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[Aseaheru]

Whats the status on things like artificial fertilizers, just outa curiosity.

Why do I feel like you want to break the Geneva convention?

Petroleum based fertilizer is a amazing explosive.

BTW, if anyone wants to PM 35 point list for another enemy that will make update composing easier

Ill try making one...

[Baffler]

I'll write one as well if you need more than one. Should we assume no nation is landlocked?

[Ukrainian Ranger]

That 35 pointer is not landlocked More than one is nice because I can choose or combine lists. Or use it for my own version. It is not like I will accept any list

If you are in the mood you can also generate oversea major power  with 80 points and no less than 40 of that being naval and at least one 16 point purchase

Generating more enemies is counterproductive

[Baffler]

I'll do that then. This ought to be fun...

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Year 1, Quarter 1

Spoiler: Orul Socialist Republic (click to show/hide)

Population: 7.4 millions
Area: 178 456 square kilometers:
Geography: Located on a peninsula. 12% mountains, 51% plains\farmland, 3% Urban, 6% rivers\lakes, 2% marshes, 10% tundra, 16% forests
Climate: Temperate 70%, arctic 30%
Neighbors: Surmartur republic.  Antonia (across 2-10km strait)

You are appointed to be a commissar of armaments. Your task is to provide our revolutionary army with new weapons. Note that it is not your job to organize production or procurement of weapons. That is job of commissars of industry and foreign relations. You must provide our armed with new designs. All bright minds will be put under your command. Your task is to use them for maximum usefulness

[ ] Manuel Mondragón.
That guy is talented weapon engineer. While he was loyal to capitalist government we found some ways to ensure his cooperation

[ ] Oreiro small arms factory
Located in the city of Oreiro that factory has a proud 40 year old history of producing various rifles and pistols. Local team of engineers are under your full command

[ ] Subcommissariat of shipbuilding
All small docks of our nation were merged in one structure, soon after the revolution. We have little to no experience in designing military vessels but we should start somewhere.

[] Factory #17(1)
[] Factory #17(2)

Formerly Obukhovsky Works. It was owned by a foreign capitalist Obukhovsky but now it is justifiably in hands of workers. It is full of artillery specialists  who can manage two projects easily

[] Zhilio tractor plant
While needs of our collective farms are priority, some of experience gained from producing agriculture machinery can be used

That is your resources. Of cause your option is not limited to giving orders to researches. You can and should cooperate with other commissariats

[] Request to Generals
[] Request to Commissariat of industry
[] Request to Supreme leader
[] Request to Commissariat of statistics
[] Request to Commissariat of intelligence


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Spoiler: OOC (click to show/hide)

Somewhat messy, but I hope it will be fun even like that:)

[] = action you can take. It is up to you how to use an action slot. Try and I'll say what is acceptable and what is not. Request to statistics is for getting more information about your country.  Intelligence is for getting information about enemies. I can answer basic questyions without a slot, but anything complex will require an action


Now voting. Voting looks like:

Player A gets and idea how to use some slot

[1] Name of the slot:  Description of the action

If some player likes that idea he should copypaste the action and add 1. Like

[2] Name of the slot:  Description of the action
then
[3] Name of the slot:  Description of the action

You can vote for as many variants of action as you want, but taking a vote away is unacceptable

[Baffler]

For convenience:

Spoiler: Our Arsenal (click to show/hide)

Mauser C96
(33) De jure it is standard sidearm of our army. In reality only 40% of our armed horses use it. The rest use older revolvers or various other imported pistols
(4) Unfortunately we have no factories that produce a foreign 7.63×25mm round.
(42) Our generals think that this pistol is adequate for our needs.

Mondragón rifle
(61) We have enough Mondragon rifles to supply all first line troops.
(39) Our industry produce enough ammo and spare parts, while production of new rifles is very modest
(12) Our generals believe that this rifle is too expensive and complex to use it as a standard issue rifle.  They desire cheaper and more reliable alternative to it.

Maxim
(32) Our horses have less machine guns than other armies of the region.

