely outcomes, but real enough that I bet we get a dice throw as to Nagoya's response, and what if it is negative?
I just think we have to many other risks to add one more to it. I mean, I feel like with planning and over committing resources to deal with worse case scenarios will allow us to handle a bad scenario with the demons. Worst case we have to retreat multiple times, and so we only make slow progress in retaking Tokyo.
If Nagoya responds badly... I don't know how we could handle it.
So I'd rather given them the warning that there will be exposure risks because of what we are doing, implying that they ought to take a break off Tokyo next month. If I were Nagoya, I'd probably respond by sending the expedition to Tokyo Bay, watch what is going on with clairvoyants, and make a decision on the scene whether they want to get involved in this or not.
That way I figure that either they will decide to just watch, or they will decide to join in. If the second, well we did already warn them about exposure risks, so I don't feel guilty. But we haven't given them the details (which also protects them a bit from addiction as they might not realize why they feel so happy.)
It is, which is why I'm not fully committed to the idea yet. However they're going to be sending their strike team to Tokyo anyway, and it would not be too difficult to word it as just, "We want to do what you're doing, too. Can we do this as a combined action?" Edit: Plus, we're buying a ton of armor from them; it's pretty obvious we're setting up for something big.
I figure we ought to tell them we are planning something big. Also we should tell them there are exposure risks, (and refuse to go into details, they can't blame us for that), so we can't promise the safety of their strike team if they go into Tokyo.
Although... we could offer to allow observers on our clairvoyant team. As they won't be feeling the aura. That would be a way to get clairvoyants from Nagoya, and since I totally expect they would send clairvoyants to watch us anyway...
The only thing is that they would probably find out about Tandem Casting...
And they wouldn't be able to use Tandem Casting either... Of course they probably have an elite Clairvoyant, and more eyes would always be useful.
And that would be a way to be a bit mysterious while still giving the impression that we aren't totally freezing them out.
Have to think about that idea more.
Regardless, I've pulled a bit out of the gossipmonger, since regardless of if we get Nagoya's help, we don't want to be announcing our full plans to either them or their 13/14 vassals. If they know the full extent of what we're up to, they'll start pulling their end game resources into play and try to slip past us.
Good point. Although I was thinking we'd keep it very vague. I wasn't planning on announcing our full diplomacy towards Tokyo plan either.
@Kinematics @Elder Haman are we still looking for places to fill out vet space? Because I had an idea for a quasi-morale quasi-training action: storytime.
Serena and her group can't really work all that much on coordinated tactics with our group, outside of the short half hour or so that our girls will spend familiarizing themselves with her aura, but one thing we can do is put that video equipment to use and have our group and Serena's group exchange war stories, start planning strategies and tactics to try in various situations, that sort of thing. That way our group will get a little better idea of what we can expect in practice when inside Serena's aura, and Serena's group will get to hear about what actual difficult demon battles are like, since at the very least that Class 4 or a swarm of Class 3s are going to be tougher than any battle they've ever had.
This is a reason I want out training manuals translated into Spanish so that they can review them. That's already on the list of things to do.
However, we already have all our meguca's committed to other things. We'd have to drop other actions for this, and I'm not sure that the benefits are worth it.
Not going to give you someone that can convert you all to super saiyans. And I did say she isn't as bad at pvp as you thought.
