If anyone does write short stories on any ingame events I will be sure to comment asking before I feature your work in any episodes. Your work is your work. Thanks for those who flagged that this video was incorrectly numbered- all fixed now.
I start to see a patron here: Super Emu was on comms Channel N° 23, The civilian ship was given the orden to adopt "Attack Doctrine N° 23" The fleet merge orden was lost on the work shift 23 There some serious SNAFU going on, I blame the servants...
44:18 you could do something like what "Stealth17 Gaming" did on his humanity first run and is doing on his exodus run at the start of each of those videos, if you have the time and dont mind going through comments. you could make a comment for your viewers to reply with stories related to whats going on and then cherry pick your favorites to narrate or get someone to narrate them for you or something like that.
Log: Andre Van de merwe, head of damage control Div 2 abored the Hades. I have joined the Jupiter's expedition. Mostly to keep our space birds purring and ready to blow up alian fokers. The tech abord the Hades is state of the art. Nothing ever breaks, it's a boring job when the computers do most of the work. I have no idea what to expect hopefully we get to kill some alian fokers Log: date 21/02/2039 I'd never thought I'd see the day. Just heard that the alians are coming for us. Like a swarm of bees all headed for Jupiter. No idea what we did to cause this but I'm here for it. Hopefully we can have a lekker fight and bliksim them to dust. Log: date 07/03/2039 BF- Jupiter- Scourge , Hades and Botany. Today was our first engagement. The two alian fokers did not know what hit them. They had both vreked, still no work for me. I guess that's a good thing. Everyone is happy don't know if it's relief or just the enjoyment of killing the aliens. I don't really care as long as they do thier jobs I won't have to do mine. Log: date 26/03/2039 It has been three weeks of constant hard burning and fighting. Dokter has given us a concoction of meds to keep us all going. The longer this gose on the more mistakes are made and the more die. Just the other day we lost the civi, Botany alians got her. It was a massive shock as we keep on cleaving through the alian fokers like they are butter. But today I had to do my job. Patching holes and fixing damage from the fight. Mistakes are being made. I don't know for how much longer the crew can keep this up. Log: date 31/02/2039 Today was a mess. We had taken several losses and I had to do my job again. The PD shot and the armor scuffed. I fear that week can't keep this up for much longer. The continus pounding on the hull from the alian fokers guns sent the sound of constant knocking through the ship. Like death knocking on ur door. The armor held. Me ? I'm in bad shape like the rest. Lack of sleep and high G's has been taking its toll. I thought of writing to someone but there is no one back home to write to. Earth fleet and Mars fleet should be hear soon hopefully we will still be here when they finally decide to show up. Signed- Andre
The Jovian campaign is really feeling like a war. We’re no longer just hiding from the aliens, we’re fighting back and scoring victories. Really enjoying this series.
Definitely the most exciting part of the series so far. Would be interesting to see if it's possible to openly fight with earlier tech, but I don't know if that works in this game.
I remember those days, the first days of the real war. Of course to us we’d been at war since that first ship had crashed on our world but this was real war, where humanity could stand toe-to-toe with the xeno scum. The Jovian campaign was hell, I was serving aboard the hades as a lieutenant. I remeber the panic of those days, held back only by our discipline and our wills. Every day the captains plotted potential intercepts, engineers would repair breeches and damages, gunners would run simulated battles to test their skill. It was a hard time, most of us didn’t sleep, though hades bunks were never the most comfortable to begin with, instead we imagined our next victory, blowing open another Hydra ship and throwing them off our colonies. The battles were hard things but those first days of the campaign, we were glorious, stranded and awaiting reinforcements command decided attack was the best defence, we sortied daily, blew up ships daily, our friends died daily. I never got to thank the boys and girls of IO fortress, we’d have been scrap in the void had it not been for them. But in those days there just wasn’t the time, we had a war to win. - interview with Rear Admiral Issac Druganov, 2055
If any thing I'd think feedback on the damages of the 3d models is not really the best. Maybe fires or blackened bits of the hull and weapons impacts would help.
Somewhere in the USNA, cameras roll for a Late Night TV Show. We see the host jovially baner with his guests as they take their seats, easily recognizeable to us as Kamya and Max. Host: "...now, ma'am I understand the conflict with the invader has come to an unprecedented level of escalation over assets nearby Jupiter, am I correct?" Kamya: "Yes, Johnny. We've prepared a long time for this, and I would be remiss to not mention that the people of this great country have been behind us in this matter for a long time, too." *a smattering of applause* Host: "So, it's all out war now... what's changed? What have you learned?" Kamya: "Well, Johnny, we've told people about the Hydras pheromone tricks for a while, warning them how certain people's ambitions to negotiate or even submit to them on some kind of term are nothing but a pipedream... but really, what a lot of people don't know is, when the Hydra 'speak' their pheromonal language.... they make fart noises, Johnny." Host: "Excuse me?" Kamya: "Fart noises, Johnny. They make farty sounds when they speak. Serving them would be among the least dignified thinks anyone can imagine." Host: "That really is... I mean... really? Like 'pprrrrtt'? Kamya: "Yes, Johnny. In fact, we've managed to record a meeting between the Hydra and the leader of the Servants in which the aliens stated 'ffffffrrrrrrtt-- pppbbbbbrrrrt', to which the Servants responded with 'ppppllllrrrrrrrrt'." Host: "... what did she say?" Kamya: "We're not quite sure, Johnny, but the aliens seemed to think it was a real stinker." *sparse audience laughter rings out as the Host takes a moment to regain his composure, then turns to the second guest, Max, who has remained quiet so far* Host: "Now, sir, I've been told you have a message to give to the Invaders, here, tonight? Why don't you go ahead?" *The man he addressed fixes his gaze straight into the camera. His hand beckons closer and the shot gradually zooms in until his face fills the entire shot, his eyes staring forward unmovingly* Max: "Run."
I like to think that Victor-80's admiral comes from a faction like the Protectorate that doesn't really want to fight humanity. They keep picking troll stations so they don't get court martialed, but they really don't want to be there.
I hope the crew of both the Hades and the Scourge wear their Hero of Humanity, Space-borne Combat and Jovian Campaign medals with pride when they walk on Earth's soil once more, alongside the crew of fortress IO. You held them off until the fleet arrived, and showed great bravery.
Yeah I was thinking throughout most of the episode how great a series about Terra Invictas plot or just the Jovian War in particular could be. The tense weeks of waiting for the reinforcing fleet, pronounced at times by watching the time-delayed data coming from BF Jupiter duking it out. The cheers through HF 1 after every won engagement, the painful sting of the loss of the Botany, the horrid revelation that the Victors started fitting Plasma weaponry, and throughout it all Castile sitting on a control base on Earth, directing efforts. And that is JUST the space aspect, not to say anything of the thrilling stories to be told dirtside.
If the dev team had the cash they should seriously consider comissioning an artist to draw either a graphic novel/manga for this game for the publicity lol
One of the game's creators actually has 2 books out that are military sci-fi and deal with a lot of that kind of thing. No big alien invasion sadly but they're pretty good imo. John Lumpkin's the Human Reach series if I remember correctly.
The Jovian war led to daily medical innovations in micro-g and short term high g environments. In fact, the crews begged the medics to chemically "augment" them. They would burn out due to their biology being pushed to the limit and possibly never be able to survive in a sustained g environment again, but they knew what was at stake. People before them sacrificed themselves as a distraction so that Earth would avoid bombardment. Here, they were no mere distraction, they were fighting. For the homeworld, for Humanity and for the sacrifice of those who died as nothing more than a distraction, they *had* to make it count. If that meant never returning to the thing that they loved so dearly, so be it.
"Auspost why are you leaving your assigned station" "We have a message for those alien scum and Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." "God speed you wonderful bastards" Exerpt from "First Terran War, battle for jupiter, Battle logs".
The following excerpt is from the Broken convoy mission report Report 16-03-39-3J Operation: Broken convoy Time of engagement 19:51 GMT Captain of the HF-Auspost [...] We intercepted four of the alien craft as ordered by command, however in the chase my ship had separated from the main battle group. This put us dangerously close to the alien battery fire overwhelming our PD, luckily the ship sustained minimal damage in the opening salvo. The admiral ordered we, as he put "Tokyo drift" ourselves around their ships. During this maneuver both the hades and scourge began to open fire upon the alien vessels. Approximal 9 minutes into the battle the alien vessel codenamed Lonely Protector had entered inside the kill zone and was able to fire its high energy LASER into the HF-Botany. The LASER melted though the lightly armored science vessel and began a catastrophic failure in her fuel tanks. None of her life boats even had time to launch. [...]
"So, what do you think happened back on Earth?" Petty Officer Celia Dunn slurped her protein paste, strapped to the mess hall chair on the Hades as she awaited an answer. She hated this moment, when the Battlecruiser would incrementaly slow down as it approched the end of its transfer, messing with the felt gravity of the ship. "Probably nothing much. It's not like the transfer back to the Jovian system took that long." Petty Officer Jules Vance, sitting with her, answered absent-mindedly. The two of them spent much of their time together lately, due to their battle stations being near one another. Celia was one of the gunners for the Phaser Cannon, while Jules manned one of the Mag Cannons. While the Phaser Cannon was a prow-mounted weapon, it wasn't convenient to have the gunners so far out in front of the ship, and so both types of gunners were placed in a single space. The Hades itself was coming back to Io Fortress after intercepting a couple Eternal-Storm class Destroyers hailing from the asteroid belt and which were inbound for the Jovian system. "You think High Command was serious? About the whole Alien Administration thing?" Celia was clearly not about to drop the subject. "Yeah, why? Last time I heard, Battlefleet Terra was doing a great job stopping the Aliens from landing on Earth, but it's not like they can stop the Mothership fleet. The army beat the aliens back a few times already, but if the aliens land again and start bombing our armies from orbit instead of letting their guys die unsupported, they'll eventually establish their beach head. We're gaining time, not stopping it." Jules remarked bitterly, resentment bubbling just under his calm exterior. "Damn, someone is cranky. I thought I was the one who hated this part of the journey." Celia stopped for a moment, and then bent closer to him before adding, in a lower voice. "Is it about that thing you said the other day? The shagging?" Communications Officer Ekaterina Kozlova, who was sitting with the two, and had been doing her best to remain forgotten by the pair, almost choked to death on her nutrient paste at Celia's words. Still, neither NCOs seemed to notice. "Fuck it. Yeah, you know what? It IS weird! Right before the departure? Shagging. Mid-Transfer? Shagging? Right after we blew up those two Destroyers? Half the enlisted took five minutes off for some shagging while the rest salvaged what we could out of the enemy ships. It's weird, man. There's something in the walls, I swear." Jules blew off, his own stress still high from the battle. Celia couldn't help to laugh at her companion's outburst, but opted to lay off the teasing for a bit. "It's not the walls, Jules, it's the stress. I had this friend in the entertainment industry a few years back. Everytime the production was getting rough, people let off some steam like that. It's natural. God, I wonder what happened to her. Poor girl was a pacifist, the Ukraine conflict happened while she was a kid and it really stayed with her. Last time I heard about her, she was making pro-Academy videos in Brazil or something..." Celia's voice trailed off. This subject did nothing for Jules' mood, nor hers. She stole a glance at the Frenchman in front of her. Unlike the rest of the crew, the man did not join Humanity First. Or at least, not at first. He used to be part of the Vercingetorix station, a Resistance Hab which defected to Humanity First some time ago. It had been surprising for him to be chosen for the crew of the Hades. Celia wanted to say that it was because he was an excellent shot, but Mag Gunners couldn't hit the broadside of a barn, most of the time. When Celia remembered how defensive Jules had been the last time the subject came up, she couldn't help but chuckle. The mood was getting better for the pair, but Celia noticed Ekaterina was still stealing glances at Jules. She hated the guy, or at least found each and every one of his actions prickly. Due to the risk of him being a spy, she had to double check everything, each communication, each little thing he forgot somewhere, monitor his use of his private computer. It was a lot of ungrateful work being dropped on her plate, and it made her see everything he did as a possible security threat. Still, Eka and Celia had been friends for a while and so the unlikely trio had stuck together. Even though the had become a bit weird after the rate of alien attacks started intensifying. The three remained like that, in silence, for a bit. Said silence was broken suddenly, as Ekaterina's radio came to life, panicking her, and leading to her fumbling with the radio for a bit before answering. The conversation was short, and once it was over, Ekaterina glanced at the crew inside the mess hall. By their expression, she knew they had heard too much for her to just brush the matter off. She might as well break the news to them now before it became an unchecked rumor. "We received a transmission from Io Fortress. The two bases on Ganymede were attacked... and annihilated."
