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Original Thread: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=169365.0

Available military volunteers: 50,000
Political Points: 5
Steel stockpile: 2,500 Metric Tons
Production: 2,500 Metric Tons

Objective:

I want to simulate a war where all parties are technologically flat, shifting focus from design of kit and gear to micro-strategy.

The strategic map(s) will be a several copypasta(s) of google earth, with terrain, realistic frontages and ranges taken into account. The factions will be largely (sort of) fictional, with symmetrical starting strengths.

Team Blue will be Marseille , holding the area we call France, with Paris as its capital. Team Red will be Deutchland, holding the area we call Germany, with Berlin as its capital.

The land map will be limited to Germany and France and the countries caught in between. Sea battle shall not be simulated.

Thread for Deutchland: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=169366.0

Thread for Marseille: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=169367.0


Game Flow:
January 1914 to June 1914: The road to war
Each turn is 1 month. Each nation has 6 turns to mobilize their army and prepare for war. War begins in July. Deployment of battalions and divisions can be expedited during month long turns. (like we won't count marching kilometers, we just deploy them.)

July 1914 onwards: Day by day in the trenches
Each turn is 1 DAY. Each nation deploys every single battalion in detail along the borders. You then fight to the death.
As each turn is 1 day, a political point is awarded for spending every 6 days instead of 5 monthly.

Hidden fun stuff:
You may go across neutral countries (Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland) and turn them into warzones. But unexpected things may happen.

Other assumptions: Perfect information. Everyone roughly knows what everyone is doing, but we can keep voting in their own threads so it's organized. Turns run from a few days to a week or two.

War turn flow:

Movement phase: You draw arrows on a google map in the general direction of your divisions' advance. The general staff will be democratized, and the most voted for plan wins.
You may also split the armies into army groups for sanity sake and theater management.

Battle phase: I compute rolls for every single company on the field.

Other player actions: You can be officered and take direct command of a company or battalion on the field, and ignore your fellow general staff's instructions if you so wish.

Strategic Variables:
Political Power - Every month you get 5 points of political power to take non-combat strategic actions. - Namely mobilization, which is the creation of new military units and industrial expansion - which gives you the material to create said units. Successes in the field can increase the rate at which political power is awarded. Disasters deplete the will of the country and reduce the rate at which political power is given. The exact mechanics of what consists of a "success" or "disaster" and its severity will be at the GM's discretion.

Recruitment - 1 Political point enables the recruitment of 10,000 conscripts. The exact organization of said troops will be discussed in the military section. Each side has roughly 50 million human beings in total, and the casualty figure in proportion to total population will have an impact on political power.

Steel Industry - The starting production of each faction shall be 2,500.000 metric tons of steel. The use of which is covered in the military section. Political power can be spent to increase this figure by up to 1% per turn per point spent. Demographic changes to the country or significant losses in territory or logistical disruptions can adversely affect this figure.

Mobilization - Decreases steel output by 1% but increases the number of men conscripted per political point spent by 10%.

Politick - Attempt to influence the opinion of a minor country on the map.

Tactical Variables:

The smallest tactical unit simulated shall be the company. But every footsoldier shall be counted. Each soldier is simulated by providing a number of dice attacks to their unit...
A company shall be 250 men. A battalion 1000 men. A regiment, 3000 men. A division can be any combination of regiments.

Dice:
A soldier rolls a number of dice equal to their quality to attack. The number of total attack dice is modified by terrain, distance, morale and in some cases, supply.
Against an enemy exposed on open ground (on the march or attacking) an attack hits on a 4 or higher.
Against an enemy that is stationary but unentrenched, an attack hits on a 5 or 6.
Against an entrenched enemy, an attack hits only on a 6.

A units hitpoints is equal to their dice rating + modifiers. If a unit of 200 regular troops with a 2 dice rating each receive 21 hits, 10 of them die. Hits to kill are always rounded down.

Infantry must have line of sight to attack. And can make use of defilades and slopes.

Range:
Units hit with their full power at 100 metres or less.
Units hit with 50% power at 300 metres. Between 100 and 300 metres the formula is {1-(D-100)/200}*0.5+0.5 where D is the range.
Units hit with 10% power at 1000 metres. Between 300 to 1000 metres the formula is {1-(D-300)/700}*0.4+0.1 where D is the range

Morale:
Morale is a measure of both leadership and disposition of a tactical unit. Morale is measured in percentage. For every 1% of manpower lost in a company, 1% of morale shall be lost, and combat effectiveness is reduced. A unit at 50% morale has offensive dice reduced by 50%. This stacks with range modifiers in a multiplicative way. Morale cannot go above 100% or below 0%.

Officers:
Bay12 Players, apart from playing the general staff can choose adopt a combat unit and control it directly. Even to the point of ignoring the general staff if they choose to.

