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[Taricus]

To be fair though, it's not like Arstotzka has an APC as well

[Aseaheru]

Nope, but we do go tank riding.

[Taricus]

Which... still has the problems of the fact that it's not going to be fast enough to dodge shots, and the troops aren't inside the armour thus are more than a little vulnerable to getting raked by MG fire ant the like.

[Sensei]

Nazi Germany
This year, Hitler announced himself Fuhrer, abolishing the old system. Both the AS-AR34 and the MK47A are submitted directly to Hitler for review. After demonstrations of the weapons, the AR34 is clearly favored, for its select fire feature and for being much lighter than the MK47. The AS-AR34 will be produced, in secret for now, as the choice weapon of Germany's infantry. Arstotzka will receive +1 ore until 1937.

Anonymous Buyers
The contract is for ship to ship deck guns, and the Bumblebee and AS-AC18 are considered. The Bumblebee, ultimately, is chosen for its range and armor-penetrating ability. Moskurg will receive an Expense Credit.

The Civilian Market
Although the great depression is still crippling much of the world, an arms import company has determined there is a market for personal defense weapons. Crime is high, and those who can afford guns need them. You may submit one weapon, which you think will be ideal for home and personal defense. Being concealable in civilian clothes is desirable, but not strictly necessary. However, the weapons cannot be automatic or more than .50 caliber. The nation with the most ideal weapon will receive an expense credit.

1934 Battle Report

This year, Arstotzka spent their entire time developing the AS-AR34. It is the world's first true assault rifle, it is a select-fire rifle chambered in the new 7.62Ll intermediate round, and gives normal infantrymen a lightweight, easily controllable automatic weapon which can also be used for single fire. Moskurg had two designs this year. The M34 Viper landmine is designed to be stacked so the same mine can be used to target both personnel and materiel. The M2 Osprey rifle is a simple bolt-action .30 caliber rifle intended specifically for sharpshooters, most of its design time was actually spent on the Eagle MkII sight which goes on top. The Eagle MkII is still expensive, but is adjustable, and available in a 1.5x-4x and 4x-7x size. They also, by a miracle of metallurgy, developed a process to manufacture the Tiger Infantry Armor more cheaply, moving it down to Expensive, part of which involved training a number of expert blacksmiths who hand finish each set of armor.

Moskurg has an issue this year though: Their mines in the mountain haven't been able to steadily ship their ore, so Moskurg has only one ore this year. This means that all of their automatic weapons except the Cascade, M2 Brumby and MK47A become Expensive, reducing the availability of large machine guns and the M3 Sorraia. The recoilless rifles become Expensive, the B2 Destroyer artillery becomes Very Expensive, the flamethrower becomes expensive, the Bumblebee becomes expensive and the Model 4 Yellowjacket becomes Very Expensive. It isn't good. Unless you're Arstotzkan, in which case it's actually really good.

The war in the air turns well in Arstotzka's favor this year. Model 4 Yellowjacket fighters, and Bumblebee AA, become less common, as do Stallions and the like on the ground. This means that Arstotzka's heavy and light bombers suffer fewer threats, and Moskurg's bombers are not as well escorted. Consequently, Arstotzka gets much more air-to-air and air-to-ground kills than Moskurg this year.

In the jungle, Moskurg suffers a little from their shortage of heavy machine guns, flamethrowers, and recoilless rifles, and artillery, although these are all situational weapons. Arstotzka's AR34 is an ideal weapon for the area, its automatic fire is good for suppression and hitting targets concealed in bushes, but it can still be used as a normal rifle for engagements out to around 250 meters, filling the role of the AS-F14. Arstotzkan soldiers also usually trade in their Nosin Magants for AS-AR34's, as although the Nosin has superior range, that range is rarely taken advantage of when in the jungle and even then only with a scope. The MC16 is reserved particularly for soldiers diving into forts and trenches, and tank crews or paratroopers whose weight and space are limited. Moskurg begins deploying armored troops regularly, now that their Tiger armor is only Expensive. Rather than issue the armor to officers, Moskurg deploys select armored squads in each company, and sometimes gives the armor to emplacement gunners. For mobile troops, the armor is a significant hindrance when trying to navigate uneven terrain, mud and foliage. Squads sometimes will assault an Arstotzkan tank with a Hippo rifle, to some success, although if an armored soldier receives sustained armor piercing AS-1924 fire from close range, it is inevitable that a few bullets will find weak points in the armor or chance to pierce the chest piece. The armor is good defense against AR34 fire, though, as long as its user minimizes the visibility of their hands and feet. A few armored storm trooper squads are successful in defeating larger numbers of Arstotzkan soldiers with Model 1 service rifles or MK47As. Often, though, the lower mobility of these soldiers makes them vulnerable to more direct methods, like grenades. The armor tends to be used wherever an M3 Sorraia emplacement is, meaning Arstotzkans need to dedicate explosives (which means getting close or using a tank) or use a sniper to defeat machine gun nests. Moskurg also begins using their Viper mines. They are heavier than they need to be for stopping infantry, so their minefields are less large and dense than Arstotzka's. The fact that the only detonator is in the middle of the wide mine means sometimes an Arstotzkan soldier will step on the edge of one, realize it is a mine, and simply pick it up for their own use, and they're relatively easy to find by soldiers who are searching for mines. Stacked up for anti-tank use, they are fairly effective. One mine will of course obliterate a motorcycle, and three will destroy a tank. Arstotzka's AS-T25 and AS-T33 both have little bottom armor, so a mine can cause fuel and ammo explosions. Again though, stacking the mines is a slow and careful task, and three stackable mines are heavier than one mine with the same explosive. Moskurg sappers can't lay mines very quickly, and sometimes explode themselves bumping armed mines as they stack them. Not a lot of Arstotzkan tanks are actually destroyed by mines, but the fear of it slows their advances. Neither side makes progress this turn, although battles measurably favor Arstotzka. (2/4)

In the mountains, Moskurg issues officers M2 Ospreys with Eagle Sight MkII scopes. These adjustable, longer range scopes give enough of an advantage to Moskurg snipers to equal the natural skill of Arstotzka's patient snipers. The Osprey affords somewhat better grouping than the Model 1 rifle, but most soldiers prefer the Model 1 because it is lighter and can be fired faster. Land mines are of limited use in the mountains, but a few gun emplacements are issued Tiger Infantry Armors. The armored soldiers are much more difficult to remove from their position than those in regular uniforms, buying more time for Moskurg snipers to engage Arstotzkan ones. However, Moskurg soldiers suffer from the shortage of M3 Sorraias, as their range was superior to the M2 Brumby most squads currently use. Most Arstotzkan soldiers don't adopt the AS-AR34 here, because long range engagements are common. Some AS-F14 users take the new AR34, where it performs well, it is more mobile than the AS-1924 for ambush purposes. The MK47A fills a similar role, although it is significantly heavier than the AR34 and not select fire, it is at least cheap. T2 Breakers, still Very Expensive, are used as mobile emplacements and take concentrated effort for Arstotzkan troops to defeat, although they're not very efficient as infantry fighting vehicles. Moskurg manages to prevent Arstotzka from occupying the mines, but they aren't really using them themselves. (Arstotzka 3/4)

