Loot Tons of Heavy metal
Bring more Haulers

Dedicate 20 Artillery, 20 Laser HCDs, and 20 Loot Haulers to the combat. If we don't have 20 Laser HCDs available right now, wait until they're made, then send 'em in.
If the Laser HCDs are available now, send in 10 haulers from the ore mines (for now, at least) to pick up any looted minerals.

Sell captured Kil'thweq to Alpharange.

I think we should focus on napalm and stun gas for shells right now. Napalm will cook our enemy in his power armor but only deal damage over time to us. Gas lets us get prisoners for trade. Keep enough HE to crack open buildings and for some emergencies.

>>5784429
In that case, increase production on HCD and send them up. As many as we can produce and get their in a feasible amount of time. Do we know how much larger the base is?

When we get reinforcements we should send in just what they know we have from the last time. Make them think we didn't restock and were just looting. Hold back the reinforcements to see if they're planning another ambush.

Ask what tech they'll trade for our prawn.

Here's a rough draft of what our facility could basically look like.

The blue square is a representation of our main facility.

The thin black line is our smaller security wall, the thicker black line is our super security wall.

The gray areas are gates.

The green dots are laser turrets along the outer perimeter wall.

The red dots are artillery turrets located deep within for firing up and out.

What are your thoughts and opinions?

>>5784480
Each construction facility - you have 6 - can make 12 on any type of HCD and send it to the frontlines per day.
However, only the Kil'thweq Frontline facility has them arrive right away.

So, what type of drones would you like to produce en masse?

Know that this will put your gas consumption through the roof.

We should ask the prawn leaders what they think about their chances of success now. And if they have any offers to prevent their annihilation.

Heavy laser/laser/flamer drones.

We need to restock our long range artillery. If they still have a main fortress, we'll need to use range and heavy bombardment tactics to win against it.

>>5784489
Sonic Technology
Slave Collar Schematics
Combat-Hauler Hybrids
Thermobaric Technology
Cruise Missile Technology

>>5784534
Thermobaric? Explain please.

We want cruise missles.

We don't need any slaves. That isn't our MO. We don't have any kind of infrastructure for them.

>>5784510
all 12 frontline facility drones should be dual laser and flamers. Produce 21 more artillery loaded with HE and napalm. Produce 39 more dual laser and flamers.

>>5784550
"Thermobaric"->fuel air bombs. Big boom, basically. We want missiles, but that's next on the list.

Also, Uni-peace is harassing us to the south.
We've seen so far that they're using a combination of organics, including natives ($$$) as an offensive force.

I declare the following be used as our fighting teams vs. Uni-peace:
Each squad consists of the following:
4 Stun Artillery / Napalm Artillery / Melee Stunrod HCDs
4 Laser / Stun Gun / Flamer HCDs
4 Light combat drones, outfitted with Stun guns (and Lasers/Flamers if they'll fit) to act as spotters
3 Heavy haulers (Carries ammo in, carries captives out).

These shall be called "Safety" squadrons, in tradition with naming our slavers "Freedom" and our war-teams "Peace".
2 of these squads should be enough to at least slow Uni-peace down if they attack us in the south. We can produce more if needed later.

>>5784550
Thermobaric missiles blow up big.

>>5784534
What about Sonic technology, what does that do? Can we use it to stun things from long-range?

>>5784575
If they're living in the forests, we've got to burn everything down there.

>>5784534
cruise missiles and let them know we'll have even more slaves for them soon.

>>5784550
Thermobaric weapons work in two stages - they're explosives.
The first stage is a shock wave strong enough to strip flesh from bone and basically shatter anything that isn't heaivly reinforced.
The second stage incinerates everything within the radius, setting it on fire.
It's absolutely devastating against any light units and all organics.

>>5784494
We need some type of long-range sensors to make any real use out of those defensive artillery. Until we have them, forget about it.

>>5784429
I vote we finish our business with the Kil'thweq, then use our standing forces to basically hold the line against Uni-peace (raiding where-ever seems weak for slaves) while we build up our Fuel and Minerals economy.

>>5784596
We'll want to get thermobarics and cruise missles from AlphaRange eventually. We can use them at ultra long range to destroy those southerners.

>>5784585
Sonic technology is like stun guns, except it's area of effect. In other words, much more effective.

WAIT!

Does Lemmington have any desire to get these Kil'thweq?

What would they offer for some specimens?

>>5784627
since they're a previously known sentient species they're probably already had ample opportunity to examine them. I guess it's still worth asking though.

>>5784611
I'm thinking we should get Sonic weaponry for the time being, it'll be a GREAT help in capturing slaves if we get Stun artillery and AoE stun attacks to go with our Napalm and Lasers.
Then we can buy other stuff with our captured slaves!

>>5784611
Do we even have stun artillery? We won't really be able to capture any natives without it, given how they have short-range means of fucking us up (explosive arrows)

>>5784627
Lemmington's Response:
"No."

Also, since you're producing 60 HCDs a day, what setup do you want to give them?

>>5784630
My thinking was that if they're so fierce and imperialistic, they may not have had a chance to get a specimen yet.

And if they haven't, telling Lemmington that AlphaRange has interest in them should raise their value.

Since Lemmington and AlphaRange are at odds, Lemmington may see them as a slave force/frontline solider that Alpha may use against them.

>>5784648
Yes, you do have stun artillery. It's like fragmentation except instead, it uses highly deformable metal - the explosion and high velocity is usually enough to mold the shrapnel into a nonlethal, ball-bearing sort of shape.