When the melatonin alarm rang it was as if the ship was saying what we all were thinking. The engineer said that the ship's system clock had a glitch as he reset her speakers. Maybe she too was being run ragged like us, no longer knowing, or even caring if it was supposed to be day or night on our little blue ball of a home. Maybe she wanted rest. For weeks we have hid our exhaustion from our fellow spacers. We said the pills worked. That we felt fine. We said we didn't mind not being allowed to turn off the bright blue lights that illuminated every bunk and every station. We agreed that we'd never miss that alarm, or how the gummies tasted. We said that not feeling hungry or tired was a pleasant change of pace. Unlike the melatonin gummies, we didn't need to be reminded to take this new regimen. The splitting headaches, chills and anxiety were enough of a signal to pop two or three more. None of us dared to say anything that contradicted our facade of contentment. Complaining about what we wanted, or what we needed would have made our campaign feel even longer. We felt that we were becoming more and more like the ship. More like a machine. We didn't act human anymore. We didn't complain. We didn't stop to rest. We no longer feared anything. We gave it our all to keep our vessel in the fight. We did it for ourselves. We did it for all humanity. We did it because we looked forward to a good night's sleep when humanity prevailed.
Since the test of the elite marines went so well, I would suggest to try and anticipate where the Victor-80 will refuel(or just beat them to the station), and then quickly take over the station before Victor-80 arrives. Since Victor-80 should have spent most of their remaining deltaV getting to the asteroid, they will need a _very_ long transfer window to the next asteroid station. Long enough that you might be able to assault that one as well, which would leave Victor-80 effectively stranded in the asteroid belt and just a drain on the alien's economy.
AFAIK Marines only ignore the defense stations of ground bases and not space stations. So you'd need to be able to destroy the refueling station in a fleet engagement instead of marines.
@@skirata3144 Indeed. A fleet must be docked at a station to send in the Marines, whereas a ship only needs to be in interface orbit to send them down to an outpost
@@polygondwanaland8390 at best he would probably lose a few ships doing it if he could even do it, and right now he needs every ships he can get his hands on.
*A page of a Marines' Logs from the TF-ANZAC leaked to the press on earth* [...] After what felt like an eternity, watching our Brothers and Sisters bravely facing down impossible odds over and over again to hold the Jovian System, only wishing that we could help them in some way. Knowing that all we could do is follow the plan and even though the eggheads Up Top were sure we had the numbers to take this base, we all knew some of us weren't coming home. [...] I couldn't stop laughing as I strapped in for our burn, I don't know if it was the release of all the stress built up or that it truly felt like the first time we had actually made a statement! Moments after we started the celebration of our win, before we could even make toasts for our fallen Comrades after leaving nothing but a crater where the Zeno Mining Operation had been, one of them arrived.... Too late !!! we your and getting the out of here to back up !! We had our orders, 'disengage and get our back'. There were a few of us that wanted to carry our win through and show everyone that the Xeno Scum have no place here, even out in the belt, but most of us were relieved to have a successful mission and wanted to get to a more strategic position. We could just barely make out the speck of light in the distance of the enemy ship through the starboard side Viewscreens and I swear you could hear the hoots and hollers coming from everywhere as we all cursed them and even the Captain got in on flipping them off just before the engines kicked in. [...] *Reporter following up on the story after cutting back from the visual of the logs* This coming shortly after the news of reinforcements arriving in the Jovian system to finally offer some much needed support to our Brave Men and Women out there watching over the stars like the legends of old.~~ *Fading out the story* Now to Jim where we'll soon be covering the unification and annexation of Ireland... But First! A viewer sent in footage of them finding a mouse in the Automated City Wok China Hydroponics Kitchen and we sent our own Kim Anderson in undercover to find out just what is going on over there! ...... (lol I dunno just felt like a fun news story)
Give the admiral a medal for his defeat in detail strategy. He deserves to be on the same pedestal as those great men as Admiral Yi and Admiral Nelson.
Well I'm not a native English but I hope this sounds good enough : I still remember the day when the command warned us of the imminent approach of a multitude of alien flotillas. The serious looks, the clenched fists, the discreet tears at the back of the briefing room... The HQ had promised us a reinforcement fleet which was to arrive a few months later but until then our only protection was our two BC "Hades" and "Scourge". After observing the enemy's movements, their commanders came up with an idea: attack the fleets on the way before they had gathered, use the superior stamina of our ships to create local superiority and pick them off one by one , a good old Napoleonic classic. This would have allowed us to decrease the number of enemies and buy time for building defenses and receive the reinforcements from Earth. Although this plan might have seemed ambitious, it was not foolish: we had spent a lot of time studying alien ships and were compensating for our technological inferiority by developing custom countermeasures. A good example of this was the mobilization of the non-combat ships "Bathony" and "Auspost". Although they had no real firepower their PDs did wonders against the projectiles the aliens were relying on. It was just as our Ganymede outposts began to be bombarded by the first arrivals that the Battlefleet Jupiter left the station. At first everything was fine, the fleet came back unscathed with reports of several enemy flottilas destroyed and we only had to refuel before sending them back. But the ease quickly disappeared when the new alien weapons appeared and the tragedy with them: Gunships equipped with a laser cannon were no real threat to our armored BCs, but the Bathony was instantly vaporized with her crew. Then the appearance of plasma cannons nearly costed us the Hades: in addition to having damaged her armor they had destroyed her PD, making her vulnerable to projectiles fired by others. Despite this she managed to get back to the station where we repaired her with what we could. We were all exhausted. The fighting crew, of course, which accumulated the raids sometimes for weeks before returning to refuel, and with a few rare hours of rest. But also the staff of the station, who in addition to taking care of the fleet also had to build the new defense platforms ASAP and supplied all this with the mining operations on the moons of Jupiter which caused many incidents such as radiation poisoning. But all this had ended up being worth it because on April 11, 2039 the reinforcements finally arrived...
There’s a ridiculously cool moment in the Honor Harrington series where civilian controllers send an entire battle fleet through a series of wormholes in less than a day in order to deal with an imminent battle (A comparable scenario might be the entire US Atlantic fleet transiting the Panama Canal as fast as possible). The Jovian reinforcements remind me of that.
I've thinking this might be a good platform for recreating some of the HH space battles. Scales of distance is the biggest difference though. HH battles in the later timeline can take part in light minutes.
There should be a mechanic that would allow you to see all the kills a ship has and Hades and Scourge should be like prides of your fleet or some other honors.
Battlefleet Jupiter would make a killer tv series. A couple of battleships and science vessels needing to keep a technologically superior enemy from combining, while defending a battle station being built using local superiority, and non stop interception missions.
Im sure that eventualy the Aliens will understand sarcasm, but for the moment naming a station "Super Valuable Human Property" seems to be doing the trick
"Dragooning Science ships to support the fleet" Is basically the Starfleet motto, so HF is in good company Also, Delighted about the Locked Tomb reference Any chance of a Marine Dreadnaught called "Various Gingers"?
Australia Post was no damn combat ship. Half her crew was civvies, the other half glorified security guards on a space taxi to destination Jovian Rock. Though I'll be damned we didn't all jump to the call when the Victors started burning to Jupiter. We trained on an operational tempo so hard that it would make Special Forces sweat. We spent hundreds of hours on fire simulations for our phasers, on refresher training for our cannon, on engine tests and checks for our burners. When it was time for our battle, we burned in so hot and bright we tripped a safety switch and ended up out of formation. Had to burn right back around. Botany got hit moments later and was blasted clean in half. We burned hot and bright, firing our phasers and cannon continuously at the incoming enemy fire. We manuvered at gee's we didn't even know our engines could make. We took hits, we took casualties, we had good people die. In the end, we got the final blow, finishing off the last Victor that was limping away from our formation. In the end, though, that's all we got to do in the Jovian War before our Terran reinforcements arrived. We took bad hits to our engines, and had to detach from formation to limp back to Io as the Battlecruisers burned to intercept another fleet. The comedown was depressing- we had four weeks to stoop in how much we all really lost as our comrades burned to fight on their own. I'm now writing this after the First Fleet finished their rendezvous to Io. I do not know what will be the future use for our little colony ship, but I'm certain at this point we cannot lose. - Leaked Crew Communication to Earth, Unknown Author.
Voice records From Battleship Hades, 31st March 2039, 0136 hours : Battle Low Ganymade Orbit. - Captian Mac: Engage Starboard manerver 357 Drift, after 3 points turn the main cannon to engage. Intel says no laser waepons, so we should be safe exposing our side armour. - Helmsman Dex: We have incoming projectiles, tasking PD lasers 1 & 2 to engage - "Computer Voice" : *warning* Impact detected *warning* *warning* - Captian Mac: Why the hell is PD not engaing! Report helmsman! - Hemsman Dex: They cant seem to lock on, readings look like Plasma sir! - *warning* Impact detected *warning* *warning* - Captian Mac: Intel F**ked up big time!! Alien Frigate "Crescent Moon" is packing a Plasma Cannon! How did one of them have Plasma without us noticing!! - Captian Mac: Turn front armour facing! Recommend the Scourge target the "Crescent Moon"! Report on weapon systems! - "Computer Voice" Main Phaser Cannon Online, Coilgun Battery Online, PD 1 and 2 Offline. Armour Integrity 84.60% - Captian Mac: Damn, Intel failed to plan! failed to Idenify that Plasma, and almost got us killed! Constrate all firepower on that Frigate!
Little did those brave crews know that their defensive battles would turn into one of the great asymmetric victories that humanity has had, i wrote a little blurb below. Trying to make it more personal. It could certainly be better fleshed out. Captain Scott of the Hades was a man known as a strident student of history. He pored over old battlemaps in his quarters and was a particular fan of Stonewall Jackson's legendary campaigns in the American Civil war. He looked at the screens laid before him and formulated a plan. In the morning he rose and floated to his control screen, saluted by the sailors around him. He braced against a bulkhead in the CIC, and the general alert sounded. He thought of the mission he had been given, the task impressed upon him. He took a deep breath and began. "Comrades, we stand at a crossroads, support has been sent from earth, 5 of the finest battleships that Colonel Castillo could manage to scrounge, but this is space, and space is big. They are weeks away. In the coming days you will embark on one of the Greatest journeys mankind has ever imagined. A defeat in detail of an enemy we've known for only 15 short years" No-one dared correct the Captain, all were resolute in their duty to save humanity, they had seen loved ones manipulated, strange creatures build awkward epitaphs to their dominance on their home and none could forget what the tabloid press called "The Rumble in the Jungle". It would almost be quaint, but all know what it means, all knew why these aliens were here. Some could barely remember a time when they weren't around, and their threat of dominance not ever-present. "In these coming weeks we will campaign, and train, maintain and test. And when you see those purple bastards on the monitor, you will know what it means to face a true enemy. I won't lie, this will not be easy, we will be tired, we will hurt and be tested. But we will not fail, those dirty Ayys can go back to whatever wretched hole they came from. This solar system belongs to humanity, and Humanity First." Several weeks later, while convalescing in Io orbit, Captain Scott pressed the button for the on-call nurse. "Have we done it sailor, has the fleet arrived" "Yes Captain, Admiral Maniapoto of the Melbourne requests an after action report, and will see you shortly" Captain Scott closed his eyes, the reports would wait, right now, he needed rest.