A Captain provides a 100% morale boost to a single company, inspiring them to feats of heroism or suicidal bravery.

A Colonel provides a 25% morale boost to a battalion of 4 companies.

Tactical Maneuvers:

Normal Move: A unit travels at its usual speed. If hit by fire it is exposed and the enemy lands hit on 4 ups.

Forced March: A unit travels at double speed but takes 1% casualties in attrition per day if militia. 0.5% casualties if Regular, and none if veteran.

Attack: A unit fires on an enemy, with all ranged penalties and entrenchment effects taken into account.

Standing Orders to Engage: A unit fires on the nearest enemy every day without fail, regardless of what happens.

Massed Charge: A unit heroically leaps out of their trench, runs across the entirety of no man's land and storms the enemy trenches. The enemy gets a free shot every 100 metres of no man's land that the charging units have to cross. If they land in the enemy trenches, they engage the enemy without any fortification effects.

Cautious advance: A unit advances slowly and the enemy only lands hits on them on 5s and 6s. They may try to dig a new trench the next day. They may also attempt to fire on the same day.

Entrench: A unit digs a new trench where it stands. It doesn't matter how many survive at the end of the day. If enough men started the trenchworks, a trench would be built that day.

Reorganization: Depleted Companies can be combined to create whole companies. This conveniently replenishes the morale of the newly formed companies. Companies must be completely homogeneous in terms of type of men and equipment given.


Unit Types:

Infantry:
Militia
Dice: 1
Training Time: 1 month
Foot Speed: 2km/h or 16 km a day.

Regulars
Dice: 2
Training Time: 3 months or 2 months of continuous combat by a militia unit.
Foot Speed: 3km/h or 24 km a day.

Veterans
Dice: 3
Training Time: 12 months or 6 months of continuous combat by a regular unit
Foot Speed: 6km/h or 48 km a day.

Equipment:
Infantry Equipment:
Notes: Helmet and small arms that outfit all infantry.
Cost: 0.010 Metric Tons per man. 2.5 Metric Tons per 250 man company. 10 Tons per Battalion

Trench Armor:
Effect: +1 hitpoints per man when receiving hits. Equipped companies must be homogeneous
Effect: HALVES the speed of infantry equipped. (If you mass charge while wearing armor, you run 50 metres instead of 100 metres)
Cost: 0.010 Metric Tons per man. 2.5 Metric Tons per 250 man company. 10 Tons per Battalion

Artillery:
Artillery shall be organized into 25 gun batteries, with 10 men per gun. Each man requires a set of infantry equipment. When receiving fire. Each man shall have the hitpoints of 1 dice only. A gun is destroyed for every 10 men lost in a battery. 4 batteries can form an artillery regiment.

Artillery have 10 times the range of infantry. They hit with full power out to 1000 metres, 50% at 3 km, 10% at 10 km. They may also entrench themselves.

Light Artillery (5-7.5cm):
Dice: 5 (attack only)
Training time: 3 months.
Speed: 2km/hr or 16km a day.
Cost: 2 tons

Heavy Artillery (15cm)
Dice: 10 (Attack only)
Training Time: 3 months
Speed: 1km/hr or 8km a day.
Range Special: x1.2 - 100% at 1200m 50% at 3600m 10% at 12km
Cost: 6 tons

Super Heavy Artillery (30cm)
Dice: 100 (Attack Only)
Training Time: 3 months
Speed: 0.5 km/hr or 4 km a day
Range Special: x4 - 100% at 4000m 50% at 12km 10% at 40km.
Cost: 1,500 tons
May be ordered in single pieces.
Each piece has 100 men worth of manpower and hitpoints instead of 10.

There shall be no other units. No cavalry. nope.

Pretty picture of the Marsielle-Deutchland border with both Paris and Berlin visible:
Verdun isn't visible, but it's just west of Metz...

Discord Server: https://discord.gg/6eGZYTp - Live play by discord VTM games also happen here.


Mechanics:
Each rolling test uses a stat + a skill to give you the number of dice rolled. Every dice 4 and above is a degree of success. 1s without a success would result in a comedic critfail. 6s contribute to collateral damage.

Character Sheet:

Experience and Point Allocation

You start with 1 level in each stat and skill. Every additional level costs 5x(the level bought). Level 2 costs 10 points, level 3 costs 15 points, etc.

Allocate 20xp as you see fit. Every mission gives 10 xp.

Stats:

Skills:

Dice systems:

Armory:

Premise: You are strangers who happen to be in close proximity to each other in a generic suburban shopping mall. Then the screaming started. Panic is in the air. The crowds feel the sudden urge to rush for the exits!

