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[Baffler]

PTW.

[StrawBarrel]

-Added Naval Team to Assignments.

Spoiler: Team Assignments (click to show/hide)

D1.2
  POAC Varients - Materials Team (Priority: #1) + Naval Engineering Team
D2
  Pusher plane interceptor - Aeronautics Team
D3
  Arty form of the HiLo - Gun Engineering Team
D5
  Webbing and armor - Materials Team (Priority: #2)

C1
  Build a drydock for the mass-production factory, for 1000ton vessels - Labor Team A
C2
 Four line munitions factory - Construction Team 2
C3
 Four line large-arms - Construction Team 1
C6
  Vehicular factory complex, consisting of:
    1x four line vehicular engine factory
    1x two line vehicular factory
         Fresh Meat Team, Construction Team 3

Does anyone know why the Electronics Team is temporarily unavailable? I don't remember.

[Aseaheru]

They shouldent be unavailable. I removed that...

[StrawBarrel]

Got it.

Spoiler: Edited Team Assignments (click to show/hide)

D1.2
  POAC Varients - Materials Team (Priority: #1) + Electronics Team
D2
  Pusher plane interceptor - Aeronautics Team
D3
  Arty form of the HiLo - Gun Engineering Team
D5
  Webbing and armor - Materials Team (Priority: #2)

C1
  Build a drydock for the mass-production factory, for 1000ton vessels - Naval Engineering Team
C2
 Four line munitions factory - Construction Team 2
C3
 Four line large-arms - Construction Team 1, Labor Team A
C6
  Vehicular factory complex, consisting of:
    1x four line vehicular engine factory
    1x two line vehicular factory
         Fresh Meat Team, Construction Team 3

-Moved Labor Team A from C1 to C3.
-Assigned Naval Team to C1.
-Assigned Electronics team to D1.2 POAC Variants.
Feel free to change the assignments if you can think of something better.

[Aseaheru]

So, the silence is to mean that noone objects to the assignments?

[Funk]

Yes, no objections here.

[coleslaw35]

Yes, no objections here.

Sorry for the lack of a response, had tons of reading to do for school.
No objections from me either.

[Aseaheru]

Spring and Summer of 1937

 So, after what may be the quietest New Years celebration in the records of the Department (Not for lack of trying, they just coudent invite asmany people this year), work started back up.

 First up, for whatever reason, we have the Gun engineering team and their redesign of the AATSM1933 'HiLo'. Dont give me that look, when you are totally redoing the mechanism and ammo its a redesign. No, seriously, dont give me that look. I got enough of a headache from the team itself, and I dont need you to make it worse. Half of them made the silly thing.

 Well, needless to say, it was a rather quick job on their part. After taking one of the older versions of the HiLo (From before the autoloader was added), changing the loading mechanism to use a horizontal block breach, and then working out munitions, we have the C-F-M1937 'LoGo'. It has a lower range, slightly lower weight, very slightly lower RoF, and requires a combined crew of six. Its also worse in most respects than the ATHM1933.

Spoiler: C-F-M1937 'LoGo' (click to show/hide)

Cannon-Field-Model of 1937 'LoGo'

Caliber: 105mm
Barrel Length: 5250mm (50 calibers)
Breech: Horizontal Sliding Breach block
RoF: 12 RPM
Barrel+Breech Weight: 2500kgs
Total installation including mount & traverse: 10500kgs
effective range at 0 degrees elevation, full powder charge: 4500m
Crew Required: 3 (for the gun itself, entire crew of 6)

Cost: 4ton steel, 4ton al per batch, batch of 3(generic factory)

Oh, they said to tell you lot that you better get someone else to redesign it next time.


 And now, the Electronics team, because why the hell not. They, along with the Materials team, where tasked with creating varients of the POAC-B for a number of things.

So, first up on what they managed to make, the POAC-B-C, which is a PAOC-B with the passenger area chopped off and left open, which makes the whole thing look rather odd. They also installed a small crane for offloading cargo, along with various other cargo related guff.

Next, we have the POAC-B-C(F), which is what you get when you install a armored fueltank to the cargo variant. The crane is still there, and is rigged up to refuel stuff. Sadly, the extra mass of the fuel tank has slowed it down some compared to the basic cargo variant. Due to the work needed to install the thing it requires eigther being built in the factory or a fair wack of time in a workshop, so dont think of it as being an instantly swapable thing.

