Art of Domination Thread 04

It's 5 versus 5, huh... We could fight them in equal numbers, but it'd probably be quicker to hit them with more numbers. Two take the one going for Mullville and 3 take the ones heading for Cliffton. If those can be dealt with quick enough, it leaves us with 5v2 in Cadrow. Since Cadrow already experienced an attack recently and is probably still partly evacuated, it makes the most sense to attack those two Paladins last. It is a bit callous, but there is just probably less to destroy or damage at Cadrow when compared to our other cities. That being said, we should try and stall those two if possible. We need them to be locked or slowed down. Try pelting them with Volcano fire and send out Usurper Knights to try and distract them.

Agree with the general gist of the plan but not with using the Usurper knights. They won't be much help for this.

First because they are armed with phantomic repeater who, you may remember, can only target fleshy things (it's literlay the whole point that they would bypass armr and plating but that's only usefull if there's a fleshy target under it), they aren't going to do jack againt Ai controled full on mechanic robots.
We could arm them with anti tank weapons, sure but if our gunship couldn't harm these things except for the void spehere, we don't have anything portable by infantry that could be comparable to a void sphere singularity canon.
And even if we had then they'd have the main problem as any infantry unit we'll send against these things: Eight (heavy ?) lasers. Even if the Usuprper knight are a tiny bit more rssistant they'll still be roasted pretty fast. Laser go at the speed of light by definition, no dodging possible and any AI worth it's salt will NOT miss, ever.

However. These mechs are using lasers as armement, right ? Wellt that's exactly why we develloped tumorhide laser resistant armor for our vehicles.

The volcanos are a great idea, with the molten shots being able to harden and wlo down the targets after a while if they hit but they'll need help. I think on top of volcano tanks to slow them down, we could also send tumorhide clad sonic swatters to keep them of balance. Their heavy sonic blast are made to destroy buildings and, by their name, swat air units out fo the air. They should be able to shake even the most amor platted mechs, especialy if targeting those obvious leg joints weakness . And if the mechs try to use their jump jets, they can knock them out of the air.
Even if it doesn't hurt them, it should do wonders to slow them down considerably

Also our black hole artilleries. Don't know if their name is indicative and if they'll have anything similar to the void sohere, damage wise, but it's worth a shot.

Additionally, could the network be jammed? Disrupting their ability to communicate should lower their fighting efficiency in the approaching skirmish.

Jamming their comm is also a good idea. If it's feasible.

Depending of what kind of signal is used, we could try using the weather machine for it. High air pressure and stroms might play havoc on broadcasts. Not to mention heaby rain would make it even harder for them to fly or walk. good to slow them down.
(The two problems with this is that not only does the weather machine cost tons of money to operate as we've seen when clearing the smoke in cadrow, it also works both way, and would affect our units if they need to get closer to the mechs. (I assume the volcano tanks and sonic swatter have good rnage so that shoudln't be a hug problme but you never know))