System: This is a Vanilla RTD with zombies.
1 - Epic failure - you trip over your own feet, slide on puddle, then tumble down a flight of escalators into the waiting zombie horde.
2 - Normal failure - you trip over your own feet and land face first on a hard concrete floor
3 - Partial failure. - you run, but can't keep up with the group. The chasing zombies start singling you out as the weakest prey in the herd.
4 - Generic Success - You run away, the chasing zombies single out some other poor sod lagging behind as their target, you have enough breathing space to maneuver if you need to.
5 - epic success - You run as if your life depends on it and put considerable distance between you and the pursuing horde
6 - overkill - As you sprint pass some bystanders you knock over a mother with a baby, who falls down a flight of escalators into a waiting zombie horde.

Survival notes:
You need to consume food and water to survive. We will sort of track this.

Player Sheet:

Name:
Occupation before the Apocalypse:
Appearance:
Personality:
Professional Skill(s): (If you could do up to 2 things right, what would they be?)
Hobbies: (Pick up to 3 things that you also dabble in.)
What do you have in your pockets: You can start with anything if it fits in your pockets and blends in with the context of a shopping mall.


Obituaries:
Hillary Clinton - Fell down a flight of escalators while charging into melee against cannibals with a giant book.
Doomrider - Suicide by cocaine

Burden of Command: A hard choice maker is you!

Objective of the Game:
Burden of Command is a pseudo-high-mortality game where the player is a freshly minted lieutenant in charge of an army of grunts. You are in charge of sending men to their deaths to complete *strategic objectives*. The better you get at completing objectives, the more resources get thrown your way. This game is also trying to simulate army logistics in a !fun! (OCD) way.

Character Creation:
Your commander character is not a hero of the likes of achilles and hector. He is an organiser and decision-maker who does not take part in combat personally.

Character Sheet:


Personal Attributes:
All instructions sent out from your HQ are rolled against one of these

Distribute 10 points among the following, every 5 points gives +1/3 to rolls. A score below 3 gives a -1.

Coup d'ouil: "A glance that takes a comprehensive view." The quality of mind that can discern truth and solutions in combat from thousands of possibilities.
Operational Vigor: Personal Energy of Action that allows for complex and rapid instructions to be sent out.
Character: The commander's ability to communicate his convictions. This also affects his morale: if the commander breaks, the unit breaks.

Headquarters:
The headquarters contains supporting staff and equipment that handles many non-combat functions and also facilitates research and development.

Communications/Signals: Ability to make sure instructions get through to all echelons. The more platoons under your command, the more the demands on this department.
Logistics/Transport: Ability to coordinate the Movement of the guns and butter to the front. The longer the supply lines and the broader the frontline, the more difficult this is. This stat is separate from actual hardware.
Intelligence: Ability to coordinate all sources of information collection
Medical: Capacity to process casualties of the more serious sort and patch them back up into a workable state. The numbers here are abstractions of your rear-area hospital capabilities.
Engineering: Your advanced construction capabilities that go beyond grunts with entrenching tools. You need this for things like bridge building, base building, advanced demolition, tunneling, vehicle R&D.
Psychology (Info-ops, Public Relations): With this you can win hearts and minds, cover-up war crimes and perform social engineering.
!science! (CBRN development, Hazmat): You can't just requisition a nuke. But you can try building your own. The same applies to more kinky toys like viral agents, nerve gas, chlorotetrafluoride, etc.
!Spiritual!: This department handles everything religious, occult and supernatural.

Manpower Types:
Basic manpower have initial costs, but do not draw pay. They do however need resources to survive, and feeding them is part of logistical !fun!.

Conscripts:
Surplus population levied from societies facing malthusian disasters.
Effects: +0s to all rolls
Cost: 1 KiloCredit bounty to entice the unemployed
Upkeep: 500g of subsistence per day on the field. 1 Kg of subsistence per day when out of combat. 2 Kg of fresh water. 3.5 Kg of breathable atmosphere.
Notes: May have more complex needs than the clones.

Clones:
Vat-born purpose grown beings with implanted skills and memories. Often blamed by the riff raff of naturally born beings for stealing their menial jobs.
Effects: +1 to all rolls.
Cost: 10 KiloCredits to grow in a testtube.
Upkeep: 500g of subsistence per day on the field. 1 Kg of subsistence per day when out of combat. 2 Kg of fresh water. 3.5 Kg of breathable atmosphere.

Veterans:
Clones or Conscripts that have survived the rigors of continuous combat and are considered battle-proven.
Effects: +2 to all rolls.
Cost: NA - promoted at GM's discretion from survivors of missions
Upkeep: 500g of subsistence per day on the field. 1 Kg of subsistence per day when out of combat. 2 Kg of fresh water. 3.5 Kg of breathable atmosphere. (500 litres at 1 bar)
Notes: Can be more ingenious at foraging for supplies and at fieldcraft.

Enlisted Positions in your Army. Assignment of position has no bearing whatsoever on skill and experience.:
Grunts: Your typical trigger pullers. They provide the bulk of all forces.
Sergeants: Squad leaders that help you split your platoon into more manueverable elements. Also available in platoon, company and brigade/regiment level versions.

