Socialist Commonwealth
Establishing Nation
Rijeka
It had taken longer than the Commonwealth government had desired, but right now, its geopolitical plans outpaced its naval abilities. Eventually, nine frigates had been assembled into a small task force with the necessary range to operate off the coast of Ebria comfortably. Four more would be on standby to allow for rotations if the mission would drag on. The force was far from the one necessary for the kind of blockade Svetograd had announced to the world, but with its naval focus in the past having been on coastal defense, this was the best the Free Peoples' Navy could muster.
It would do. While a bigger force for power projection would have been nice, an actually effective blockade hadn't been the Commonwealths plan anyways. What the ships were meant to do was chiefly to monitor the Tarusan presence, detect openings through which supplies and volunteers could still be smuggled into the country, while trying to prevent the Tarusans from doing the same. A naval standoff wasn't the plan and couldn't be won by the Commonwealth forces either way. On the plus side, this probably meant that the Pelasgians would feel no desire to interfere with the deployment from the Commonwealth. Nine frigates may not even register as a proper fleet for the maritime nation currently embroiled in a war of its own.
It had taken longer than the Commonwealth government had desired, but right now, its geopolitical plans outpaced its naval abilities. Eventually, nine frigates had been assembled into a small task force with the necessary range to operate off the coast of Ebria comfortably. Four more would be on standby to allow for rotations if the mission would drag on. The force was far from the one necessary for the kind of blockade Svetograd had announced to the world, but with its naval focus in the past having been on coastal defense, this was the best the Free Peoples' Navy could muster.
It would do. While a bigger force for power projection would have been nice, an actually effective blockade hadn't been the Commonwealths plan anyways. What the ships were meant to do was chiefly to monitor the Tarusan presence, detect openings through which supplies and volunteers could still be smuggled into the country, while trying to prevent the Tarusans from doing the same. A naval standoff wasn't the plan and couldn't be won by the Commonwealth forces either way. On the plus side, this probably meant that the Pelasgians would feel no desire to interfere with the deployment from the Commonwealth. Nine frigates may not even register as a proper fleet for the maritime nation currently embroiled in a war of its own.