Captin Cavemans War with the Paranid

[Captain CAVEMAN!!!]

Basically.

Run Up Of Events:

For a while now i have been at war with ... Everyone, And througout this war i have roleplayed a paranid (using only paranid ships (but stations by everyone)) so i kept the paranid as allys so i had quick acces to ships producs stations etc.
But a few monthes ago relations with the paranid collapsed and i was forced to take them on also. Within a week i had taken paranid prime and most of the neighbouring sectors. Using the hub to set ambushes, cut off reinforcements and capture ships i had complete controll of the battlefield.

Inevitably the yaki became my allys and i could use their shipyard to purchaase ships to use in an emergency should i run dangerously low. (hence breaking my paranid RP but nvm )

However in the last six weeks or so Split and Xenon activity picked up and i lost Getsu Fune and Family Pride. I Sent three task groups from paranid space leaving two sectors undefended (Emperor's Wisdom and Dukes Domain) The paranid picked up on this and sent two RRF's to each sector (Rapid Response Fleets) within a day they took both sectors back. in theese two sectors a massed fleet of about 30 capital ships was congregated and i had to call in half of the '2nd Fleet' to deal with them. after 4 hours of brutal conflict all four lost sectors were taken and i could breath easyly for a while.

The Task At Hand:

I had to Assume that the paranid were coming from the second largest cluster of sectors in their space Located around eight sectors away at the bottom and centre of the map 'with Priests Refuge' at the Centre.

I already had an Undiscovered scout outpost in the area so i sent around 15 pegasus to search the sectors and after three hours of scouting i counted over Approximately 30 destroyers 50 frigates and 13 carriers sread through the sectors.

After pouring over previous forum threads i couldent find a single answer to the simple question "How the hell am i going to do this ?" :

So ofcourse i quickly deployed all idle warships without leaving major sectors undefended and massed all the forces i could lay my shaky confused paws on. Scouts revealed perpetual sin is completely empty so i jumped my forces to there and established a Bridgehead.
After a few hours i had A full task Group my Headquaters 4 equipment docks 3 fighter stations and a few ore mines set up in the area.

Here is a status report of the situation mapping forces etc
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I dont really Know how my forces are going to take the sectors knowing they have nearrly twice as many on standby but i have the entire area seiged blocking trading routes and intercepting reinforcements without jumpdrives.

I Genuinly Cannot be bothered writing more so any help would be appreciated.
Captain C.

**Edit will eventually edit map to show enemy numbers but need more time to scout first.

**Edit Battles will take place with me IS not OOS

[Dareliisko]

havent waged a war on this magnitude yet, hell the most daring ive done is steal a nemesis from duke and destroy a P in a xenon sector (saved before i tried nearly killed one of their Qs)

But hit and run tactics. Assuming any one of yours or at least your best destroyer can take on and defeat an enemy destroyer before it damages your hull.

You can use that to quickly hit them, then move in with bigger fleets, or if your more opted to an actual war, make sure you can defend everywhere except Perpetual Sin. Move all the remaining forces into Dukes Citadel, eliminate everything, then they will move forces in, in the order of closest as soon as your hated enough.

Place your destroyers near the gate when your expecting enemies tell them to defend position with some M6 nearby then they will lay into anything that comes through. when your done mopping up the sector move on, just remember that after Dukes Citadel your dealing with 3 gates where they can come from.

[Smacksim]

I don't think you need advice, seeing as how you've managed to take over the rest of the 'verse already! Cheers at that. Your forces outnumber theirs, and what's more, theirs are a disorganized rabble spread throughout 9+ sectors. Seems to me that if you just push them back you'll be able to crush them in whatever sector is last to fall. This has the advantage of being the simplest plan to execute. It likes subtlety or any flanking, but I doubt you'll need it....

Forward gatekeepers capable of keeping up with your blitzkrieg should help you keep what you take.

Reminds me more of Hearts of Iron III than X

[EmperorJon]

You took the WHOLE UNIVERSE?

Ok, I've always said, OOS a ship like the Boreas might get swarmed but if you've got 1 Boreas for every enemy you'll own...

So if you put 10 or so M2 in severy sector you'd hardly ever get losses and you could easily control the universe... but still.

WOW!

One day I'm really gonna have to play a game where I start with 2B cr, and a HQ, and have to build stuff somewhere until the money runs out then declare war...

[Captain CAVEMAN!!!]

Okay Phase 1:

Sent Scout ships ahead into dukes Citadel

The enemy numbers were as follows
2: Oddysseus
7: Deimos
1: Zeus
abut 30: Freighters idle (blockades effects )
10(give or take) : Nemesis

Although i knew as soon as the fireworks start more will arrive.

I was in luck however most of the stations were Damaged or destroyed from a Kha'ak attack back when they were rather active.

I Called in scoutships from border worlds and gathered around 70 Pegasus fighters to act as cannon fodder and sent them straight towards the bulk of the enemy defences. at first i gave them orders to attack, they were swatted like flies until i was shure i had most of the attention of the enemy fleet. i gave them orders to advance to the oposite end of the sector until the enemy stopped pursuing, an when they stopped i ordered them to attack.

(and so on and so on until the majority of the fleet was to the other end of the sector.)

I now had enough time to move the Vanguard of my fleet into the sector, reinforcements were alrweady arriving but they were headed for the cloud of cannon fodder. After around Five minutes the vanguard of my fleet had entered.