Officers are dealt with later.


Damage Modelling:
To Hit: D6 + Skill for each attack - there is no dodge
To Wound: D6 + Lethality v D6 + Skill/Endurance+Armor-AP, 2 and below produces casualties
Range: falloff, effective... maximum range = 2*falloff, volume of fire is increased at the shorter range.
Suppression: volume of effective shots / number of targets Suppression is not implemented
Units may take leadership checks after taking "significant" casualties. The commander takes leadership checks based on overall casualties
Blast Radius Casualties: d(3.14*r*r), casualties take a dodge roll of D6 + skill

Combat Example:
Squad AIG001 containing 10 conscripts fires on 20 civilians with their 10 assault rifles at close range.
They roll for 20 attacks at lethality 2, skill 0. The score 5 hits (4s, 5s), 2 overshoots, 1 catastrophic failure.
One of the overshoots hits one of their own troopers (1), the other merely passes through 2 of the enemy in one go.
The crit fail rolls: 6, the trooper merely empties his magazine enthusiastically.
We roll damage for 7 hits against endurance saves for 7 hits. (4,2,6,1,4,2,6)+2 vs (2,5,3,1,6,1,1) The targets take 4 wounds and 3 shrug of the hits.
The 4 casualties roll for permadeath/criticals on 1s (6,5,5,3), they go down, but the casualties are recoverable.


Squad AIG001 containing 10 conscripts shoots at a bunch of freedom fighters taking cover in the rubble. The rubble gives +2 armor.
They roll 9 attacks at lethality 2 skill 0.
1 crit fails. 1 overshoots, 7 clean hits.
1 overshoot splats a friendly trooper.
1 crit fail destroys the trooper's weapon
7 hits roll their lethality bonus vs the target's armor bonus: (6,3,1,1,2,6,1)+2 vs (2,6,2,2,4,1,3) +2. The targets take 2 wounds They !rtd (1,6), 1 dies. 1 is recoverable.

Flow of die rolls
Shoot ->
!rtd for hits. -> !rtd for crit fails and overshoots
opposed roll for wounds -> !rtd for casualties

Notes to self: Cover is part of armor in the opposed roll. We may want to simulate trenches slightly differently. Also will we simulate air-burst munitions?


Armory section

Primitive Bullet Weapons:

Small Arms:

Low-Impulse Assault Rifle:
Range: 300, 150
Attacks: 1, 2
Lethality: 2
Mass: 3kg
Ammo: 4g
Magazine: 500g
Unit Cost: $1,000
Ammo Cost: $0.30
 
Full-powered heavy rifles
Range: 800, 400
Attacks: 1, 2
Lethality: 3
Mass: 4kg
Ammo: 10g
Magazine: 800g
Unit Cost: $3,000
Ammo Cost: $0.50

Anti-Materiel Rifle:
Range: 1200, 600
Attacks: 1
Lethality: 4 AP 2
Mass: 10kg
Ammo: 50g
Magazine: 1 Kg
Unit Cost: $10,000
Ammo Cost: $2

Crew-Weapons:

Squad Automatic Weapon:
Range: 300, 150
Attacks: 3, 20
Lethality: 2
Mass: 5 Kg
Unit Cost: $5,000
Ammo Cost: $0.30

Medium Machine Guns:
Range: 800, 400
Attacks: 3, 20
Lethality: 3
Mass: 12 Kg
Ammo: 10g
Unit Cost: $10,000
Ammo Cost: $0.50

Heavy Machine Guns:
Range: 1200, 600
Attacks: 3, 20
Lethality: 4 AP 2
Mass: 40kg
Ammo: 50g
Unit Cost: $15,000
Ammo Cost: $2

Miniguns
Range: 1000, 500
Attacks: 20, 100
Lethality: 3
Mass: 40kg
Ammo: 10g
Unit Cost: 20,000
Ammo Cost: $0.50
Notes: attacks do not reflect ammo consumption

You may research better ammo for primitive small arms.

Primitive Explosives:

Hand Grenade:
Range: 20
Radius 2
Lethality: 2
Unit Cost: 30 credits

60mm Mortar
Range: 3480
Radius: 2
Lethality: 2
Weight: 21 Kg
Ammo: 1.7 Kg
Unit Cost: 10 KiloCredits
Ammo Cost: 500 credits

81mm Mortar
Range: 5935
Radius: 3
Lethality: 2
Weight: 40 Kg
Ammo: 4.2 Kg
Unit Cost: 25 KiloCredits
Ammo Cost: 1260 credits

120mm Mortar
Range:7240
Radius: 6
Lethality: 4
Weight: 150 Kg
Ammo: 13.3 Kg
Unit Cost: 90 KiloCredits
Ammo Cost: 3000 credits

