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[Aseaheru]

  Welcome to the small nation of Plokhoy Ostrov, located mainly on the small Atlantic island of Plokhoy Ostrov. Now, to work: We are in the midst of an attack by extraterrestrial forces. All contact with artificial satellites has ended, and we assume that they where destroyed. In addition, undersea communication lines appear cut. As such the council has ordered the establishment of the Extraterrestrial Defense Department. You have been chosen to advise this body, established to oversee defense of our fine land. We wish you, and all other members of the department, luck.


Why this is: I enjoy weapon design games and alien defense games, and decided to try running a game that combines both in a cold war era setting.

Island back story: The Russian Empire, deciding that they too needed a overseas colony, and found the near-useless island of Plokhoy Ostrov. As nothing really interesting was on the island it was largely ignored, its population (of below 5000) being mostly farmers scraping a living out of the stony soil and fishermen doing similar in the sea. That is, until the October Revolution, when the hard-pressed White Army remembered that they had a population untapped for military service and the locals, along with the 40-odd troops stationed there decided they would rather not go fight, and decided to stage their own revolution. This was more or less uncontested, and the resulting communist nation was largely ignored by the nations of the world, at least until 1946, when gold was discovered in a local quarry.

  The year is now 1986, and the nation is very different from how it was when it was formed. The population is now in the hundreds of thousands, highly educated, and the nation is one of the leaders in technology, helping to lead the way in such fields as particle physics and space exploration.
  And now a group of extraterrestrials have rolled in, destroyed most of what humanity has placed into space, and now is threatening Earth itself. Let us hope that humanity survives this trial.

[Aseaheru]

Section for designs

Pre-Invasion Designs

Spoiler: FN-FAL (click to show/hide)

Fusil Automatique Léger, made with license.
7.62×51mm, not very effective against alien armor
 .05 PP

Spoiler: Model M1986-30 APC (click to show/hide)

Armored Personnel Carrier armed with 30mm cannon. Developed alongside the Soviet BTR-80, and is identical in all respects.
10PP

Spoiler: Model M1952-CAT/C (click to show/hide)

Converted Douglas DC-7 fitted with a radar system, allowing detection of low flying terrestrial craft at ranges of about 160km. Detection of extraterrestrial craft is patchy at best.
Cannot build additional units due to lack of airframes

Spoiler: Model M1978-F (click to show/hide)

Locally produced Yak-38M, armed with two twin-barreled 32mm cannons and a selection of rockets, bombs, and missiles.
30PP for aircraft, cannot manufacture armaments

Spoiler: Helicopters inuse (click to show/hide)

137 units of Mi-35 (Hind E)
40 units of Westland Lynx AH.1
60 units of Westland LynxHAS.2
30 units of locally produced Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King (35PP)
30 units of Aérospatiale SA 330 Puma

Spoiler: Generic Production things (click to show/hide)

Standard .45mm revolver=.02PP
1000 rounds of 7.62×51mm=1PP
2000 rounds of .45=1PP
500 rounds of 30mm or 23mm=1PP
Generic Truck=5PP
30mm Cannon, single=1PP
Generic Bodyarmor=1PP
Torpedo=1.5PP each
Mines=2pp for ten

Spoiler: M1979-MS destroyer (click to show/hide)

Displacement: 3500 long tons, standard
              4100 long tons, full load
Length:       119.5m waterline, 125m overall
Beam:         14.3m
Draught:      4.2m
Decks:        9
Pulpulsion:   2 shafts COGOG
Speed:       
Range:        4200 nm at 13.8 knots
Complement:   250 enlisted, 24 officers
Armament:     1x twin launcher for 40nmi AAms (22 missiles)
              1x4.5in gun
              2x22omm CIWS guns
              2x30mm cannon on single mounts
              4xASMs with 100km range
              2xtriple ASM torpedo tubes
Aircraft:     1xLynx (HAS.2)

Description: Local built type 42
1500PP, not counting weapons or aircraft

Spoiler: M1974-GP patrol boat (click to show/hide)

Displacement: 480 long tons standard, 540 full load
Length:     56m
Beam:       10.5m
Draught:    2.5m
Pulpulsion: Two shaft turbines at 11000hp each, two crusing engines at 4000hp each
Speed:      42 knots
Range:      1650 at 14 knots, operational autonomy for 10 days
Crew:       50 officers and men
Armament:   4x ASMs with 100km range
            1x4 SAM MANPAD missiles
            1x76mm main gun
            2x30mm gun for air defence

