Talk:Exalted: Silence

Military Strategy

• The city is well-fortified against mortal soldiers, so a direct attack will involve mass and momentum, along with skyships and warstriders An attempt on the city is going to be based on overwhelming the defenses with raw force.
• The alternative is a commando raid of their own. Only some PCs have surprise awareness charms.
• The enemy has:

• 10,000 troops
• 1,000 suits of power armour
• 20 warstriders
• 15 artillery pieces
• CVBG
• Full Solar Circle (2 chicks, avg appearance 3.5)

Commando Raiding the Fort

• The Objective: To damage and disrupt the Shogunate's fighting power in the region

• Highest priority is their magitech force multipliers - artillery, airships, power armour
• We take over one of the big airships and turn its guns on the fort if we want to destroy it, that's the quickest way to do so. Preferable the flagship.
• I disagree. The greatest threats are the enemy Solars. I suggest infiltrating the camp in disguise and making sure they get sent off on a wild goose chase - either somewhere they won't get in the way, or, preferably, into an ambush where we can jump them. --Rask 14:23, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
• If we do take over the flagship, we should fly away with it while shooting at pursuers. This plan has a pre-packaged exit strategy. Peel 14:30, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

• Alternate Objective: take over the army for ourselves. Tentative plan as follows.

• Remove enemy Solars from premises through deception or distraction.
• Spread rumours conductive to our plan in the camp, while working under disguise.
• Make it taboo to point out that god-king Cal is actually the enemy.
• Use emotion-affecting Charms to make army susceptible to the next part of plan.
• Cal shows up and explains to the troops why they should respect and worship him. Liberal use of brainwashing Charms is advised.--Rask 14:23, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

• Alternate Approach: Get a man (Daimyo) inside to spread some disinformation beforehand.

• Create institutional belief: 'The tower has been temporarily disabled. It must be immediately attacked by the fleet to capitalise on this.'

• Yet Another Alternate Approach: Sneak inside and apply poison to food and water supplies.

• Available Assets: Hope can, with all her 4th appearance augs installed, cloak an additional 9 people besides for her. As long as nobody can pierce Optical Shroud there that should be enough stealth if nobody actively tries to sabotage it.

• Optical Shroud protects against sight (but not essence sight/other weird sight modes) and hearing, but can be pierced by superhuman smell. Try to avoid dogs, please.
• It also only makes you invisible if you move less than 4 yards a second. Probably not too important, but it's there.
• You weak fleshy people can't run indefinitely at 30 miles an hour. Some possible solutions? --MJ12 Commando 15:25, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
• Demons can dematerialize and thus don't have to be cloaked, since anything that can detect a dematerialized demon (Essence Sight) can also detect a cloaked one.

Establishing Regional Support

• Cal and Daimyo travel to nearby kingdoms to engender regional pride (Cal) and the belief that the shogunate imperialists must be ejected (Daimyo). Peel 14:30, 11 April 2010 (UTC)