Tipping off DIGG to our source? We should get his opinion too.
We could announce that due to combined operations against Rahein and Orc (and/or suggest that the 'impending' Digg/Pantheon war is worrying us) we are now on a full war footing.
I am assuming we will be fighting a largely defensive war espcially in the early stages- we weather their early attacks (perhaps making an example of someone occasionally (Phillo first)) and wait it out. Generally look unappetizing really.
Also, not be the aggressor. A lot of DIGG seem to be daytrippers and I see no value in upsetting them and dragging them into it.
If we can survive for any lenght of time the vultures alliances may side with us under the impression we are winning.
Its just like any other war. We fight to win. If we need to defend then we do that as best as we can. However the most important part is the public opinnion. That'll decide how it turns out.
And i'm not too convinced of their abilities on what i've seen their attacks on Sol. There are lots of abandoned accounts they keep alive, and not many of them are willing to attack the old oceans where aour main power is.
I would say we have the firepower to take down the primary targets in short order.
Expect the non-combatants to provide massive stonie drop support but only limited counter strikes.
We would need to shift the attacks around in order to avoid losing fleets to stonie drops. The surprise attacks by DBS caused a lot of damage that they were not able to counter in time.
Something new to try would be fake colo attacks: Large merchant attacks with SMS fakes to get them dumping stonies on fleetless islands.
If possible we should also start tracking when primary targets are active to send attacks when they are offline. (Henning has that all in hand and I'll put together as the data comes in)
Last Edit: Oct 22, 2007 11:45:58 GMT by Freiegeister