Valiant effort! The adaptation of the aliens to your weapon systems and weaknesses is impressive. The decision to trickle in ships at the place where the fight happens is a point of weakness for the AI. The fact that it stands out is a point to its overall capability. I'm in love with the Ai in this game. God I hope this game will allow multilayer someday. A slugfest between 8 human players representing all factions would make for some killer gameplay. Imagine the diplomacy, betrayal, desperation and cooperation between the factions as the alien player slowly tightens the noose. God tier game.
@@dennisklomp2361 hey if you take my control point on Russia I will NUKE NORTH AMERICA!!! Don’t mind me I off to destroy all other space station with my railgun!!! Imagine the consequences if one player get bored and decided to “f***” it” and derailing the 15 hour campaign.
@@Phoenix-vf4nd sounds exactly like something that can happen in other multiplayer strategy games like civ 5/6 and hoi4. On the other hand, it also sounds exactly like the reality we face today, so it's still interesting politics. How would a coalition react to Russia going haywire?
@@dennisklomp2361 I just mean in Terra invicta the players have way of crippling an entire campaign early game relatively easy. If a player take executive control point of Russia and defend it for long enough they can destroy any nation/federation; As well as inducing nuclear winter on the rest of the world that been spared of a nuclear barrage. While in Hearts of iron 4 a single nuke is a massively investment of of technology, infrastructure, time, and needs air dominance to deploy.
This feels like one of those make or break moments. A second doom fleet could be what the aliens need to make a strong hold in the inner system and I am excited to see your battle prowess in action! Give them no quarter!
I have no intention on playing the game (not my jam), but your in depth explanations have taught me well. I'm correctly predicting your actions and, more importantly, able to explain why. Excellent work. On an aside. Hot bunking (or hot racking) is not what you and others believe, based on the comments. Hot bunking is the "art" of sharing your bunk with a fellow shipmate who is on the alternate watch. They're leaving the bunk for watch as you're coming off watch to go to sleep, meaning you lie peacefully in a bed pre-warmed by your mate, aka hot bunk. During sustained combat operations, where everybody is on watch and nobody hits the bunk, that bed is stone cold. I've BTDT, and got the t-shirt. Otherwise your grasp of combat navy life is pretty good. Bravo Zulu.
@@bromotech54 No, surface. But I spent about 2 months aboard a fast attack to supplement their crew during a deployment. My hot rack partner was a mk48 torp. To shoot, the crew had to remove my bedding from the launch rail. Good times.
@@macsandsquid528 Awesome, dude. luckily on the SSBN i didn't have to hot rack since they're so big. One shipmate to another thank you for your service 🤘
@@bromotech54 Toured a boomer, but never got a chance to catch a ride on one and you're right; they're huge! And same to you my brother. Fair Winds and Following Seas.
As an E4 on an SSBN (625) I never had to hot bunk, but there were E-3's and below who did. As an E-5 on an SSN (721) I had to hot bunk but only for about a week due to whatever training evolution we were going through at the time. I think it was Mk-50 torp testing. We had a bunch of civilians aboard evaluating how well the Mk-50 could be spoofed. At the time, the torp was fooled pretty easily.
45:00 Imagine all of this from the aliens perspective. Up until a few years ago they had Sol System locked down and Humanity First was a minor threat they could attack and beat down with whimsy. Now, now they are fighting a desperate battle for Jupiter and Humanity First stands a 50/50 shot of kicking them out of the Inner System.
That was a great episode, and its really cool to watch. Your commentary on what's happening really brings the story to life. I can imagine stories of alien survivors, or whispers in the alien fleet about two human warships that are more like ghosts then ships, prowling in the Jovian system, that bring death and destruction before fading back into the abyss. And for the first time, an uneasy feeling that things are not going the way they planned.
All hail the Battle Fleet Jupiter. A salute to the valiant sacrifice of Botany. This Jovian war is a big key in what the Aliens are losing here are the advance tech fleets the old rusty crusty Victor 80 fleet will be their upkeep waste . Lovin it Perun !!
They won't actually collide unless Perun clicks the "ram head" looking button to enable ramming mode. I've used it a couple times to kill alien motherships that decided to bowl through the center of my formation.
That's actually a strategy use in Mobile Suit Gundam, where the subatomic particle that made compact fusion possible nullified long range radar means using balloon dummy mock up can waste enemy shots.
Hope this goes over well folks, in my view it fits: I tell you a tale of a distant place Where man fought monster to his face Humanity stood and said NO MORE! Death (Hades) and Destruction (Scourge) evened the Score Alone to start held the gate But soon Humanity (HF-01) was there to help shoulder the weight The Botany Bay arrived first to try and aid Lost all hands in the Xenos wake Revenge was had by all of course Amongst the Moons of Jupiter Jovian's Course Laid the way for today and taught all that Humanity came to play Now children hear and rejoice our home is ours Join the Force For you can make a difference today, Xenos it's time to pay! Humanity First Recruitment Radio Advertisement circa 2040
I love these episodes that release early since I can watch them while having my morning coffee before going to work. Also I have to say the Jovian Campaign sounds like a killer arc of a book scifi book series
@@Phoenix-vf4nd and with the achievement ’Beltalowda’ for setting up shop on Ceres the devs are well aware of that. Also the look and attitude of the resistance. Just need an OPM mod now 😊
The demonstration of patience in this series is amazing. Such as, holding on and not going to space too early, building up the mega nations on earth at a steady pace. Very slow and deliberate.
Hanse Castillo must be eyeing up a spot at a Geriatrics Facility now, right? Again, he served in the Falkland Islands war in 1982, so he could be pushing 70 or 80 by now. Though I doubt he’d join the orbital elite until after the war is over.
Considering all the genetic and cybernetic modification technology that Humanity First has researched, I suspect he's keeping himself alive and well through those methods.
@@blackknightpraetor1667 So far each of the life extension research accumulated to about 30-40 extra years. Castillo with enough gene therapy and dedication could probably still kick ass as an elite
No Admiral Ackbar yet,although he is a zeno's so I suppose he'd be not exactly welcomed. But his crews loved serving under him in the star wars universe.
oh man the Jovian Campaign has been amazing, feels like something out of the Pacific Theater of WW2, defending a critical island from an invader, well done!
Engineers hearing Perun is bring more ships back to base: YAY! Engineers realizing they'll have 4.5 days to repair, rearm, and refuel: At least it's not hours this time. Edit: I'm all for calling the Jovian area and the Fleet stationed there Cadia.
Also Max will owe the space marine's a round when they get back to earth. Everytime you blow an alien ground base or space station up you get the intel on all alien's on earth. IF you use the marines to do so. Not quite sure it is an intended feature, but worth noting.
For comparison, the fueling rate of the space shuttle external tank was ~4 tons per minute. That would be 1920 tons in 8 hours. So it's not that far off from modern ground-based standards, which based on the rest of the technology upgrades, I'm betting they can quite well replicate in space.
Also I’m picturing a second crew and rookies sitting on IO fortress, and switching out crews after every docking and the recruits replacing the losses.
44:15 I have been imagining the news flowing toward Earth as the population hears about engagements happening and amateur astronomers spotting flashes from weapons fire.
I haven't been this invested in a Let's Play in years! The Battle for Jupiter is nailbiting; a single serious mistake could spell doom for the Jovian campaign and set Humanity First back months. When the Perun accepted the battle with the plasma destroyer I was excited to see how he planned to handle it, only to have that excitement turn to dread as I realized he hadn't seen the loadout. This is incredible and I am loving every second!
This is amazing, Thank You! The Jovian Campaign has me on the edge of my seat, and cheering with every victory! And holy shit that feeling when HF-01 arrivde and Humanity's Fleet Power in-system more than Tripled. Someone could write a really compelling Novel or Short Story Series about this Campaign. And a Series of Novels about this play through. Wish I had the skill to do it justice.
@PerunGamingAU Loading 2717 tons of water, ~1600 pounds of volatiles (food for the crew, presumably), 3.3 tons of regular metal and 4.1 tons of noble metals in ~7 hours is totally doable with current ground-based pumping and loading technologies: the only trick they would need is to be able to produce that kind of speed in zero-G, although I would expect a specialized space dock/shipyard would be able to have the kind of facilities to make that happen. Heck, the fact that it's *only* 2717 tons of water speaks a lot for the mass efficiencies of nuclear fusion. On a more fluff-related side: I would like to imagine that each of these ships are still nominally controlled by the Earth-based nations, so EAUSS Аид (Hades) and USNASS Scourge sounds probably more appropriate for the two main warships of BF Jupiter. Edit: At 47:15, don't you have a space dock in orbit around Mars? Wouldn't having TF ANZAC replenish at Mars be faster than taking it all the way back to Earth...?
Nice work! I have got to say I bet that Crew is exhausted kind of giving me Battlestar Galactica vibes with the constant Action Refit Refuel Action rinse and repeat.
Agent Romeo-Lima, Resistance Logistics Team "Public Relations" Contact Report with Humanity First Liaison, Codename Foxtrot-Lima March 27th, 2039 Foxtrot was agitated throughout the Hydrogen exchange. Lima-Actual, yes, but her team as well. None of the usual Low Orbit drama gossip, and one of their techs nearly punched Tetsuo's teeth in when he joked about long hours. Asked Lima-Actual to reign in her boys and she nearly did the same to me. Here's the interesting bit - they seemed to be especially pissed about Navy being in LEO. Something about them not giving us all this fuel just for us to sip whisky in orbit. A little bit of HF Machismo, I'm sure, but something else, too. Think they want us up there with them. Gives credence to those signatures we're seeing in the Jovian system. What's more, I'm pretty sure Victor scored something and shoved a bee in their collective bonnets. Recommend a gentle touch with Hanse for the next little while. Might be good to have fleet pluck the next Victor that comes in system... if we can beat the Sydney to it. Not just for PR, Fiona. Some of the chest-thumping got the blood up in my boys. Recommend we get some redundant personnel in in the next little while. I'm of the opinion we're going to need them. - End Transmission -
The Jupiter conflict highlights the need for smaller ships that can fill the gaps that the Battle Crusiers cant fill. Imagine a few smaller fleets of crusiers and destroyers that could catch the smallers fleets and individual ships the BC's would be wasting DV going after. Imagine getting nearly a 100% intercept rate.
We kept winning. The most novel inventions of humankind were on our side. We kept winning even as the Botany was eviscerated by a phaser and her reactor exploded, killing all hands on board. We kept winning even when the xeno bastards threw plasma at one of our best, the Hades. My friend, a Eurasian cosmonaut I once knew dirtside from Mars, was only an airlock away from those men in the center of the Hades. He saw his friends covered in the blue plasma, and exposed to the vacuum of space, all that was left was sizzling goop burning holes into the hull. I remember vividly the news of the arrival of the HF01, I was aboard that ship Hades assisting with rescue efforts. I saw my Eurasian friend. He could do nothing but shake his head and cry. Those bastard reptilian scoundrels give no mercy and they will receive none from us. - Anonymous US Navy Astronaut
I really want to see what some people come up with for the stories of the Jovian campaign. I’m just imagining the repair of BF Jupiter being similar to the repairs of the USS Yorktown after the Battle of the Coral Sea
For all it's attention to detail, I think there are some glaring simplifications: - Fuel/ammo depots in space/ground stations. That would make space combat strategy more interesting (especially since you'd need resupply ships) - Auto-wreck gathering - a dedicated ship to analyze and gather wrecks (human and alien). A credible way to boost science gain also.
Why is this more compelling storytelling than what Hollywood has produced in the last half decade? This could be a whole TV series. Makes me curious how the “advanced” scenario will work. Imagine If the game started like the Expanse.