I declare the following be used as our fighting teams vs. Uni-peace:
Each squad consists of the following:
4 Sonic Artillery / Napalm Artillery / Flamer HCDs
4 Sonic Gun / Laser / Flamer HCDs
4 Light combat drones, outfitted with Sonic guns to act as spotters
3 Heavy haulers (Carries ammo in, carries captives out).

We can make 4 squads in 1 day.

That'll be enough to hold them off while we develop our industry.

>>5784653
Kil'thweq prawns don't just exist in this population.
There are billions of prawns in the intragalactic community - and Lemmington Pharmaceuticals has access to thousands as test subjects and experiments.

>>5784667
IMO, we should get enough forces to push Uni-peace off the main continent, but no more. We need to focus on Industry after this, which should be doable with Centauri guarding the north.

>>5784670
While Uni-Peace does offer us the chance to get natives as slaves, there are still miles and miles and miles of unclaimed territory as far as we can tell. That must have many natives in it.

It is my opinion that we should simply burn Uni-Peace to the ground. There is such a mix there. The sonic weapons don't work on synthetics, so their android population would be unaffected.

We've got range and fire on our side. We need total annihilation. The rewards for a sliver of native slaves isn't worth the risk of getting in close range, on their turf, when they've got such destructive capabilities.

Take no chances. Take no causalities. Take no prisoners.

>>5784568

>>5784650
See that post. Shouldn't it be 72? Because 12x6 is 72.

Okay, you select cruise missiles as your purchase.

Advancing to Day 29.

>>5784693
Ball-bearing fragmentation artillery?
That sounds like it'd tear up everything in a specific radius, and not stun anything except by knocking it unconscious with organ damage and bloodloss.
Multiple-warhead Concussive weaponry would do that better but Concussive weaponry only works for a few minutes, not long enough to run up and Taze stuff.

Gogo buy Sonic stuff for Stunnage and Sellage?

>>5784713
Central facility busy producing turrets.

>>5784720
If we're getting cruise missles, we'll want to throw a few of those into our main HQ.

>>5784715
WE GOT NOOKS
... Well, okay, we got cruise missiles.

>>5784720
What turrets? The artillery? Only one person seemed to want that and I asked if we had any long range sensors to even make good use of them.

Okay. Focus.

We're gearing up to Annihilate the Kil'thweq. Explosive artillery to blow up his command, Napalm artillery to blow up his troops, Lasers and Flamers at close range to ensure nothin's touching our artillery.

Then, we're gearing up to annihilate Uni-peace.
I assume we're going to be missiling their crap with napalm, then artillery-shelling them with napalm, before finally closing in with short-range flamethrowers that shoot napalm.

>>5784748
We really like fire, don't we? Like... really, really like fire. We use fire on everything.

>>5784737
I'm of the opinion that a well-defended HQ can be either bumrushed or bombarded from out of its range. We're spreading production out anyway.

>>5784748
I agree on that tactic against unipeace. They're at home in the trees with their dynamite arrows. They're like the fucking Dukes of Hazard mixed with the hillbillies from Deliverance. We don't want to get into the woods with them.

Long range fire. Burn them all.

>>5784759
>They're like the fucking Dukes of Hazard mixed with the hillbillies from Deliverance.

XD

>>5784755
Yeah, but 12 heavy combat drones is a lot. It could let us kill off the remaining prawns in a lot less time. And like I keep saying, can we even use them effectively???

>>5784754
>Poorly armored organics
>Wide area of fire
>See picture attached

Day 29:

6113.8 tons
2,613 fuel

+585 tons/day
-577 fuel/day

You exchange your Kil'thweq prawn slaves for cruise missile schematics.

You build 31 artillery drones and 29 assault drones. Due to the fact you have now built roads to the frontline, they arrive immediately.

Your frontline forces:
58 Artillery Drones
31 Assault Drones

Cruise Missles come in two payload variants at the moment:
Explosive and Napalm.
Both take six hours to construct, require five tons of metal and one hundred units of fuel.

>>5784768
So, More HCDs!

>>5784773
We need to buy 20,000 units of fuel from TradeStar

>>5784759
Less dynamite arrow, more Green Arrow explosive arrow.

>>5784773
We have 6,100 tons.
We can buy enough food to last forever,
pay them 2,500,
and then buy 35000 units of fuel.
BUYIN FUEL FOREVER

>>5784791
>arrow
>poor range
>but extremely superior cover in the form of forests
... :(
>napalm cruise missile
:D

>>5784791
You say tomato, I say tomahto

>>5784785
Our order was already placed; the last day to modify is was Day 27. I'm not sure how much fuel we asked for, though...

>>5784773
Once our artillery drones have been moved to the frontline areas, deactivate them. Even if they take a few minutes to bring back online in the event of counterassault, the fuel savings will be worth it, and we'll probably spend another day or two building up before launching our own assault.

>>5784799
We need to buy as much fuel as we can.

At the rate we're going, if we don't buy enough we'll run out before the next resupply.

I don't understand why we don't mine our own fuel.

Really, what harm is there in having lots of drones harvesting fuel that we can use for other things if necessary?

>>5784834
We can't harvest enough fuel to power our forces. We can mine more metal and trade it for fuel from TradeStar. It's more efficient than even if we had maxed optimization at fuel mines.

If worse comes to worse we could trade with Centauri for fuel. Maybe even half demand it for helping against the prawns

>>5784773
Make 2 explosive and 2 napalm cruise missiles.
Hit the Kil'thweq HQ with Explosive, Napalm, Explosive, Napalm.

First Explosive is a breach, First napalm to scare them away from the breach, then second Explosive into the breach to open their base up, then Napalm in the hole.

