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Originally Posted by Avatar_notADV
Well, but they haven't been able to do these things. Their opposition has definitely used mobility, surprise, and deception to their great advantage to date - Jail's operating with a few advantages (namely, the other side not knowing about his force composition or objectives), but he's also out-generaling Hayate and indeed the whole TSAB. If RF6 is going to win at this point, it's going to have to rely on the individual superiority of their forces - just can't be helped. It's -too late- to fight smart.
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It is amazing how an analysis can be so astute and yet the conclusion so incorrect. She doesn't have the resources to fight dumb.
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The key thing about concentrating your forces at the decisive point is that you need to identify the decisive point. Hayate simply doesn't have the information required to make that determination with certainty.
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Where you cannot identify a decisive point, you systematically work to eliminate possibilities. Normally, you'd use reconaissance, but it is too late for that, so you adapt and use physical elimination. Splitting up means you aren't dealing with any of the points, whether they are "decisive" or not. Having a decisive point of your own means that you can annihilate at least some of the problems, and by using the correct sequence you can cover all the possibilities before the time limit.
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Is the loose band of Numbers a decisive point? Probably not, compared to the rest. Thus, they're being countered with relatively light units. You can argue that it's better to ignore them altogether, which I could live with. But obviously they're up to something, and not only that, they're up to it in the middle of the big enemy operation. Presumably their target is worth the force dilution their absence represents! So you need at least token forces against them, right?
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Actually, it demands a short presence with full force to decisively eliminate them. No more worries about losing or casualties from this direction. No more worrying that this is the decisive sector.
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Is Jail's HQ the decisive point? Possibly - if they can force a surrender, the rest of it might not matter. But it could also be pointless to attack there. If most of his forces are already in motion, and there's no big "off" switch, then all you're going to bag is a loon, a secretary, and a bunch of empty drone-warehouses (plus the Numbers' spare undergarments, I guess.)
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A very likely decisive point. A little harder than Capital Team, but still very crushable in a concentrated effort. Even if it isn't, now at least he can't designate new Decisive Sectors of his own, and you've got only one to go and between 1.5-2 hours to do it. Raid Scarlietti's refrigerator for fast drinks - you need a break and be at your best before the Final Battle.
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Is the Cradle the decisive point? Entirely possible (probable, even), but it's also the most dangerous - the one that's most likely to trap your forces against it and leave everything else uncovered, or possibly even wipe them ALL out; nobody's really sure how much of a threat that sucker is.
Is the big drone-cloud decisive? Certainly, current military doctrine emphasizes air superiority as a primary objective of any battle. If Jail gets total air superiority, it becomes very hard for the TSAB forces to coordinate and move. (This isn't so important in our calculations, since we've already decided that Hayate's not really suited for the other tasks anyway, and this is the one at which she excels beyond any of the others.)
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This, at least, is really one objective. In fact, the fighter drones seem to be scrambling to protect the Cradle rather than trying to carry out bombing missions of their own. Even if they weren't, since they are launching from the Cradle, a rapid solution to the problem is to disable the Cradle. They might even locate the hangar bay and crack it.
So, rapid attack, open or find hole, move in. Should we bring Hayate? You two think no, I think yes. Because I don't think you are framing the problem right. This is not really a close combat problem. Remember that our purpose is still to destroy the ship. Internal compartmentalization rarely has the resillence of external armor, so when you are in, you are in the prime position to destroy the ship.
Have Hayate do her drone cleaning, but on the inside, killing drones and gutting the ship as much as possible, cutting a path to Vivio. With so much internal damage, she might well short out the internal AMF defense as an unexpected side benefit. Reduce power as you get closer to Vivio. Basically the artillery unit is covering the advance of the infantry till the very last feasible moment. This avoids a lot of close-combat slogging. Don't worry too much if you screw the procedure up slightly - thanks to Dieci, we know Vivio's tough and won't die just because we engulfed her a bit.
Finally we might consider splitting up, which is actually only possible because we've been keeping everyone as a fist up until this time. Reverse with half the infantry and start blasting towards the reactor. Everyone else grabs Vivio and catch up. Depending on reactor type either destroy with firepower or try and shut it down by hand. If neither looks feasible start blasting away
around the reactor so it is not connected to the guns or engines (reserve some power for this).
Oh, and do something about any drones still in the hangar bay, too. With all that done, anybody that's still up to it can go back to cleaning out the air drones with help from the Fleet's mages.
Now, to think about my Court Martial defense for Ep17... maybe the fact I handled Ep21 well would help me...
sorry about that....I'll go edit and delete that part...
