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Re: They Who Dare: The Empire of Schwarzes Holz - Kaiserliche Luftjäger
« Reply #105 on: November 06, 2018, 11:41:02 pm »

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Re: They Who Dare: The Empire of Schwarzes Holz - Kaiserliche Luftjäger
« Reply #106 on: November 07, 2018, 12:54:36 am »

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Re: They Who Dare: The Empire of Schwarzes Holz - Kaiserliche Luftjäger
« Reply #107 on: November 07, 2018, 11:40:47 pm »

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Re: They Who Dare: The Empire of Schwarzes Holz - Kaiserliche Luftjäger
« Reply #108 on: November 09, 2018, 03:59:28 am »

Revision Phase, Late Autumn 1915
Durchfallen Bruchpunkt M-09-50/100/200 (BpM.9-50/100/200)
The goal of this project is to obtain a potent, expendable explosive device for the Luftjager through a revision of the M-08-45's explosive composition ratios, casing characteristics and general modernization so as to allow on-demand bombardment from the skies with specially modified aircraft, such that they may contribute more meaningfully to the situation on the ground with three different sizes available for different mission profiles - a 50, 100 and 200 kg warhead respectively. To this end, alongside the new explosive, a rudimentary sighting system is developed so as to be easily refitted on aircraft meant to serve this role, positioned in the bottom of the cockpit and similar in construction to a 'floor iron sight' (the Bombenschein Bodenkornvisier M-01) - made up of crossing metal beams showing roughly where the bombs would land when dropped in a dive.
Efficacy: 1

As it turns out, basing anything off a artillery shell nick named the Selbstmord-Hülse might not be the best idea. That, or our engineers assigned to the project aren't actually skilled in working with explosives. Considering what has said, the following is fairly predictable, a lot of work was spent cleaning up the resulting fires and fixing a few things that happened to be caught in the explosions...Either way, we are at least happy to report that the Bombenschein Bodenkornvisier M-01 was a great success, both when it came to it's cost being completely insignificant and when it came to accurately dropping large darts compared to aircraft without the sight! And many lessons were learned! So, it wasn't all for nothing...

"Komfort für den Piloten!"
Neglected thus far, the airforce's pilots have begun to complain about the lack of several basic items which would keep them safe and effective in the air. To remedy this, and ensure the Kaiserliche Luftjäger has the most prestigious pilots in the region, several changes are planned and time is devoted to the various developments said plans would entail. A few things on the list include a set of goggles, medium-power binoculars, a basic compass and maps of their missions' operational areas (with the best routes of escape marked in case they're shot down) and, most importantly, a stylish black uniform adorned with white and gold stripes and the gold insignia of the air force on the back, coming with a matching jacket, warm hat, and chin strap to keep the elements off the pilot, as well as a backup puffy coat for winter flights. On the list, too, is a parachute, or rather, a fallschirm in civilized tongue. A device supposedly seeing some use in the present war over in Europe. From our reports, it seems to come in the form of large hemisphere-shaped piece of fabric meant to slow a pilot's descent should his aircraft prove to be unrecoverable. This device is stored in a backpack and worn by our pilots at all times, attached to their seat by a chord set in place when they board the aircraft. When the pilot chooses to bails out, after he clears the plane, the cord goes taught and deploys his parachute.
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Work on the uniform goes fairly well, with the fancy new design being quite a regal looking uniform that looks like a mix of both the traditional and more modern aspects of uniforms in war. Some complain that it should be red and gold instead of white, but most enjoy the new look. Of course, some work is also done on a parachute, and progress on it is promising, if a bit slow, currently the prototypes make it so that the test animals don't in fact break every bone in their body, though they do still...die. And the chute weighs quite a bit...but progress is steady at least.


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Re: They Who Dare: The Empire of Schwarzes Holz - Kaiserliche Luftjäger
« Reply #109 on: November 09, 2018, 02:14:42 pm »

Quote from: Plan 'Strength in Numbers'
Fiscal Budget
Scrap:
4x Adderbolt D.I - 4x2.5 PP
Purchases:
5x Adderbolt SBD.I
1x FEiV-12M
Upgrades:
Schurk: // -> Adderbolt SBD.I
Rote: // -> Adderbolt SBD.I
Rudel: // -> Adderbolt SBD.I
Gold: // -> Adderbolt SBD.I
Schild: // -> Adderbolt SBD.I

Expenses:
Starting Budget:  +16 PP
Bonuses:             +0 PP
R&D:                   -0 PP
Scrap:                   +10 PP
Purchases:            -26 PP
Upgrades:             -0 PP
Maintenance:        -0 PP
Left Over:              0 PP

Rationalization: This plan assumes that we will flood the battlefield in enough upgraded Adderbolts (faster by around 30%, potentially much more maneuverable) that the enemy won't be able to survive any kind of aerial battle against us, and that we will achieve absolute aerial superiority through said numbers of high-tech planes alone.

