Day 21:

2308.8 tons
5,987 fuel

+325 tons/day
-316 fuel/day

Your Southern Construction Facility is complete. Nine heavy constructors await new orders.

An AlphaRange 'copter lands in your main facilit to pick up your 13 chimps and 370 tons of heavy metals. In exchange, you get stun gun schematics.

As per previous specifications, six slaver-squads are created, each one containg six heavy combat drones and four heavy hauler drones. These are:
Freedom Alpha
Freedom Beta
Freedom Gamma
Freedom Delta
Freedom Epsilon
Freedom Zeta

No one is contacting you at the moment. Is there anything that you wish to do?

Fuck yeah, this shit again

Wait, do what they asked in thread 4.
replace the stun rods with the stun guns, spend all day doing this to our 36 combat guys

>>5775937
also, don't forget to ask the lemmington dudes about the natives

>>5775959

Seconding, also, since we can now expand fastly to the south, ask lemmington to start sampling for lifeforms there, since we're gonna mine all the south soon

>>5775937
>>5775959
>>5775984
Understood - something has just come up in reality, however, so give me about twenty minutes to respond.

>>5776037
Squadrons Freedom Alpha through Freedom Zeta are being rearmed at the cost of 3.6 tons.
Because they are heavy, each drone will be engage in three fights before they have to run out of ammunition and restock. The cost of ammunition is 0.1 tons per drone.

You hail Lemmington Pharmaceuticals and request information.
"They are appear to be have all evolved from the same species, into seperate roles and they have learned to live and rely on one another. The lesser race - the chimps - are excellent foragers and appear to be very quick to adapt to new situations, capable of rapidly learning how to utilize new technology. The apes are the hunters and the guardians of the chimps. In exchange for fruits gathered from places that do not support apes, the chimps are protected and provided with meat that comes from animals they could not kill. As for the gorillas, we haven't observed enough of their actions. We can't say much about them except that they seem to be a leadership caste. There's also the potential for an even higher caste, but we're not so sure - if gorillas are the sons of the father, then what is the father? Is the father a deity? Is the father a higher caste? Is the father their ruler? We simply don't know. If you provide us with five captured gorillas, then in addition to everything else, we'll give you more informaion on them."

>>5776427
Nothing much that we didn't know about already, then. Still, this is pretty frightening. Caste societies can make mean opponents, if they ever get their hands on tech.

Uh... Fuck, what now then?

>>5776573
Now we capture 5 gorillas.

It's time for us to play the most dangerous game.

>>5776610
Can't, our drones are being updated today. Maybe tomorrow.

Should we day-skip, or is there anything else we can do?

>>5776704

Well so long as Lemmington don't mind, we should start surveying the south, some area must have been cleared of natives, if not simply timeskip

Can we get a map please, also what happened last night, when I left we were advancing to the centauri - kil'thweq border.

>>5776768
Here's the current map.
>>5776737
Got it.

Okay, Day 22, coming up.

>>5776803
thanks

How is the bridge construction going?

Day 22:

2630.2 tons
5,671 fuel

+325 tons/day
-316 fuel/day

You have discovered one deposit with approximately 2500 tons.
You have discovered one deposit with approximately 2000 tons.
You have discovered one gas pocket with approximately 2500 units.

As per the failed thread's suggestions, your constructors build roads between facilities. Travelling to any of your mines or facilities in your territory takes only one day.

Squadrons Freedom Alpha through Freedom Zeta are rearmed and are ready for action.
Weapon Slot 1: Combat Lasers
Weapon Slot 2: Stun Guns
Auxiliary Slot: Empty

You have recieved no messages.

>>5776916
You didn't initiate bridge construction because of the hefty cost of 1000 tons of heavy metals.

I think we should build that bridge, at our current production rate we would make the resources back in just over 3 days, and we would open up a whole new area for exploitation, i mean exploration.

>>5777007
Your nine heavy construction drones are capable of constructiong five tons of material a day.

Due to this fact, the bridge will take approximately 22 days to complete - unless you create more constructors.

I vote we wait until we have amphibious tech to explore across the ocean, and focus on expanding south for now, and capturing the primates.

>>5777051
In that case screw the bridge and lets expand south and look for more deposits of stuff we can use, may aswell build more extractors(?) too.

>>5777093
So, regardless of what happens with the constructors, squadrons Freedom Alpha through Freedom Zeta will be sent to explore the far South.

But, that still begs the question - will you have your constructors construct the bridge, remain idle, deactivate or do something else?

>>5777147
I'll reiterate on how mining and gas extraction works, then.

All you need to extract resources is a harvester. Then you need a hauler of the same type to carry the same amount of resources to the storage facility. Construction drones are not required, but they are very useful - they reduce the chance of your drones being harmed in a hazardous environment when mining and extracting gas.

Also, is it possible to repair the bots that were destroyed in the first heavy native offensive? Maybe recreate them for half the cost of their construction? Or are they total losses? If we can repair them, let's do it, or else, let's completely make them Unsalvagable.

One further point. I like trading with TradeStar for more fuel and schematics, but it's important to remember that they only come once a month! We should be cautious to have enough of each resource to make the month's end. (IE don't trade all our fuel out, since it won't be replaced until the month is out -> Idle bots)

>>5777188
Fuck it, deactivate the constructors now.

We've got 4 construction facilities and we don't have anything else that needs building. All of our current mines and gas pockets have roads so unless we're making more, no need for

Should we mine another deposit or extract another gas pocket, though? Or do we have enough? That's the question.

>>5777293
No. You can melt down the seven destroyed light drones and three destroyed heavy drones in exchange for 2.2 tons of heavy metals, but that would require haulers to drag them to construction facilities.

There are some new pockets, build the mines there, even if we haven't got enought harvesters we can have the mines prepared for later

What kind of item can we fit in the auxiliary module? i suppose TradeStar or AlphaRange might have something for it

I'm forget exactly how many mines we have that we haven't started yet, but begin preparations to begin mining one of the heavy metal ones.

>>5777293
Auxiliary grenade launchers, auxiliary flamethrowers and miniaturized primary weaponry.

As for your other request - you want to mine a new deposit or you want to extract from a new gas pocket? Or both? Or two deposits or two gas pockets? The choice is yours - you've got enough construction facilities to construction two mines' worth of drones in one day.

>>5777453
Let's do one of each for now. And any update on Freedom Alpha-Zeta?

>>5777411
These are the uptapped deposits and pockets:

Mines:
2 with 3000 tons
5 with 2500 tons
2 with 2000 tons
2 with 1500 tons
6 with 1000 tons
4 with 500 tons

Gas Pockets:
4 with 2500 units
4 with 2000 units

One of metal, one of gas then

One of the 3000 metal mines, and the 2500 gas.

>>5777480
That'll be updated tomorrow.

Since I have all of your requests, I will get this started.
Update for Day 23 beginning.

Month will end at Day 30.

Day 23:

2999.2 tons
5,215 fuel

+390 tons/day
-306 fuel/day

You have discovered a deposit with approximately 1500 tons of heavy metal.
You have discovered two deposits with approximately 500 tons of heavy metal.
You have discovered one gas pocket with approximately 2000 units of raw gas.

Freedom Alpha, Beta and Epsilon have not located anything. Search continues.
Freedom Gamma has encountered a tribe of 34 chimps being led by 13 apes. They have not noticed the drones.
Freedom Delta has encountered a tribe of 28 chimps and 9 apes. They have noticed the drones and the apes are screaming warcries.

