Right, sorry for the delay, I had some computer issues this morning, and couldent get on until about 1.5 hours ago. Since then, I have mostly been working on the update, but due to time constraints I cant finish it tonight. So, here most of it is.
Also, you lot have had amazing rolls on the designs. Low rolls for targets, nearly max rolls for progress. I guess it evens out the horrible rolls on the machine guns acquisition. Hell, I rolled three times to try to get you guys the ShKAS.
Spring of 1934 After the aftershocks of the newyear's party dies down (They seem to get louder each year) and the hangovers slip away, work in Plokhoy Ostrov gets back to normal. Well, as normal as it gets.
Seeing the need for a more modern sidearm than the SM1895, work begins on convincing the council to attempt to import copies of the M1911, the M1917, and a Chinese knockoff of the Mauser C96, which some bright chinaman had scaled up to take the .45 ACP cartridge.
After no small amount of deliberation the council finally decided to focus all efforts on the M1911 (Or by the new official designation, the SM1911), and as a result attempted to at the least acquire a number of these sidearms for study. While unable to acquire many of the actual weapons themselves the council does give authorization to the department to setup a contract for a thousand of these firearms a year, which is achieved.
At the same time, work goes underway to acquire new rifles and machine guns in 7.62x54mm R, focusing mainly on the Madsen and the new ShKAS. On the rifle front the council gives authorization to acquire new mosin-nagants in bulk, aswell as a number of Winchester Model 18s in the cartridge. As an end result, some 24,000 mosin-nagants of various models are acquired, many from the US government, who bought them to save several of their factories from going bankrupt after the revolution canceled an order put forth for the rifles and never payed, and are currently being checked out. It is expected that most of them will be approved for military use.
Acquiring of the Model 18 went slightly slower, and only 2,500 where able to be found. The rifle now carries the designation of RM1895(1915), and are currently being tested.
On the machine gun side of the bill, of the list of weapons fitting the bill the council has approved the acquiring of only the Madsen and the Degtyaryov. When some of the decisions where appealed the same answer was given. The ShKAS will not be acquired.
Acquiring numbers of Madsen machine guns (MM1902) went... alright. Although the manufacturer refused to sell to us directly, mostly due to low stocks and unwillingness to re-acquire tooling for producing it in 7.62x54R, they did assist us in acquiring older copies, and even gave us plans for it. On the stipulation that we donot sell them, of course. A total of just under 10 thousand of these weapons have been required, and are currently undergoing testing. From what we hear, the soldiers testing these weapons are not massively impressed, and have been heard to state that they prefer the Lewis.
Speaking of the MM1911, it may have some serious competition in the DP-28, a lighter and easier to produce weapon, which the troops who have been testing them seems to enjoy. Alas, in acquiring a batch of these weapons (some eighteen hundred) we may have aggravated the soviet union further. But, barring any unforeseen complications, the MM1927 appears to be here to stay.
And in the land of production of this and that, there have been some interesting things. With a rather extensive construction plan laid out, work begins on a total of six factories.
Factories one through five are fairly normal, being, well, smaller. The first, a single-lined naval factory, is completed ahead of time, and is ready for tooling. The next four, being a multitude of smaller munitions factories built at various locale across the islands inorder to reduse threat of destruction, are completed on time, and thats about it.
However, rising out of the capitals new industrial park is Factory SA1, a massive eight line creation dedicated to producing smallarms (anything not crewserved). Its workers, newly hired from across the world, are ready and eager to begin tooling the plant.
But not all is well in the world of factories. Shortages of cannon for the T-18 have made the V1 works unable to produce any armed tanks, instead producing more spare parts and a number of training tanks.
Over at the various workshops and the offices, designs are underway. The three designs selected for work this year (The HGAA M1934 "Baklan", the T18"M1934, and the FAC M1934 "Shockwave") all have amazing capabilities, the prototypes having amazing leaps over the initial proposals.
First off, there is the HGAA M1934 "Baklan", an all-metal divebomber capable of staying aloft for six hours, carry 1.5 tons of ordinance in wing-mounted pods, and housing a crew of four with three turrets for defence, each equipping a pair of MM1911, and the whole thing muscled aloft by a pair of Hurricanes. The pilots, used to flying wooden flying boats with half the speed, love it to death, and the gunners love their electrically operated turrets, although they dont like having to swap out pans on the MM1911. Still, with the designers makeing it easy to swap out machine guns for another sort, and providing equipment for belt feeds, it should not be too difficult to change the turrets to make them better.
2x Hurricane Engine
4 seats (1 Pilot, 1 Bomber cum Gunner, 1 Rear Gunner/radio operator, 1 navigator/aux gunner)
Defensive Armament: 6x Lewis Guns (2 forward, 2 in ventral turret, 2 rearwards in turret)
Speed: 200mph
Range: 6 hours
Optional Munitions:
1.5 ton in wing mounts. Gunpods have been designed for 40mm cannon.
Capable of carrying bombs, torpedo or gunpods
Costs 5tAL per batch
Quick: Speed increase by 50mph
Maneuverable: Tinnytintin
Sturdy: Takes a pounding and lives.