Third up, we have the POAC-B-M, which is a POAC-B with an EAM M1932 thrown into the troop compartment, along with some ammo storage.

And finally, the POAC-B-C, which is what you get when you take a 87.6mm field gun and dump it into a POAC-B. Armed with the ATHM1933 due to the smaller version of the HiLo not being ready yet, the vehicle weighs as much as the PAOC-H with none of the armor. It does contain that big-ole gun designed for use in a tank though.

Spoiler: New POAC Variants (click to show/hide)

POAC-B-C
POAC-B-C(F)
POAC-B-M
POAC-B-C

Next up, we have most of the Materials team, sans the three dudes they sent to the Electronics team who where told to bugger off, wandered into a bar and spent the rest of the period drunk as can be.

Anyways, they where put to work developing a system of bodyarmor and carrying equipment for infantry in combat. Which, despite having three people working on it, they somehow manage to do. The resulting items, which are under the loveley general headings of E-I-W-M1937 and E-I-V-M1937.

Spoiler: E-I-W-M1937 (click to show/hide)

Equipment-Infantry-Web gear-Model of 1937

So, the EIW, or facilitators, are a set of pouches of various sizes designed to be clipped together, to a vest rig, or to the splinter vest listed below, normally made of tough cloth with plastic buttons(dont heat them). Pouch variants include: Generic Equipment, Stripper, Optical(for the marksmen, made of leather), Loose Rounds, SM1911/34 magazines, SM1911/34 Drums, SMM1934 magazines, and Small Filters.

Counts as a generic item, batch size of 300 (abstracted sets FTW)
Generic factories count as specialized.

Spoiler: E-I-V-M1937 (click to show/hide)

Equipment-Infantry-Vest-Model of 1937

The EIV, or "That blasted heavy hot piece of shite" is a large, rather bulky thick woolen vest designed to cover the entirety of the torso, the groin, and the neck. The inside portion of it consists almost entirety of pockets that thin steel plates can be slotted into(each covering part of the next) inorder to increase further its ballistic protection. The outside of it contains a number of built in pockets, and attachment points for facilitators.

According to the troops who have been training with them prior to getting shipped to Spain, its a rather warm thing. According to the troops in Spain, its hotter than hell and a serious medical risk.

One batch costs 1ton steel and makes 300. Generic factories count as specialized.

 Next up, the Aeronautics team gets to work on a new interceptor that is designed to dogfight instead of boom-and-zoom. The I-P-M1937 is... interesting. After the team managed to get two Hurricane engines working together they went and created their monstrosity. But, hey. It has tons of cannons in the nose, and all that extra engine power let them add in some armor... Hell, it has more armor than some of the PAOCs. Its pilots are already calling it the flying tank. In addition, the design team appears to have been drunk and on something... Interesting, as the aircraft's seat can be ejected from the craft, which solves the problem of bailing out and not getting chewed up by the prop.

Spoiler: I-P-M1937 'FireStorm' (click to show/hide)

Interceptor-Pusher-Model of 1937 Firestorm

Armour: 8mm of nickel-molybdenum steel plate around the cockpit.
13 mm plate of  nickel-molybdenum steel on the back of the seat.
2mm fire wall between the pilot and the fuel tanks.

Weapons: 2x M-1 Machineguns in wing roots with 500 belts rounds per gun.
4 X 20mm cannons in the nose with 60 round drums

Engine: 2 x "Hurricane" aero engine 1500HP
Crew: 1 pilot (Oxygen system installed)

Wingspan: 12 m
Length: 13 m
Empty weight: 3225 kg

Traits:
 Reliable
 Quick
 Fireproof(thanks to various interesting things that where added, like self-sealing fuel tanks)
 Ejector seat?!

Costs: 4x C-A-M1935(each), 2x MM1934(each), 2x AEM1933'Hurricane'(each), 2ton steel, 2 units electronic parts and 2ton al per batch
Four aircraft are made per batch(generic factory)

If you want to see what it looks like, It looks like this thing

 And now, on to the world of construction. First up, we have the naval team, who was put to work on building that 1k ton drydock for that naval factory. Despite having no idea how to do architectural stuff, the managed to get it done.

 Next up, Construction team 1 and Labor team A where put to work on a four line large arms factory within the giant complex-o-production. Which they get up and partly running. However, the two lines they did manage to get tooled where nabbed by the Council for the Republicans. Pricks.