Freedom Zeta has located a strange site. A large piece of sheet metal, possibly scrap from a crashed spaceship. On the sheetmetal, there is an artistic painting of a human, a Hajjar ape, an android and a Kil'thweq prawn holding hands in a circle. There are also the symbols of all five of the present corporations painted on to the sheet metal - and all the symbols are crossed out with red paint.

You have recieved no messages.

>>5777724
Move Alpha, Beta, and Epsilon into support of Delta, encircling and stunning the creatures, then capturing them all. Afterward, move all groups into support of Gamma and launch a surprise attack, again stunning and capturing as many as possible.

Construction for the day should be additional harvester groups. Open up two new heavy metal mines.

While android implies humanoid, i wan't to confirm that, is the android humanoid or one of the centauri Synths?

Alpha, Beta and Epsilon should reinforce Delta

Gamma and Zetta hold position (Gamma following the chimps, so in case they try to reinforce the other group, they attack them from behind)

>>5777850

Also, we should create more groups for mining (the standard group, don't remember how many where) and move these to gas pockets that have infrastructure

Seconding plan of moving squads to assist Delta. Should the primates begin charging before back-up arrives, open fire with the stun darts anyway.

>>5777838
Acknowledged.
>>5777850
Acknowledged. Also, correct. The androids are humanoid - although they're made of same white plastic that synthetic beings just seem so fond of.
>>5777880
Creating two groups for mining heavy metals.

Freedom Delta engages the primitives. What tactics do you wish to use?
Freedom Alpha, Beta and Epsilon will arrive at Delta's location soon.
Freedom Gamma is stalking the primitives - who are heading towards the distant sound of commotion.

Can the sheet metal be transported with one of our haulers?

>>5777972

>Freedom Delta engages the primitives. What tactics do you wish to use?

AGGRESSIVE.

>>5777972
Tag em and bag em!

>>5777972
>Freedom Delta engages the primitives. What tactics do you wish to use?
Have them slowly fall back and use their stun darts on anyone attacking them; prioritize covering one another. Buy time until the other groups arrive. Once support shows up, kick it up a notch and begin stunning all available enemies, though highest priority targets are again those menacing our drones.

>>5777972

Proceed towards the reinforcements, but shot (stun) if the monkeys get too close

>>5777999
Sure. A pair of haulers should be able to drag it back. It's approximately 10 tons and it can be melted down, if you like.
>>5778028
>>5777999
Aggressive non-lethal. Understood.

>>5778028
>>5778030
Guys, don't be aggressive until our backup shows up. If we're too effective, they might start running, and if we're not effective enough, we'll get mauled since they outnumber us so badly.

>>5778056
>>5778071
Understood. Using these more detailed tactics.

Your drones begin to retreat. Screaming with delight and mocking the fear of your drones, they charge. Your drones continue to fall back while unleashing a salvo of stun darts, incapacitating 7 apes and 13 chimps. However, they don't cease their charge - because they see the brethren, the tribe being stalked by Freedom Gamma, about to flank the drones of Freedom Delta. The primitives are almost in melee range.
What does Freedom Gamma do?
Freedom Alpha, Beta and Epsilon are still yet to arrive.

>>5778151
Attack them from behind, pincer movement!

>>5778151
Gamma hits the flankers from behind immediately, attempting to disrupt their assault. Delta continues to fall back along the net vector of the assaulting chimps to minimize the effects of the attempted flank while still firing.

Alpha, Beta, and Epsilon step on their metaphorical gas pedals.

>>5778188
seconded

>>5777999
Lets grab this.

Also; do we want to try to re-stabilize our gas production, as we're currently bleeding a pretty decent amount / day...

>>5778187
>>5778188
A handful of the flanking chimps diverge upon seeing the slaughter, running for their tin little lives. The remainder flankers and the chargers catch one of the drones in a pincer and immediately begin to swarm over it, attempting to rapidly disassemble it. The apes pull back sheets of reinforced metal while the chimps crawl beneath it, tearing apart important circuitry while they all scream at the top of their lungs 'you are not immortal'. The drone is rendered useless and becomes inanimate.
By this mount, their natives are practically surrounded by Gamma, Delta and the reinforcements. Having blocked off all possibility of escape, the natives are suddenly decorated with hundreds of stun darts.

You have lost:
1 HCD

You have captured:
57 Chimps
22 Apes

>>5778305
Hello, AlphaRange...

>>5778305
Cash. Hauler drones for retrieval, and call in our catch to AlphaRange so that they can make us an offer.

>>5778380
>>5778372
"Motherfucker... You guys actually did it. Why the fuck are you working for TradeStar? Man, you guys would fit in perfect with us. Listen, keep those primitives in your habitat. Tomorrow, a 'copter will land in your territory and pick 'em up. When it arrives, we'll also send you the data for two pieces of our tech'. You wanna pick out what you want to purchase now?"

>>5778443
"We're with TradeStar for the side benefits, mostly. Anyway, sure, let's see what you've got."

Side note: Keep the primitives in our habitat as they direct. Surround them with heavy combat drone guards.

>>5778443
Yes, yes we do.

>>5778497
Understood. By the way, your drones are going to need to rearm as well - so they won't be able to go out adventuring tomorrow, except for Zeta.

You want all of Freedom Zeta to return or just the two haulers carrying the sheet metal?

Also, about to post the available technology.

>>5778533
Pull back all of Zeta. Once we've gotten rid of these natives, we should probably power down our combat drones to save fuel for a bit. We'll have a couple new toys to install, and 137 will probably call for backup soonish.

>>5778509
- Combat-Hauler hybrids. These drones are designed for combat but also come with containment compartment for "resources".
- Shock collar schematics. Highly increases the loyalty of all biological servants.
- Sonic weaponry schematics. Used for subdual purposes, like stun technology, only effective against biological. Ammo costs 5 units per drone.
- Flamethrower weaponry schematics. Allows you to build flamethrowers and auxiliary flamethrowers. Ammo costs 5 units per drone.
- Artillery weaponry schematics. Shoots shells that you can customize as you wish, based on the technology that you possess. Incredibly long ranged. Ammo costs 0.1 tons per shot and you must specify how many shots you're firing when using artillery. LCDs carry 1 shot, MCDs carry 2 shots, HCDs carry 5 shots.

"Pick two, guys."

>>5778533
Put Zeta as the first line of primate guards, since they still have stun darts. Have the other drones as a secondary line of guards, to use lethal force only if necessary.

>>5778644
Understood. Tomorrow, your drones will be able to rearm.

>>5778637

I'm interested in sonic and artillery weapondry, so those are my votes, i think i prefer not to deal with organics for work

>>5778644
Also, because they're heavy drones, Freedom Alpha through Epsilon still have enough ammunition for two fights.
Freedom Zeta has enough for three, that's all.

I'm thinking flamethrowers and artillery. Any objections, team?

>>5778690
I don't think we need sonics when we already have two types of stunners. It seems redundant. Also, flamethrowers can apparently be equipped as an auxiliary weapon, meaning that our heavy combat drones wouldn't need to lose another weapon in order to use them.

>>5778727

But sonic is ranged and unlimited (i guess) still, you are right, there are all kinds of fun to be had with flamethrowers

Flames and arty for me too

>>5778727
Just so you know, sonic is area-of-effect.

Again, I vote for the artillery to be taken, as well as the shock collars. Primitives could make interesting meat shields on our units! As well as artillery strikes.

>>5778768
Interesting, but flamethrowers and artillery still take it.

Does
>Shoots shells that you can customize as you wish, based on the technology that you possess.
imply that we could get napalm-type shells for our artillery with this combo? What other shell types are available?

I gotta head to work, I'll be back at about 10:45 Central Time, if you guys are still here.

I agree with flames and artillery, with the intent to make napalm.