@@adamanthony3585 I have…. Mixed feelings about Netflix. But I’ll say this; Perun’s run is a hell of a lot more hopeful than Liu’s work. Although I would say Perun is absolutely practicing Dark Forest diplomacy. As the Hydra did so long ago.
@@elijahsnow3119 I know exactly what you mean about Netflix. I'm in the same boat! I am really enjoying Perun's play through... Kinda reminds me of a mix of "Children of a Dead Earth" and "Dark Forest" (if we were more peer to peer). Likewise it reminds me of a lot of battle tactics described in Atomic Rockets (Project Rho).
31 March 2039 *Just outside Ganymede orbit* *Battle fleet Jupiter HFS Hades* *Taken from bridge Voice recorder* Captain: Helm plot standard maneuver, sweep starboard and prepare to face prow to primary target Helm: Aye aye Captain, setting course standard starboard combat sweep. Tactical: Three enemy targets identified, tentative classification as frigate size. Targets are designated Tango 1,2 and 3 Captain. Captain: Goodwork, tactical prepare all PD systems for fleet coverage and maximum response speed. Tactical: All PD systems set to fleet defense and standing by at combat readiness Captain. Captain: Alright everyone holdfast here we go. *Engagement timer **3:04* Tactical: Incoming projectiles detected from all tangos, Plotting PD intercepts and linking in with the Scourges PD net. Tactical Assistant: Wait... computer is unable to resolve intercepts for projectiles from Tango 1. No firing solution possible Tactical: Manuel overide and recompute PD firing solution for Tango 1 projectiles, now! Tactical Assistant: No change, can't localize the projectiles! Impact immanent! Tactical: Computer Database has flagged Tango 1 's Projectile as Plasma based! Captain: God dammit, brace for impact! Helm emergency maneuver, bring the prow around to face Tango 1. Maximum thrust! *Hades is hit at Engagement timer **3:20* Damage Control: Yellow alarms, midline hits. Damage in frames 5,6,7 and 8. Teams are dispatched now. Tactical: PDs are down and radiators are hit weapons cooling is reduced by 50% Captain Captain: Helm maintain prow to Tango 1, Coms inform Scourge of our damages and tell them they have to take the lead. We will back them up. Helm/Coms: Yes Captain Captain: Tactical engage Tango 1 primary Battery maximum fire! *End of excerpt from HFS Hades Bridge recorder, Engagement timer **7:06*
The fate of mankind depends upon the battle of Jupiter. Let every man do his utmost! -Colonel Hanse Castile, in his direct order to HF 1 and battlefleet Jupiter
I'm absolutely loving this series, I binged watched most of it in under a week. I love the capacity for roleplay and storytelling that this game provides. Battlefleet Jupiter could have a whole battlestar Galactica series written about these engagements. I would love to see some more ship design in the episodes if you could squeeze it in, especially once this new generation of technologies comes off the line.
"I was 18 when the first xeno ship crash landed on earth soil. We were scared at first but excited as well . Those hopes were dashed when we began hearing from other HF operatives about them and my country was under there goverments control. We held out for as long as we could while begging for help but none came. South Africa was always a diveded nation on some level but some of us wanted to fight back. So we used some old guerilla tactics like we used against the Brits back 2 centuries ago. It worked for some time but those xenos dug deep. When moves were being made to join us back up with the UK as a new commonwealth we felt a bit hessitant but anything was better than being under the xeno foot. After the sussecion I joined the navy ready to take the fight back to the aliens scum." Exerpt from crewman John-Henry Ross 31
I think you win quite handsomely if you manage to keep up these sorts of engagements. 1 : 15 loss ratio seems like an excellent number. Top that off with the very occasional Xenos base destruction and you've got a winning strategy. Good job.
@@notbotheredable I have this feeling this campaign is going to end in total xenos destruction sooner, rather than later. Which is giving me vital information for my own campaign. Turtle until you can build good ships, build something in the outer solar system, make sure you have all your fleets arrive a few days after, happy hunting as now all individual xenos fleets will converge on your location.
Audio recording of a crew member abourd the Hades: "After our first engagement with the Hydra scum in march of '38 had gone so well the crew was jovial. We had gotten out of the engagement with nary a scratch on the paint. In a testament to our victory over the Hydra fleet someone (and I won't mention who *Jack*) fashioned an effigy of the Hades out of some spare pipe and a gray sock with the word HF-Hades written on the side in red paint. Crude. But effective. Everyone spent time tossing around the cabins handing it off to the next watch. It was a simple symbol of our odds. A rag-tag ship in an alien sea. However a few days ago we had a minor electrical fire on board I say minor as no one was hurt but it could have been way worse. The whole crew was distressed when we had seen the that effigy of the Hades had been burnt. I hear seamen are some of the most superstitious lads in the world but what of space sailors? I myself couldn't help but think of the burnt ship as the bolts of plasma banged agginst the hull of the HF-HADES making a whooshing sound that echoed up and down the Battle cruiser. Each time I thought "This is the one. This one will get us. I'll be sucked out into space and not even have time to scream" I am reliefed to hear that I'll be relieved soon. Im going to need some time to get over that. But I'll at least be able to keep HF-HADES mini with me. You know, for safe keeping..." End of Recording
The ones to watch are the assault carriers, those things are scarier than motherships. At least the ones that fit mostly missiles. That's the problem the aliens have, aside from the gunships you've met, I've barely seen anything not fitting primarily missiles. I usually have 4 dedicated pd boats in my fleet which basically means I have barely taken any casualties in the whole Jovian campaign. Although mine happens some years later in game time, so I have dreadnoughts in my fleet. It also looks like the aliens in your campaign are better equipped than in mine. That's interesting. I also haven't seen any bases on earth even though there's also an alien administration. Would really like to see the alien development once I finish
I would love to see an animated series of the Scourge and Hades locking down Jupiter against insurmountable odds and winning every step of the way like they have! I hope it doesn't have a tragic ending, but even so, it would be a hell of an awesome watch!
This episode really shows how the idea of picket ships (pd boats) are a great thing to add to every fleet. Even if the don't survive every fight, the defense they can provide can be the difference between a win and lost.
Essentially. Many people wind up going to wide and delaying T3 hubs, or science orbitals, or councillors, or MC cap modifications, etc... They wind up unlocking 18 weapons and armor types then not knowing what to use and wasting half the science for no reason. I think just top level is clear as once you unlock the actual techs people can read them. But if u wanted to add time you could go 2nd level techs, or how to rush them (build/orgs giving gears vs sci), or whether its worth rushing global tech or just your own.
The EU armies while not as good as the US do give him a lot of defensive options in case the mothership fleet decides to escort something like 10 assault carriers for simultaneous landings.
I don't remember if you acknowledged this, but your occasional scuffles with the starting fleet formation obligates me to remind you and any other player that you can affect the starting formation with custom settings before each battle, dictating what ships are where, how tightly/widely packed they are etc.
@@happerry4651 cloud formation with heavy ships at the center is great when you have one or more PD boats supporting bigger ships for example, as the smaller PD vessels will start out above and below the big bois, making overlapping PD coverage easier to manage
If anyone does write short stories on any ingame events I will be sure to comment asking before I feature your work in any episodes. Your work is your work.
Thanks for those who flagged that this video was incorrectly numbered- all fixed now.
No Beatty on you pal! Much more Jellicoe, 😁😁
I start to see a patron here:
Super Emu was on comms Channel N° 23,
The civilian ship was given the orden to adopt "Attack Doctrine N° 23"
The fleet merge orden was lost on the work shift 23
There some serious SNAFU going on, I blame the servants...
44:18 you could do something like what "Stealth17 Gaming" did on his humanity first run and is doing on his exodus run at the start of each of those videos, if you have the time and dont mind going through comments.
you could make a comment for your viewers to reply with stories related to whats going on and then cherry pick your favorites to narrate or get someone to narrate them for you or something like that.
Ah fuck I can't believe you've done this. I really want to write something based on this series but it's so much effort and I am so lazy.
Log: Andre Van de merwe, head of damage control Div 2 abored the Hades.
I have joined the Jupiter's expedition. Mostly to keep our space birds purring and ready to blow up alian fokers.
The tech abord the Hades is state of the art. Nothing ever breaks, it's a boring job when the computers do most of the work. I have no idea what to expect hopefully we get to kill some alian fokers
Log: date 21/02/2039
I'd never thought I'd see the day. Just heard that the alians are coming for us. Like a swarm of bees all headed for Jupiter. No idea what we did to cause this but I'm here for it. Hopefully we can have a lekker fight and bliksim them to dust.
Log: date 07/03/2039
BF- Jupiter- Scourge , Hades and Botany. Today was our first engagement. The two alian fokers did not know what hit them. They had both vreked, still no work for me. I guess that's a good thing. Everyone is happy don't know if it's relief or just the enjoyment of killing the aliens. I don't really care as long as they do thier jobs I won't have to do mine.
Log: date 26/03/2039
It has been three weeks of constant hard burning and fighting. Dokter has given us a concoction of meds to keep us all going. The longer this gose on the more mistakes are made and the more die. Just the other day we lost the civi, Botany alians got her. It was a massive shock as we keep on cleaving through the alian fokers like they are butter.
But today I had to do my job. Patching holes and fixing damage from the fight. Mistakes are being made. I don't know for how much longer the crew can keep this up.
Log: date 31/02/2039
Today was a mess. We had taken several losses and I had to do my job again. The PD shot and the armor scuffed. I fear that week can't keep this up for much longer.
The continus pounding on the hull from the alian fokers guns sent the sound of constant knocking through the ship. Like death knocking on ur door. The armor held. Me ? I'm in bad shape like the rest. Lack of sleep and high G's has been taking its toll. I thought of writing to someone but there is no one back home to write to.
Earth fleet and Mars fleet should be hear soon hopefully we will still be here when they finally decide to show up.
Signed- Andre
The Jovian campaign is really feeling like a war. We’re no longer just hiding from the aliens, we’re fighting back and scoring victories. Really enjoying this series.
I said it was going to be the Guadalcanal Campaign. And it's been a fair reenactment so far.
Definitely the most exciting part of the series so far.
Would be interesting to see if it's possible to openly fight with earlier tech, but I don't know if that works in this game.
“Jupiter calls for aid!”
“…And Terra shall answer. Muster the Flotilla!”
My Jupiter My Gas
“Fly NOW! FOR TERRA AND THE NEW DAWN!!”
Just tell the USNA that Jupiter has most of the space oil. Those aliens won't know what hit them.
@@ZaiketsuKumori laughed out loud, thanks
@@ZaiketsuKumori Well maybe not oil but it's fairly gassy
I remember those days, the first days of the real war. Of course to us we’d been at war since that first ship had crashed on our world but this was real war, where humanity could stand toe-to-toe with the xeno scum.
The Jovian campaign was hell, I was serving aboard the hades as a lieutenant. I remeber the panic of those days, held back only by our discipline and our wills. Every day the captains plotted potential intercepts, engineers would repair breeches and damages, gunners would run simulated battles to test their skill. It was a hard time, most of us didn’t sleep, though hades bunks were never the most comfortable to begin with, instead we imagined our next victory, blowing open another Hydra ship and throwing them off our colonies.
The battles were hard things but those first days of the campaign, we were glorious, stranded and awaiting reinforcements command decided attack was the best defence, we sortied daily, blew up ships daily, our friends died daily. I never got to thank the boys and girls of IO fortress, we’d have been scrap in the void had it not been for them. But in those days there just wasn’t the time, we had a war to win. - interview with Rear Admiral Issac Druganov, 2055
Great story monologue for this epic series. Humanity (First) must endure, 😁.
To r/HFY with you. 😄
So say we all!
I love how the Hades has its radiators red hot in the strategic map because its heat sink got destroyed, its the little details
If any thing I'd think feedback on the damages of the 3d models is not really the best. Maybe fires or blackened bits of the hull and weapons impacts would help.
