Tactical Synthesis is a concept similar to chess, how each piece relates in capabilities and weaknesses to each other. How they can and do interact, and how people are aware of this.
So.... Seeing DS9, large ships are absolutely worthless, but everyone is addicted to them. I'm possibly wrong on this number, but 900 billion died in the dominion war- 10 billion angry shuttle craft with warp 5 capability, operated by Marquee like militias, could of squeezed the living day lights out of the dominion, no way the cardassions and dominion and green could of spread their fleets enough to stop thousands of shuttle crafts hitting every system at once, straffing everything.
That's sounding extreme, no way they would ever do that? Talk to me after the first 100 Billion die. Think they said 900 billion. Load me up in a shuttle craft, replicator, something that shoots with a guy from the Ozarks with personality issues, watch the two of us blow up random stuff in enemy space.
That's the untapped potential of the federation. They had Maquee, but the Maquee generally didn't target the federation, but Cardassia. Cardassia was imperial, hard to say how secure of a hold they had on each planet once troops ate being sent to the Federation Front Lines. Hard to say how much of the population would be willing to fight and die for Cardassia. I'm doubting the Maquee worlds were jumping at the chance to fight.
A insane number of Small Ships would of been a default cost effective counter to large fleets. Dominion would have to grow clones, federation is limited only by industrial replicators and fuel to outfit these deep raiders. Absolutely bizarre no guerilla/commando/partisan fleets were out and about annihilating the dominion after the costs in life got absurd.
Secondly.... Defence annihilated Offence. Take the replicator mines across the wormhole. Or DS9's missle batteries, held off a whole fleet.
I would rather avoid repeating the standard Roddenberry fixation on recreating the naval Battle of Lepanto time after time after time.... and just surprise everyone by having the ratio of missiles to ships heavily slopsided, like DS9 was.
This is stupid simple to do. You take a small ship, equivalent of a tugboat- power but small area, and add a absurdly large frame to it, filled with nothing but missles.
Has deflectors, some shields maybe. Escorted by a handful of ships, not a armada....
When you know where the enemy armada is, you fly to it, and unleash EVERY MISSILE OFF AT ONCE, and then leave. Ditch the frame if you gotta. Just zoom zoom out. Then, when their Armada is dead, your silly armada can fly around at another location, doing deep strikes. All the better if you got a billion angry shuttle crafts doing harassing raids literally everywhere.
I'm also a bit stumped in regards to how the dominion never took down the wormhole minefield. Wouldn't blowing up every mine simultaneously do the trick? They lacked the technical capacity to build a replicator minefield too, a ranks deep, and have it float towards the mines?
If you just fling a ripped bag of gravel at the wormhole, shouldn't it open? You can build a replicator/transporter at either end, ferry small ships over and past that minefield, as long as it opens.
So much of DS9 just seems.... so bizarre.
How did Sisko command the federation fleet when he wasn't even a admiral? Was Picard too busy? All those admirals, and they let a guy who has no upper echelon command experience, running a space station, thinking he is a religious prophet, run the show for them? They are a completely useless bunch of high ranking fools. Only time you see them is when they are committing treason, or introducing a bad scheme.
Only people who figured out deep strikin, unexpected microraids raids was a good idea was some renegade cadets, and Word when his wife died....
Federation deserved to die in this war. Had so many intrinsic advantages- a loyal, highly population with a just cause, major proven defensive advantages easy to turn offensive, undoubtedly a larger pool to recruit from, increased experience on using autonomous AIs....
I can go into other areas, like long range AI Middles, maquee used one. Nuclear weapons might not penetrate shields, but they do make lots of radiation. I get not nuking planets, but if you got a compact fleet, and debris and smash into shields, doing damage, you can't tell me a thousand nukes going off between ships wouldn't do damage. Sending in a fleet of shrapnel pact, AI driven junk and nuking them on a kamakazee blitz into shipyards would do insane damage.
Just so much stuff they could do. Instead, it's a midranking officer with no real experience commanding a starship prior to the Defiant, merely ran a spaceship, ran the war, while acting like he was Moses.... and Starfleet was more than happy to overlook it's rare surprising success that was proven to tip the balance in war, and stick with a militant obsession to the orthodoxy of what didn't work.....