Also, for next day, I suggest we open 2 new gas mines, in order to try to decrease our losses. We need to get that number into the positives.

I think that sonic and shock collar are our best bets, considering we get a shitload of income from Alpha Range by enslaving the locals, and we will get more tech i suspect if we keep supplying them.

Winners are:
- Flamethrower technology
- Artillery technology

Moving on to Day 24.

>Also, for next day, I suggest we open 2 new gas mines, in order to try to decrease our losses. We need to get that number into the positives.
No, we don't. A heavy metal mine can produce 65 units/day, which when traded to TradeStar means 650 gas. A gas pocket can only produce 190 units/day. As long as we shove enough heavy metal at TradeStar, we don't need to mine gas at all.

It's still a good idea, since having some gas production drastically reduces the risk of overrunning our reserves, but not essential.

>>5778883

Shock collars aren't needed for us, AlphaRange might, since they use the apes as a workforce, but if we go with drones it's not needed

>>5778902

While that holds for us, we still need lots of metal every month, i would prefer not to go selling for something we can get ourselves

Also OP, the monthly was 2500, how much was the big pay?

>>5778948
300,000 over six months is the success condition.

>>5778902
Changing the rules slightly.

You're the only TradeStar presence on the planet.
TradeStar spaceships only come once a month. Sure, you can order goods beforehand - but they don't arrive until the end of the month.

That's the caveat of relying purely on TradeStar's offers.

Anyway, someone previously requested 2 heavy metal mines.

So, day 24 coming up.

>>5778990
>Sure, you can order goods beforehand - but they don't arrive until the end of the month.
Wait, so what's the procedure for placing orders, then? How far in advance do we need to notify them in order for them to have their spaceship correctly stocked? And can we only buy schematics on a monthly basis, too, or is that only goods?

>>5778980
For which we have to produce 1667 tons of a ore day.

Day 24:

3508.7 tons
4,549 fuel

+520 tons/day
-516 fuel/day

Your samplers have discovered a deposit of heavy metals with approximately 2000 tons.
Your samplers have discovered a gas pocket with approximately 3000 units of raw gas.
Your samplers have discovered a gas pocket with approximately 2000 units of raw gas.

The AlphaRange 'copter arrives to pick up all of the natives.
In exchange, you're sent the schematics for artillery and flamethrowers and a crate full of damn good liquor.

After this period, the HCDs are given full ammunition once more.

You have one message from AlphaRange.
"Thanks for the employees - enjoy the tech' and the alcohol."

>>5779030
You can only request fuel and supplies on a monthly basis.
You can request schematics whenever you like.

You need to inform TradeStar at least three days in advance.

>>5779081
Deactivate all heavy combat drones except for the base defense group so that fuel consumption is reduced.

Equip all heavy combat drones with auxiliary flamethrowers. Construct a group of six heavy combat drones and equip them with lasers, artillery, and auxiliary flamethrowers. Make sure that HE, fragmentation, and napalm ammunition types are available in addition to anything else interesting we've got.

>>5779136

Hey, ammo doesn't come free, we should check what we have and prepare the most optimal configuration, i'm interested in any kind of shell that can be used to stun those apes

>>5779136
I'd say the artillery HCDs should be stocked with double artillery (if allowed) and an empty auxillary, which can hopefully be upgraded to additional ammo storage if/when said designs become available.

>>5779118
Lets try to make it a point to have 10k (min) at the start of each month for maintenance and a emergency supply. 10k was our starting wealth and even being conservative we've made a pretty big dent in it.

>>5779081
Lets contact Lemington about that etching we found, include (slightly) degraded pictures and ask if they've seen anything like it // what they make of it.

>>5779207
Ammunition's not free, but it's not that expensive, either. I'd be willing to throw a dozen ore or so into making sure that we have whatever type of artillery support is needed in all engagements. Artillery wins wars.


Also, construct as many additional harvester groups as possible and assign them evenly to gas and metals.

>>5779207
...Stunning Artillery shells?

Send out light surveyors, locate Apes, initiate Artillery bombardment.

I like it.

>>5779081
Also:

These are the shells available for artillery currently:
Fragmentation - Effective against large amounts of light opponents
Explosive - Effective against small amounts of heavy opponents
Stun - Effective against large amounts of light opponents - nonlethal.
Napalm - Effective aganst organic oponents and at reducing morale.

>>5779239
This. This. And This.

Continue to devote all non-priority production to the construction of Harvesters and Haulers and deployment of them to undeveloped mine sites (with constructor support.)

>>5779237
>I'd say the artillery HCDs should be stocked with double artillery (if allowed) and an empty auxillary, which can hopefully be upgraded to additional ammo storage if/when said designs become available.
The lack of a direct combat weapon will make them vulnerable if the enemy manages to locate them and dispatch someone to off them, but I suppose the additional artillery firepower more than makes up for it. Build this schematic instead.

>>5779255
Memorandum: Operation Liberation
>Begin construction of Liberation Class Heavy Combat Drones.

Armament 1: Artillery
>5 Shells (Stun)

Armament 2: Artillery
>5 Shells (Stun)

They will be deployed in squads of 4, with 3 Light Scouts provided as dedicated spotters and 3 Light Combat Drones as dedicated defense (Flamer, Flamer, Flamer Loadout).

>>5779340
Memorandum: Operation Liberation

Tactics
>2 Spotters are used as forward recon, 1 is dedicated target acquisition.

>Light combat Drones are dedicated defense for the Liberation Class HCDs.

>Any 'Resources' are gathered and processed by a Freedom squadron while Liberation withdraws from the combat zone.

>>5779340
While artillery/artillery/ammo bin loadout has been agreed upon, flamer/flamer/flamer on a light drone is just dumb. Lasers are our primary weapons for a reason, and if you're going to use stun shells, it means you're hunting natives and should be using stun guns for your defense squads.

If you're not using stun guns, then you're gearing up to fight Kil'thweq, and should be using napalm/HE shells.

>>5779442
Triple Flamer is because if anything gets close to the squad its dead; so the flamers are meant to be a last ditch defensive measure. If those light combat drones ever fight it means we're SoL and trying to provide some form of cover while the actual assets (artillery squads) escape.

You're temporarily deactivating our HCDs and their haulers, right?

>>5779442

Actually, i wonder what we need to fight the Kil'thweq, do we know what they use to fight?

>>5779490
While restocking them? Makes sense.

>>5779507
I'd imagine it depends how their carapace deals with Heat; if it doesn't (like say a crab) we just flame (maybe even Las) them and then have a BBQ.

Otherwise High Explosives, its always High Explosives.

>>5779490
Yes, although they should be reactivated in time to participate in any defending should it prove necessary.

>>5779482
I'll grant laser/flamer/flamer, but not all three.

>>5779507
You've observed them fight, so here's how they work:
The Kil'thweq fight using infantry and powered armour. Their infantry are roughly the equivilant of medium drones and their powered armour is exceptionally heavy indeed - approximately the height and probably double the weight of native gorillas. The Kil'thweq infantry often rushes into close range so they can get better shots at their opponents, while their powered armour provides devastating covering fire. They utilize what humanity calls "physics weaponry", which unleash devastating shockwaves that crack bones and deform metal, cause spontaneous explosion in organic targets and use gravity to manipulate heavy objects.

Anyway, today you're:
>producing haulers and harvesters and roads for a mine and a gas pocket
Am I correct?

Before we move on to Day 25, however, what are you going to do with your 35 HCDs? What will you arm them with? Give numbers, please.

