kzt wrote:Who could have predicted that the SLN would make a big attack on Beowulf and that the RMN will be there to support them with a fleet? I'm sure the MA would never have guessed that would happen.
I wonder how the giant bombs and the Silver Bullets happened to be at Beowulf? Probably just a delivery error, right?
Loren Pechtel wrote:Consider what happens if the GA fleet isn't there: Beowulf simply has to back down and let them transit and the fleet dies to the junction forts. The fleet poses no threat to anyone. Is the MA going to expect the GA to send a fleet simply for the purpose of saving the SLN fleet?
Would you please stop talking about the transit to Manticore in support of Filareta? The critical time is when the Solarian fleet attacks Beowulf. Note the reference to the Silver Billets! It is that time that is critical, because by then the RMN fleet has been in the same spot for months with their wedges down. That is the point of KZT's criticism.
As it happens, because the wedges are down, the fleet cannot even move to respond to the Solarian Fleet that is attacking Beowulf's facilities. What then is their point?