Note that we got this shit from Alpha-range
We REALLY do not want to piss off alpha-range.

>>5784856
We'll have to use espionage and diplomacy against them.

>>5784852
What?
We have GAZILLIONS of untapped gas pockets, and at the very least we can reduce the deficit, and get some functional drones out of it as well.

>>5784856
>We REALLY do not want to piss off alpha-range.
Damn right we don't. Particularly since we've effectively been feeding them troops.

>Make 2 explosive and 2 napalm cruise missiles.
Don't do that. Our artillery should suffice, and I'd rather keep our missile capabilities in reserve for use against major threats, should it come to it. Remember, we're with Centauri Synthetics on this one, but that doesn't mean that they'll be on our side forever... and I wouldn't trust the abilities of artillery against their speedy killer repulsor-squids.

>>5784879
We could tap the other gas mines, but the math doesn't add up.

Even if we shut down our combat droids and maxed gas mining, the ratio wouldn't be high enough.

>>5784879

Mines:
4 2500
4 2000
4 1500
7 1000
6 500

Gas Pockets:
5 2000

I had to send some drones to the empty gas pockets when your old ones ran out of resources. I didn't announce it because of war efforts.

>>5784883
I'm pretty sure he said that their weapons are neurological electric shit, so it won't work on our drones.

>>5784890
Each roaded extraction site gives +85 fuel/day.

>>5784883
We can make more cruise missiles later.

Right now we should make a few to use against the prawn stronghold. We don't know what they've got there. Their anti air capabilities could be massive, as could be their ground forces.

We should pepper them with artillery, and then use that as a distraction to fire cruise missiles. Hopefully the artillery will keep them from shooting the missiles out of the sky.

>>5784912
Still, it's more efficient now at least to mine for metal and trade it for fuel at a healthy 1-10 ratio.

>>5784895
I loled.

Did we ever replace those scouting drones that got blowed up by unipenis?

>>5784919
For now.

>>5784931
No.

In any case, moving on to Day 30.

This gets me thinking. Centauri is effectively boxed-in by Tradestar (us), AlphaRange (godlike) and Lemmington Pharmaceuticals.

If Centauri doesn't want to help against Uni-peace (and why the hell should they, they don't get anything for it), they're going to start plowing through Lemmington next.
Should we get in on that action, or no?

>>5784937
Okay, well as soon as we're done with the war, we need to do that.

>>5784913
Fine. We make a few cruise missiles, but hold them in reserve. Only use them if we're actually losing and need something to turn the war around.

>>5784952
Or if we just want to flush them out of their own base with a breach and a wall of napalm.
I hear that causes lots of surrenderin'. :)

>>5784959
That sounds like a plan.

>We really like fire, don't we? Like... really, really like fire. We use fire on everything.
(b^.^)b

Fire is effective in all situations.

We don't need to get shit from the trees if we buy our supplies.

Day 30:

2033.8 tons
21,676 fuel

+585 tons/day
-537 fuel/day

You build 32 artillery drones and 29 assault drones. Due to the fact you have now built roads to the frontline, they arrive immediately and all of your artillery drones are shot down.

Your frontline forces:
90 Artillery Drones
60 Assault Drones
2 Cruise Missiles (Explosive)
2 Cruise Missiles (Napalm)

TradeStar arrive.
They take their 2500 tithe, give you a month's supply for one hundred men and 20,000 fuel. Total cost: 4,600.

>>5784992
>all of your artillery drones are shot down.
OH GOD

...typo, right, right...

>>5784969
Basically if we can scare them by burning their base with our fist from the heavens, it can be like

"Surrender and stay alive. We'll even release you to the nearest GTFOmobile so you can get off this planet! ... or don't, but then fire! :D"

>>5784992
They're shot down or shut down?

Produce more missiles.
Just in case.

All explosive, this time.

I have a bad feeling that our love for fire will be turned against us.

>>5785003
If they're as imperialistic as they sound, letting some escape the planet could be a hinderance to use in the future.

"Oh, what's that? Up in the sky... OH MY GO- . . ."

>>5784992
DEY GOT CLOAKS

SHUT DOWN OH GOD I MEAN SHUT DOWN

>>5785003
We're selling them into slavery. That's not exactly freedom.

>>5785012
>I have a bad feeling that our love for fire will be turned against us.

Hmm.

Hey, we have some spare heavy construction drones, right? Could they maybe build us a reinforced underground bunker under our base, sufficient to, oh, survive a few thermobaric cruise missiles?

>>5785015
We'll sell 'em to AlphaRange, who then do god knows what with 'em, probably sell 'em to their main corp. We're good for at least 6 months.

also wtf on a samuel L. jackson, we got shot down by some cloaked asshole?

That's it, Clustermissile their mainbase.

So, what action do you guys want to take now? Want to continue to produce manpower and resources?

>>5785032
I meant shut down.

Be quiet, I am a Eurofag, I should be asleep by now.

>>5785034
First, verify whether our Artillery drones have been Terminated/Destroyed by an unseen force, or whether you just turned them to Low power mode.

Plan of attack?

Barrage the Prawn HQ with various artillery. In the chaos, hit it with cruise missiles. The plan being the artillery acts as a shield to the cruise missiles.

>>5785058
They are SHUT DOWN.
SHUT DOWN
NOT SHOT DOWN.
They're just deactivated.

Inquire of Centauri Synthetics as to their preferred timetable for the assault.

We've got to rely on our massive first strike capabilities.

Blow them away with our artillery and missiles.

>>5785073
cranky eurofag is cranky.

>>5785046
Oh.
Well, wait for Haulers with our mainforce
Artillery Barrage their base
Hit it with the 4 Missiles to breach and flood it if it looks like the battle's not going our way.

