The Order of the Lion

[mwerte]

I must say, when I first saw the title and a few rumblings about this on Skype my reaction was "oh dear, another 'pew pew Corsairs YANF', kinda like the T2B BH GS thing that tried to get pulled a while back"

But then I read it, and it sounds very well thought out and planned, and it really does harken back to the Crusades from Midevil Europe.

I wish to echo Lawowi's statement though, the Corsair bases outside of Gamma are pretty empty, and I would be displeased if I saw your boys in Gamma outside of an organized event.

That being said, I agree, this idea has much potential, esp if they develop close under the table ties to the BAF, working as scouts and such. I can see the Hessians looking the other way if you're killing Corsairs, esp if you make it a habit and don't shoot them. My advice would be to (barely) talk it out with the RHA leaders, but don't just impose a "we don't shoot each other now", let it work itself out ingame.

I would like to know what you plan to do about the rather large presense of Corsairs in Omega 49, because that's a lot of politically protected Corsairs sitting on your back porch.

Now, to the main part of my post. :P

I have serious concerns about your existing infastructure, where do you get supplies (food, water, medical, spare parts, fuel, ect) from? Those things cost lots of money, and without offical government sponsering or a wealthy investor/corporate sponsor I don't see you having that much money.

Where do you base from? I know you mentioned a BMM base but I really doubt that they would enjoy making themselves a primary target for Corsair retaliation.

What is your support infastructure like? Mechanics, cooks, hookers, analists, intelligence guys, trainers, ect. From what I've seen you have no supply chain, no releif, no logistics (which was one of the main reasons most crusades failed btw) or consistant supplies.

I do like the idea of using fireflys to supply your own bases, makes for good convoy missions. Also, retrofitted Firefly's could serve as Marine Transports, or Command and Control Centers.

Finally, the Bretonian Rapid Repsonse Force: Prime (my mini task force, containing 3 GBs, mainly the HMS-Nestor) could conveniantly be ordered into a nearby area to you if you need extra fire support.

Edit, Forgot.

From a tactical standpoint, if you're defending and squished between 2 forces coming at you, simply trying to hold isn't enough, you need to take away an advantage of theirs and capitalize on one of their main weaknesses, supply lines. Going on an indirect offensive (especially with a small mobile "wrecking unit") behind enemy lines can demoralize them, make it so they don't have the supplies needed to keep up their offensive, keep them off guard, throw them on the defensive, and most importantly, they'll re-allocate forces from the front to chase your force down, if you can stay a step ahead of them their offensive could be stalled for months. That could very well buy the Bretonian Empire the breating time to force a stalemate with Kusari.

This idea is sort of like the Privateers, instead of Kusari it's Corsairs they're causing mayham for. Again, it's very dependent on if you attack Gamma or not.

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