Makes me wonder if the delays we've caused the Victorians will have some similar boni for our defenses (from more time to fortify and whatnot.) You know, aside from allowing us time to reposition our forces.
Just about.
It's one ship. One of three that was sent to try to resupply the eastern force, and the only one that didn't make it back.
Well, not quite. The Victorians loaded three ships full of supplies to try and resupply the Leamington force, and this one got grounded while the other two were forced back.
Also, if we manage to tow that ship to our own shipbreakers/establish em, that's a good 75kt of steel for us to use freely that we just have to re-melt and not make.
Napoleon is said to have once asked "I know he is a good general, but is he lucky?"
With the Victorians removed, Detroit can send out civilian ships to loot and/or tow it.
From Poptart:
So, it probably will bolster our current equipment if it can be unloaded and sent to our divisions fast enough. Might depend on how much time the Raisin Line buys us.
They don't have low morale yet. In fact, they still have the Fanaticism. We're hoping to get rid of that by turning the Raisin Line into a meatgrinder, but at the moment, they're still on high morale.
Not as much. The laker, however large, is a ship. Lots of chokepoints, only so many ways to approach the scuttling charges even when you find them. It also gives you all the time you need to rig several redundant blasting points in the ship's payload.
Insane, not dumb, yeah
I think they sometimes have a soft spot for the Victorian air force, though, probably because they are chronically bullied by all the other Victorians for being nerds.
Given that we have total naval superiority and the Victorian Air Force is being attrited into impotence as we speak, we can probably just send civilian ships full of guys with big hairy arms to shift the cargo themselves, though it'll be pretty important to get any deck cranes and stuff working to do it in a reasonably timely manner.
This is very far from their only supplies. They had at least two other very large freighters, and probably many small ones not even involved in the invasion efforts we've sunk so far.
Nono, it's better. He didn't think the federal government would fail to notice the T-34s. He had them notice the completely unhidden and unobfuscated cargo ship just fine. A destroyer responded and hauled over the ship.
Hrm, thinking about it in more detail, this might actually make sense. The book seems to imply that Lind wants to go back to agrarian society. If the police force blows up a part of the city with mass RPG fire every time they respond to a crime, that's certainly going to accelerate the process.
I earlier speculated that a ship that size, quite possibly too big to fit through the Welland Canal unless the Victorians, atypically, expanded said canal, was all the more expendable to the Viks because it's largely useless with Detroit closing off their access to Lakes Huron, Michigan, and possibly Superior.
