Rheinland - Liberty War...

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Don't forget that Rheinland also practically mined up every last rock they owned (and a fair number they didn't) to build all that. Liberty isn't doing so hot in resource terms either, if you take a stroll through the asteroid field infocards it says "mined out" "mined out" "empty" "not viable for mining" etc... unless they plan to build ships out of ice, anyway. Rheinland also might be able to take home a beauty prize with a ship made entirely out of diamonds, but you get the idea. (Scratch that last one, Kyushu has both the diamond supplies to build a new planet and the style to make it pretty.)

Multiple heavy capital ships assigned to every base is no longer really feasible, I would say. Rheinland built and lost a very large number of ships, but Liberty invaded Kusari as well*... in addition to the three Dreadnoughts destroyed in your view during SP.

On the note of jumpgates becoming unusable, Leeds had a battleship parked outside the jumpgate for awhile and that didn't cause complaints. Also, look at Bremen. Actually, please don't, spare yourself and look at New Hampshire which is marginally better. There's a Liberty Dreadnought parked not 2k from the jumphole in from Bremen, and don't look yourself but there's a Rheinland Battleship on the other side roughly the same distance away. If that's what's to be expected of the battle lines, then there should definitely be battleships guarding the jumpgates (Westfalen and Mississippi could be moved up one of the tradelanes and have a new one at the other).

I like the idea, if it's done within reason. A BB at each of the easy invasion points (jumpgates and New Hampshire/Bremen), nothing else is really necessary.



*I kid you not. Mission 10, when you are going to extract Herr von Clausen, Lord Hakkera informs you that there's a change of plans because Rheinland now controls Honshu. The person escorting you from New Berlin to Holstein adds something to the effect of "With Liberty coming up through Galileo and Rheinland coming from the Sigmas, Kusari will get crushed in the middle." For whatever reason they don't explicitly mention it again (although the Nomad-controlled military coup in Liberty probably didn't help their ability to gather information), but it's there.

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