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[tryrar]

...oh, thought you were talking about the caliber of the gun. A gun with the caliber of 20,000mm would probably use every ounce of gunpowder ever and be firing shells the size of railway locamotives

[GrizzlyAdamz]

I included a pic in the post before my last one.

How about if we rounded up from 402 to, say, 420?
Again, these'll work as shore batteries as well.

Also: radar & 2-way radio.

[Brood]

No lol that was barrel length.

Doesn't matter much really, thats not even a 1 inch difference.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

I prefer 280mm howitzers and use the experience to design 420mm later, when we'll have more engineers to spare.

As for fleet.... Aren't we a small nation? Do we need a massive navy at all?


And you guys choosing the biggest calibers remind me that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landkreuzer_P._1000_Ratte

[Brood]

I'm not aiming for a huge navy, but we are a small island nation so we're a tempting target, we need some serious teeth to make people think twice about attacking us.

[GrizzlyAdamz]

But, but today's date. We can't put it off! QQ

[Ukrainian Ranger]

I'm not aiming for a huge navy, but we are a small island nation so we're a tempting target, we need some serious teeth to make people think twice about attacking us.

Coastal batteries, land based torpedo aircrafts, dive bombers, submarines are equally good for making people think twice

Battleships\carriers are designed for offensive operations

[Brood]

Which are required, pure defense does not work you make yourself an easy target.
You might put up a fight but sooner or later the enemy will break you down.

I'm taking the MAD approach, make it obvious that if they attack us we will burn them to the ground with us.
The threat of reprisals is always a more effective tactic then just bunkering down.

[tryrar]

Which are required, pure defense does not work you make yourself an easy target.
You might put up a fight but sooner or later the enemy will break you down.

I'm taking the MAD approach, make it obvious that if they attack us we will burn them to the ground with us.
The threat of reprisals is always a more effective tactic then just bunkering down.

.....The MAD approach? Really? I think you just invalidated any and all future proposals that ever come from you

[Brood]

Well just the basic premis of it.

Being able to defend yourself is all well and good but your enemy faces no danger in attacking you, at worst they lose some men spend 5 years rebuilding then come back.

You have to have the ability to not only repel the enemy but to counter attack as well to convince them that it's over.

[GrizzlyAdamz]

Man, you guys are no fun.

[tryrar]

We're just trying to be realistic here. Any gun over 300mm would realistically, in practice, need a giant ass turret to swing around, as you're getting into guns that weigh over several tons, and ammo that needs hydraulic lifts to be able to load effectively(And I contend 280mm is pushing it, but hey)

[Brood]

Hence why it's only done on ships and such, it's already done using machinery anyway.

[tryrar]

*Sigh* Until kingfisher comes back and posts UR's stuff i guess the only thing left to do is come up with wacky off the wall designs A la Nazi super-science

Please note that these designs are in no way to be taken seriously


Name:RTU-34(Соник Cannon)
Engineers:all of them
Workspace:all
What it is:A long rang sonic cannon(uses sound waves to create overpressure at the target, obliterating it)

Name:YTX-58(Электричество Cannon)
engineers:all of them
workspace:all
What it is: A directed-energy electricity cannon

[kingfisher1112]

Doop de door refresh page look at my game...
WHAT.
THE.
FUCK.
8 PAGES.
I'm going to bet money it's 8 pages worth of new designs. Seriously guys, I'm not going to fall into that trap of suggestion games where everyone argues over designs for a billion pages. Try to vote for existing designs.