Topic: Operation Cavalry

[Hexx]

<sniff> such a beautiful tale.. those heroic Lyran ..

Thanks S'Cipio!

[KAT Chuut-Ritt]

The Lyrans were nominally under the command of Vice Duke Lmabeth ( a mindless fop who was Duke Roget's senior surviving heir) but had been integrated into the Klingon fleet as a result of his inability to command.

Family ancestor Hexx?   

[Hexx]

I hardly think "fop" can be used to describe me..

[KBFKrotz]

(I swear when i bought the game there was an operation Cavalry scenario, but can't find it anywhere)

There is.  If I can scrounge a few moments away from the honey-do list tonight, I'll look it up for you.

-S'Cipio

Excellent... I was actually going to be looking for you
How did you get the PF Squadrons to work on PF Wars ?
Won't AMD shoot at them if they're laucnhed from PFs?

I know I COULD just use the search engine.. but well, since you're already doing
me a huge favour i figured I'd ask for another 

Operation Cavalry was a campaign that lasted most of one year, before the Alliance force was finally defeated.  The scenario I remembered is in Advanced Missions, and only give the battle forces of the biggest battle of the campaign.  Not as complete as I remember, though I can probably dig up more about the ships that participated if I search through the starship class histories.

In the meantime....

In [2282] the Grand Alliance (Feds, Gorn, Kzintis, and Tholians) were breathing a bit easier than they had been for five years.  There had been a few victories, but those had been expensive.  The heavy carrier MacArthur had gone down over Remus, but the Romulans were now beyond any offensive action.  The balance of power had shifted towards the Alliance, and the council could afford to scrape up a battle fleet and mount another serious offensive.

After long discussions, it was decided to transfer several Gorn ships to the Klingon front where they would form the nucleus of the new battle fleet.  The alternative, favored by the Federations and the Gorn, was to mount yet another operation against the Romulans, (hopefully) totally knocking them out of the war.  The Kzintis demanded an operation against the Klingons to relieve pressure on their frontier (which at that time was virtually non-existent as both the Lyrans and the Klingons had suffered serious reverses), and since no operation could be mounted without Kzinti support (and Kzinti ships), their proposal was finally accepted.  Federation, Gorn, Kzinti, and even Tholain ships were brought together to create a combined force.  The Tholian ships were brought together to create a combined force.  The actual campaign of "operation Cavalry" lasted most of a year and included a dozen battles (leading to its ultimate defeat), but the battle portrayed here was the largest.

The ships available to the Klingons to oppose this operation were, like those of the Alliance, a mixed bag.  The recent reverses had seriously depleted the reserves of both the Klingon aand Lyran Empires.  The Lyrans had not recovered from the disastrous and unauthorized attack by the Red Claw Duchy on the WYN Cluster, and the Klingon's own failed attack on the Cluster had further undermined the stability of the Klingon defensive positions before the Kzinti Hegemony.  It was here that the Alliance chose to strike.

The Klingon Red Fleet was under the command of Group Admiral Ardak Kumerian, a tough officer with a proven record for iron discipline, but not known as a tactical genius.  (The Red Fleet was originally an operation training command, but had been deployed during the military emergency caused by Operation Cavalry.)  Kumerians's brother-in-law, Tar Bordrake, commanded the penal ship Purgatory.  The admirals son, Kollos Kumerian, commanded a mixed PF flotilla.  The Lyrans were nominally under the command of Vice Duke Lmabeth ( a mindless fop who was Duke Roget's senior surviving heir) but had been integrated into the Klingon fleet as a result of his inability to command.

The Alliance Fleet was under somewhat awkward command arrangements.  Gorn Admiral S'Treleg was nominally in command but refused to give any but the most vague orders.  Commodroe Phillip Kosnett, the Federations senior officer, was the best commander present but did not assume command until late in the battle.  When he did, Tholian Comodor Brezgonne supported him.  The Kzinti SCS and its support group were under the command of Vice Admiral "Cat Who Sleeps With Dogs."  Admiral "Cat" defiantly insisted that his force be allowed to operate independently , as required by fighter and PF operatins.  This independence also allowed him to avoid becoming too heavily engaged without impugning his honor and keeping the Hegemony intact for the role she was to play in later political conflict within the Patriarchy.  (Admiral Cat was already negotiating for his position in the New Kzinti Order, a fact not known at the time but which later explained his strange conduct.)

Forces

ALLIANCE FORCES
Gorn BCH
Born CM
Gorn BDD
Fed CCa+ Kongo
Fed DW Ortega
Fed NSC+
Tholian CA
Tholian CW
Kzinti SCS Hegemony
Kzinti MAC
Kzinti DWA
Kzinti DWA
12 TADS fighters and 6 Needle PF's.



