Nemorland Naval Academy's School of Nautical Engineering
Too long has our nation been full of the uneducated. This is crippling our engineering department's ability to actually work out designs. We cannot rely on a few educated geniuses to draw out an entire ship in detail, from the largest armor plate to the smallest bolt. We must have project leads capable of separating the work into parts, and the ever-underappreciated work of the engineering intern, who must find the right bolt to put in the right spot to hold the whole ship together.
In order to supply ourselves with these valuable interns and engineers, we have formed the Nemorland Naval Academy's School of Nautical Engineering. Teaching students from families who can't afford an education, these academies make use of the best of our engineers. Selection for the academy is done via entrance exam: Candidates wishing to apply take an exam at their local recruiting office or whatever, which sends their (nameless) exam to the Academy while keeping an identification paper that lists the number of the exam paper. The Academy reviews the exams sent from each center, accepts candidates, and sends the exams back. Each center then sends their candidate onwards to the Academy, the people responsible for accepting students and checking the exam never knowing whose exam is whose. This makes it much harder for corruption to take root, and much more obvious when it does.
The Academy is filled with the very best of our engineers, who pass on their knowledge to the next generation primarily through hands-on experience. Classes go over previous designs of our nation or of other nations, and challenge students to explain why decisions were made at the time, or make them better. Advanced classes cover current projects, working with students to gather their ideas and hone their skills.
Effectiveness: 6 | Cost: 1 | Bugs: 2
The Nemorland Naval Academy's School of Nautical Engineering is exactly that, a school for nautical engineering. It will be opened to the public, and give free education to the poor who lack it...At least, so long as they do well on the entrance exam...
Yeah this was going to be filled with more people from middle and upper class than the poor from the start, wasn't it?
Luckily, the actual teaching facilities at the school are extremely skilled at what they do, and the education there is actually top notch compared to other universities and academy's. Anyone who can pass the school is practically guaranteed a expert in their field, and made into the kind of people we need to get our ships, guns, and other designs up and running at peak efficiency...At least, it would if there weren't a few issues.
First off is a fairly obvious one, the cost. There really was no expense spared for the Naval Academy, and for obvious and good reason. However, that makes it eat into our budget a bit, though arguably, it is worth it to make our engineers the best of the best superior to all the rest. But, this leads into the other issue. Actually passing and getting accepted into the Academy. The entrance exam alone is also quite difficult, leading to practically none of the people the academy was meant to teach, the poor uneducated, being able to actually get accepted. However, at the very least its not too difficult that the small amount of middle class as well as the upper class can actually get accepted.
Lastly, the Academy churns out truly some of the best minds of our generation, however as with the entrance exams, most of the teaching there is, as one engineer put it, brutal and unforgiving. Usually however, most people don't actually make it to the end of the classes, however even those who don't make it to the end and fail the later classes usually learn enough to become good interns or lesser project engineers. And those that do actually reach the end of the courses are able to grace our team with new geniuses.
On the bright side as well, due to just how difficult the exams are, along with the simple measures put in place to fight it, corruption isn't that much of an issue.
Regardless, the Academy, so long as its running, is likely to keep the upper parts of our engineering team free of those who don't deserve to be there. But unfortunately, while the Academy helps majorly, we likely will still need to hire some people we'd rather not. Though, with their number reduced, we likely can work much more effectively...So long as the Academy runs...
It is now the Revision & Refit Phase of Pre game Turn 1. You have 3 dice remaining to spend on Revisions or Save for the next turn.
(If you want to do the other design as well, just vote for it again. Seeing how its pre game, there's no issues in going back to the design phase. However, please make it more clear if you want to do only one or two designs in the future.)
Naval
Early 2/3/4/5/6/7/9/10/12 inch guns
Triple-expansion engines.
Steel hull construction.
Single Casemates.
Single and Double gun turrets.
Basic Steel making techniques.
Basic Damage control techniques.
Marines
Defensive guns (Uses same calibers as naval guns)
Rosemary 85 Rifle (Basic Bolt Action Rifle)
Holly 8 (Basic Revolver)
Nemorland Naval Academy's School of Nautical Engineering (Costs 7 PP Per turn to keep running)
4,000 Displacement Dry docks.
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Topic: Refit and Repair, Nemorland, Spring, 1890, Production & Deployment Phase. (Read 20637 times)