900 Billion Dead. Wow. So easy to avoid.
So.... Seeing DS9, large ships are absolutely worthless, but everyone is addicted to them. I'm possibly wrong on this number, but 900 billion died in the dominion war- 10 billion angry shuttle craft with warp 5 capability, operated by Marquee like militias, could of squeezed the living day lights out of the dominion, no way the cardassions and dominion and green could of spread their fleets enough to stop thousands of shuttle crafts hitting every system at once, straffing everything.
That's sounding extreme, no way they would ever do that? Talk to me after the first 100 Billion die. Think they said 900 billion. Load me up in a shuttle craft, replicator, something that shoots with a guy from the Ozarks with personality issues, watch the two of us blow up random stuff in enemy space.
That's the untapped potential of the federation. They had Maquee, but the Maquee generally didn't target the federation, but Cardassia. Cardassia was imperial, hard to say how secure of a hold they had on each planet once troops ate being sent to the Federation Front Lines. Hard to say how much of the population would be willing to fight and die for Cardassia. I'm doubting the Maquee worlds were jumping at the chance to fight.
A insane number of Small Ships would of been a default cost effective counter to large fleets. Dominion would have to grow clones, federation is limited only by industrial replicators and fuel to outfit these deep raiders. Absolutely bizarre no guerilla/commando/partisan fleets were out and about annihilating the dominion after the costs in life got absurd.
Secondly.... Defence annihilated Offence. Take the replicator mines across the wormhole. Or DS9's missle batteries, held off a whole fleet.
I would rather avoid repeating the standard Roddenberry fixation on recreating the naval Battle of Lepanto time after time after time.... and just surprise everyone by having the ratio of missiles to ships heavily slopsided, like DS9 was.
This is stupid simple to do. You take a small ship, equivalent of a tugboat- power but small area, and add a absurdly large frame to it, filled with nothing but missles.
Has deflectors, some shields maybe. Escorted by a handful of ships, not a armada....
When you know where the enemy armada is, you fly to it, and unleash EVERY MISSILE OFF AT ONCE, and then leave. Ditch the frame if you gotta. Just zoom zoom out. Then, when their Armada is dead, your silly armada can fly around at another location, doing deep strikes. All the better if you got a billion angry shuttle crafts doing harassing raids literally everywhere.
I'm also a bit stumped in regards to how the dominion never took down the wormhole minefield. Wouldn't blowing up every mine simultaneously do the trick? They lacked the technical capacity to build a replicator minefield too, a ranks deep, and have it float towards the mines?
If you just fling a ripped bag of gravel at the wormhole, shouldn't it open? You can build a replicator/transporter at either end, ferry small ships over and past that minefield, as long as it opens.
So much of DS9 just seems.... so bizarre.
How did Sisko command the federation fleet when he wasn't even a admiral? Was Picard too busy? All those admirals, and they let a guy who has no upper echelon command experience, running a space station, thinking he is a religious prophet, run the show for them? They are a completely useless bunch of high ranking fools. Only time you see them is when they are committing treason, or introducing a bad scheme.
Only people who figured out deep strikin, unexpected microraids raids was a good idea was some renegade cadets, and Word when his wife died....
Federation deserved to die in this war. Had so many intrinsic advantages- a loyal, highly population with a just cause, major proven defensive advantages easy to turn offensive, undoubtedly a larger pool to recruit from, increased experience on using autonomous AIs....
I can go into other areas, like long range AI Middles, maquee used one. Nuclear weapons might not penetrate shields, but they do make lots of radiation. I get not nuking planets, but if you got a compact fleet, and debris and smash into shields, doing damage, you can't tell me a thousand nukes going off between ships wouldn't do damage. Sending in a fleet of shrapnel pact, AI driven junk and nuking them on a kamakazee blitz into shipyards would do insane damage.
Just so much stuff they could do. Instead, it's a midranking officer with no real experience commanding a starship prior to the Defiant, merely ran a spaceship, ran the war, while acting like he was Moses.... and Starfleet was more than happy to overlook it's rare surprising success that was proven to tip the balance in war, and stick with a militant obsession to the orthodoxy of what didn't work.....
900 Billion Dead. Wow. So easy to avoid.
