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[9/29/2141] Kochikaze: Miscellaneous

Postby Zanaikin » Sun Jul 12, 2009 10:35 pm

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Re: [9/29/2141] Kochikaze: Miscellaneous

Postby TheDude51 » Thu Jul 16, 2009 1:49 am

(Meeting with Ivan, Ahmet, Pahlen, advisors from both brigades)

The main problem we faced in our initial fights was massive losses to the armored companies as they closed with the enemy. The most damaging enemy fire was direct-firing heavy railguns, using primarily electronic targeting.

Using Hussar scouts to boost the ECM of the lead companies was somewhat effective at reducing casualties, but the casualties suffered by the scout units were unacceptably high. One potential solution would be to equip REDEIN fighters with electronic warfare modules rather than missiles, and use them to screen the armored companies. This has the benefit of a providing a large number of screening units without putting any pilots in harm's way. However, it also deprives us of the anti-fighter capabilities of the REDEINs.

Possible solutions to this:
-Use REDEINs with standard armaments to screen armored companies. This will provide significantly less protection against Sky Cruiser fire, but will allow us to counter their air skimmers most effectively.

-Use Langskips / Hussars to counter enemy fighters. Equip all scouts with anti-fighter missiles, give standing orders for Langskips to engage airskimmers as a first priority. I am concerned that this might not give us adequate protection from the enemy fighters, given the numbers that they can deploy from a large cruiser force. However, from what we've seen so far the rail cannons are a much greater offensive threat than the skimmers, and I think the tradeoff would be worth it.

In the future we should also make sure to have the Katyushas hold their fire until enemy screening units are deployed from their assault transports, since they will probably be most effective at destroying many small units spread over an area, and also always counter incarnum juggernauts with sufficient forces.


However, given the current situation it doesn't seem very likely that we'll be facing another major aerial battle any time soon. The enemy has only 9 Sky Cruisers left to defend both Tsutsui and Asakura, and I don't think that they will risk facing us in open battle until they gather more forces. Instead, the main challenge going forward will be taking cities and fortresses from the enemy.

I would like to rely heavily on artillery and close-air support to clear away enemy strong points in urban fighting, as much as is politically feasible. This will require the use of missile-armed REDEINs for air strikes on the enemy, since they will be capable of more precise attacks than the artillery units.

What I would like to do is have all REDEINs armed with missiles be default, but have EW modules on hand in both Landships so that we can switch them on if a large enemy Cruiser force is detected, or if we need to assault fortifications with a large number of heavy railgun emplacements.

Aside from that, I'm not sure how much we can do to prepare our forces for urban combat. One thing would be to arm the Heavy Weapon teams with close-range weapons, but aside from that any suggestions would be welcome.
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Re: [9/29/2141] Kochikaze: Miscellaneous

Postby Zanaikin » Thu Jul 16, 2009 2:50 pm

ECM SCREENING:
Major Soissons notes that Hussar Scouts, with their agility, and Langskip ADATS squads, with their ability to precisely track and target large numbers of enemy units, were already designed with the notion of countering hostile strike craft anyways. Especially the case for the ADATS, seeing as the vehicle type as named Air-Defense Anti-Tank System for a reason, basically a mobile SAM platform of old adapted for multi-purpose use - and then converted to using HVMs instead of missiles when the tech came out during the war over Penthiae. The REDEINs are meant to provide an outer, 'unmanned' and thus more expendable, screen. But the other units should be able to pick up the slack when the REDEINs are elsewhere, like say, for a strike mission. Also, from a costs standpoint, it's most effective to utilize REDEINs to screen against the most dangerous foes, since they are unmanned after all. Besides, using REDEINs purely for ECM isn't anything unheard of - Fleet-Marshal Pokryshkin utilized ECM-equipped REDEINs to great effect during the Second Battle of Penthiaen Orbit [Knowledge(history) check].

