[MatthTheGeek]

...wut

The Feds are on their last legs and they know it. Morale is at an all-time low. They're bleeding frigates, cruisers and fighters left and right, they are counting weeks until logistical breakdown and what was supposed to be their greatest victory on a too short list was turned into a major defeat. The UEF knows the war is already lost, they just won't go down without fighting.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

The effect seems somewhat blunted. They don't seem to be despairing a lot.

[Colonol Dekker]

That's because the secret project is defrosting Chuck Norris.

EDIT--ARGHH, Conflict of loyalties, i love the GTVA, but first fleet is so coooooool.


Who do i root for D:

[X3N0-Life-Form]

Who do i root for D:

You are asking your 'D' drive for advice ? (sorry, I couldn't resist)

[Androgeos Exeunt]

You are asking your 'D' drive for advice ? (sorry, I couldn't resist)

EDIT--ARGHH, Conflict of loyalties, i love the GTVA, but first fleet is so coooooool.

You could stick to the middle ground, like me.

[redsniper]

Root for the Gefs.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Oh right, the Gefs. Forgot about them.

I'm not a great fan of the Gefs, but I admit that they do know how to use the Scimitar to great effect.

[Aesaar]

Support the GTVA.  We have waffles.

[Mars]

The effect seems somewhat blunted. They don't seem to be despairing a lot.

I don't think you and I have been playing the same campaign?

The Feds are definitely pretty desperate by the second act. The player is transferred at that point to the proto-Wargods who, though on the edge of losing their fighting spirit, have not quite lost it yet, yes; but re-read the debreifings of a few of the late Chrysalis missions.

[BritishShivans]

No, you should support the FS2 Shivans in killing everyone in BP:AoA and BP:WiH, including the stupid Vishnans and those Shivan wannabes.   

[qwadtep]

As much as I support the UEF (Tevs suck, we all know that). Im not sure that the presence of the Solaris was the main reason the Tevs abandoned the blitz. They wanted everything intact, remember.

The Blitz wasn't an all-out attack to capture Earth.  It was just one hard strike to cripple UEF infrastructure.  It went according to plan.  They didn't abandon anything.

The intercepted comms from the Valerie and Laporte's mention of an attempted troop landing on Luna suggest otherwise. Steele was entirely prepared to go for the throat if the opportunity presented itself and was probably only prevented from doing so by Netreba's massive counterattack.

Whatever the case, though, I don't think the presence of First Fleet did anything to deter the Blitz.

[Drogoth]

As much as I support the UEF (Tevs suck, we all know that). Im not sure that the presence of the Solaris was the main reason the Tevs abandoned the blitz. They wanted everything intact, remember.

The Blitz wasn't an all-out attack to capture Earth.  It was just one hard strike to cripple UEF infrastructure.  It went according to plan.  They didn't abandon anything.

The intercepted comms from the Valerie and Laporte's mention of an attempted troop landing on Luna suggest otherwise. Steele was entirely prepared to go for the throat if the opportunity presented itself and was probably only prevented from doing so by Netreba's massive counterattack.

Whatever the case, though, I don't think the presence of First Fleet did anything to deter the Blitz.

Just because Steele was PREPARED to go for the throat if the opportunity presented itself doesn't mean that was the objective. What if, during the invasion of Iraq, Osama bin laden had just walked out into the streets? The Americans woulda taken the opportunity to kill him, no question. But that doesn't mean that would have been the objective of the invasion.

[-Norbert-]

As much as I support the UEF (Tevs suck, we all know that). Im not sure that the presence of the Solaris was the main reason the Tevs abandoned the blitz. They wanted everything intact, remember.

The Blitz wasn't an all-out attack to capture Earth.  It was just one hard strike to cripple UEF infrastructure.  It went according to plan.  They didn't abandon anything.

The intercepted comms from the Valerie and Laporte's mention of an attempted troop landing on Luna suggest otherwise. Steele was entirely prepared to go for the throat if the opportunity presented itself and was probably only prevented from doing so by Netreba's massive counterattack.

Whatever the case, though, I don't think the presence of First Fleet did anything to deter the Blitz.

I think the blitz was possible, because the UEF didn't expect it, thinking that Steele would first secure the outer planets, then Mars and take Earth last. When he hit them at their home, they got caught with their pants down and had to throw in some hasty reactions, instead of a coherent battleplan, going at least partially according to the studied simulations.
Steele saw them unprepared and pounced at the weakspot.

[MatthTheGeek]

Where Steele actually caught the UEF off guard was that the goel of the Blitz was to significantly damage the logistic infrastructure of the UEF. For the whole 18 months of the war, the GTVA had been trying to capture Sol with its whole infrastructure intact. Steele changed that objective, and that's what the UEF wasn't prepared for.