>>5779490
I'd say we need to contact Tradestar, tell 'em we're going to trade them 4,600 heavy minerals at the end of this month for:
2,500 as demanded
0,100 for 1,000 man-months of supplies (Effectively unlimited, we can capture as many creatures as we like and not worry about running out of food)
2,000 tons for 20,000 units of fuel

Here's a list of what our squads should be:

Defense Alpha:
2 HCDs at base. Laser / Laser / Flamethrower.
Freedom Alpha through Zeta:
6 HCDs with Laser / Stun gun / Flamethrower.
4 Haulers, unarmed
Liberation Alpha through Gamma (not yet built):
4 HCDs with Artillery(Stun) / Artillery(Stun) / empty
3 Light Haulers (unarmed, spotters)
3 LCDs (Flamer / Flamer / Flamer)

For combat with the Kil'thweq, we currently have 12 Drones with Laser/Laser/Flamer.
I suggest we update our designs to the following:
Peace Alpha through Gamma:
4 Laser/Laser/Flamer HCDs
4 Artillery(Napalm)/Artillery(Napalm)/empty HCDs
The Artillery HCDs are not yet built.

This adds some 'bots to the list of what we must build:
24 HCDs (12 with 2 Stun artillery, 12 with 2 Napalm artillery)
9 Light haulers
9 LCDs (each with 3 flamethrowers).

Weapons available to us:
-Laser
-Short-range stun
-Stun gun
-Stun artillery shell
-Short-range flamethrower
-Napalm artillery shell
-Fragmentation artillery shell
-Explosive artillery shell

>>5779691
Build 1 more HCD to replace the one lost in Freedom Gamma.

List of HCDs desired is above, and includes 24 Kil'thweq attack HCDs, 12 Stun artillery HCDs, and 9 Flamer LCDs.

Our Construction drones should be making 2 more 'Bot production facilities:
1 in the South, next to the other one we already have in the south.
1 more about halfway between the Kil'thweq land and our HQ. Faster bots = win.

>>5779691
Reactivate those construction drones, make more 'bot production facilities.
As long as there's a mining site unmined, we need more mining bots to go there.
If we can't make more mining bots, we need more 'bot-making sites.
If we don't have any more sites to mine from, then either build more samplers or conquer more land.

Going to Day 25, then. One moment.

>The Kil'thweq fight using infantry and powered armour. Their infantry are roughly the equivilant of medium drones and their powered armour is exceptionally heavy indeed - approximately the height and probably double the weight of native gorillas. The Kil'thweq infantry often rushes into close range so they can get better shots at their opponents, while their powered armour provides devastating covering fire. They utilize what humanity calls "physics weaponry", which unleash devastating shockwaves that crack bones and deform metal, cause spontaneous explosion in organic targets and use gravity to manipulate heavy objects.

I.e. "We cannot counterattack artillery, please rape our face with Fragmentation and Fire"

Day 25:

4069.1 tons
3,908 fuel

+585 tons/day
-311 fuel/day

Kil'thweq Frontier Construction Facility will be built in one more day.

You have discovered a mine with approximately 1000 tons of heavy metals.

You currently have 36 deactivated Freedom HCDs and 24 deactivated Freedom heavy haulers.

You've got a message from Centauri Synthetics.

>>5779739
These will be constructed by tomorrow, by the way.

>>5779889
Might as well get on that message.
How many HCDs do we have in total (i.e. not necessarily Freedom-related, but all HCDs)?

Trade all spare metal for fuel. We currently have much more than enough to meet our construction demands, but we're going to end up with a very bad deficiency in fuel at this rate.
Construct more, and mine more gas.

>>5779889
Lets answer it!

>>5779889
Lets listen to that message.

>>5779928
5 HCDs armed with lasers and punching blades guarding the mainland.
Posting the message.

>>5779693
I think you might want to change those light haulers to light scouts (unless they'd work equally well for spotter duty); otherwise this looks excellent as for out military objectives.

Also lets prepare to send those synths some aid.

Im leaving for today (eurofag here) i'd ask to not use the metal so freely, we still need to make 300.000, and having used 1 month already, that's 2000 daily

Still, we do have a deficit of fuel, the tradestar had some amphibious tech, so try to get hold of that and examine the sea for possible pockets

>>5779935
>>5779937
>>5779928
"I won't put this any other way. I need your help at the moment. Kil'thweq powered armour is tearing my 'bots apart. I need reinforcements - whatever you have at hand, right here, right now. They can't wait more than three days - my forces cannot contain them for much longer."

>>5779982
Act like the message never arrived. They'd just backstab us in the future anyway.

>>5779999

Are you mad? they offer us a possibility to position our units inside their territory and you would refuse?

>>5779999
If we wanted to be an asshat we would send troops, then demand flight tech before firing a single shot.

Do we want to be asshats? It sounds... profitable.

We don't HAVE to make it in THIS 6 month period, just a 6 month period for our operations to be considered a success.

Let's build 10 heavy artillery drones, and load them with explosive and fragmentation grenades. Do we have any spare Light Combat Drones? If we do, let's send them in to serve as spotters for artillery as well as harassment, teling them to engage Kil'thweq assets from s far out as they can.

>>5779982
Regardless; lets get our troops mobilized. Especially any artillery we can field (with the load out updated for Kill'an'the'weak)...

Though we should probably keep at least some of Freedom handy, we don't want to get surprised by them Apes.

>>5780024
We have to be the biggest asshats for the biggest profit.

>>5779982
Right. We know Kil'thweq do not currently have anti-artillery, and they're restricted to ground forces at the moment.

Take 40 HCDs, that's all 35 of Freedom, and all 5 at our main base defense, and arm them as follows:
-30 with 1 Napalm Artillery, 1 Explosive Artillery.
-10 with 1 Laser, 1 Laser, 1 Flamer.
The Kil'thweq are weak against Artillery, so as long as the Synths are able to cover our artillery (and they should), we'll be able to shell the bastards and make a defensive wall.
Have any spare haulers we have loaded up with Napalm and Explosive artillery rounds.
We currently have 150 shots of each, take as many Haulers as needed to carry 450 Napalm rounds and 450 Explosive rounds. We have spare haulers anyway.
We're gonna have us a BBQ.

The bots we're producing right now can hold off any native counter-attack, at least until the Kil'thweq are dealt with.

>>5780038
Spotters? The Synths can -fly-. They can just tell us where we're aiming.
I'd also advise NOT being an asshat. Just this once.

>>5780058
Re-outfitting takes time (and materials), though.

I guess we could send an 'emergency' force while retrofitting some (though I wouldn't go with all) to be artillery, send them out and perhaps issue demands before BBQ.

Or we could be good sub-contractors and hold up our previous arrangement...

>>5780058
The only problem I see is that HCD's are slow, and thus vulnerable to Kil'thweq tactics of charging in fast and close. Our greatest advantages at the moment are range and speed, so we need to maximize them.

>>5780058
How may are in agreement with this?

>>5780058
We'll need someone to engage them while our artillery pounds them down; their power armor is probably fast. HE is definitely our best bet against their armor, though. I'd go with an even distribution of HE/napalm artillery and laser/laser/flame tanks.

And direct ALL of our construction capability to produce additional heavy combat drones. There's no telling how much firepower the Kil'thweq have, and there's no such thing as overkill.

>>5780085
You don't have speed. Your main advantages are range and endurance.

>>5780097
How long would this retrofitting take / what would be the cost?

>>5780106
Well we got range
our Arty is as durable as anything else.
On the topic of covering our arty, we have Synths helping us, don't we?
The Synths don't have artillery, the Synths have flight.

>>5780120
A day.
38 tons and 200 units

Your artillery will have 5 explosive shells and 5 napalm shells. You'll have to state how they're used - although you will be able to restock them practically immediately at your Kil'thweq Frontier Construction Facility.

