I genuinely don't know what to say ;-;. Your basically saying: yeah I warped my fleet of smaller ships into a fleet of much bigger ships with more defenses and fire power into a knife fight! Which as you can imagine will NOT GO WELL. Not only that but space is 3d, unless you cover EVERY VECTOR OF APPROACH then you cant surround the enemy. also HUNDREDS of Narviks? The ship limit is 3000 :sob: [The Blunder] - The UE has designed many of their ships to be small and armed with broad sides... Fighting ships SIGNIFICANTLY larger ships which can allow us to bear more fire upon UE ships while tanking more hits. Not only that but being so small this also risks UE ships to getting rammed by accident (as you can imagine that's not good). The configuration of a BROADSIDE for their ships also shows bigger weaknesses, they can only use about half of their full firepower and it forces UE ships into predictable arcs. We can also simply bring upon our own broadsides onto UE ships (as they are RIGHT BESIDE US) and simply destroy them with a hail of energy weapons, torpedoes, and missiles. This tactic negates the UE’s own ship design advantages while maximizing the enemy’s, making the outcome decisively unfavorable regardless of numbers. [Counter Attack] - Using superior ship design (ehm NOT broadside based) and pure mass we would crash through UE defense lines while also leaving behind defensive drones at our rear to stop an encirclement. Even if they did we could always just get out by firing FTL before they can encircle us which is nearly impossible. The UE defenders would find themselves fighting a force with superior ship design, weapon philosophy, and just in general larger ships. While the famed UE MM Missile could become a problem, we would simply stick together to use interceptor missiles and overlapping rapid fire proximity round CIWS systems which would easily intercept most UE missiles and those that do somehow hit would be hit with shields. [Ground Combat] - UE forces would find themselves completely out classed. They fight in LINE WARFARE. LINE WARFARE DAMN IT. YOUR SITTING DUCKS FOR AUTOMATIC WEAPONS. ENJOY YOUR DAY. RRI would also begin using SPGs (self propelled guns) to hit UE infantry lines. Counter battery fire would also obviously exist but to counter this we would use tiny drones that are shaped line helicopters (yes these exist) to try and scout out and find the general idea of enemy artillery fire and the usage of high altitude reconnaissance with the usage of different spectrum cameras. Of course adding this with orbital bombardments and we can essentially wipe out a planet's artillery and its ability to counter attack. [Casualties] - Combining all of this and well, you end up with UE suffering horrendous casualties while also suffering less and less casualties. Such a thing would rally the UE people against their government (cuz human emotion is a thing). Such a thing would cause mass rioting or a rebellion.
