Art of Domination Thread 04

I think... a double bluff would be the best bet for getting troops in there. Use vehicles and a non-Darangium Enderfist bombardment as a distraction to portal a Spec Ops team close to Pioneer so they can scout. Close it once they're through, and reopening it at set intervals (unless an immediate request is made) at different pre-designated spots. Probably just 3 portal locations would be good enough, and one should probably open every two hours or so in a set progression. The portal is likely visible or otherwise obvious, so we shouldn't have it appear to close to Pioneer directly. If we had a layout of Pioneer, that'd be another matter, as we could get some sort of accurate measurement for a location that would likely be secluded.

> Use harassment tactics and non-Darangium bombardment, first as a distraction and then to keep them pinned down. Send a Spec Ops team to scout the location. Use the Portal Wagon to routinely make "bugout" portals (that also kind of act as decoys) for our Spec Ops in two hour intervals at set locations.

If i may I have two problems with that.

First you assume there's might even be an opening for our spec ops to inflitrate the forteress from the outside.
The reason it has a moat is because our spec ops can't go through water without dropping stealth and i'm pretty it's not the only countermeasure against our stealth op that were specificaly taken to stop our infiltration teams. And I think they were smart enough not to put more opening that strictly necessary.

So unless we make a hole (which isn't very stealthy and this look like it has thick walls), I dodn't think we'll be getting in from the outisde. Unless of course we use Keymaster portals whose whole interest is that ot bypsses wall int he first place

But and that's my second point, portal tech is a huge advantage that we'd better keep secret the longer that we can.
The more we open portal blindly, the more we get the risk we'll do it were a security camera or a crowd could see it. (A single or couple of enemy soldier, all our stealth agents can ... deal with that pretty quickly.).

Creating multiple pôrtal as decoy seems unesecassary. I'd rather take the risk of opening the portal inside only Once.

so if i may propose a hybrid plan:

-Start orbital bombardement and fake vehicular attack outside

-Send Grenda from the outside. She uses a different kind of stealth, so counter masures desinged for our stealth ops may be less likely to work on her, and if they do, she's better armored making her more likley to survive

-Have Grenda plant some explosives on the forteress door in the chaos of the battle. (Or just find another stealthier way in if she can but this thing look like a giant bunker so i'm not getting my hopes up.)
If it works have her enter and .. ah.."clear" a spot for opening a portal

-Open portal inside on coordinate.
If grenda couldn't make it in, we'll have to take a gamble and open it at random while hoping our distraction outside will be enough to clear some aera of Pioneer.

_Grenda moves out, we Sneak a couple of spec ops.

-Spec ops the deliver some small exploration drones. Drones fan out, map as much of the base as possible then our spec ops bug out through the portal.

-Order vehicles poutside to retreat. Close portal.

And to answer one obvious question of why i'd rather have the spec ops enter thought he portal rather than say, follow Grenda through the door if we manage to blow it open. well I assume that as soon as the door will be blown open it will attract immediate attention. A single cloacked agent has a much better chance of escaping detection anf get further into the base than a whole squad then

I also suspect that any communication in or out of the base may be heavily monitored or jammed, so any agent we get in may get cut off or detected as soon as they get a signal radio, (Not a problem for the plan per se because all they have to transmit is a set of coordinate once so we cna open the portal there) so better to send an infiltration agent that is used to operate with little oversight from HQ.