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General Orders
Pilot Common Sense exists. Don't fly alone, have a wingman, form up if you're alone, yadda yadda yadda. All units are to pursue total aerial superiority in their alloted theatre, and are to do so by hunting down enemy aircraft and balloons with systematic precision. Stay in larger packs wherever possible and gang up on squadrons should the possibility arise.
Front-specific Orders
None

Eastern Front
Rudel, Rote, Gold
Central Front
Schild
Western Front
Schurk

Quote from: Plan 'Quality over Quantity'
Fiscal Budget
Scrap:
4x Adderbolt D.I - 4x2.5 PP
Purchases:
4x Adderbolt SBD.I
1x Shirohon Pilots
1x FEiV-12M w/ Installation
Upgrades:
Schurk: // -> Adderbolt SBD.I w/ FEiV-12M (+1 to upgrades)
Rote: // -> Adderbolt SBD.I
Angesehen: // -> Adderbolt SBD.I
Gold: // -> Adderbolt SBD.I

Expenses:
Starting Budget:  +16 PP
Bonuses:             +0 PP
R&D:                   -0 PP
Scrap:                   +10 PP
Purchases:            -25 PP
Upgrades:             -1 PP
Maintenance:        -0 PP
Left Over:              0 PP

Rationalization: With this plan, we are sacrificing a squad of adderbolts, and grounding a squadron of pilots from Rudel, in order to get more experienced and unique Shirohon pilots for our state-of-the-art killing machines. This plan also allows one SBD.I to perform recon over a given front, allowing us to see how big of an effect it'll have overall once we start issuing them in specialized variants.

Strategy & Execution

General Orders
Pilot Common Sense exists. Don't fly alone, have a wingman, form up if you're alone, yadda yadda yadda. Stay in larger packs wherever possible and gang up on squadrons should the possibility arise.
Front-specific Orders
Eastern Front: Perform absolute aerial superiority. Take down everything that flies from the enemy side, and assure the enemy takes maximum casualties, for maximum effect towards the war effort.
Central Front: Engage all and any enemies. Seek out to take out their balloons first and foremost, then choose engagements with the enemy's main air force. If severely outnumbered/taking multiple losses, utilize your machine's performance to pick your fights and live to fly another day.
Western Front: Aid the military via reconnaissance or direct artillery spotting. Use your Adderbolt to it's maximum so as to pick your fights, if enemies are in the field, but preferentially stay out of combat and concentrate on recon.

Eastern Front
Angesehen, Rote
Central Front
Gold
Western Front
Schurk

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Re: They Who Dare: The Empire of Schwarzes Holz - Kaiserliche Luftjäger
« Reply #110 on: November 09, 2018, 02:28:00 pm »

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Re: They Who Dare: The Empire of Schwarzes Holz - Kaiserliche Luftjäger
« Reply #111 on: November 10, 2018, 12:20:08 am »

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Re: They Who Dare: The Empire of Schwarzes Holz - Kaiserliche Luftjäger
« Reply #112 on: December 02, 2018, 02:24:21 pm »

Design Phase, Early Winter 1915
There is a new ace, Tabbart Friedrich Fuchs, in Gold Geschwader.

The Navy is celebrating their victory and is pleased with the Luftjäger, even if we didn't directly give the orders to keep the balloons away.

The General in charge of the advance onto Bont Gwyn, now turned defense of Nachtburg, is concerned with the bombing that the Pren Gwyn's are doing and requests more aircraft to keep them away. Likewise, the General in charge of the defense of Hochrotes Schloss requests something to counter the effect of the enemies balloons.

The General in charge of the Defense of Sprungburg is ecstatic over the new radio using Adderbolt, and would love to have more of them along with more traditional recon. Meanwhile, the general defending Dunklerfelsen is demanding you send a lot more aircraft to push back before that damned general takes Dunklerfelsen before the snow falls and makes advancing a nightmare.

High command has increased your budget by 2 PP, as the country devotes more factories to war.