In the desert, Moskurg's machine gun, artillery and aircraft shortage is the most pronounced. There are fewer B2 Destroyers, and they are often targeted by bombers, so Arstotzka sometimes outranges Moskurg in terms of artillery even though it would normally be the other way around. The Bumblebees and Recoilles Rifles of both kinds are Expensive, so Moskurg anti-armor capabilities are less ubiquitous. Moskurg does now have armored soldiers, who defend strongholds above and below ground. In machine gun emplacements, they help but are targets for tanks and snipers. Underground, they are very difficult for Arstotzkan soldiers to kill, since the armor is mostly immune to AR34 fire and quite immune to MC16's- an armored soldier has the luxury of aiming for center mass, while their opponent does not. When they are killed, it is usually by grenades. They are also often wounded instead of killed, by being shot in the extremities, and may be pulled to safety, or just as likely, gutted on the floor by Arstotzkan knives. However, the point is that armored soldiers are always on the defensive, the Arstotzkan armored and airborne war machine pushes inexorably forward- although this year Arstotzkan bombers are flying at the end of their range. Moskurg strong points are encircled and cut off before being defeated, and although there are some cave systems which are incredibly defensible, these are simply besieged. In what was named the Husayn Caverns, which once held a hidden force of five hundred soldiers and a dozen tanks, there are still a hundred soldiers who have barricaded the entrance and remained for ten months after Arstotzka took the surrounding area. Arstotzka gains ground (2/4). If they advance next year, it will be onto the fertile ground surrounding Moskurg's capitol, a mix of barley fields and villages, as well as dense dusty urban areas, the pride of Moskurg, where the streets are lined with five story buildings.

In those very streets of Moskurg's capitol now, Arstotzkan secret agent Fried Potato jumps from a window out of Taricus' office in the Engineering Bureau, and lands in the dusty street. Alarms are blaring from the building as he runs into an alley and pulls bags off a pile of trash, revealing the place he concealed his trusty AS-M17 motorcycle. It is no ordinary M17, but his own custom turbo-charged bike. He roars out into the street, there are bursts of automatic gunfire from behind him, Moskurg constables on horses. He leaves them in the dust, but is followed by a blue police Tiger truck through the streets. It smashes through fruit stands and small obstacles that line the streets, but is still gaining. Fried Potato has one more trick though- a pair of rocket motors tied to the side of the bike. He ignites them with a switch, and breaks records though the streets, into a field, and ramps off a broken box across a small canal. He carries in his coat the plans for manufacturing Tiger Infantry Armor and its manganese alloy (although not the blacksmithing expertise that makes it cheap to manufacture).

Moskurg secret agent Kingsnake sneaks unseen through Arstotzka's design offices- conveniently, there's some commotion in another part of the building, it sounds like somebody shot out a window. He pulls open a file cabinet labeled INDICES, and flicks through a set of index cards, to find one that says "AS-RPG28: See room B13. Glory to Arstotzka." Musing about the amount of ink that must be wasted each year ending every document that way, he slinks downstairs to the basement and enters room 13. It is chock full of strange shaped rocket prototypes, RPG launcher prototypes, piles of tubing, piles of explosive material, chemicals for mixing rocket propellant, tools, half-assembled warheads and more, all lit by one flickering bulb powered by a sparking wire going across the floor through a puddle of water. In the very back, on a table, is a set of documents. It takes him a minute to step carefully through the room, grab the folder, and begin stepping back, when he slips in the puddle, gets shocked, and falls against a table. Some unidentified object starts hissing and emitting sparks, to which Kingsnake sprints out of the room. The hallway outside is filling with smoke, when he realizes he hasn't got the plans. But someone is coming downstairs! Agent Kingsnake hides in a broom closet, to hear two voices speaking. "Aha! I knew it was coming from the rocket room! I keep telling you, that's a huge safety hazard." "Yeah, we just lock it whenever it starts smoking. Come on, we have work to do." Surely enough, the door is locked afterwards, and Kingsnake is forced to retreat empty handed.

You may now begin designing for 1935.

[Sensei]

1934 Army Status

Arstotzka's army now contains the following:

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AS Weapons:
-Nosin-Magant: Officer weapon. A Russian Mosin-Nagant rifle, brand new ones roll off the assembly lines, and then a highly skilled team changes the letters with chisels. A bolt-action rifle with a five-round clip which fires 7.62mm rounds. Good accuracy, but with iron sights which have a post adjustable up to one kilometer, designed for long-range but inaccurate barrages. Good stopping power against infantry. Detachable bayonet.
-AS-SP30: Previously known as the AS-1909. General infantry sidearm. An Arstotzka-made semi-automatic pistol, firing 9mm. It has a 10-round magazine and can fire quickly with moderate accuracy, at short range. Moderate stopping power. It is pretty reliable. It has a threaded barrel and can be fitted with a suppressor.
-AS-1910 Machine Gun: [Updated Below] Arstotzka's first belt-fed machinegun, firing the same 7.62mm rifle rounds already produced for the Nosin-Magant. The belt-feed mechanism is robust, making it heavy but very reliable. Each round has good stopping power. The machinegun is operated with two handles due to its recoil, making it incapable of aim as precise as a rifle, but when the barrel is cool, bullets generally fly straight. It is air-cooled, and the barrel tends to overheat somewhat quickly. Your engineers have compensated for this by giving each crew two detachable barrels- when one overheats, it can be removed and thrown in the snow. It is heavy- it must be in placed on a tripod or other mount to fire, and requires three men to move. It also requires three men to operate continuously. Costs 2 ore.
AS-1910 Mag: This updated AS-1910 replaces a belt feed with a large 50-round detachable drum magazine, which fits to the side of the gun where the belt feed was. While not capable of continuous fire like belts, this requires less crew to manage. The two handles used to control the weapon are replaced with a pistol grip and overhead handle, which is a marginal improvement in control. Costs 2 ore.
-AS-1911 8cm Mortar: This is a light mortar, consisting of a simple tube mounted on a tripod, and mortar shells which are dropped into the tube and fire off when they hit the bottom. The shells themselves are the more important part of the weapon. They are sort of like rocket-propelled grenades, consisting of a metal shell around some explosive, and a primer and propellant at the back. No longer suffers from horrible jamming.
-AS-1912 Artillery A: A field gun firing 80mm shells, loaded through a sliding bolt. The action is not dissimilar to a bolt action rifle, where the old casing is ejected when the bolt is opened. It is large enough (and its ammunition large enough) to be Expensive, and is drawn by horse on two big wheels. It can fire about 12 times a minute, and has a hydro-pneumatic suspension system: it doesn't go off target between shots, and the barrel moves into the frame every time it is fired. Aims between 0 and 90 degrees vertical. It has several kilometers of range. Costs 3 ore.
-Sawed-off Shotgun: General infantry sidearm. Most officers use this instead of the unreliable pistol. Fires twice before breech loading, very effective at short range, ineffective otherwise. Poor armor penetration. Uses 12 gauge shells. Expensive due to requiring imperial equipment.
-AS-F14A: A 7.62mm, semi-automatic rifle. It is an open bolt blowback action, and uses a 12-round box magazine which protrudes below the gun. Unlike the Nosin, the bolt has a small, non-rotating handle on the side of the gun. It has adjustable iron sights. The weight of the moving action makes the gun difficult to control compared to the Nosin, but this is mitigated by using a full size and weight barrel compared to the original carbine version. The blowback action is now more reliable, though still open bolt. Also available as a carbine.
-AS-MC16: This is a sub-machine gun, firing the 9mm pistol round. It uses a new, closed-bolt blowback system perfected from the AS-F14. This system is reliable and keeps dirt out of the gun. The bolt system takes up about fifteen centimeters, all of which is past the trigger, then a magazine, a 30 round drum, inserts into the receiver from the left. The barrel after the receiver is short, about twenty centimeters, and has a slotted metal hand guard. The stock is wooden and stops at the receiver, where brass is ejected from the bottom of the gun. The short barrel gives poor accuracy, especially when hot, and the 9mm bullets have much less range than a rifle or machine gun. The system fires about 400 rounds per minute. Its complexity makes it Expensive.
-AS-MC16A: A stands for Andres! The action is reworked for cheaper manufacturing, but works as well as the original. The stock is redesigned entirely for a pistol grip and foregrip, and made of lightweight aluminium, the butt is an open frame. The weapon handles considerably better with this new arrangement. Hollow point ammo is not successfully developed during this revision phase, but your engineers do design a new magazine. This is a 54-round magazine which consists of two drums feeding together into one magazine insert. It gets in the way of the shooter's view a bit, but MC16's are often fired from the hip anyway. Oh yeah, and it looks like a pair of, well, you know. Soldiers have some creative nicknames for the gun already. Costs 2 ore.
-AS-AC18: An advanced primer ignition autocannon, which ignites cartridge primers before the round is fully chambered. It fires the new, large, 20x100mm round, fed from a top-mounted 25 round C-shaped magazine with a powerful spring, usually armor piercing, about 600 times per minute. The weapon is quite large with a simple action but heavy barrel, weighing over 40 kilograms, and it requires being mounted to a carriage, foundation, or vehicle to fire with accuracy, although recoil is reduced by the nature of its action. It is dependent on a careful balance between the force of the shell and the force of the action, which means that different ammo types cannot be interchanged without recalibrating the gun. It has a terrifying ability to punch through armor and emplacements. Costs 3 ore due to its size and the size of its ammo.
-AS-LM20: A landmine! Consists of an explosive, metal shell and button. Armed by removing a key. The mines are cheap and simple, and reliably kill or dismember infantry who step on them.
-AS-1924: A light machine gun using 7.62mm rifle rounds. It is gas-operated, with a box magazine, a bottom-fed 25 round rectangular mag or 60 round drum. It includes an aluminium stock, magazines and fixtures, which are lighter than wood fixtures used on previous guns, though the barrel, action etc are steel. It is easily man portable at 8 kilos, allowing one man to carry the gun and a decent amount of ammo, though AS-1924 gunners are still often accompanied by a man to spot and carry additional ammo. It can be fired while standing or kneeling, with its pistol grip and overhead foregrip, but is most accurate when used with a bipod. Sustained fire (through multiple magazines) can cause overheating. Shoots around 500 rounds a minute. Costs 3 ore.
-AS-G27: Having previously made landmines and mortars, grenades are no problem for Arstotzkan engineers. The basic AS-G27 is is an oblong ball that fits comfortably in the hand, and when a ring is pulled, this starts a four-second fuze. The casing breaks into fragments when it explodes. The AS-G27I is incendiary, the AS-G27S deploys smoke. The AS-G27AT is cylinder shaped, with magnets on one end. It contains a hemispherical shaped charge. A soldier can penetrate medium armor with it, but they have to run right up to a tank to stick one on. The amount of chemicals needed for grenades gives them a cost of Oil 2. Each grenade weighs around a kilogram.
-AS-RPG28: A rocket-propelled grenade, fired out of a launch tube. The grenade itself consists of a conical shape with a narrow tube of propellent out the back, and fins in the middle of the tube. The grenade fits into a launch tube, about 3cm in diameter and a meter in length, up to the fins. The launch tube is a simple tube with one handle. To ignite the propellant, soldiers remove a pin, which is attached with a little chain and carabiner clip to a simple lever on the launch tube handle which serves as a trigger. The launch tube weighs three kilograms, and grenades themselves weigh another three. It is accurate enough to hit a tank out to almost 100 meters, after which it drops quickly. Rockets are available with warheads based on each type of grenade, including a crude flat-ended RPG28AT shaped charge. This doesn't fly very well and requires a very square hit to be effective, so can mostly only be used at short range against flat armor. Requires 2 ore.
-RPG28 A: The fins on the rockets have been twisted, to which causes rockets to spin and fly on a flatter trajectory with better grouping. The HEAT rocket has been reshaped from a flat-ended explosive with a hemispherical cutout, to an explosive in a conical shell with a steep inverse conical shape inside.
-AS-O30 Optics: Simple scopes, which can be fitted to any appropriate sort of gun, in 2x, 3x, or 4x magnifications. They include a little rubber eye shroud. They are Expense to make, but even so the manufacturing quality is a bit dubious and the lenses are a bit small, leading often to dark, blurry pictures. Uses a painted-on crosshair with range-finding markers, in 100 or 200 meter increments custom to the type of gun on which they are to be fitted.
-AS-AR34: The AR34 is an assault rifle chambered in new 7.62L ammunition, an intermediate powered cartridge. It is fed at the bottom from a wide 24-round magazine, or a 40-round drum, and ejects cartridges to the right side. It has a tactical rail an adjustable iron sights on top. It is select-fire, having a knob on the side which the user slides forward and back to set the gun either to be single-shot or automatic. The knob is very stiff and requires soldiers to take their left hand off the weapon and force it. Most of its furniture is made from aluminum, and it has a vertical pistol grip and foregrip. It weighs under 6kg. It has good stopping power and accuracy out to medium range, and is relatively easy for users to control even on automatic fire (which is still far less accurate than shooting singly). It's about as long as the AS-F14, which means it is usable in close quarters but not perfect. Costs 2 ore.

