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Post by Admin on Oct 15, 2014 15:14:40 GMT
This is the thread to discuss general invasion strategy and planning, etc.
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Post by deltav on Oct 18, 2014 21:17:02 GMT
I'm guessing that I'm signed up here. I can't find the sign-up subforum.
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Post by Admin on Oct 18, 2014 21:21:12 GMT
I already added you after you let me know this is the faction you picked
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Post by deltav on Oct 19, 2014 0:19:41 GMT
Great. Could you light a fire under Great Caliph Neil? His loyal followers need to talk.
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Post by Admin on Oct 26, 2014 23:00:53 GMT
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Post by Hexapod on Oct 26, 2014 23:03:45 GMT
Hooray!
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Post by Hexapod on Oct 26, 2014 23:07:29 GMT
I have no idea what I'm doing, so you guys might have to give me a while
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Post by Admin on Oct 26, 2014 23:09:57 GMT
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Post by Hexapod on Oct 27, 2014 0:06:52 GMT
So we can do pretty much anything?
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Post by Admin on Oct 27, 2014 1:48:25 GMT
Yup. Basically whatever we want the faction to do. We get to decide. Well, you. But I'm helping for a bit
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Post by deltav on Oct 27, 2014 18:09:42 GMT
Okay:, here's what I've got so far: With a population of 50,000, subtracting women and girls, boys under 14, and men over 50, that leaves roughly 18,000 men of fighting age. Some will have to remain behind to farm, run the mines and factories, and other necessary functions. More will have to handle supply and support for the army, so we may be left with less than 9,000 effectives--that is, unless the 50,000 number was army size not nation size.
The area has oil, iron ore, non-ferrous metals (gold, silver, lead, Bauxite, copper, rare earths), good agriculture and fisheries, and a good manufacturing base.
The Turkmen (Faction 4) completely block our most direct route to Minerva. I'm still researching the northern route past the Aral Sea (Mudpuddle? Salt desert?), but it looks pretty ugly.
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Post by Admin on Oct 27, 2014 18:16:23 GMT
50000 is nation size, not army size. Those seem like good number estimates. The Turkmen are likely to be wanting to try to establish trade relations and stuff with you. It it likely you could ferry your soldiers across the sea/puddle
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Post by Hexapod on Oct 27, 2014 20:41:53 GMT
I believe we should send diplomats to the turkmen because it's always nice to be diplomatic, and plus we could use their resources. Geographically, we have some strong ties as well. In return we could send oil or other natrual resources. Also, say they will get into Jannah/Firdaws if they help us out.
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Post by Hexapod on Oct 27, 2014 20:54:45 GMT
Okay:, here's what I've got so far: With a population of 50,000, subtracting women and girls, boys under 14, and men over 50, that leaves roughly 18,000 men of fighting age. Some will have to remain behind to farm, run the mines and factories, and other necessary functions. More will have to handle supply and support for the army, so we may be left with less than 9,000 effectives--that is, unless the 50,000 number was army size not nation size. The area has oil, iron ore, non-ferrous metals (gold, silver, lead, Bauxite, copper, rare earths), good agriculture and fisheries, and a good manufacturing base. The Turkmen (Faction 4) completely block our most direct route to Minerva. I'm still researching the northern route past the Aral Sea (Mudpuddle? Salt desert?), but it looks pretty ugly. Nice! Thanks for doing that research!
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Post by deltav on Oct 28, 2014 6:39:33 GMT
Admin: Good, I was trying to be as realistic as I could. I'll just bet the Turkmen want to be our bestest buddies until the time comes that they decide to cut off our supply line (or steal it) to ensure that we won't win. Also revealing too much of your wealth is a good way to get it stolen. We could easily avoid the Aral region, it's the nastier mountains later on that bother me. Hexapod: By all means we should send ambassadors to see what they're up to. The way it looks on a resource map, they need our stuff a lot more than we need theirs, and I'm not really sure just how much they buy into the whole "72 virgins" teaching. Here's my recommendation: The Turkmen are probably already probing us, so we move all our important stuff North to make it harder for them. We arm our troops with man-portable weapons--rifles, machine guns, rocket launchers, mortars--we send spies and pathfinder-scouts out from the north end of the Caspian, load the army and it's supplies into all-wheel-drive trucks with enough armored cars along to keep the bandits from getting ambitious, and head for Minerva. Minerva is going to be depending heavily on static defenses like minefields and automatic turrets, and even more heavily on their tech, which means that they're going to see us coming. I'd say our best strategy would be to look too weak to worry about while packing more of a punch than can be seen from the air.
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