This is a forum for all the Captains to gather and discuss strategy for writing the final Wayward Squirrel battle ( Chapter 10 )

Enemy Ships:

Dragon Ship: Huge Mother Ship, Battle Cruiser, can hold hundreds of small fighters, heavy shielding, very heavy armament, cannons, turrets, blasters, torpedoes.

Mid-sized Reever Destroyers: Slightly larger then a Firefly-class ship. Heavily armed, blasters, torpedoes, medium shielding, decorated with bones and blood,

Fighters : Small single-seat Tie-Fighter class craft, light armament, blasters, light shielding, like flies that will kick your backsides.

Our Ships:

Firefly Class Ships : Medium sized, fast, some very heavily armed for a ship it’s size, medium shielding. Looks Totally Awesome', Can Kick Serious Unseelie Bottom! Fallen Angels, League of Whovians, Mischievous Misfits, Reavers, Stone Cold Rogues, Chimeriad,

Fighters : Small single-seat Tie-Fighter class craft, light armament, blasters, light shielding, Like Hummingbirds On Crack....With Blasters! Bohemians, Foggiest Notions, Night Owls, Raider's Folly, The Fellowship, Silver Legends, Catnip Thieves, Midnight Dancers

Outline Narrative:

1. The initial attack of Phase One will focus on three primary target objectives:

   a. The Poison Array. This will be dealt with by Reavers in their Firefly class ship. The Raider's Folly team and the Foggiest Notions team will assist in their Tie-Fighter class ships. They may take out other secondary targets as they wish.

   b. The Main Communications Array, this will disrupt their ability to coordinate attacks. This will be led by The Fallen Angels team in their Firefly class ship. The Catnip Thieves team and the Bohemian Travelers team will assist with defense in their Tie-Fighter class ships. They may take out other secondary targets as they wish.

   c. The Bridge. This will be targeted by the The Stone Cold Rogues, The Chimeriad, The League of Whovians and the Mischievous Misfits and the remaining Tie-Fighter class teams for this phase..

2. The Dragon Ship unleashes hundreds of fighters upon us and close combat ensues. It is a free-for all dogfight. This Phase Two attack objective is to to destroy all the enemy’s small fighters. All ships are engaged from all teams. The battle is intense and there are many close calls.

3. The Phase Three objective has become to target the engines and control centers of the Dragon Ship in an attempt to completely destroy it. Strafing runs, tropedos, cutting beams, blasters, magic and alchemy come into play here. The target objectives are:

      a.  The Engines.  This will be dealt with byThe League of Whovians _______________ , Fallen Angels and The Stone Cold Rogues in their Firefly class ship. The The Fellowship,  The Nightowls, and Bohemian Travelers will assist with defense in their Tie-Fighter class ships.  They may take out other secondary targets as they wish.
   
      b.  The Control Systems Centers, this will knock out radar, computers, targeting systems and life support. This will be dealt with by Chimeriad, Mischievous Misfits and Catnip Thieves in their Firefly class ship. The Foggiest Notions and the ________________ will assist with defense in their Tie-Fighter class ships. They may take out other secondary targets as they wish. 
   
      c.   The Mid-Sized Reever Destroyers.  These will be targeted by the remaining Firefly Class ships and the remaining  Tie-Fighter class ships.  This is essential in protecting the others as they complete their task. Once the Dragon Ship is Destroyed, all craft regroup to clean up any remaining Reever-Class and Fighter stragglers. 
   

If you want to volunteer for a specific target, please ping me to the target you want to attack and I will fill in the blank. If you don't select a specific target, then you attack secondary targets ( Atrueheart listed a bunch of them ).

In closing: There are three main phases to this outline: 1. attack dragon ship, knock it out. 2. Destroy the 100's of small fighters, 3. Destroy the Dragon ship AND the medium-sized Reever ships. 4. celebrate victory with cookies... (oh, wait...that's four phases. )

Thanks , for all your fantastic input and even more fantastical advice.

Now Fellow Captains--To Your Ships! The Word Processor is mightier then the laser blaster!

I'm off to advise my squad, Fire up the old Terrapin Glider ( one Bad-Bottomed space ship now. ) and to kick some Unseelie tail!

