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[Iituem]

A couple Intelligence questions:

How variable are Intelligence operations? Is it a straight point per point comparison of Counterespionage and Intelligence, or are dice rolled in there somewhere? Does the defender have to beat a certain threshold to provide misinformation on a successful defense (e.g "beat Intelligence attack by 5 or more,") or is it a flat chance on a success (e.g "on successful defense, 10% chance to give misinformation,") or is it entirely at defender's discretion?

For that matter, how variable exactly is ship/army combat? Rule of thumb says 3x advantage is 99% victory; is 2x advantage 66% ?

I like the fancy new spreadsheet, by the way. Note to self, name rest of my worlds.

Ship combat is very variable, but those are good estimations.  Both sides have a random modifier applied to increase or decrease their effective strength, and the rolled result is a question of win/lose/draw (there's a small margin for drawing in which either both sides lose ships or neither do).

Intelligence is partly random as well, but with much smaller margins.  You'd need to assign 50% more to opposing intelligence to be 95% secure of victory.  Counterespionage is point per point for most activities, but gets a 50% bonus to oppose intelligence infiltration and an even larger bonus to oppose assassination attempts.

If the defender beats the attacker by a sufficient threshold, then yes, misinformation can happen instead.  Unless specific misinformation plans are given beforehand, misinformation is at the field agent's discretion.

[Ghazkull]

Okay guys we either will win gloriously or suffer an ignomious defeat. My Orders are pretty much all in on all fronts. If we are lucky and everyone does what he is told we should gian a lot of worlds with a single stroke...or we lose most of our fleet ports and die horribly.

[Alexandria]

Hey Iituem, if I pulled part of an enemy fleet away from the rest could the rest still attack a planet or does it have to wait until I engage it first?

Also, how long does it take for an enemy fleet to begin deploying armies once it arrives at a planet?

[Leafsnail]

And how do you come to that conclusion Leafsnail?

The OP mentions that the conclave used nearly 30 ships while invading.  Before the changes to specialist worlds we had 18, although with those changes we're now a bit closer to parity (depending on whether the Conclave has extra fleets up their sleeves).

[Ghazkull]

right nwo we're 30 against 24.

[GreatWyrmGold]

I might be in trouble.

[Alexandria]

We're all in trouble, it's a good job I prepared that shipyard or the core would be boned for sure.

[a1s]

And how do you come to that conclusion Leafsnail?

The OP mentions that the conclave used nearly 30 ships while invading.

I still don't see it. could you quote the relevant pasage?

[GreatWyrmGold]

We're all in trouble,

I have no ships. I'd have to check the OP's rules for combat, but I think those are pretty important...

[Alexandria]

Meh in the grand scheme your planet isn't overly important.

First we have to repel the enemy assault on our shipyard worlds, we can worry about general worlds later.

[Ardas]

We're hardly boned, Conclave is interested in conquest, not annihilation of worlds. Our biggest strength is in armies, we should concentrate on defending and tying their fleets up with ours to a stalemate, while we jump to reclaim our planets. They need overwhelming odds to be sure of victory in space combat, while we can bring our armies to bear in planetary invasions.

[GreatWyrmGold]

I said I was in trouble. I didn't say that the empire would fall because of it.

[Alexandria]

I'm gonna leave the emperor to explain why that remark is incorrect Ardas .

But I said would have been, 7vs10 in the core at best would of been a hopeless battle for us to win. It's sheer luck I got a shipyard and evened the odds to a straight 10v10.

[Ardas]

Incorrect how?

[Rolepgeek]

7 vs 10 is not screwed. That's not even a 50% advantage. They would have had a decent chance of winning, sure, but 10 vs 10 isn't much of a difference; now it's about 50-50.

Also, I don't think the game goes into that much detail, nor do I think it can, since each ship is called a Mothership. It's not like a cruiser or something.