 Construction Team Two was put to work creating another four line monster in the complex, this time for munitions. They managed to get most of it tooled before midsummer, and the council dident grab any of the lines for Spain!

 Finally, Construction team Three and the Fresh Meats where put to work creating a new factory complex! On the otherside of the capital, but still. Infact, its built right next to the airfield. Anyways, they managed to get every in the place tooled up, and, once again, the council hasent done squat to them. Amazing.


 Speaking of the council and all the wonderful things they have done, they approved your request to buy more shotguns from the Americans. Sadly, the Americans are out of that particular model of shotgun. They do have plenty of their Riot variant, which lacks the bayonet lug, swing swivels, and the heat shield. Still want them?


 And now, to keep things mostly moving around, we have news of the war!

 With the loss of the offshore strongholds of the nationalists and the influx of men and materials, the Nationalists are, in some places, reeling.
 In an effort to halt our forces they forced a naval battle, which has caused the Goby to be brought into drydock for repairs. Heavy cruisers are nasty.
 In the air, the first units of Baklan bombers arrived in Spain, and proceed to inflict heavy, heavy damage to Nationalist positions. During this time a number of aircraft where lost, normally when they where hit by flak while diving. Enemy fighter aircraft typically cannot keep up, and so resort mostly to attacking while they are climbing after their attack runs, which have caused a few more losses.
 In addition to our bombers, a number of the I-C-M1936-MK2's that have been made by upgrading what MK1s we had in service have been sent to Spain inorder to take care of bombers, something which they are rather good at. The low range is a massive hindrance though. In addition, the aircraft are near useless in a turn fight, but when you have all that speed, well, why bother turning?
 During land combat this year we learned that anti-tank guns are the bane of the POAC's existence, though they dont often manage to hit. In addition, our T-18s where withdrawn to our lines after three where lost to anti-tank cannon fire during an attack on Oviedo, which is now partially captured by the Republican forces.

Spoiler: Vehicles/aircraft lost in combat phase, includes parts (click to show/hide)

3x I-C-M1936MK2
8x HGAA M1934 Baklan
3x T-18
3x POAC-H
5x POAC-L

Bychok(damaged)

Spoiler: Current Requests (click to show/hide)

 The head of the naval arm wouldent mind some longer range weapons to deal with any more heavy cruisers we come across.

 The head of the Armored arm asks if they can get a replacement for the T-18.

 The head of the Defense arm wonders if you guys are gonna finish the defenses for the main complex.

 The overall head of the Armed Forces like all those new variants for the POAC, particularly the cargo and mortar variants. They also are excited by the Firestorm. The LoGo confuses them.

 The council is wondering if you plan on replacing more equipment so they can send it to the Spanish Republicans. In particular, aircraft.

Spoiler: Notes on equipment in combat as written by people who are there (click to show/hide)

 The Baklan is safer in level flight than a dive, thanks to the facts that its HEAVY and that dives are risky anyways.
 That interceptor shure is fast. It also is nearly useless from its range.
 The optics the Snipers use are not that good...
 We hear you lot are making storage poutches? When can we get some?
 That vest is HOT. Good protection, but HOT. Too HOT.
 OooOOOOooooOOOoooHHhh, big gun on a POAC...
 OooOOOOooooOOOoooHHhh, mortar carriers...
 Bychoks do not like mini-battleships...
 AhahahaAHAHAhahahHAHA, you guys did what to the HiLo? AHAHAHA!
 Ammo would be nice.
 I. Hate. Anti-tank guns.
 New tanks would be nice.
 That new fighter looks fancy... But we have to sit on rockets? What?

Spoiler: Structures, Materials, and specialized tools (click to show/hide)

One office building (Allows two basic design projects per

turn)(Allows three basic acquire projects per turn)
One small design studio (allows one basic design project per turn)
One large warehouse (Allows three construction projects per turn)
One small warehouse (allows an extra construction project per turn)
One small workshop (No production lines possible, provides one basic design project per turn)
One large drydock complex, with two docks(2500t maximum) and
one naval factory with built in 1000ton drydock (Naval Annex to Main Complex)
- Line 1 : Tooled

Workshop G1 (At the design labs)
- Line 1 : AATSM1933 'HiLo'
- Line 2 : M1932 40mmAAA Cannon

Factory G2 (Main Complex)
- Line 1 : AEM1932
- Line 2 : M-C-M1936
- Line 3 : ATHM1933

