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by Itailian Maifias » Thu Apr 14, 2011 12:54 pm
by Reformed Britannia » Thu Apr 14, 2011 3:12 pm
by Nitom » Thu Apr 14, 2011 3:38 pm
by Salzland » Thu Apr 14, 2011 5:30 pm
by Greater Amerigo » Thu Apr 14, 2011 6:10 pm
by Reformed Britannia » Fri Apr 15, 2011 6:35 am
by Nitom » Sat Apr 16, 2011 8:17 am
by Dorlania » Sat Apr 16, 2011 12:53 pm
by Reformed Britannia » Sat Apr 16, 2011 8:11 pm
by Alexiandra » Sun Apr 17, 2011 11:52 am
by Dorlania » Sun Apr 17, 2011 12:18 pm
by Reformed Britannia » Sun Apr 17, 2011 1:25 pm
Seen any good movies lately?
by Gibet » Sun Apr 17, 2011 6:33 pm
by Salzland » Sun Apr 17, 2011 6:41 pm
by Alexiandra » Sun Apr 17, 2011 11:01 pm
by Nitom » Mon Apr 18, 2011 11:32 am
by Alexiandra » Mon Apr 18, 2011 11:52 am
by Reformed Britannia » Mon Apr 18, 2011 3:11 pm
by Obamacain » Mon Apr 18, 2011 4:27 pm
by Gibet » Mon Apr 18, 2011 7:15 pm
by Alexiandra » Mon Apr 18, 2011 11:03 pm
by Salzland » Tue Apr 19, 2011 6:28 am
by Alexiandra » Tue Apr 19, 2011 7:59 am
Salzland wrote:OOC: Right, I think it's time for the God modes to be turned off. Reformed Britannia has been remarkably tolerant of them thus far, but enough is enough. After all, it's one thing to stage a terrorist attack in foreign country but it's quite another to fire up the ol' teleporter and spawn an entire army there, complete with thousands of tons of front-line military equipment.
First, on a general basis I would like to refer everyone to the official definition of Godmoding. viewtopic.php?p=1354649#p1354649
In the interests of time, I'll only be briefly covering the posts from the last 48 hours or so. First, Nitom, viewtopic.php?p=5389831#p5389831 Come on, you've been here long enough to know that you can't have a post stating (paraphrased) "We moved a weapons satellite into range and fired ze missile and it exploded, target destroyed el yay!" Declaring an opponent's losses is a classic God mode, and so is launching an attack without giving your opponent a chance to respond. Frankly, I was going to blast your missile satellite (and the missile it fired) out of the sky, but Britannia decided to take the loss for the sake of the RP. He should not have been in that position to begin with.
Alexiandra and Dorlania, hoo boy. I won't talk about the actual commando drop because RB decided to just go with it (although I suspect Dorlania's getting an ignore for single-handedly defeating the entire Britannian military with 50 guys), other than to say that for future reference, if RB hadn't decided to go with it then that plane would've been blown out of the sky before it even got close to his country. As Francis Gary Powers learned back in the 1960s, flying fast at a high altitude doesn't make you safe, or invisible. Flying in a lumbering Globemaster just makes you a bigger, slower target. As evidenced by the Britannian defense forces firing upon the paratroopers (and the Globemaster) the moment the troops hit the ground.
The three major problems I'm going to spend time with are the "rebel" army, the FOAB and the remarkable durability (and omniscience) of your troops. To begin, where in the name of God did this rebel army come from? You air-dropped a handful of troops, for all intents and purposes, on top of a major Britannian military base and had these rebels right there to meet them, with what I can only assume are fixed SAM sites (including air-search radars) and tanks(!) without anyone being the wiser and without the Britannian government having any clue that there's apparently some organization that has thousands of tons of front-line military equipment, including tanks, explosives, RPGs and SAMs, operating within their territory. The rebels have apparently set up a major base of operations literally a five minute jog down the road (and on the same road, apparently, since you have people and tanks driving right from this rebel facility to RB's military base), without anybody thinking it odd that all those SAM sites and tanks were just sitting there right next door.
Moving off of that subject, there's no way the FOAB plan would work. We're talking about something that weighs seven metric tons, is loaded with (basically) gasoline, and is intended to not only slam into the ground intact but then be safely transported several kilometers. Conceeding that the bomb is even present in Britannia since he allowed the transport aircraft to lumber in and drop it, by the time your troops got to it it would've been nothing but an empty bomb casing sitting on ground soaked in gasoline. You could put as many parachutes as you want on it, but when you take something that weighs seven metric tons and is not designed to impact the ground, then have it impact the ground, you end up with broken equipment. Human beings, which generally weigh no more than ninety kilograms, can (and do) break limbs or suffer other injuries when they hit the ground hooked up to one parachute, and that's knowing how to properly land and distribute the impact. A seven metric ton bomb heaved out the back of an airplane has no such luxury.
So, once your paratroopers and their cloaked rebel allies drag the remnants of this bomb out of its impact crater, in the middle of the airstrikes, artillery strikes and (presumably) being engaged by small arms fire and the autocannons on the IFVs RB sent out, the first thing they think of is that there must be a satellite overhead watching them. Never mind that they would've been tracked by conventional radar for the final thousand miles or so (or further, depending on whether Britannia took my suggestion from last year and began fielding OTH-Backscatter radars) of their flight, were landing near a base which almost certainly had sentries who could look up and who knew what military aircraft and parachutes looked like, and could likely launch and maintain UAVs or helicopters (and potentially did for perimeter security, in case any rebels with tanks decided to just show up one day). Despite all of that, it would have to be a satellite watching them. Certainly you can see the leap in logic, especially since none of your troops deployed with telescopes.
There are other general problems with the RP (such as Alexiandra's tractor-trailer blitzkrieg into RB's base), but those are mostly contingent on other God modes (such as the opposing forces' general, remarkable resistance to things like bullets, incapacitating gas, strafing runs and massed artillery fire). Those types of problems can be addressed as they come up.
There is one thing I am unclear about, though. Alexiandra, what are you firing ASAT missiles at? Presuming that you could even fire them off of a submarine, you're only going to have a range of a few hundred miles for the missiles, and you will have no long-range radar guidance or fire control for the missiles, so you're basically just shooting into the air and hoping to score a hit. The only thing close to being in range would be my Firefly satellites, so I want to clarify what the target is so that I know whether I have to respond. Thanks in advance.
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