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I figured the war between the Tri-Alliance and the Dragonheart Empire should have its own discussion thread. Discuss anything related to the Galactic Conflict here.

Ah yes, something Rusty and I have recently started thinking and planning. The next battle will be a D-Day style invasion on the Dragonheart Empire by the Tri-Alliance. Of course, they won't just be Domers and armies rushing head long into plasma fire. The Tri-Alliance has come up with a plan to spread the Dragonheart fleet thin and will launch a surprise attack. Of course, that will be if everything went perfectly according to plan....which I doubt it will, because nothing ever does.

Also, the GRE is going to deploy the Provocatores into real combat for the first time.

On one note, Brian, the dice do kinda put things in perspective. No matter how powerful you are, you aren't invincible.

Anyway, Copper, here is how I figure the first part of the event is. The new Admiral Jenson (this one being the former admiral's daughter) gets an intelligence roll of sorts. If she gets a certain roll, then she'll realize something is up and thus makes things more difficult for the Tri-Alliance; via sending ships to secure the perimeter and stationing mechs outward to prevent anything from getting in. Essentially taking down the alliance one by one. Once the mechs are involved, things tend to go down the crapper.

That's for sure. Without the dice, this war would be nothing more than a heated debate. As for the mechs, that's the reason I'm involving rolls to include fire support such as artillery, air strikes, orbital bombardment, nukes etc.

Space Commander Laura Winslet will be making a return and you all will be introduced to an Anghoran military leader and an Atolian one as well.

@Brian: Domers will probably have the option to respawn after a set amount of turns if they get KO'ed.

Here's some stuff that'll help things along. The Tri-Alliance could do their Normandy-esque Landings on a rather large moon. The moon would have a colony of citizens to get caught in the crossfire. What's a war without casualties? Anyway, the moon would also be something of a weapons and transmission facility. Thus capturing or destroy the facility would be a huge advantage. If the allies keep the facility in check, they could use it to eavesdrop on any and all DHE transmissions within that system. Out right destroying it will cripple their control over said system.

The DHE NPC/boss will be Admiral Livia R. Jenson, Robert Jenson's daughter and predecessor. More intelligent than her father, when the Tri-Alliance transmits false information over an invasion, she'll get an intelligence roll.

Now if the intelligence roll fails, then she'll fall for the false information and the first part of the Tri-Alliance's plan works. Admiral Jenson would deploy her troops elsewhere, leaving the moon virtually unprotected. With the stress of a potential invasion, the freighters/suicide bombers are able to land without detection.

I already stated what would happen if Admiral Jenson saw through the ruse. She would up her defenses and prepare for the worse.

And for anyone else, here's what Copper proposed to me last week.



As this is but one system, with the large moon at its heart, there are other systems for future events. There's a genetics laboratory on a jungle planet, which I think would make a fun event. I figure that if each of the key systems are taken control of, the Tri-Alliance could finally launch a full-scale assault on Cort's Deathstar/palace.

Seems solid to me.

Oh yeah. If I do bring Alex in for the war can I bring in his mech as well? Or what? I know I used it during the Maltir thing but that was under the galactic backup rules.

Assuming Alex is on his side again. Which he probably will be. Alex is a petty man and having his mech get half vaporized means he don't like the DHE.