155mm Howitzer
Range: 30000
Radius: 7
Lethality: 6
AP: 40 (direct hits)
Weight: 4200 Kg
Ammo: 50Kg
Unit Cost: 500,000 Credits
Ammo cost: 6000 credits

Man-portable Anti-tank missile launcher (Javelin)
Range: 2000
Unit Cost: 126,000
Ammo Cost: 78,00
Lethality: 3?
AP: 150

Primitive Armor Systems:

Ballistic Fibres over Rifle Plate:
Armor: 2 (50%)
Weight: 10 Kg
Unit Cost: $2000

Assault Shields
Armor: 2 (front)
Weight: 5 Kg
Unit Cost: $2000

Vehicles:

Mechanics
Vehicle damage roll: AP v Armor
If Penetration: !RTD
1 - wrecked
2 - loss of hull point, component destroyed
3 - loss of hull point, mobility kill
4 - loss of hull point
5 - loss of hull point
6 - epic explosions

In case of 1 or 6, crew may attempt a repair roll

Starting Vehicles:

Higgins Lander:
A metal box that is as expendable as the troops it carries.
Doubles as a troop carrier on land. Also doubles as your first logistics vehicle
Vehicle Stats:
Dex: -1
Hull: 1
Armor: 5
Capacity: 40 passengers
Max Payload: 5000 Kg or 40 armed passengers & 1000 Kg
Hardpoints: 2 machine gun mounts
Crew: Pilot + 2 gunners + engineer
Fuel Consumption: 1 litre of diesel per km. Capacity: 2000L
Displacement: 8,200 Kg
Cost: 10,000

Willy the Jeep:
An Ultra-cheap "wheeled reconnaissance/utility vehicle". Up to 1 can be stuffed into a Higgins along with the troops.
Vehicle Stats:
Dex: 2
Hull: 1
Armor: 3
Hardpoints: 1 machine gun mount
Crew: driver + gunner + 2 passengers
Fuel Consumption: 1 litre of desiel per 10 km. Capacity: 100L
Mass: 1000 Kg
Cost: 1000



Other Supplies (Modelled after Nato classification system):

Class I:
Subsistence (goop that passes as food): $10 per Kg
Drinkable water: $1 per Kg
200 bar 10L pressure tank: 100 credits

Class II:
tents, tools, housekeeping supplies, vehicle repair kits - quotes available

Battlefield aid kits - used by grunt medics to provide initial care for casualties. consumed on use.
$100
5 Kg (bandages, stretchers, etc)

Class III:
Only Diesel is implemented for now

Fuels and Lubricants
Liquid Hydrogen: $1 per litre
Liquid Oxygen: $0.04 per litre
(rocket fuel uses a ratio of around 2:1 LH:LOX)

Diesel: $0.50 per Litre

Class IV:
Construction materials, all fortification and barrier materials - Quotes available

Class V:
Specific Chemicals - Quotes available on request

Non-maneuver elements:

Advanced Manpower:
Manpower not drawn from the proleteriat...

Officers:
More newly minted lieutenants, just like you! Officers are drawn from the best educated classes.
$1M for non combat officers. $2M for combat officers.
Combat officers may be deployed like other troop leaders. They can carry custom equipment like PDWs.
Upkeep: $10,000 per day

Warrant Officers:
Educated Manpower from the middle classes that fill specialist jobs
$25,000
Upkeep: $500 per day


Headquarters

General Office IT Equipment:
Staff workstation: Industrial grade computers capable of crunching numbers as hard as the specialist can input them.
You need 1 per specialist staff.
$5000

Server: Allows for more complex networking of IT resources
- not implemented yet

Communications/Signals:
Wireless Field-Radios:
Wireless radio that allows for the relaying of commands beyond verbal and visual signalling.
Encryption researched seperately. - 5kg

Wired field-radios:
A radio that offers much less risk to remote intercetion and jamming.  This was used extensively in urban theatres and is still an option in the modern battlefield. The drawbacks involve long snaking wires that can be physically cut. - 5kg

Starting wired and wireless radios are 1000 credits each

Radio Operator (specialist):
A button pusher to man the radios in your Headquarters.

Logistics/Transport:

Notes:
Trooper carrying capacity: 40kg
combat load: 20kg

Supply dumps, fuel dumps:
Physical storage near the front lines for everything that your personel won't carry with them.

Supply Higgins:
A dropship meant to move materiel from the abstract into he physical manifest. It is exactly the same as the troop carrier, and the two are interchangeable. The higgins is also used as a bread and butter transport truck between rear dumps and the front line.

Supply Specialist:
A man dedicated to counting beans, guns, butter and other things an army might need. Without the bean counters, items might randomly go missing. (we'll track a items to bean counter ratio)

Intelligence:
Battlefield surveillance specialist:
Collects information from player and non-player elements and renders it into a semi-accurate state in order to increase the commander's situational awareness.

