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Depends entirely on the planetary dominant terrain. Fortifications can hide a significant portion of them in rifts and forests. We need sensors close by to even start with an assessment. If the dominant terrain is plains, tundra or desert, then what you see is what you get. If it's forested mountains or, god forbid, jungle rift valleys, Emu is in for a world of hurt.
What would Warth count as?
 
Depends entirely on the planetary dominant terrain. Fortifications can hide a significant portion of them in rifts and forests. We need sensors close by to even start with an assessment. If the dominant terrain is plains, tundra or desert, then what you see is what you get. If it's forested mountains or, god forbid, jungle rift valleys, Emu is in for a world of hurt.

I was basing that on one of our earlier ground forces engagements. The Rakhas, which definitely had some funky terrain.
But thanks, this is helpful.
 
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We have ten Rodent class Drop Ships under construction.

Carries enough shuttles to Load / Unload 50,000 tons of ground troops in ONE hour. Good speed for a commercial design. Eight layers of armor.

We should have 20 of them launched within 3 years (and a bit). Enough to carry one million troops.

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Nice.

Shield regeneration rate.

And we're getting ludicrous amounts of Gallicite from these wrecks.

The ship's armor gave 60 Neutronium. Sensors gave 7 Boronide. Life support gave 46 Mercassium. And the engines gave 1,500 Gallicite.

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August 22nd, 2031.

Another polite suggestion. Diplo +106.8

More ground troops. More Partystarters.
 
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The commander of the Carrier ESN Crab Nebula is also the ranking officer of the Carrier squadron.

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Has Rowan of Elton already seen their character's sheet?
 
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August 27th, 2031.

Another polite suggestion. Diplo +108

Just the usual action. Troop builds, Sabre upgrades, more Fighter factories built etc.
 
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My plan for the actual assault landing on their home planet:

After breaking the jump point blockade with the aid of Partystarters, destroying their fleet, securing the star system, bringing in our millions of tons of ground troops, knocking out any orbital defenses, dueling with the planetary STO and suppressing it, and then transferring our ground troops to the planet's moon -

- We will have about three times as many fully loaded Lizard class towed Drop Racks as we have Tugs to tow them. So the Tug charges in with a drop rack, drops the ground troops, pulls the empty rack back to the moon, TRADES IT FOR A FULLY LOADED DROP RACK and again charges straight back into the mass landing... while the empty rack is already picking up a second load of troops.

We should be able to get literally MILLIONS of troops on the ground in time for the first round of combat (there is one combat round every eight hours).
 
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Nice.

Shield regeneration rate.

And we're getting ludicrous amounts of Gallicite from these wrecks.

The ship's armor gave 60 Neutronium. Sensors gave 7 Boronide. And the engines gave 1,500 Gallicite.

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They didn't have shields, and yet we got Sheila's tech?
 
We should be able to get literally MILLIONS of troops on the ground in time for the first round of combat (there is one combat round every eight hours).
Does the first round start immediately?
 
He clearly asked for Warth, the opposite Earth located in the Weast dimension. And that's Forested temperate lands.
I thought it was Warts, which mostly count like hilly terrain?
 
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Does the first round start immediately?
The first round automatically takes place eight hours after the landing begins.

They didn't have shields, and yet we got Sheila's tech?
That was a Lot-et-Garonne wreck. They do indeed have shields. 145 points worth.

We didn't recover the shield intact, so we don't get the component.

But apparently we got enough bits for the scientists to study.
 
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I thought it was Warts, which mostly count like hilly terrain?
Warth is a parallel-Earth planet that is constantly at war. All the time. With everybody. Including each other.

In the grim darkness of the future... there is only war.
 
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Warth is a parallel-Earth planet that is constantly at war. All the time. With everybody. Including each other.

In the grim darkness of the future... there is only war.
I guess ira inhabited by Scotsmen, then.
 
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Isn't artillery a bit heavy on the collateral damage side? I seem to remember something like that..
I think Light and Medium Artillery are not too bad, but Heavy and Super-Heavy Artillery will wreck stuff.

As I recall?
 
This is a modern Infantry Division:

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Sixteen Light Infantry Battalions, supported by sixteen Medium Artillery Batteries. The troops themselves are light on armor and heavy on firepower, in order to pack as much punch as possible into each ton of ground troops. With our thin armor we'll probably take lots of losses... but since the enemy has better Laser tech and probably better armor tech, we would have been taking serious losses anyway. At least this way we'll hurt him badly, too.

We will also have 2011-model (ie: 20-year-old) Tank Divisions and Heavy Infantry Divisions available for the assault.
 
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