Might the most effective strategy be to stockpile "stuff" (samples/pods/etc) and dump it all in one week?
Definitely that would be true just for a short-term goal involving one occasion of taking only Hupang—the longer-term trouble is:
- With Titans known to attack when they have no more systems, HR 1737 will be attacked immediately.
- HR 1737 or Swahku may be attacked anyway if a new rule for Titans to attack last was added in week 53.
It is hopeless within 10 Ly if they continue attacking, which we will discover next week by watching T. Leigong. Even if they stop, we need a recovered M. Taranis to take back both a Spire site and somewhere we can use as a containment area before evicting it again, leaving behind the latter.
Some of the specifics there, affecting both points, depend on whether the invaded Hupang counts as M. Taranis having a system. By the Galaxy map numbers it does, but I am unsure whether it needs to be Control, obviously for the unknown Titan attack rules but also for the territory radius and its specific target.
Should we even attempt Hupang now, or focus on the other invasions first? My FC is currently at Taranis so for other targets I'd need to know where to move.
As above, personally I would leave it for a very long time! If we see next week that Titans stop attacking then INIV may start eyeing M. Hadad, dependent largely on the entire community to remove Spire sites, and to behave well and avoid attacking the designated containment area.
It is a shame that Titan rescues were changed only to affect Counterstrike systems; for a couple of weeks they helped the peripheral progress instead, which would have made possible something like a rescue rush followed by a defence rush.
Not so much just for the sake of Montioch:
- If we discover that the containment area idea seems to be feasible, we will just recapture it again, this time as a peripheral system.
- If not feasible, more so than Montioch the real loss is the entire 20 Ly sphere or more, at least until the story characters hurry a bit and give us a way to stop Alerts happening
We could actually prevent that attack this week, although it falls short of being
really worth doing. Even if we spend that 7400 this week, that is already above the 5610 to recapture all of those systems with Spire support. It will also only delay Montioch, because Col 285 Sector RH-B b14-2 can reach it eventually regardless of the outcome of attacking Col 285 Sector RH-B b14-3 first.
Leaving it was a very conscious choice I mentioned at the time, although also a very easy choice!
