Cry HAVOC!!!!

[Krelnett_of_Kraan]

Major Zeklek the Stinger looked at the alien sign on the wall and keyed his Universal Translator. He consulted the display. <Left.>

As quick as thought, the 63rd Raider division followed him clockwise around the interior of the Kooky base. <They shape their installations like kitchen timers, build huge warships with inadequate levels of obsolete computing technology... How did they ever achieve spaceflight?> The buzzing click of Zraaknod laughter echoed off the stark white passageways behind him.

<HOLD.> The thought echoing through his mind was not his own, nor that of his teammates. In fact, it came from a Talent in the secure underground bunker on the other side of the continent. The government had an obscure 5-digit reference number for it, but the troops stationed there just called it The Bakery. The Talents are genetic anomalies – individuals in a non-individualistic society whose telepathic abilities far outstrip their peers. Where an average Zraaknod’s mind could reach out to others of its kind within a few hundred feet, a Talent’s mind stretches over hundreds of miles, and they can interface with aliens as easily as with their own kind. 27 Talents, a full division, rested comfortably in the Bakery, along with two divisions of security personnel to insure their privacy and safety.

<THERE ARE SEVEN KOOKIES BEHIND THE NEXT DOOR. THEY SLEEP NOW. ENTER.>

Zeklek motioned and three Marines teamed up on the over-large door handle to push it down, triggering the mechanism. As the door slid open they were greeted with the cloying scent of yeast. <One of the targets has an infection.> The team flew into the room, vibroblades at the ready, and deployed themselves over the unconscious forms of the aggressor race. When all were in position, Zeklek counted down in his mind until the team flashed into motion. All seven helpless Kookies lost their lives in an instant as 28 hyper-sonic instruments of death closed on their unprotected necks.

The martial artist deactivated his blade and wiped the sticky residue from it before putting it away. He concentrated and pushed a thought as far east as he could, knowing the Talent assigned to assist this operation would be awaiting his signal. <This control room is secured. Where is our next target?>

[Krelnett_of_Kraan]

Sir! Our preparations were successful! We can only assume our Heavy Fanatic losses would have been fewer had we waited for the combat-enhancing drugs we just finished researching, but they're fanatics, this is what they signed up for. By any count this must be labeled a total victory for the alliance! The aggressor world is now controlled by the Pridelands, and we've begun the Final Solution you proposed. All enemy combatants are marching into the ovens as we speak!

** Tactical Rating Modifiers **

Air Defense Air Support Air to Air Ammunition Amphibious Antitank Aquatic

+1 +4 +10 +7 +0 +2 +0

Armor Artillery Biodefense Bioweapons Broken Terrain Camouflage Chemdefense

+10 +5 +10 +10 +10 +10 +10

Chemweapons Close Combat EW Engineering Environmental ESP Heavy Weapons

+5 +2 +10 +2 +10 +0 +1

Intel Medical Nuc Defense Nuc Weapons Open Terrain Orbital Bmb Security

+4 +3 +10 +1 +10 +0 +1

Small Arms Space Defense Special Wpns Subterranean Telekinesis Telepathics Transport

-2 +2 +10 +10 +0 +10 +7

Odds: 21.72004 Total tactical combat odds shifts: 18.5

Attacking divisions counted as if they were 0.5714286 divisions each for casualty purposes

Defending divisions counted as if they were 1.5 divisions each for casualty purposes

Ground combat results

Attacker losses: 6 Heavy Fanatics

Defender losses: <all divisions>

[cestvel]

Sir! Our preparations were successful! We can only assume our Heavy Fanatic losses would have been fewer had we waited for the combat-enhancing drugs we just finished researching, but they're fanatics, this is what they signed up for. By any count this must be labeled a total victory for the alliance! The aggressor world is now controlled by the Pridelands, and we've begun the Final Solution you proposed. All enemy combatants are marching into the ovens as we speak!

** Tactical Rating Modifiers **

Air Defense Air Support Air to Air Ammunition Amphibious Antitank Aquatic

+1 +4 +10 +7 +0 +2 +0

Armor Artillery Biodefense Bioweapons Broken Terrain Camouflage Chemdefense

+10 +5 +10 +10 +10 +10 +10

Chemweapons Close Combat EW Engineering Environmental ESP Heavy Weapons

+5 +2 +10 +2 +10 +0 +1

Intel Medical Nuc Defense Nuc Weapons Open Terrain Orbital Bmb Security

+4 +3 +10 +1 +10 +0 +1

Small Arms Space Defense Special Wpns Subterranean Telekinesis Telepathics Transport

-2 +2 +10 +10 +0 +10 +7

Odds: 21.72004 Total tactical combat odds shifts: 18.5

Attacking divisions counted as if they were 0.5714286 divisions each for casualty purposes

Defending divisions counted as if they were 1.5 divisions each for casualty purposes

Ground combat results

Attacker losses: 6 Heavy Fanatics

Defender losses: <all divisions>

 

 

Wow!

 

So many losses with such a minimal difference in defensive strength an these overwhelming odds.

Had you fewer divisions as tehre wer cookies?

[Krelnett_of_Kraan]

We had numerical advantage by ourselves. The Pridelands had slightly more divisions than the Kookies. The problem is, our race is well-suited to space combat (we think aerially, for instance), but on the ground it's hard for us to compete with larger stronger beings. For some reason we've never been able to parlay our extensive knowledge of gravitics into a balanced planetary design. *grumblebuzz*

[Raja]

Grand Marshal Deadly Ancestor watched a line of Dourians as they were marched into the Ovens. "I love the smell of cooking Dourian in the morning. Smells like victory!"

 

OOC: We had the Kookys outnumbered by over 3 to 1. And having the odds so strongly in our favor was also really nice. I thought we were going to be taking more casualties than what we did. I was really surprised that we took them out in 1 GATK. Too bad they were a dropped position. A live one could have proven so much more fun. After all, a kitty likes to play with its food before consumption.

[hobknob]

In ground combat it really appears that you suffer almost no losses if you have a good numerical advantage.

 

Look at it this way. All the damage is spread out over all the units. If you have enough units you actually suffer no losses. The only battles that have significant losses on both sides are those that are about on par for each side.

 

It would be nice damage were not so spread out. It makes it very difficult to whittle away at a larger force if you can never kill any units, even after sacrificing numerous divisions.

[cestvel]

That is why I asked, as with my recent ground battles we only lost 1 division, if at all.

And that was with numerical and technological advantage like you had. Maybe these Heavy Fanatics were suicide bombers???

[Krelnett_of_Kraan]

It wouldn't surprise us at all if our Fanatic units have very high offense and relatively low defense. If so, however, those numbers don't show up in the ANZ.

[Breoghan]

The enemy probably used stealthed, high tech fly-swatters - fiendish! Totally outside the rules of war. Be thankful they didnt have access to cat nip to use on your allies - your attack would have been in serious trouble in that case, I reckon. They probably deserved everything they got.