Factory G3 (Main Complex)
- Line 1: EAM M1932 mortar
- Line 2: C-V-45-M1935
- Line 3: C-M-C-LM1936

Factory G4 (Main Complex)
- Line 1: SHM1935
- Line 2: SHM1935

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Factory V1 (Main Complex)
- Line 1: SDE M1933 (engine)
- Line 2: SDE M1933 (engine)

Factory V2 (Main Complex)
- Line 1: POAC-H
- Line 2: POAC-L

Factory V3 (Secondary Capital Complex)
- Line 1: Tooled
- Line 2: Tooled

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Factory VE1 (Secondary Capital Complex)
- Line 1: Tooled
- Line 2: Tooled
- Line 3: Tooled
- Line 4: Tooled

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Factory N1 (Main Complex)
- Line 1: FACM1934 "Shockwave" (Fast attack craft)
- Line 2: CDV M1933 Coastal Defense Vessel

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Factory M1 (Main Complex)
- Line 1: 18 inch torpedoes
- Line 2: CA-AAA-M1935 ammo

Factory M2 (Main Complex)
- Line 1: 7.62x54Rmm
- Line 2: 40 mm Ammunition

Factory M3 (Main Complex)
- Line 1: 7.62x54Rmm
- Line 2: ATHM ammunition

Factory M4 (Main Complex)
- Line 1: .45 ACP ammunition
- Line 2: 'Hilo' Ammunition

Factory M5 (Main Complex)
- Line 1: 45mm shells
- Line 2: 60mm mortar rounds

Factory M6 (Main Complex)
- Line 1: G-H-M1935
- Line 2: Things that go boom when dropped by aircraft

Factory M7 (Main Complex)
- Line 1: Republican
- Line 2: Republican

Factory M8 (Main Complex)
- Line 1: Tooled
- Line 2: Tooled
- Line 3: Tooled
- Line 4: Empty

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Factory E1 (Main Complex)
- Line 1: Electronic parts
- Line 2: Electronic parts

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Factory SM1 (Main Complex)
- Line 1: SM1911/34
- Line 2: SM1911/34
- Line 3: MM1934
- Line 4: SMM1934 Double
- Line 5: MM1934
- Line 6: RM1891
- Line 7: RM1891
- Line 8: RM1891


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Factory LA1 (Main Complex)
- Line 1: AATSM1933 'HiLo'
- Line 2: CA-AAA-M1935

Factory LM2 (Main Complex)
- Line 1: M1932 40mmAAA
- Line 2: CA-AAA-M1935

Factory LM3 (Main Complex)
- Line 1: Republican
- Line 2: Republican

Factory LM4 (Main Complex)
- Line 1: Republican
- Line 2: Republican
- Line 3: Empty
- Line 4: Empty

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Factory A1 (Airfield Complex)
- Line 1: HGAAM1934 "Baklan" (Heavy dive bomber)
- Line 2: I-C-M1936 MK2 (interceptor)

Factory AM1 (Airfield Complex)
- Line 1: AEM1933 "Hurricane" (Aircraft engine)
- Line 2: AEM1933 "Hurricane" (Aircraft engine)

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Eleven Scraper Trucks
Four CEV based on T-18 chassis

5000t timber per half-year
As much stone as is needed
3269t steel, stockpiled, 456 ton bi-annually
673t aluminum, stockpiled, 368 ton bi-annually
32u electronics parts stockpiled, no imports

Spoiler: Personnel (click to show/hide)

Construction Team 1
1 middling architect(s)
1 skilled architect(s)
6 laborers
1 unskilled laborers
2 skilled laborer(s)

Construction Team 2
1 middling architect(s)
1 basic architect(s)
15 laborers
2 skilled laborer
1 masterful laborer


Construction Team 3
11 laborers
1 unskilled laborers
3 skilled laborer
2 Godlike laborer
1 middling architect(s)

Labor Team A
4 laborers
3 unskilled laborers
9 skilled laborers
3 Masterful Laborer
1 Godlike Laborer

Naval Engineering Team :
1 middling naval engineer(s)
3 skilled naval engineer(s)
1 masterful naval engineer(s)
2 basic naval engineer(s)
1 basic engineer(s) (basic)
1 skilled armored engineer(s)


Aeronautics Team
3 basic aeronautical engineer(s)
1 middling aeronautical engineer(s)
1 skilled aeronautical engineer(s)
1 skilled engineer(s) (Basic)
1 GODLIKE aeronautical Engineer(s)
2 skilled material Engineer(s)

