[LuckyStar]

We all miss the 700 page RWBY chat room full of randomness and bullshit.

So lets bring it here.

[nathan67003]

CHANGE THE TITLE TO THE ONE MYTHIC PUT GOSH DARNIT

[LuckyStar]

Better if its return.

[Kiith]

And to start off the random talk with something completely random and unrelated to this community here:

If you'd like to help me out, look at the picture below. What would be your next moves if your were to capture the city of Silves (which is, for all intents and purposes, more or less Beirut in terms of the city layout)?

[nathan67003]

LUCK: Thank you :3

Kiith: How in the world do you capture a question mark?

[Leycil]

How do you take over a corrupted img?

[Kiith]

Oops, looks like I failed there. Does the image work now?

[nathan67003]

Yiss.

If collateral isn't bad, I'd drop bombs to sever the red blobs from the main front, encircle said blobs and probably distract the enemy with coastal bombardment by battleships of some sort.

I am not a strategist.

[Kiith]

To give more context while simultaneously not trying to explain to many unwanted and unneeded things: This is for another RP Forums I am participating in. And in this world there exists a country that has been suffering a civil war for the last...I think it's 2 1/2 real time years now, which is kind of similar to the Spanish civil war, just with more opposing factions. Silves is the former capital of the country and is very important for the "Pink" forces because they desperately need the deep water harbour and the airport to bring in supplies. The nation that I am simulating is currently helping the pink guys with covertly operating special forces and advisors and some few supplies brought in via airdrops. Neither coastal bombardement nor airstrikes are an option. armoured support is, as far as I know, limited to 3 or 4 tanks. The best that is available is alot of artillery, including heavy batteries behind the pink lines.

[LuckyStar]

Nat: I think he meant you already captured it and what would you do with Silves.

Kiith: Lel

So what to do with Silves... I would use their natural coastal location to establish ports and conduct ship trades with allied nations. That way my city grows into a port city capable of becoming an attractive business hub and further improve the city through our vast resources thanks to trade

But if you are saying what Nat is say, send a platoon about Lavradia'a locations to cut of flight, that way we cut of trade to prevent help from arriving. Once they have accomplished tanks would roll in from Dorneda's side and close in with troops going towards Trafaria and Sobreda. Have heavy batteries set up at locatins to cover the troops

[nathan67003]

Right then. Umm, I'd say shell the red blobs to force separation from the main red front. Keep up the shelling for as long as possible, force the enemy into fortifications. Meanwhile, make sure you use the special forces for guerrilla strikes, chain of command disruptions, sabotage, recon, y'know, generally fucking up the reds from behind their lines.

Perhaps, when the blobs are gone, press hard on the airport to deny air support from there. Since you have artillery and a it's basically a wide open field, should be a piece of cake. Shell the advancing front on the right of the capital to make them slow down, if not change tactic.

Droned seems to be fine, so I don't know why you'd change that right now.

[Marticus]

Use the special forces to attack behind enemy lines while distracting the front line troops with artillery. Then maybe cut off Trafaria and siege them out until the run out of supplies, while using some artillery to wreck the airfield. If there's a central leader in the area, use the special forces to remove them and cause even more chaos.

[Kiith]

Nate is indeed right, the current objective is to secure the city. The battle has been going on for about a week now, and while there were huge successes in the beginning, now that the Pinks are entering the city proper, resistance slowed down the advance to almost a complete halt.

What I thought would be viable next was to use all available artillery in a creeping barrage to keep Red forces from pouring into the Hill 63 Salient and then move in to close it off. Then one could try to cross the street between the airport and Calcilhas with the help of smoke shells and then prepare an attack on the Airport proper from the safe cover of the blocks directly to its east. It is just so hard to attack because about half of the Reds' forces are conentrated on and around the airport.

Dorneda is in enemy hands, btw, and they already tried to push from there once, to try and connect Silves with the rest of their lines, but that could be stopped. So it's kind of a Stalemate around there.

Nate: Good ideas, but shelling the airport is not a good idea I think. The Reds do not have any combat planes stationed there and because it's so close to the frontline <1 km) anything taking off or landing would probably be shot down by anti air. Also, it is important to capture the airport intact so supplies can come in as soon as possible.

[nathan67003]

Hmm. Well, depending on the accuracy of your artillery batteries, I'd send a special force in cover and shell everything but the essential constructions into Oblivion. They're sitting ducks, in a field large like that. The thing to do to Hill 63 should be done first, though, since that'll probably allow you to gain a lot of territory by cutting them off the main force, encircling and annihilating.

[LuckyStar]

Dormeda was just the best general location of where the tanks should come in, they don't come from Dormeda.

Idk how to even strategize yet my favorite genre is strategy