<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=283443.msg13954322#msg13954322">Quote from: Sara Nilsson on 27-02-2018, 00:16:19</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><br/>"While there isn't much cover for you and you are likely to have to push that behemoth of yours a fair bit we will need you not far from the scouts to back them up. If these Clanners do show up the sight of you should at least give them some pause."<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>"I can squeeze a bit more speed out of my behemoth than most people expect, but I'm still going to be the slowest dancer in the ballroom. I've got more armor than anyone else if the turrets are live, but keeping me in front of everyone means the formation will be moving at my speed - not ideal for our scouts. My recommendation would be to put Mr. Von Lindenfels and Ms. Blackstone on my wings as an understrength assault lance and bull us straight down the turrets' throats; their particle cannons will be able to pick off the turrets well outside my own range, while I soak incoming fire. Have the scouts roam free to cover our flanks on the assault, then picket our perimeter while we extract the data."<br/><br/>Alroy was a firm believer in planning for the worst. The Commander might not be certain if the turrets were even functional, but he was evaluating the mission assuming that not only would they be engaging the turrets, but that the Clanners would respond before they were done. Or as a rather pithy list of 'advice' he had retained from his days on Solaris phrased it,<em>'Don't expect the enemy to cooperate in the creation of your dream engagement.'</em><br/><br/>"That ravine also concerns me, now that you've mentioned it. Not for getting in, but in case we need to hold the compound against counter-attack. Clanners have weird ideas of honor in combat, but that doesn't stop them from being sneaky as hell if they want to. We'll want to be keeping an eye on our back door, and it might be worth looking at for a secondary evacuation route if something big gets between us and the primary dustoff LZ. On that note, what does Ghost Bear have in theatre that we might be tangling with? What do we know about their preferred tactics?"