Major Rantzau explains that unlike Hussars which are equipped with a large number of decoys, REDEINs rely on self-defense ECM and won't make even nearly as good EW screening elements as the Hussars, unless their equipment was optimized towards it. Furthermore, if the REDEINs were configured completely for EW-screening duty and dropped of external armaments, then they could be operated solely on auto-pilot with minimal loss in performance, freeing up the pilots to control a second wave of actually manned REDEINs. Of course, the problem with this will be that REDEINs will be lost at an even higher speed, and the Landship can only carry so much. It might be ideal to request command for an extra stock of REDEINs to be kept at base CK-1 (and the facilities to store/service them), that way as long as we're operating near the base we can call upon the base's extra reserves. [Yes this'll cost CPs]

Major Samsonov notes that bringing ECM modules for the REDEINs on the command landships mean something else space-consuming will be sacrificed, be it the number of REDEINs carried or the REDEIN missile stock available.


ARTILLERY
There seems to be general agreement regarding the Katyusha MLRS issue.


FLEETS
Colonel Pahlen warns that don't be too sure about the current lack of enemy ships. Tsutsui may have lost most of their ships and the Mohara probably around half of their fleet, but there are plenty of other states in Chroma. If they weren't staying to the side and just watching, they'd be able to conjure some truly enormous fleets - which is likely why high command gave command of the campaign to the diplo guys.

Major Bayreuth notes that furthermore, the enemy has learned the hard way that their Cruiser forces cannot stand alone against our Field Brigades. Which means that in the future we can expect major ground-side support. Furthermore, they now know we can deploy units into an area without moving them over - so they'll be able to guess something along the lines of our Teleportation Circle. What caught them off-guard this battle won't work again.


SIEGE & URBAN COMBAT
Major Soissons notes that relationship between mobile artillery units and fortifications have always given fortifications the advantage, that's not something we can help. As every other era in history there are only two ways to crack a fortification: throw overwhelming amounts of firepower at it, preferably at least a 3-to-1 ratio, or close in with infantry and root out the defender. As far as equipment goes, the heavy-weapon squads amongst the infantry and grenadiers have flamethrowers, which might help a bit.

Colonel Pahlen simply states that 'urban combat always prove to be a meat-grinder, no other way around this', except to have more and better trained infantry and grenadier units. Unfortunately, we can't expect the circumstances to reproduce the First Battle of Trias [Knowledge(history)]. One thought though, is to supply oxygen rebreathers to all the troops, and have them take control of cities with their shields entirely in guard-mode. The downside to this is, of course, their batteries will get expended rapidly and every so while we'll have to stop the units from advancing in order to take some time to charge up their power cells. This'll work at least until Chroma reverse-engineer and start mass producing our troops' resonance generators.
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Re: [9/29/2141] Kochikaze: Miscellaneous

Postby Zanaikin » Fri Aug 21, 2009 3:28 pm

On the morning on 9/30/2141, High Command informs the Chroma Campaign command staff that they will be receiving the 3rd Shadow Legion company as requested reinforcements. By noon, the unit begins arriving at base CK-1 through the Teleportation Circle and requests their first assignment, if any...

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Re: [9/29/2141] Kochikaze: Miscellaneous

Postby TheDude51 » Wed Sep 02, 2009 4:48 pm

Ivan does some research to find out any international treaties in effect on Chroma about the treatment of POWs, and also looks up information on how POWs generally are actually treated.

He also looks up how much of the Kochikaze military did not participate in the revolt (Police and other paramilitary forces also, if any of them were involved in the violence).
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Re: [9/29/2141] Kochikaze: Miscellaneous

Postby Zanaikin » Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:46 pm

Not too surprisingly, there isn't an international treaty on the matter of POWs. Sure, there's the old republican law, but that's when Chroma was still in one piece. POW treatment kinda varies by side and circumstances right now, some sides have no problem torturing . Delving into this further will require some time-consuming amts of researching...
Imperial military law regarding POWs is very similar to the Geneva Convention we all know, with something notable: while it rules specifics on 'treating prisoners', there's maneuverable room on 'taking prisoners', and every critic remembers the notorious Battle Order 11-8.

In a basic count, about ~2400 Kochikaze active military troops did not take part in the Rebellion, be it on the insurgent side or getting mowed down for trying to stop them. They have a military 'reserve' (more like backup militia) of around 10,000, no paramilitary forces to speak of, and about ~5,000 law enforcement personnel. There is a relatively large (50%) overlap between law enforcement and military reserves though.
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