Somewhere in the USNA, cameras roll for a Late Night TV Show. We see the host jovially baner with his guests as they take their seats, easily recognizeable to us as Kamya and Max.
Host: "...now, ma'am I understand the conflict with the invader has come to an unprecedented level of escalation over assets nearby Jupiter, am I correct?"
Kamya: "Yes, Johnny. We've prepared a long time for this, and I would be remiss to not mention that the people of this great country have been behind us in this matter for a long time, too."
*a smattering of applause*
Host: "So, it's all out war now... what's changed? What have you learned?"
Kamya: "Well, Johnny, we've told people about the Hydras pheromone tricks for a while, warning them how certain people's ambitions to negotiate or even submit to them on some kind of term are nothing but a pipedream... but really, what a lot of people don't know is, when the Hydra 'speak' their pheromonal language.... they make fart noises, Johnny."
Host: "Excuse me?"
Kamya: "Fart noises, Johnny. They make farty sounds when they speak. Serving them would be among the least dignified thinks anyone can imagine."
Host: "That really is... I mean... really? Like 'pprrrrtt'?
Kamya: "Yes, Johnny. In fact, we've managed to record a meeting between the Hydra and the leader of the Servants in which the aliens stated 'ffffffrrrrrrtt-- pppbbbbbrrrrt', to which the Servants responded with 'ppppllllrrrrrrrrt'."
Host: "... what did she say?"
Kamya: "We're not quite sure, Johnny, but the aliens seemed to think it was a real stinker."
*sparse audience laughter rings out as the Host takes a moment to regain his composure, then turns to the second guest, Max, who has remained quiet so far*
Host: "Now, sir, I've been told you have a message to give to the Invaders, here, tonight? Why don't you go ahead?"
*The man he addressed fixes his gaze straight into the camera. His hand beckons closer and the shot gradually zooms in until his face fills the entire shot, his eyes staring forward unmovingly*
Max: "Run."
Can't believe there's no comment yet here! Jolly good show Sir! That would have made a fun late night talkshow 🎉
I like to think that Victor-80's admiral comes from a faction like the Protectorate that doesn't really want to fight humanity. They keep picking troll stations so they don't get court martialed, but they really don't want to be there.
I hope the crew of both the Hades and the Scourge wear their Hero of Humanity, Space-borne Combat and Jovian Campaign medals with pride when they walk on Earth's soil once more, alongside the crew of fortress IO. You held them off until the fleet arrived, and showed great bravery.
"I fought in the Jovian Campaign" should be enough to make sure that they never need to buy their own drinks for the rest of their lives.
@@diestormlie
> "I served aboard the Hades"
> women all over the room flock to the guy, guy proceeds to drown in pussy for the rest of his life.
Yeah I was thinking throughout most of the episode how great a series about Terra Invictas plot or just the Jovian War in particular could be. The tense weeks of waiting for the reinforcing fleet, pronounced at times by watching the time-delayed data coming from BF Jupiter duking it out. The cheers through HF 1 after every won engagement, the painful sting of the loss of the Botany, the horrid revelation that the Victors started fitting Plasma weaponry, and throughout it all Castile sitting on a control base on Earth, directing efforts. And that is JUST the space aspect, not to say anything of the thrilling stories to be told dirtside.
You can write an entire light novel series about this
If the dev team had the cash they should seriously consider comissioning an artist to draw either a graphic novel/manga for this game for the publicity lol
@@RocketPropelledMexican If you do it like an visual novel, have a route for each of the faction or what if scenarios
Imagine a 2pt episode about the fall of IO fortress
One of the game's creators actually has 2 books out that are military sci-fi and deal with a lot of that kind of thing. No big alien invasion sadly but they're pretty good imo. John Lumpkin's the Human Reach series if I remember correctly.
The Jovian war led to daily medical innovations in micro-g and short term high g environments.
In fact, the crews begged the medics to chemically "augment" them. They would burn out due to their biology being pushed to the limit and possibly never be able to survive in a sustained g environment again, but they knew what was at stake.
People before them sacrificed themselves as a distraction so that Earth would avoid bombardment. Here, they were no mere distraction, they were fighting.
For the homeworld, for Humanity and for the sacrifice of those who died as nothing more than a distraction, they *had* to make it count.
If that meant never returning to the thing that they loved so dearly, so be it.
"Auspost why are you leaving your assigned station"
"We have a message for those alien scum and Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."
"God speed you wonderful bastards"
Exerpt from "First Terran War, battle for jupiter, Battle logs".
Don't screw with the mailman!
The following excerpt is from the Broken convoy mission report
Report 16-03-39-3J
Operation: Broken convoy
Time of engagement 19:51 GMT
Captain of the HF-Auspost
[...]
We intercepted four of the alien craft as ordered by command, however in the chase my ship had separated from the main battle group. This put us dangerously close to the alien battery fire overwhelming our PD, luckily the ship sustained minimal damage in the opening salvo. The admiral ordered we, as he put "Tokyo drift" ourselves around their ships. During this maneuver both the hades and scourge began to open fire upon the alien vessels. Approximal 9 minutes into the battle the alien vessel codenamed Lonely Protector had entered inside the kill zone and was able to fire its high energy LASER into the HF-Botany. The LASER melted though the lightly armored science vessel and began a catastrophic failure in her fuel tanks. None of her life boats even had time to launch.
[...]
Read in the voice of Zapp Brannigan
Matter of fact, read any HF lore stuff in the voice of Zapp Brannigan
i hope Auspost put some eurobeat while pulling that maneuver
Admiral must be a boomer making that reference in 2039.
@@colinmarshall6634 lmao didnt even think about that
"What are they trying to do? Starve us out?"
-Captain of the HFS Hades upon being notified the galley has been vented via a plasma strike.
"So, what do you think happened back on Earth?" Petty Officer Celia Dunn slurped her protein paste, strapped to the mess hall chair on the Hades as she awaited an answer. She hated this moment, when the Battlecruiser would incrementaly slow down as it approched the end of its transfer, messing with the felt gravity of the ship.
"Probably nothing much. It's not like the transfer back to the Jovian system took that long." Petty Officer Jules Vance, sitting with her, answered absent-mindedly. The two of them spent much of their time together lately, due to their battle stations being near one another. Celia was one of the gunners for the Phaser Cannon, while Jules manned one of the Mag Cannons. While the Phaser Cannon was a prow-mounted weapon, it wasn't convenient to have the gunners so far out in front of the ship, and so both types of gunners were placed in a single space.
The Hades itself was coming back to Io Fortress after intercepting a couple Eternal-Storm class Destroyers hailing from the asteroid belt and which were inbound for the Jovian system.
"You think High Command was serious? About the whole Alien Administration thing?" Celia was clearly not about to drop the subject.
"Yeah, why? Last time I heard, Battlefleet Terra was doing a great job stopping the Aliens from landing on Earth, but it's not like they can stop the Mothership fleet. The army beat the aliens back a few times already, but if the aliens land again and start bombing our armies from orbit instead of letting their guys die unsupported, they'll eventually establish their beach head. We're gaining time, not stopping it." Jules remarked bitterly, resentment bubbling just under his calm exterior.
"Damn, someone is cranky. I thought I was the one who hated this part of the journey." Celia stopped for a moment, and then bent closer to him before adding, in a lower voice. "Is it about that thing you said the other day? The shagging?"
Communications Officer Ekaterina Kozlova, who was sitting with the two, and had been doing her best to remain forgotten by the pair, almost choked to death on her nutrient paste at Celia's words. Still, neither NCOs seemed to notice.
"Fuck it. Yeah, you know what? It IS weird! Right before the departure? Shagging. Mid-Transfer? Shagging? Right after we blew up those two Destroyers? Half the enlisted took five minutes off for some shagging while the rest salvaged what we could out of the enemy ships. It's weird, man. There's something in the walls, I swear." Jules blew off, his own stress still high from the battle.
Celia couldn't help to laugh at her companion's outburst, but opted to lay off the teasing for a bit. "It's not the walls, Jules, it's the stress. I had this friend in the entertainment industry a few years back. Everytime the production was getting rough, people let off some steam like that. It's natural. God, I wonder what happened to her. Poor girl was a pacifist, the Ukraine conflict happened while she was a kid and it really stayed with her. Last time I heard about her, she was making pro-Academy videos in Brazil or something..." Celia's voice trailed off. This subject did nothing for Jules' mood, nor hers. She stole a glance at the Frenchman in front of her. Unlike the rest of the crew, the man did not join Humanity First. Or at least, not at first. He used to be part of the Vercingetorix station, a Resistance Hab which defected to Humanity First some time ago. It had been surprising for him to be chosen for the crew of the Hades. Celia wanted to say that it was because he was an excellent shot, but Mag Gunners couldn't hit the broadside of a barn, most of the time. When Celia remembered how defensive Jules had been the last time the subject came up, she couldn't help but chuckle.
The mood was getting better for the pair, but Celia noticed Ekaterina was still stealing glances at Jules. She hated the guy, or at least found each and every one of his actions prickly. Due to the risk of him being a spy, she had to double check everything, each communication, each little thing he forgot somewhere, monitor his use of his private computer. It was a lot of ungrateful work being dropped on her plate, and it made her see everything he did as a possible security threat. Still, Eka and Celia had been friends for a while and so the unlikely trio had stuck together. Even though the had become a bit weird after the rate of alien attacks started intensifying. The three remained like that, in silence, for a bit.
Said silence was broken suddenly, as Ekaterina's radio came to life, panicking her, and leading to her fumbling with the radio for a bit before answering. The conversation was short, and once it was over, Ekaterina glanced at the crew inside the mess hall. By their expression, she knew they had heard too much for her to just brush the matter off. She might as well break the news to them now before it became an unchecked rumor.
"We received a transmission from Io Fortress. The two bases on Ganymede were attacked... and annihilated."
This is very well written and it cracked me up once i got to "The shagging" part lol
I hope you aren't about to write smut in the comment section. It would be a shame to lose you to ytb algorythm
I’m considering writing something a little longer too - if I get around to it, any chance I can reference these characters?
@@leahcohen4492 Sure!
I know it's a done series already but I really enjoy your work and always look forward to your next as I go through each episode 💯
When the melatonin alarm rang it was as if the ship was saying what we all were thinking.
The engineer said that the ship's system clock had a glitch as he reset her speakers. Maybe she too was being run ragged like us, no longer knowing, or even caring if it was supposed to be day or night on our little blue ball of a home. Maybe she wanted rest.
For weeks we have hid our exhaustion from our fellow spacers. We said the pills worked. That we felt fine. We said we didn't mind not being allowed to turn off the bright blue lights that illuminated every bunk and every station. We agreed that we'd never miss that alarm, or how the gummies tasted. We said that not feeling hungry or tired was a pleasant change of pace. Unlike the melatonin gummies, we didn't need to be reminded to take this new regimen. The splitting headaches, chills and anxiety were enough of a signal to pop two or three more.
None of us dared to say anything that contradicted our facade of contentment. Complaining about what we wanted, or what we needed would have made our campaign feel even longer.
We felt that we were becoming more and more like the ship. More like a machine. We didn't act human anymore. We didn't complain. We didn't stop to rest. We no longer feared anything. We gave it our all to keep our vessel in the fight. We did it for ourselves. We did it for all humanity. We did it because we looked forward to a good night's sleep when humanity prevailed.
Since the test of the elite marines went so well, I would suggest to try and anticipate where the Victor-80 will refuel(or just beat them to the station), and then quickly take over the station before Victor-80 arrives. Since Victor-80 should have spent most of their remaining deltaV getting to the asteroid, they will need a _very_ long transfer window to the next asteroid station. Long enough that you might be able to assault that one as well, which would leave Victor-80 effectively stranded in the asteroid belt and just a drain on the alien's economy.
AFAIK Marines only ignore the defense stations of ground bases and not space stations. So you'd need to be able to destroy the refueling station in a fleet engagement instead of marines.