Desc: Local built Tatantul-class corvette, 100PP(plus weapons costs)

Spoiler: M1982-LRGMF guided missile frigate (click to show/hide)

Displacement: 10000ton standard
                   12500ton full load
Length:       186.4m
Beam:         20.8m
Draught:      8.4m
Propulsion:   COGOG, two shaft at 130000shp
Speed:        32 knot
Range:        6517 nm at 18 kn
Complement:   419 enlisted, 66 officers
Armament:     16 (8x2) 300nmi ASM
                   64 (8x8) 500km SAM
                   2x2 100km SAM
                   1 twin mounted 130 cannon
                   6x6 AK-630 CWIS
                   2x12 anti-submerine mortars
                   10 (2x5) 21in torpedo launchers
Aircraft:     2xLynx (HAS.2)

Description: Slava class cruisers purchased from the soviet union, parts retrofited/replaced

Spoiler: M1981-DS diesel submersable (click to show/hide)

Displacement: 1780 long tons submerged
Length:       64.4m
Beam:         6.5m
Draft:        6.5m
Pulpulsion:   four diesel-electric turning one shaft at 6100 shp
Speed:        11.5 knots surfaced
              22.5 knots submerged
Range:        11000 nmi at 10 knots, surfaced
              8,000 nmi at 10 knots, snorkeling
              400 nmi at 4 knots, submerged
Test depth:   500m
Complement:   36 officers and men
Armament:     8x21 inch torpedo tubes with a total of 14 torpedos
              24 mines, carrried externally (slows the ship)

Description: Local built "reimagining" of the type 209.
56pp to build

'New' designs

Spoiler: AT rifle (click to show/hide)

Solothurn S-18/100 20 mm Anti-Tank Cannon
Weight unloaded: 45kg
Length:          1760mm
Barrel length:   925
Cartrige:        20x105mm
Action:          Semi-auto
Feed system:     10rd box

Ammo is currently 2PP for 1000 rd
Gun costs .3pp each

Spoiler: Hell fire/Devil's Fire rocket systems (click to show/hide)

Hell Fire
 Mounted rocket system
 12 rockets per pod
 Links to ships computer systems
Devil's Fire
 Ground based rocket system
 30 rounds per system

100x 80mm rockets for the system= 2PP
Hellfire launcher= 10pp each
Devil's Fire launcher= 15pp each

Spoiler: 'Frankenstein's Shield' (click to show/hide)

Costs one suit of alien combat armor, gives 1.5 suits of armor.

Spoiler: PG-17-8 (click to show/hide)

Poison gas that /may/ affect aliens. Highly dangerous to humans.

[Aseaheru]

The aliens did not come in saucers to land in front of monuments as many thought they would have done. Indeed, for the first days of the invasion the aliens did not even enter the atmosphere at all, preferring to redirect objects passing near the planet to bombard much of the worlds military and civic centers from affair, even as they destroyed all humanity placed above the world with other redirected objects. In space alone nearly two hundred bright minds were snuffed out in moments. The defenses of the worlds nations scrambled to defeat the threat, with some being more successful than others. Few areas were rather unaffected, mostly remote areas, including the small island nation of Plokhoy Ostrov, where due to most of the land being earmarked for agricultural purposes most development occurred underground.

  A week has passed since the initial bombardment, and the aliens, or rather their craft, have been spotted for the first time in the skies of Earth. Interceptors scrambled from bases that survived bombardment have met with little success, in the few cases observed over council airspace the single extraterrestrial craft shot down by interceptors resulted in the loss of most of the force scrambled, and then was only able to be taken down with assistance from ground based air defenses, mostly mobile gun beds.
  The resulting operation against the downed craft by nearly a fifth of the military forces on the island nearly ended in failure, as most of the forces deployed came under attack by a number of vaguely reptilian creatures armed with what appeared to be rapidly firing grenade launchers and armored with a substance that proved highly resistant to normal rifle fire. All enemy combatants of this type where killed via fire from the gunships dispatched. There where also a pair of smaller combatants who where found dead on arrival, seemingly from cannon fire during aerial combat.


  Asmuch of the craft and all portable artifacts have been sent to the labs. The local military forces have expressed desire to get weapons better suited to defeat these combatants.