AS Technology:
-Metric system. Meters, kilograms, liters!
-Breech-loading
-Muzzle-loading
-Bolt action
-Clips and Magazines
-Cold Weather Engineering. Arstotzka-made equipment is designed and tested in the cold tundra, and does not become unreliable due to cold climates and snow.
-7.62mm Rifle rounds. Largish round for small arms with good stopping power.
-9mm Pistol rounds. Small rounds with moderate stopping power and not great range.
-20x100mm Autocannon round
-Armor Piercing Steel Bullets
-Hollow Point Bullets
-Flak Shells
-Flares
-Incendiary Rounds
-Rocket-Assisted Shells (More range, for DT25 and AS-1912)
-Belt-fed loading
-Changeable Barrels
-Solid Explosives and Propellants
-Light Mortars
-Artillery
-Hydro-pneumatic Suspension
-Vehicle Armor
-Treads
-Detachable Magazines
-Petrol Motors
-APIB Action, compatible with belt feed
-Crude Batteries (Lead-Acid)
-Aluminium production
-Armor (Heavy and thinner)
-Fuel Injection
-Turbo Charger
-Radio
-Paratroopers
-Suppressor
-Select-fire

AS Soldiers:
-Patient: Arstotzkan soldiers excel at waiting in ambush, and carefully shooting from afar, giving them and advantage in long-range engagements.
-Uniform AS-GU23: The new 1923 Arstotzkan uniforms come in patterned camouflage colors, grey/white, beige and olive. In order to completely placate High Command's thirst for glory and keep the dice in the dice bag, the inside of the uniform is sewn red and gold with Arstotzkan flags. A soldier can simply fold their uniform inside-out and convert it from battle camouflage to parade regalia (you advise soldiers NOT to do this on the battlefield). The armor plates and helmet are made from Glorious Aluminium, which reduces their weight. Includes all the pockets and bandoliers a soldier could ask for, and one right on the elbow that nobody asked for. Costs 2 ore.
-Andrei Zhuyev, ace pilot. Lost track of his kills.
-Commander Emilovich, Master Tactician
-Petyr Tavish, elite sniper. Fifty-three kills.
-IP-R25: This is based off of stolen liberated designs for the Moskurg Model 3 Radio. Like the Model 3, it is a vacuum-tube audio-transmitting radio with consists of the 14-kilogram radio itself and an equally large box of batteries. To move, it needs to be carried by two men, but can be set up for use relatively quickly. It can also fit in most vehicles without affecting performance (or take up the entire sidecar on an M17 bike).
-AS-DC29: An Arstotzkan device design to solve Moskurg's cipher. It is basically a Tiger's Whisper, with its own code card with the numbers 1 through 26. It uses a typewriter mechanism to stamp each number onto a ticker tape. The numbers on the ticker tape are the simple cipher version of the Moskurg message, which is relatively easy to solve by hand. In addition it includes a counter for each letter, displaying the frequency in which letters occur which helps solve ciphers faster. An average Arstotzkan officer is clever enough to use this to crack a Moskurg message in five to ten minutes. With a stolen code card, it can also act exactly as a Tiger's Whisper would, where communications officers must write down each letter as it appears. It is Expensive to make, and fits into a very heavy backpack.
-AS-P32: Arstotzka's new parachute rigging. The parachute itself is large and round, and various straps, clips and buckles allow a soldier to carry a light primary weapon, such as the Nosin, AS-F14 or MC16, and their ammo and a grenade, or an AS-1924 but not much ammo. Alternatively, a paratrooper could also bring an AS-1911 mortar and a few rounds, but only their sidearm with it. Radios need to be dropped separately.

AS Ground Transportation:
-AS-51 S: A new steam engine, based on the original model 51, includes a superheater system, where steam from the boiler is routed through the furnace to be heated further before being used. This is considerably more efficient than the old design and offers more power for the same amount of coal. In preparation for war, the trains are fitted with armor around the boiler, and the cabin window are fitted with hatches that can closed, and have narrow slats for viewing.
-AS-M17A: A motorcycle which seats one passenger, and a second in a sidecar. The petrol motor is Arstotzka's first, with three in-line cylinders. The motor is cheap, small and relatively powerful. On its own, the bike is capable of more than 80 kilometers per hour, cross country, and 110 on a road. The bike is was previously notorious for being difficult to ride and having structural failures, but these problems have been ironed out. The sidecar is available with an AS-1910, sometimes on a pintle mount to aim at aircraft. Costs 1 Oil, 2 Ore.
-AS-HV19: A heavy truck, built for logistics. Uses a cabover design, giving it a short, tall and square cabin- drivers climb up three steps to enter it. Includes six large, pneumatic tires- two wheels under the cabin steer, and four close to the back of the bed drive. A simple spring suspension system makes a very bouncy ride, amplified by the height of the cabin. Under the cabin is a fairly large eight cylinder engine, which belches black smoke from two exhaust stacks that go over the back of the cabin. The bed is five meters long and consists of a simple frame that can hold a hopper, tanker, or trailer hitch. Other things might easily be built to fit there, but engineering didn't get around to that. Gets up to 80 kph on a good road, and can carry eight tons without too much trouble. Unarmored. Conveys a 1 logistics bonus. Costs 2 ore, 3 oil.
-AS-MV21-AL: This is an armoured car, designed to be maneuverable in tight quarters and offroad. The frame, armor and engine block are all built from aluminium for reduced weight. It sits on four big tires, the rear ones shrouded by armor, on hydropneumatic suspension. It is powered by a V-6 motor, which gets it up to 70 KPH on a good road. Its shape is tight and rectangular around the crew cabin, which holds only a driver and gunner, to minimize the quantity of armor needed. The engine is in the rear, and includes the lightest (thin) armor in the slats over the radiator. The front armor is medium and most of the armor is light. A belt-fed AS-AC18 gun fires from the top of car, with the gunner's hatch open. The gunner hatch acts as armor to each side when open, but the gunner is still somewhat exposed compared to a tank turret. The car costs 4 ore and 2 oil.
-AS-T25: A medium tank, built to fit under medium thickness RHA. The armor is sloped shallow in the front, and this slope goes about halfway down the tank's length. The turret and crew hatch are on the flat part of the top of the tank, in the back, leading to a design that looks like a bit of a wedge. It is powered by a 12 cylinder, fuel injected, turbo charged motor. The new turbo charger is a super charger powered by exhaust, it provides the most benefit at high engine ranges. The turbo slightly increases fuel use. It can get up to 55 kph. The gun, a new AS-DT25, fires 50mm rounds, with a screw breech. It is fairly accurate and quite powerful. The turret is hand cranked and a bit on the slow side. It can fire about 20 times a minute and includes AP rounds. The treads are on hydropneumatic suspension, which improves accuracy while the tank is moving. Includes a coaxial AS-1924 and one on the exit hatch with a pintle mount. Costs 5 ore, 3 oil.
-AS-MAT26-50: A light tracked platform for the DT25 gun originally designed for the AS-T25 tank. Moves on a simply 8-cylinder motor and treads. It has thin RHA armor in the front only, with the rest open to the air. The DT-25 gun has an extended barrel with a muzzle brake, and is mounted on a front-facing armature with good side-to-side and vertical angling, for direct fire. It's bigger than the original, but outside of a turret this is fine. It include an AS-1924 for good measure against aircraft. Costs 4 ore, 2 oil.
-AS-T33: A tank similar to the AS-T25, with Heavy frontal armor, a radio as a standard feature. The shape is basically the same, a wedge with a cylindrical turret towards the back. It is powered by a turbocharged and fuel injected diesel engine, with twelve cylinders, which allows the tank to reach 45 kph. It is also armed with a new, enormous DT33 75mm cannon, which loads with a screw breech and can be fired about 12 times a minute, which happily penetrates medium armor at long range with HEAT rounds, and has similar accuracy but better range than the DT25. It includes one AS-1924 coaxially in the turret and one for a commander/spotter to use on a pintle. The turret is now operated by an electric motor on the horizontal traverse, and the tank has light spaced armor skirts around the turret, and on the sides down to the treads which help defend against HEAT rounds. A bit prone to running short on ammunition. Costs 6 ore, 3 oil.

