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[Devastator]

The statement that they're only expensive requires that.  Lead bomber sighting only is not accurate enough to hit cities.  Even with sights, you'd certainly have to do it below about 15000 feet to be effective.

[Kashyyk]

Nuclear Weapons Progress: 8/10

Thus the question. Is this serious, or do I need to come up with a short treatise on why the idea of a nuclear weapon being developed at this time is utterly implausible?

I'm also curious about that. I don't remember us getting nuclear weapons tech.

[10ebbor10]

The statement that they're only expensive requires that.  Lead bomber sighting only is not accurate enough to hit stuff like that.

Our bomber has a bomb sight. It's in it's description.

-AS-1931-HAFB: A three-engine bomber with a shoulder wing. It is constructed of a geodetic aluminium frame with resin-treated fabric skin. The pilot sits in a cockpit on the front of the plane with a pyramidal canopy, and between the two wings is an AC18 gunner, on top of the plane, with a 360 degree rotation under a trapezoidal canopy.  It has an engine in the nose and one slung under each wing, the engines are turbocharged and fuel injected. Despite its size, this enables it to almost keep pace with AS-HF-24s and gives it a high altitude ceiling. These engines burn a lot of fuel, and so the craft is not capable of especially longer range than Arstotzkan fighters. It carries a two-ton payload of bombs, and a bomber with a sight which can be adjusted based on a written table for airspeed and altitude. At full altitude, these bombs are incapable of hitting precise targets, and especially moving targets. The plane also has fixed landing gear. Costs 5 ore, 4 oil.

Standard on all vehicles.

On that note, it doesn't fly high often. Most bombing runs happen with escorts, and thus at lower altitudes. Apparently the autocannon makes a decent enough defense, combined with the resilient structure.

[Devastator]

* Devastator notes a cost increase for the bombsight.

I am kinda wondering how many rolls that one came up to.  Looks like 3 fives.  I also thought you botched the roll for cheap turbocharging, rendering it never cheap for quite some time.

[Andres]

I also thought you botched the roll for cheap turbocharging, rendering it never cheap for quite some time.

We botched the roll for cheap fuel injection, but we got it the next time we tried. We got cheap turbocharger a while back. It's why our tanks are merely Expensive.

[Devastator]

Hmm, thought it was forbidden to be cheap from that roll, not just try again next time.  Still at least plus one for the free optics.

[tryrar]

Hmm, thought it was forbidden to be cheap from that roll, not just try again next time.  Still at least plus one for the free optics.

We're getting 5 ore right now due to the china connection, so that only puts us 2 oil short.

[Devastator]

Expensive, plus one for optics.

[Aseaheru]

We also botched the turret on the bomber.

It was intended to be ventral, not dorsal.

[andrea]

A dorsal turret on the plane with the highest service ceiling around.

[Taricus]

May as well declare the game over though, given that just about the entirety of Moskurg's players have essentially quit the game.

[andrea]

Oh? Why did they quit? Sure, this turn was bad for you, but there are counters and you put us in panic mode with nuclear weapons.

[Kashyyk]

I'm still here, but most people have left, because they feel it is not unwinnable for us. I intend to play 'til the end however, be that next turn or in twenty.

[Taricus]

How are we going to use that exactly, even if we can finish it? One wonder weapon isn't going to win the entire war. Not that I even recall any effort to actually devote time into that topic at all.

But yeah, three design stages behind, and no way to catch up. Even if we did have a good design, you'd just drown us in more stuff altogether (I have a few choice words about the starting conditions in relation to that, but I'll wait until the end of the game to elaborate on that.)

[Kashyyk]

To be honest, We'd lost the moment you'd secured the plains. Even if we had technically better designs than Arstotzka, they can just drown us in their excess resources.

But, as I'm said, I'm staying. The Artotzkan army will have to drag me from the work bench if they want me to stop.