HFQ Official Snippet #9

Spacekiwi wrote:A belated/ontime (stupid timezones) happy birthday RFC!

Ooooops - a belated very happy birthday to you and many more of them!

Definitely on a par with Agincourt!

Hi Don, AClone,

I did bring this up 2-3 pages ago, but it got lost amid more exciting posts apparently.

But I didn't expect RFC to respond given all that was going on at the time; dentists, birthdays, etc.

More combat troops from Chisholm seems a bit too quick, given the extensive practice the ICA's tactics require, possibly more mortar troops, since that could be done faster.

The troops could be fresh marines from Charis, having finished their training on Helen's Island; or specialized support troops, possibly engineers who've just finished their instruction and practice with dynamite and possibly even TNT or at least briefed on it.

They could also be artillery trained on the new breech loaders, or possibly dynamite rockets [much lower firing shock and acceleration].

Plus whatever was made at Eraystor, possibly something for the canal barrier mentioned in the unofficial snippet #2?

We still don't know where the troops that left Port Royal at the beginning of section 10 in September have gone; probably near Silk Town, since Hanth doesn't think of them in his thoughts at the end of October when Delthak is saluted, though that should have been too early for them to arrive, NTM an army corps is too big for him to command with no previous experience.

I thought I'd finished this hours ago.

Perhaps we'll find out soon.

L

n7axw wrote:

AClone wrote:All right, so here's another question that struck me.

The roster lists "half a dozen troopships" in the attacked convoy, which was heading from Tellesburg to Siddar City.


I thought all of the Marines and ICA units were either already gone from Old Charis, or still in Chisholm. So...if no one has asked already, where did additional (presumably trained) troops come from?

I would have thought that new enlistees would be heading from Tellesberg, etc, towards Chisholm for training, not the front.

My guess on this is that they would indeed be heading for the front. We know that men are being recruited and freshly trained all the time. This could have been the latest batch.

Don

Chief, "Happy belated birthday."



<Perhaps a cute art with Terrain mice for a snack will help get a new snippet, two-legs.>



Poker & Mange

Gah its RFC's birthday! Totally missed that one! Happy birthday! (even if I am late)

runsforcelery wrote:
True, but your groveling might have been more effective if you'd recalled that in addition to all those other minor commemorative dates, today is also the 62nd October 24th since a rainy day in Cleveland, Ohio, when Alice Godard Weber gave birth to a baby boy who grew up to annoy the hell out of everyone around him.

Can't quite recall what she decided to name him . . . .

Yes, and a happy belated birthday from me as well. Can we have our loot bag of snippet now? Please?

Hi,
troops drafted in Corisande, Zebediah and Emerald would actually make sense, so that's what I'd assume. Moreover, a hefty supply of new weaponry going to - well, Siddar City most likely (not known).
However, the EoC could switch to just rotating their combat units and at the same time rebuilding the SRA to considerable strength. It should be as easy to train young motivated Siddarmarkians as their own people. And given the current population numbers, there should be a potential for the SRA to get up to numbers that are large enough to face the Harchongian contingent, providing they have modern Charisian weapons. So I'd fully expect the convoy to carry more weapons than troops.

Regarding things produced in Emerald - we don't even know, what they're producing around there. We've only seen that the IC is trying to industrialize Chisholm - and to a certain extent Siddarmark.
However, one of the EoC's main problems is speedy communication, for a lot of reasons. And incidentally, there've been several special breeds of messenger wyvern mentioned for Eraystor. Could be they have now the numbers to make effective use of them.

lyonheart wrote:Hi Don, AClone,

(snip)

More combat troops from Chisholm seems a bit too quick, given the extensive practice the ICA's tactics require, possibly more mortar troops, since that could be done faster.

The troops could be fresh marines from Charis, having finished their training on Helen's Island; or specialized support troops, possibly engineers who've just finished their instruction and practice with dynamite and possibly even TNT or at least briefed on it.

They could also be artillery trained on the new breech loaders, or possibly dynamite rockets [much lower firing shock and acceleration].

Plus whatever was made at Eraystor, possibly something for the canal barrier mentioned in the unofficial snippet #2?

We still don't know where the troops that left Port Royal at the beginning of section 10 in September have gone; probably near Silk Town, since Hanth doesn't think of them in his thoughts at the end of October when Delthak is saluted, though that should have been too early for them to arrive, NTM an army corps is too big for him to command with no previous experience.

I thought I'd finished this hours ago.

Perhaps we'll find out soon.

L

(snip)

Happy belated birthday RFC. Sorry about missing a good reason to beg for another fix.

Breaking subject/lane change.

The troop ships could be filled with individual replacements for EOC forces. Disease and non battle injuries (DNBI) take a huge toll of forces. Even forces with fairly up to date medical services. Did a noontime professional development class to my office on 17 October on the history of the U.S. 2nd Armored Division in World War II. The division lost almost half of its table of organization strength to DNBI during the war. (Yes it was to set a historical basis for everyone to watch the "Fury" movie.)

The management of replacements is a very complex process. May I suggest the book "Hell to Pay" by D. M. Giangreco for a discussion of how past and projected future casualties plaid a major part in the decision to push the Soviets into declaring war on Japan by the U.S. and the decision to use nuclear weapons.

About these mysterious troopships - I wonder if they were empty? It could be that these ships were intended to take badly wounded soldiers home or to provide some additional sealift capacity to the ICA/RSA. I don't know if such ships would be called "troopships", since they wouldn't have troops on them, but a galleon configured to carry a thousand or so passengers might deserve such a label.

runsforcelery wrote:
True, but your groveling might have been more effective if you'd recalled that in addition to all those other minor commemorative dates, today is also the 62nd October 24th since a rainy day in Cleveland, Ohio, when Alice Godard Weber gave birth to a baby boy who grew up to annoy the hell out of everyone around him.

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42 days older than me, Happy Birthday - - and many happy returns
Old Man

Apparently lots of folks missed the respose that the troppships themselves originated in Chisholm, and joined the convoy in Emerald.


Happy belated birthday, RFC!


If publication really is November '15. please do NOT rush to give us another snippet!