Numbers were as follows

3: Oddysseus
10:Deimos
2: Zeus (and hence 100 Fighters )
13: Heavy Nemesis

By this time the fountain of cannon fodder had long dried up and the enemy were upon the bulk of my Vanguard and enemy rienforcements had bolstered their numbers to as follows.

3: Oddysseus
11: Deimos
4: Zeus
18: Standard Nemesis
1: Hyperion Vanguard

In my opinion this was now an equal playing Field

Fighters from the Zeus Carriers flooded towards a rather unorganised line of hostiles.

The enemys corvettes were fast and because of this were far ahead of the capital ships, I launched all fighters from the Zeus Carriers and kept my fleet in a Staggered Line Formation. the Medusa's soaked up damage from the corvettes while the faster perseus flanked them overwhelmed by numbers the entirety of the corvettes were destroyed before the rest of the fleet had reahed them.

I ordered all fighters to RTB in Perpetual sin as the enemy had brought no fighters of their own and they would just be picked off by the larger capital ship flak weapons. And i had no intention of using medushas as cannon fodder

The line of ships stod before the gate divided into three lines Corvettes Forward
Frigates and Destroyers centre and carriers last.

When the first friigates became fairly close i ordered the Heavy nemesis to head towards the gate to pontifex' seclusion like sheep the deimos followedallowing them to b flanked by a second wave of heavy nemesis they kept them busy while the odysseus and their long range Gauss cannons were in reach once the first round was fired all corvettes were to fall back to the zeus cariers and provide protection to them.

The Oddysseus tore the 4 frigateas to shreds using GC's at long distance and PPC's at close range.

By the time the sluggish destroyers and remaining frigates approached i had my fleet in a "Fairly" organised formation and attacked in a simple "Duke it out" fassion after a two minute slugging fest i called in M7M's From Avarice to take care of the stations


Will post screenshotas tommorrow (they are in HD and I have gone over my daily upload limit assinged by my dear 'ol dad )

Captain C.

[Captain CAVEMAN!!!]

Short Lived Victory:

Within 5 hours of taking the sector a Paranid counter strike force hit the sector.
With no time to organise a formation i commanded all wings to assault the force's major ships.

Over around eight waves of attacks i encountered around 7 odysseus what could have being 30 Deimos and countless fighters bombers and the occasional carrier. Of all times the collision detection desides to kick in making the defensive force face the complete wrong direction and fly in all directions but the one i told it to

Losing all my destroyers but my own i had to order the remainder of the fleet to retreat to the sector Perpetual Sin. With barely any energy cells among the fleet the ships had to take the manual journy to the gate a good 70 km from the centre of the sector itself

and of course a retreating force and hostile bombers dont really mix,i lost 80 percent of my force in one counter attack

Leaving me with :

0: Destroyers
23: Frigates
1: Carrier
22: Corvettes
Threehundered or so fighters

and a good few Million credits in the gutter

So i am going to draw forces from sector of little importance or where a defence force is not needed ATM vespitule of creation and avarice spring to mind.

will upload screenies in a few hours after i do some homework and check my finances in X.

Captain C

[amtct]

More pics please .I want to see the result in pics

[Jiggaman]

This...sounds....epic.

Currently building up a argon/teladi fleet to massacre the Split and/or the paranid. Got working relationships with the Boron and the ATF.

-with 1 custom slightly overpowered carrier (SG1 Daedalus) as my personal flagship and a full compliment of completely balanced custom fighters (35 SG1 F302s balanced at high end M3s but not quite M3+) for it

only have 3 destroyers (Argon) and 2 carriers (Teladi), and about 150 M3s (mostly argon and the captured whatevers....not buying any Teladi fighters at all)...what is your economic infrastructure looking like to constantly finance such an undertaking? I know war, but I don't know finance. I bring in maybe 5 million a day with my factories.....and i loot and do missions to maybe hit another 10 million on top of that. That gives me great fighter wing money...kinda. But yeah...slow undertaking on the cap ships.

[Captain CAVEMAN!!!]

Okays Here are the Screenies i promised (not very good as they were not top priority during a war but Hell )

The Exodus Fleet Assembled in Perpetual Sinprior to the invasion
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My Flagship approaching over taking an enemy destroyer at a .. amusing angle
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View From My Right Turrets blasting the crap out of an enemy destroyer
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A fairly poor angle shot if im honest bu best i could do in a fight with a damaged ship
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Those are the best shots i got from the initial invasion will post pics frtom the enemy counter strike when i sort out my sudden ship shortage

Captain C.

[amtct]

Everyone is firing at everyone ...chaos ,I like it

[Captain CAVEMAN!!!]

Honestly i could use a break from chaos ..

wanna tradeplaces for a month?

Captain C.

[amtct]

You should take Fraps or something and record that epic battle .Its to good to be lost
I like the way those M2's "engage the enemy" .It reminds me of the Star Trek's[1] Dominion war

[1]I said Star Trek because everyone is saying that Paranid ships look like the Star Trek ships

[Nanook]

After action reports of this style belong in the Creative Forum, so here we are.

[Captain CAVEMAN!!!]

Meh

this was not intended as a story of any sort and is not even an after action report so until it moved im not going to bother continuing

Captain C

[MarineMan]

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

i wanted to see more CAVEMAN!!!!