Uni-Peace are being assholes, though.
Leave 30 or so HCDs behind patrolling our southern border, with specifications:

20 with Laser / Laser / Short-range flamer
10 with Napalm Artillery / Napalm Artillery / Short-range flamer
Have them start burning away forest using their lasers, if they have no enemies to engage, so that the enemy can't use cover against us.
Manufacture 10 Napalm cruise missiles to go with them - the threat of fire from the heavens is enough to scare anyone shitless, and give us time to regroup.

With spare production capacity, produce enough Samplers to replace the ones destroyed, and then start making the usual 10Harvest/10Haul/3Lightcombat/2Lightconst template for mining heavy minerals.

>>5785085
"Have everything ready by tomorrow. We'll be taking down the final obstacle before their main base."

>>5785109
We do not attack Uni-Peace until the prawns are taken care of.

We don't need two fronts.

>>5785109
Might as well double our current Heavy Construction Drone force to 20 while we're at it, more HCDs are never a bad thing.

>>5785137
If we build them, don't activate them until they're needed.

So, I take it you're producing one last batch of missles, one last batch of 30 artillary drones and 30 assault drones?

>>5785137
Acknowledged.

What would you like to construct on the last day before the storm, then?

>>5785141
Sure, once they're ready we go with this attack plan.
>>5785066

And then the centauri forces and our own go in to wipe things up.

Can we get an updated map soon?

>>5785123
Well, we're ready.
You said it took 6 hours to make 1 cruise missile, right?
We have 6 facilities for a max of 24 cruise missiles.
Make 8 Explosive, and 8 Napalm cruise missiles. We can deploy these quickly if the situation turns sour.
Increase our Heavy Construction Vehicle numbers to 20; that should be enough to get industry production up and running.

We have enough Artillery drones, enough Laser drones covering them, and we have missiles to deploy quickly if needed.

I'd say we're good.

LETS BARBECUE THIS PRAWNS, MOTHERFUCKER

FUCK YEAH!

*SHRED SHRED SHRED*

>>5785140
You could probably build more 'bot producing plants, but keep the 'bot plants deactivated.
With HUGE BOT PRODUCTION we can start working all the mines we have in under 15 days, and make Tradestar be all :D

>>5785167
I'll make that 6 napalm, 6 explosive and 11 heavy constructors so you have a total of 20 constuctors.

Does everyone agree with this?

I recommend a new Facilities batch of Harvesters and Haulers for an untapped Gas Node.

I recommend that Idle Heavy Construction Drones build a Forward Defensive Wall near our Battle staging area. We need to hit this "Obstacle before their main base" As Well As Their Main Base. In the likely event of our artillery being targeted, I'd like them to have a defensive perimeter. Make it double high, so that JumpJetting is less of an issue. Our shells still fly ballistic, so vertical access is good. Just keep them in a bunker zone.

>>5785191
Yeah I like that plan too

>>5785191
Agree, not really, but I don't object strongly enough to propose an alternate plan.

>>5785149
Takes 2 hours to produce a HCV or HWD
Takes 6 hours to produce a Cruise Missile
Total of 144 facility-hours available
Let's make 16 missiles (1 of each type),
12 Heavy Construction vehicles (bring total to 20),
6 Assault Bots, and 6 Artillery bots.

>>5785197
>>5785197
Centauri is taking that out, and we have more than enough forces there already to lend in if it's needed.

>>5785191
6 napalm
6 explosive
11 constructors
50 Constructor-hours remain
Make 10 Heavy Haulers
Make 10 Heavy Harvesters
Make 2 Light Constructors
Make 3 Light Combat drones
Spend the rest of the hours on Samplers.

>>5785191
Yeah, I agree. Heaven or Hell, let's rock!

Psychological warfare.

This is the far future.

I bet we humans have some rock and roll music that these prawns wouldn't like.

We blast that shit on loud speakers.

Typing up the first of the second month...

Judgement Day.

We have rocked the shit out of this planet in only a month.

AlphaStar is our biggest threat.

And those hippies to the south.

Lemmington is suspiciously quiet. I bet they'll nerve gas us all.

DAY ONE, MONTH TWO

2553.8 tons
20,176 fuel

+585 tons/day
-335 fuel/day

Everything except for your combat drones and your resource node drones are deactivated.

TradeStar:
90 Artillery Drones
60 Assault Drones
8 Cruise Missiles (Explosive)
8 Cruise Missiles (Napalm)

You have an incoming message from Centauri Synthetics.
It's Comrade 70:
"Something's wrong. I sent a scout forward - there's nothing. Just miles of countryside. I think they've all retreated to the main base. There's nothing but abandoned facilities out here.
"Are you sure you're ready for this?"

>>5785285
"FUCK YEAH COMPADRE!

You send your forces at the head. Their maneuverability is the best thing we have for the front. We'll march at a steady pace until we're within range of the artillery and missiles. We don't want to get in close range, we don't know what they have. We'll bombard them, and if they come running as a force, we'll deal with it with our combined forces. Range is our game for this assault."

>"Are you sure you're ready for this?"
"It hardly matters if we're not. Luck to you; let's go."

>>5785285
Spread the fuck out they've planted a bomb!
When appropriately spread the fuck out, march towards mainbase, ensuring Cruise missles are at the ready.

BE CAREFUL!

They could have planted mines.

Send some expeditionary scouts at the lead to "test the waters" as it were.

>>5785285
They haven't got a bomb, they're cloaked! They've turned invisible! They're gonna ambush us!

