Competition: Monstrosity: Never Start a Land War in Asia

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Monstrosity: Never Start a Land War in Asia

The four core planets of the Cocytus system are in danger. With each home to its own unique monster, the forces of Scholae Palatinae don’t have time to focus on any single planet at a time. Each must be dealt with as quickly as possible.

Luckily Scholae Palatinae is home to an amazing military force, and has some brilliant tacticians. With a unlimited access to the resources of the Cocytus Imperial Military, divide the forces, and members of the clan to deal with the monsters.

Create a Battleplan, sections of military forces and tactics only, for dealing with this threat. Examples of good battleplans can be found here, and further information of full battleplans can be found here.

Graded based on quality of work, and soundness of the plan in dealing with the threat. You may submit it as a slideshow show or word document. No sharing from googledrive, it must be submitted as an actual file for review on the site.

Competition Information
Parent Competition
Forgotten: Monstrosity
Organized by
Lord Idris Adenn
Running time
2015-11-08 until 2015-11-30 (23 days)
Target Unit
Clan Scholae Palatinae
Competition Type
Other
Awards
Third Level Crescents
Participants
6 subscribers, of which 6 have participated.
Results
Member
General Zentru'la
File submission
BattlePlan.pdf
Placement
1st place
Member
Archangel Palpatine
File submission
7589-LandWarAsia.doc
Placement
2nd place
3rd place
Qor Kith
Member
Qor Kith
File submission
NeverstartaLandWarinAsia.pdf
Textual submission

Please find attached the Battle plan against the Dacship invasion on all four planets. Created by Lexiconus Qor, 13880

Placement
3rd place
4th place
Sage Enzo Dek
Member
Sage Enzo Dek
Submission
Sage Enzo Dek opted out of publishing his submission.
Placement
4th place
Member
Jorm (The Jester) Na'trej
Textual submission

Never Start A Land War In Asia.

So, you want me to make a battleplan to deal with the four, well, eight, Monsters.

Here's the plan.
Forget the troops. Seriously. Now. We don't need anything that touches the ground here, and the fighter jocks and the gunners can probably stay in their bunks too.

Here's what is actually needed:
The Clan's fleet and the Scouttrooper Biker Scouts of the planetary garrisions. They don't touch the ground!
Plus whatever homing beacons are at hand, though wildlife trackers for scientific purposes would be preferable. Small, barely noticable, long range, and designed to attach to life forms. Depending on the local commander, maybe a few fighters or bombers capable of dropping ordinance, more on that in the recommendations.

Phase One:
The Biker Scouts will use speed and hit-and-run tactics to attach the active trackers and beacons onto the Monsters. Or get them into them. Organic glue, harpoons, getting eaten with them, I honestly don't care, either variant is valid.

Phase Two:
The fleet weeds out the trackers that didn't make it, then locks onto the beacons that did and uses them for tractor beam locks. Star Destroyers and most other capital ships can operate close to planetary surfaces. And then they lift those beasties off the damn planet.
For extra effect, do it at night and illuminated by spotlights. Abduct them like the aliens in the legends of old abducted humanoids - and we're the ones doing the probing! Insult to injury.

This will work!
A tractor beam is not a magnet, it is a force field. Force fields can hold organics. And no matter how big these things get: A Star Destroyer has significantly more mass and engine power. It'll pluck it's target like you pick daisies.

Phase Three:
The hard part. You have to decide what to do now. Options include:
-shooting the Monsters to pieces in mid-air and clear view for public morale
-dragging them up into space to suffocate
-dropping them from great heights alongside a pot of flowers, letting them contemplate life
-put them into an isolated arena and have them fight each other to the death, televize the event, then sell plushies.

Potential problems and recommendations:
-Judecca Abyssal: none, thanks to it being stupid enough to march inland far away from greater water bodies. Star Destroyer recommended. Dark Paladin for PR effect.
-Antenora Sandworm: might try to dig in if he notices the starship. The local commander might want to douse it in water or superglue by aircraft while the trackers are attached to increase drag with the sand and immobilize it. Star Destroyer recommended. Make it the Warspite if you want to be precise.
-Forest Beasts of Ptolomea: have to be plucked at the same time to minimize their potential to develop countertactics, but they have less mass than the other Monsters, probably on par with a large starfighter or light freighter. Cruisers and even Frigates and Corvettes should be able to handle. Precise tractor targeting should not be an issue from directly overhead. Killing them piecemeal might also dumb the hive mind down, it's the local commander's call. They may also try to pile up in one tractor beam to overwhelm a single ship, but that will make them easy prey for the ship's guns. Assign the Corellian Gunboats.
-Caina Colossus: just douse the area around it in fuel or low-intensity laser fire to deny it access and quick production of ice. Might even drown in the molten water. Star Destroyer recommended, Indomitable.
-General recommendation: have the ships approach from directly overhead while the Biker Scouts draw the attention to the ground level. Adds an element of surprise.
-All other troops not assigned to this mission can just do their thing, protecting civilians and cleansing cities. Maybe go in the direction the low-tier monsters come from and blow up their lairs, I really don't care.

So why is this the best plan?
-projected casualties are within the low two-digit range.
-it allows for the use of the imperial symbols of power, the Star Destroyers.
-it shows the Empire's iron fist and will to use it on it's enemies without hesitation.

And that's how a pirate in bathrobe and Darth Vader plush slippers makes your problems disappear, quick and cheap.

-Jorm

Placement
5th place
Member
Lucyeth
File submission
Never_Start_a_Land_War_in_Asia.pptx
Textual submission

Lucyeth
#13700

Placement
No placement