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Yay!

Now, can I PM these?

And Assault trailers.  Excuse the small font; this one will probably be brought back to 8pt and split over two pages with a 'Service trailer' text box, probably a 1/2 column to introduce them.

Oh, it's all recycled art from Sarna.  No big deal.  I was talking with Marauder648, he suggested the 4pt text on the Assault trailers might be a bit small, and I'm leaning that way too now.

The urge to edit is so damn strong - but I really, really shouldn't.  I haven't been able to do maintenance or yard work very well for the last few years, and I have some big jobs that must be done, like rebuilding and painting fences, handing a suspended ceiling in the basement, putting in New storage sheds and paving block walks...

I have to put it on hold, at least for a while, while I get something done every weekend.  Back to notebooks in the car and bathroom, I guess.

Exactly.  Arthur S-D and his son have a grasp on how to conquer the Cluster.  The big secret issue is that the fanatics have control over the information he receives, his security, intelligence forces...And his son, who is secretly raised as a fanatic himself.

Still, I have the 5- and 10 ton standardised trailers to do with the single-shot Arrow IV missile tubes I came up with, plus more.  But I absolutely have to get more work done before I do more than paper and pencil or the odd 30 minutes before bed.

In a sense.

The time needed extension for a couple reasons; it's a knock-down and kick him version of the Succession Wars in miniature.  I needed time from grey Monday to to pull the warships from mothballs, begin Ascending Cluster-born WoB sibkos, build a trained military with their allies still having enough influence for them to be needed,have enough lead time to supply their allies and themselves with all this stuff...  They would have begun seeding Blake Caches not long after arriving rather than unpacking everything totally from mothballs only to put it in a cache to wait for a couple decades.

When news of the fall of the Fortress falling hits the Cluster, it's 'GO!' time, but there are always those niggling little problems to be dealt with before you launch an Invasion, like moving military forces from the Blakist homeworld Elba to the Cluster, shipping ammo, units, troops, training...

Not to mention some of your allies and prison planet inhabitants jumping the gun and giving people time to sound alarms and things like that.   

The IlClan book really gives me an excuse to end the 'New Clans' in favour of something else.  I always knew when it fell the echo would be felt in the Cluster, I just didn't have the Canon facts and timeline yet.

I'm trying to stay flexible as to that, anyway.

They will.

Roughly the same, with the predominant 'use it and expect it to be written off when the enemy bombs it's attitude towards revealed assets.  It's tricky, because it undercuts things like the Seagull S&R fixed wing support plane, but there's a glaring point of failure in satellite communications on an over the horizon scout, escort, and support vehicle.  Under NC doctrine, that satellite is toast when a DS or ASF reaches orbit, no questions asked.

The support would likely be strategic in use but tactical in deployment.  Something like the drone subs with Piranha missiles, or hidden Arrow missile tubes for AA fire.Maybe the 'Dirty Bear' concept, a wheeled BA pulling a nuke behind enemy lines.