Prakith Counter Invasion - Objective 1

[Corvus Raaf]

Objective 1: Prak City Spaceport

• Republic - Takeover and Secure Spaceport.
• Sith - Defend spaceport from occupation.
• Destruction of spaceport equates to a draw.

Set this up as a place for OOC discussion ahead of the counter-invasion.

 

[Kian Karr]

Ok, I copied and pasted everyone listed on the first page, let me know if I missed anyone!

@Kosuke Yamouchi (Padawan)
[member="Sophia Walsh"] (Master)
[member="Sressechka"]
[member="Ella Nova"] (Knight)
@Kiyron
[member="Rael sul B'an"]
@Aquila Audax
@Kian Karr (Master)
[member="Ayden Quell"] (Padawan)
[member="Catherine Soja"] (Padawan)

Let us talk strategy!!!

 

[Beowoof]

[member="Corvus Raaf"], [member="Kian Karr"]

I'm obviously going to be providing air cover. Should we be expecting Sithbeasts in the area? That may determine the fighter I use.

 

[Corvus Raaf]

We don't know yet. Zane or Kiskla will open the Invasion with a post - later tonight I suspect. Until then, I'm not entirely sure - but it's a citadel/fortress planet so expect plenty of Sith Beasts is my guess...

 

[Kiyron]

I'll be bringing the Rogues again. Someone should probably also bring some of the other regiments specializing in close assault. Berserker comes to mind. Kiyron will find a rooftop and stash himself there while most of the Rogues will head underground into any sewers that might be there.

 

[Kira Talith]

[member="Corvus Raaf"], [member="Kian Karr"]

I'm obviously going to be providing air cover. Should we be expecting Sithbeasts in the area? That may determine the fighter I use.

Are you going to objective C or objective A?

Either or is fine, just pick one

If you want to make it to another area, that's fine too -- but work your way through it in several posts.

Otherwise it can get confusing.

 

[Darth Ayra]

[member="Kian Karr"]

I'm a close combat, PvP player.

 

[Beowoof]

[member="Kira Liadain"]

I'm taking this objective. I'm providing air cover for those attacking the spaceport.

I also might try to fly right through the hangars.

 

[Kian Karr]

Ok all, I'm going to be leading a unit of EMBU droids and commandos through the back of the spaceport, entering in, hopefully, relative stealth in an attempt to undermine their defenses.

Whose doing what?

 

[Aqulia Audax]

[member="Kian Karr"]

I'm also providing cover - once I get the green light our fighters can be deployed.

[member="Sressechka"]

 

[Kiyron]

I'm waiting for the particle shield to go down before deploying. We need multiple regiments, and perhaps two full corps as well. That's sixty thousand plus armor. Anyone want to split the NPC command duties?

 

[Gherron Dragovalor]

I'm heading for this one too, if you could tag me [member="Kian Karr"]

 

[Kiyron]

Anyone know what our expected full military strength is for this? A sector army with over a million troops? Or smaller?

 

[Kian Karr]

[member="Corvus Raaf"], any insight into the above question?

 

[Corvus Raaf]

[member="Corvus Raaf"], any insight into the above question?

My 100% honest answer is no.

It's for each side to decide how many troops it brings to these sort of things. As mentioned previously, this is not some sleepy backwater planet - it's a fortress world. So we'd come well manned. But as to numbers? I'd defer to someone who know more about these things.

And based upon my level of knowledge, that's pretty much anybody

But logic says it's also about logistics. The volume of ships and dropships to transport 1,000,000 soldiers? I'll throw it open to anyone to watched Starship Troopers recently...

 

[Beowoof]

But logic says it's also about logistics. The volume of ships and dropships to transport 1,000,000 soldiers? I'll throw it open to anyone to watched Starship Troopers recently...

I totally agree, but we've seen the Sith take over Coruscant, Alderaan, and Manaan in recent months--all of which are 'fortress worlds'. Which would mean that they would have had to defy logistics themselves, in the first place, in order to invade us! Especially since they were the smaller faction and had virtually no populated worlds under their control when they made their first assault into Republic territory.

*shrugs*

Logic seems to be expendable, as we've seen.

 

[Kiyron]

The largest seaborne invasion in history was D-Day and that had 156,000 troops for something significantly smaller and less defended than Prakith presumably is. In the Republic structure, that's a small system army, roughly speaking, and general rule of thumb is that an invading force needs to outnumber defenders 3 to 1 to really be successful.

It doesn't look like anyone's throwing around huge numbers of troops, so I won't kick it off. That and I feel like someone ran my head through a trash compactor so I don't want to deal with all the numbers.

 

[Corvus Raaf]

I totally agree, but we've seen the Sith take over Coruscant, Alderaan, and Manaan in recent months--all of which are 'fortress worlds'. Which would mean that they would have had to defy logistics themselves, in the first place, in order to invade us! Especially since they were the smaller faction and had virtually no populated worlds under their control when they made their first assault into Republic territory.

*shrugs*

Logic seems to be expendable, as we've seen.

Then use that as the logic for the volume of our forces... That makes sense to me.

 

[Kira Talith]

Then use that as the logic for the volume of our forces... That makes sense to me.

I totally agree, but we've seen the Sith take over Coruscant, Alderaan, and Manaan in recent months--all of which are 'fortress worlds'. Which would mean that they would have had to defy logistics themselves, in the first place, in order to invade us! Especially since they were the smaller faction and had virtually no populated worlds under their control when they made their first assault into Republic territory.

*shrugs*

Logic seems to be expendable, as we've seen.

The first two invasions mentioned were strictly PVP. Each fight lost by a PC character were tallied up to result in a win.

That is why the One Sith won the first invasion of Coruscant and the first invasion of Alderaan.

It wasn't because they were a "smaller" faction. Map size has nothing to do with that -- as a minor faction for the six months up until their major debut they had well over 30 active writers plus the 15 unique writer allies that helped them.

Manaan was NPCS and set as a surprise invasion with the allowance of Pub reinforcements to come in 3 days later to help out.

Ya'll can come in with as many crazy numbers as you want.

But do you really want this to go into a numbers game?

Because by all accounts per the terms, they can bring in every bit of roleplayed defenses roleplayed on Prakith the past year and bring roleplayed links. That includes the leviathans, the huge sithspawn, or anything else that by all intents and purposes, they can bring in right from the get go as it has been roleplayed on the planet before.

Right now, Nepthys and the other players are actually using a reasonable amount of NPC's for the exact specific objectives.

Because 1 million strong npcs will only fan the whole "Welp... time to bring in the rest of the NPC's on a fortress world." mindset.

 

[Kian Karr]

@Kiyron

My suggestion would be to examine the numbers that are being put forth by the OS and then bring in a number based off that. Obviously, as we are invading a fortress world we would be bringing in a large number of troops, but try to keep it reasonable. I'd rather not see this turn into an all NPC battle scenario.