>>5780132
The synthetic advantages are speed and damage.
Their disadvantages are endurance and range.

You compliment them quite perfectly, I must admit.

>>5780132
I figure the Synths just need a good strong Wall of Fire to cover their asses. Our arty is probably accurate to within 500 metres and can fire over 50km, letting whoever can outrange 500 metres having a really easy time against any Kil'thweq as the Kil'thweq walk their asses through artillery fire.

>>5780170
Speed and Damage is a bloody awesome combination to have for forces that Cover artillery, or forces that flank the sides of a force that's pinned by Artillery.

What do you suggest though, Plasma?

>>5780156
>your Kil'thweq Frontier Construction Facility
Set this facility to producing heavy turrets for defense. Laser/laser/flamer and HE/napalm artillery configurations- say, six of each.

Important to have a well-defended forward base.

>>5780170
Atm I'm thinking Endurance isn't an issue; the Kil'thweq are obviously damage-heavy but range-weak, meaning anything that kills them before they get a shot off is gonna be the key to winning.
Can we even resist more than 1 shot from a Kil'thweq?

>>5780197
It will when it's constructed.

Day 26, anyone?

>>5780249
Go for it

>>5780249
Sure, onward for the glory of TradeStar.

That glory, of course, being best expressed as "$$$".

Day 26:

4616.1 tons
3,661 fuel

+585 tons/day
-336 fuel/day

Seven light samplers have be explosively deactivated in the Southern jungles.

40 HCDs have been reoutfitted like so and activated:
>30 with 1 Napalm Artillery, 1 Explosive Artillery.
>10 with 1 Laser, 1 Laser, 1 Flamer.

Kil'thweq Frontier has been established. One day until Southern construction facility is established.

You have no messages.

>>5780345
Mobilize the retrofitted forces.

Also we might want to send something to safeguard our southern holdings, looks like something doesn't want us there... (speaking of which, did we get any data from the samplers prior to their... contractual termination?)

>>5780345
CHEMICALOLOGICAL ALERT!
DEY GOT LAN MINES!

>>5780345
Explosively deactivate? Oh that sounds bad.

Anyways, send our artillery up towards the front and request the Centauri give us all their data on Kil'thweq positions, in real time if at all possible. When we get that information and when our artillery is within a range that gives us best possibility of hit start shelling them; Napalm for more infantry heavy areas and Explosive for powered armor.

>>5780345
Go go 40 HCDs!

How's our HCD production going? We got many HCDs produced yesterday?
We diverted all our production to HCDs for the current Kil'thweq conflict. It takes 5 constructor-hours to make a HCD, and we have 4 constructors operational, so we should have about 19 HCDs constructed, right?

>>5780345
>Seven light samplers have be explosively deactivated in the Southern jungles.
Whoa, what? Details!

Relocate the 40 refitted heavy combat units to the frontier facility. Construct turrets at that location as previously outlined.

Contact 137. Inform him that our forces should be ready to move out tomorrow, and we request information from him on current enemy troop distributions to aid in our assault plan.

Build orders should be another ~30 heavy combat drones, half laser/laser/flamer and half double artillery, rather than continued harvester orders. Ensure that all construction facilities have minimal forces present (six heavy combat drones) and dispatch all others to the Kil'thweq front facility after construction to prepare for tomorrow's assault.

>>5780424
Let's diversify our forces a little here. I think part of the reason our fuel consumption is so high is that we're building a shit ton of HCD's.

Should we be sending some sort of haulers along with the HCDs? Worst-case scenario, we lose some, and can't recover our tech (and forfeit whatever was on that particular drone to 137). Thoughts?

>>5780470
We get more fuel in 4 days anyway, when Tradestar comes, and gives us 10 fuel for every 1 ore that we've collected over 2,600.

>>5780487
Haulers go in with Artillery Ammo
Haulers come out with salvaged tech
What's not to like?

>>5780384
"Understood. Linking you to Comrade 70."

Suddenly, your screens flicker to life. Dozens of cameras suddenly flashed into life and you can distantly hear what sounds like conversation between pilots. Just as you see through the eyes of your drones, you can see through the eyes of Prospector 137's squidbots. A gritty, professional voice suddenly speaks up.
"Gentlemen, it's a pleasure to work with you. You can see the combat situation for yourself on your screens."

Your HCDs will be on the frontline tomorrow.

Centauri Synthetics:
87 Squidbots

Kil'thweq:
73 Shockwave Infantry
46 Lightning Gun Infantry
23 Powered Armour Units

>>5780500

Sounds good to me. Lets just hope its not OUR tech we're salvaging.

I hesitate to ask this since it may involve a fair bit of work, but could we get a complete summary of our current holdings, including all mines and facilities, and a complete list of our drones by number of each type? It's somewhat easy to lose track.

And it might give us some idea of just where our resources are coming from, and where they're going to.

>>5780507
Our HCDs are heading up, but do we have anything with which to salvage and transport alien technology?

>>5780500
You didn't arm your haulers with shells if I remember. But, okay - 24 haulers accompany your HCDs.

However, some information:

GAS POCKET 2 HAS RUN OUT OF GAS.
DO YOU WISH TO MOVE THE DRONES THERE TO A NEW GAS POCKET?

>>5780546
Fuck yes we want to mine more gas!

>>5780542
"Your drones will be here by tomorrow? Then we'll try and hold the line - we won't last forever, though."

>>5780058
see >>5780546

>>5780577
See if Centauri Synthetics are able to attack whatever Kil'thweq unit is Long-ranged. That way, our own bots can kick their asses

>>5780507
Prioritize Power Armor as our initial barrages target of choice.

After this, coordinate our assault forces with the synths to force the Kil'thwq into tight formations, that's when we begin napalm bombing.

Also; do we know who that third voice was, the description didn't sound like a synth...

>>5780579
You take along 18 haulers, then, filled with ammunition.
You also lose 90 more tons because I didn't spot this.

>>5780601
It sounds like the closest they have to long range is the Power Armor.

They don't have any reason to expect Artillery bombardment.

This is why our initial bombardment must eliminate as many PA troops as possible.

>>5780601
Powered armour is long-ranged and endurable - that's also the main unit that they have a problem with.

Also, someone said something about constructing extra combat drones.
You're producing turrets for the Kil'thweq frontline, nothing more at the moment - what would you like to add to the list?

>>5780709
I'd say yes, especially in the southern frontier. Build a handful of dedicated Heavy Turrets and light combat droids, at the least.

>>5780709
All HCDs all the time everywhere
1 Laser/Laser/Flamer HCD
1 Artillery(Napalm)/Artillery(Explosive) HCD
Repeat pattern forever

Also, try to shift more Drones onto Gas, we're gonna use up a lot of it with all these attack drones.
Make sure Tradestar knows we'll need 20,000 units of gas on day 31 (Month 2, day 1) in exchange for 2,000 minerals, and we'll also be giving them the 2,500 minerals we owe them.

>>5780793
Agreed.

Day 27:

4535.6 tons
3,572 fuel

+585 tons/day
-371 fuel/day

Twelve light samplers and one heavy sampler have been explosively deactivated.
One light sampler has filmed the cause of its deactivation. Would you like to watch?

You have discovered a gas pocket of approximately 2500 units.

12 Combat HCDs and 12 Artillery HCDs are moving to Kil'thweq frontlines.

Your initial forces have arrived two miles from the frontlines.

Centauri Synthetics:
79 Squidbots

Kil'thweq:
81 Shockwave Infantry
53 Lightning Gun Infantry
27 Powered Armour Units

>>5780905
Yes, we'd quite like to watch that clip.

