The Romulans fleet of the Lost Era: Romulan Fleet doctrine

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." - Sun Tzu Conventional warfare has always been a Romulan weak spot ever since the Earth-Romulan war ended. While in psyops, it is indeed better to break the enemies' will to fight in the first place. Beware the moving shadows in the night sky, for the talons of a vicious raptor may swoop down upon you.

I chose the Romulan faction in star trek online because in the igbo tribe we have a saying. "Beware, that which moves in darkness is always stronger." Seems to fit hand in hand with the threat the Romulans pose to the rest of the quadrant with their superior stealth and ambush tactics.

5:30 So, if I understand it correctly, the Romulans are basically using Schrödinger's Warbird.

It might be a fun exorcise to create a 25th century Romulan Fleet as if the super nova never happened.

Jolan Tru. i keep hearing you refer to the Kitomer massacre. I have never heard of such event. I have heard the glorious Kitomer liberation

let me just say the art work is top notch. I love that bird of prey motif on the underside of the Nova

The Raider part of the doctrine reminds me of German U-boats from World War 1 and early World War II. The Allies didn't know where the U-boats were but the moment their ships left a ports they consider themselves in enemy Waters until the team at fletchley Park cracked the code of enigma and everyone developed sonar

I really enjoy Beta canon videos because it just adds so many more perspectives on the Star Trek universe and your additions of ships and doctrines and overall stories add to the enjoyment of Star Trek. Thank you very much for that.

So much focus on that border region makes me ask... Klingon Civil War mini-series please? Also I'd be tempted to use this to use and improve on the UK's nascent strategic raiding strategy, completing the circle of art and life imitating each other.

Establishing a "presence" generates uncertainty and increased risk for the opponent. The enemy needs to allocate resouces to protect assets. This denies the enemy the ability to concentrate, forcing them to disperse their forces.

Cool video. And it looks like you will be hitting 20k soon! Congrats on that!

An appropriate answer to this strategy by UFP/SF would be to withdraw from the cloaking element of the treaty comming out of thr Tomed Incident. SF should paint a quadrant wide visual of each attack as a treaty violation, post Tomed. Lobbying a mutual defense pack with the Klingons can't hurt either. Every SF ship being cloak enabled would turn the tables on this straregy. Also, in Canon, when were the Sonus Nets deployed? Was this before TNG era, or before the late 2350s

Superb as always!

Woohoo!

Love this series, and particularly love this explanation of the strategy behind Romulus' incursions on the Klingons between Tomed and the fall of the Duras. Have to offer a map correction though: the star that became the victim of Soran's weapon is named "Amargosa", with an R, named after the desert river.

This sounds like a very easy doctrine to mess up, since it requires a very long term commitment to a slow, careful program of destabilisation that is easy to mess up if you just push a little too hard. It also sounds like a strategy that really only a race like the Romulans or possibly the Vulcans could use, because of their very long lives, where you can have high-command officers, who will stay in office for a century or more, to keep that strategy going and keep it stable. It'd be really easy for an aggressive or over zealous younger officer to screw up and poke the bear too hard.

In the TNG episode Redemption, the Romulans supported the Duras fsction during the Klingon Civio War by deploying a fleet of D'Dedrix class warlords hidden in essentially a large cloaking foeld.

🖖😎👍Very cool and nicely done and very informative indeed 👌.

The Romulans are my favorite

I really like your channel, smooth use of simple and appropriate visuals, great writing with an imperfectly human delivery. I don't mean that in a bad way, it just feels very natural. The lost era in such an interesting timeframe, and I like the divergence of from the D7 type ships into the Klingon and Romulan design lineages. What you've clearly pointed out is the doctrine that informs those design choices. Your videos with Drachinifel were really good, you had great chemistry. I hope you and all your subscribers had an amazing xmas and have a great new year.