(33) And our production facilities could be better. It shares the same 7×57mm round as our Mondragons

(79) It is well loved by our military and our horses learned to use machineguns with good efficiency.

Obukhovskii 1907
(5)Our most modern large caliber gun. We have only one of that, guarding our capital from naval attacks
(59)Yet production facilities are intact and we can produce more. We have no problems producing enough shells, either
(60)Our generals know the strength of large caliber guns

Skoda Gebirgskanone M. 15
(71) Capitalist government procured a lot of those before the  revolution. Many were destroyed in fighting but many more remain in service
(23) We have basic ammunition production running, but spare parts will be a problem
(65) This light guns are well loved by our personnel

Sopwith Snipe
(58) We have three squadrons of those
(3) Yet our industry has no experience producing aircrafts or spare parts for them. Furthermore machineguns used on the aircrafts use non-standard ammo.
(35) We lack pilots and few generals think that aviation is an important branch of armed horses

Mosin-Nagant 1891
(100) We have a lot of bolt action rifles. I mean A LOT. Our stockpiles are full of them and mountains of 7.62×54mm ammo. There are virtually no chance that we will have nothing to arm our soldiers with.
(4) We still have specialists who know how to produce them but production is halted due to various reasons. Same can be said about 7.62X54mm rounds
(52) This rugged rifle is respected. Yet no one will object to get something better

RML 12 inch 25 ton gun
(74) Our shoreline is protected by 92 of those vintage guns
(78) And we have an ability to keep them well serviced
(35) Our command is attached to great design of the past and very reluctant to let it go

BL 13.5 inch naval gun Mk I
(70) nine of this guns are employed in coast defense duties. Additionally we have two railway cannons based on that
(7) Most of production facilities were switched to Obukhovskii gun. Only vital spare parts and ammunition is still produced
(84) Our artillery knows how to hit targets with deadly half ton shells

San_Francisco class
(48) Not counting minor auxiliary crafts we have three old vessels.
(15) We have a single drydock to host vessels of that size
(97) While our navy is pathetic that will change. Our glorious leader believes that creating our own modern and deadly navy is  essential for spreading the revolution

Dynamite
(31)We have additional explosives factories for our mining industry. In case of need that can be switched for military needs.

Agriculture machinery
(97)Despite revolutionary war we managed to keep large industry focused of tracked agriculture machinery in working condition.

To start things off, I think we should have the subcommissariat of shipbuilding try to glean some technical details from the San Francisco class ships we imported, and use that as a springboard for work on more modern designs. This would also be a good place to take advantage of our excellent Obukhovskii guns.

[Aseaheru]

I agree with that,a nd think that we should get the Oreiro factory to make more Maxims, while getting art of factory 18 to make more Obukhovskiis.
The other half of it should get to work on the Snipes, figuring out how they work and all...

[tryrar]

+1 to above

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Unlike other design games around, you don't control production.  You have one action to try to influence production but that isn't guaranteed to work

[Aseaheru]

When why give us factories?

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Not factories but engineers working at factories.

[Aseaheru]

Well, do any of you see any reason for us to design totally new things?

[TopHat]

Well, do any of you see any reason for us to design totally new things?

Because other nations will design new weapons and will thus completely outclass our forces if we don't do so as well?
Anyway, suggestions:
[1] Manuel Mondragón.: work on improving the reliability and cost of that rifle of yours.
[1] Oreiro small arms factory: Assist Mondragón in any capacity he requires.
That should do for starters.

[Funk]

We have lot of plains, so a tank core and a strong airforce any one?

[Baffler]

I think we can just assume that production capacity will expand appropriately so we don't have to worry about it. For UR's sake:

[1] Manuel Mondragón: work on improving the reliability and cost of that rifle of yours.
[1] Oreiro small arms factory: Assist Mondragón in any capacity he requires.
[2] factory #17(1): Reverse-engineer Sopwith Snipe,
[2] Subcommissariat of Shipbuilding: Reverse-engineer San Francisco class ships

That leaves us one slot at the factory, the tractor factory, and requests to the other commissariats.