>>5780905
hell yes we want to see.

Also, it seems the 137 is losing the production war. Inquire with him as to his deep-strike capabilities towards the Kil'thwek's industrial areas? After all, he does have flight capabilities. And we have the incendiaries.

>>5780905
Watch? Yes.

Also; what is the effective / accurate range for our artillery?

>>5780905
Lets watch this video

>>5780905
Commence Artillery bombardment on all power unit-related Kil'thweq. Keep Lasers out of Line-of-sight of the Kil'thweq, but between the Artillery and the Kil'thweq.
... God knows why the Artillery is so damn close, Artillery should be 10mi back from the front line, with the Lasers about 5mi back from the front line to shoot at anything charging the arty.

Fire 3 explosive shells @ the power armor, and 3 Napalm shells in a pattern that makes a wall of fire. That should slow down the Kil'thweq.

>>5780905
>One light sampler has filmed the cause of its deactivation. Would you like to watch?
Of course.

>Your initial forces have arrived two miles from the frontlines.
Get live combat feeds from Centauri Synthetics. Use them to pinpoint as many power armors as possible, and bombard them with HE shells to the point of destruction. Follow up this bombardment with napalm on the lighter units. Keep the laser units near the artillery units, ready to intercept and engage any attackers that make for them. Rely on the squidbots to exploit any vulnerabilities created by our artillery.

I completely support fufilling our end of the bargain with the Centauri Synths. If we break treaty, word will spread, and AlphaRange may cut off our tech and Lemmington might do the same. This is a small sandbox, and while honor may be worthless to some, it's the only common currency we have to hold others to their bargain. (Since this is play by post, reacting to backstabs vs. us is much harder)

Second policy. We should keep one or two chimps for ourselves. AlphaRange has already expressed their usefullness and quick learning. Don't forget that the apes are more than a resource, they're a civilization, and the one We Know The Least About. At least keep a chimp, use the translator. Maybe we can indoctrinate him, or learn the layout of the land, or LATER use him as a Spy in AlphaRange Territory.

Tech advances. I am STRONGLY interested in AlphaRange's 'Copter Design. It appeals to me much more that Centauri's repulsor tech. Plus AlphaRange is interested in tech-trade. See what it would cost. Maybe we could even deliver our own apes, on a contracted schedule, like a mining operation.

Second Hope! Is tunneling technology available? Being subterranean would be very nice. MORE defensive! Can bypass territory and borders, Might be able to Tunnel Under Ocean? ? ? Worth looking into.
Also worth looking into translator tech for the Kil'thweq. I am Very eager to make communication contact with them. Physics tech? ++good!

Combat tactics!
The Centauri are holding a line with the Kil'thweq forces. I reccommend a quick sortie Behind that line, which may cause the Kil'thweq to withdraw a portion of their troops to deal with this raid, which fades away, Then begin the main line assault, against their decreased numbers. . .

>>5780986
Agreed; we want our initial HE wave to disable as many PAs as possible.

>>5780981

Belay that. Lets not go off half-cocked, for lack of a better cliche.

>>5780996
No sorties. The Kil'thweq weaknesses are Artillery and entrenched/well-covered Infantry. We have Artillery. Go go go.

We don't keep any chimps. Alpharange is the only one who knows how to train them, so forget that.

But yeah, Copter design would be extremely useful for combat vehicles and haulers. Good idea, let's see what they want for Copter design?

>>5780968
Prospector 137 has directed you towards Comrade 70 for war-council efforts.
"That's the problem. We can't fly over the powered armour - their weaponry's too long ranged. Plus, the higher our bots go, the more unstable our flight becomes. That's the weakness of repulsor technology - they need to be calibrated to work within very specific gravity. Outside of that, they don't function. So, we can't fly high and if we fly low, we get shot down."

Posting video next post.

ALTERNATE GAMBIT!

Coordinate with 137 and Comrade 70. Ask that they have some Repulsor Haulers Lift and carry our Combat Drones (Heavy if possible, or light otherwise), and remain out of reach, while lasering (Free and infinite) : If Power Armor encountered, use the hills and trees as natural cover, and try an accurate sniping takedown.

Power armor seems to me, to be difficult to breach with Brute Force. (Squidbots are Brute force, but so is artillery) Maybe a more skillful approach would work best (Laser Snipers)

Furthermore, Our advantage is our awesome lasers. We need to make them more awesome. Contact TradeStar, and see if our Lasers have range, accuracy, or damage upgrades. Question? Are lasers single shot fire? Or do they fire bursts of lasers?

Maybe a rapid fire option for the lasers would be desirable?

>>5780996
>I reccommend a quick sortie Behind that line
Our forces are not suited to quick sorties. Centauri Synthetics' forces are, however; if we want raids conducted we can probably rely on them to accomplish that.

We do need flying units, though, and copters are probably a better bet than repulsors at this point.

I'm still backing the HE on power armor, then napalm on light units bombardment plan. If nothing else, shock should give the Centauri forces an edge.

>>5781066

vietnam-style air warfare, perhaps? Artillery takes out any AA along the route of the low-and-slow movers (then, choppers, now synths) effectively creating safe-to-fly corridors. Does 137 even have any idea where their production facilities are? Even if we can't strike them now, we should be thinking strategically at some point, not just tactically.

>>5780981
You can move the artillery back, if you wish.

Also:
The video is played. It shows the sampler drilling for oil amongst two of its comrades. Suddenly, something flies out of the shadows into one of the samplers - and it explodes. The same happens to the other partner. Finally, the recording drone is hit by... an arrow. It follows its basic AI and removes the component that hinders its operations and observes it. The arrow appears to have a highly advanced, mechanical tip that is beeping and flashing rapidly. In the corner of the screen, the silhouettes of two apes, a human and an android can be seen shouldering rather bulky looking bows. Suddenly, the screen flashes and there's nothing more to see.

>>5781105
Laser upgrades from TradeStar seem like a good bet. Impromptu floating laser snipers taking on well-designed armored physics cannon platforms seems like a less good bet.

>>5781136
>In the corner of the screen, the silhouettes of two apes, a human and an android can be seen shouldering rather bulky looking bows.
It appears that there's an alliance of races possessing at least some high-tech weaponry against us.

Discussion: It seems to me that if we let them keep destroying our sampler drones, they might not launch an all-out assault on one of our building complexes yet since they'll be busy. We want them to stay busy until we've won this war up north, so... build a few sampler drones with slightly better armor on their cameras to keep an eye on the situation as they die, perhaps?

Sorry for throwing so many ideas at once, but I'd also like to know the cost of (Eventually) building a Spacecraft.

Schematic cost (from TradeStar)
and potential Material cost

Also, what is the purpose of the Refinery at HQ base? Does it process Gas into Plastic? Or other materials?

I reccomend we halt Southern Exploration, until we can A) send defensive troops with them, or B) have settled the Centauri / Kil'thweq issue.

>>5781201
It refines raw gas and is capable of turning it into other forms.

In other news, it appears that repulsor technology cannot be trusted to get your forces past the enemy frontline, due to inherent flaws posted above.

>>5781189
I disagree, this didn't start until we began pushing into the south; specifically after we encountered that metal plate with the drawing on it. Let's pull back to just behind that and see what happens. If we get hit again we'll have to start thinking about dealing with this threat proactively, but if not then we can put it on the back burner until we've got our position secured better.

>>5781189
Getting newly built Southern Construction Facility to construct light samplers to act as a distraction. 12/day. Yes/no/fuck off?

