ThinksMarkedly wrote:cthia wrote:Do better? I don't imagine that will be a problem for a navy that is fighting in their own backyard. They can launch far more massive volleys I'm sure. But 20,000 at a pop will do just fine. Remember, the GA's Fleet train has been sent to the bottom of the sea. It is now a war of attrition. The GA can only withstand 20k missile salvos until their payload of CMs hold out. Which won't be long.
BTW, if Darius happens to be heavily seeded with invisible platforms capable of massive graser torp launches they can do so at will. A GA squadron could be headed right smack dab into a graser swarm. Of course they are preoccupied by the 20,000 incoming wedges that they can see.
I'm sure they have orders of magnitude more than 20,000 Cataphracts on stock. The problem is not how many they have, it's how many can get into optimum range. If the blockading fleet is moving in unpredictable directions, you can't get sufficient pods in close proximity except by chance. That means diluting them through space. And this applies to torpedoes too, but it's much more difficult for torpedoes because those can't cover the last 2-light-minutes at will.
Which may be a viable strategy. Presumably, the hosts have far bigger magazines than what the blockaders have on-board. So you can simply wear them out if they have to stay inside the hyperlimit.
As kzt said in one of these Salmon streams, sooner or later the GA is going to display some type of pattern, but, I don't understand, why must the invisible MAN remain inside the hyper limit?