Cold War Comments Thread

[Kurt (OP)]

welp, all im suggesting is if you're taking the time to rein in economics, don't forget trade.  wasnt intending any general compare and contrast between editions, just using 4e as an example of how trade is sufficient by itself to blow up your universe, just because that's what happened to every 4e campaign that lasted 50 turns.

is it incompatible with the narrative arc for the coalition to partner and amalgamate the soviets?  i feel like that has become necessary in the circumstances.

Sorry, you just brought up an interesting subject.  I don't see trade becoming that big of an issue, but we'll see.  The Russian and Coalition fleets and their leadership want to unite the colonies.  Whether everyone feels that way is what we'll find out moving forward. 

[Black]

It seems that Humanity got some time, although I doubt that D’Bringi will keep the peace for long, most likely until they deal with Mintek. And they are now constructing some kind of carrier right? So their advantage will grow while Humanity will at best keep what they already have.

[StarshipCactus]

The humans will need a lot of good luck to continue to survive. If their enemies run into something that really harms them, even if only in the short term, it would help a lot.

[Migi]

1 colony (which is too unimportant to show up on your maps    ) for a couple of turns breathing space to regroup and reorganise, rather than permenantly loosing a huge amount of the fleet seems like a pretty good deal.

[Kurt (OP)]

1 colony (which is too unimportant to show up on your maps    ) for a couple of turns breathing space to regroup and reorganise, rather than permenantly loosing a huge amount of the fleet seems like a pretty good deal.

Yeah, it was the Russian's furthest out colonial system.  And the first one conquered by the Rehorish.  The humans really, really needed this peace deal, and would have given a lot more to get it.  The D'Bringi Alliance also needed this peace deal, more than they were letting on.  They thought that the humans would be an easy walk-over after the surprise attack at the start of the war, and when they weren't and then the Mintek became a problem, they wanted out.  None of the races in the game really have the naval assets to fight a two-front war at this point, at least, not successfully.  If either side had been in a better position, they might have sensed the weakness on the other side and pushed harder. 

Kurt

[StarshipCactus]

How do you discover NPR's in Starfire? Is it like Aurora where you can run into them while exploring, or did you need to create each one while you were setting up the game?

[Kurt (OP)]

How do you discover NPR's in Starfire? Is it like Aurora where you can run into them while exploring, or did you need to create each one while you were setting up the game?

Aurora is a lot like Aurora in this case.  The rules give a percentage chance to discover NPR's on each habitable planet, and this chance is usually adjusted by the player to suit their taste.  I usually set up a few at the start as well, to provide the primary opponents or bad guys. 

Kurt

[Droll]

Aurora is a lot like Aurora...

Are you sure about that?

[Migi]

  Maybe he's been drinking because of the holiday?

[Kurt (OP)]

Maybe he's been drinking because of the holiday?

Ha!  Maybe I'm just getting old!  I started to say "Starfire is a lot like Aurora", but then I realized that it was more properly "Aurora is a lot like Starfire", and apparently I ended up mashing the two together.  Oh well. 

Kurt

[StarshipCactus]

Aurora is a lot like Aurora in this case.

Ahh yes, this floor is made out of floor 

Thanks for the answer

[Migi]

I see that the First Consul Faraz didn't learn anything from the Soviet experiences against the D'Bringi.
How much damage does it take to destroy a shipyard, was the initial proposal to go after the shipyards realistic?
What defences does Wunderland have against a retaliatory strike from the Tarek?

[Kurt (OP)]

I see that the First Consul Faraz didn't learn anything from the Soviet experiences against the D'Bringi.
How much damage does it take to destroy a shipyard, was the initial proposal to go after the shipyards realistic?
What defences does Wunderland have against a retaliatory strike from the Tarek?

Shipyards take ten points of damage to destroy, but they are mounted on space stations, which have weak hulls and take 2x damage inside their shields and armor.  If the Wunderlanders had concentrated on the shipyards they likely could have destroyed them, but would have done less damage to their armed units as a consequence. 

The Wunderlanders have the fleet units that survived, as well as nine small beam-armed bases in orbit over their planet.  Against any kind of real fleet, the bases wouldn't be much of a threat, but against low tech escorts, well...

Kurt

[Migi]

So the Wunderlanders have no PDCs at all to provide cover for their damaged units and (eventual) shipyard?

It sounds like diverting enough firepower to destroy the shipyards would have been a big ask of the fleet and meant inflicting even fewer casualties on the Taurek.

The Tarek have 74% of their mobile units left and nearly 2 to 1 numbers advantage so I'm guessing the strategic play for them would be to chase down the rest of the Wunderlander fleet and thereby get control of interplanetary space.

[StarshipCactus]

I can't remember if this was ever mentioned, but what happened to the D'Bringi citizens in Brezhnev that joined the Soviets?