COALITION FORCES
Klingon C8K Victory
Klingon D7K Conqueror
Klingon D6J Purgatory
Klingon F6 Valorian
Klingon F5W
Klingon D7VK Commodore Mak Kroree
Klingon D5E
Klingon E5
Lyran BCH
Lyran CW+p
Lyran CWS+
Lyran DW+
2xBobcat B, 1xBobcat S, 2xG1 and 1xG1L  (The Lyran BCH is serving as the tender)

ALSO PART OF THE RED FLEET, BUT NOT PRESENT FOR THIS BATTLE (THEY WERE ON A SPECIAL MISSION ELSEWHERE)
1 Romulan FH
1 Romulan SPA
1 Romulan SPC
1 Romulan SKA




RESULT
The battle seemed to be going the Coaltions way in the opening stages.  However,  at its height the Victory became seperated from the main Coaltion formation when it pressed ahead to esploit a gap developing in the Alliance formation, and the flanking Lyran ships failed to follow it, although the carrier Commodore Mak Kroree loyally followed.  Before it could be recovered, a massed strike of drones launched by the Kzinti PFs and escorts overwhelmed the Victory's defenses and the ship blew apart.  The carrier  Commodore Mak Kroree was damaged in the explosion and exploded when Koznett scored a rare full-salvo hit with overloaded photons.  The Vicotory's boom had successfully seperated, and while the remaining Klingon ships quickly gathered to its defense, the Lyran ships suddenly disengaged. 

Hopelessly outnumbered now, the Klingon ships fought a desperate rear guard action that could only have one end.  One by one, the Klingon ships were destroyed, the Purgatory going down first, followed shortly by the Valorian and then the Conqueror.

Finally, the Victory's boom, along with a few of the remianing ships, managed to break contact from the battered Alliance force  (four Alliance ships, as well as four PF's, had also gone down in the battle).  Kosnett was quick to organize a pursuit, however, and Kumerian would never make it back to base.  That pursuit, however, is the subject of another scenario.

-S'Cipio

S'cippy-

One place to look might be the "Knosett's (or some other Fed Commodore, they all sound alike to me) War" scenario in Adv. Missions, it's for the war of attrition that followed Op. Cavalry...mentions something about the Alliance assault in Cav stalling on a Klingon starbase somewhere. Does that "ring any bells"?

[Hexx]

Yes the Fleet won a major engagement (as mentioned above) then (iirc) in best
SFB "historical" tradition one of their allies (Gorn I believe) made a tactical mistake and
the Fleet was shattered in trying to knock out a Starbase.


Anyways as answers to a few PM's

- the lists above for ships are approximate, I don't actually know if it's (for example)
3xDWD's on the server at one time or simply once 3 are destroyed you can't buy anymore.

I (kinda) prefer the former, but it would be a nightmare to try and keep track of, so it would
likely be simply once 3 are destroyed in PVP they'd be R'd out of the list.

-Map DV's will be low (like 5ish) General hex flipping will have absolutley no value on the server, but you do have to flip hexes to get
to the target hexes so yes, it's not a PVP server

(the most common PM..)
- Yes I know my list has more capiatl ships than the Operation had, but OOB for OP has to kinda find a
balance. I'm really not interested in a "strict" OOB that limits some players to flying FF's or DW's
because the SFB OOBs only have 5 ships (for example) bigger than a CL participating.
I love th historical stuff some of you guys have taken the time to send, but imho it's unworkable on the D2
(thanks for the historical stuff btw  )

- The B10 - Yes the klinks wil (possibly) have access to the B10. The Alliance will have a plethora (word for the day) of targets
One of them will be the Klingon capital. They will score (quite a few) VP's for taking the hex, but the Klinks will get the B10
If the Alliance choose not to attack the Klingon capital, no B10.
The value for taking the hex goes down by day, so if there's a last minute grab to take it they won't get nearly as many VP's for it
(as the Klinks won;t have much time to play with the B10)

- Player numbers- the numbers imbalance will (hopefully) be dealt with by the VP's. The Klingon can not take
the (smal) amount Fed space on the map- although they may try and raid the bases-
The Alliance will have a choice of Victory conditions.

Of course if the Alliance ends up with the numbers I'm kinda screwed so..

[KAT Chuut-Ritt]

Yes the Fleet won a major engagement (as mentioned above) then (iirc) in best
SFB "historical" tradition one of their allies (Gorn I believe) made a tactical mistake and
the Fleet was shattered in trying to knock out a Starbase.

Well It certainly wasn't the Kzin who screwed up 

[Hexx]

LOL actually I was thinking of how much it seemed like a
setup for AOTK

Lyrans let the Klink Command ship be cut off, then withdraw
Kzin insist on keeping their ship independent

[KAT Chuut-Ritt]

LOL actually I was thinking of how much it seemed like a
setup for AOTK

Lyrans let the Klink Command ship be cut off, then withdraw
Kzin insist on keeping their ship independent

Shhhhhh!  Thats classified info Hexx, don't share it with "the furless ones"