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[Funk]

It was described as a cannon. And with it's 5 meter barrel length, it might be a bit unwieldy to shoot down aircraft with it.

Read the first post again the  barrel length only 832 mm not 5meters, in total there no more than 1420 mm long including stock.

what kinds of trees do we have access to

You have stocks of ash and pine trees but are able to inport any kind of tree or lumber if need be.
   

[Aseaheru]

Ash can be pretty good.

[10ebbor10]

It was described as a cannon. And with it's 5 meter barrel length, it might be a bit unwieldy to shoot down aircraft with it.

Read the first post again the  barrel length only 832 mm not 5meters, in total there no more than 1420 mm long including stock.

Yeah, my bad. Got confused.

[Dorsidwarf]

so how does this work? Are there updates on the situation? Do we just post upgrades until we hit ftl drives?

[10ebbor10]

so how does this work? Are there updates on the situation? Do we just post upgrades until we hit ftl drives?

Situation updates are posted periodically. Might try to look for the now deceased predecessors for inspiration.

[Dorsidwarf]

22) Develop self propelled artillery
23) Begin making a rapid -loader artillery weap

[10ebbor10]

Both of the previous games because of an administrative overload. Please don't joke around with the numbers, they're there to make this manageable for the GM.

((In fact, if I were the GM I would simply ignore invalid suggestions.))

[Funk]

Im going to ignore invalid suggestions and combine duplicates.
still i have like 1 design with a vote,

OK proposal time ends in an hours time from now so you can all stop waiting and start voteing.

[10ebbor10]

How much votes per person. Unlimited?

[Funk]

see page one, rules

[Aseaheru]

I voted for five things so far...


Allright, can anyone else help me by nitpicking the airship that is going to be near useless in land engagements?

[ICBM pilot]

which one is that?
votes:
6
10
20
F make an orchard for redwood trees

[Aseaheru]

#99998.

Airship with landing party of 10 or so, three multi-barreled cannons and cargo space that may oneday allow it to take tanks into combat.

[10ebbor10]

Votes:  1,6_b, 7, 9, 10, 16, 20
Production votes: A,B,C,D

Spoiler: Suggestion list (click to show/hide)

1. Airship prototype. Small capsule, floating on hydrogen balloon. Single engine. Unarmed, 200 kg carrying capacity
2. Basic landmine. A simple, anti vehicle mine.
3.small fast boat for attacking lightly armored boats and coastal factories
4.500kg torpedo designed to destroy propellers on ships
5.diesel engine
6.15mm machine gun
6) Start designing a light tank chassis. A basic, rather simple design would work best, as we do need to update our forces with new equipment.
7) Start designing a new fixed single wing, enclosed cockpit fighter craft. Armaments for the craft are unnessesary at this stage, as the designers should just get used to understanding basic aeronautics for future projects.
Start trying to refine a new fuel out of the unobtainium, one with greater efficiency than most other fuels available to us at this time.
9) Update the lebels by redeisgning them to have larger sights, replacing the tubular magazine with a standard rifle magazine that can be fed via stripper clips
10. Begin experiments with small gunpowder rockets.
11. Develop lighter breastplates using Auftriebium boosted alloys
12. Develop bullet proof horse armor using the same alloys
13. Develop Flanteium  hand grandes to be carried by cavalry
14. Develop drugs that will make horses stronger
15. After makeing that first airship make one that can carry three Hotchkisses in a v format as well as twenty troops.
also get working of paper-case bombs.
16) Design more powerful engine capable of achieving 600hp
17) Start building a fleet of troop transport vehicles powered by these engines in order to give our forces greater mobility
18) Begin designing a tank with just enough armour to withstand hand grenades and machine gun fire, but which is extremely fast. Machine gun blisters and a heavy belt-fed gun are important too.
19) Work on an "unspent fuel collector" that filters out sprays of uncombusted fuel in order to increase fuel economy
20)Design the Belt-12 Self Repeating Gun. This is a gun that uses the recoil from the bullet firing to automatically eject the spent case, and draw the ammo belt through to the next round. No cranking needed.
22) Develop self propelled artillery
23) Begin making a rapid -loader artillery weap

Spoiler: Production list (click to show/hide)

A) Start building trucks to motorize atleast an entire division. Faster than horses, these sould dramatically improve the mobility of our forces.
B) Start to increase the mining capacity of the unobtainium mines, the more material we get from there, the better.
C) Start improving our industrial capacity. Every factory, regardless of the goods it produces, stregthens the economy. And with that economy behind us, we can afford to start outproducing our rivals.
D) Start building up infrastructure in vital areas. The more we can move through those areas, the more efficient our production will be.
E). Invest in horse breading facilities , try to create new, stronger horses
F) make an orchard for redwood trees

#99998.

Airship with landing party of 10 or so, three multi-barreled cannons and cargo space that may oneday allow it to take tanks into combat.

It's underarmed (german airships had up to 30 guns on their bomber airships alone, and that's unsufficient), underequipped (10 guys doesn't warrant sending an airship. Especially because it isn't exactly a stealthy insertion), and ill defined. (Really, the size varies between smaller than the prototype to 3 times larger than the Hindenburg)

[Aseaheru]

A,B,C,D
1,20,15a,15b,16



Lets split my ideas in two, as the papercase bombs where meant as a different thing.

As for weapons on the big airship, there are going to others besides the three big ones, those are just the ones in the gondola that arent hand held. At the moment it can be used as a naval scout and sutch. As for the size I have the size for the main parts...