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[Man of Paper]

Core Thread
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Welcome, intrepid minds of Abbera.

We finally have the opportunity to claim the rest of our island, all while gaining the support of some of the strongest nations in the world. The Central Alliance is keeping the dogs of Endicar off our shores, so now we only need to focus on our southern neighbors Harren and Salvios. This coming war is about to kick off in earnest and if we can secure Harren Island then control of the waters between the two continents could turn in favor of the Alliance. We're getting used to fighting, but war is changing. While we plan for the future, the Governor has a few requests:

Firstly, keep in mind you will need to decide on a Specialty Resource by the time we engage the Salviosi.

Secondly, there are reports from scouts in the Coniferous Forest of remnant Endicarian soldiers using the area to hide and recover while they hold out hope for eventual rescue. The Republic fields a more modern army than currently at our disposal, so we need you to design one weapon meant to be a primary infantry firearm and one piece of offensive equipment, such as a grenade, combat knife, or otherwise, to aid in rooting them out. You can choose to create two designs of whatever you wish, but designs fitting our specifications will receive special funding for their development. [In game terms, I give a Design Credit for designs that fit the requests made during this stage of the game.] Our equipment is dated, and this will be the first step in modernizing our forces.

Thirdly, our soldiers lack any real uniform. Up to this point everyone's worn what they can, when they can. It's time for us to provide our military with a uniform befitting an independent nation.  This is not meant to be any form of armor or the like - merely a way to distinguish our soldiers from the enemy while making them look like a respectable force.


The future is uncertain, but we Abberans are mighty. These are our lands to claim by right, and that fact will only be confirmed when we occupy Salvios. Good luck.

Spoiler: Designs (click to show/hide)

None!

Spoiler: Territories (click to show/hide)

Abbera: 3 Ent., 2 Ore, 2 Oil, 2 Wood, 2 U.R. // 100% Control

Spoiler: Resources (click to show/hide)

Ore: 2
Oil: 2
Wood: 2
Unassigned Resource: 2

[frostgiant]

So we can pick anything for our specialty resource? like something that isn't real or what?

Anyway, WW1 tech so a semi-auto rifle would be a good starting point, maybe a trench gun as well.
Knifes are always useful, and a bayonet can pull double function. Or we could make a revolver or sawed off. those should fulfill the second request as well.

I definitely think that our uniform should have a small green/white/blue/grey/whatever color Crown as a shoulder patch, due to the fact that we are part of the central alliance.

[Doubloon-Seven]

I vote that our specialty resource should be Helium. Our Airships will sail the skies, brimming with guns! Also, this is pre-WW1. Not going to be much in the way of semi-automatic weaponry.

For the rifle, I propose the:

Spoiler: Model-001 'Pinscher' (click to show/hide)

The Model-001 is the first step of many. We better make it a good one. In this effort, our engineers have created a rifle of 40 inches in length, built with the standard wooden stock. The action, instead of a standard bolt action system, incorporates a set of lugs and cams that allow the interior of the bolt to rotate while using only a straight-pull movement to chamber the next round. This should result in a higher rate of fire than the standard bolt action. It loads six .325 caliber rounds from a stripper clip. Variable sights give it a use at a wide range of distances.

For the accessory:

Spoiler: Type-A 'Volley' (click to show/hide)

An accessory to the Model-001, the Type-A is a grenade designed to be fired from a rifle to increase launching range. This is achieved by the grenade being held in a 'cup' screwed on to the end of the Model-001's barrel. To ready it for firing, a pin is pulled out from the end. To start its fuse, a larger rod is pulled out. After that, it's probably best to pull the trigger of the rifle it's attached to to reduce the risk of losing a limb. In order to maximize damage, the outside of the grenade is deeply notched in a rectangular pattern. This causes the grenade to fragment, rather than simply burst.

Edit: Forgot a uniform proposal.

Spoiler: Standardized Infantry Uniform (click to show/hide)

Foremost comes a basic set of cotton underclothes, worn under the SIU's jacket, made of grey gabardine cotton. The shoulders of the jacket are stitched with a dark blue crown to indicate allegiance, and rank is displayed by the number of crowns stitched onto the right breast pocket. It is buttoned up. The pants are similar grey cotton, and have several useful pockets, along with belt loops. The SIU also includes a set of leather boots and an optional patrol cap.

