Operational Planning/CODE-RED: War With Persia

[Ranger99]

Citizens and Soldiers of Fanatikos,

As we all know Persia has declared war upon our small nation. For all that prefer peace the issue is no longer aviodable war is upon us! And we must come to it's call.

In my opinion a defensive war would be best. But this may not be suitable, the next TC will decide that, to begin our disscussion a few things will need to be done;

The FA Ministery will need to work tirelessly to get the French (MOST IMPORTANT) and/or Rome (NOT AS IMPORTANT) on our side, and fighting against Persia as well, I feel that this is a fair deal if we give them a tech or two in the process, that loss can be absrobed by our Great Library.

But if they do not agree to a Military Alliance at the least a Rite of Rassage from France is needed, for us to have the upper hand in this war, this Rite Of Passage deal is impereative to the Ministery of Defense, we simply need it to survive, it will allow us to react to Persian threats before they even get within our own sight, or even relatvley close to our borders.

IF the situation demands that we take the offensive I have designed a simple and easy Attack Plan that is attached in the link below.

Rough Attack Plan

First off the lines close to the Stables are defnsive lines/patrols, (They look like a blocking scheme in a football playbook) This can be created of Horseman, which should work the best, and possibly backed up by Hoplites (OPTIONAL)

The next two lines, the Red and Black ones are our points of attack, and the Red Dot is the troop rally point. The Red Line is a column of Horsemen, (Number as of yet; unknown) they will basically be on a Sherman's March through Persian Lands to find land and slow reinforcements to Parsagrade.

The Black line os our column of Swordsman, probably around four is all that we'll need, (A Hoplite may be included.) They will be-siege the city of Parsagrade.

I have choosen Parsagrade for a few reasons;
1:It's within the vicinity of THREE Silks
2:It's on the coast
3:It's on the border of Persia and possibly far away from any reinforcemnts as well
4:It's still new and shouldn't be defended by many Units

I recommend that we take Parsagrade at the moment. Unless a better city comes up from our Horseman's raid into the Persian lands.

All of this attack planning isn't really recommended by me OR The Minister of Defense. It's simply a plan to fall back on if taking the Offensive is nessacary.

Either way though, I DO recommend the Raid of Horsmen, as it could gain them experience and provide us with knowledge of Persian Lands.

That's all for now Soldiers and Citizens.

Disscussion as well as your views ARE needed for this to work.

-Ranger99-

 

[Provolution]

Sorry dude, I do not want an offensive at this point, I will vote against it.
Keep our boys home and let them drink wine, dance, party and have fun.
Priapos quality of life must be preserved.

 

[Ranger99]

I agree with you, as I stated in the briefing, I was just saying that if France doesn't get on our side in this war, an offensive may be needed as they are a key factor here, depending on which side they choose our plans will need to be edited accordingly, if france stays neautral, we MAY need to go on the offensive, and this might be a good chance to grab a nice city on the coast surronded by luxuries.

I really don't want to go on the offensive either, but in case we Do this plan is up for disscussion.

-Ranger99-

 

[Civlord]

Yeah, I cannot think about an offensive now. Let France and Rome serve as a buffer against Persia. They are too pathetic to attack us with a significant force.

 

[Icmancin]

A ROP can serve as a Neutrality Pact. They will be less inclined to attack us is we have one. I do not support an offensive at all: ROPs should keep us surviving. If we WOULD attack Persia we would need foreign help. Keep the Civs fighting each other, that is how one will win.

 

[Ranger99]

I don't like the total offense as well, mainly the pla nthat I drew up was kind of as an option and as a little bit of practice, but hey, the opne thing that I feel would be a good thing to pull out of this aciidental war was the Horsemen heading for Persia, now that doesn't mean deplete our defense's at all, but Horseman can only be used on the Defensive to a certain extent, any leftovers that we have can form the Persain Raiders Cavalry Division, and go into Persia for a little live training and plundering.

We CAN get something out of this war, and since we have it already, let's get France Rome and Persia all mad at each other and simply play off their losses with a fast moving force.

And at the moment it's Persia's time to lose a bit. Although not much, just a bit.

-Ranger99-

 

[Furiey]

One thing to consider is that until we change to Republic we must not let our Hoplites be attacked. If they are attacked and win (we don't really want them to lose do we?) we would start our Golden Age whilst still in Despitism. We therefore need to keep offensive units to pick off any invaders before they attack our Hoplites. We will probably need Horses as well as Swords to do this.

For any offensive war we need some timelines. What troops do we have now? What do we need? How long will it take to get that number and where would they be built? How long to move our troops to the front etc. While Pasgardae and all those Silks would be nice (if we capture it then that's our Persian city remember, no going back), the logistics of the operation may make it impractical.

 

[Ranger99]

I know that the Depostiism GA is annoying, very very annoying.

The only offensive war that I'm thinking of right now would be the Ride of the Horsemen, mainly to plunder, (I soo wish that you could get gold from pillaging...) and to discover more Persian lands as well as gain experience.

If we do decide to go ahead with the Swordsman Operation, (Which I know that we won't, I put that up as a rough draft to se ewhat it would be like IF we DID go on the offensive.) And looking at it we are actually quite capable of taking/razing, one maybe two or even three Persian cities really easy while still remaining alive, the logistics aren't bad if we can get a ROP with France, but this is all practice except for the Horsmen operation which I think we actually should do.

-Ranger99-

 

[Nobody]

Sorry dude, I do not want an offensive at this point, I will vote against it.
Keep our boys home and let them drink wine, dance, party and have fun.
Priapos quality of life must be preserved.

I agree, But if do sign a Military Allaince with france and rome, then we need to send a small token force to the front. even 3 horsemen or some archers just to pillage, or kill units leaving thier citys.

Also i just noticed how pretty our nation is

 

[zyxy]

If Persia is weak then maybe we don't want to hurt them at all. Balance of power is our best friend.
They'll probably talk peace before their troops get to our borders.

 

[Nobody]

If Persia is weak then maybe we don't want to hurt them at all. Balance of power is our best friend.
They'll probably talk peace before their troops get to our borders.

Are you sure in my games the AI always wants a little fight before peace. And honestly we only have hoplites, 4 archers and the RNG we could lose a city.

 

[vikingruler]

the plan is quite good, however the lack of troops could pose a problem. by the time we have mustered enough troops the war will most likely be over. also, if we do take pasagrade we would have a good city will high poteintal, except it would be a corrupt hell-hole until we have an FP and with the 5BC, we would have a land-disrupted empire with a city, a large tract of land, city, land, etc... therefore the FP will be even more useless. i support a defensive war.

 

[Civlord]

and the RNG we could lose a city.

I don't think so. All hail the holy RNG !