@@skirata3144 Ah, didn't know that. I just remembered him saying that boarding actions ignored base defences.
@@skirata3144 Indeed. A fleet must be docked at a station to send in the Marines, whereas a ship only needs to be in interface orbit to send them down to an outpost
@@skirata3144 How large a fleet do you need to reliably smack an Alien refueling station? Would Perun's 7 ship Battlefleet Jupiter be enough?
@@polygondwanaland8390 at best he would probably lose a few ships doing it if he could even do it, and right now he needs every ships he can get his hands on.
Suggested name for the next class to surpass the Super-Emu: Drop Bear. It fits perfectly with space-to-ground marine assaults.
*A page of a Marines' Logs from the TF-ANZAC leaked to the press on earth*
[...]
After what felt like an eternity, watching our Brothers and Sisters bravely facing down impossible odds over and over again to hold the Jovian System, only wishing that we could help them in some way. Knowing that all we could do is follow the plan and even though the eggheads Up Top were sure we had the numbers to take this base, we all knew some of us weren't coming home.
[...]
I couldn't stop laughing as I strapped in for our burn, I don't know if it was the release of all the stress built up or that it truly felt like the first time we had actually made a statement! Moments after we started the celebration of our win, before we could even make toasts for our fallen Comrades after leaving nothing but a crater where the Zeno Mining Operation had been, one of them arrived.... Too late !!! we your and getting the out of here to back up !! We had our orders, 'disengage and get our back'. There were a few of us that wanted to carry our win through and show everyone that the Xeno Scum have no place here, even out in the belt, but most of us were relieved to have a successful mission and wanted to get to a more strategic position. We could just barely make out the speck of light in the distance of the enemy ship through the starboard side Viewscreens and I swear you could hear the hoots and hollers coming from everywhere as we all cursed them and even the Captain got in on flipping them off just before the engines kicked in.
[...]
*Reporter following up on the story after cutting back from the visual of the logs*
This coming shortly after the news of reinforcements arriving in the Jovian system to finally offer some much needed support to our Brave Men and Women out there watching over the stars like the legends of old.~~ *Fading out the story*
Now to Jim where we'll soon be covering the unification and annexation of Ireland... But First! A viewer sent in footage of them finding a mouse in the Automated City Wok China Hydroponics Kitchen and we sent our own Kim Anderson in undercover to find out just what is going on over there!
......
(lol I dunno just felt like a fun news story)
Give the admiral a medal for his defeat in detail strategy. He deserves to be on the same pedestal as those great men as Admiral Yi and Admiral Nelson.
Pretty sure he has Yang Wen-Li leading the battles.
We need some creative fanfiction writing for all the space battle action
Tbh this game is an excellent base for first contact Fanfiction, as the game always progresses differently each game
Well I'm not a native English but I hope this sounds good enough :
I still remember the day when the command warned us of the imminent approach of a multitude of alien flotillas. The serious looks, the clenched fists, the discreet tears at the back of the briefing room...
The HQ had promised us a reinforcement fleet which was to arrive a few months later but until then our only protection was our two BC "Hades" and "Scourge".
After observing the enemy's movements, their commanders came up with an idea: attack the fleets on the way before they had gathered, use the superior stamina of our ships to create local superiority and pick them off one by one , a good old Napoleonic classic. This would have allowed us to decrease the number of enemies and buy time for building defenses and receive the reinforcements from Earth.
Although this plan might have seemed ambitious, it was not foolish: we had spent a lot of time studying alien ships and were compensating for our technological inferiority by developing custom countermeasures.
A good example of this was the mobilization of the non-combat ships "Bathony" and "Auspost". Although they had no real firepower their PDs did wonders against the projectiles the aliens were relying on.
It was just as our Ganymede outposts began to be bombarded by the first arrivals that the Battlefleet Jupiter left the station.
At first everything was fine, the fleet came back unscathed with reports of several enemy flottilas destroyed and we only had to refuel before sending them back.
But the ease quickly disappeared when the new alien weapons appeared and the tragedy with them: Gunships equipped with a laser cannon were no real threat to our armored BCs, but the Bathony was instantly vaporized with her crew.
Then the appearance of plasma cannons nearly costed us the Hades: in addition to having damaged her armor they had destroyed her PD, making her vulnerable to projectiles fired by others. Despite this she managed to get back to the station where we repaired her with what we could.
We were all exhausted. The fighting crew, of course, which accumulated the raids sometimes for weeks before returning to refuel, and with a few rare hours of rest.
But also the staff of the station, who in addition to taking care of the fleet also had to build the new defense platforms ASAP and supplied all this with the mining operations on the moons of Jupiter which caused many incidents such as radiation poisoning.
But all this had ended up being worth it because on April 11, 2039 the reinforcements finally arrived...
For a non-native speaker, that's impressive!
Ships are usually referred to as it or she, but not with he/him/his.
Keep on :)
@@iddomargalit-friedman3897 She it is, got it. Thx !
There’s a ridiculously cool moment in the Honor Harrington series where civilian controllers send an entire battle fleet through a series of wormholes in less than a day in order to deal with an imminent battle (A comparable scenario might be the entire US Atlantic fleet transiting the Panama Canal as fast as possible). The Jovian reinforcements remind me of that.
I've thinking this might be a good platform for recreating some of the HH space battles. Scales of distance is the biggest difference though. HH battles in the later timeline can take part in light minutes.
Ah, a fellow enjoyer of HH! Well met friend.
There should be a mechanic that would allow you to see all the kills a ship has and Hades and Scourge should be like prides of your fleet or some other honors.
A battle honours list would be an awesome addition
A battle honours list would be an awesome addition
@@TheBlondDaemon lol double message! BOT!
@@roninecostar or crappy internet connection on train telling me post had failed the first time 😘.
It'd be nice if the ship got stat boosts based on their combat record. Maybe something like less DV spent in combat, more accuracy, or more damage.
Battlefleet Jupiter would make a killer tv series. A couple of battleships and science vessels needing to keep a technologically superior enemy from combining, while defending a battle station being built using local superiority, and non stop interception missions.
Im sure that eventualy the Aliens will understand sarcasm, but for the moment naming a station "Super Valuable Human Property" seems to be doing the trick
"Dragooning Science ships to support the fleet" Is basically the Starfleet motto, so HF is in good company
Also, Delighted about the Locked Tomb reference
Any chance of a Marine Dreadnaught called "Various Gingers"?
Came here to mention the Locked Tomb references. I'm waiting for the Palamedes Sextus(Sex Pal) or the Hect.
Australia Post was no damn combat ship. Half her crew was civvies, the other half glorified security guards on a space taxi to destination Jovian Rock. Though I'll be damned we didn't all jump to the call when the Victors started burning to Jupiter.
We trained on an operational tempo so hard that it would make Special Forces sweat. We spent hundreds of hours on fire simulations for our phasers, on refresher training for our cannon, on engine tests and checks for our burners.
When it was time for our battle, we burned in so hot and bright we tripped a safety switch and ended up out of formation. Had to burn right back around. Botany got hit moments later and was blasted clean in half.
We burned hot and bright, firing our phasers and cannon continuously at the incoming enemy fire. We manuvered at gee's we didn't even know our engines could make. We took hits, we took casualties, we had good people die. In the end, we got the final blow, finishing off the last Victor that was limping away from our formation.
In the end, though, that's all we got to do in the Jovian War before our Terran reinforcements arrived. We took bad hits to our engines, and had to detach from formation to limp back to Io as the Battlecruisers burned to intercept another fleet. The comedown was depressing- we had four weeks to stoop in how much we all really lost as our comrades burned to fight on their own.
I'm now writing this after the First Fleet finished their rendezvous to Io. I do not know what will be the future use for our little colony ship, but I'm certain at this point we cannot lose.
- Leaked Crew Communication to Earth, Unknown Author.
Voice records From Battleship Hades, 31st March 2039, 0136 hours : Battle Low Ganymade Orbit.
- Captian Mac: Engage Starboard manerver 357 Drift, after 3 points turn the main cannon to engage. Intel says no laser waepons, so we should be safe exposing our side armour.
- Helmsman Dex: We have incoming projectiles, tasking PD lasers 1 & 2 to engage
- "Computer Voice" : *warning* Impact detected *warning* *warning*
- Captian Mac: Why the hell is PD not engaing! Report helmsman!
- Hemsman Dex: They cant seem to lock on, readings look like Plasma sir!
- *warning* Impact detected *warning* *warning*
- Captian Mac: Intel F**ked up big time!! Alien Frigate "Crescent Moon" is packing a Plasma Cannon! How did one of them have Plasma without us noticing!!
- Captian Mac: Turn front armour facing! Recommend the Scourge target the "Crescent Moon"! Report on weapon systems!
- "Computer Voice" Main Phaser Cannon Online, Coilgun Battery Online, PD 1 and 2 Offline. Armour Integrity 84.60%
- Captian Mac: Damn, Intel failed to plan! failed to Idenify that Plasma, and almost got us killed! Constrate all firepower on that Frigate!
I had the combat music from Battlestar Galactica playing in my head while reading this
Nicely done!
Little did those brave crews know that their defensive battles would turn into one of the great asymmetric victories that humanity has had, i wrote a little blurb below. Trying to make it more personal. It could certainly be better fleshed out.
Captain Scott of the Hades was a man known as a strident student of history. He pored over old battlemaps in his quarters and was a particular fan of Stonewall Jackson's legendary campaigns in the American Civil war. He looked at the screens laid before him and formulated a plan.
In the morning he rose and floated to his control screen, saluted by the sailors around him. He braced against a bulkhead in the CIC, and the general alert sounded. He thought of the mission he had been given, the task impressed upon him. He took a deep breath and began.
"Comrades, we stand at a crossroads, support has been sent from earth, 5 of the finest battleships that Colonel Castillo could manage to scrounge, but this is space, and space is big. They are weeks away. In the coming days you will embark on one of the Greatest journeys mankind has ever imagined. A defeat in detail of an enemy we've known for only 15 short years"
No-one dared correct the Captain, all were resolute in their duty to save humanity, they had seen loved ones manipulated, strange creatures build awkward epitaphs to their dominance on their home and none could forget what the tabloid press called "The Rumble in the Jungle". It would almost be quaint, but all know what it means, all knew why these aliens were here. Some could barely remember a time when they weren't around, and their threat of dominance not ever-present.
"In these coming weeks we will campaign, and train, maintain and test. And when you see those purple bastards on the monitor, you will know what it means to face a true enemy. I won't lie, this will not be easy, we will be tired, we will hurt and be tested. But we will not fail, those dirty Ayys can go back to whatever wretched hole they came from. This solar system belongs to humanity, and Humanity First."
Several weeks later, while convalescing in Io orbit, Captain Scott pressed the button for the on-call nurse.
"Have we done it sailor, has the fleet arrived"
"Yes Captain, Admiral Maniapoto of the Melbourne requests an after action report, and will see you shortly"
Captain Scott closed his eyes, the reports would wait, right now, he needed rest.
Valiant effort!
The adaptation of the aliens to your weapon systems and weaknesses is impressive.
The decision to trickle in ships at the place where the fight happens is a point of weakness for the AI. The fact that it stands out is a point to its overall capability.
I'm in love with the Ai in this game.
God I hope this game will allow multilayer someday. A slugfest between 8 human players representing all factions would make for some killer gameplay. Imagine the diplomacy, betrayal, desperation and cooperation between the factions as the alien player slowly tightens the noose. God tier game.
I can just see one player get the first railgun and start going scorch earth…on earth.
@@Phoenix-vf4nd and then a coalition forming to effectively destroy that player. Would it go nuclear? Who knows!
@@dennisklomp2361 hey if you take my control point on Russia I will NUKE NORTH AMERICA!!! Don’t mind me I off to destroy all other space station with my railgun!!!
