Art of Domination Thread 04

Okay, it's safe to say we can rule out the Enderfist strike.

Well that depends how desperate we're feeling but yes, not a god idea to endefist the vault itself. the factory might till be a viable targer tho.

I do have a question about that: Would the braintree' lighning be able to detonate the Durangium charge while they're being dropped ion the facory ?

I mean it feel like it shouldn't (it's asolid rod of metal evn if an explosive one) but doesn't hurt to check

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If we want immediate action, I'd go for the Sonic Mechs option. We're more likely to have a full-on crisis if North suddenly starts teleporting those missiles than if the factory produces a previously unseen abomination

Sonic mechs should be great against Smith biological montrosities and don't fear radiations indeed but lightning is still going to do a number on them (depite what fiction tend to forget a lot, a surge will fry electroncs for good) unless they are proprely insulated (and even then...) so braintrees and the factory itself are a big risk if we attack now

If we attack it would be best to have a way to 'distract' Chaos Bed itself.

Possible plan:

Have our engineering departement prepare quickly some flying drones and a few sonic mech to better resist lightning so they may last a while. Have them attack chaos bed, hopefully disturb it's pattern.

We could also try sending in the ocver of the attack an inflitrator (Granda or a spec ops team) inside and destroy the thing from the inside. (as well as gather info on ow thos monsters are created)

Then from another side, the rest of the sonic mech rush in the vault.

Pro:

• By acting now, we a least eliminate the threat of the missiles, that's good and done.
  
• We can concentrate on Pioneer after that, the sooner we do that, the less surprise they can pepare in region 4
  

Con:

• We act with very little inteligence, expect surprises
  
• We'll likely loose a lot if not all of the sonic mechs invollved in the assault and we do have a lot of use for them as both frontline shields (and with attacking Pioneer on the horrizon those 'll come in handy) and they also help law enforcement and human cadets. Replacing them is possible but somewhat costly
  (they may be cheap a piece but 20 of them still woth 16 000 RP, would be nice if we still had some standing)
  
• We'll also loose some flying drones.
  
• Really whish we could have a good thing to stop chaos head. infiltrator seems the best bet here but we'll very likely loose the infiltrator as i can't think of a way to evac efficiently.

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If we wait tomorow, we might be able to use the weather machine to counteract the effect of braintrees. They can call the ligning down but they still need some ionised clouds (generated by drones before, could be they improved the system) to work effectively. if we can disipate those, the braintrees should effectively be useless

Also those legs on Chaos bed can't be that stable, very stong winds or seriously heavy rain (causing heavy flow of water and mud) should be able to hamper it's movement if not outright imobilize it.

Possible plan:

We could try alternating heavy storms for about half a day (to trap the factory) then drought with no clouds (to neutralize the braintrees) in sucession if the weather machine can do that

Then we can either enderfist Chaos bed (if it isn't too close from the Vault) or air strike it something fierce. Sonic mechs can come in from an opposite side, mop up the mosnters and get in the vault to desroy the missiles.

There's also a possibility of getting a infiltrator/saboteur in Chaos Bed and ee what's going in there before destroying it (or destroy it from the inside even). Grenda might be up to snuff here.

Pro:

• Extra inteligence to help plan the assault
  
• Should be relativaly low cost in lives and even in sonic mechs if it works
  
• Should still be relatively low cost in live even if it fails as we rely mostly on drones for this
  
• A good occasion to test the weather machine and what it can do.
  
• The vault is neutralized and Chaos bed is neutralized at best, or at least impaired for a while at worse. Net benefit

Con:

• It heavily rely on the weather machine and we have no idea what it can really do yet or how much (or if it'll even really work)
  
• If we go (and can) with neutralising the braintrees with the weather machine, we don't know what other defenses the factory has. (though since we'll have waited on the info, that may be correted by then)
  
• If we go with heavy rain to paralyse the factory but can't enderfist strike it, then there's a risk of loosing planes to lighning (maybe using hunter drones
  
• waiting a day, even just a night, is at least 2/3 more groups of increasing size pooped by the factory
  
• We have no idea what new things could happen if we wait untill tomorow

(Oh also if we could secure the vault, and Raheynar is indeed right about North's force plan, this could be a second chance to recuperta portal tech for ourselves)
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There is one thing we should ask ourselve about the weather machine tho. if it is that greatand functional.. why haven't North forces used it against us even once already ?
It seems weird really, especialy given how much we've been rellying on floating troop transports and air support, sriously a hurricane, some whirlpools, maybe even just simply chaotic weather to sap moral and cause small mechanical malfunctions, any of those could have hampered us a lot.

So why not ? There's gotta be a catch.