OK, this post will be filled in fits & starts as I move on and off the computer to either throw up or take care of a wife or kid who are doing likewise. I hate this city sometimes.
The scenario is fairly simple. The SDLF is sending in a suicide force ahead of the main assault wave to destroy as many defending Armis units - including the feared M-5 Caspar drones - before the actual invading troops reach orbit. This 40-ship fleet, termed Task Force Leonidas, jumped to a stable pirate point outside of Mars orbit, and engaged the defending forces.
Historically, the Task Force suffered 100% losses - 40 ships - in a 42-hour engagement. Their sacrifice meant that there were 106 fewer Caspar drones and an unknown fewer number of Rim Worlds-flagged capital ships available to contest the landings. In a very real sense, their sacrifice allowed the landings to occur at all.
In the interests of sanity and people's printer cartridges, I have pared down the various fleets to be a more representative cross-section of the battle, rather than trying to slog through a 175-ship engagement in a single day.
TASK FORCE LEONIDAS
Command Squadron
SLS Sovietskii Soyuz (Sovietskii Soyuz-class)
SLS Karenina (Sovietskii Soyuz-class)
SLS Longhorn (Texas-class)
Battle Squadron
SLS Vengeance (Stefan Amaris-class BB) - PROXY: Tharkad
SLS Hammer (Black Lion-class)
SLS Canis Palmis Caedebat (McKenna-class)
Pursuit Squadron
SLS Shark (Mako-class)
SLS Orca (Mako-class)
SLS Excalibur (Luxor-class)
SLS Monte Carlo (Luxor-class)
Escort Squadron
SLS Europa (Congress-class)
SLS Intrepid (Essex-class)
SLS Hood (Essex-class)
RIM WORLDS DEFENDING FORCES
Squadron 1.35b
M-5 Caspar Capital Drone (x3) - PROXIES: Lola, Lola, Lola
Squadron 1.45a
M-5 Caspar Capital Drone (x4) - PROXIES: x2 Bonaventure, x2 Vigilant
Squadron 1.12a
M-5 Caspar Capital Drone (x4) - PROXIES: x2 Pinto, x2 Invader JumpShips (Rob's Pintos have been Eli'd and are not fit for service)
Squadron 1.71c
M-5 Caspar Capital Drone (x3) - PROXIES: x3 Naga
Squadron 1.19b
M0-5 Caspar Drone (x3) - PROXIES: x3 Vincent Mk. 39
RWRN Squadron Legitimate Succession
Stefan Amaris (Stefan Amaris-class BB) - PROXY: Tharkad
Incontestable Claim (Farragut-class)
Divine Right (Black Lion-class)
It's MY f*cking throne, all right?! (Monsoon-class)
Who needs to bring what:
Steve: Lola, x2 Vincent Mk39, x1 Naga
Brian: x2 Lola, x2 Bonaventure, x2 Vigilant, x2 Pinto, x2 Naga, x2 Mako, Essex, x1 Black Lion, x1 Congress
Rob: x2 Pinto, Tharkad, Farragut, Black Lion, Essex, x2 Sovietskii Soyuz-class, x1 Texas, x1 Vincent Mk 39, x1 McKenna, x1 Monsoon, x2 Luxor
Phil: Tharkad
Anybody:
-RECORD SHEETS. Everything listed above in the squadrons.
-Stefan Amaris-class sheet is in Liberation of Terra II
-Caspar M-5 Drone sheet is in LoT vI, and I need 20 total sheets
-Somebody needs to track down and print out a few copies of the rules for nuclear-tipped capital missiles.
-Don't worry about fighter and Dropship-scale stuff. Looking at the info about the battle, this was really just a WarShip fight...
-Don't worry about Drone Decision Trees. I ain't touching that stuff for a 1-off.
I think this is everything. Hoping so. Sleeping now.
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