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[stabbymcstabstab]

Warcrimes? Those poor chaps won't be around long enough to charge us, we should start producing Chemical Weapons first, then Biological. Mines won't do us much good unless the fighting goes underground or they start large ground offenses.

[Rolepgeek]

I doubt we'll be tried for war crimes, but if you'll remember, I already had us do a preliminary thing for bio-weapons, though I think the GM just misinterpreted me.

I wanted us to develop stuff specifically for their biology. Though, we'll probably need some live specimens for that....and a way to get through their likely environmental suits.

[a1s]

Ready for the turn?

Pretty much, I think.

I think we can identify likely poisons just by looking at their basic biology. We can probably use the same mustard gas our forefathers used, that'll likely burn their lungs right off. It only gets tricky if you want an efficient poison.

[Aseaheru]

Spoiler: Propositions (click to show/hide)

    The best bet to hitting them is to fill the area with flack, shells, or rockets, and a proposal has been made to the military to fit rocket pods such as used on the gunship helicopters onto the interceptors.

Make it happen. This is top priority, as long as the enemy holds the sky we will always be targets.
3 ballistics, 2 computer (maybe try to get some guidance in there?), 15 general engineers.

Alien-vehicle hybrid program is scrapped. Sorry. You can keep the micro-RPG project, if you think it's a good idea. or...
(2 ballistics, 5 general released to mcstabstab's full discretion)

Design an automatic version of the  S-18 that we can mount on our M1986-30s (since it's hard to remember numbers I will call them "Dawn" APCs). Weight is no object (it's mounted), but it would be nice to have a high rate of fire.
(we're out of ballistic guys) 5 general engineers.

Develop an armor modification (some ceramic insert?) that would offer our guys some protection from alien GFHs.
10 general engineers.

    we need to recruit a materials engineer. And show him the ceramics.

Also, a linguist. Just thinking ahead with this one.
Do I need to assign personnel to this?

assign 2 biochemists, the doctor and the engineer (they make a good team) to research a possible poisonous substance to use against the aliens.


Also start producing M1978-Fs ("Woodpeckers"), our production lines have lain fallow long enough.
Start producing 20x105mm ammunition.

 Orders for the retasking of the people with the new projects go out, the production lines are spooled up ready for production, and the aliens came back.
 Well, sort of. No ships where sent, but instead they started bombarding everything on the surface with what some are saying to be asteroids. This doesn’t do much, besides scare a number of civilians.

 During all this the subs sent out shortly after the shooting down of the UFO returned from their missions to establish contact. The news they bring is both bad and good, as though most nations have massive levels of casualties (particularly in the cities) there is still resistance against the aliens, particularly in regions like the middle east, central Europe, northern Africa and (supposedly) Indochina. Nations that had prepared for nuclear war sent as many as possible to the shelters, and those nations with nuclear arms used them until they started getting destroyed on the ground by the aliens. SSBNs where still held in reserve, and most headed to the Arctic icecap, where they waited for orders.
 The world was in chaos, but the world was not done yet.

 At the end of the week the council leafed through the reports sent in by the Department's teams.

Spoiler: Reports (click to show/hide)

Project Devil's Fire
 Fitting the 'woodpecker' with rocket pods would be simple, provided we had the ability to produce rocket pods and rockets. Not the be stymied by all this, the copious quantity of engineers assigned to the project have developed the 'Hell Fire' rocket launcher, capable of being directly linked into the fighters computer system for ease of targeting, and capable of holding a grand total of twelve 81mm rockets. They also developed a ground based version called the 'Devil's Fire', with two launchers of 15 tubes, able to fire ten rockets per second and be reloaded in six minutes. The warhead on these are able to penetrate 45cm of standard terrestrial armor. The military is excited by this, and is lobbying to have a production facility dedicated to these designs to be ordered.
(See 2ed post for production details)
Project... Actually, you don’t want to know the name they came up with.
 The seven engineers assigned to develop a 30mm gyrojet have (at least before they tried killing the person who keeps talking about those frickin things) submitted a report detailing how they will kill anyone who suggests such a thing in the next year, and explaining how without designing a new gun system any design they might come up with will be unable to be fired, as well as questioning why/how such a thing would work/be needed.
Yes, there is a bias against you guys developing gyrojets. It currently sits at about 1D100-200.
Project Redundant
 The five engineers, hearing what they where tasked to do, walked into a military storehouse and returned with one of the cannons used on the Woodpecker, aswell as one of the standard 30mm cannons used already on the dawn.
Project Shield
 The ten assigned to develop a better body armor using alien materials have created the 'Shield', sometimes known as 'Frankenstein shield' a body armor literally made from the alien samples of the same. In testing this has proved able to withstand fire from alien weaponry, but its production requirements are as such to limit our ability to make more easily.
Project Poison
 The biochemists and the doctor assigned to the task have developed a aerosol gas that may prove effective against the aliens, provided that they are not wearing their combat armor. They warn, however, that without a live captive they cannot do much, and the substance is likely to do more damage to our troops (and certainly anyone to be near the affected area) than to the aliens.

Spoiler: Other News (click to show/hide)

 Hiring went as ordered, a linguist and a materials engineer where found and brought into the department, and they are eager to get to work.
 In other news, production costs for the Dawn have increased as a production line dedicated to them has switched over to other projects.

 In other news, fuel for aircraft and vehicles is being rationed, due to inability to import it from overseas. all extra vegetable oils and alcohol has been appropriated to make up the difference.

Spoiler: Facilities (click to show/hide)

One small production line geared for M1978-F (woodpeckers)
One small production line geared for 20x105mm rounds
One workshop with workers (six single projects)
30 general engineers
5 ballistics engineers
2 computer engineers
1 biochemist
2 doctors
1 Materials engineer
1 Linguist

[a1s]

There going to be terminations in the engineer corps.

Project unspeakable was ill advised, yes (didn't cancel that?), but I'm tired of the team throwing things( without rocket motors in them). It makes us look bad in front of the generals.

And people on project redundant just wasted 200 man-hours of valuable time. I don't need a 30mm cannon firing all sort of explosive shells at the speed of 3 a second, I need a proper high caliber machine gun that
a)can pierce alien armor from 500 metres and 75% of possible angles.
b)has a high rate of fire. 5-10 rounds a second sounds like good benchmark.
Do you have a KPV in that warehouse? Bring it, test it against an alien armor, and then (if it passes) you can enjoy your Pakemans or whatever it is you do.
(There's also the fact that we just spent a week retooling a production line to a round Dawn's guns can't fire. But I suppose that one's on me.)

[Aseaheru]

You did say version of the S-18 that is automatic.
The S-18 is a 20mm cannon.