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RE: Gallic war - Omi - 08-21-2019
Honestly, I can't help but agree with Lyth. I don't see the logic in the Leeds saturation bombardment -- which, unless I'm very much mistaken, is not just a surgical strike on infrastructure.
Quote:A concentrated force of the GRN's remaining Triumph Destroyers are now operating under firing orders in comms isolation, scouring the surface of Leeds. With multiple passes from many more beams than were available at the Burning of London even the planet's mega arcologies and underground cities are at risk of horrific devastation.
I expect to see the planet totally glassed & undockable after all of this, but I am very interested to see who winds up as the scapegoat for it when all's said and done.
RE: Gallic war - Sombs - 08-21-2019
(08-21-2019, 03:00 PM)Markam Wrote:(08-21-2019, 02:18 PM)Madvillain Wrote:(08-21-2019, 02:11 PM)Sombra Hookier Wrote: The bombardement aims for infrastructure, not for the entire destruction, which is a big and significant difference
I was not aware of this and stand corrected.
This is just Sombras opinion as of posting. Lanakov was absolutely of the opinion that New London was cruise missile precision level attacks on military and strategic targets, and yet it plain ended up being 4 cities, mostly civilian targets, getting attacked and killing three hundred million people.
You will see, at the end, that Leeds wasn't targeting infrastructure, but an exercise in genocide.
I think you have a misunderstanding for what infrastructure means.
RE: Gallic war - JonasHudson - 08-21-2019
(08-21-2019, 11:40 AM)Lythrilux Wrote:(08-21-2019, 11:20 AM)Markam Wrote: Basically Gallia is the Phantoms reincarnated.
Which is so stupid. The war concludes with Gallia turning into a cartoon villain just because. Nomads nuking Toledo made sense because they're literally aliens who hate humanity. And to be true, Phantoms were (AFAIK) to a degree alien as well. Maybe it could all be justified as King Charles suddenly going insane.
Gotta nuke something?
(08-21-2019, 02:11 PM)Sombra Hookier Wrote: Despite what most people complained about, the destruction of Leeds' infrastructure makes sense and isn't cartoon-villain-ish at all. Scorched-Earth-scenarios have been a thing for a looooong time in our history, and the bombardement of Leeds actually will put one hell of a stone into the "Allied" way. The bombardement aims for infrastructure, not for the entire destruction, which is a big and significant difference. Bretonia will need a shitload of resources just to maintain what is on Leeds, and even more to rebuild. Resources they can't spend on a new war machine. It puts a time buffer in place, while also serving as a testimony of what Gallia could have done literally any time already but did not.
But these ships are rigged with beams to effect plate tectonics, and I have been under the impression that as such, Leeds will be a total loss. as in, an inhospitable lava planet. Orbital bombarment could have always been done with normal ships but to level the whole surface would take a long time. So, scortched earth is a tactic they could have used but this isnt just going after inrastructure, will anyome confirm that or do we have to wait to find out? But I see it as unrealistic its even going on for many reasons, but bottom line is its about putting us in a written space novel. I will be avoiding involvement in storyline actions and activities from now on. Setting up a war to have team based competitions is one thing, but I can't say I'm a fan of elaborate situations that happen just for the sake of throwing it in there.
RE: Gallic war - Sombs - 08-21-2019
There are more effective ways of rendering a planet uninhabitable than laser beams. But then again, the moment I got reminded this is written by the story devs, I got reminded of how, uh, experienced they are.
RE: Gallic war - Foxglove - 08-21-2019
(08-21-2019, 03:31 PM)Sombra Hookier Wrote: There are more effective ways of rendering a planet uninhabitable than laser beams. But then again, the moment I got reminded this is written by the story devs, I got reminded of how, uh, experienced they are.
This is literally my only complaint as well. If you wanted to prevent the planet from being productive again, you could detonate warheads around the planet's fault lines, thus cracking the surface like an eggshell, similar to how the Nomads did it with Planet Toledo. This would take less than a day. Destroying a planet in the Freelancer universe ought to be really easy, actually.
RE: Gallic war - Thunderer - 08-21-2019
Or drop a teaspoon of Carlisle bacteria on it.
RE: Gallic war - Karlotta - 08-21-2019
Funny how nobody complained when nomads destroyed an entire snowy wasteland planet because the Order had one cave and two landing pads on it. Because aliens.
RE: Gallic war - Madvillain - 08-21-2019
(08-21-2019, 03:51 PM)Karlotta Wrote: Funny how nobody complained when nomads destroyed an entire snowy wasteland planet because the Order had one cave and two landing pads on it. Because aliens.
Because aliens is actually a pretty good motivation for doing things outside the scope of human understanding
RE: Gallic war - Thunderer - 08-21-2019
The staff of that time was stricter. You were among the rare ones who thought of criticizing them. And then you were banned.
RE: Gallic war - LaWey - 08-21-2019
Chough...chough...
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Sometime, civillians were considered as infrastructure too, isnt?