Post by Dazim on Nov 12, 2014 14:23:13 GMT
While that is an impressive amount of text i think you have some misconceptions about both our strength and how wars of this type operate. The most vital of which is that you seem to think that hit and run tactics arent used best as part of a war of attrition and that we are in enemy territory. an enemy that has the same strengths we do in the area of mobility and also know the terrain better then we currently do. Now a general rule of warfare of this type is that for a clear victory in unstructured warfare you need more than 2-3 times the amount of combatants as your enemy. Now you can improve this with tactics but unless we scout we can not do such a thing moreover scouting with reveal to us if the force that is gathering is made up of combatants and their support staff or the whole tribes themselves and both options leave interesting possibilitys. I would add that we should move our army forwerd with the scouts to increase the area we scout but still keep it far enough from any gathering of forces to allow us to compose a defence and counter attack after any attack on our main force(ill provide details of a defence when i get some more free time).
Now you also say that we should attack minerva immediantly, i disagree in fact in my opinion we could stand to wait a bit longer untill our caravans(both the dipolomacy and spy)Report as there is no threat to us from minerva and they have bigger problems to deal with. And as for turtleing up in minerva why? the land we dont need and can just give to tribes we think can cause problems and let that sort itself out while we sit unassailable with our new loot and slaves back in our origional land.
And as for the force organisation unfortunatly it goes against the last few thousand years of conventional warfare to split your forces in such ways when dealing with an army of this type. You split sappers and speical ops into groups of 2-3(i lean towords 3) sure but an army like this needs a clear command structure and you simply cant get that by splitting your army into bite sized chunks every few days. Not to mention what that will do to moral people like to be near others on their side during warfare it makes em feel safe ya know. and as for the larger sizes basing them on base 10 is standard pretty much everywhere.
As for diplomats im all for it but i would suggest doing so after the curent spys have gone through and after we deal with this mess that i would hope takes us a few more weeks as a force such as we are about to face could take us out of the game if we do not do this right.
Yes you are right war is a calculated affair and right now there is an almost zero chance of minerva attacking us, preparing defenses? yes attacking? no.
Now you also say that we should attack minerva immediantly, i disagree in fact in my opinion we could stand to wait a bit longer untill our caravans(both the dipolomacy and spy)Report as there is no threat to us from minerva and they have bigger problems to deal with. And as for turtleing up in minerva why? the land we dont need and can just give to tribes we think can cause problems and let that sort itself out while we sit unassailable with our new loot and slaves back in our origional land.
And as for the force organisation unfortunatly it goes against the last few thousand years of conventional warfare to split your forces in such ways when dealing with an army of this type. You split sappers and speical ops into groups of 2-3(i lean towords 3) sure but an army like this needs a clear command structure and you simply cant get that by splitting your army into bite sized chunks every few days. Not to mention what that will do to moral people like to be near others on their side during warfare it makes em feel safe ya know. and as for the larger sizes basing them on base 10 is standard pretty much everywhere.
As for diplomats im all for it but i would suggest doing so after the curent spys have gone through and after we deal with this mess that i would hope takes us a few more weeks as a force such as we are about to face could take us out of the game if we do not do this right.
Yes you are right war is a calculated affair and right now there is an almost zero chance of minerva attacking us, preparing defenses? yes attacking? no.