Resources under the Departments Command:

Spoiler: Military forces (click to show/hide)

Aprox. 100,000 Militia troops, various levels of training
Aprox. 25,000 Militia troops, Required for vital services
Aprox. 200,000 military trained scientists/engineers
19,986 Navy troops
  Six destroyers of M1979-MS class
  Eighteen patrol craft of M1974-GP class
  Two guided missile frigates of M1982-LRGMF class
  Ten diesel submersibles of M1981-DS class
     5,486
4,980 air force
  Two hundred and ninety seven helicopters of various types
  Eleven interceptors of M1978-F class
       Eight additional damaged M1978-F
  Seven airborne radar units of M1952-CAT/C

2,000 Assorted trucks
100 mobile gun-beds
20 mobile radar trucks
486 APCs, model M1986-30

Infantry are armed mostly with locally-made FN-FALs and .45 caliber revolvers. Bolt action rifles are also used.

Spoiler: Civilian resources (click to show/hide)

30,000 factory workers who may be tapped for military
15,000 factory workers who may not be tapped
15,000 farmers who may be tapped for military
5,000 farmers who may not be tapped
170,000 military trained scientists
30,000 military trained engineers
~300,000 civilians, various occupations/ages
~30,000 foreign civilians

Various factories
Various research installations
Small rocket test lab/launch site
Various bunkers
Medium sized gold mine

Spoiler: Captured Resources (click to show/hide)

One partial troop carrying UFO
Two aliens of Class A (Small, seemingly technical aliens)
Sixteen aliens of Class B (Large, combat troops)
Sixteen sets of combat armor
Fourteen alien weapons of Type One (Seem to be equivalent of assault rifles)
Two alien weapons of Type Two (Seem to be equivalent of DMR)
Two alien weapons of Type Three (seem to be equivalent of PDW)

[NAV]

PTW

[Arcvasti]

Post-Traumatic Whistling

[tryrar]

PTW. Quick question, how sci-fi will the weapons get? Can we build ray guns and particle beams eventually or are we just stuck with conventional weapons and whatever we can reverse engineer from the invaders?

[Funk]

PTW

[a1s]

 How different is this history from ours? A new player in Space exploration circa 1986 is a notable change, are there others?

[Playergamer]

PTW.

[a1s]

So, has the background been sufficiently developed? Should we begin making weapons and whatnot?

[Rolepgeek]

Looks interesting.

I'll try it.

[Aseaheru]

   I still have some work I have to do (namely, getting designs for the basic things, shifting some things). other than the island and its fun in space, the only real difference is that the cold war ended in the late 70s, with Germany still separate and the USSR and the US are alot less... antagonistic on the world stage.

As for fancy weapons, as fancy as you can get without breaking physics much. You probably arent going to see any 300ft tall mechs with laser weapons and FTL tho. Lasers, yes. Mechs, possibly. FTL, probably in some form.

[The Froggy Ninja]

Patty's Traditional Waffles

[a1s]

Section for designs

Pre-Invasion Designs

Spoiler: FN-FAL (click to show/hide)

Fusil Automatique Léger, made with license.
7.62×51mm, not very effective against alien armor
 .05 PP

Spoiler: Model M1986-30 APC (click to show/hide)

Armored Personnel Carrier armed with 30mm cannon. Developed alongside the Soviet BTR-80, and is identical in all respects.
5PP

Spoiler: Model M1952-CAT/C (click to show/hide)

Converted Douglas DC-7 fitted with a radar system, allowing detection of low flying terrestrial craft at ranges of about 160km. Detection of extraterrestrial craft is patchy at best.
Cannot build additional units due to lack of airframes

Spoiler: Model M1978-F (click to show/hide)

Locally produced Yak-38M, armed with two twin-barreled 32mm cannons and a selection of rockets, bombs, and missiles.
30PP for aircraft, cannot manufacture armaments

Spoiler: Helicopters inuse (click to show/hide)

137 units of Mi-35 (Hind E)
40 units of Westland Lynx AH.1
60 units of Westland LynxHAS.2
30 units of locally produced Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King (35PP)
30 units of Aérospatiale SA 330 Puma

Spoiler: Generic Production things (click to show/hide)

Standard .45mm revolver=.02PP
1000 rounds of 7.62×51mm=1PP
2000 rounds of .45=1PP
500 rounds of 30mm or 23mm=1PP
Generic Truck=5PP
30mm Cannon, single=1PP
Generic Bodyarmor=1PP

How come a whole APC costs as much as a truck? or 100 rifles (each of which costs about as much as 2 magazines of ammo for it)
I'm not sure what "body armor" is, but I can't imagine it costing the same as a 30mm autocannon.

[Playergamer]

Since the cannon says single, maybe the body armor is multiple units?