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Plan #1 - Our goal is to use 50 of our numerous fighters to engage their 38, and get them from the battle. This dogfighting will hopefully keep them from hitting our other assets. If they refuse to engage, we can use our fighters to chase them down and take some into balls of fiery fury.
Plan #2 – Use 40 fighters to dodge past DropShips and engage that Overlord. With it’s naval class weapons, it’s a threat against our WarShips and DropShips, so we need fighters to engage it and take it down. We have the numbers to do so.
Plan #3 – The Hamilcar should engage the closest transport vessel that doesn’t have any infantry on it. As an assault vessel backed by mechs, it should beat that. Our ideal target is a Union.
Plan #4 – Our four assault vessels (Tug, Achilles, Avenger, Claymore) should run interference and keep their DropShips from getting too close to our WarShip. They are a defensive screen. We also have the 8 fighters left, as well as the fighter-ish small craft.
Plan #5 – Keep the Battle Taxi back. Some should be in the screen around our WarShip, expecting to hit an opportunity of convenience. Meanwhile, the others will be in the back of the attack on their Overlord. After it falls, fighters will break off for targets of opportunity among their DropShips, and Taxis are ordered in to support them.
Plan #6 – Bring our WarShip to bear on theirs, and win that battle.
No one in the houses has fought as many naval battles with WarShips involved as Randal Lewis has. So we have that ace up our sleeve. Plus, we are able to push the battle in the right direction.
Now, we don’t know what their plan of attacks are, and how they view the participants in the battle. For example, we expect they may rush our WarShip with everything they have got, but what if they don’t? What if they hang back and play it safe, looking for angles of attack to open up.
We don’t know how the Nanking flotilla will respond to our arrival.
But battle begins.
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