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Re: They Who Dare: The Empire of Schwarzes Holz - Kaiserliche Luftjäger
« Reply #113 on: December 02, 2018, 02:38:48 pm »

Design Phase, Early Winter 1915
There is a new ace, Tabbart Friedrich Fuchs, in Gold Geschwader.

The Navy is celebrating their victory and is pleased with the Luftjäger, even if we didn't directly give the orders to keep the balloons away.

The General in charge of the advance onto Bont Gwyn, now turned defense of Nachtburg, is concerned with the bombing that the Pren Gwyn's are doing and requests more aircraft to keep them away. Likewise, the General in charge of the defense of Hochrotes Schloss requests something to counter the effect of the enemies balloons.

The General in charge of the Defense of Sprungburg is ecstatic over the new radio using Adderbolt, and would love to have more of them along with more traditional recon. Meanwhile, the general defending Dunklerfelsen is demanding you send a lot more aircraft to push back before that damned general takes Dunklerfelsen before the snow falls and makes advancing a nightmare.

High command has increased your budget by 2 PP, as the country devotes more factories to war.

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All in all, this was a good turn for us. While we didn't advance, we have vastly superior aircraft, and only didn't blitz them because we assigned our squadrons in opposing ways, and the bulk of our airforces missed each other. This turn we have enough funds to buy a lot more Adderbolts, and we can get a number of things done to increase their effectiveness a lot.

What's more... this turn we begin a truly revolutionary project, if all goes well. It's time to unveil the Teufel.

ZhS-8A "Teufel" (20.18 L D75/15) | Roheshmiede-Dehnert "Teufel" | Project Teufel 201815 | Rohesde Teufel 20LD75.R4+2

Following the work on Dehnert 9, resulting in the penultimate Blitz 230, the AvD Motor Company has chosen to develop a new engine utilizing a more efficient thermodynamic process for the combustion cycle, wherein two opposed pistons operate under different work cycles. Due to the innovative nature of this engine, they have chosen to enter collaboration with an industrial giant known for their unique and precise work in the heavy machine industry, Roheshmiede Schwerindustrie, so as to bring a revolutionary engine design into the hands of the Schwarzes Holz Kaiserliche Luftjäger - with the goal of giving out enough power to change the way work is done around aircraft within it and in the empire as a whole. 

After several weeks of brainstorming with his engineers would not bear any fruit, Andreas found himself awake at night, trying to envision in what way he could lead the motor industry forwards. Having worked with motorcycle engines before, he pondered two-stroke radial engines. He required more power from his engines, but was reluctant to convert his Dehnert series to two-stroke variants to avoid their poor filling ratio, fuel inefficiency and lack of effective lubrication generally associated with them. Then again, cranking the RPM of his present radial engines would almost equally shorten their lifespan and introduce issues with air management, while raising the chance of engine knocking… Then it hit him. He could combine the two in a configuration he had seen before in the Gobron-Brillié series of cars from 1900 - an opposed piston engine, but with a continuous burn cycle, working within a single combustion cylinder. That same morning, he raced to his workshop to begin work on a prototype.

The design was not only able to work, but had, in the test case, exibited some very promising effects. As he put it: “This engine configuration proved advantageous in more ways than I could even dream of”. The pistons made it possible to do away with the heavy cylinder heads of conventional engines, thus lightening the entire assembly. It’s thermal efficiency was closer to steam engines - more than twice that of the best internal combustion engines on the market at the time, meaning more power could be transfered directly into useful work, and heat management was easier. This made the engine more reliable and powerful in one - approaching twice the power-to-displacement, than even their testbed, a heavily modified Blitz 230 - a staggering number of 31.22 horsepowers per liter of fuel expended was extrapolated from the one cylinder test bed. Indeed, the prolonged stroke expansion which resulted from this continuous burn could be taken as a reason alongside the lack of a cylinder head, but what really touched Andreas as an engineer were two possibilities which the engine had demonstrated. It allowed the user to modify the compression ratio on the fly, while the engine was still in operation, enabling the pilot to put the engine into a low-stress state if it is damaged, and a higher performance state for military needs, acting as a kind of ‘military overdrive’ for short periods of time, and the smooth, responsive control of the throttle. As the burn was continuous, throttle response manifested directly into power output practically the moment an order was issued. The test bed, however, used a rather complex power transfer system from the ‘outer’, two-stroke pistons, raising the complexity of manufacture and making the machine heavier than what it would optimally allow. To fix this, Stefan had proposed they sign a contract with a heavy industry company for the joint development of the engine, and put the matter of power transfer from the outer pistons into their hands, as well as potential changes to the cooling system, should they come up with a lighter method by any chance.

