Armies of the Fifth Frontier War, Impressions Not Errata

[Condottiere]

Time to try out that repulsor spinal mount.

 

[Perkanis83]

Where are you getting these extra ships for your fleet? So far, this discussion has been about once a fleet has orbital superiority, what can the planetary population do about it. The answer is, basically nothing. The planet's defenses are out-ranged by the enemy fleet who can just keep throwing rocks. They do not even have to be planet-destroying rocks. They can be smaller rocks that only destroy a few miles of planetary surface, throw a few hundred of those at once and wait for all resistance to cease. It is about as damaging as massed meson weapon fire, but with much less risk to the fleet, since they are out of range of the planetary weapon emplacemen

Facts
1, once a enemy has presence in the system the system is lost and should immediately surrender to avoid orbital annihilation
2, the enemy can always mass ships better then you can in the start of any conflict
3, you can not have enough ships in threatened regions to contest the attacking fleet due to economic reasons and strategic reasons

Conclusion as soon as a attacking fleet is detected any jump able ships leaves the system, do not seed mines do not pick up supplies they run fast and hard and should run for a sub sector or two or further back toward friendly depots then once enough ships have been collected at said depots and perhaps some reinforcements have arrived from deeper in (assuming the third imperium here) you then turn and counter attack flipping systems back to your side again and if able try to seek battles that you can win without risking either ships or the fleet as a whole. IF you encounter a enemy force strong enough to be a potential threat you run away again and repeat.

Since this is the strategic way you are going to be fighting this war ANY credit spent on orbital defenses or army units are a waste and should instead have been spent on mobile fleet units.