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Hi I just got an account on this site because of how interesting this game looks so is it okay if I join in and I don't know throw a few ideas out.

Well mildmannered depending on the circumstances next turn perhaps we could work on an equivalent of the Ford 3-ton tank...um am I allowed to post links I'm still getting used to the idea of posting on a forum and it might help me get the point across. -Edit-                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Well here's the vehicle I'm talking about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_3-Ton_M1918

Ah, so I did loose track of a zero then.

* I would definitely like to second grenades (how could we forget something so basic?).

Proposal: Fragmentation Grenade Pattern 808
This is a simple, egg-shaped grenade. It consists of a four-second fuse, which is initialized by releasing a safety lever (which itself is secured by a pullable ring). The body is cast iron, and is intended to splinter during detonation. It is filled with smokeless powder. There is a small threading on the bottom of the grenade, allowing it to accept a stick to throw it further. This increases the grenade's weight from 3/4kg to one kg.

* Some kind of cheap sea-mine would be useful, but too complicated to make reliable with our tech. Some land mines would be nice though...

Proposal: Sea Mine Pattern 808
This is a 40cm-diameter sea mine. It is cast iron, and contains the same charge as our torpedoes (50kg). It consists of the body, contact detonators, and an anchor cable of 75m length. It is intended to be thrown overboard with the anchor set to according the current depth. It is then deployed, remaining a few meters under water.
Due to using the same diameter as our torpedoes while being lighter and shorter, it should be possible to carry two or three of the sea mines for every torpedo, and deploy them using the torpedo tubes.

Here are a few Mule based proposals:
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We have several 250pp factories on loan. 500pp is enough to get us 10,000 helmets. If every longarm in equipment represents 1 soldier, that leaves 1,400 helmets left to distribute, which should be enough for the rest of our troops I should hope. So for minimal investment, we can have all of our soldiers wearing helmets yesterday.

@Swordfish: That's basically what I was thinking, only with the addition of seeing if we can resolve the slower turning without it being especially expensive. If that is possible, then after the results from this design turn, we can start refitting our older model Swordfish into radio equipped, harder hitting, but just as able models. So a direct upgrade in all aspects.

Just spitballing here, but if we were worried about smaller vessels/hypothetical future aircraft, welding some of our HMGs' tripods to the deck rails of the Swordfish should be both extremely easy and fairly effective.

We seem to be doing well on the weaponry front at the moment. If the results from this past design turn don't require us to do too much back tracking, we could be in a position to use most of our engineers to work on developing infrastructure and logistics this next turn.

If such is the case, I'm thinking another 4x300pp line of factories speced for truck generation (after we finish designing the truck as we currently only have the engine) and another line of 4x300pp for either general use or throwing more of a specifc weapon out there (if we push our artillery and ammunition production further it could push our current advantage there to greater heights) would work out quite well for resolving our deployment issues.

If we can get a jump start on radios (emitters, receivers, encoders, decoders, and possibly towers that also do the previous, though that might need to wait a few turns for development. Morse code works fine for now as any upgrade is good, though vocals would be nice eventually.), that would allow for a great deal of logistical progress and coordination.

Once we have that sorted, trains would be a decent idea for instate redeployment and distribution, but I have a feeling that we'll use up most of our engineers working on the above.

Or we could also work on the engineer academy this upcoming turn in exchange for waiting on one of the previous suggestions. Getting that jump started would also allow for later things to progress much more smoothly.

Edit: You may have been joking about building a 45,000t drydock, but another avenue we could pursue is doubling down on our ship production, development, and deployment (a new harbor might be achievable) and completely devastating anything they have in reach of the shore, allowing for backdoor marine deployments to get around the current trench warfare.

Edit2: There are several high value targets within one or two tiles of the coast, including what appears to be a factory. If we're able to strike those then that would provide us a signficant advantage.

I don't have the experience or knowledge in regards to design production and this game that some of you have, so I will probably operate on an idea suggestion and voting stasis.

Are we able to sit them down for a year for increased efficiency from them later on?

It might be a decent idea to look into setting up a training program so that we can turn newbies into basic engineers at a decent pace, but we'd almost certainly need to wait until our next batch of engineers to have the personnel to make that worth while.

The war this year has taken a turn for the destructive, with both sides wheeling out modern artillery pieces. For the Republic, their piece is the Pattern 806 "Ratio" field gun, capable of firing at a distance or delivering witheringly accurate fire in a direct fire role. The Monarchy has wheeled out their quick-fire "striker" field gun, lobbing 25lb shells at targets. Of them, the "ratio" is by far the best in direct fire roles, even with the Strikers purpose designed ammunition for the job(a shrapnel shell that turns it into a giant shotgun), while both guns are let down by poor HE performance at range. According to rumors, both sides have been hard at work attempting to correct this deficiency.

In addition to this, Republic shock troops have been attacking trenches at short range with their recently produced pattern 803 Trench Broom(their second try at such a weapon), a rapid fire weapon firing the 10x30mm "special" round and their more prevalent Jupiter pistols. However, these attacks have been largely countered by the rapid deployment of machineguns and infantry via truck(least, when said trucks are not shifting about field guns) while the Republican forces have largely been unable to move up reinforcements to exploit these gaps in the lines.

Likewise, Republican forces have begun producing their own machineguns that have made the Monarchy unable to storm Republican trenches.

At sea, the two initial Republican naval vessels have been joined by two more, both equipped with torpedo launchers (single tubes, one on each side). These have been hammering ports and any ships unlucky enough to find them, and have been noted to be able to hit a single target with their guns while making the extreme maneuvers necessary to get off both tubes. At the same time, what arty has been able to be spared from the front is so thinned out as to be almsot useless.

So, to recap: War on land is messy trench warfare with one side equipped with helmets and using trucks to bring up some reinforcements and the other side using deadly direct fire arty(when they can bring it up fast enough) and proto-SMGs. At sea, its a curb stomp for the Republic.

Quote from: stabbymcstabstab on June 28, 2016, 03:56:15 pm

For spy round I propose we find out the range on the rice-eaters new rockets, since those are currently fucking us up.

I agree

Also the cannon balls filled with oil could be use for naval warfare, if we can set their junks on fire we'll wipe out their naval forces vastly faster due to the fact that it's much harder to repair a burnt ship then one that just has holes in it.