>>5733829>The second thing you do is finish the plans for taking the fort you manage to talk norton into using his Halberd Landing craft to secure the gate and getting his marines to be the ones to secure the armory. The current plan will be for your men to take Administration and the Communications building first with the airfield tower and individual barracks being last. You hope the effort you and your men have put in will lead to as few deaths as possible when you take the fort.The Plan currently is to use Norton and his men using the ALVs take the gate then assault the Armory. He's got about 160 Marines and a few dozen Levy I assume so I suggest we send 80 Marines and whatever Levy Volunteers he can get to guard the Barges along with Norton himself since he can set up possible contacts in and reinforce Alberch's Ford.
With the number of men we personally control, I think we can shift the 100 remaining Marines to guard the entrances with the ALVs then take the Armory ourselves.
So
>Paratroopers (900 Elite Modern Equipment: 700 Loyal Veteran Soldiers a lot which served with us in putting down a communist revolt 5 years ago, 100 Men from 1st company loyal to Nichlson and possibly unreliable, 100 Various men from the Batallion who are definitely unreliable for coordinated ops till we can do some restructuring)[Take the Armory]: This is too important to leave to anybody else
[Take Administration]: This will be where all the higher-ups will be plus the logistics officers
[Take Communication]: Preferably we put the base on lockdown and in a communication blackout the moment we take the fort
>Leftover Marines + Two Amphibious Landing Vehicles (100 Men plus basically two small moving bunkers with machineguns)[Watch the gates]: They can block the entrances with the ALVs but without Norton directing them, there's a good chance of paratrooper casualties from itchy triggers.
>Upcoming Intelligence OfficerDepending on how good they are we might send them with us to communications or administration to make sure the take over goes smoothly.
>Major Taylor's Men (300 Levy)[Keep them in reserve]: Maybe in town, we can't really expect to throw numbers at this problem and make it work better.
This plan hinges on the coordinated effort of a few dozen men to act before everybody else can react so the less people moving the better. Hopefully we can get our men on Armory Guard duty because IMO that's one of the biggest objectives to take this place mostly bloodless.