>>5785335
>>5785336
THEY ARE BOTH INVISIBLE AND ARMED WITH MINES.

>>5785345
I posit instead that they're having a merry drinking contest in their base, and that nothing sinister is afoot.

>>5785345
I was thinking that they're concealed in underground bunkers, planning to spring out and flank us at an awkward moment.

>>5785346
A merry drinking contest in which the participants IMBIBE CLOAKS and PISS LANDMINES.

>>5785350
FROM BUNKERS. INVISIBILE BUNKERS THAT ACT AS BOTH GIANT MINES AND VENUES FOR DRINKING CONTESTS.

Gentlemen, we're fucked.

WAIT!

Is it possible that Uni-Peace is us from the future?

No, we are corporate greedholes.

>>5785312
>>5785305
You roll towards the nearby hills that should overlook the base, which is approximately five miles away, with the all of the synthsquids except for one guading you (along with the Astronautilus - Comrade 70's personal synth). One is a mile ahead, and is almost over the hills. You see through its eyes and when it finally observes the base you see...

A handful of minor facilities, a landing pad and an air control tower. Even yours look more impressive than that. However, there are thousands - literally, thousands - of civilians going underground through various dens and tunnels, being guarded by the remains of their military.

"Damn it. They're trying to force us to fight in their conditions. We've got to kill as many as possible before they all get down there."

Disappointing - but oh well. That's how things work.

TradeStar:
90 Artillery Drones
60 Assault Drones

Centauri Synthetics:
250 Synthsquis
1 Astronautilus

Kil'thweq:
2500 Civilians
400 Shockwave Infantry
150 Lightning Infantry
50 Powered Armour Units

What are your tactics?

DID YOU KNOW: I am a dick.

They might be our pleasant survivors after our faction civil wars into two pieces, though

Tactics?

You ask for tactics?

YOU ASK FOR OUR TACTICS?

WE BURN THEM ALL!

Launch wave upon wave of napalm artillery and missiles. Cut off their escape. Then soften them up with the HE.

>>5785398
Our tactics are the same as they always are: Overwhelming napalm barrage to cut off retreat (in this case, the tunnel entrances), followed by bombardment of the strongest present enemy to the point of pulverization.

They can Tunnel! It will be hard to crack underground structures without Blasting ALL of our ordinance. . . I wonder if we can siege them, until they run out of supplies, Or commandeer their spacepad, and take out their supply freighter. I really don't want to fight in their tunnels.

Especially since they likely lead outside (behind us)

>>5785422
No, save them.
This can't be it.
We must save the missiles for later.

>>5785427
second
don't use missiles yet

>>5785398
Oh, and before we begin firing, inform them that we offer them the chance to surrender and yield up all their assets to us, in exchange for their lives. When they refuse, THEN initiate bombardment.

>>5785431
We have more than a few missiles.

Use some of them now to soften our enemy as much as possible. We aren't using all of them.

Our forces and Centauri should keep some units on alert for ambushes.

>>5785446
Well, okay - we can use our napalm on these guys. They're all weak to it.
Let's barrage 'em too.

>>5785398
>'remains' of military
>MORE OF EACH TYPE OF TROOP THAN WE HAVE KILLED SO FAR TO DATE
wat
we've only -seen- 48 power armor and about 200 of of each type of infantry.
These are the REMAINS?

Anyway, they have 50 powered infantry. Our tactic is as follows:
Artillerise as many of the powered infantry with napalm as possible.
HIT THE POWERED INFANTRY WITH AN EXPLOSIVE CRUISE MISSILE WHILE THEY ARE DISTRACTED.
Repeat again, with Explosive shells and Napalm cruise missile.

We're gonna need to terminate that Power armor.

How many napalm missiles are you guys launching then?
One?
Two?

>>5785473
Launch up to two, targeting them at the largest and most trafficked tunnel entrances.

>>5785473
Three napalm cruisers. Try to get maximum area of effect.

Pepper the entire area with a mix of napalm and HE artillery shells.

>>5785473
Two explosive, Two napalm. After the Artillery barrage starts, of course. Gotta make sure their Grav-o-whatsits are occupied.
Try to hit the centre of the facility with 1 explosive, 1 napalm. Then, with the other 2, target whatever concentration of power armor is greatest.

>>5785480
No! Use them against the military - we can use shells for entrances.

Yes, PLASMA,

WE. DONT. WANT. TO. LAUNCH. CRUISE. MISSILES. UNTIL. THE. AIR. IS. FILLED. WITH. ARTILLERY.

>>5785485
The centre of the facility is a small little air control tower.

Are you sure?

>>5785480
2 Napalm at the busiest tunnel entrances (while armor is distracted).
2 Explosives at the largest concentration of Power armor (while armor is distracted).

Distract armor with artillery shells.

As soon as the Power armor eats 2 Cruise missiles, Bring 1/2 the lasers and 1/2 the Synths up to start takin' em down.

>>5785496
What? They don't have jack shit?

Ah whatever, Napalm the Busy tunnels, Explode the Power armor, hopefully the two overlap.

The Synths should be more than capable of taking care of the Prawns in the tunnel.

>>5785499
Got it.

Posting now.

>>5785496
GO FOR MAXIMUM AREA OF EFFECT WITH THE NAPALM!

First priority is military targets.

>>5785509
Why are you taking this one guy's orders?

There's a general consensus that we should attack from range with a high concentration of napalm.

>>5785521
we're doing that.
Attacking with artillery
High concentration of napalm
Blow shit up.

>>5785525
Yeah, but we've seen that the napalm/fire/heat is very effective at cooking the prawns. We should be using that in favor of the HE against the military forces.

