The Order of the Lion

[pipboy]

As the Order operates far away from Bretonia and politically separately to a large degree, launching a revenge operation against Bretonia, beyond not being feasible, wouldn't even make sense - that'd be like Saladin invading England during the historical Third Crusade.

Not at all, seeing as how the Corsair's ZOI borders and actually crosses into the Bretonian one, it wouldn't be like Saladin invading England at all.

It would be more like if independent orders of knights based out of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Principality of Antioch pissed off Saladin and he invaded those Kingdoms to get revenge for what the knightly orders did to his people..

Oh wait.... That's exactly what happened...

If the Corsairs were to plan and actually manage launch a force sufficiently large to pose a threat to Bretonia, the Crusaders would A) harass this force all the way to New London and B) take advantage of most of the Corsair warfleet's absence to strike at Corsair homespace with even greater efficiency. Oh, and so would every other enemy the Corsair Empire has, of which there's a diverse assortment. Logical consequences.

You're forgetting the one little fact that the Corsairs could easily send a couple battle groups, which is plenty to do major damage against the very weak Bretonian Armed Forces, and still leave Gamma very heavily defended. We're not talking about a one battleship faction here. The Corsairs have more than enough forces to spare. And besides, you theoretically have what - a few dozen ships in your order? So basically the Corsairs could send hundreds of ships to Bretonia, leave hundreds behind to defend Gamma, and they need to worry about you?

Sure you could harass them, but your talking about using gorilla tactics against the Corsairs.. That isn't like using those tactics against a house military. That's like trying to fight a huge fire with a candle, the Corsairs are very good at that type of warfare. Better at it than a group of ex military types would be.

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