We don't know when the Abomination attacks. It'll be done in 8 years, which could be well before the Abomination attack. The tyranids will be destroyed regardless of if we develop an Ordinatus against them or not, meanwhile the Abomination is a genuine threat that could succeed in its goal of killing Lin. The Abomination takes priority. A possible advantage against it is better than a certain advantage against the tyranids.
We don't know if it attacks either, though. It's a 50/50 chance, according to Rotbart.
Saint Lin leaves in 12 years. Without Saint Lin the abomination has no reason to attack us. If we get a attack it will be a demon incursion since there are no large abomination forces in the region. The fundamentals will take 8 years followed by a design action followed by a build action. We will not get the design action till Saint Lin leaves. So we have no point in doing psychic fundamentals. We can however build a ordinatus before the tryanids come.
50/50 chance is not small. That is a very real chance we'll get hit by a powerful enemy that's a genuine threat to us and we should prepare for it accordingly. 50/50 is not a low enough chance that we should discard the possibility of invasion for the sake of better defence against an enemy we'll do fine against no matter what.
God damn it. We should've done this thing earlier instead of that gravity fundamental action. What a waste that action turned out to be. Anyway, you're wrong about one thing. The task force only takes up to a few years to get here, so even with no large Abomination force in the region, we could still get hit by an Abomination enemy from beyond the region.
@Durin is this doable?
We already have it for Helhiem system. Really you need a sector fleet to attack Avernus right now.
We did that for avernus as part of the research action.
In which case I'll revert the plan. We can ship the design to Quartus and Secondus anyway, they'll definitely find it useful.
You would prefer a super psychic cannon decades when we don't need it instead of a decent psychic cannon when we do need it? Besides, who said anything about an Ordinatus? We can just incorporate it into Dis' defensive grid. Durin confirmed that we can do so with the Nova Cannon and it'd probably be no different for the Psychic Cannon.
I am saying that we wouldn't have time for even a decent psychic cannon on land in anything less than decades. Even for defences, it's a kilometers long gun, you can't just stick it on top of a palace and call it a day. We'd need fundamentals, then we'd need to design a psychic cannon that works on land, then we'd need to design how to implement it into defences, and then do said implementation. And none of those actions would take very little time. So you might as well not worry about a particular event, that may not even happen, and just do a super psychic cannon you'll always find a use for. It's not like we'll be lacking in Chaos foes or Incursions later on.
We would need to reverse these for the repairs to finish before the estimated arrival of the fleet.
Considering with the return of our major psykers, siren implementation, and with Lin still alive our anti-psyker defenses are the strongest they are going to be for a long time, we should consider doing Counterintelligence for the whole of slot B I think. It would give us much better odds of getting rid of any embedded spies.
Well I did actually. I don't consider developing an Ordinatus against an enemy we'll fight only once that good an idea. Even if we fight tyranids again they'll be of a different strain that the ordinatus won't be specialized against. I prefer more general weapons to something so specialized. But people in this thread really like their superweapons, so I didn't try to fight them too hard on it. I admittedly really like developing a bigger and better navy, so I try not to fight the thread on their superweapons unless they're being really ridiculous.
We can't swap construction and non-construction action slots.
yes,risky but doable
How is constructing a shipyard not construction, but repairing ships is?
The Construction slot represents all the output of our shipsyards.
Honestly it's so insane I actually want to try it but it's damned insane.
you would, it is actually a reasonable plan in some ways, Vlad + Ridcully is one of the few combos that could pull that off, and with HWWO you have extraction and a galatic tier assassin on hand
This is the riskiest plan out of every choice we could make, but damnit I've never wanted something to happen more.