AS Air Force:
-AS-A19C: Several staff members were fired and replaced. The new C model of the AS-A19 makes up for its heavy frame with sturdy, lightweight aluminium brackets, and some metal parts are replaced with aluminum. This and larger control surfaces make the plane much more steady, and not prone to suddenly pulling in one direction or the other, without being heavier. For good measure, a cross is added to every joystick to exorcise malevolent spirits. Control surface trim is added as well, which corrects for the effect of the rotary engine and makes the plane easier to fly in general. The aircraft remains heavy and a bit ungainly, but is much more safe to fly and should perform better in dogfights. Now costs 2 ore, 2 oil.
-AS-DB-HF-23: An airplane built entirely from aluminium. This lighter, sturdier frame allows the plane be reasonably fast with a 9-cylinder radial engine and make aggressive dives and recoveries for bombing, with half a ton of bombs. The radial engine is designed entirely around an AS-AC18 which fires through the prop shaft, necessitating a relatively heavy and thick prop shaft. It has decent maneuverability, with its metal design allowing for strong forces on the wings and tail, and large control surfaces, but it is best at dogfighting while not carrying a bomb load. Costs 4 ore, 3 oil.
-AS-HF-24: An airplane built entirely from aluminium. Based on the AS-DB-HF-23's light and sturdy frame, with bomb mounts omitted in favor of four lightweight AS-1924 machine guns, modified to accept belts. Two barrels visibly protrude from the front of each wing. The radial engine is designed entirely around an AS-AC18 which fires through the prop shaft, necessitating a relatively heavy and thick prop shaft. Unlike the DB version, it is fuel injected which is terribly complex and a bit heavy but allows more power for the same fuel. It has decent maneuverability, with its metal design allowing for strong forces on the wings and tail, and large control surfaces, but it is a bit heavy. Costs 4 ore, 3 oil
-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.
-AS-HF-32: An aluminum built fighter with a mid wing. It has a long narrow fuselage with a water cooled, turbo charged and fuel injected V10 motor. It has a square-ish closed canopy and fixed landing gear. It is armed with 2 AC-18s in the wings and 2 AS-1924s in the nose, on an interrupter gear. It is faster and can climb higher than the AS-DB or AS-1931 by a good margin, and despite some turbulence from the landing gear it has better maneuverability at high speeds. Not often, but sometimes, the landing gear breaks off in an extreme maneuver, forcing pilots to land the craft on its belly. It also includes two bomb mounts (up to 200 kg of bombs), which can be fitted with extra fuel tanks (+1 oil when in use). It costs 4 ore, 3 oil.

AS Navy:
-AS-CV22: A steam-powered ship, worthy of sea travel. Uses two AS-51 S steam engines, which each power one screw. The vessel is around 60 meters long, and carries cargo enough to provide +1 logistics. It mounts an AC-18 on the bow for air defense, an an AS-1910 on top of the con tower. Costs 6 ore.

AS Resources:
1 Unyielding Thirst for Glory
X Ministry of Integrity. Provides X spies. X is classified.
4 Ore. Tanks are Expensive, typically.
1 Expense Credit: Stacks of deflated American Dollars are hurriedly traded for anything of value. Fine wine, historical artifacts and works of art are packed away in crates in the treasury- they are unappreciated here, but they will not depreciate with time.
2 Oil. Products which use more fuel than a car are expensive. Except, rebels keep blowing up oil refineries.
1 Company of Moskurg Prisoners, slaving away in the salt mines.

[Sensei]

Moskurg's army now contains the following:

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MK Weapons:
-Horsekiller 1912: General infantry weapon. A breech-loading rifle with a long 60-inch barrel, which fires enormous 60 caliber rounds. Has great stopping power, and is heavy and cumbersome. Famed to stop a horse in one shot, regardless of where it hits. Rounds will go very far, and can still kill far after they become inaccurate. Now updated with good sights, a comfortable foregrip and no bayonet, but the shotgun-style breech-loading prevents quick follow-up shots
-Horsekiller Carbine 1912: General infantry weapon. A shorter variant of the Horsekiller, used by cavalry while riding horses. It has the same stopping power, but average weight and questionable accuracy. Now with good iron sights, and a better grip, but the barrel is a little short for the heavy bullet and it's often fired from a galloping horse anyway.
-Five-Shooter: General infantry sidearm. A five-shot revolver firing large 30 caliber rounds. Single-action, with a lot of kick and trigger pull, means it has poor accuracy, but good killing power against infantry.
-Sawed-off Shotgun: General infantry sidearm. About half of soldiers use this instead of the five-shooter. Fires twice before breech loading, very effective at short range, ineffective otherwise. Poor armor penetration. Uses 12 gauge shells.
-Scimitar: Officer sidearm. Elite soldiers receive a scimitar, a deadly curved sword which can be used on foot or horseback. Of course, requires getting close to the enemy.
-M1 Stallion: This is a belt-fed machine gun using the enormous, thundering .60 caliber round, exactly twice the diameter of the .30 caliber or 7.62mm rounds. It is a cumbersome weapon, with a large box for the mechanism, and a narrow water-cooled barrel with copper heat sinks. The range and stopping power of the .60 caliber round is undiminished, but the gun only fires about 180 times a minute, relatively slow for a machine gun- because of its size, it might be better described as an autocannon. The gun hits in very tight groups for a machinegun, but it is heavy and can only be pivoted slowly, meaning only very skilled gunners can be accurate at long range. It normally moved by horse on a small wagon, although the new lighter model can be carried in parts by a crew, and is crewed by a team of four or five men. Sometimes mounted on a raised stand to aim at aircraft. Costs 2 ore.
-Bombardier: A 3.6 inch howitzer. This is a simple artillery piece with few more bells and whistles than a medieval cannon, modernized with a breech load (a hatch on top of the barrel swings open) and rifling, so as to fire pointed shells with brass cartridges accurately at range. The spent brass is ejected manually, with a lever. Its size makes it horse-drawn. A skilled crew can fire about 10 times a minute, through the gun moves a little when fired, so it can bombard inaccurately at its full rate of fire or (with a skilled commander) come close enough to often hit trenches and emplacements at about half the rate of fire. It can out-range any rifle on the field, but not accurately. Costs 3 ore.
-Model 1 Service Rifle: A .30 caliber rifle, loaded from a 5-round clip much like the Mosin-Nagant. However, early experiments with bolt action suffered from difficult chambering new rounds, and the engineering team instead opted to make a lever-action rifle. Moskurg shooters favor this design, which keeps their hand close to the trigger. Includes iron sights, with an accuracy and stopping power very similar to the Nosin. It can fire somewhat faster, however, at the cost of some accuracy. Includes bayonet lugs.
-M2 Brumby: The Brumby is an air-cooled, .30 caliber machinegun designed to be carried by one man. It is operated by a gas piston under the barrel, and feeds from a belt. It includes a tall rear post sight, the barrel is cooled with shining, unconcealed copper heat sinks, and an innovative "belt box" for use on the move. Unlike previous machine guns, it uses a pistol grip instead of a pair of handles. It shoots around 400 rounds a minute with an effective range of around 300 yards, and weighs 26 pounds with a loaded belt box. It can be operated by a single soldier, ideally prone, or a crew to string belts together for continuous fire. The complexity of its mechanism makes it Expensive.
-Cascade Sub-Machine Gun: This is a sub-machine gun, firing the .35 cal short pistol round. It uses a new, closed-bolt blowback system. This system is reliable and keeps dirt out of the gun. The bolt system takes up about six inches, all of which is past the trigger, then a magazine, a 30 round drum, inserts into the receiver from the left. The barrel after the receiver is short, about 8 inches, and has a slotted metal hand guard. The stock is wooden, ugly, and stops at the receiver, where brass is ejected from the bottom of the gun. The short barrel gives poor accuracy, especially when hot, and the .35 cal short bullets have much less range than a rifle or machine gun. The system fires about 400 rounds per minute.
-Rhino Recoilless Rifle: This is a rifled tube designed to fire a 2.2 inch shell, without creating significant recoil. It is five feet in length and portable by a single man, weighing about 25 pounds, but sits on a tripod to fire. The recoilless effect is achieved by firing a "wad" of rubber-lined cement, equal in mass to the 2.2 inch shell, out the back of the rifle. Tubes are manufactured loaded, and discarded after firing. It is accurate out to medium range. It fires the normal variety of artillery shells. Costs 2 ore.
-B2 Destroyer: A big, long piece of artillery with firing 4 inch rounds. The barrel is nine feet long, for maximum muzzle velocity and accuracy. Its barrel sits on a hydro suspension mechanism, and lurches back each time the gun fires. It weighs more than a ton and can fire at great distance around 15 times a minute, when hand loaded in its locking screw breech. These rounds can be placed with pretty good consistency, for their range. Must be towed by a truck, or three can fit on a train car (but not fire from there). Costs 4 ore.
-MK-47 Assault Rifle: This is a blowback operated rifle using .30 caliber rounds, designed to be an automatic weapon with a similar size and role to the Model 1 Service Rifle. It has a rear pistol grip, a slotted wooden foregrip and a 30 round magazine which mounts on the side. It is based on the Cascade's action, but heavily reinforced to withstand the pressures incurred by full size rifle rounds. The heavy moving bolt significantly affects accuracy when firing automatically, even at medium range. The weapon has a heavy barrel to prevent overheating and help with the recoil, which makes the weapon weigh around 16 pounds, but the recoil from rapidly firing rifle rounds is still a significant issue. Fires 600 rounds per minute. Costs 2 ore.
-MK-47A: The MK-47 is reworked around the smaller, shorter .280 caliber intermediate rifle round. This involves a principally identical but shorter receiver and magazine, and the gun sheds weight in general as parts are made with less reinforcement and ballast is removed, down to 12 pounds. A tactical rail is added. The reduction in firepower brings recoil down to acceptable levels, making it a much more practical weapon. It is effective only to medium range, but as it is only capable of automatic fire, it cannot be aimed effectively past medium range anyway. The blowback action still has a relatively heavy bolt, which makes the gun lurch around a bit. It is still moderately cumbersome for close combat.
-AS-1911 8cm Mortar: This is a light mortar, consisting of a simple tube mounted on a tripod, and mortar shells which are dropped into the tube and fire off when they hit the bottom. The shells themselves are the more important part of the weapon. They are sort of like rocket-propelled grenades, consisting of a metal shell around some explosive, and a primer and propellant at the back.No longer suffers from horrible jamming. Expensive due to metric manufacturing.
-M3 Sorraia GPMG: A .30 caliber machine gun fed from a belt. 50-round belts can be strung together for extended fire or stored in a belt box attached to the Sorraia, which for practical purposes is similar to a magazine. Unlike the Brumby, it uses a recoil action, and is configured to fire around 800 rounds per minute, achieved with the help of a muzzle booster (which looks like a flared end on the barrel). It is slightly lighter, at 22 pounds. Comes with an integrated bipod, can be used on a tripod for emplacements. It uses similar heat sinks to the Brumby, which are now shrouded. It has a changeable barrel, which is necessary for emplacement use. It is effective to a greater distance than the Brumby when so mounted, about 800 yards. Costs 2 ore.
-Shaped Charge: A hemisphere of explosives, in a hemispherical metal container, with a hemispherical empty space inside. Magnetic. Can be placed on an enemy tank by particularly brave soldiers.
-Eagle Sight MkII: A new refractive telescopic sight designed with the Osprey rifle in mind. It includes horizontal and vertical adjustment knobs, and can be adjusted for focus and zoom. It is adjustable in magnification from 4x to 7x (long-range type), or from 1.5x to 4x (short-range type). These have a large objective lens which creates a bright picture, but still have short eye relief and a narrow field of view. The precision involved in manufacturing lenses makes them expensive, and they must be custom fitted to weapons which do not have rails.
-Hippo Recoilless Rifle: A 2.2 inch Recoilless rifle, which is reloadable. Appears as a tube with a square, offset box in the middle which contains the mechanism to hold and fire its rounds. It also The grips consists of a padded quarter-circle shoulder rest and a foregip with a trigger, an extra off-hand grip in the middle. Like the hippo, rounds (now a single package) consist of a shell, powder-filled casing, and wad of equal mass to the shell. The wad consists of sand in a cork sabot, to present minimal danger to soldiers behind to gun (still, do not stand behind the Hippo Recoilless Rifle). It is a bit heavier than the Rhino, but because it is reloadable a soldier can carry a half-dozen shells. While there is relatively little recoil (comparable to a Horsekiller) it also exerts a torque along the rifle groove when fired, which makes it difficult to use. Includes tall iron post sights on the side of the weapon with multiple horizontal range markers, and a side rail for easy scope mounting, though it is difficult to fire accurately at scope ranges. Costs 2 ore.
-Incinerator Flamethrower: A heavy weapon, consists of two tanks on a soldier's back (one of harmless nitrogen as a propellant, and one of flamethrower fuel) and a nozzle with a pilot light. Shoots a jet of burning liquid about 25 feet. Includes an emergency cutoff valve. Costs 2 ore, 2 oil.
-Bumblebee AT/AA: A 3.6 inch gun. It can be aimed down close to the ground, or up the sky, and most of the new technology it includes is for this second purpose. It is aimed by a gunner who sits in a seat which inclines and declines with the gun itself, and has an iron sight which consists of two rings, the front of which has a "spiderweb" design. The gun is aimed with two traversal wheels. The gun is designed to fire new fuzed flak rounds, which have an adjustable timer set by a dial on the gun itself. There is also a mechanical targeting calculator, which is a box around the size of the Model 3 Radio that has a dial for target range, and rate of change of range, which can set the fuze time for shells accurately as the target moves. Additionally given an altitude and angle, the sight will automatically offset so that the gunner need merely keep the crosshair over the target. It is pretty effective, and also cheap and reliable. However, adjusting targeting calculator takes too long to aim at dive bombers and close, low-altitude planes. Fires about 15 times a minute. Costs 2 ore.
-M34 Viper Landmine: A landmine! It's a disc shaped box full of explosives, with a trigger on top. The land mine includes a recession to fit the trigger of another land mine underneath it, and the trigger protrudes into this space when pressed, igniting all mines in a stack simultaneously. The trigger is locked with a removable pin. The mines weight five pounds each, which is a little excessive for infantry but does the job. Two or three are effective against vehicles, but a bit taller and heavier than a single mine would be with the same explosive content. Be extremely careful when stacking the mines! Costs 2 oil.
-M2 Osprey: The Osprey is a bolt-action rifle, chambered in .30 caliber, intended for snipers and marksmen. It is bolt-action, and has a 10 round magazine. It has a wooden stock, and the magazine protrudes a few inches beneath the rifle. It features a heavy barrel, and with its bolt action mechanism, has excellent grouping at long range. On top of the gun is a set of adjustable iron sights with a fine crosshair, and a rail for a telescopic sight.
-Eagle Sight MkII: A new sight designed with the Osprey rifle in mind. It includes horizontal and vertical adjustment knobs, and can be adjusted for focus and zoom. It is adjustable in magnification from 4x to 7x (long-range type), or from 1.5x to 4x (short-range type). These have a large objective lens which creates a bright picture, but still have short eye relief. The precision involved in manufacturing lenses makes them expensive, and they must be custom fitted to weapons which do not have rails.