Thank you for setting this up. At the moment our team is trying to decide which of the 3 parts we would like to do :)

, , , , , , ...In case you missed the post because of the stupidly arbitrary 'ping-limits'

, you're welcome.

: I only set this up as a place where battle strategy and related issues with writing the last chapter would be discussed, not as a way to exclude anybody. I just thought that this would be a forum dedicated to focused discussion of the tasks between teams rather then a common area for general discussion of issues other then the writing prompt. I'm not running this forum, just setting it up. We don't serve cookies and coffee here, it's cigars and whiskey, strategy, blood, guts, sweat and tears. The Unseelie must die!

I'm in favor of using the larger ships in space against the dragon ship and the smaller tie-fighters as 'little friends' to protect the larger ships. Kind of like the bombing raids on Germany during WWII.

Sweetpea this is a handy thingy we may need!

Thank you for the ping! Also it appears I got both pings so its possible it works but just doesn't appear to work? Idk anymore - shakes head at weird forum issues

I got both. Whatever, I'm here now. My team has hovercycles with some flying capability and possibly borrowed TIE fighters.

From what I got from my team we're hoping to use our team spacecraft to do a direct assault on the Death Dragon. c:

I know people were asking but I don't think our craft had enough guns to accommodate bringing another team with us.

(Thank you as well for making the board!)

I'm very confused about all of this. My whole team, The Foggiest Notions, is not quite sure what we are supposed to do. I can't even decipher what the "parts" are that we have to choose from. I guess my team needs to borrow TIE Fighters as we don't have an airship.

My understanding is there's three sets of ships. There's the big dragon, firstly. It holds the second, a fleet of tiny ships. And then there's some midsize Serenity/Trainquility-class vessels behind.

because there's three sets, I think that using the small ones to defend the big ones is not viable, though it's a good idea. Unless we assume the smallest ships will swarm around our biggest fighters, and the tiny ships will need to fend them off to protect our Trainquility vessels?

, might as well come read and help plan, if nobody objects. ^.~

It is who is captaion, I am co.

So...do our RPs need to blend and not contradict? That's the main thing I'm unsure of. If our ship is small, I say we take example from some of the Spanish Armada incidents.Little ships and a few torches and a lot of courage can do damage to vessels a lot bigger. I need to reread of course, but a thought! :)

Thank you for gathering everyone around the table. I'm fairly confident we can get this battle won! :)

great idea, thanks for trying to ping me lol silly username changes and all but Reaper got me here :)

Hello i too am a co capt. We are traveler and we are all on the ground at the present time with motor bikes i guess ...but we have got cookies..

I need to ping too. He and I cocaptain. I'm the muscle, he is the gremlin brain.

Thanks for the call.. can look this over also and we can discuss on the Bohemian thread for Chapter 10, let me know what you think.

I have asked GreenRowan on the ooc thread if the Bohemian Travelers can be ground support considering we have always roleplayed fights using our put together bikes. I think looking at it from the standpoint that none of this team has flight experience, it may be best to be a ground force, possibly one that helps to occupy an enemy ship though one of our number is scared of flying and another doesn't fight...not the best team for the air. ;)

Aren't i a ranger/aeronaught??Which means i can fly if i had wings..

, I was talking of the group as a whole.. but we can discuss on the Bohemian forum also :)

@ Chook, @ bcsam, @ BlueFaelis, @ FehlerNr23, @ Atrueheart, @ EurusFaeriewillow, @ Cutie, @ JessV, @ dragonrider88, , , , , , @ Reaper

Captains, Raider's folly's plan is to take out the poison array. We would like someone who has a ship to rp us into the dragon, where we'll take over on foot and take the thing out. and then we'll get ourselves home ^.^ and then that team can do whatever else they need too

Oh thanks for the ping

I am the captain of reaver to anyone confused haha. But rox is the best co capt ever and does a ton of work! So either of us can do helping here.

I havent had a chance to talk to my team yet on our ideas. So once we rally the troops Ill hop over and put in our ideas :)

Thanks for the pings. I haven't even read the new chapter yet or talked to my team, so I'll be a while before I can offer any information, feedback, or ideas.