[OOC] Foreign Legion - First Contact Through Bad Faith Contracting [Military Sci-Fi]

[Gunther]

I only wrote that because when I was with the 3rd Armor Division in the mid 1980s, we always had a pair of A10s loitering over head every time we went to the field. The mother of all storms is bearing down on New England today. We anticipate more than 3 feet of snow before this thing is over Wednesday morning.

[HeySeuss]

Alright. I'm just trying to figure out the scenario. I figure if they lost contact suddenly and encountered signs of some sort of enemy activity, the Salvesh would send a couple packs to check it out. I've never really considered what sort of armored support they might have, honestly, but I need to think that one through. Or if Gunther has ideas. It's an alien race with a radically different organizational method.

[Foster]

Dump some of the alien-tech from the Bolo series on them, that or borrow from the more "serious" animes (the ones where they at least bother to explain a hand-waved technology). In that way, one could use somewhat-familiar terms and explain the resemblances to the fact that the Grathnik have influenced popular culture "just in case" so the could on occasion crash-land at some fangirl's house with some prospect of getting native-assistance.

[Gunther]

We never discussed Mechanized Infantry vehicles in the prep to this. You didn't tell me you were intending on using a desert terrain. If you had, I would have strongly urged Mech and armor. Light infantry, which is what we are now, are best deployed in wooded terrain, Mountainous terrain and Built up city areas (MOUT - Military Operations in Urban Terrain). The original iteration of this RP was set in a Serengeti; clear open grassy plains with copses of trees dotting the landscape. That terrain is best for Mech and Armor, just like a desert, but this is also good for a Light/Heavy mix. You can deploy light infantry in the wooded and built up terrain with armor and mech in the open country.

[HeySeuss]

I could always change that first post to reflect that they're in hillier terrain/wadis and so forth. Valleys and gorges, crystal formations and other things to impede vehicle movement.

[Foster]

Well, we are just a recon-patrol to get an accurate fix on the enemy and their strength, adding a few Puma IFVs to our immediate rear and an armored train for a mobile fire support base at the nearest subway-entrance/tunnel should be plenty of ground-based support on our side. As for the enemy, I'm sure they've got at least a pair of IFVs (mostly for SPAAG duties) and a troop-transporter or even a tank behind the next rise. So I'm not sure volunteering for the 'glory' of checking their dead is going to be such a great idea if it's a omni-way killzone (basin/valley). Best let the german squad do that. Making the crystal-formations more expansive (or building an abandoned surface-settlement out of it) could be a plausible excuse, and use of long-range plunging artillery-fire would make sense (heck, hitting a crystal with a 155mm shell... ridiculous amount of non-magnetic splinters).

[HeySeuss]

Rewrite will happen today/tomorrow. I have a long overtime shift today, and then I'm off for two days in a row (glory be!) so I'll be revising then. I apologize for the necessity of changing things around, but yeah, I'll rewrite it to create a more infantry-friendly location.

[HeySeuss]

As indicated yesterday, I'm rewriting the opening post for terrain changes. I worked a fifteen hour shift, crashed around 11 and was up at 5am. Even on a day off, I can't shake my internal clock, it seems. ;) Edit: Rewrite done. Now in a rocky hill-and-valley sort of terrain. Kept it so that Park's response is consistent -- hit 'em with the artillery.

[Foster]

Summary of changes: 1. Salvesh patrol replaced with a remote outpost or picket, stationary targets in open. 2. Open steppes replaced with a lightly built-up formation of geography complete with valleys and irrigation-ditchwork. Still waiting for others to post. Seuss may want to get something pointy and jab our delinquents.

[Gunther]

The clock appears to be askew. O_o EDIT: It says I posted this^ one month ago, when in fact it was more like 3 seconds ago.

[Foster]

The clock appears to be askew. O_o EDIT: It says I posted this^ one month ago, when in fact it was more like 3 seconds ago.

@Gunther

That would be the thread start-date. -I'm seeing 13 hrs ago.

[Gunther]

Not seeing that at all. It tells me you made that post 1 month ago and the last time you were on was 1 month ago.