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<Got any ideas for stopping it?>"Yeah, nothing fancy. Let's split up into two groups. I'll use the trebuchet, hopefully if we destroy the tower it will stop all this dark magic. You should go the other way and build up your fire. They will be forced to surface to catch up to us, we blast them when they do."
<Its split into three parts, not sure what its next plan is.>"It's trying to waste as much of our damn time as possible!"
Spread my flames and grow them. luckily I still have a significant amount and their growth is exponential - more fire makes it easier to make even more fire. But this is about the lowest I want to let myself get unless it's an emergency. Its fine to make way more fire than I can comfortably control, I'll just let it burn naturally in the environment to be collected later as necessary.
Quote from: strategy(3) Top and Mid: eS, Powder Miner, NAV
(0) Anywhere Else :
(2) Nationalize Businesses: eS, NAV
(2) Don't Nationalize: Powder Miner, Madman
---Fluff it as the issue being stuck in a committee for the next five years because the committee is always made of 5 stereotypical, capitalist Moskurgers and 5 stereotypical, socialist/communist Arstotzkans: (1) Madman
((It's not really a question of physics but of game balance. Eating an ant then gettin +4 strength would just be OP. If anything eating an ant should mostly give fun esoteric bonuses like walking on walls, poison bite, burrowing ability, pheremone sense. Maybe extra limbs, or you shrink but retain your normal strength.((Damn you Square Cube Law!!!))
Of course, you can just tell physics to go [expletive] itself. If I can create a character who can call forth dolls out of thin air without requiring their equivalent in matter, then you can create your bug Aussie too!
UF-RPGM-46 Ribeye Recoiless Rifle Motorcycle Sidecar: (1) NAV
UF-MAD-45 'Blackcat': (3) Madman, Happerry, eS
Undepleted Uranium Rounds
Uranium would make an excellent armour piercing round. It's about 70% denser than lead, and has amazing kinetic penetrating properties.
"Uranium is favored for the penetrator because it is self-sharpening and flammable. On impact with a hard target, such as an armored vehicle, the nose of the rod fractures in such a way that it remains sharp. The impact and subsequent release of heat energy causes it to ignite. When a DU penetrator reaches the interior of an armored vehicle, it catches fire, often igniting ammunition and fuel, killing the crew and possibly causing the vehicle to explode."
Let's make a uranium penetrator round for everything. From 9mm pistol to 300mm Overcompensator. Probably the most relevant for our 15mm Horsekiller II, 20mm and 30mm autocannons, 75mm and 100mm tank cannons.
Ignore the mysterious illness and tumours. Only the weak get that Vlanladosian illness. You're not weak, are you?
Since all we're in an "counting chickens before they hatch" mood, here's a revision. Our infantry still don't have an AT weapon. To hold the mountains outside our capital, lighter vehicles are going to be key. (See how our Sarukh rocket artillery has evolved role-wise into a pack artillery mountain gun.) If we hold the desert but lose the mountains, street fighting in our capital is going to choke heavier vehicles as well.You sir have my vote.
The Canners put out a modern ATGM system, but it hasn't been getting much love because it's too immobile hunt and then evade targets.
So...
UF-RPGM-46 Ribeye Recoiless Rifle Motorcycle Sidecar
The classic AS-M17A motorcycle sidecar has been stripped of its MG and passenger. It its place, a 1 meter long recoiless rifle launcher and two additional rocket reloads for roughly the same weight. The launcher can be both fired and reloaded from the motorcycle seat with some leaning and reaching. The Ribeye AT rocket is a 155mm diameter projectile with a 6 kg HEAT warhead. The Ribeye is designed to ambush modern MBT's, namely the M4A1 Bull, from any aspect for a first shot kill. The launcher includes a Eagle Sight style 4x optical scope.
It's unconventional, but dirt cheap, tank destroyer that can be fielded in any terrain as well as being air dropped by Trustfall parachutes.
UFAF-F-45 'Hayat': (6) Madman, Kashyyk, TheRedwolf, McHuman, Zanzetkuken, NAV
UFAF-AAM-45 'Guillotine': (0)
UFAF-F-45 'Galileo' Multi-Role Fighter: (3) ConscriptFive, Powder Miner, Happerry
