Post by deltav on Dec 4, 2014 22:33:13 GMT
I hate to break this to you, but the Hashsashin Guard don't draw any distinction between military people and civilians. They won't be dragging people out of their houses, but anyone caught in the street is dead. Their purpose is to degrade defenses, and that includes defender morale.
Minerva was never designed to repel an attack like the five faction are mounting. A properly designed fortress has multiple, concentric defensive walls with open kill zones in front of them and chokepoints. Minerva is a city with a wall around it. The various Institutes, municipal buildings and temple compounds have some protection, but they aren't really designed for it.
You underestimate just how fast an army can put a forward base together. Fast and ugly, is a pretty good description. Even a single canvas tent wall will protect the inhabitants if they have a good source of heat. I once slept in a tent when the outside temperature approached -27 C, and was warm enough to sleep comfortably.
The Turkmen have supposedly left for Minerva, but their continued lack of response bothers me. The Russians bother me more, because they don't seem to want to send a force--and they have tanks. I think we'd better dig camouflaged tank traps and ANFO booby traps on our northern border
Minerva was never designed to repel an attack like the five faction are mounting. A properly designed fortress has multiple, concentric defensive walls with open kill zones in front of them and chokepoints. Minerva is a city with a wall around it. The various Institutes, municipal buildings and temple compounds have some protection, but they aren't really designed for it.
You underestimate just how fast an army can put a forward base together. Fast and ugly, is a pretty good description. Even a single canvas tent wall will protect the inhabitants if they have a good source of heat. I once slept in a tent when the outside temperature approached -27 C, and was warm enough to sleep comfortably.
The Turkmen have supposedly left for Minerva, but their continued lack of response bothers me. The Russians bother me more, because they don't seem to want to send a force--and they have tanks. I think we'd better dig camouflaged tank traps and ANFO booby traps on our northern border