In the end, the engine was turned inside out, putting the unstable 4 stroke cylinders on the outside to allow for a skipless firing cycle and an arbitrary number of pistons. Complicated gear assemblies previously wider than the engine were shrunk down to only slightly larger than a standard radial crankwheel by using a set of smaller planetary gears to time and draw power from the outer pistons through thin armatures pulling the end of the outer pistons inwards. A set of rails on the rear of the pistons stabilize the armatures, preventing any twisting or bending inside the cylinder. Reduced waste space tightened the center of the engine, allowing better cylinder dimensions.

After several blueprint reworks, endless bickering over the design’s name, the number of cylinders, the stroke and bore, the working speed and various methods of power transfer and airflow, the two had come to an agreement. The design, once drawn out and finalized, called for an 8 cylinder, 20.18 L beast of an engine, with an estimated power output of 630 hp and a diameter somewhat larger than the Dehnert Blitz 230 at 756.5 mm to it’s 547 mm. While the two had their differences, there was no dispute over the fact that the power transmission system developed by Roheshmiede Schwerindustrie proved ideal for the application, and was very much appreciated by the AvD Motor Company, and Andreas personally. Despite the airflow being enough to cool the engine down, Andreas insisted a secondary water cooling unit was installed, with veins going between the cylinders and back in a U curve. This would serve to increase the engine’s reliability with a minimal amount of weight added compared to the primarily water cooled Dehnert 9 series of engines, and would allow for further upgrades to be done later on.

The companies, through collaboration, designed a simple form of direct fuel injection so as to replace the carburattors used on the D9 series and provide potentially better performance in the future. This is done through the usage of a plunger pump, which is actuated by an engine driven lever timed with relation to the engine cycle and which terminates the period of injection by providing a non-return relief valve. This valve is opened by direct contact of the plunger pump towards the end of the delivery stroke, and suddenly interrupts the effective discharge stroke of the plunger. The quantity of fuel delivered is controlled by an adjustable stop arranged to determine the discharge stroke matching the engine cycle, so that it follows the cycle speed curve of the engine and doesn’t hinder throttle performance or cause other complications with fuel feeding. The relief valve thus ensures the time of injection is always at the same point no matter the position on the engine speed curve, load conditions on the engine and sudden changes, such that the injection of fuel at low velocities, resulting in poor combustion, is avoided. This mechanism, thus, allows the engine to be much more compact and makes full use of it’s nature so as to sustain the combustion more reliably.

The one downside of the engine is that as the expansion phase is so lengthened, the air intake and exhaust phases are collapsed into a single stroke, necessitating a source of compressed air to overcome exhaust pressures and properly cycle the oxygen mixture. Fortunately, though, this is an aircraft engine, and wind is a plentiful resource. To capture the wind, two small trumpets are to be extended outside the fuselage of the plane, where funneling will continuously feed the engine’s pressure tank sufficiently pressurized air to operate even at high altitudes where the atmosphere thins. When readying to launch, a small hand pump in the cockpit may be used to pre-fill the air-tank to run the plane up to speeds at which it can replenish itself.
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Re: They Who Dare: The Empire of Schwarzes Holz - Kaiserliche Luftjäger
« Reply #115 on: December 02, 2018, 04:49:06 pm »

But yeah. I think this is something worthy of a design this turn. One of the remaining two dice could be used to get us bombs and bomb mounts, and the other could be used to either finish work on the retractable landing gear, parachutes or finally get us some observation gear. Heck. Even an upgraded radio unit would be interesting to have, but I feel the other noted revisions might be more worth it.

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Re: They Who Dare: The Empire of Schwarzes Holz - Kaiserliche Luftjäger
« Reply #116 on: December 02, 2018, 04:58:44 pm »

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Re: They Who Dare: The Empire of Schwarzes Holz - Kaiserliche Luftjäger
« Reply #117 on: December 02, 2018, 05:00:46 pm »

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Re: They Who Dare: The Empire of Schwarzes Holz - Kaiserliche Luftjäger
« Reply #118 on: December 03, 2018, 12:31:00 pm »

With a solid engine, our options for aircraft expand greatly. It really is one of the most important pieces at this stage I feel. While one can argue that we already have a solid engine; well, we can do a lot better.

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Re: They Who Dare: The Empire of Schwarzes Holz - Kaiserliche Luftjäger
« Reply #119 on: December 03, 2018, 01:23:48 pm »

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