The situation isn't quite that bad for Venus. The venusians do have a +30% planetary industrial advantage and will be the prime recipients of Osmotic Tech Transfer, if applicable. If the industrial advantage can be maintained and infrastructure-damaging wars and mineral crunches avoided then they will, slowly, start to make up the shipyard and research lab differences.

Further, neither Tianxia nor the British can allow the other to conquer Venus least the industry transfer make one decisively stronger than the other. If one did try, then the other would find the moral and strategic opportunity to attack while the opposing fleet was low on ammunition and away from home.

The odds are poor, some luck will be required, and the venusians may act as pawns in the early years: but if the venusians can avoid getting pushed aside from suitable off-planet expansion then they may, in 50 years or more, become a galactic power.


I can't wait to see what actually happens. I'll be cheering for Venus.

The added industry will mean that when the crunch hits, it will hit earlier and harder then for the other two races.

And as they will be getting off-planet last, the venusians will have to settle for the mineral-poor planets that are left over.

However, I agree - if they can survive the crunch in reasonable form, they may prove to be a long-term threat.

I too have a soft spot for Venus, that industrial advantage will even things up fairly fast if it can be maintained.

I dont know. The Venusian can muster far more ships which gives them a exploring advantage ad they could do pirating which stalls the other empires. They could also get lucky and have a heavy star behind theyr Jump-point.

Mmmm.

A couple of points:
1) the venusians had the smallest starting fleet (only 6 Ktons, compared to the humans 144 Ktons of warships).
2) the venusians have the smallest starting shipyards. By mid report, the venusians had built an additional 14 Kublai, so by the end of the report, they would have had ~34 Kublai (or 34 Ktons of warships). Over this time period, the humans had built an additional 84 Ktons of warships (to a total of ~230 Kton).
3) the venusians have the lowest tech.

So while the venusians may have the largest fleet in numbers, they are being out-built, out-massed, and out-teched.

Sorry to say, but the only way they can come close, is by relying on luck.....

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While it would look that Mars will face the usual Chinese fate and Venus the classic USSR fate, perhaps the British Empire will be racked by internal division, as USA/Germany/Austria/France/Russia/Japan or, more likely, all of them combined, challenge her dominant position?

But yeah, really hoping for a massive Venusian FAC attack against humans and martians, would be so cool to see.

I dont know. The Venusian can muster far more ships which gives them a exploring advantage ad they could do pirating which stalls the other empires. They could also get lucky and have a heavy star behind theyr Jump-point.

If they go Pirating they could hunt down the Shipingline-ships of the other empires by shooting them down or even capturing them they could cripple earth and Mars. Those depend on heavy fleets so they would be spread far to thin to respond properly to hit and run tactics. A direct attack on Venus would likewise ill advised since it would open one world to the other during the Campaing and War on Venus would also mean Heavy losses against that battle-stations.

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Just a random thought: Mars could go with a similar strategy but with stationing PDC on Phobos and Deimos. Since they dont have Athmosphere heavy laser-armament would should anything down that comes to close.
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Capturing the enemy shiping-lines would also give the Venusians for theyr tech-advantage and could give them a stronger Mining-base if these ships are trasporting facilities.

Last but not least: You have tofactor in that the Venusians dont use any ordinance that has to be build. Mars and Earth would pay tons of minerals to have they magazins filled. Depending on how Good the Venusian PD this could mean that they expend far more missiles then the venusian Tonnage is worth.

I suspected this would be in the fashion of good old science fiction novels.

I'll miss the Battlestars, but this is amazing!