RE: Art of Domination Thread 04
01-02-2018, 08:40 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-02-2018, 08:42 PM by smuchmuch.)
40 K is really expensive I agree, but those titanium allies sound pretty wortwhile. Quck hit and run attack and artllery all rolled into one with lots of speed.
I assume they could have other use like transporting stuff or evacuatng wounded soldie too ? They sorta remind me of the famous Boston dynamics big dog except actualy armored and caapble of a strong attack.
I think I'd take them over the bionic brigade as research alongside the advanced SID, laser urchins and laser tank research (80 K of research, oof, expensive, but damn if it wouldn't be worthwhile)
But we can think of that once we repealed this attack and see how much we have left.
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I'm aware mechanized infantry is a huge part of modern combat but.. I'm not sure for this the way this adventure work should alway be compared to real combat tactics.
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Like, we started this adventure with something like what 4 bataillons. we were supposed to start a planetary insasion (small planet admitedly but still) with 4000 people or even now we have like a grand total of 8 tanks as an armored division and so far it has been enough.
So 40 APCs by this adventure standarts is actualy kind of a huge lot. I'm sure we could and should use more but for now it's definitvely a good number.
I'm not sure about the S9-RCVs.
I agree i may be seriously overselling them as transport, especialy given that given how cheap they are, they likely are extremely fragile to anything bove small arm fire. And all things considere I would rather have more skyshadows or APCs if we had the money
But on the other hands there's a couple reasons I think they can still be wortwhile purchasse:
-First because they are dirt cheap, I mean for 30 of them we only spend 13 000 Rp, that.. really not a lot. Even if I removed the 30 S9-RCVs we couldn't buy 10 40 SASAPCs with what we regain.
I suppose we could buy with this either 20 more Sonic Mechs (I'd like to wait for the Mk 2 to roll in, tho), the laser tank and/or laser urchin research or 2 volcano tanks (We really don't have many taks, do we ?)
-However there is another reason I want these S9-RCVs rather than just transport: hit and run harrasement attaks and, more importantly, Patrols.
While we have plenty of eyes on the sky with seekers drones, we'll soon have our sights mainly on region 2 and number 1. After this attack is over I'd like to hand some of our remaining S9-RCVs to our human cadets and have them patrol region 4 and 5. That way if North force try something sneaky similar to the braintrees spores or something like that, we have higher chance to detect somethng amiss on our own ground.
While Apcs can be kept for support and transport of our main attack forces where they'll be muh more usefull.
-Also in the comming attack, with their machine gun and three anti tank rockets they should be nice cheap force multipliers for our bataillons
I'm open for suggestion for something else to buy instead tho, if you think there's something that'd be really much better to get instead.
I assume they could have other use like transporting stuff or evacuatng wounded soldie too ? They sorta remind me of the famous Boston dynamics big dog except actualy armored and caapble of a strong attack.
I think I'd take them over the bionic brigade as research alongside the advanced SID, laser urchins and laser tank research (80 K of research, oof, expensive, but damn if it wouldn't be worthwhile)
But we can think of that once we repealed this attack and see how much we have left.
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I'm aware mechanized infantry is a huge part of modern combat but.. I'm not sure for this the way this adventure work should alway be compared to real combat tactics.
.
Like, we started this adventure with something like what 4 bataillons. we were supposed to start a planetary insasion (small planet admitedly but still) with 4000 people or even now we have like a grand total of 8 tanks as an armored division and so far it has been enough.
So 40 APCs by this adventure standarts is actualy kind of a huge lot. I'm sure we could and should use more but for now it's definitvely a good number.
I'm not sure about the S9-RCVs.
I agree i may be seriously overselling them as transport, especialy given that given how cheap they are, they likely are extremely fragile to anything bove small arm fire. And all things considere I would rather have more skyshadows or APCs if we had the money
But on the other hands there's a couple reasons I think they can still be wortwhile purchasse:
-First because they are dirt cheap, I mean for 30 of them we only spend 13 000 Rp, that.. really not a lot. Even if I removed the 30 S9-RCVs we couldn't buy 10 40 SASAPCs with what we regain.
I suppose we could buy with this either 20 more Sonic Mechs (I'd like to wait for the Mk 2 to roll in, tho), the laser tank and/or laser urchin research or 2 volcano tanks (We really don't have many taks, do we ?)
-However there is another reason I want these S9-RCVs rather than just transport: hit and run harrasement attaks and, more importantly, Patrols.
While we have plenty of eyes on the sky with seekers drones, we'll soon have our sights mainly on region 2 and number 1. After this attack is over I'd like to hand some of our remaining S9-RCVs to our human cadets and have them patrol region 4 and 5. That way if North force try something sneaky similar to the braintrees spores or something like that, we have higher chance to detect somethng amiss on our own ground.
While Apcs can be kept for support and transport of our main attack forces where they'll be muh more usefull.
-Also in the comming attack, with their machine gun and three anti tank rockets they should be nice cheap force multipliers for our bataillons
I'm open for suggestion for something else to buy instead tho, if you think there's something that'd be really much better to get instead.