>>5785533
Yeah, but what if they retreat into tunnels? That could be disasteriffic! D=

You evenly spread your napalm over the powered armour and several suits already are starting to collapse from heat, their occupants cooked alive. Distracted by coping with the heat and escaping it, neither of the largest concentrations notice the cruise missiles raining from the heavens. Both of the squads are immediately wipe fom the face of the earth in a massive explosion, while the two largest entrances are suddenly blocked off by a tidal wave of liquid fire. The synths descend upon the infantry, the synthsquids shocking them to death while the Astronautilus tears them limb from limb, almost a hundred tentacles tearing the prawns apart. Yet, these are the only words you hear from him:
"Something's not right - why aren't the military try to hide in the tunnels?"

TradeStar:
90 Artillery Drones
60 Assault Drones

Centauri Synthetics:
229 Synthsquis
1 Astronautilus

Kil'thweq:
1758 Civilians
338 Shockwave Infantry
126 Lightning Infantry
4 Powered Armour Units

See, and now our forces are tangled up with the enemy and we can't safely fire upon them with our missiles.

Who was the fucking genius who thought this was an effective strategy?

Have the Synths take out those 4 Power Armors then pull the hell back.
Snipe with lasers if this is possible without risking our drones being hit by artillery.
Napalm up the remaining surviving prawns.

Answer me, you fucking retard

>>5785588
Good fucking plan.

You know what would have been more effective?

If we hadn't sent those units up there in the first place and had simply continued the barrage.

>>5785592
Calm down.
>>5785588
Any other ideas?

>>5785592

Spare the civilians!
We can trade them for juicy, juicy tech!

Also, would it be possible to get a complete list of current facilities (bots, mines, roads, etc)?

>>5785602
Well, once the Power armor's dead, they can't do squat against anything we fire, can they?
Maybe it's best to focus on the remaining power armors using whatever methods or tactics work best, then try to kill them off from range to minimise losses.

>>5785543
"Perhaps you should pull your forces back and scan the surrounding area in case of a trap. We can continue our barrage with no difficulty."

>>5785602
Is there another possible plan?
Really, I don't see any other plan being useful besides "Stop power armor, cook prawns from range".

Fuck it.

Fire more missiles.

Fire waves of artillery.

Flatten and burn.

Okay then.

Posting due to ideas.

>>5785625
I already said to look out for ambushes.

Back here,
>>5785456

I too am concerned at this development.

I am OVERJOYED that we removed their power armor so quickly. Which also makes me suspicious. I think that with a tunneling enemy, the ground may be rigged to collapse, bringing our artillery UNDERGROUND. Sadly, I have no idea on how to scan the ground. I don't think we have sensor tech that can do this yet.

I say continue napalm on the surface Kil'thweq. Ignore the underground ones until We and Centauri coordinate.

Comrade 70 "We anticipate an underground battle may be neccessary. Are your troops prepared for this?"

We may need to outfit more Flamethrower bots(Close quarter fighting)

>>5785645
If the ground was going to collapse then the weight of bots would've done that by now. Nonetheless, spread out. You're damn right an ambush is likely, but if they're confined underground then Centauri will just encircle them, bleed their resources out, and wait for them to die.

One of the subcontractors screams for withdrawal, and immediately, the assault drones stop their descent down their hill towards the base and begin to return. The artillery continues to rain down on the powered armour, cooking the last four prawns in their metal suits. Even the synthetics are withdrawing - something is spooking Comrade 70.
"Something's wrong. Something's wrong! Retreat! Withdraw!"
The infantry begin to try and charge up the hill, as far away from the base as quick as possible.
Although you can't feel it, you can see the cameras beginning to vibrate violently.
The earth is trembling. Something is moving.

TradeStar:
90 Artillery Drones
60 Assault Drones

Centauri Synthetics:
195 Synthsquis
1 Astronautilus

Kil'thweq:
942 Civilians
267 Shockwave Infantry
98 Lightning Infantry

They may have underground supply deposits.
We don't know what they eat/survive off of. They could eat rocks for all we know. Additional data is required.

I suspect that the Majority of their base is underground. Up here is just a spacepad, some storage facilities, and some habitat. They need more construction facilities, and power plants. They need LOTS of habitats, since they have a large population. This is the tip of the Iceberg. Good thing we brought fire. . .

>>5785665
Oh i fucking knew this shit would happen.

Have ALL forces retreat back some. Far enough that we can bombard with range at even the furthest out area that is shaking.

Ironic twist. I hope it's not the FATHER of the Sons of the Father. You know, in alliance with the Kil'thweq. . .

Single Giant bug? Giant Hive of bug monsters?

I suggest we roll our artillery backwards up the hill. High ground may be best for maximizing visibility.

>>5785665
GTFO.
Commence maximum GTFO-ing. So what if the Prawns flee? We've cut their civilian numbers in half and they have no more power armor left, so they know they're screwed. However, centauri and they are all fucking FLEEING.

>>5785694
If it's the father of the sons of the father, then I suggest we stick a cruise missile full of napalm up its ass and an explosive missile in its throat, then bombard it until it stops moving.

>>5785696
The ground is fucking moving under us. They have more forces underground.

MOVE ALL FORCES BACK SO WE CAN RAIN ARTILLERY AND MISSILES ON WHATEVER ENEMY FORCES ARE REVEALED

NOW NOW NOW

>>5785711
Continue GTFOing, at least we've killed 50 power armors and that's a decent amount!

Move back and prepare to fire on everything we see

New thread soon?

>>5785745
Not before we see what we're Gettin' TF away from!

About 15 minutes since OP posted.

Still here?

