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Pregame Design Phase of Turn 2:

Quote from: Zeeslang Torpedo

This 18" diameter, 17' long torpedo is designed for a range of 2000 yards and a speed of some 34 knots. Design weight is about 1200 pounds, with a 200lb TNT warhead. Propulsion is via two contra-rotated propellers powered by a compressed-air driven turbine.
Part of the design work on this torpedo is also designing a series of reliable torpedo mounts, focusing on two-tube arrangements.

Effectiveness: 2 | Cost: 4 | Bugs: 3

The Zeeslang Torpedo is...Honestly not exactly what we wanted, but what we got. It's disappointing for us, as not only is it capable of only 28 knots, it has half the range of what we desired. Further, it has a noticeable dud rate, especially when at an angle that's not mostly flat, though luckily this isn't so bad as to be over a third of the time. If anything the main thing that actually works as intended is the launcher, which does everything it needs and more so. But even then, getting a duel surface launcher isn't something that we have managed to work due to weight and turning issues. But what we currently have went well at least...Unlike the torpedoes themselves...On the bright side, the constriction of the torpedoes are actually somewhat simple, and the materials needed not too expensive, meaning it's a bit cheaper than originally expected

Quote from: The Light Gun Modernization Project

The Light Gun Modernization Project, is a program with the intended goal of creating a new set of light naval guns (6 inches and smaller) meet the navy's increasing need for better guns.

The guns are to be designed to handle the new Draadkruit powder propellants at 1.5 times the expected maximum load to ensure safe margin. Unlike the previous generation of light naval guns these new ones have replaced the old BL screw blocks with QF sliding wedge breach blocks, the gun barrel will be of a new build type which will be called "radially expanded", unlike other build types which used hoops or wire to reinforce the barrel it used a technique called autofrettage to strengthen the barrel itself to be able to handle the high pressures experienced in the gun chamber. This results in a single piece barrel that is as light as wire wound while being cheaper and fast to make. Instead of having the rifling be engraved directly onto the interior of the barrel it self an internal liner with the rifling is placed inside which can be replaced when the rifling is worn out greatly extending the service life of the barrels. With the anticipated increase in power from the new Draadkruit powder and thus recoil, all gun will have hydraulic recoil pistons to cushion the recoil ensuring that the gun mount do not get shaken apart from repeated firing.
2 inch:
QF 2"/40 M1895
3 inch:
QF 3"/40 M1895
4 inch:
QF 4"/45 M1895
5 inch:
QF 5"/45 M1895
6 inch:
QF 6"/45 M1895

Effectiveness: 6 | Cost: 2 | Bugs: 4

The new light guns project has gone fairly well. While the naming is suspiciously similar to that of a certain other island nation, it is fully and completely our own work, and it works far better, and that has nothing to do with the fact this has come into being a number of years after. Regardless, the guns in question are long range, and fast firing. Really, it's more a matter of simply how fast the crew can load them rather than how fast the gun can actually sustain fire. Despite this, accuracy while good initially, tends to start to fall after firing enough for a proper bombardment or battle, requiring a replacement of the rifling, which is it's main and biggest issue and what causes the most cost for the things. There's also the issue of retooling of factories being slow and inefficient at the moment that seems to plague our efforts. But, at least despite that the guns are all quite good. The six inch version has a theoretical max range of 20k yards, though a much smaller effective range, though all share the same effective range more or less, and the theoretical max range per inch smaller is roughly reduced by only 1500 yards. Other than this, the guns have a seemingly sleek and long look that makes them distinct, though this doesn't effect preformance. 

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It is now the Design Phase of Pre game Turn 3. You have 6 dice remaining to spend on Designs, ships, or simply Save for the next turn.

Project: Pren Gwyn Youth Program (Note, for the future, please make the project in a quote box with details on how it works and all that. It allows me to get everything you desire down correctly, and it also aids in getting what you want to focus upon done.)

Initial Rolls: Time (5) Cost (6)

The Youth Program is nothing too different from the general public community works that Feng is well known for starting, and as such it's really not that difficult to get going. Obviously, it will cost a fair deal of money, but realistically this is nothing more than a drop in the bucket compared to most things. And the fact that this is the sort of thing that Feng has done many many times before means that all the connections in place among the community and local government mean that little effort needs to be done to sway others into setting up this project. And due to the nature of the program, all that's needed is a moderate sized unowned building suitable for this training, as realistically any modest sized gym would do well. After, all that's needed is the process of refurnishing the building and hiring the staff for a wide variety of things ranging from more useful skills to us like acrobatics and martial arts, to things that are mostly there as miscellaneous things to hide our true intentions, ranging from electronics and mechanics to traditional art and music.

