Re: Troop Capacity

On 20 Jun 98 at 12:01, John Atkinson wrote:

> You wrote: 
> 
> >Defeat/drive off defensive space navy.
> 
> Right. . . 
> 
> >Drop aerospace fighters with a lot of dummy emmiters, make a 
> >concentrated attack on the planetary defenses in that area to allow 
> >your fleet to mount an invasion.
> 
> Why do you keep wanting to drop 'em?	Base them off your carriers. 
> Equip first strike for supression of air defenses and air
> superiority, presuming the local fighters didn't join the fleet in
> attempting to blast your ships out of existence (Which tactic makes
> more sense to me).  They blast a hole or holes in the aerospace
> defenses, go back, rearm, and come back with varient DFO intended to
> rip apart the main PAD sites and then the fleet can move in.

When I say 'drop' I mean get them from your carrier sitting out of 
range of the planetary defenses, then run the gauntlet of said 
planetary defenses for probably thousands of miles, to close 
enough for them to make an attack, where they also have to fight the 
planets fighters, the non aeroSPACE type... just aero, since they 
would be somewhat cheaper.
The initial approach is a dangerous part, the 'drop' where the fully 
functioning defenses get to blast at them for a goodly time. 
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