It's time to go to war with Holy Roman Empire and win this game for the alliance.
I have a casus belli via communications indicating HRE has attempted to sue for peace with Sea Serpent and is actively plotting against me. This in itself wouldn't be enough to persuade me to act but there have been some diplomatic shifts out west. Amogus is no longer allied to Dieste, he needed to free up the slot for some reason, and Beez has stopped defending Sea Serpent) which to me suggests Dieste/TdT/Uy Scuti are going to be hit by them in the near future.
TdT and HelloThere my allies are preparing to attack Coobykins imminently anyway, which would have very likely brought everyone into a war via chains of alliances. So all in all, it's now time to act and be the one to have the element of surprise and initiative rather than responding to threats.
So what is the plan?
1. I've hard pivoted the logistics in all of my original (pre-breakthrough) territory north. All the industry on these stars will now support the war effort against HRE.
2. I've extended Sea Serpent a formal game-long NAP/offer of help to just keep resisting/not join the enemy. Sea Serpent (Rakec) has 12 stars and 9k ships left. I have 37K ships but an extra 9K is not to be sniffed at and I do not want those ships on the other side.
3. I've checked scan lines across the border with HRE and his visibility is pretty poor, I'm going to keep up the pretense for the next two turn processes that I'm trusting/keeping the border demilitarized but I'm now racing ships to the stars just beyond his visibility.
4. I'm going to initiate the war in 12 ticks time (he will see it in 18 ticks when the turn processes) with a smuggler strike on their Cryo Chamber. I can't hold it but I can turn it into a useless Orbital Array, after sending myself a fleet of generals back south the same tick to distribute across my front lines
5. I already have generals moving into position and I already have some fleets in Nebulas tucked away. At the far west of the front line I have 1K ships, I have another 1K in a nebula centrally and 2K towards the east. I believe HRE has a similar number.
6. I'll start the war with 20 tokens to use and I intend to use them on speed specialists for what I hope will be a demoralizing first set of attacks/star flips to seize early momentum. Even if HRE responds rapidly and musters a large force he will be taking time seizing back his own stars not mine (originally) giving time to my allies. I'll buy at least two smugglers to deep-strike warp gates and I might buy a third somewhere useful.
Western part of the front line
Eastern part of front line
7. I'm switching to a weapons tech focus now. HRE is on 9 and Ragnar 11, I'm on 8. By the time I attack HRE I'll be on 9.
8. I'll still retain some industry pushing south into TheBorg and Tube-Pipe, but this is lesser priority now and I'll be less ambitious with trying to gain additional stars. They just want to survive and see out the game now and I don't want to force them up against a wall.
I don't think this war sees me gain enough stars to challenge TdT for first place. I think there is some risk it leads to a star reduction depending on how quickly HRE reacts and what he has tucked away in his various nebulas. Let's see how it goes.
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