Rheinland Stronger than Disco Gives Credit

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Rheinland is a total trainwreck inRP in Disco. Here, I will prove that isn't so true. With their vast industry and mineral wealth, Rheinland was able to support a great fleet.

I will tally the number of ships shown / assumed to have in the Freelancer SP campaign, but I will make a few small assumptions. Additionally, I may over or underestimate the presence of ships due to small lapse in memory, but this shall be mostly accurate.

Ships you are forced to destroy, such as the vessels you engage with Kress' men, and all of the gunboats you duel with up to the point where you leave Kyoto Base to find von Claussen will not be counted as part of the fleet due to their destruction.

These ships are assumed to have survived due to their presence in a non-conflict area:
1 Rheinland Battleturtle (RBT) at New Berlin, 6 Rheinland Gunboats (RGB), 2 Rheinland Cruisers (RNC)
4 RBT, 16 RNC, 0 RGB at Frankfurt gate.
4 RBT, 16 RNC, 0 RGB at New Berlin gate in Frankfurt.
2 RBT, 2 RNC, 2 RGB at Mannheim
2 RBT, 4 RNC, 8 RGB at Mainz
That adds up to 13 RBT, 40 RNC, and 16 RGB. I am going to assume that there was force symmetry in the rest of New Berlin and the western end of Rheinland, so I will double this amount. That gives us 26 RBT, 80 RNC, and 32 RGB that most probably survived.

These ships are assumed to have existed / survived because their destruction was possible but not required or their existence was heavily implied:
Northern Fleet in Sigma-13 (Kusari invasion), at least 4 RBT, 8 RNC, 0? RGB.
Bretonian invasion fleet, likely identical to the Northern Fleet
Libertonian invasion fleet, likely identical to the Northern Fleet
So, we basically have the Northern Fleet x 3. That gives us 12 RBT, 24 RNC, and 0? RGB.

Adding that with our previous totals for near-confirmed survivals, we have 38 RBT, 104 RNC, and 32? RGB. I will also add the battleship bases present in Disco 4.87 (Altenburg, Karlsruhe, Koblenz, Moselle, Regensburg, Schwerin, Strausberg, Westfalen, and Westphalia, 9)

Final total: 47 RBT, 104 RNC, an 32? RGB. I assume the gunboat numbers are much greater due to their heavy presence in attacks against Trent during the campaign. However, I will not make estimates regarding their number. I will only assume they are extremely plentiful.

Even if this math isn't perfect (and I'm sure it isn't), Rheinland obviously had an enormous fleet, and more importantly, a colossal economy to sustain it. That's why I say that Rheinland is severely underpowered in Disco.

Edit: These numbers are, in my opinion, very conservative estimates.

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