This department is also capable of cyber-warfare and drone capabilities, but these must be developed first.

Medical:

Injury levels:
Critical
Deteriorating
Seriously Injured -> Maimed
Wounded

Notes: The cost of medical care usually exceeds the replacement value of a prole.

Nurses (warrant officers):
Prevents casualties from dying while waiting for treatment. They also handle most intermediate level treatment. They can be used in quick n dirty surgery setups.

Surgeons (officers):
These officer class wizards fix broken people.

Collecting Stations:
Regimental level casualty processing directly behind the front where doctors/nurses adjust splints and dressings, administer plasma and morphine. Also treats minor illnesses and combat fatigue. This station stabilizes casualties before surgery.
Treatment: Critical & Deteriorating -> Maimed
Variable Costs: $50 per casualty
Capacity: 10 per nurse, scales up to 400
fixed cost: $250,000

Field Hospital Wards:
400 bed casualty storage
$100,000

Field Hospital General Surgical Suite:
Comes with surgical prep, surgical instrument and material sterilization and storage, anesthesia equipment, etc...
$2M credits in setup cost
Cost per Casualty: $8,000
Casualties Per day: 4
Chance of survival: 5/6

Multi-Specialization Surgical Suite:
$6M Credits in setup cost
Cost per Casualty: $20,000
Casualties per day: 1
Chance of survival: 5/6 + 1/6*4/6 = 17/18
On 1: RTD!:
1: dies
2: deteriorates 1 level
3: no change
4: improves 1 level
5: miraculous recovery
6: complications from overdose, usually dies.

Quick N Dirty field surgery:
$100,000 setup cost
Cost per Casualty: $150
Casualties per day: 10
Chance of survival: !RTD
1: dies
2: deteriorates 1 level
3: no change
4: improves 1 level
5: miraculous recovery
6: complications from overdose, usually dies.

notes:
Prosthetics and Robot limbs/bodies need to be researched, otherwise the horrendously maimed are discharged after being stabilized. You may however, ignore/euthanize the permanently maimed until we find a way to make them combat effective again, but it's not a nice thing to do.

Psychology
- not implemented yet

PR Officer

Copywriter

Leaflet Printing machine

!Science!: - used for research and development
Evil Genius (officer): Oversees the development of toys.

Research Technicians: Elves who make the toys.

Bio/chem Labs
$10M

Advanced chemical processing plants
Cost varies according to what chemical processes we're handling and what equipment we need

Engineering Workshops
Costs varies

Prototyping lab
Costs varies

!spiritual!:

Chaplains (Warrant Officers): Uses the concept of a benevolent judea-christian God to stave of insanity in the men.

Other areas of !spiritual! have to be researched.

Story: The Corleone Crime Family is putting together a new crew, one that will hit targets that can't be hit, and sell merchandise that can't be sold. This will shake both the core institutions of society, and also inevitably encounter weird shit, supernatural shit.

Premise: This is a supernatural robbery simulator where you play the honest Mafia crew trying to make a living. I envision this to be a high-mortality but high customization game with its focus around combat and crime planning.

Character Creation:
Put 5, 4, 3 points into your most favourite, second favourite and least favourite attributes

Then put 11, 7, 4 points into talents, skills and knowledges after prioritizing them. Nothing above 5 at character creation.

You'll get some starting money and all. Plans for that in next post.

Players can create TWO characters to play with at the same time. They aren't meant to survive.

Character Sheets:

Basic game mechanics, rules, and armory

We will be following (New) World of Darkness rules as far as possible. Game mechanics are largely based on Hunter The Vigil. Rulebooks can be given out if you send me a PM. (I can't link copyrighted materials here)

How health works:
Health in the NWoD system is size + stamina. Adult humans are size 5.
You take a dice penalty at the fourth, third and second last health point. The character is incapacitated at 0.
Health is counted in Bashing, Lethal and Aggravated damage counters. Full bashing damage results in getting knocked unconscious. When a character takes full lethal damage equal to its health points, it starts taking aggravated damage. When a character has full aggravated damage, it is very dead.

How leveling up works:
When leveling up, the costs are as follows:
Attributes cost 9 exp per level
Abilities cost 5 exp per level
Disciplines cost 7 exp per level
All these max at 5 for now.