EDIT:

For Posterity:

Spoiler: INDEX Date 9/30/2018 (click to show/hide)

Prewar

1911 Cold Season, Design
1911 Cold Season, Revision
1911 Cold Season, Combat

1912 Hot Season, Design
1912 Hot Season, Revision
1912 Hot Season, Combat

1912 Cold Season, Design
1912 Cold Season, Revision
1912 Cold Season, Combat

1913 Hot Season, Design
1913 Hot Season, Revision
1913 Hot Season, Combat

1913 Cold Season, Design
1913 Cold Season, Revision

[Tyrant Leviathan]

Uniform: Make it green and patterned to blend in the environment with certain gold patterns to tell ya apart.

Edit: Main resource? Helium. Air power boi!!!

Main weapon:

The Penetrator:

A semi automatic firing rifle that is built to be tough as hell and easy to maintain, like so 47 tough ( can hide it by burial, dug out and functions.)

Also the firing iron ends with a pre built bayonet blade in place. The blade is sturdy for slashing and stabbing and can be used to pop open cans in emergence food situations. ( practice for melee.) the butt can be used as a improvised club and stocky to absorb fire for steady bursts.



Bonus weapon:

The Iron Rain: A mortar that fires out bombs of different variety. ( included timed shells that burst, explode on contact or explode in air to shell what’s below.) once again easy maintence and easy to use. Just got to get habit of aiming it.



: hopes to make a good impact on this team. Also had idea for flaming/tracer bullets.)

[Doubloon-Seven]

Wait, if we can have stuff we made up for our resources, I want uber-helium. A gas so light that hydrogen moves over from the number one spot on the Periodic Table.

[Tyrant Leviathan]

And make it non flammable/explodes. Hell if can make up why not Cavorite? It’s a fictional rock that beats gravity. And does not go boom with flames.

[frostgiant]

ARA "draco" trench gun:

Spoiler: ARA "draco" trench gun (click to show/hide)

The draco is 80 centimeters from tip of the barrel to the end of the wooden stock, and is designed to launch shrapnel round out of the end similar to a blunderbuss. like the blunderbuss of the age of the Pirate, the draco is designed to be used in tighter, cramp enviroments and close quarters, were tight turn and heavy cover ensures the ability to get close.
The draco is designed to be semi-automatic, The gas expelled from the firing of a shell will clear out the shells remains before loading the next shell from the internal storage . The rounds are placed into the shotgun individually, because of the size of a shotgun shell invalidating the use of a stripper clip. The inserted shells (5 in total) are stored in a small compartment long compartment along the bottom, inside the trechgun itself.
The spray of small bullets the draco lets out can be compared to shrapnel from an explosion, ensuring that without cover the enemy in a general direction of, that way is dead.
The barrel of the draco is designed quite thick and has been attached as well to the body of the gun as our engineers can. this is to take advantage of the Pick. The pick is a spike that comes out of the bottom of the stock and is used like a warpick, via the barrel as a shaft. this ensures that our troops have a close ranged weapon even in the event of running out of ammunition.

Heres a trench gun, should be useful at close range and clearing out the fortress that we need to take. I will probably vote for the "pinscher" as our rifle right now.

Spoiler:  ARA "Wickerman" incendiary grenade (click to show/hide)

The wickerman grenade is a 15-centimeter long grenade that has been designed to explode 8 seconds after the pin is pulled, flinging burning white phosphorus all around the area around its detonation. If set off inside an enclosed space it will quickly fill with deadly smoke, literally smoking the enemy out of their hiding places or risk being burned alive or suffocated. if the enemy does not quickly contain the fires that this grenade can cause, their fortifications will quite literally burn down around them, provided the wickermen are deployed in force.

Fuck it, soft science arms race. Time to let the pyromaniac out, I want to have armored soldiers with wrist-mounted flamethrowers, I want to burn everything down.

I don't like the volley, a rifle fired grenade is only good for range. We should have an actual hand grenade first, solely because its more versatile and can actually be used in tight combat.
Helium? really, any special resource (and possibly some not of this world because GM didn't clarify and this is soft science) in the world and you choose helium. if you want flying shit choose aluminum at least, because we can use it for anything that will fly and need metal. Helium is highly specialized (as in good for one thing and one thing only) for our one starting special resource.