The entire peninsula that the base is bult upon, beyond the hill that you are currently on - rises.
It rises, and rises, and rises. Dirt falls off to reveal cold, hard metal Miles of it.
A gigantic, circular disc with thousands of tons of hardware and machinery attached.
You recieve a message from Kil'thweq:
"We would rather die at the hands of our own people than die at the hands of the likes of you - but before we shall leave, we shall crush your pathetic forces!"
The dirt falls off, and you can see the ship in all of its mighty glory - horizon-dominating and unstoppable. A stream of pure heat lances out of a turret, splashing over your retreating forces and inflicting casualties, while the synths re-engage the infantry, unable to flee.

TradeStar:
78 Artillery Drones
53 Assault Drones

Centauri Synthetics:
171 Synthsquids
1 Astronautilus

Kil'thweq:
212 Shockwave Infantry
69 Lightning Infantry

What do you do?

>>5785786
Motherfucker

>>5785786
FIRE DA NUKES!

Hit it with everything we have?

Fire everything.

Everything?

EVERYTHING!

Aim for any kind of engine or thruster looking piece of shit.

>>5785786
Since there's no way in hell that we'll be able to get away from it, the obvious choice it to keep shooting it until we are no longer able to do so.

Aim for any obvious guns or engines.

Clarification

Are we on the ship?

>>5785822
Forget about the guns.

Engines.

If we get the engines it dead drops and crashes, explodes.

EVERYTHING

I know we're all thinking FIRE ALL GUNS but really, napalm warheads would be useless. We need to crack open the hull first.

Don't launch napalm until the hull's cracked.

Let's try two explosive missiles on one area of the hull, one following the other.

>>5785815
"Bring in everyone."

"Everyone?"

"EV-VERY-ONE"

>>5785826
No, you're on a hill approximately a quarter of a mile from the edge of the crater is used to lie in.

>>5785835
Let's go ahead and try that, but in the meantime, AIM FOR THE FUCKING ENGINES

Hit em with the cruise missiles!
HE, then naplam in the holes.
Target weapon or engines?

>A gigantic, circular disc with thousands of tons of hardware and machinery attached.

If we survive this. I think we've made a MASSIVE Dent in our 300,000 to TradeStar Thousands of Tons. . .

>>5785843
>>5785835
Two missiles for a single thruster to observe reaction, then?

>>5785786
Well bugger. If our forces aren't on that thing, then scatter the hell away.
If our forces ARE on that thing, then scatter forward and fight!
Do you think a Cruise missile would do any damage to something that large? Hm. Better just scatter.

>>5785855
I like the way you think.

Blast it! Bring it down!

>>5785857
Since it's in the air, and artillery are capable of high-arc ballistic firing patterns, we should be able to mass artillery fire at it. It's huge, after all. Not like they can miss. The missiles are great, too, but hardly the main source of damage.

FIRE EVERYTHING AT THE ENGINES!

SHOOT LASERS AT THE ENGINES

DO IT ALL

EVERYTHING

DONT FORGET ABOUT OUR LASERS

>>5785872
The artillery fire might have a large spread.
But, it's a viable tactic. High explosive shells?

SHOOT!
SHOOT!
BRRRATATATATATATATTA!

"Comrade 70! Your squids attack through Electrical Discharge! Swarm that base, Fry as much circuitry as possible, We will avoid hitting your forces as we coordinate!" We designate areas for missiles and shells, and other areas for Squid-electrics!

Ignore all remaining ground forces. Hopefully the squid can fry circuits as much as brainstems

>thousands of tons

Psh, 8,000 tons of something as dense as water is only 25m * 25m * 25m.
If this thing is 1km * 1km * 100m, then it contains 100 Billion Tons of metals.

Rocket its engine, see if there's any effect.

>>5785885
Yes, HE shells preferred for this.

>>5785885
Sure, why not? At least -try- to hit the thing's engines / thrusters / keep-in-the-air-ers

Further Caution. If we take that down. AND IT EXPLODES. We lose our whole military. (Or most of it) I'm sure we're prepared for that, and accept this, as we can make more. But, you know, be aware.

Humorous fluff : Somewhere, on an actually Important Planet. . . . Kil'thweq command gets a memo. . . Sues TradeStar. . . They settle out of court, and go out drinking together. . .

>>5785786
I fire 1 Napalm cruise missile on whatever groundforces are still showing, that's what I do. Any casualty's a good casualty.

Get the artillery to target a single point, soften it up, then send cruise missiles into it, alternating between HE and incendiary.

>>5785940
That thing's so huge that unless we hit vital systems we might as well not even fire at it.

Call up AlphaRange.
Tell 'em the Kil'thweq have started exterminating life on this planet with some type of ship, give 'em co-ords, give 'em video feed if possible

"Roger that. Synths, up and at them. I will help your assault drones hold off the ground forces." The synthsquids fly into the heavens, towards the ship. Several of them are disintegrated by the heat ray turrets but that doesn't stop them. They latch on to it and begin to dance over its surface, tearing apart its electrical system with destructive pulses.
Meanwhile, all of your artillery weapons are aimed for the area of a singl thruster. A massive salvo is unleashed, dozens of high explosive shells rocketing towards the thruster - followed by a cruise missile, and then another cruise missile. Yet... no. It's definitely damaged and several massive pieces of metal are falling off of it - the thruster stops and starts, clearly disturbed by the attack. But it's not destroying, not yet, even if it is damaged.
Your assault drones engage the ground forces, holding them back while your artillery do the hard work, cooking prawns with lasers and flames.