Project Cost: One time cost of 2$
Project Time: 1 turn of work to complete

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You may now assign a character to either work on one of you projects, recruit more villains into the fold, move to another city, or lastly engage in the world for one action or another. In the case of the latter, it is best to devise a plan. Otherwise, they will simply do more generic actions that fit their character.

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Status of the Cabal:

Villain list:
Current Reputation - 100

Current Projects:

Quote from: Möser-Fokker Cemented Armor

Möser-Fokker Cemented Armor, or MF armour, named after it's inventors Karl Möser and Wilhelm Fokker is a new type of armour that has the benefits of the now obsolete compound armour while being made of a single armour plate. This is done by a process called face hardening in which the face surface of the armour plate is exposed to carbon carrying substance (charcoal or gases) and heated for 2 to 3 weeks increasing the carbon content of one side of the plate before being quenched in oil and than water. This leaves a plate with a hard face to shatter impacting shells while also having a tough and malleable back to minimize the risk of the armour plate shattering or spalling and with a single armour plate which removes the risk of armour plates separating like compound armour.

Effectiveness: 6 | Cost: 5 | Bugs: 6

The Möser-Fokker Cemented Armor is everything we could ask for and more. The plate is specifically hardened with gasses of things like Charcoal or normal coal, much like Krupp armor. The main difference, is in it's composition. By adding more materials into the alloys composition, including more chromium, a level of durability that wasn't available before was able to be created and capitalized on. In fact, this armor is likely one of the most advanced in the world, and makes Krupp obsolete. Naturally, this wonderful armor is a national secret, but it is sure to serve us well for some time, until science marches ever onward to further advancement.

Quote from: Draadkruit Smokeless Powder Design:

After our most recent gunnery exercises many higher ups in the department if the navy have noted that our current Brown Powder propellent is underpowered to send the shells used by our ship mounted guns. Thus the chemists have come together and presented to the department of the navy "Draadkruit" Smokeless Powder.
It is a compound consisting of 58% nitroglycerin by weight, 37% guncotton and 5% petroleum jelly. The compound is extruded as spaghetti like strings for smaller, rifle rounds and in large cylinders ranging from 1-8"in diameter and 6" in length, the diameter depending on the size of the shell it will propel.

Effectiveness: 6 | Cost: 2 | Bugs: 2

First off, it is important to stress that the Draadkruit powder is a extremely good powder that, when produced in our testing facilities, has a great deal of potential, and works extremely well at lobbing shells or firing bullets far away and efferently. There is, however, a problem with mass production. Early testing by the navy has lead to some accidents, and a number of factories producing the stuff aren't exactly the best for it's production with outdated equipment made for making older powder. This needless to say is a problem, as not only does it make producing the powder far more costly than it normally should, but it also makes the powder far less reliable and effective at times. As some of it is of low quality. This low quality also makes it occasionally burst, far more than it normally should. Though, admittedly, testing has shown it is a bit more...volatile than most other powders normally are.

Quote from: Veenland National Schools of the Navy

The Veenland Nationale Schools van de Marine scheme consists of several things; a training academy for officers, an engineering college, and a series of training centers for our sailors. Based in a half-dozen "stone frigates", each of these schools is focused on a certain naval specialty, although all do act as basic training centers.
 Schools include the "Middies Nightmare"(dedicated to post-bootcamp training of ensigns, OCS, and of training the Marines), the School of Naval Engineering(which is mostly for civilians learning, well, naval engineering), the Gunnery School, the Damage Control School, The School of Hydrography and Meteorology(and communications), and the School of Naval Medicine.

Effectiveness: 6 | Cost: 1 | Bugs: 6

The Veenland Nationale Schools van de Marine is a major investment that has allowed us to set up a fairly impressive academy for our sailors, officers and engineers. In fact, it's a fairly impressive and covers a massive wide range of subjects, like one would expect. However, this comes at a cost. This school is something that teaches more or less everything for the Navy. And, it's massive, which makes that cost quite literal. The school does what it was made to do extremely well, but due to the fact it teaches basically everything the Navy could ever need...Well...It costs more to maintain than some ships. This obviously is a problem. But, it's certainly worth it for greater quality from not just our sailors, but our marines and our captains...And our gunnery crews...and damage control crews...and nurses... And the engineering portion is open to civilians...

Honestly, it's a wonder the school doesn't cost more than it does currently, thinking about it...

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Propulsie Oorlogschepen Wetenschap Erkenning en Richtlijnen (POWER):
POWER (AKA the "Propulsion (of) Warships Science Recognition and Guidelines" project) is a project focused on what makes ships go. After throwing out the guy who mentioned sails, and submitting the guy who mentioned oars to an asylum, the team set to work improving our propulsion technology in 4 areas:

Starting at the beginning- the firebox.
-A system of oil atomizers is added to spray oil over coal, giving a burst of power in emergencies or in combat.
-Additionally, efforts are made to improve the supply of fresh air to the firebox(and incidentally, to the boiler rooms of our ships) via forced-air designs using mechanically driven fans.
-Designs for these forced air systems also include something called a "preheater", where the incoming air is heated by running the exhaust gases around its ducting.