Dice-Rolling

Combat Basics


Attacking:

Combat Modifiers:

Non-Combat Actions Quicklist

Gun Modifiers Quicklist

Ranged Weapons Quicklist

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The Military

Equipment:

Flintlock Musket
Damage: 1 Dice (per company)
Price: 100 Silver Dollars, 100,000 per 1000
IC: 1 IC produces 6.25 Per Season, 25 Per year (40 IC produces 1 company's arms)

6 Pdr Light Cannon
Damage: 6 Dice (per battery)
Price: 3,000 Silver Dollars
IC: 30 IC produces 1 Per Season (240 IC produces 1 battery)

12 pdr Heavy Cannon
Damage: 8 Dice (per battery)
Price: 8,000 Silver Dollars
IC: 100 IC produces 1 Per Season (800 IC produces 1 battery)

Units:
Militia Infantry Battalion
Companies: 4
Skill: 2
Training time: 1 Season/ 1 Turn
Equipment: 1000 Muskets
Price: 120,000 Silver Dollars per Battalion per Season, 30,000 per company.

Line Infantry Battalion
Companies: 4
Skill: 4
Training time: 2 Seasons
Equipment: 1000 Muskets
Price: 240,000 Silver Dollars per Battalion per season, 60,000 per company

Elite Infantry Battalion
Companies: 4
Skill: 8
Training Time: 8 Seasons
Equipment: 1000 Muskets
Price: 600,000 Silver Dollars per Battalion Per season, 150,000 per company

Line Artillery Crew
Companies: 1
Skill: 4
Training Time: 4 Seasons
Equipment: 8 Artillery Guns
Price: 900,000 Silver Dollars per company per season (based on a specialist's pay of 30 dollars per day)

Elite Artillery Crew
Companies: 1
Skill: 8
Training Time: 8 Seasons
Equipment: 8 Artillery Guns
Price: 3,600,000 Silver Dollars per company per season (based on a professional engineer's pay of 120 dollars per day)

Field Hospital Company
Companies: 1
Training Time: 2 Seasons
Equipment: NA
Effect: Provides treatment for up to 8 companies worth of casualties per season.
Price: 1,008,000 Silver Dollars Per Company Per Season (240 Orderlies, 10 Professional Doctors)


Organization:
The basic unit used to count hitpoints and scale combat capabilities is the company, representing about 250 infantry.
The smallest tactical unit is the Battalion, which has 4 companies.
The smallest strategic unit is the Regiment, which has 1-4 or more Battalions. (Default size of 3, but adjustable)
Multiple regiments form a division. Multiple divisions form a corps.

The artillery equivalent of the company is the battery, which can be attached to regiments, or organized as its own regiment to fire from the safety of rear lines.
1 Battery is 8 guns. 1 regiment is 4 batteries.

Civilians and the Means of Production:
Each Province has a civilian base of 10,000,000 people.
Each human being (when we count them in the millions, workers are considered human beings) provides a tax base of $2.50 silver dollars per season when not conscripted.
Conscription draws on the loyal population base, subtracting them from the general work force, and requiring payment to remain in the army.

Each country starts with 2000 IC in the capital. Every million persons allows the construction of 10 additional IC. IC will operate independently of population. (The capitalists always find a way.)
New IC costs 100,000 Dollars of investment capital per IC. IC will also grow naturally at 0.1% per season if all available IC is utilized by the government.

Population grows at 0.5% per season. Population usually remains stable, unless a player deliberately massacres them. Only population in core provinces are recruitable, or attributable for the increase in IC. other populations have to be converted over time through long occupations, propaganda and even welfare.

Technology is stagnant. We will focus on war and strategic maneuver.

Equipment is ordered from available IC and paid for in dollars. IC represents the limits of the production capabilities of the private arms industries.

Propaganda & Welfare
Population in occupied provinces have to be converted over time for the cause... unless you just want to massacre them. Paying for welfare at the rate of 1 dollar per person for the entire populace in the province converts 5% of all disloyal persons into loyal ones. Disloyal populations will randomly sabotage taxes and spawn rebel militias. If they are in a province with arms production, they will sabotage that too. But at the game start, all arms are produced in capital provinces.

If welfare is paid for in core provinces, it will add a hidden number of true believers in the cause who are immune to hostile propaganda and will automatically form militia units to resist the invasion of core provinces. Welfare must be sustained for fanatically loyal subjects to be sustained in their fanaticism unless the province is under hostile control.

Welfare consists of the majority of most governments' expenses during peacetime.

Propaganda:
Propaganda is the conversion of populations not under factional control.  It will create hostile populations that sabotage taxes and start rebellions. Propaganda costs a flat sum of 1,000,000 per province and has roll to dodge (random) effects.

Officers:

Officers are attached to the military at the regimental level and above.

Colonels oversee the operations and tactics of regiments. Colonels allow forced marches, which allow regiments to march twice in a turn with a success probability according to their skill level. A colonel is paid 12,000 dollars per season.

Generals coordinate the overall battles. The skill level of a general affects the probability of whether battle maneuvers involving multiple regiments will have the regiments "show up on time" or "go missing". Missing regiments happen more on the march and on the offense than on the defense.
A general is paid 60,000 dollars per season

A general who commands corps sized elements is a field marshal.
A field marshal is paid 120,000 dollars per season.

