Thread:Ecoraptor3339/@comment-25309944-20150423155458/@comment-25309944-20150904135326

@Eco Ah! I definitely see what you mean. The SMC would spread out its forces in order to grab land more quickly. The problem with that is a strategic one. Let's put aside the fact that Eastern French Mirus is -extremely- fortified (the Civilian Administration Zone has upwards of eight Nante-class stations defending it, and to the South we have DP, the most fortified planet in Sporewiki lore) and that it's also the training ground for a good chunk of the Grand Navy of the Empire. Getting a force large enough to take down these fortifications all the way from SMC Mirus to the other side of the galaxy would be extremely difficult and costly. Not only that, but resupplying it would be a logistical nightmare. The supply line you would have to draw would stretch from the Zarbania Powers, loop around the United Lanat Empire, around the CyraEmp, (essentially half the galaxy), before you finally get to France. That is an enormous tract of undefended space. Even if you do get the CyraEmp to allow you to use the narrow corridor which cuts between its border with the ULE, you still have to run your supplies through a stretch of space you cannot feasibly defend. You might have problems with pirates preying on your supplies, but your biggest problem would be pacts of French void hunters interrupting the supply line and essentially starving the invading force in Eastern French Mirus to death.

This kind of problem also seems to arise on other fronts (Middle-West) as well as soon as you detach yourself from the main force. You need to run an awkward supply line which can easily be interrupted. Middle-East poses a whole other problem, and that's that the supply line can't be established at all without going through either Allied or ULE territory.

The simplest form of blitzkrieg would be to have the SMC attack head-on, form a common front, shatter the disorganized Allied colonial forces, use supply lines that run defensibly through their territories and those they conquered, and remain behind them as they fight. This does mean that when the IoW turns on them, there will be chaos, but it's important to remember that the early war -won't- be easy for France. Their troops are inexperienced, their logistics are tangled, and their navy is far too big and thus unwieldy. Outmaneuvering and holding them back with smaller forces is going to be easy in the early war, and the Grand Navy will suffer a disproportionate number of casualties due to rookie mistakes and sheer inefficiency. They'll shape up eventually, though, but I don't want you guys to get the impression that this will be an easy war for them.