Easy Learning: Pilot training time decreased
A pleasure to fly: Pilots love this bird
Easy Maintenance: Mechanics love this bird, reduced parts requirements/repair time
Extra Load: Carries 2ton ordinance
Extra Range: See tin
Cheap: Cost goes down
Reliable: Parts requirements halved, reduces chance for mishaps
To complement the new bird, and to replace what we already have in stock, as well as to refill it, it was decided that we need to develop a new 18inch wet-heater design, which is exactly what was done. The resulting design, the T18"M1934, is light, fast, cheap, easy to maintain, and airdroppible. Needless to say, the navy is ecstatic.
Steam wet-burner design
Range: 16km
Speed: 60km/h
Airdroppible
One batch costs 1t steel, 2t AL
And finally, the Shockwave. A fast attack craft, armed with two 18in torpedo tubes infront, a twin-mounted 40mm cannon in back, six MM1911 dotted around the place, and either a HiLo or a pair of AHM1933 in a forward mounted turret, all at 100 ton and powered by a quartet of Hurricanes, well, this thing is a speed demon, and with its armaments it is able to take on nearly anything it can get in range of.
However, this comes at a price. The craft is a fragile thing. Getting hit by nearly anything will turn it to metal shards and splinters, and it has a rather large crew due to that main turret. It is also costly, requiring near-on ten ton each of aluminum and steel per craft.
"Shockwave" fast attack craft
Length: 40 m
Beam: 5.5 m
Draught: 1.5 m
Displacement: 100 ton
Crew 30
Propulsion: AE M1933 "Hurricane" times four, turning individual props (6000HP total)
Speed: 35 knots
Range: 2000NMI
Weapons
2 x 18in torpedo tubes (mounted forward)
2x40mm AA gun (mounted rear)
2 ATHM1933 mounted forward / 1 AATSM1933 'HiLo'
6x Lewis Guns aa
Costs 10 ton steel, 10 ton Al each
Cost Reduction: Price goes down by a quarter, which will help with factory production
Easy Maintenance: Repairs are faster with reduced parts costs
Modular gun mounts: Ann weapon mounts are modular, which makes swapping loadouts easier and faster.
Even Faster: Speed increase by 5 knots
Longer range: range increase by 500nmi
Underwater detection systems: See tin
Armor: Although it wont stop cannon rounds, armor on the bridge reduces damage from smallarms or strafing runs.
Reliable: Less likely to require maintenance.
1x HGAA M1934
10x 18"M1934
1x FAC M1934
200x RM1891
75x MM1911
300x SM1895
10x EAMM1932
5000x 7.62x54mm
The head of the naval arm mentioned something about low stocks of 40mm ammunition, and mines. They love their new torpedoes and ship, and have been testing both out extensively.
The head of the Armored arm states that while they are happy with the current model of tank in use, a form of self-propelled anti-tank gun may be useful. They love that they have more tanks coming, even though they cant be used in combat.
The head of the Defense arm is currently just wondering when they can get some of those new guns.
The overall head of the Armed Forces has if you plan on making any bombs, And when you plan on producing more aircraft.
The council is currently content with your work.
One office building
One large warehouse
One small workshop (No production lines possible)
One small drydock (On loan from armed forces)(500t maximum)
One Large Workshop (One line RM1891 (200 units per half-year), one line 7.62x54mm rounds)
Factory M1 as follows:
- Line 1 : MM1911
- Line 2 : SM1895
- Line 3 : 7.62×38 rounds
Factory M2 as follows:
- Line 1: EAM M1932 mortar
- Line 2: 7.62×54mm rounds
- Line 3: AEM shells
Factory V1 as follows:
- Line 1: T-18 [CANNOT PRODUCE STANDARD T-18 WITHOUT CANNON]
Factory N1 as follows:
- Line 1: AWAITING TOOLING
Factory M1 as follows:
- Line 1: AWAITING TOOLING, TOOLED
- Line 2: AWAITING TOOLING, TOOLED
Factory M2 as follows:
- Line 1: AWAITING TOOLING, TOOLED
- Line 2: AWAITING TOOLING, TOOLED
Factory M3 as follows:
- Line 1: AWAITING TOOLING, TOOLED
- Line 2: AWAITING TOOLING, TOOLED
Factory M4 as follows:
- Line 1: AWAITING TOOLING, TOOLED
- Line 2: AWAITING TOOLING, TOOLED
Factory SA1 as follows:
- Line 1: AWAITING TOOLING
- Line 2: AWAITING TOOLING
- Line 3: AWAITING TOOLING
- Line 4: AWAITING TOOLING
- Line 5: AWAITING TOOLING
- Line 6: AWAITING TOOLING
- Line 7: AWAITING TOOLING
- Line 8: AWAITING TOOLING
Eleven Scraper Trucks
5000t timber per half-year
As much stone as is needed
2650t steel, stockpiled, 483 ton annually
785t aluminum, stockpiled, 396 ton annually
3 middling architect(s)
2 basic architect(s)
3 basic aeronautical engineer(s)
2 middling engineer(s) (basic)
7 skilled engineer(s) (Basic)
1 Masterfull Engineer(s)
2 basic engineer(s) (basic)
1 basic Weapons Engineer(s)
4 material engineer(s)
1 middling material Engineer(s)
4 basic material engineer(s)
2 middling naval engineer(s)
2 skilled naval engineer(s)
3 basic naval engineer(s)
1 skilled electronics engineers(s)
3 basic electronics engineer(s)
29 laborers
13 skilled laborers
HGAA M1934
18"M1934
FAC M1934
Right, I have a suggestion: Form people into teams, then vote on what team does what proposal. In this way, you will all be able to have more than three things designed per turn, and will speed up other things.
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