EDIT: if we are going for super mateirels for airships, their a material in a game called airships conquer the skies called suspendium. basically, you feed it electricity and it produces a localized antigravity effect, allowing them to fly. 
We really need man of paper to clarify what we can do for our resource.

[Doubloon-Seven]

Well, fair enough on the helium bit, but I wasn't sure if the GM is allowing antigravity crystals or whatever, and I really want airships with heavy guns.

[Tyrant Leviathan]

Hmmm if our main battle currently is a fortress/inner fighting the penetrator or Draco. But the Pinshcer has great promise.

Bonus Weapon seems to be Wickermsn, smoke them out or roast them.

[frostgiant]

Can't complain about the uniform, covers everything I wanted.

EDIT: we have like 5 turns don't we? according to the core thread (Really need a link in thread)
So we can do the Draco, Pincher and Wickerman before the game starts properly. and something else. the main fight will be a city fight though (in the beginning)... Artillery, we need artillery depending on what they ask us to make.

[Doubloon-Seven]

You know actually, I'm just going to throw some phebotium out for antigravity rock.

Spoiler: Caelium (click to show/hide)

It is long know that our sister islands were raised up from the sea by the standard means: volcanic action. However, the fair isle of Abbera has no such vulcanism to lift it so. Mountains, certainly, but bizzarely absent geothermal activity. Recently, the culprit here has been discovered--Caelium. Caelium is, at first glance, a normal mineral crystallized in a hexagonal prism, albeit one with an odd green tinge. However, when an electric charge is applied, it is blessed with the power to lift itself above the ground. With a charge large enough or extended enough, a large amount of material more. This all has to do with the Earth's electromagnetic field. Over billions of years, the electric charge slowly pulled Abbera up from the seas, and artificial electricity causes a bizzare interaction whereupon the attraction of the Caelium to the electromagnetic field is greatly intensified, lifting it.

Main Weapon
Model-001: (1) Doubloon
Penetrator: (1) Tyrant Leviathan
Draco: (1) Frostgiant
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Offensive Tool
Type-A: (0)
Wickerman: (2) Doubloon
Iron Rain: (1) Tyrant Leviathan
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Uniform
SIU: (1) Doubloon
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Resource
Caelium: (1) Doubloon
Helium: (1) Tyrant Leviathan

[frostgiant]

Main Weapon
Model-001: (1) Doubloon
Penetrator: (1) Tyrant Leviathan
Draco: (1) Frostgiant
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Offensive Tool
Type-A: (0)
Wickerman: (2) Doubloon, frostgiant
Iron Rain: (1) Tyrant Leviathan
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Uniform
SIU: (2) Doubloon, frostgiant
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Resource
Caelium: (2) Doubloon, frostgiant
Helium: (1) Tyrant Leviathan

Until man of paper tells me otherwise, antigrav rock is a go (even if I really want superfuel for MORE FIRE!)... Leaving my vote on the draco for now, but I don't have my heart set on it (I just like shotguns)

[Tyrant Leviathan]

Voting tomorrow

[Man of Paper]

So we can pick anything for our specialty resource? like something that isn't real or what?

Yep. So far the proposed resources fall within the realm of possibility.


One other point of clarification for both sides: I wouldn't stop you from attempting to do anything flashy with your weapons designs at this point, but the nations of the world are currently able to produce bolt-action rifles in large enough numbers to equip their armies. There are other ideas out there, but nothing tried and proven yet.

[Kashyyk]

We're on soft sci-fi, so how does this sound as a resource?

In its raw form, this hard crystalline mineral is quite stable. Percussive force will shatter the crystals, causing small discharges of stored energy to launch the fragments several meters. Heavy fabrics and care are recommended during extraction.

Promethium crystals somehow absorb geothermal energy over time, and through a careful refinement process we can access this. The energy efficiency compared to Oil is an enormous 20,000,000 kWh per kg, compared to 12 kWh per kg of Oil. The only thing that exceeds it is certain radioactive elements, but the inherent danger of using such materials is not worth it.

Dense power sources are the way to go. More power solves all our problems, whilst any other resource is situational.