TradeStar:
78 Artillery Drones
39 Assault Drones

Centauri Synthetics:
137 Synthsquids
1 Astronautilus

Kil'thweq:
174 Shockwave Infantry
43 Lightning Infantry

>>5785952
The way I see it the artillery makes a hole on the surface, and the missiles make bigger holes inside.

>>5785961

I veto this. Either we have enough firepower to take it down. Or we don't and it will get away into orbit before help can arrive.

Granted I don't know squat about this base's propulsion, but I think the Shuttle goes from pad to orbit in about 8 minutes. . . (Maybe?)

>>5785965
Call AlphaRange
Tell 'em Kil'thweq just started exterminating life on planet
Give live video feed

Also, keep hitting that Thruster! If we make it fail, the ship mightn't be able to stay stable in the air.
Dump the remaining 4 Cruise missiles into it, that should break the Thruster apart!

Fire a napalm missile into the thruster hole that was formed.

>>5785975
I veto your veto! We're hitting it with Cruise missiles and you know AlphaRange has that stuff. They might even have Cruise NUKES.

>>5785965
Keep firing on that thruster. Focus HE artillery fire until it's destroyed or we're out of ammo.

>>5785992
No, don't hit this thruster with the cruisers. Hit the other thrusters.

Hit the damaged one with a napalm missile. Burn it from the inside out.

If they use some kind of PROPULSION FUEL, then the napalm might ignite it and cause an explosion.

>>5785965
Hit it again!

>>5786010
If even 1 thruster bites it, the craft won't be steady, I don't think. Nonetheless, good idea Napalming the inside of the thruster; if it can burn, making it burn too fast is always a good thing. :)

>>5785992
Don't expend all our remaining cruise missiles. How are we supposed to take out the next thruster if they're all gone?

>>5786025
Well, how are we going to take out this one?
If we take out even 1, the craft will have trouble staying stable.
Get AlphaRange video feed of this, at least. Fuckin' prawns.

The thruster is damaged. Hit it with napalm. The extreme heat should do some damage.

Hit the others with HE.

Are we still pumping cruise missiles?

>>5786048
Building them?

Even if we are, they won't get completed and here in time.

>Cruise NUKES

Those remove our army from play.
;_;

>>5786052
Here's hoping AlphaRange has some interest in blowing this shit up, 'cause we can't do it with what we've got.

>>5786058
You lack such confidence.

>>5786054
The army's screwed anyway.
Option 1: Can't kill ship
-ship kills army
Option 2: Can kill ship
-ship falls on army

A cruise only has a radius of about 10km or less anyway, and thus the fallout will reach our troops, and the blastwave will push them, but not kill them.

>>5786075
EMP from the nuke will kill bots dead

>>5785965
Thread R autosage.
Wrap this shit up and go the fuck home, people.

Collorary: If AlphaRange has nukes. Then they've already won. Copter's get to each factions space in one turn. Copter nukes. All enemy factions lose HQ.

I posit, that they have NOT the nukes, else, they would have used them by now.

>>5786087
Well what if they're not TRYING to wipe our asses out?

Another missile soars through the air, smashing into the thruster - this time, it suddenly bursts into flames, the leaking fuel exploding violently. The thruster comes flying off in fragments with a gigantic gash turn in the hull. Meanwhile, artillery fire focuses on another thruster, two more cruise missiles flying into to heavily damage it. Combined with the damage caused with the explosion, this thruster falls off, tearing off thousands of tons of the hull with it and crashing into the crater from whence it came. Only one thruster remains on that side - and it's obvious that if the ship takes any more damage, it will fall from the heavens.
However, Comrade 70 requires aid. Although many of the damned aliens are being dispatched, there are just too damn many. "I can't hold them off - I need napalm support and quickly!" It's obvious the Astronautilus' shell is taking loads of damage - and it won't hold for much longer. Barely any assault drones are left either.

TradeStar:
78 Artillery Drones
19 Assault Drones

Centauri Synthetics:
104 Synthsquids
1 Astronautilus

Kil'thweq:
138 Shockwave Infantry
21 Lightning Infantry

>>5786092
You've probably done sufficient damage to the ship for now to divert some of your artillery.
Use a few naplam's

>>5786092
1* Napalm Cruise missile and 38 * Napalm Artillery shells comin' right up, good sir!

that'll be enough to fry at least 80 of the 160 prawns.

For the other 40 artillery, just send whatever cruise HEs and Artillery HEs we have left. Hit it with another 2 Napalm Cruises and it should fall.

FOCUS ON THE LAST THRUSTER!

The soldiers on the ship will die when it crashes.

Focusing on them now is a waste.

Tell 70 to withdraw.

Focus HE on the last thruster.

Fire some napalm artillery into the breaches of the hull.

Save the napalm missiles.

I feel that the progress on the Mothership is moving along nicely.

Let's spare 20 Artilleries to pepper Napalm into the Infantry crowds *Unless the mothership is blocking their ballistic Trajectories* Then use Direct LOS fire.

Use lasers to take down infantry near the AstroNautilius. that should minimize friendly fire (napalm, lol) to his ship.

>>5786118
The soldiers aren't on the ship, they were away from the ship's liftoff ground and are engaging our ground forces.

>>5786132
Oh.

Then spend a portion of the artillery on napalming them. Make sure to tell 70 to get clear.

Plasma should be asleep already. I wonder if we'll even get the "Holy shit everything died" update.

>>5786152

I should be asleep already. And I've neglected five days worth of homework. . .

>>5786152
It's only been 15 minutes since his last post.

He wouldn't go to sleep with this kind of a cliffhanger.

>>5786164
He would

dum de bum bump

>>5786210
Autosage bro

New thread:
>>5786214