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by dwileye13 » Tue Feb 10, 2015 11:27 am | |
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IMO We are all swirling around the same central issue. Logistics remain the key to defeating the Churches Armies . Dairnyth is and will be the lifeblood of the Armies of Cliff Peak and (in the near future) the Harchongese. The Army of the Sylmahn is in deep Merde and even as their logistics are about to improve, BGV will be the 1st threat and if the Army of the Sylmahn turn toward BGV, the ICA in the Gap will combine to hit his flank/rear.
The Allies have excellent Logistics and a powerful manufacturing base behind it. Food Production is booming (ICN must take back control of the Ocean lanes though). The Allies just need to not stretch their supply lines. Dairynth may see the Deltek parked in the Bay of Bess. with DE and a major force assuming control. Hanth can isolate the Dohlarian forces and hold them. I doubt with their border and the heart of their country under severe threat they would rush to save what was a 'safe and inaccessable' port. I have been wondering about the 28 new 'riverboats' Deltek II I believe. They are about to be unleashed against the privateers and I hope up the Sheridahn via Alykberg to the Gulf of Tanshar. Capturing Port Salthar from the Dohlar side would be cool . I am not young enough to know everything!
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by n7axw » Tue Feb 10, 2015 2:04 pm | |
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Hi PeterZ I have a bit of textev floating around in my head that I might not be remembering correctly. I will see if I can hunt it up to reinforce or correct my memory. Don When any group seeks political power in God's name, both religion and politics are instantly corrupted.
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by n7axw » Tue Feb 10, 2015 3:38 pm | |
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Hi PeterZ,
You guys are right. The passage I was recalling from BVG's ruminations summarized the various EOC field armies, but didn't include Hanth. 30,000 does seem to be the latest update on Hanth. That does make him appear a bit short handed in facing the reinforced Dohlarans at Evyrtyn. I hope they get him some additional help. Don When any group seeks political power in God's name, both religion and politics are instantly corrupted.
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by Castenea » Tue Feb 10, 2015 5:19 pm | |
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I think that the canal is of less help than you are thinking. Remember that you need to factor in the time required to break bulk when transferring from galleon to canal boat. Separating Silkiah from the CoGA is a good thing for a number of reasons, but the logistics help may be more in the form of coaling stations and reduced privateer bases, than shorter supply lines. |
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by jgnfld » Tue Feb 10, 2015 10:21 pm | |
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With sail at 200 miles/day average (pretty much a maximum for sustained voyages--even the rescue ships for Daivyn/Irys could barely average that), saving 5000 miles saves about a month. If 12,000 miles the savings is at least 2 months. That's under good conditions with no adverse winds, adverse storms, etc. In practice we're probably talking 6 weeks to 3 months savings.
Given that, offloading to canal boats doesn't seem such a bad idea if the option is there.
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by tootall » Tue Feb 10, 2015 11:27 pm | |
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Getting an 18 meter elevation advantage may be trickier, when Delthak is normally at the local water level. How much range would they have against targets, say, up to 10m over Delthak?
And what are the chances that there are some 30-50 meter hills between water level and our target? Pretty good I'd think. Any forward observer will have to be able to see both the target and the battery involved. |
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by fallsfromtrees » Wed Feb 11, 2015 12:48 am | |
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Do I hear a cross link with the hot air balloon topic? ========================
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by lyonheart » Wed Feb 11, 2015 1:36 am | |
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Hi JeffEngel,
Kudos for some excellent reasoning! You may well be right, since we know so little about Nynian's full capabilities. Preparing something that would ease any military action by Charis, since Silkiah is such an obvious naval target, would be greatly appreciated by the EoC, but it'd have too be rather subtle to be overlooked by the inquisition, possibly emphasizing the Empire's ending serfdom, free trade etc throughout the rest of the empire in newspapers or anonymous pamphlets or broadsheets she owned and operated through third parties before the SoS, in contrast to how Silkians are now treated in their own country by the inquisition. After all if it works for the mysterious broadsheet network [OWL's], why not hers? She might consider it a challenge to figure out how it might possibly be done by mortals as a test or proof [if her organization can't do it, are seijins the only explanation?] then that perhaps someone with some special tools like Seijin Khody, which might have encouraged her belief there's another seijin at work. What are some other tricks you think she might have come up with or prepared in Silkiah? L
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by lyonheart » Wed Feb 11, 2015 2:25 am | |
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Hi JeffEngel,
From the textev, where he warns Thirsk, I don't think he has any direct connections with Nynian or any resistance group, but I believe his moral compass won't let him ignore what he knows is wrong, even if he can't stop it right now. I also can't help thinking that someone known to be a good bishop would be known to Nynian, and also have some special unremarkable (unknown to him) watchers looking after him because she's pegged him as a major future player in the future reformed Dohlar along with Thirsk, Ahlverez, etc. Which we should see some outline of by the end of HFQ. L
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by lyonheart » Wed Feb 11, 2015 3:33 am | |
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Hi Don,
Thanks for your concern. Family and a few other duties have taken up my usual time, I'm way behind reading some other threads. Where are you getting 120,000 men left in the RDA? Ahlverez started for Fort Tairys with an army about half the size of Harless's [88-90K] and added some 20,000 replacements, yet now has less than 35,000 left. Rychtyr had close to 40,000 before combining with Ahlverez when he had almost 50,000 after Alykberg, but before their assault on Thesmar, but we have no details on the size of Rychtyr's after the assault, but best guess would be 20,000+ before adding any replacements. Even with the almost 13,000+ Desnari infantry that attached themselves to Ahlverez, he had less than 48,000 men, and he was still halfway to Thesmar, as last we read in LaMA. I'd want Fyguera to have at least close to 10,000 men to garrison Thesmar while Hanth took ~20,000 men to roll the AoJ's supply tail up. L
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