the Zoners

[bluntpencil2001]

Actually, Doc, I'm going to throw my wrench in here and talk RP versus game mechanics for a second...now, in-game we all know making ridiculously overpowered ships isn't practical; balance issues and all. In-RP, though, the Juggernaut is, as we all know, described as a mobile fortress; what the Zoner Juggernaut is really is a HUGE construct, twice, maybe even three times the size of a Rheinland Battleship, with appropriately thick armor and number of extremely heavy guns. Whilst this is NOT what we see in-game due to the unpleasant mechanics we have to work with, this is a vision in-line with the ship infocard. If we're talking four or more Dunkirks I could see the Juggernaut sustaining fatal damage, but any less and it would be a total rout of the Bretonians, and even with four or five it would take plenty of them with it before it went down. Really, if the Zoners wanted to be they COULD be a very destructive military force, at least initially, against an uninformed navy such as the Bretonians. The Bretonians, with the resources of a fully developed house and a large standing navy, would eventually win out, but the Juggernauts would make it exceedingly expensive for them to do.

The same, however, cannot be said of the Corsairs. They know the Juggernauts are out there, and the suggested number (A few, which usually means three or four), and, while it would be expensive, could theoretically rout the Zoner's Juggernauts in a first strike.

Using the Juggernaut would only cripple Zoner strategy. A small population should always rely on mobile, guerrilla warfare, hit and run.

The Zoners don't have the population for any sort of war. Hell, they were afraid of the effects of having Unioners on Freeport 2. Zoners, excepting those in Delta, lack experience in general, largely being non-combat pilots. Compare this to a fleet which sees combat daily.

Using the Juggernaut just centres their strategy on a localised area, making them easy for Bomber Harris to target.

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