Officers are trained in an academy in the capital. Colonels take 12 turns to train. Generals are trained from colonels for another 12 turns. A field marshal is trained from a general for another 12 turns. You can train as many senior officers as you want, but they are paid full wages of the rank they are training for, they get random skill levels on spawn, and appointments are for life. - They must be paid in perpetuity.

Officers can be lost or captured in combat. And it was common for officers to be offered defections after their capture.

Officers randomly improve skill after each season of constant fighting.

Entrenchment

"Digging in" had extreme effectiveness towards the defense and eventually influenced all warfare. In the movement phase, units may spend a turn digging in along the border of their province to that of an adjacent province. Trenchworks can be circumvented by going through a border without trenches. But the units in the trenches will not be destroyed, and will remain at the border. The units in the trenches will also not take part in any other battles for the province that does not involve their particular border.

Attacking units can spend a turn digging a counter-trench parallel to the enemy trench. If an attacker occupies the province with the defending trench line, it can still dig a counter-trench to benefit from trench cover. A trench itself cannot be flanked.

A trench provides a cover save of around 80% for all attacks. A trench can be assaulted, by which attacking infantry will expose themselves to 3 full turns of enemy fire before they reach the enemy trenches to fight hand to hand without the cover going into effect - this allows trenches to be taken by overwhelming force.

Line battles are possible between 2 entrenched units. This becomes a battle of attrition over multiple turns.

Artillery battles are also possible between 2 entrenched units without committing any attacking infantry.


Phases and actions:

Building and Development:

• Ordering of Equipment stockpiles from available IC,
• Training of New Military Formations in the Capital,
• Training of Officers
• Implementation of Welfare or Propaganda Policies,
• Construction of New IC

Strategic Movement:

• Every Regiment can move across 1 province per turn. All created regiments start in the capital.
• A regiment may force march for 2 provinces with a colonel ordering them about.
• Regiments may entrench themselves or counter-entrench along an enemy trench lines.

Combat Phase:

• A regiment, division or corps may initiate a field battle with an enemy in an adjacent province. Moving multiple regiments without the oversight of a general will lead to comedy. A field marshal will improve performance when moving elements of extreme sizes.
• Defenders always shoot first, and shoots automatically. Though the attacker first chooses the forces he will commit.
• After the defender shoots the attacker shoots.
• The combat for the turn ends after 1 round of shooting.
• Combats can be initiated on multiple fronts within 1 turn, but only 1 round of shooting occurs per battlefront

Game start:
Each player starts with 3 provinces, 1 of which is the capital province where all troop training and arms production occurs.

The other two provinces are chosen adjacent to the capital province.

All other provinces are neutral states that players can lay claim to and occupy. Neutral states have standing forces of about 1d6 regiments that will resist invasion. They don't do fancy things like digging in. The neutral armies only spawn when attacked.

Each player also starts with a standing army of 3 line infantry regiments and a general staff of 3 colonels and 1 general.

Note the complete lack of starting weapon stockpiles or artillery pieces.

Game end:
Someone rules the world and wins the game... Or we can start a zombie apocalypse if less than half the players are left and the remaining are in a formal alliance.

Game Map:
Or open in a new window: http://i.imgur.com/J2KzsDP.jpg

Also ignore any numbers or bonuses from classic risk.

Base Thread: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=161162.50

Mission 2: Slaughterhouse

Spoiler: Outer Map (click to show/hide)

https://www.google.com.sg/maps/place/Union+Stockyards+Gate/@41.8182076,-87.6477447,65m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x880e2c20b56b8999:0xf5eef26554f5d001!8m2!3d41.8186149!4d-87.6484974

The team is sent to investigate a meat packing plant in the middle of Chicago. Sources indicate that the facility is linked to vampire blood supply. A cell of local hunters from the Union compact - a bunch of self-styled working class heroes fighting monsters and corporate fatcats to "protect the little man" will assist the team and provide backup.

Your primary mission is to infiltrate the facility and find any information linking the factory to vampire clients. Security around the facility is basic: some cameras, and rent-a-cop patrols. However, we expect private security to show up in force if the team is detected.

The Cheiron Group also has sealed orders for the team leaders:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The team from the Union is expendable. There is a reward of $30,000 if they do not survive.

It is 7PM in the evening. You drive up to the neighbourhood where the target facility is to meet with your backup.

It is a 6 man crew, who introduce themselves as Mr Anderson, Mr Mason, Mr Barton, Mr Simpson, Mr Leo and Mr Neman. Between them you see a couple of submachine guns, an assault rifle, a shotgun several machettes, a sledgehammer and a fire axe. They are dressed in rough work clothes and thick jackets.

You are about 1 block from the factory. You see a barbed wire fence around the perimeter, a main gate with a guard post and gantries, as well as multiple cameras around the building and fences.

How do you approach?