Imagine the consequences if one player get bored and decided to “f***” it” and derailing the 15 hour campaign.
@@Phoenix-vf4nd sounds exactly like something that can happen in other multiplayer strategy games like civ 5/6 and hoi4.
On the other hand, it also sounds exactly like the reality we face today, so it's still interesting politics. How would a coalition react to Russia going haywire?
@@dennisklomp2361 I just mean in Terra invicta the players have way of crippling an entire campaign early game relatively easy. If a player take executive control point of Russia and defend it for long enough they can destroy any nation/federation; As well as inducing nuclear winter on the rest of the world that been spared of a nuclear barrage. While in Hearts of iron 4 a single nuke is a massively investment of of technology, infrastructure, time, and needs air dominance to deploy.
This feels like one of those make or break moments. A second doom fleet could be what the aliens need to make a strong hold in the inner system and I am excited to see your battle prowess in action! Give them no quarter!
I have no intention on playing the game (not my jam), but your in depth explanations have taught me well. I'm correctly predicting your actions and, more importantly, able to explain why. Excellent work.
On an aside. Hot bunking (or hot racking) is not what you and others believe, based on the comments. Hot bunking is the "art" of sharing your bunk with a fellow shipmate who is on the alternate watch. They're leaving the bunk for watch as you're coming off watch to go to sleep, meaning you lie peacefully in a bed pre-warmed by your mate, aka hot bunk. During sustained combat operations, where everybody is on watch and nobody hits the bunk, that bed is stone cold. I've BTDT, and got the t-shirt. Otherwise your grasp of combat navy life is pretty good. Bravo Zulu.
Sub guy? not too many navy guys think about hot racking very much
@@bromotech54 No, surface. But I spent about 2 months aboard a fast attack to supplement their crew during a deployment. My hot rack partner was a mk48 torp. To shoot, the crew had to remove my bedding from the launch rail. Good times.
@@macsandsquid528 Awesome, dude. luckily on the SSBN i didn't have to hot rack since they're so big.
One shipmate to another thank you for your service 🤘
@@bromotech54 Toured a boomer, but never got a chance to catch a ride on one and you're right; they're huge! And same to you my brother. Fair Winds and Following Seas.
As an E4 on an SSBN (625) I never had to hot bunk, but there were E-3's and below who did. As an E-5 on an SSN (721) I had to hot bunk but only for about a week due to whatever training evolution we were going through at the time. I think it was Mk-50 torp testing. We had a bunch of civilians aboard evaluating how well the Mk-50 could be spoofed. At the time, the torp was fooled pretty easily.
You missed great opportunity to call this part "Jupiter rising" :D
Oh that's good! lol Shame that movie is trash :D
Dammit, you posted this before me!
Wasn't it Jupiter Ascending?
@@Kodasa_Sinclair That's another movie IIRC
Or "Jovian japes". Also, i am looking forward to Battle for Uranus :P
45:00 Imagine all of this from the aliens perspective. Up until a few years ago they had Sol System locked down and Humanity First was a minor threat they could attack and beat down with whimsy. Now, now they are fighting a desperate battle for Jupiter and Humanity First stands a 50/50 shot of kicking them out of the Inner System.
Its really something, I kind of hope we get some writing from the aliens pov and not just humanity first.
21:50 The Aussie post Captain: DRIVE ME CLOSER HELSMAN! I WANT TO HIT THEM WITH OUR PD!
That was a great episode, and its really cool to watch. Your commentary on what's happening really brings the story to life. I can imagine stories of alien survivors, or whispers in the alien fleet about two human warships that are more like ghosts then ships, prowling in the Jovian system, that bring death and destruction before fading back into the abyss. And for the first time, an uneasy feeling that things are not going the way they planned.
All hail the Battle Fleet Jupiter. A salute to the valiant sacrifice of Botany. This Jovian war is a big key in what the Aliens are losing here are the advance tech fleets the old rusty crusty Victor 80 fleet will be their upkeep waste .
Lovin it Perun !!
I was real worried at 10:07 that the frigate was about to collide with the battleship. That was a very close maneuver, glad it worked out
They won't actually collide unless Perun clicks the "ram head" looking button to enable ramming mode. I've used it a couple times to kill alien motherships that decided to bowl through the center of my formation.
remember, in space, you have to think in 3D.
A glorious fight that will go down in history as they Aliens tried to kick the humans back and lost a leg in the process, brilliant fight commander
I like to imagine the decoy stations have a bunch of inflatable modules and are running their reactors at full power to look like a bigger station.
That's actually a strategy use in Mobile Suit Gundam, where the subatomic particle that made compact fusion possible nullified long range radar means using balloon dummy mock up can waste enemy shots.
Hope this goes over well folks, in my view it fits:
I tell you a tale of a distant place
Where man fought monster to his face
Humanity stood and said NO MORE!
Death (Hades) and Destruction (Scourge) evened the Score
Alone to start held the gate
But soon Humanity (HF-01) was there to help shoulder the weight
The Botany Bay arrived first to try and aid
Lost all hands in the Xenos wake
Revenge was had by all of course
Amongst the Moons of Jupiter
Jovian's Course
Laid the way for today and taught all that Humanity came to play
Now children hear and rejoice our home is ours Join the Force
For you can make a difference today, Xenos it's time to pay!
Humanity First Recruitment Radio Advertisement circa 2040
The numbering of episodes isn't an issue! The fact I've been solely waiting for these releases above everything else might be a problem 😂
An early episode? A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one.
I love these episodes that release early since I can watch them while having my morning coffee before going to work. Also I have to say the Jovian Campaign sounds like a killer arc of a book scifi book series
In the expanse book series a war is referred to as the Io campaigns! It pretty hard science-fiction similar like Terra invicta!
@@Phoenix-vf4nd and with the achievement ’Beltalowda’ for setting up shop on Ceres the devs are well aware of that. Also the look and attitude of the resistance. Just need an OPM mod now 😊
@@TheBlondDaemon the resistance leader sounds an awful lot like Naomi Nagata. Do we know who the voice actor is?
@@TheBlondDaemon That achievement seriously cracked me up when I got it :D
The demonstration of patience in this series is amazing. Such as, holding on and not going to space too early, building up the mega nations on earth at a steady pace. Very slow and deliberate.
Hanse Castillo must be eyeing up a spot at a Geriatrics Facility now, right?
Again, he served in the Falkland Islands war in 1982, so he could be pushing 70 or 80 by now.
Though I doubt he’d join the orbital elite until after the war is over.
Considering all the genetic and cybernetic modification technology that Humanity First has researched, I suspect he's keeping himself alive and well through those methods.
@@blackknightpraetor1667 So far each of the life extension research accumulated to about 30-40 extra years. Castillo with enough gene therapy and dedication could probably still kick ass as an elite
Darth Castillo is more machine now than man
There is a tech that call "Project Matusalemme" or something like that, so i think 146 y.o. will be nothing for them
@@marco_grt4460 Methuselah. Named after a dude in the bible who allegedly lived to be 969 years old.
As Admiral Adama once said, "Sometimes you gotta roll the hard 6"
No Admiral Ackbar yet,although he is a zeno's so I suppose he'd be not exactly welcomed. But his crews loved serving under him in the star wars universe.
@@Rellana1 The space fish can stay, he likes freedom just like us.
@@scorpixel1866 I feel that Admiral Ackbar would whack anyone with his Mon Cal Star Cruiser that wasn't for freedom.
oh man the Jovian Campaign has been amazing, feels like something out of the Pacific Theater of WW2, defending a critical island from an invader, well done!
The WW2 parallels are abundant, and also make for some good set pieces and ideas for HF propaganda posters hehe
Engineers hearing Perun is bring more ships back to base: YAY!
Engineers realizing they'll have 4.5 days to repair, rearm, and refuel: At least it's not hours this time.
Edit: I'm all for calling the Jovian area and the Fleet stationed there Cadia.
The battle that decides the fate of mankind has begun. Godspeed, brave sons and daughters of Earth!
Some may die in battle, but they will die free!
Also Max will owe the space marine's a round when they get back to earth. Everytime you blow an alien ground base or space station up you get the intel on all alien's on earth. IF you use the marines to do so. Not quite sure it is an intended feature, but worth noting.
Now THAT is something I will use a lot. Thanks for the the info.
This series of engagements has a very similar feel to the situation the American navy found itself in during August 1942-December 1942 at Guadalcanal
Hades and Desolation almost like epic Battlestar Galactica levels of tempo.
Except winning!
I got a Lockheed Martin ad for this one, YT really knows where to put ads lmao.
I think the game uses Decatons (10-tons) as its units for resources, so they loaded 2000+ tons of hydrogen in 8 hours
For comparison, the fueling rate of the space shuttle external tank was ~4 tons per minute. That would be 1920 tons in 8 hours. So it's not that far off from modern ground-based standards, which based on the rest of the technology upgrades, I'm betting they can quite well replicate in space.
Also I’m picturing a second crew and rookies sitting on IO fortress, and switching out crews after every docking and the recruits replacing the losses.
44:15 I have been imagining the news flowing toward Earth as the population hears about engagements happening and amateur astronomers spotting flashes from weapons fire.
I haven't been this invested in a Let's Play in years! The Battle for Jupiter is nailbiting; a single serious mistake could spell doom for the Jovian campaign and set Humanity First back months. When the Perun accepted the battle with the plasma destroyer I was excited to see how he planned to handle it, only to have that excitement turn to dread as I realized he hadn't seen the loadout. This is incredible and I am loving every second!
This is amazing, Thank You!
The Jovian Campaign has me on the edge of my seat, and cheering with every victory!
And holy shit that feeling when HF-01 arrivde and Humanity's Fleet Power in-system more than Tripled.
Someone could write a really compelling Novel or Short Story Series about this Campaign. And a Series of Novels about this play through. Wish I had the skill to do it justice.
@PerunGamingAU
Loading 2717 tons of water, ~1600 pounds of volatiles (food for the crew, presumably), 3.3 tons of regular metal and 4.1 tons of noble metals in ~7 hours is totally doable with current ground-based pumping and loading technologies: the only trick they would need is to be able to produce that kind of speed in zero-G, although I would expect a specialized space dock/shipyard would be able to have the kind of facilities to make that happen.
Heck, the fact that it's *only* 2717 tons of water speaks a lot for the mass efficiencies of nuclear fusion.
On a more fluff-related side:
I would like to imagine that each of these ships are still nominally controlled by the Earth-based nations, so EAUSS Аид (Hades) and USNASS Scourge sounds probably more appropriate for the two main warships of BF Jupiter.
Edit: At 47:15, don't you have a space dock in orbit around Mars? Wouldn't having TF ANZAC replenish at Mars be faster than taking it all the way back to Earth...?
I’m coming back to say that I think this might be your greatest gaming channel video. Excellent work.
Nice work! I have got to say I bet that Crew is exhausted kind of giving me Battlestar Galactica vibes with the constant Action Refit Refuel Action rinse and repeat.
I'd be really tempted to just complete all the techs around and under 1k, just to stop them from cluttering the research screen.
Yes, all glory to Battlefleet Jupiter, but I am cracking up at your Victor-80 shenanigans. All it needs now is Yakety Sax.
Agent Romeo-Lima, Resistance Logistics Team "Public Relations"
Contact Report with Humanity First Liaison, Codename Foxtrot-Lima
March 27th, 2039
Foxtrot was agitated throughout the Hydrogen exchange. Lima-Actual, yes, but her team as well. None of the usual Low Orbit drama gossip, and one of their techs nearly punched Tetsuo's teeth in when he joked about long hours. Asked Lima-Actual to reign in her boys and she nearly did the same to me. Here's the interesting bit - they seemed to be especially pissed about Navy being in LEO. Something about them not giving us all this fuel just for us to sip whisky in orbit. A little bit of HF Machismo, I'm sure, but something else, too. Think they want us up there with them.
