The Battle of Kuat

Also like to add now I have caught up with open orbit... You are bloody insane Gideon. That is some epic writing.

Just a reminder that ANYTHING to do with the Drive Yards needs to take place on the Kuat Drive Yards thread. NOT OPEN ORBIT.

If you post landing on the station in the Open Orbit, you will missed as I am not paying attention to the Open Orbit thread.

Also, you cannot just land on the Drive Yards. It is a DM'ed campaign I am running. You need to post your approach on the KDY thread first and you will be guided to an insertion point.

Take all the time you need mate, feel free to PM me with any issues you may have.

East coast, eh? We here in the west would love to trade, but mother nature is not so generous. Stay safe and warm, mate!

I was hesitant to respond without actually knowing what their approach vector was, and the fact that they didn't actually know what it was sort of put a damper on things. As it stands, they've directly crossed the line of sight of the estate and they're well within the range of the scouts and forward observers. I was just gonna shell them when they came out of the canyon.

No worries, I can remove that post and save it for reposting later with whatever adjustments are needed. For now we'll stick with our "approach" posts, and you can have your chance to respond to that Walter, then we'll have our scuffle.

Our approach is supposed to be outside typical sensor range, but I contradict my implication in the post by saying "They were several kilometers out from the rural areas of the city,…" (It's supposed to be around 50+ Klicks). I can tell that's why it seems like we're approaching in direct line-of-sight of the compound, but we're actually no where near it, and approaching from the opposite side of the city.
I forgot to revise that when I edited the post last time. I'll fix that when we rewrite. So we will have quite a trek out to the city. Gulliver, if you can get me a general range of ground-based sensors, I can put an actual number on that distance; help me figure out how long our approach will be.

Of course the planet isn't running blind, but there are bound to be gaps in sensor coverage here and there outside certain a range, and any defending force can be expected to focus that sensor coverage on important areas such as the city, the compound, and the most obvious avenues of approach to those locations. Nothing was said about sensor coverage beyond the main areas of interest, so we worked off of that. Unless I missed something.

Cheers, I'll get it sorted.

I wasn't making assumptions, mate. We did state our approach direction as South-East of Kuat City, it was only the exact distance we failed to cover. And the way I saw it "100 Kilometers from the South-East edge of the city." works just as well as "Approached the landing zone located just outside ground based sensor range South-East of the city.". My screw up was in forgetting to add that last part when I revised my post. That's it.

We'll get the posts pulled, I already stashed mine. Our pilot will detail the approach if you'll give us those exact numbers.

Just a note: We're not expecting our main forces to touch down unnoticed, I'll be pulling some of our fighter strength to help cover their approach. But the two ships we have dropping in now are stealthed out with paint schemes and the like (only the LAAT/i gunship has an actual cloaking device though, which we didn't use), so they should be able to drop in quite a ways out unnoticed.

Right. I'm going to shut up before I get in trouble. If you'll be so kind as to try again, with all of the pertinent info in place from the outset, we'll get this shindig on the road. I'll describe the troop situation in the city and the sensor network when I get the chance as the night goes on.