Gun Engineering Team
1 basic Weapons Engineer(s)
3 material engineer(s)
1 middling materials engineer(s)
1 skilled engineer(s) (Basic)
1 skilled aeronautical engineer(s)
1 Masterful engineer(s)
1 skilled explosives engineer
1 Godlike engineer
1 explosives engineer(s)

Electronics Team
1 godlike material engineer(s)
1 godlike electronics engineers(s)
1 middling electronics engineers(s)
2 basic electronics engineer(s)

Fresh Meat Team
11 unskilled laborers
7 laborers
1 skilled laborer
1 unskilled engineers
1 unskilled architect
3 basic engineers
1 architect

Materials Team
1 skilled armor engineer(s)
3 basic material engineer(s)
1 unskilled engineer(s) (basic)
1 basic engineer

Spoiler: Current, in progress, Projects (click to show/hide)

Array

Spoiler: Completed Projects (click to show/hide)

FireStorm Interceptor
Facilitators
Armored Vest
POAC Varients
LoGo

-Notes-

So, I plan on writing a short story of sorts set in Plokhoy Ostrov, would any of you lot be interested in reading it?
Details on the POAC-B variants should be done soonish
You lot want to wait on trench variants of the shotguns, or are riot ones fine?

[3_14159]

C-F-M1937 'LoGo': Wow. I mean, I know we used the HiLo as ship armament, but I had just assumed it to be non-optimal for artillery use. My goal was to design a cheaper and more optimized for the artillery role. Well, it definitely failed in the latter, and with three produced per turn compared to four for the HiLo, it also fails in the 'cheaper' part. So, produce the HiLo instead.

POAC-Bs: Very nice. We'll need to assign different production lines to the -C and -C(F), right? Also, the POAC-B-C seems fairly useless for now since the enemies we face are not yet fielding tanks we can't kill with the POAC-H's cannon. Once they do, we need a new tank design anyway.

Infantry equipment: Nice. The Facilitators are definitely important to produce. The Vest is interesting, but probably not really usable in Spain. On the other hand, our island is fairly cool...

Interceptor: The result seems very nice. It should perform better than the previous Interceptor  basically every role.

Council: Stop stealing our goddamn production lines. We need them for building more artillery. On the other hand, the vehicle production factory is very nice - we'll be able to retool it for POAC-B-C and -C(F)s.

The War:
- The Goby took on a Heavy Cruiser and made it back without being sunk? That's very nice. Can you give us some more details on that engagement?
- The Baklan seems to performe very well, though it's vulnerable during diving. It'll still be necessary since non-dived attacks are very inaccurate. We might design a rocket for attacks on Flak-defended positions, though.
- The Tornado (I-C-M1936-MK2) seems to perform better than expected, except for the low range. We could develop drop-tanks if we decide to continue producing them.
- We were still using T-18s? Whoops. Immediately withdraw the remaining two and put them in a museum or something.
- With the POAC being more and more vulnerable, we might think about using our 87.6mm AT gun to design a new (actual) tank around it, relegating the POAC-H and -Ls to infantry support and transport.

Requests:
- For the longer-ranged weapons the naval arm would like we probably need a new, larger ship to avoid building a destroyer armed with a single 400mm cannon. This'll be very expensive. As an alternative, we could look into a longer-ranged torpedo, or use Baklan in its intended role.
- Tell the armored arm they have a replacement for the T-18. It's called the POAC-H, thankyouverymuch.
- Tell the council they can just send off everything we have. It's not like we need it or anything. Really. Go ahead.[/sarcasm]


This turn's priorities:
- Radar for the ships. Allows us to avoid cruisers and coordinate bomber strikes, for example.
- A tank
- Production lines. Don't call them that, we don't want them stolen again. Specifically, more long arms (for artillery etc), more planes, retool the new vehicle line to POAC-C/-C(F).
- Anti-submarine weapons
- Maybe a ground-attack rocket?
- Oh, and we can use this turn to design the new rifle they've been asking for.


Questions for Asea:
- What's the effective range for the HiLo in the artillery role?
- Do we have a carriage for the HiLo allowing use as AA, AT and artillery gun?
- Did we do some mock dogfights between the FireStorm and the Tornado?
- If we assign the Vorishka to the naval factory, we'll build one (well, 1.5 due to specialization) per half-year. Correct?
- Details on the Goby's performance against the cruiser, and possibly about the cruiser as well?
- How's the Baklan performance with level-flight bombing accuracy?
- How does the Tornado (I-C-M1936-Mk2) perform against enemy fighters?
- Do we need to do anything to fix the Bychok?

