- Location
- Alice Springs, Australia
you have encountered far more enemies they they have
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The Long Night Part One: Embers in the Dusk: A Planetary Governor Quest (43k) Complete Sequel Up
- Thread starter Durin
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- Location
- Australia
Well we have a 92% chance of reverse-engineering the more accurate Vanquishers on the Well of Urd, so it's not all bad. Assuming the Leviathan isn't entirely slagged, we might also have an opportunity to do "the science" on some of its broken components and learn a bit how it works.
EDIT: We also have an STC fragment for a "Superheavy Transport" that could possibly fill in the same role.
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[X] Have the landing zone be just outside the outer walls, 15-30 km from the AA. - This will allow your forces to receive the resupply almost immediately and make it trivial to prevent harassment but the lander will suffer heavy losses from Dark Eldar AA. Another advantage is that your AA will be able to provide covering fire reducing the impact that Dark Eldar fighters can have. - Will suffer heavy losses from AA and reduced losses from fighters, best taken with suppressive fire artillery choice.
[X] Concentrate fire on one target.- This will allow your artillery to have a major impact on the selected target at the expense of have no effect on the other targets.
[X] Suppressive fire- When the Dark Eldar AA opens fire have all artillery target their locations, or your best estimate of their locations in a bid to reduce the volume and accuracy of the Dark Eldar AA and reduce the amount of losses that your air force will suffer.
[X] Have the Phase-Tigers infiltrate and mark the Dark Eldar AA before the under cover of a heavy bombardment and a faked push to the inter walls away from their egress point before the resupply. After go to ground till the main attack.
So my thought is to act like we're going to attack one point of the wall with everything while out best stealth units get in and mark out gun placements. After they do we call in the supplies and open up on the AA before they can open fire. Then the Phase-Tigers bunker down for a few days till we go for the real attack and can hit high value targets from behind or deeper in while we smash into the walls.
[X] Concentrate fire on one target.- This will allow your artillery to have a major impact on the selected target at the expense of have no effect on the other targets.
[X] Suppressive fire- When the Dark Eldar AA opens fire have all artillery target their locations, or your best estimate of their locations in a bid to reduce the volume and accuracy of the Dark Eldar AA and reduce the amount of losses that your air force will suffer.
[X] Have the Phase-Tigers infiltrate and mark the Dark Eldar AA before the under cover of a heavy bombardment and a faked push to the inter walls away from their egress point before the resupply. After go to ground till the main attack.
So my thought is to act like we're going to attack one point of the wall with everything while out best stealth units get in and mark out gun placements. After they do we call in the supplies and open up on the AA before they can open fire. Then the Phase-Tigers bunker down for a few days till we go for the real attack and can hit high value targets from behind or deeper in while we smash into the walls.
- Location
- Alice Springs, Australia
Given that most of the inner wall is intact and that area is totally controlled by the Dark Eldar only the Phase-Tigers would stand a chance and they would suffer casulties
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So how large was the army's we each faced? We had 2-5,000 DE and 3-6,000 SS what was their estimates?
Would the casualties be lowered if we drew their attention with a massed troop movement elsewhere? Also is there any anti-orbital weaponry left in the inter city? If not can we have a cruiser droop a few hits on the inter city first?
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They're bound to run into static defenders, so probably not.
- Location
- Alice Springs, Australia
Their estimates was 2-3,000 DE and 1-2,000 SS
- Location
- United states
I am suprised the DE didn't go 'fuck it, let's just bail' by now since it is pretty obvious that it is only a matter of time until they get killed off by the invading army.
- Location
- Australia
Bail to where? We killed all their spaceships and they don't have any infrastructure in the wilderness to support them.
On the other hand, it's okay so long as it's some other DEldear that gets the short end of the stick, and if they win here there's going to be a murderorgy for days...plus breaking the back of this sector's resistance.
- Location
- Australia
I wonder if it's possible to get some orbital bombardment on the area around the city? With the supply drop options all stating how much harassment we'll face out in the wilderness, there's probably quite a lot of DE just sitting there twiddling their thumbs while we fight in the city. They're far enough away that we won't get hit by friendly fire so why not? Even if we don't kill many of the bastards we'll at least remove some of the terrain they can hide behind when we ship off to the next battlefield.
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I had though that all the harassment forces had retreated into the city when we got to the walls.
- Location
- United states
Would it be feasible to shut off/sabotage the cities remaining void shield then order an orbital bombardment of the city after pulling out our army?
- Location
- Alice Springs, Australia
given that there are dozens of separate void shield generators if you could sabotage all of them, defended by Dark Eldar as they are, you could win anyway
Webway gates can be on planetary surfaces and infantry can enter.
- Location
- Alice Springs, Australia
the webway is not a safe place for the Dark Eldar right now
- Location
- Leeds
So all we really needed where the Phase Tigers and Xavier?
- Location
- Alice Springs, Australia
not much loot excpet for Dark Eldar tech which you cant reverse engineer, both to difficult and to heretical
and a habitable planet
[X] Have the landing zone be 85 km from the outer walls, 100-115 km from the AA. - This will be far enough that your forces would have to push to reach the safety of the city and would be vulnerable to ambushes and harassment. However this is far enough from the city that most of the Dark Eldar AA will be out of range greatly reducing the damage that your airforce will take landing the supplies. - Will suffer light losses form AA, full losses from fighters, and moderate damage from harassment
[X] All PDF Mechanised Infantry and Armour- This force of almost a million men and twenty thousand tanks should be large enough to protect the convoy. - Will suffer less casualties but will take away a large enough force that you can't launch a major attack until the convoy is back
[X] Concentrate fire on one target.- This will allow your artillery to have a major impact on the selected target at the expense of have no effect on the other targets.
[X] Suppressive fire- When the Dark Eldar AA opens fire have all artillery target their locations, or your best estimate of their locations in a bid to reduce the volume and accuracy of the Dark Eldar AA and reduce the amount of losses that your air force will suffer.
We know from our citys how effective massed AA fire is.
[X] All PDF Mechanised Infantry and Armour- This force of almost a million men and twenty thousand tanks should be large enough to protect the convoy. - Will suffer less casualties but will take away a large enough force that you can't launch a major attack until the convoy is back
[X] Concentrate fire on one target.- This will allow your artillery to have a major impact on the selected target at the expense of have no effect on the other targets.
[X] Suppressive fire- When the Dark Eldar AA opens fire have all artillery target their locations, or your best estimate of their locations in a bid to reduce the volume and accuracy of the Dark Eldar AA and reduce the amount of losses that your air force will suffer.
We know from our citys how effective massed AA fire is.
Can't reverse engineer period or just yet until we got the education of scientific literate high enough and political opinion of all things xeno becomes less xenophobic?
- Location
- Leeds
So basically, GM fiat or can those problems be addressed?
- Location
- Alice Springs, Australia
you might eventually be able to reverse engineer some of it but the main problem is that Dark Eldar tech is not only more advanced then yours it is from a totally different tech tree
also dealing with the prohibition about xenotech would be far harder then the one about research, particularly as it is there for a better reason