I propose we send a sampler to the Coalition of Races faction, and open communication. Worst case scenario, it blows up. Medium case scenario : We gain intel on an enemy. Best Case Scenario : We gain another ally on our Southern Border. . .

Based on this encounter, I suggest we avoid hostilities with Coalition of Races until we learn more.

>>5781259
No. Is our Southern Facility in front of or behind the place where we found the drawing?

>>5781287
Short distance from it - it's in your territory.

You found the painting out of your territory.

Send a sampler to make contact but withdraw the rest, yesno?

>>5781259
Heavy turrets are probably a better move. Build six or so to defend the base. Light samplers are cheap enough that I don't see much reason not to build some of those, too, though.

>>5781301
>Send a sampler to make contact but withdraw the rest, yesno?
Yes.

>>5781301
Sure.

>>5781341
>>5781317
You send a drone to the South while the rest locate. Eventually, you're hailed by a human female. The drone is surrounded by creatures from every race - some of which aren't even present on this planet yet, except in this faction.

"Why did you send this drone and withdraw the others? Was it an attempt to make contact? Well, you succeeded. Before we destroy your filthy world-despoiling puppet, what do you wish to say?"

>>5781390
"We got nukes."
Then our drone dies.

>>5781390
"Offer us a better deal."

>>5781411
"You're not in a position to ask for one."
>>5781400
"Unlikely."

The woman sounds amused.

>>5781390
"We have no interest in fighting you. There is no need for this."

>>5781449
Don't respond further. Turn the drone around and bring it back.

Tell AlphaRange we found some environmentalist nutjobs who want to kill us off for despoiling the planet, ask if Alpha knows who they are.

Tell Lemmington we found some Environmentalist nutjobs that wish to claim this planet for themselves, ask if Lemmington knows who they are.

Tell Centauri that once we've broken the back of the Kil'thweq resistance, our forces are needed elsewhere. We'll stay until the Kil'thweq forces have been dismantled, though.

Tell the Kil'thweq the same thing, in morse code.
With . being communicated by firing an Explosive shell at them, and - being represented by firing a Napalm shell at them.
Repeat until the Kil'thweq get the message. =D

Send as many HCDs as we can to support 137. Begin mass producing LCDs and HCDs at our home base to fight back the collation of races that seem to be wanting to rape our asses. Also, contact Alpha and Lemmington to inform them of the problem. Alpha likes us- they may send air support or something. At best, they could have been causing trouble for both Lemmington and Alpha as well, and they will agree to momentarily combine forces to gang up on the collation.

>>5781467
Well, we said "we got nooks"
Now all that's left is to start rainin' down napalm, and firin' mah lazors.

How many Combat Droid do we have to defend our base? The collation seems to have numbers, give them as much fragmentation, napalm, and stun artillery as we can. The stun is for selling things to slavery. Try and make a few fortified defense towers to.

>>5781390
do we have self-destruction? if yes is it powerful enough to kill them? if yes....

>>5781467
"We are Uni-Peace. If you fight this earth and the life that rightfully exists on it, then you fight us. Stay out of the South and perhaps we'll let you stay a little longer."

The sampler drone violently explodes but you've still got the signal, if you wish to communicate with them.

Also, inform 137 of our plan. We'll try to bombard the power armor with as much heavy artillery as we can, and give supporting laser fire. It's up to his lads to give out the final killing blow.

Diplomatically put, I prefer to be white Knight. But I don't think we'll be able to Talk them down. They have the moral Highground. (We've been slaving) I further don't think that we can buy them out. I am not liking the prospect of a two front war, especially when they seem to have an advantage on us (Combination of Races = combo of abilities, skills and thought processes). Maybe this Coalition is related to the apes that stole tech from 137?

Drone -> Record as much as possible from the New Races as they can. Do NOT return to our base, why lead them to our home, Let them find it the hard way.
Drone says"Your alliance will not last. Each of you have agendas, and strife will tear you asunder. Besides, we have our agents in your mist anway."

Let them wonder if they have traitors among them. . .

All right, enough Uni-Peace crap for now. We can capture, torture, and enslave them for shits and giggles later. Serious Business time: Killing the Kil'thweq.

>>5781605
to hell with this. Tell 137 we know who's been stealing his tech. And ring up Alpha- tell them we ran into Uni-Peace, and whether or not they want to team up to do some back-to-back badass type shit and curb stomp their asses.

also, do what >>5781616 said. Psychological warfare is always fun. And start shoring up our defenses like hell.

>>5781593
No.

In any case, the consesus on Kil'thweq tactics, now that your artillery units are several miles away, is to bombard their powered armour units.

Initiate plan, subcontractors?

>>5781616
I'd prefer not to say anything more to them, the more we talk the more they think we worry about their activities. They've already said they'll probably leave us a alone if we stay out of the south (I don't think they have the supplies to do much more as evidenced by their guerrilla tactics.

We'll stop expanding into the south (but continue expanding in general, this'll primarily have to be towards the east I guess). Once we've got our position firmly staked out we can deal with them if need be.

>>5781655
Proceed with the bombardment, i love the smell of napalm in whatever time of the day it is now.

>>5781655

You may commence firing, Shift target areas as our specific targets attempt to evade.

This feels like Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri. . .

Ask the factions if they'd be interested in map data, concerning layout of other factions' forces?

We mostly have napalm and heavy explosive type artillery right?

Any fragmentation? It could help.

>>5781655
Yeah, focus fire on the Powered units but sprinkle in some napalm on their infantry in between as well. Don't want them getting too comfortable.

>>5781540
It sounds like these guys definitely have offworld support, lets contact tradestar and ask if they have any information about similar incidents.

>>5781508
And excluding the Kil'thwqe bit, this doesn't sounds bad, though we might want to rephrase it a bit for each faction.

Also; Agent Orange, anyone?

Yes, begin combat, or Day advance.

...our bots have two different turrets right, one artillery gun firing fire, one artillery gun firing heavy explosive, right?

Have each bot firing it's off hand turrent at other enemies. Have them switch it up a little to: Fire, Heavy explosive, fire, heavy explosive, fire, heavy explosive...

>>5781721
They may have offworld support, but it certianly doesn't seem like it's super powerful or that this planet is necessarily very important to that support. They set up a specific regional boundary, this means that do not have the capability to protect the whole world either from orbit or on the ground, I don't think they're a huge threat right this moment.

Also, contact Prospector 137 and Comrade 70 and ask about where their forces are weakest and where they are getting attacked the most, then we can position our HCDs more effectively.

>>5781691
>>5781678
>>5781708
First barrage: Initiated.

"All synths, withdraw. I repeat, all synths, withdraw." You can hear Comrade 70 give the orders to his troop and the synthetic squids suddenly darts backwards, away from the enemy ranks. All thirty of your artillery drones suddenly fire in unison upon the defensive line of Powered Armour. A handful managed to react quick enough to deflect the incoming shells with their gravity guns, while the others are hit. Suddenly, the horizon is filled with smoke as over a dozen of the powered armour units collapse, spilling oil and alien blood over the damp soil - and the synths dive from the Heavens, tentacles whipping and lashing at shocked Kil'thweq infantrymen, who struggle to recover in the chaos.
Your first barrage?
Successful.

Centauri Synthetics:
74 Squidbots

Kil'thweq:
69 Shockwave Infantry
46 Lightning Gun Infantry
12 Powered Armour Units

>>5781763
Point, however they set up their 'territory' where an indigenous population existed.

Kinda reminds me of when I brought up; it would be bad if someone started arming the natives, eh?

'Comrade 70- A pleasure to meet you. Our current battle plans entail bombarding the enemy power armored units with heavy artillery, napalm and heavy explosive rounds mostly, and have some of our HCDs -Heavy Combat Droids- provide laser fire support. Please position and adjust your plans accordingly.'