MK Technology:
-Imperial system. Inches, feet, miles, pounds! And especially calibers and gauges.
-Forged blades. Swords are a specialty!
-Breech-loading
-Revolvers, Single-action
-.60 caliber bullets. Just enormous for small arms! Excellent stopping power. Loud, hot, and kicks hard.
-.30 caliber bullets. Still really good stopping power, but much easier to control.
-.35 caliber short pistol bullets. For the Cascade Sub-Machine Gun.
-3.6 Inch Artillery Shell. Now also available in Smoke, Shrapnel and Extra Spicy Incendiary
-Armor-Piercing Shell: Hardened steel alloy, which deforms less than lead when hitting armor. Can be manufactured for .30 caliber and up.
-Armor-Piercing High Explosive (APHE): Armor-piercing shells, and then after the armor, they explode. Boom.
-HEAT: High Explose Armor-Penetrating shells with a shaped charge, but you'll never guess what shape.
-Flak
-Howitzer
-Hot Weather Engineering. Moskurg-made equipment is designed and tested in the hot desert, and does not become unreliable due to hot climates and sand.
-Jungle Engineering: Moskurg weapons don't generally seize up from being wet and muddy, they are tested in humidity, and sometimes include gaskets or are designed to be especially easy to clean.
-Belt-Fed MG
-Water-Cooled Barrel
-FlamethrowerAS-HF-32: An aluminum built fighter with a mid wing. It has a long narrow fuselage with a water cooled, turbo charged and fuel injected V10 motor. It has a square-ish closed canopy and fixed landing gear. It is armed with 2 AC-18s in the wings and 2 AS-1924s in the nose, on an interrupter gear. It is faster and can climb higher than the AS-DB or AS-1931 by a good margin, and despite some turbulence from the landing gear it has better maneuverability at high speeds. Not often, but sometimes, the landing gear breaks off in an extreme maneuver, forcing pilots to land the craft on its belly. It also includes two bomb mounts (up to 200 kg of bombs), which can be fitted with extra fuel tanks (+1 oil when in use). It costs 4 ore, 3 oil.
-Petrol Engine
-Portable Radios [Less Crap] with Audio
-Vacuum Tubes
-Batteries II
-Brushed Electric Motors
-Airplanes
-Armor Thickness (Medium and thinner)
-Recoilless Rifle
-Spaced Armor
-Nuclear Crayons
-Telescopic Sights, Adjustable
-Slat Armor
-Tactical Rails
-Fuel Injection
-Turbo Charger
-Targeting Calculator
-Manganese Steel

MK Soldiers:
-Fierce: Moskurg soldiers have an advantage in melee combat and close quarters.
-Moskurg 1914 Armor: Moskurg soldiers wear flowing blue linen with a scimitar stitched onto the chest. Steel vests and helmets are added, to protect against shrapnel. Blue-and-silver glory improved with silver cape. The new 1927 uniform includes drab colors, olive, beige and grey, to blend in with different environments. Jingling metal belts and clips are replaced with quiet ones. Vehicles are bedecked in similar colors, with reasonably-sized flags painted on the side. However, High Command insists that officers retain their blue uniforms with silver capes and big hats, so that soldiers will know their commanders.
-Model 3 Radio: Another vacuum tube radio, which now comes as a pair of 30 pound boxes (one of batteries and one of the radio itself). Each box is man portable on its own, and has to be assembled together to work. It also includes a light, flexible antenna instead of a radio mast, which can either be erected up a tent pole or worked into the frame of a vehicle. The result is that it takes up two mens' primary weapon slots instead of a wheelbarrow, making it portable by a mobile squad and useable after about a minute of setup. Alternatively, it can fit into most vehicles without affecting performance. Also importantly, it can now transmit and receive audio instead of just morse code, making communication faster in general. No longer Complex.
-Tiger's Whisper: This radio device, instead of being used to transmit speech, issues and receives 26 discreet amplitudes on a given frequency. The amplitude broadcast is selected with a dial, and the amplitude received is is used to indicate a letter, using a fully circular meter which reads amplitude and is labeled with letters. When the dial, or meter, falls to zero after displaying a letter, it moves the paper indicator by an amount based on its highest position, like a rotary telephone dial. This means that the messages are bit more complex than a simple substitution. A communications officer must jot down each letter as he reads it. The letter indicators both on the dial and meter are pieces of card paper which can be changed, so that new substitutions can be issued to communications officers regularly in case a radio communicator falls into enemy hands.
-Tank Commander Char: Currently pilots the only Eagle-equipped T2 Breaker. 22 kills. He can see three times as far as a commander with normal tank sights.
-Tiger Infantry Armor: Infantry armor made of a forged manganese steel alloy. All of the armor plates are relatively thick for infantry, and the full suit weighs in at 36 pounds. The helmet is particularly thick, and fits round and close around the head, low over the eyes and down to the neck with a little outward slope. It can be attached with a face mask, which when worn allows a wide but very narrow viewing slit between the mask and helmet. The mask fits in a rounded shape around the face and chin, and is a attached with a pain of pins. The breastplate extends by a couple inches in the middle so that it is not flat, and has the appearance of a ridge down the middle. The backplate is similar, but flat. At the waist these plates end and there are flat curved single-piece taces to protect the upper legs, below the knee the armor has no coverage. The pauldrons allow comfortable shoulder motion, being made of three layered plates, and the upper arms are covered by rerebraces, which are round fitted plates to the outside of the arm. While the lower arms, lower legs, and sometimes gaps around the shoulders are exposed, most parts of the armor will stop a pistol bullet at point blank. The breastplate and taces will stop rifle bullets at all but very close range. AP Horsekillers easily penetrate at medium range. The armor is tiring and cumbersome, troops cannot effectively crawl and kneeling is difficult, as is aiming down rifle sights while using the mask. Costs 3 ore.

