Re: Re: [GZG] Small thought re: Orbital Assault

[John Tailby <john_tailby@xxxxxxxxxx>]

When I made my comments about equatorial landing zones I made the assumption that the landing craft would be a more advanced version of the space shuttle. If the landing craft have full antigrav then they could land straight down.

If you have shuttles that fly like aircraft they might well need long landing spaces to set down.

I also assumed it would be easier for the blocading fleet to manouvre into eqatorial orbits for assault landings because its easier to land and take off into orbit from the equator rather than the polar regions.

The last 50 years of earth history has been full of advanced nations losing wars to local militia. The Europeans all lost their colonial empires to local revolts. Some were managed in semi peaceful transitions but others were violent rebellions. Yet they had the technology and the economics to suppport their army if they wanted to. The Americans suffered a similar reverse in Vietnam as did the French.


I agree that campaigns set in the FT universe won't suffer from the CNN effect of recent conflicts and the armchair quarterbacking of politicians.

I can see the same kind of politics going into outfitting the invasion fleet though. The "there's only a bunch of half assed mountain boys" you won't need any armoured vehicles or aerospace fighters.

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