So, I plan on writing a short story of sorts set in Plokhoy Ostrov, would any of you lot be interested in reading it?

More fleshing out of the country and systems? Sounds nice.

You lot want to wait on trench variants of the shotguns, or are riot ones fine?

I really don't care.

[Funk]

Spring and Summer of 1937

Cannon-Field-Model of 1937 'LoGo'
Worse than the old 'HiLo' Cannon in almost every way.

New POAC Variants

Ok so we have taken the POAC as far as it can go but it cover almost every role we need it to.

Interceptor-Pusher-Model of 1937 Firestorm

If you want to see what it looks like, It looks like this thing
I was useing the Henschel Hs P.75 as a base, i've always found the rear booms  look ugly.
On to the Design it's self, it's  fast, well armed, reliable and can take a pounding.
It's not as agile as other planes but as long as we dont get in to turn fights it's speed and armament will make short work of anything.

Variants wise a ground attack model would be useful, refit the front with twin or just a single 35mm+ cannon for anti tank use.

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Requests:
- For the longer-ranged weapons the naval arm would like we probably need a new, larger ship to avoid building a destroyer armed with a single 400mm cannon. This'll be very expensive. As an alternative, we could look into a longer-ranged torpedo, or use Baklan in its intended role.
- Tell the armored arm they have a replacement for the T-18. It's called the POAC-H, thankyouverymuch.
- Tell the council they can just send off everything we have. It's not like we need it or anything. Really. Go ahead.[/sarcasm]

This turn's priorities:
- Radar for the ships. Allows us to avoid cruisers and coordinate bomber strikes, for example.
- A tank
- Production lines. Don't call them that, we don't want them stolen again. Specifically, more long arms (for artillery etc), more planes, retool the new vehicle line to POAC-C/-C(F).
- Anti-submarine weapons
- Maybe a ground-attack rocket?
- Oh, and we can use this turn to design the new rifle they've been asking for.

Lets work on a new rifle for our army.
A new pure tank is a good idea, the POCA is at it core a wheeled infantry transport.
A new large Submarine armed with heavy duty deck guns? a bit of me wants to build a corvette sub.

[tryrar]

Yeah, we really need longer ranged subs to counter heavy surface combatants, since I doubt we have the resources to go for a larger fleet of ships or heavier ships in general. I mean, we have that new drydock right? Let's use it.


D.1

Spoiler: Merlin Fleet Submarine (click to show/hide)

Displacement:980-1000t
Armament:4x 18in. forward torpedo tubes(6 reloads), 2x aft tubes(4 reloads), 1 HiLo deck gun, 2 20mm guns for AA
Propulsion:Combined desiel-electric(diesel turbines connected to an electric drive for surface running, pure electric for underwater)
Speed:25 knots surfaced, 12 submerged
Basic hydrophone equipment for underwater and surface detection and avoidance. Maybe full sonar if we can swing it
Aim for an operational range of at least 15,000 Km if we can, more would be nice.

[3_14159]

Interceptor-Pusher-Model of 1937 Firestorm
[...]
Variants wise a ground attack model would be useful, refit the front with twin or just a single 35mm+ cannon for anti tank use.

Like the POAC's gun, for example? That being said, for now I'd prefer modifying the basic Firestorm to include hardpoints for rockets and bombs. This way, we can continue manufacturing the Baklan and the Firestorm and use the latter as air support once we've succeeded gaining air superiority.

Lets work on a new rifle for our army.

Sure. My preference is a fairly light, semi-automatic carbine; recognizing that most infantry firefights are at less than two hundred metres distance and that weight and rate of fire are very important.

A new pure tank is a good idea, the POCA is at it core a wheeled infantry transport.

Despite my first impression, we do not actually have a gun for it - the ATHM1933, while described as the "tank gun for every occasion" lacks the muzzle velocity to be effective and is apparently a howitzer(??). So, we need at least a gun and an engine, since the SDE M1933 is significantly less powerful than what we need.

A new large Submarine armed with heavy duty deck guns? a bit of me wants to build a corvette sub.

Definitely not. A primarily gun-armed submarine's only use will be against merchants, possibly corvettes, but since every hit has a high risk of ruining the pressure vessel, and armouring is difficult, it's not going to be very survivable.

