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High altitude flak isn't that expensive, and we won't have enough fuel for mass deployement.

Yeah, as if high altitude flak was anything more than annoying. Especially if we made night raids on their industry or cities.
And they don't even have a gun that could serve as flak, nor they have deployed anything resembling flak. Their biggest weakness is air, atm.

Quote from: Sheb on August 07, 2015, 08:09:07 am

Why dont we design a coal-to-oil process for more ressources? Oil really is the bottleneck, and will continue to be pretty much forever.

The more uranium we get, the more research material we have with which we can make nukes. A nuke would be a National Effort, of course, but that's fine. It's what it's supposed to be.

Nukes. In 1927...
EDIT: Also, honestly, I don't think we will manage to make nukes at all. After all, the island we are on is pretty small, we may not even have uranium at all. Not to mention that outside world may get pretty angry after we would deploy one.

For me, even tough I'm a IG guy all the way, I really like the Tau, both like them (to be the second faction I play the most on dawn of war) and like them being in the game because they bring some variety to the mix, not only by themselves but by their allies and proxies. Hell they even brought back the Dwarf in SPACE, well, sort of.

Except not really. Also, Squats still exist, obviously. It's just foul warp trickery.

Unlike fuel injection, turbochargers actually increase the amount of fuel used to increase the engine's power. Since the goal is to decrease the amount of fuel they use, revising them to have turbochargers is counter-productive.

We will have to use them sometime anyway, and we're about in time they were introduced en-masse to airplanes. Turbocharges will allow our planes to be more powerful and more importantly, more useful at higher altittudes. We could bomb them all the day long being outside their AA weapons range and their maximum altittude.

The system doesn't allow for weapon designers to join High Command.

Sadly.

Quote from: Sensei on July 26, 2015, 03:13:24 am

Quote from: Andres on July 26, 2015, 02:33:09 am

The following is outside of the Revision phase: Telephone High Command, asking for some guards to watch the research facility at night, citing the incident where our design for the mortar was nearly stolen had it not been for our spy.

You speak to a representative, who simply says, "Your concerns have been noted." Days later, you receive a letter addressed "to some engineer who called" from the palace. It states that too many guards are currently assigned to the palace's Department 17, the purpose of which is not stated and unknown to you.

Anyone have any ideas on what Department 17 is all about?

Guarding the toilet. Or something.

There's nothing else to revise besides the plane engines and the turbocharger. Given the choice, people will go with the turbocharger. In 1925, we had the choice between revising the plane engine and the tank. The primary objective was to cheapen fuel injection and it would've made both cheaper, but deciding which specific engine we worked on was what mattered.
If we chose to revise the tank engine, we might've gotten a turbocharger. If we revised the plane engine, it might use less Oil. Most people voted for revising the tank engine.

I have no reason to believe that anyone's opinions have changed since then, but I may be being overly cynical.

Glory to Arstotzka.

Two things...
Turbochargers could be used in planes too, but I really don't see the point of adding another plane engine, as right now we have regular one and the one with fuel injection. Ideally we could design an engine utilizing both those technologies (but we would need cheaper turbochargers) and use it in every big vehicle from now on, after all tank can use airplane engines.
And if you're so good at predicting what will happen, why don't you transfer to army command and start winning the war for us.

Of course, everyone else thinks that a cheaper turbocharger for our tank is more important.

It's necessary that we get cheaper tanks so we'll need to use our Expense credit on it.

You what? I smell... sikrit agints.
Though I actually think I may agree with you. The planes are what is really useful now, being one of few things that can kill their heavy tanks, and are generally pretty nice thing to have. We could use the credit on them.

Quote from: Kot on August 07, 2015, 06:21:13 am

We're lacking in short and short-medium? We have our SMGs and just got grenades...

Our SMGs are Expensive. Unlike machine guns, SMGs are supposed to be cheap and many of our soldiers should have them. They're not, unfortunately, so we're lacking rather badly in that area. Grenades are not primary weapons.

Glory to Arstotzka.

Make them cheaper, not make a completly new design, we could use design for something else.
http://Also I said, take enough grenades and you have new primary weapon.
EDIT: Again, you saw nothing.

Or he could just sit back at the other edge of the map and have a draw, since neither side is moving. And if you move, he can just go back to his maneuvering tactic.

Why would I? Rhodoks are known for being patient, Khregits aren't. Also, I can as well move around on edges of map. :*