Behind Enemy Lines I: Rescue the stranded HMS-Argosax from the GRN

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I'll respond. I was gone for a few days.

In short; The entire premise of this event is a crock. You're trying to say a GRN military leader would travel in a contested war zone (Orkney) in a Luxury Liner. There is problem #1. It wouldn't happen. No GRN use a Liner to travel. If they are important to the war effort in any possible way, they'd travel in a military ship. Even civilians important to the war effort would receive transport provided by the military that would include far stronger defense than a liner.

Problem #2; Your assumption that the "frogs" would hand over this VIP because you shot at their liner and scared them. Well first, most GRN officers are fanatically loyal due to the 6 centuries of propaganda the crown has used to turn the King into a godly figure. Gallia defines "Divine Right" in every sense of the concept. Second, a Liner is faster than a battleship. Third, if a Liner were carrying a VIP, it'd have an escort, which would stop the battleship and distract it, letting the Liner escape with relative ease to one of the two stations in Orkney that the GRN controls.

Problem #3; You see yourself separate from the BAF. You're not.

Problem #4; You were devised and are controlled by some "shadow elements" in the government. You're forgetting that the BAF is a heavy political and governmental force in Bretonia, and that the Bretonian Intelligence Service is also directly under the control of the military. Furthermore, here in Disco we actually do have a player run government. Jammi, the one who plays the Prime Minister, certainly hasn't devised or commissioned the 13th fleet. And please don't try to come back and claim you have the Queen's backing. Because you don't. The War Cabinet, that being the leadership of the official factions in Bretonia, own the Queen character. Lastly, it doesn't matter if some "shadow elements" devised the idea of the 13th. They wouldn't be able to implement it. They have no military power. Every military decision must have the acceptance of the Fleet Admiral or Minister of Defense. And that is myself and Dieter. Think about the resources a fleet needs. You can't "hide" an active fleet. It has to be given battleships, cruisers, etc. Has to be supplied regularly, etc. All that requires approval by military personnel. Involvement of military personnel. And this concept of a behind-enemy-lines battleship fleet would never be approved.

Problem #5; First you said you have killed 5 Valors with your Dunkirk. Then you claimed 8. Well in the first two days of the GRN blitz into Leeds, I've seen you kill no GRN period, let alone Valors, meanwhile I saw you get killed 3 times. I haven't heard of that pattern changing in the last week.

Problem #6; Jumpdrives haven't been fully developed yet. The BAF don't have access to them, they are still safely tucked away in Kishiro's vault. I might understand calling jumpdrives to justify some of your lore, were jumpdrives available yet. Alas, they are not.

Problem #7; Troops do need support, yes. Unfortunately for this idea, the troops on the front line operate directly under the commands of the Grande Marechal, the leader of the GRN. That Grande Marechal operates on the front lines with the fleet, as is proper for a military leader to do in Gallia's feudal-monarchy-style culture. Add on the fact that two of the King's children, Aurelia DeFrance (the Grande Marechal) and Joseph DeFrance (the king's only son) also operate on the front lines, also in keeping with Gallia's feudal-monarchy-style culture. That's quite a bit of morale support and shows that the King is devoting all of his resources to this campaign. Then add in the rapid victories in the Taus and Edinburgh and you've got a lot of morale boosting going on. Sure, there would be people sent to the front lines. Some for military reasons, others for morale reasons, and then civilian reasons. But no one important to the war effort would be travelling there in a lone liner. The notion is silly.

Problem #8; World War II wasn't won by Britain going all out against Germany. World War II was won by Britain hunkering down on their islands after the defeat of France and fending off Germany's air attacks on the Isles until Germany invaded Russia and started getting pushed back.

Britain did not win the war alone, by sending troops behind enemy lines. We use spies for that, not battleships.

This event is nonsensical no matter which direction you're looking at it from.

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