marcus wrote:
So for this thread You are Honor 10 million plus Beowulf n’s have died from a SLN attack you are not allowed for political reasons to attack earth how do you bring down The SLN and Mandarins
If this is the premise, then things are going to change drastically from the Lacoon plans. Lacoon was concieved with Manticore as the only aggressor taking on the SLN. Lacoon did not plan on allies as part of the aggressor group. Nor did it take into account of an ally planet suffering 10 million civilian planetary deaths. So things would change drastically.
Within 2 to 3 weeks a large task force would move on Earth and destroy anything militarily related. All active ships, all reserve ships, all construction facilities, even admin facilities would be chunks of space debris. With in a short period of time, attacks would be mounted against 3 or 4 more SLN hubs destroying the full military infrastructure there.
Also in the core worlds, as most don't have a SDF, small task groups, 20 or so, of 4 to 6 ships, depending on their size (destroyers, cruisers, BC's) that would make lightning raids of ship construction facilities in the core worlds. Destroying most but not all facilities at each planet.
As far as commerce raiding goes, have individual ships go on the hunt. Capture any shipping they find. Offload the crews and drop them off at the first available planet. Have temporary prise crews take the freighters to a pre-arranged deep space location that is near by and leave them there. Space is huge, unless you know where those ships are, you'll never find them. Real prise crews can come by later and pick them up. This way the small ships doing the hunting can keep a full crew and deny the SL the use of the freighters at the same time.
Out it the Frontier, I would put together a good number of task forces that contained one personal transport, one ammunition transport, one SDP, one CLAC and six BC's. Each of these task forces would go attack FF sector HQ's which are usually defended by 6 or fewer SLN ships of BC size or smaller. Send in the SDP and CLAC and see if they come out to fight or try to run. If they run, drop the 6 BC's in their path from hyper. Destroy these ships either in battle or by scuttling them after their surrender. If the local system had transport to pick up the survivors, help them do so. If they don't use your own personal transport to collect them and return them to a planet. Then move on to the next HQ. The plan here is to destroy as much military capability as possible, not regime change. The marines can do that later. Right now it's blitz and smash and then move on. It might even be necessary to disable the hyper engines of any passenger ships to keep the word of what is happening from spreading to fast. Freighters again would be take to some arranged deep space point and left, if not disabled at the planet.
With in half a year of these tactics the SLN and FF would be in serious hurt
