1 Then S. must use more transport - conveyed - to
supply the depots. All supply convoys must themselves
be supplied.
2 Yes! Of course!
3 Simply?
A supply line 40,000 miles long,
which crosses 6,000 miles of ocean once,
and then two more Water Gaps,
is *not* simple.
4 IMHO the Arcanans need never go through a Gate to
attack the Sharonan LoC. **Never**
It will be *plenty* long enough in the Universe
which they are contesting at the time.
5 Are you presuming that Sharona has *Huge* resources,
availible merely for the calling-up, at the Front?
This despite distractions from Chava, and other
internal problems?
I guess that S might need 20 people and 20 machines on
the LoC, for every one at the Front.
Forty Thousand Miles!
Re: ambushes, The Arcanans will see the Sharonans
coming, from the air. Nuff said.
HTM
PeterZ wrote:1 Motorized transport allows Sharona to move
supplies ahead of the railhead. If they create
well defended depots,
[snip - htm]
2 I suspect that Arcanan light and heavy cavalry shipped around by transport dragons are a better strategic and tactical proposition.
3 Even so there is a limit to that utility.
Sharona will *simply* move in larger forces to
make ambushes more costly for Arcana.
4 Eventually, Sharona will have reached far enough so that Arcana will have to fight 2-3 portals behind Sharonan lines to hit their supplies. That is more than a little risky.
I believe Sharona can push Arcana back because they can arm
any trooper with their most powerful weapons, while arcana requires some arcane ability to utilize their truly powerful weapons. That suggests that the Sharonans can concentrate more firepower per unit than Arcana can. Sure Some Arcana units will have truly powerful weapons, but the number of those units depend on a small portion of the Arcana Gifted population in addition to training and production limits. Sharona's only limitation is training and production as anyone can operate any weapon.
5 The speed of any Sharonan advance might be slowed by Arcanan LoC attacks, but I don't think it will be stopped. The exposure to those types of attacks will be at most 2 universes behind the front. That's a lot of territory for sure, but Sharona only needs to protect the convoys and push the front further. As they push the front closer to Arcana, Arcana air mobile forces would have to pull back or risk running to a truly heavy concentration of troops being sent up the chain from the universes being consolidated.
Again, the key is the concentration of firepower. Sharonan units can manage this better if they pick their time and place to fight. Arcana needs surprise to manage greater concentration of firepower. That brings me to the final point. The Calirath talent can be "turned on" in someone with the blood and the Imperial healers know how to do that. Dollars to donughts Andrin turns on quite a few more Calirath's prcognative abilities for deployemnt in this war. I say Adrin because it is well telegraphed that her father will die shortly by (I suspect) Chava's hand.
Howard T. Map-addict wrote:I deem those logistics *very* optimistic.
En march, driving motorized vehicles quickly,
they stop, cut down trees,, and feed the green wood
directly into their fuel boxes!
Wood is not as efficient as gas, or even coal.
They would be in the Siberian Tundra, not the Russian
forests. How much wood do you expect them to find?
If they send a Wood-cutting Party away from their Main
Force, it becomes very vulnerable - and they'd need to
do that often. Or else the Main Force can move from
grove to grove in search of the wood.
Not to mention that they must carry all of their own
spare parts, all of their own ammo, and all of their
own food. They can not use Air Search to find herds of
game animals, as the Arcanans can. There are no farms
planted on the tundra yet, so finding grains, vegetables,
and fruits would be time-consuming.
Etc, Etc.
It is 1200+ miles from Salby across Karys to Mosenak,
and about that much more from Mosenak to Ghartoum, only
that trip is across the Sahara Desert!
Of course Weber&Presby can write it that way if they
choose to. They are good enough to make it seem
possible, even reasonable.
HTM
