Severan Dominate - Supply Lines: Because of the current stresses upon his resources, the duke has presented one scenario where he considers it acceptable to initiate higher risk offensive actions. This specifically regards any actions which might be taken to secure supplies.Successes in such endeavours represent an effective double win for the Secessionists. Not only do they obtain additional assets to prosecute their war effort, they also manage to deny those same assets to their foes. In at least two cases in the Spinward Front, Imperial assaults floundered, and turned short conflicts into extended campaigns, when Secessionists secured equipment that had been intended for Loyalist troops.Before they can initiate strikes of this style, the Severan Dominate requires two critical tools in their arsenal. The first is accurate intelligence about the Imperial supply lines. The second is units and equipment appropriately trained to seize and reassign the supplies in question.For better or worse, the Secessionists have a very constrained supply of both of these. Information about the supply lines generally comes from native workers who have been forcibly inducted into slave labour groups. These workers have limited access to information and few means of communicating. However, their data are often very accurate.Alternative sources of this information tend to be individuals who have ready access to the Astra Militarum officers' clubs and mess halls. In a few instances, pirates have even managed to identify common transit patterns for Imperial transports.It is critical to note that none of these sources are particularly reliable. Missions that endanger a significant force to capture unconfirmed supplies are often riskier than even the most desperate Secessionists are willing to undertake.Forces committed to stealing supplies must be swift moving and have a significant cargo capacity. In many instances, the Secessionists' mobile assets have been disassembled, so that their components might be used to build defensive structures.An alternative solution has been to steal the vehicles carrying the cargo at the same time as the target supplies. This strategy is, of course, less effective when targeting a supply depot that has been left lightly defended. In other instances, transport vehicles have proven to be far better defended than the depots, which presents another set of challenges.After several early successes, the Imperium has become cognizant of the Severan Dominate's tendency towards targeting its supplies. They have recently begun to leak false information to the Secessionists about timing and security of various deliveries.In two attacks since this change in tactics, the Traitors were defeated without a significant loss of Imperial life. This change in strategy is quite recent, so it remains unclear how the Severan Dominate may respond to this new development in Imperial tactics.Comparable strikes against xenos supplies have been far more limited. This is largely because the Secessionists are far less able to make effective use of any equipment that they might recover. Missions of this type have been used, and likely remain a critical component to the Severan strategy, but they are only executed in much lower risk situations.