Also, try and have some reinforcements on route to support them just in case. If we can spare it. Maybe the slaver teams, they do have laser after all...

>>5781809

You mean the GM is designing his scenarios off the player's worst fears? That could be bad.

>>5781809
Bad? Yes. But, for the moment, manageable. Right now we're not in that strong of a position. We're cut off on both ends by semi-hostile factions from expanding, so we need to focus on building ourselves up so we can get a strong foothold and buy better tech. Once we're in a stronger position it shouldn't be all that hard to deal with them.

>>5781799
Continue HE bombardment while beginning to mobilize Assault Droids, once the infantry begin to react to our Assault droids drop a line of surprise Napalm on them while firing some lasers.

>>5781799
Ha ha ha! Damn well cut them down to size! Rain some napalm on those assholes, see how they like the taste of flame. Have laser droids on ready, a good barrage of lasers is always nice. And what the hell, have the slaver teams rearmed for war or, hell, just start sending them up there. More lasers is never a bad thing.

>>5781864
This is your slaver team. It was rearmed for this purpose.

However, understood.

For the next round of combat, do you gentlemen agree - napalm on the infantry?

>>5781891
Sounds good.

>>5781799
Follow this up with a napalm barrage, which should wreak havoc amongst their infantry. Once they've been routed, disposing of them should be easy enough.

>>5781855
Maybe; I'm not willing to really take credit for it, but the moment other players started shooting it down I got extra wary...

>>5781859
As you put it, definitely manageable. We 'respect' their demands while finishing our northern campaign and once we can redirect our forces southwards we begin aggressively scouting their positions.

But on with War!

>>5781891
Maybe go half and half- half our artillery droids fire Heavy explosives, the other half fire napalm. And the power armor lads are going to expect it this time, so have our laser droids mess up their concentration a little bit by shooting them full of scorch marks.

>>5781891
Yes, especially if their far enough away from the PA's countermeasures.

>>5781915
Warn Comrade 70- the anti gravity boys know we have artillery now, so they might try and catch some of the rounds and deflect them on to his troops.

>>5781864
>>5781896
>>5781902
>>5781922
Common vote is on napalm. Going with full napalm strike, also moving the assault drones forward.

>>5781934

So they know its coming, and will try to intercept it with their anti-grav troops. So, lets fuse the next round of HE with VT (variable-time) fuses, basically, have them explode just out of range of the deflectors. I dont know if they focus on objects, or basically have a force-field, though, If it works, it could wipe out a number of the guys we have to worry about the most.

>>5781974
I'm hoping they try and stop the napalm rounds with their anti gravity guns- by grabbing them in the air and crushing them.

Hi! I'm Mister Naplam! I heard you are Mister Face! Hello Mister Face! I am going to rape you in ways you don't even know were possible!

>>5781974

Far too complicated, and do we even have that capability?

Yes, it's true. We're adding material for the OP to use. But this is a good thing. A) Makes the game fun for both of us. B) If he's making this game for publishing, expands some options, makes it more (or less) balanced. All good playtesting. . .

I'm just waiting for Horrible Nasty things to Tunnel into our base, With Widespread disarray.

I agree with Napalm on the Infantry. They should go down fast, which means our remaining (Synth and HCDs) forces can swarm the remaining Power Armor in Phase 3 (Subtitled: Profit!)

Also, it would be good to become Moving targets now. Artillery can fire while on the move (and if our shells are Gravity-juggled back at us, better to NOT be Stationary, eh?)

>>5782014
It would also be easier just to focus fire from opposite (or close to) directions, with a slight difference in arrival time, making them focus on one while the second hits them.

>>5782024

Seconded. Have half of the HCD's fire, then move as the other half volley. Repeat as needed.

>>5781956
"Right, boys. They're focusing napalm on the infantry now - not sure what these exoskeletal bastards will expect from us but it's worth the risk. Disengage and strike the powered armour from both flanks." Comrade 70's troops do just this, soaring away from the infantry who fire after them, destroying a handful - as do the powered armour. But then the shells come. The powered armour units suddenly steady themselves, gravity guns lifted towards the heavens, ready to catch and use the shells to their own advantage. The infantry run away from the powered armour units, in case of failure - and unwittingly, straight into the napalm as it descends up them. For a few moments, the powered armour suits simply stare in horror as the infantry is practically wiped out in one fell swoop and suddenly, a retreat is ordered. Unexpecting of anything of this magnitude, suddenly, they begin to run for their lives, even as they're picked off one by one by the synthetic squids.

Centauri Synthetics:
64 Squidbots

Kil'thweq:
29 Shockwave Infantry
18 Lightning Gun Infantry
5 Powered Armour Units

>>5782056

Shall we assume Comrade 70 is professional enough to pursue with caution in order to avoid ambushes, or shall we chance appearing overbearing by sending him a cautionary message?

>>5782056
Bro fists all around. Leave a few patrol HCDs in case they try and mount an assault again. This probably won't work a second time, or at least not as well, but still.

>>5782056
CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGE

>>5782056
so good

When did quests go from being choose your own adventure games to being Command and Conquer?

I want my rabbit and cat back.

>>5782083
Or, both. Send him a message warning him not to pursue too close or quickly because our artillery will continue to harass the fleeing groups. That way, we encourage good habits while not sounding motherly.

>>5782056
Rely on Comrade 70's forces to pursue. Offer to provide artillery support upon request as his troops run down our retreating foes, but do not push forward ourselves just yet.

>>5782056
Does this call for a HE bombardment on the fleeing Power Armors // a wall of flame to route the troops?

ie. Do we want to decimate them here?

>>5782111
all the choose your own adventure stuff is on /tg/chan. Here, have a link to their /quest/ board- http://64.86.28.46/kusaba/

>>5782129

I vote we save ammo, drop a few HE or napalm shells as appropriate if the enemy appears to be grouping up or rallying.

>>5782120
"One last napalm barrage would be nice - we understand that there's the chance of an ambush being ahead, even if it's unlikely. They're a proud people and I don't think they expected to lose that fight.

"In any case, try to cut them off with one last barrage - if they want to run, they're going to have run through hell if they want to get away from us."

Dont forget we used the whole "LETS RUN AWAYYY" tactic to lure the natives into a trap, the same could be happening now.

>>5782129
>ie. Do we want to decimate them here?
We already have, but it's generally good to finish off the enemy after their morale has been broken, lest they reform and cause damage to your forces.

Also, we should move forward our hauler units and salvage what we can of the enemy's power armor and weaponry as soon as it's safe.

>>5782153
Another napalm round then Charlie- fire by file please.

>>5782153
"Certainly. Napalm wave incoming with our compliments."

Fire wall to cut off their retreat. Do it.

>>5782153

Note to collective self: this Comrade 70 knows what the hell he's doing. If and when we kills us some synths, he's not gonna be fun to butt heads with. File that one away.

We have broken their main combat line. Long term strategy would advise that we use this opportunity to strike at their Producation and Economic centers, while their military is in rout, disarray, and decreased in number. . . If they fight like we do, they deploy the majority of their troops to the fight, with a minimum for defense of structures (THIS IS ALL SPECULATION)

I advise moving into their territory to damage structures (Not too far beyond our Supply lines (Haulers), but let's shell some buildings). Which begs the question. How durable are buildings relative to bots. Say our HCD durability vs. our Construction Facility durability?

Comrade 70. We request that you send a Repulsor Scout to find a suitable strategic target within artillery range. Advise your unit to maximize caution and stealth, we just need coordinates. . .

Autosaging.

New thread.

>>5782190