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Start over after we finish the war

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Continue from part 3

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Total Members Voted: 13

[MoonyTheHuman]

Yup, new GM, new thread, Fun times isnt it? Before we get started, please answer the poll up top (once i add it). This is to help me get organized and to allow me to give information a central place.

Spoiler: Personell information (click to show/hide)

Total workers: 750
Free workers: 590
Total guests: 1000 (Cannot be assigned jobs, Need Training, Need equiptment)
Jobs:
  Mining: 50 assigned
  Woodworking:  0 assigned
  Stoneworking: 0 assigned
  Healthcare: 0 assigned
  Farming: 0 assigned
  Metalsmithing: 20 assigned
  Jewlery: 0 assigned
  Glassmaking: 0 assigned
  Pottery: 0 assigned
  Crafts: 10 assigned
  Engineering: 10 assigned
  Hauling: 15 assigned
  Alchemists: 25 assigned
  Magicians: 0 assigned

Spoiler: Buildings (click to show/hide)

Electrolyzer
5x High Speed Steam Engine
Dam (Cannot be deconstructed)
3x Underground Farm
Library
6x Research Workshop
4x Repair Workshop
Ore processing sector
12x Mineshaft
2x mixing tubs

Spoiler: Supplies (click to show/hide)

All metals: Essentially infinite, im not gonna keep track of the numbers
Thaums per cubic meter: 21.53121

Spoiler: Info for newbies (click to show/hide)

Okay, so. We're being ordered by the mountainhomes to train and equip 1000 dwarven conscripts to, at minimum, the equivalent to a Napoleonic Musketeer. We have 750 artisans and workers to do everything for us, and 500 soldiers with medieval weaponry, armor, and training. Finally, 150 accountants, engineers, administrators, diplomats, leaders, and magic users, proportions unknown. We have nine months IG time to achieve our goals, where we send all of our soldiers and equipment to fight for the mountainhomes against monsters, generic Other GuysTM, and maybe even a god or two.

As we stand technologically, we have electric generators, motors, combustion engines, and modern lighting. We also have a book detailing dynamite, white phosphorus, artillery of nondescript tech level, small airships, both black and smokeless powder, and every sort of firearm from muskets to primitive automatic weaponry, and crude nuclear explosives.

Our fortress is located out in the middle of nowhere mountains, with a hydroelectric dam a days walk off. The surface is covered in radioactive and possibly magical fallout from a dead demigod.

Thanks to Amperzand for compiling this information in a slightly bulkier post in the last thread. 

Previous thread: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=149024.0
Current goals: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=149024.msg7504230#msg7504230
Discord: https://discord.gg/t6vBkNG

How 2 join:
Just ask me on Discord. We dont really have a formal way of doing it.

Now, let us decide.

[Doubloon-Seven]

I have to say, this is sort of unexpected... but, hey. Might get us some new players. Speaking of which... where's the info on our goals and problems? On our tech base? Where we are, and such. There's a lot of information that's kind of absent here.

[MoonyTheHuman]

I have to say, this is sort of unexpected... but, hey. Might get us some new players. Speaking of which... where's the info on our goals and problems? On our tech base? Where we are, and such. There's a lot of information that's kind of absent here.

I'llget around to it once we get the poll's results.

[Glass]

I have to say, this is sort of unexpected... but, hey. Might get us some new players.

Yes, you will be getting new players. At least this one.
I'll introduce myself later.

[Gwolfski]

I have plans

[Amperzand]

Yo. I was the previous GM, and more importantly know a few things about physics and technology, which should be relevant here. I'll be around.

[Doubloon-Seven]

Okay then! May as well post the information that I know about.

Spoiler: Maybe Unreliable Infodump (click to show/hide)

Okay, so. We're being ordered by the mountainhomes to train and equip 1000 dwarven conscripts to, at minimum, the equivalent to a Napoleonic Musketeer. We have 750 artisans and workers to do everything for us, and 500 soldiers with medieval weaponry, armor, and training. Finally, 150 accountants, engineers, administrators, diplomats, leaders, and magic users, proportions unknown. We have nine months IG time to achieve our goals, where we send all of our soldiers and equipment to fight for the mountainhomes against monsters, generic Other Guys^TM, and maybe even a god or two.

As we stand technologically, we have electric generators, motors, combustion engines, and modern lighting. We also have a book detailing dynamite, white phosphorus, artillery of nondescript tech level, small airships, both black and smokeless powder, and every sort of firearm from muskets to primitive automatic weaponry, and crude nuclear explosives.

Our fortress is located out in the middle of nowhere mountains, with a hydroelectric dam a days walk off. The surface is covered in radioactive and possibly magical fallout from a dead demigod.

Thanks to Amperzand for compiling this information in a slightly bulkier post in the last thread. 

That's about it. To get started... I think that we need a gun. A WWI tech level would allow us to balance infantry with support roles, thus having Armored Cars, Bolt-Action Rifles, LMGs, HMGs, Artillery, and possibly throw in some magitech or crazy airships/airplanes/nukes for good measure.