Yeah, we really need longer ranged subs to counter heavy surface combatants, since I doubt we have the resources to go for a larger fleet of ships or heavier ships in general. I mean, we have that new drydock right? Let's use it.


D.1

Spoiler: Merlin Fleet Submarine (click to show/hide)

Displacement:980-1000t
Armament:4x 18in. forward torpedo tubes(6 reloads), 2x aft tubes(4 reloads), 1 HiLo deck gun, 2 20mm guns for AA
Propulsion:Combined desiel-electric(diesel turbines connected to an electric drive for surface running, pure electric for underwater)
Speed:25 knots surfaced, 12 submerged
Basic hydrophone equipment for underwater and surface detection and avoidance. Maybe full sonar if we can swing it
Aim for an operational range of at least 15,000 Km if we can, more would be nice.

I do like it. However, I'd have the following modification proposals:
- Add a snorkel for underwater diesel use, reducing the vulnerability to surface attacks
- Optimize the streamline for underwater movement instead of surfaced movement.
- Lose the HiLo deck gun, using the ammo storage for more torpedo reloads
This modification presumes that the submarine operates mostly underwater (especially during the day) and uses its torpedoes as its main armament. Due to its loss of the deck gun (due to streamlining) it will be forced to expend torpedoes on merchants travelling alone, but will be significantly less vulnerable to airpower (until the proliferation of high-resolution radar) and slightly more effective against convoys.


Aseaheru:
What, exactly, is the ATHM1933 again?

[tryrar]

Hum, I can't really argue against those modifications. I like it!

Spoiler: Merlin Fleet Sub Version 2 (click to show/hide)

Displacement:980-1000t
Armament:4x 18in. forward torpedo tubes(10 reloads), 2x aft tubes(6 reloads)
Propulsion:Combined diesel electric. Diesel electric turbines with a snorkel for both surfaced and underwater movement, with a backup battery bank for pure electric submerged(at a reduced speed)
Speed:21 knots surfaced, 18 submerged(or 12 for pure electric drive)
 Basic hydrophone equipment for underwater and surface detection and avoidance. Maybe full sonar if we can swing it
 Aim for an operational range of at least 15,000 Km if we can, more would be nice.
 See if we can fit a basic electro-mechanical computer to aid torpedo plotting to save on ammunition and having to return for reloads.
 This design is streamlined to operate mostly submerged during regular operation.

[3_14159]

Awesome!
I've added a small correction to the propulsion section.
Generally, a snorkel-equipped submarine uses the diesel most of the time, which is during cruising. However, when attacking, using the diesel produces significantly more noise, making it significantly easier to detect. Therefore, it only uses the e-motors and batteries during attack.
(I may have played Silent Hunter III for quite some time...)

Spoiler: Merlin Sub Version 3 (click to show/hide)

Displacement:980-1000t
Armament:4x 18in. forward torpedo tubes(10 reloads), 2x aft tubes(6 reloads), 2 20mm guns for AA
Propulsion:Combined desiel-electric(diesel turbines connected to an electric drive for surface running, pure electric for underwater). Includes a snorkel for running the diesel underwater.
Speed:21 knots surfaced, 18 submerged
Basic hydrophone equipment for underwater and surface detection and avoidance. Maybe full sonar if we can swing it
Aim for an operational range of at least 15,000 Km if we can, more would be nice.
See if we can fit a basic electro-mechanical computer to aid torpedo plotting to save on ammunition and having to return for reloads.
This design is streamlined to operate mostly submerged during regular operation.

[coleslaw35]

We still need to consider a new rifle, one with a smaller round than the 7.62x54mmr round. Something for use for POAC squads too, so maybe a folding/retractable stock and considerably smaller than the Mosin Nagant. I'll put this out there, I suppose. Feel free to modify it or put something else forward.

I do not currently have the time to research a proper round, so I'll let you guys think on that until i'm available.

Spoiler: The Ovstra (click to show/hide)

The Ovstra is a carbine making use of the ______ round. It is designed for higher mobility while retaining as much firepower as possible.

Available in 15 and 30 round magazines. 15 rd mags primarily for squads being transported in POACs and 30 rd mags for when the squad gets out of the POAC and get to a spot where they can reload.

Comes with a folding stock.
With stock folded in, the gun is 35 inches long.

Accurate to about 300 meters, I suppose.

Inserted magazines function as forward grip.