Arbiter-Marshal Tamazi's preliminary investigation has confirmed the information supplied by the ecclesiarchy. The rebel cell calling themselves "The Emperor's most pious resistance against the heretic occupiers" is centred around the charisma of a former ecclisiarchal preacher named Orfeo Zambini. He has denounced the current ecclesiarchy and the nobles as corrupt and unfit to carry out the emperor's will and found great success with his rhetoric among the faithful populace. He is based out of the St. Chirosius Cathedral in the heart of Gamma and the immediate surroundings of the moderately sized cathedral have been covertly converted into ramshackle fortifications manned by his most loyal and skilled troops.
Their forces consist of millions of fanatic militia, with the vast majority spread throughout Hive Gamma, continuing their normal lives. Once your attack commences, they are most likely going to fight back against your forces in small scale guerilla warfare, hiding among the many sympathetic civilians. They do not have any formal military training and many do not even have access to a ranged weapon, but their zeal will allow them to survive casualties that would cause even most guard regiments to rout. They outnumber the 27th Davrian Rough Riders by a significant amount, though their distributed locations will hinder them in exploiting this superiority.
Enemy Forces:
Fanatical religious militia (Rebel)
- Nearly unbreakable morale
- Lacking training and equipment
Your main force consists of the 27th Davrian Rough Riders lead by Colonel Mehta. They are trained to fight both on their warhorses and dismounted on foot as dragoons. Because using their great mobility, they are great at flanking and assaulting enemy positions. Their training and equipment far outclasses the enemy, though they are outnumbered by the rebel militia. Additionally you have access to detachments of Arbiters supported by units from the 35th Davrian Rough Riders regiment to investigate and arrest malcontents nonlethally and the backup of the 211th Behrian Artillery regiment stationed to garrison the hive. They cannot fully support your attack, but they will establish a perimeter around the enemy territory to prevent enemy reinforcements.
Captain Gwanz is commanding your air support, and she is ready to help you in any way that Is needed. She has brought mainly Valkyries to support your troops on the ground and a squadron of Marauder bombers that may allow you to crack any enemy position at the cost of extensive damage to the hive. The Aeronautica Imperialis will follow your lead when it comes to the overall strategy of the operation but is ready to find targets on their own to bring their own expertise to the table if you do not require them for a strategic operation.
Own Forces:
27th Davrian Rough Riders
Operational Victory Condition: Neutralize enemy commander Preacher Zambini and destory the military ability of this resistance cell
Operational Defeat Condition: Retreat of the 27th Davrian Rough Riders
Your Battle Plan:
[ ] Write-In
[ ] Exploit the unaware state of the enemy and our manouver advantage to rapidly break through enemy territory and capture St. Chirosius Cathedral, forcing enemy units to engage us or give up on their leader.
A successful run would give us a great advantage, but we will be in an unfavourable position should we fail to secure the cathedral and the surrounding territories
[ ] The distributed nature of the enemy forces allows us to concentrate our firepower to annilahate local enemies through combined attacks by ground and air units, slowly and methodically breaking the enemies ability to resist.
A conservative plan that allows our enemy time to react and delays the success of the operation.
[ ] Work with the Ecclisiarchy to rouse large mobs of religious citisens and flaggelants and unleash them on the heretics, allowing our troops to focus on combating enemy strong points.(-1 Ecclisiarchy Favour)
Once called up to arms the rabble will be uncontrollable and the warzone will be thrown into chaos. Only the Emperor will know the true state of the battle.
- Through reports from the ecclisiarchy and arbiters, you have good knowledge about local terrain and organisation and most information can be gleaned through scouting if you require it. Please ask any questions about the enemy or your own units required to create the best possible plan.
- I have created three example plans. They are short and not neccesarily the best possible ways to approach the situation, but you can use them as base of inspiration for a plan and they will be a backup if nobody wants to create a write-in plan
- You will reasses the battle and your strategy in half a year unless a great complication appears
- Keep in mind that this is a battle with millions of soldiers and you are fighting in an area larger than some earth countries. You will not be able to micromanage your squads and sodiers.
- There will be an 8-hour moratorium
on any votes. I will be unavailable for questions during that duration and dont want anyone to vote with incorrect information because of this new format or missing writing.