Gives credence to those signatures we're seeing in the Jovian system. What's more, I'm pretty sure Victor scored something and shoved a bee in their collective bonnets. Recommend a gentle touch with Hanse for the next little while. Might be good to have fleet pluck the next Victor that comes in system... if we can beat the Sydney to it. Not just for PR, Fiona. Some of the chest-thumping got the blood up in my boys. Recommend we get some redundant personnel in in the next little while. I'm of the opinion we're going to need them.
- End Transmission -
Battlefleet Jupiter had managed to hold the xeno. Now the cavalry from Battlefleet Terra had arrive. Time to bring it on! Glory to Humanity!
The Jupiter conflict highlights the need for smaller ships that can fill the gaps that the Battle Crusiers cant fill. Imagine a few smaller fleets of crusiers and destroyers that could catch the smallers fleets and individual ships the BC's would be wasting DV going after. Imagine getting nearly a 100% intercept rate.
Does he have the economy/MC to support that many ships and still expand?
We kept winning. The most novel inventions of humankind were on our side. We kept winning even as the Botany was eviscerated by a phaser and her reactor exploded, killing all hands on board. We kept winning even when the xeno bastards threw plasma at one of our best, the Hades. My friend, a Eurasian cosmonaut I once knew dirtside from Mars, was only an airlock away from those men in the center of the Hades. He saw his friends covered in the blue plasma, and exposed to the vacuum of space, all that was left was sizzling goop burning holes into the hull.
I remember vividly the news of the arrival of the HF01, I was aboard that ship Hades assisting with rescue efforts. I saw my Eurasian friend. He could do nothing but shake his head and cry. Those bastard reptilian scoundrels give no mercy and they will receive none from us.
- Anonymous US Navy Astronaut
Thought for the battle: „None died in his name, that died in vain“
I really want to see what some people come up with for the stories of the Jovian campaign. I’m just imagining the repair of BF Jupiter being similar to the repairs of the USS Yorktown after the Battle of the Coral Sea
Mate... I cannot wait until the next day to see the next episode. This is my life now
Same... ahhh what I wouldn't give for more than 1 episode, I don't think its possible tho and I respect them for not dropping quality for profit.
For all it's attention to detail, I think there are some glaring simplifications:
- Fuel/ammo depots in space/ground stations. That would make space combat strategy more interesting (especially since you'd need resupply ships)
- Auto-wreck gathering - a dedicated ship to analyze and gather wrecks (human and alien). A credible way to boost science gain also.
Also resources, of course.
I'm guessing the fear is actually needing a real-life naval HQ to play this thing.
Why is this more compelling storytelling than what Hollywood has produced in the last half decade? This could be a whole TV series.
Makes me curious how the “advanced” scenario will work. Imagine If the game started like the Expanse.
Netflix is making Cixin Liu's "Three Body Problem" trilogy into a series. The books were amazing. Only time will tell about the television adaptation.
@@adamanthony3585 I have…. Mixed feelings about Netflix. But I’ll say this; Perun’s run is a hell of a lot more hopeful than Liu’s work. Although I would say Perun is absolutely practicing Dark Forest diplomacy. As the Hydra did so long ago.
@@elijahsnow3119 I know exactly what you mean about Netflix. I'm in the same boat! I am really enjoying Perun's play through... Kinda reminds me of a mix of "Children of a Dead Earth" and "Dark Forest" (if we were more peer to peer). Likewise it reminds me of a lot of battle tactics described in Atomic Rockets (Project Rho).
Io Fortress could be the best Space Station drama since Babylon 5.
@@adamanthony3585 basically all of the physics in the game has been lifted straight from Atomic Rockets.
Scourge and Hades. Name a more iconic duo in the Xeno War. What a couple of legends.
31 March 2039
*Just outside Ganymede orbit*
*Battle fleet Jupiter HFS Hades*
*Taken from bridge Voice recorder*
Captain: Helm plot standard maneuver, sweep starboard and prepare to face prow to primary target
Helm: Aye aye Captain, setting course standard starboard combat sweep.
Tactical: Three enemy targets identified, tentative classification as frigate size. Targets are designated Tango 1,2 and 3 Captain.
Captain: Goodwork, tactical prepare all PD systems for fleet coverage and maximum response speed.
Tactical: All PD systems set to fleet defense and standing by at combat readiness Captain.
Captain: Alright everyone holdfast here we go.
*Engagement timer **3:04*
Tactical: Incoming projectiles detected from all tangos, Plotting PD intercepts and linking in with the Scourges PD net.
Tactical Assistant: Wait... computer is unable to resolve intercepts for projectiles from Tango 1.
No firing solution possible
Tactical: Manuel overide and recompute PD firing solution for Tango 1 projectiles, now!
Tactical Assistant: No change, can't localize the projectiles! Impact immanent!
Tactical: Computer Database has flagged Tango 1 's Projectile as Plasma based!
Captain: God dammit, brace for impact!
Helm emergency maneuver, bring the prow around to face Tango 1. Maximum thrust!
*Hades is hit at Engagement timer **3:20*
Damage Control: Yellow alarms, midline hits. Damage in frames 5,6,7 and 8. Teams are dispatched now.
Tactical: PDs are down and radiators are hit weapons cooling is reduced by 50% Captain
Captain: Helm maintain prow to Tango 1, Coms inform Scourge of our damages and tell them they have to take the lead. We will back them up.
Helm/Coms: Yes Captain
Captain: Tactical engage Tango 1 primary Battery maximum fire!
*End of excerpt from HFS Hades Bridge recorder, Engagement timer **7:06*
Let's gooooo! ✨💯
Love the content!. This Alien combat power is insane, btw.
The fate of mankind depends upon the battle of Jupiter. Let every man do his utmost!
-Colonel Hanse Castile, in his direct order to HF 1 and battlefleet Jupiter
I'm absolutely loving this series, I binged watched most of it in under a week. I love the capacity for roleplay and storytelling that this game provides. Battlefleet Jupiter could have a whole battlestar Galactica series written about these engagements. I would love to see some more ship design in the episodes if you could squeeze it in, especially once this new generation of technologies comes off the line.
"I was 18 when the first xeno ship crash landed on earth soil. We were scared at first but excited as well . Those hopes were dashed when we began hearing from other HF operatives about them and my country was under there goverments control. We held out for as long as we could while begging for help but none came. South Africa was always a diveded nation on some level but some of us wanted to fight back. So we used some old guerilla tactics like we used against the Brits back 2 centuries ago. It worked for some time but those xenos dug deep. When moves were being made to join us back up with the UK as a new commonwealth we felt a bit hessitant but anything was better than being under the xeno foot. After the sussecion I joined the navy ready to take the fight back to the aliens scum."
Exerpt from crewman John-Henry Ross 31
I think you win quite handsomely if you manage to keep up these sorts of engagements. 1 : 15 loss ratio seems like an excellent number.
Top that off with the very occasional Xenos base destruction and you've got a winning strategy.
Good job.
Can confirm 15:1 in humanity's favour. If I was the aliens I would be getting a little worried at this point.
@@notbotheredable I have this feeling this campaign is going to end in total xenos destruction sooner, rather than later. Which is giving me vital information for my own campaign. Turtle until you can build good ships, build something in the outer solar system, make sure you have all your fleets arrive a few days after, happy hunting as now all individual xenos fleets will converge on your location.
Audio recording of a crew member abourd the Hades:
"After our first engagement with the Hydra scum in march of '38 had gone so well the crew was jovial. We had gotten out of the engagement with nary a scratch on the paint. In a testament to our victory over the Hydra fleet someone (and I won't mention who *Jack*) fashioned an effigy of the Hades out of some spare pipe and a gray sock with the word HF-Hades written on the side in red paint. Crude. But effective. Everyone spent time tossing around the cabins handing it off to the next watch. It was a simple symbol of our odds. A rag-tag ship in an alien sea. However a few days ago we had a minor electrical fire on board I say minor as no one was hurt but it could have been way worse. The whole crew was distressed when we had seen the that effigy of the Hades had been burnt. I hear seamen are some of the most superstitious lads in the world but what of space sailors? I myself couldn't help but think of the burnt ship as the bolts of plasma banged agginst the hull of the HF-HADES making a whooshing sound that echoed up and down the Battle cruiser. Each time I thought "This is the one. This one will get us. I'll be sucked out into space and not even have time to scream" I am reliefed to hear that I'll be relieved soon. Im going to need some time to get over that. But I'll at least be able to keep HF-HADES mini with me. You know, for safe keeping..."
End of Recording
The battle is won, but the war has only gotten more interesting.
The ones to watch are the assault carriers, those things are scarier than motherships. At least the ones that fit mostly missiles. That's the problem the aliens have, aside from the gunships you've met, I've barely seen anything not fitting primarily missiles. I usually have 4 dedicated pd boats in my fleet which basically means I have barely taken any casualties in the whole Jovian campaign.
Although mine happens some years later in game time, so I have dreadnoughts in my fleet.
It also looks like the aliens in your campaign are better equipped than in mine. That's interesting. I also haven't seen any bases on earth even though there's also an alien administration.
Would really like to see the alien development once I finish
These ships are like the ships trying to get ready for Midway.
Hades and Scourge will be held at a place of honour for generations to come for their gallantry
I am curious how Perun will handle large fleet battles, he always forgets his 3rd ship in some of these battles, now he's +7. xD
I have been binge watching these all week. This series is so good and things are really ramping up now with the war at Jupiter! Very excited for more!
I would love to see an animated series of the Scourge and Hades locking down Jupiter against insurmountable odds and winning every step of the way like they have! I hope it doesn't have a tragic ending, but even so, it would be a hell of an awesome watch!
This episode really shows how the idea of picket ships (pd boats) are a great thing to add to every fleet. Even if the don't survive every fight, the defense they can provide can be the difference between a win and lost.
If I understand the concept correctly, the PD boats are essential Aegis cruiser equivalents. Shields to the BCs' swords.
@@emm6064 Exactly, Picket Ships normally serve two roles, scouting and interception, which is exactly what the current Aegis cruisers do.
A guide for the top level tech tree, what to rush, whats a duplicate for weapon tech to only pick one, what to avoid. That would be useful.
Essentially. Many people wind up going to wide and delaying T3 hubs, or science orbitals, or councillors, or MC cap modifications, etc... They wind up unlocking 18 weapons and armor types then not knowing what to use and wasting half the science for no reason.
I think just top level is clear as once you unlock the actual techs people can read them. But if u wanted to add time you could go 2nd level techs, or how to rush them (build/orgs giving gears vs sci), or whether its worth rushing global tech or just your own.
32:19 Clearly the result of superior human made inflatable station modules. We just ship the most dangerous looking ones to the decoys.
This playthrough is the most epic SF after Lem's "The Invincible". Bravo TI developers and thank you Perun!
Congrats, with the power of Pherocytes, you've become the very thing you sought to destroy.
Apparently you can set a national policy to disband armies, which you might want for the EU.
The EU armies while not as good as the US do give him a lot of defensive options in case the mothership fleet decides to escort something like 10 assault carriers for simultaneous landings.
The satisfaction of brachistochrone trajectories will never fail
Loving the names of the bait stations, this series has all the little touches. Amazing work!
I don't remember if you acknowledged this, but your occasional scuffles with the starting fleet formation obligates me to remind you and any other player that you can affect the starting formation with custom settings before each battle, dictating what ships are where, how tightly/widely packed they are etc.
This needs to be more well known.
It's a pretty useful feature, when you remember to use it.
@@happerry4651 cloud formation with heavy ships at the center is great when you have one or more PD boats supporting bigger ships for example, as the smaller PD vessels will start out above and below the big bois, making overlapping PD coverage easier to manage
Perun drops a video just in time for lunch? You spoil us, good sir!
I am enthralled by this series, please keep it up and continue with other playthroughs
Enthralled?! You're not one of their marionett are you
Emergent storytelling at it's finest!