Base Battle Strategy Talk

[Insanity]

Back to the endless waiting.

 

[Insanity]

First order of business, because it's bloody important, is taking out the Mandos' communications. Do that, the base goes dark and they can't get a call for help or any report out.

I'll have Vaerin do most of the talking, if that's fine. I have a good idea of how to get us free range of the base, for a while.

Only setback I can see is that the A'lore, Mandalore's second, is gonna be in the base apparently.

A'lore
The A'lore is the manager of the day-to-day military affairs of the faction. He or she reports directly to the Mandalore, while all military officials report to the A'lore. He or she is second-in-command of the faction.

 

[Rev]

So their posts are up and looks like they're pretty well prepared. The base definitely has some Anti-Aircraft weaponry set up, although it's a little on the aged side; still a threat.

Base overlooks the ocean, is built into one of the crystal mountains and overlooks the ocean at its base. Exterior of the base has some rather short walls, but still an obstruction. By the looks of things we might have our work cut out for ourselves..

 

[Static]

With their set-up, I'm rather concerned that they're just going to say 'lol, you can't get in *dakka dakka dakka*' :/

 

[Insanity]

pretty much, same. Alright, Rev, you get first post. Fuuuuck me, so much.... -.- Anyways, we'll use the freighter and Mando ship ID. Describe the ship as a Mandalorian merchantman or something, we can say we had to convert it on short notice or something. If they just go 'lol, AA go bang bang', then I'm just gonna bitch at all of 'em for being arses. x.x

 

[Static]

If they just say 'lol AA bang bang' we just reply with 'lol rigging the engines to go nuclear and ejecting in the escape pod'.

Although, they are clearly not going to play fair.

 

[Rev]

Landing inside the base I feel is the unwise decision.

 

[Insanity]

Bugger it, no Mando armor for us. Ah, I'm clueless on how to do this.

They've covered everything, no real breaches at all. They're forcing us to either do a frontal assault, which is suicide, an aerial assault, which is suicide, or try to sneak in, which is also suicide...

Hate this already.

Edit: We land outside it, then. We'll use mouse droids to start tripping their mines, then have the droidekas use small missile-pods to blast the towers from range. All I can think of.

 

[Static]

We could always scale the cliff...

If we try any kind of frontal assault we give away any chance of stealthy infiltration.

I get the feeling if we say 'we're using Mando ID on the aircraft', they'll just go 'lol nah, not accepted, and shoot us down' - and with no armour we'll be shot on landing. I'm slightly miffed that they have a perimeter wall, manned guard tower, an AA battery and a massive geological advantage (although why the hell would you build a base on a cliff in the Star Wars universe? You gain no benefit from it and become susceptible to erosion wearing away the base below you) .

 

[Rev]

I think the best option is a Mortar assault from the outside. We use rockets/mortars/explosives to blow up the AA and anything else we deem fit. I was thinking maybe have an NPC squad or two waiting outside of the base for this to happen.

We'll be coming in from space on the ship with changed transponder codes and the various things we need to appear to be Mando. As we're about to land they'll get hit hard with the Motars, this is when their base will go into chaos wondering where all of this is coming from. If they immediately assume it's us, that'd definitely be metagaming/cheating. We'll land and come out of the ship guns a blazing if we have to.

My other guess was to have the mortars go off and start hammering the base and us come in from the opposite side. We could have each of us RP a mortar team dropping bombs on various parts of the base all at once, we'll be attacking from the North east and west then hit the base hard from all sides. If we continually hammer it with Mortar fire, there's nothing they can do.

 

[Rev]

I like the scaling the cliff idea.. If we sneak in through the hanger while their base is being hit that'd be a definite advantage.. Have some fold out gliders with us that we can jump from the Hanger and just glide to safety into the ocean below.

 

[Static]

Hmm, I like the mortar idea - it's more chaotic than using the droidekas. If we land first, and then hit the base with mortars - it would appear to the characters that we simply arrived at the wrong time. We then infiltrate the base - which should be lowly guarded given that the droidekas and mortar teams will be assaulting the main gate - and set it to blow.

I hate the fact they've decided they have an astromech droid guarding the terminal - it leaves no chance of a clean hack.

Edit: ^ Okay, so we scale most of the cliff then activate the mortar teams. Mortars lead the squads away from the rear of the base, and then we infiltrate the back - eliminate any resistance and hack in / set the charges, then escape on gliders. Just don't mention us on the cliffs until we've hit them with the mortars.

 

[Insanity]

Maybe but if we get sighted while climbing, major issues there. Bugger it. We'll go with that idea, but have mouse droids setting off mines as a distraction if we can. Small droids of any type would work other than the mouse ones.

Edit: Small droids setting off mines, droidekas and mortars hittin the main entrance. It works.

 

[Static]

If we get sited scaling a massive cliff then they're metagaming. There's no way they would be checking the cliff - what would be the point? Plus, if they're getting mortared and hit by droidekas when they know there's a battle occurring in the forest, there's no way the troops would stop to look over the cliff to check.

 

[Rev]

I mean, we dont all have to hit it as a group, we could go in from separate locations.. Maybe one of us goes over the wall, one goes cliffside and another moves with the Mortar teams.

I'm up for whatever you guys are comfortable with. If you want to scale it together, it can be done.

EDIT: We'll scale it with stealth field generators.

 

[Static]

If we split up then they'll just target us one by one and it'll be easy. With the three PCs together we can bat away NPCs far more easily.

 

[Insanity]

We go in together. Vaerin won't need a stealth genny, just you two. That aside, I'm having issues getting into this sub-forum as it keeps making me spam the password.

Sorry for lack of input.

 

[Rev]

It's fine, your cookies are probably turned off, they save it; that or you dont save your internet history.

I'll write up a post in a lil bit here, do we want the mortars to open fire as we're climbing?

 

[Insanity]

yeah. Mortars start up as soon as we start climbing. A few should hit near us so the Mandos don't go 'Why aren't they hitting that side too?'. It'll be dangerous but we'll be covered well enough.

I dunno, cookies are enabled. Might be the security IE uses, but whatever.

 

[Rev]

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