Next, the thing the firebox heats- the boiler.
-Having somehow misplaced the information on our present boilers, the first order of business was making sure that our engines use Duizendblad water-tube boilers, which are definitely not patent-infringing Yarrow boilers.
-Feed water is run through tubes that absorb waste heat from the boiler itself, improving efficiency.
-Not for all boilers, but for the largest and highest-pressure ones, downcomers are added to improve circulation at high pressure.
-For advanced models, a superheater is added, using heat from the exhaust to superheat (as the name implies) steam generated by the boiler. Only presently experimental turbine engines need superheated steam, but it can improve the performance of regular expansion engines as well.

The engine itself also received attention.
-Although our triple-expansion engines are fine, and no radical changes are needed at this point, it was considered important to ensure that our engines were being made with the latest techniques and from cutting-edge materials, giving just a little more efficiency than might be expected. Precision matters in engines, and using the right kind of steel can have subtle but noticeable effects.

Finally, transmission systems were addressed.
-Reduction gearing on ship-scale is presently infeasible, but some groundwork was laid, ensuring that when the time comes, we will be ready.
-What is possible is adding generators powered off the drive shaft. Electrical power has great potential, so ensuring that we can supply our ships with large amounts if necessary is important.

Effectiveness: 6 | Cost: 2 | Bugs: 5

POWER is a major project and undertaking that we needed to invest in. And, that investment payed off quite well. First of all, the improvements to our engines with the additional materials have improved reliability to a degree not seen before with minimal addition of weight. Further, it has improved the general efficiency of the engines massively due to the addition of the varying intakes, the addition of oil sprayers, and the boilers. And, on top of all of that, it has laid groundwork for yet greater works of Veenland Engineering that will be the marvel of the world. However, all of this is fairly complex, as one would expect. And as such, this has lead to a increase in the time it takes to produce the varying materials that make up the engine and add to it's effectiveness. This needless to say means it costs more than we'd like. Of course, any price is good enough for the defense of the glorious workers that make up our country. Still, the varying tweaks have set us up extremely well for our engines in the future to come. Though, there isn't that much realistically we can do to improve them, at least, as far as we know so far...Science marches ever onwards after all.
 

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It is now the Design Phase of Pre game Turn 2. You have 6 dice remaining to spend on Designs, ships, or simply Save for the next turn.

(Coinflip decided the Agent over the Angel)
You are Agent 109 of the Schwarzes Holz General Espionage Wetworks, Excursion, and Hostilities Response. Or G.E.W.E.H.R for short. While this isn't the proper German name for the organization, the anacronym of G.E.W.E.H.R has stuck. Naturally, you have survived your fair share of interesting figures and evil geniuses and felled them time and time again through the failures of their extremely long winded speeches, methods of execution, and much much more. Of course, things have simultaneously calmed down and grown more chaotic. As current intelligence doesn't show much in the way of activity of any powerful individuals who might be planning on using that power for more...nefarious means. Still, being G.E.W.E.H.R's best agent has it's perks, and while it's likely for the time being most work will revolve around helping the police solve certain things that need a more...subtle approach, it's also likely that the organization might evolve to form a new branch of itself. Currently, the idea of this potential branch is known as the Vereinigung der Helden, though there currently is no official name, as no proper branch has been founded yet.

Naturally, the Headquarters of G.E.W.E.H.R is in the capital itself, Großerthron, and by extension that too is where the current 'heroes' branch that you have been put in charge of when you could be relaxing on the beeches of Nemorland and enjoying some Helles rather than the paperwork of managing a bunch of civilians who got lucky enough to have superpowers. Currently, this headquarters is a ways away from the proper G.E.W.E.H.R facilities, mainly so that way it can be specially designed and reinforced in case of...accidents. Still, while a small complex above ground on the outskirts of the city, disguised as a simple farmhouse, under ground it houses a decent few facilities needed for our work, including the space for Three others, including yourself.

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You may at this moment in time describe and start one project which you would like to work on. The full effects of a project will be known upon completion, and the price and time of a project will be known once it is started. Do note that once you start a project, you do not need to work on it in the deployment phase, though electing not to will not advance it closer to completion.

Also feel free to rename the faction name to something else if you'd like.

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Status of the Association:

Heroes List:
Current Reputation - 100

Current Projects:

The next turn will be done provided the tie is broken within the next 5 hours or so, or it becomes Tuesday. I already announced the former bit in the discord, but felt the latter part was apt.

Ah, sorry. I didn't exactly get that at first. Thanks for the clarification for my tired self.

Done. Forgot about that feature. Last I used it was about two or three years ago now.