In terms of this... I propose a 5-Shot capacity bolt-action rifle. While I can't really design the guns, I have a decent understanding of chemistry, and thus, bullets.


Bullet Design

.30 Caliber, coming in 5-round stripper clips, centerfire. Brass casing and lead bullet can be done, though we'll need to make a die drawing machine. The ingredients for nitric acid are naturally occuring, so we should be able to use some to produce both guncotton (Literally just Cotton soaked in nitric acid and dried, smokeless powder), and mercury fulminate (mercury dissolved into nitric acid, mixed with ethanol, centerfire primer), as a propellant and primer. Bam, useful bullet.

Thoughts?

[Glass]

Guerilla warfare tactics would probably be a boon. Everyone becomes more powerful when the enemy doesn't know where they are.

[Gwolfski]

kuiper, we have a prototype semi autoamatic rifle, if you want

[Doubloon-Seven]

Ideally, I want more than our 1000 troops equipped with guns. Semi-Automatics in certain roles would work rather well, but bolt-actions are simple, rugged, and can thus be produced more widely.

Edit: Oh, also, we have an impending chimney fire if we don't take out some time to clean them.

Send 25 miners with sticks to be lowered on ropes and clear out the creosote from our chimneys, possibly to be reused as fuel.

[MoonyTheHuman]

Ideally, I want more than our 1000 troops equipped with guns. Semi-Automatics in certain roles would work rather well, but bolt-actions are simple, rugged, and can thus be produced more widely.

Edit: Oh, also, we have an impending chimney fire if we don't take out some time to clean them.

Send 25 miners with sticks to be lowered on ropes and clear out the creosote from our chimneys, possibly to be reused as fuel.

What miners? You havent assigned any! I'll be nice and assign some now.
This will take 2~ months and has been added to the roster of things you will be doing. You can do as many things as you want as long as you have the workers

[Doubloon-Seven]

About killing the gods...

Spoiler: Idea 1- Conventional (click to show/hide)

Conventional forces mass firepower on aimed areas of the god. Conventional bombs are mass dropped, artillery bombardment takes place. Simplest, probably least effective.

Spoiler: Idea 2- Magical Explosives (click to show/hide)

Build magical batteries, give them impact detonation systems that make said battery expend all its energy violently expelling it, creating a blast/shockwave when detonated. Might be better off against non-divine targets.

Spoiler: Idea 3- Nuclear Option (click to show/hide)

Fairly obvious. Make nukes, bomb/missiles/chuck them at god. Would probably work, though might need more than one.

Spoiler: Idea 4- SOULBOMB: Vetoed by GM for being insane (click to show/hide)

Build huge magical battery array, create system that can harness souls as energy, and essentially vacuum them up to charge said batteries. This should effectively drain the land of magic, as well as incapacitate/kill/destroy all natural targets, as well as  weaken the god. Batteries then release energy in explosive magical nuke hybrid, huge blast. Vetoed for being utterly crazy, though theoretically possible, perhaps.

[Gwolfski]

reduce furnaces to 50%, givibg us 8 months of breathable air and 4 months of `clean` air
dig out the air tunnels. this will use up most  miners. remainig miners dig flourite. flourite is common material.
other dorfsv refine nickel into pipes and valves etc.
make sulphuric acid also,
I personally will improve my semiauto rifle.

its midnight goodnight

[Doubloon-Seven]

Assign 25 people as alchemists, instruct them to make Nitric Acid, with 5 assigned Haulers to get materials. Assign 10 Metalsmiths to make two bathtub-sized mixing vats for the alchemists. Promote & Assign 10 engineers as overseers, along with 10 metalsmiths, 20 crafters, and 10 haulers to make an electric rifling machine, as well as a die drawing machine. Have the alchemists study their craft for the short time it will take to make the vats.

[MoonyTheHuman]

UPDATE: 4 weeks passed
Much work has been done.. Until it paused at week 3. A miner cleaning out the shafts found a strange construct of magic and metal, pulsing with energy.. And pierced it. The resulting detonation was immense, sending the miner flying into the wall and out the top. The area is Saturated with magic now. 2 Tubs of Nitric acid were made during this time, filling both, and the machinery was paused midway. Its as if this was delibrately happening against you. Currently you have the new goals of cleaning up the mess, oh, and getting Chaotic Skies unstuck from the hallway. The miner who caused the blast seems to be acting.. Odd to say the least, no-one can seem to touch them. ((Glass, here you go, hop in!))
The massive amount of magic now in the environnment could be useful while it lasts, the construct seems to be repairing itself with it, a siphoning seemingly protruding from it.. The chimneys, rocked by the explosion, for one, are now completely clean, and the workers near them covered in soot.
EDIT: Something is diffrent. Its as if the laws of magic rewrote themselves..
Excuse the bad update. Im feeling lazy and didnt have much material.