The Kusari Exiles (4.86)

[Unseelie]

From Igiss's document

The Armed Forces have barely 30 battleships remaining in their possession along with under 500 destroyers and gunboats, and some 70,000 fighters and bombers. Against them, Gallia has well over 150 battleships, nearly 2,000 smaller capital ships, and 125,000 strike craft in Tau systems and Edinburgh alone, with more reinforcements still coming through Orkney. To try and boost their numbers BMM is working at well over normal capacity in Southampton to produce new ships, whilst bringing any available old decommissioned warships back into service, salvaging parts from the Southampton debris field. At the same time, the BAF is converting many civilian vessels into military craft and a sizeable Space Volunteer Corps of over 20,000 civilian fighters has been formed to supplement the regular BAF as auxiliaries to defend their homeland.

The ronin have 5 battleships, 10 Destroyers and 25 Gunboats and a handful of fighter and bomber wings. While they don't pose a serious threat to Gallic forces in Tau-31, they have a potential to become an important part of Bretonia's defense during the forthcoming war.

That'€™s the military situation in bretionia'€¦.
Capitaliwize, overwhelmed, but its been Bretonia'€™s long policy to not engage Capitals without very good odds, they fight a war of attrition. For that war of attrition, they have some 70 thousand regulars and 20 thousand irregulars against some 125 thousand Gallic fighters..not exactly horrible odds, though.

The '€“capitals- That the ronin can bring to the table can affect the bretonian side of the equation, but they'€™re still losing hard in that position, while the fightercraft..only shift the odds a little.

What I'm ilustrating here, Pancakes, is that, in terms of capital craft, Bretonia is going to lose. Period. No matter what. In point of fact, Leeds is going to be the subject of orbital bombardment and space to ground seige (do we have any idea how that's going to work?) Bretonia is falling back, largely, to NL, letting the mollys handle Dublin, which means they've some large amount of capitalcraft to drop on that border...the largest miltiary buildup in the history of the war, as Jammi stated. In the system of Leeds, where the snub war is to take place, its roughly 150 thousand resupplied fighters vs 90 thousand of dubious re-supply, and, hey, 5k or less Ronin...its a losing war, yes.

But just because its a losing war does not mean bretonia is going to be particularly interested in doing anything but using the Ronin as a meatsheild.

Again, though, why are they the Ronin? They -have- the emporer.

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