MK Ground Transportation:
-Horses: Moskurg soldiers are skilled cavalry, and ride close to the enemy to use their inaccurate weapons and swords.
-Model 52 Steam Engine: The engines have been converted to oil-burning, which should make them cheaper to operate. Several key failure points have been re-engineered. This should enable more resources to be gained from our mines. Now with 95% less explosions! Uses 2 or 3 oil, I don't even know.
-Struunk I: Your engineers have managed to build a motor on par with the ones used in the (rather outdated) civilian vehicles you've been confiscating. As before, it gets up to 30 MPH on roads and 15 cross country. It has thin mild steel armor all around, slightly angled, with light armor on the front of the engine and cabin. The thin armor is still dubious protection against normal rifle rounds. It includes a Brumby in the passenger seat and an M2 Stallion in the turret, which is now pintle mounted to aim at aircraft. The turret has a DC electric motor running off of the car's double capacity battery, and a backup hand crank (the turret will drain the battery if rotated constantly). Costs 3 ore, 2 oil.
-SPAT: A self-propelled gun vehicle consisting of a petrol engine, caterpillar tracks, and a forward-facing Bombardier howitzer with just enough armor plating to hide the crew behind. The motor here is the same one as the Struunk I. The treads are a new development, and fit over a four-wheeled system with two driving wheels. They are prone to coming loose from the wheels from time to time. The armor is light, with a gap in the middle for the gun to rotate, rise and lower. Ammunition sits in racks behind the armor. The vehicle has a top speed of about 8 mph. The gun is just a Bombardier, fixed to the SPAT on a frame which pitches and yaws on a pair of hand cranks. The SPAT has a set of jacks to use when firing, which improve accuracy considerably by preventing the vehicle from shaking. Costs 3 ore, 2 oil.
-T1 Smasher Mk II: Based on previous experience with the SPAT and the Struunk I, this is Moskurg's attempt to make a completely armored fighting vehicle with a turret. The frame is based on the SPAT. The vehicle will be heavier though, so it is powered by a 10-cylinder motor. Has improved treads, more capable of climbing through obstacles and over trenches. It is armored all around with light armor, of mild steel, in a trapezoidal shape over the chassis with the treads exposed. The front, sides and turret have an additional thin piece of spaced armor. The turret is a cylinder protruding out of the top of the front part of the tank, which includes the exit hatch. It does not include the planned coaxial machine gun but instead has a pintle-mounted Brumby which can be used when the top hatch is open. The turret rotates with an electric motor, without backup hand crank because the batteries are easily drained. The main gun is a shortened Bombardier with narrow vertical aim. Crewed with a driver, loader and gunner/commander. Can get up to 8 mph on a good day. Costs 4 ore, 2 oil.
-L-1 Tiger: The Tiger is, despite its fierce name, a truck. It has a long, narrow nose in front of the cab containing a twelve cylinder engine, and the steering wheels are next to it under round cowls. It has a bed where a hopper, tanker, seats, trailer hitches or other things can easily be attached. There are six rear drive wheels, on independent suspension. Costs 3 ore, 2 oil. Provides +1 logistics.
-T2 Breaker: A tank built from new Rolled Homogenous Armor, like tanks should be made of. It is medium armored throughout, with a slanted front but mostly square. The turret is specially cast as a rounded dome and rotates with electrical motors. Includes a new 1.6 inch rifled Breaker cannon, with a long barrel, suspension and muzzle brake. The Breaker cannon can fire about 24 times a minute, it is single loaded by hand. It also has a coaxially mounted Brumby. The exit hatch in towards the mach of the tank and includes a pintle-mounted Brumby. The tank is a heavy, it sits on wide cowled treads and is powered by a big 12-cylinder diesel engine, and can get up to about 23 mph. Crewed by a driver, loader, gunner, and commander. Now with extra slat armor. The radio is usually omitted due to the already very steep cost of the tank: It requires 5 ore, 2 oil.

MK Air Force
-Model 1 Biplane: A biplane mostly design around the heavy an awkward Model 2 Radio. Research into aluminum framing was conducted, but a good source could not be secured this year. As such, the airplane consists mostly of a wood-and-canvas frame, with pretty conventional ailerons, elevators and rudder. It can immediately be distinguished from a normal plane by the four foot radio mast sticking out. It weighs about half a ton and is powered by a new motor with six opposed cylinders. Most of its spare weight and space is taken up by the Model 2 radio, which is powered by the motor and operated by a co-pilot. Despite it not being in the design requirements, the plane comes with a center-mounted Brumby, complete with interrupter gear, and a couple yards of ammo. Maneuverability is somewhat poor. Costs 2 oil.
-Model 2 Hornet: A wide, heavy, wood-framed biplane. To serve its purpose of carrying bombs, it is heavy and sturdy (as much as a wooden plane can be) with bomb racks beneath the wings. It is powered by a big ten-cylinder motor (your biggest yet) and weighs a ton on its own, and carries half a ton of bombs. The bombs are simply artillery shells with fins attached, and are available in every variety. The gunner's seat has an M1 Stallion which can rotate in a full circle and carries seven yards of ammo. Costs 3 oil.
-M3 Wasp Fighter B: Using some aluminum structure, Moskurg is able to create their first sturdy cantilevered monoplane. Most of the aluminum is used to support the wings while the tail and body are made of (mostly) wood. The wings mount in the middle of the fuselage, with the pilot sitting between them and a fat radial engine in front. Due to its single pair of wings and lack of struts, than previous airplanes. The engine is also a bit of a monster, a 14 cylinder radial engine in two rows of 7 cyclinders. This makes it really quite fast. It mounts an M1 Stallion with interrupter gear. The plane pitches and rolls quickly on its single wing, but needs to be going faster than a biplane and this tends to make fast-but-wide turns. At its top speed, its wooden tail structure warps one way and the other, threatening to break. It uses retractable landing gear. Costs 2 ore, 3 oil.
-Model 4 Yellowjacket: A fighter aircraft, built fully of aluminum. It has flat low wings on a relatively long, narrow fuselage which holds its V12 motor. The motor is fuel injected, and cooled by a water radiator. It has six exhaust pipes poking out under the wing on each side, and a canopy-covered pilot seat close to the tail. It is relatively sturdy and maneuverable, it is fast and makes tight maneuvers but is "temperamental", prone to going into out-of-control rolls and requiring a tight grip on the joystick. The canopy includes a tubular gun sight. The six Sorraia guns in the wings provide ample firepower, but the six guns and their ammo are somewhat heavy. Moves faster and maneuvers better than the Wasp, as well as having a higher altitude ceiling. Costs 3 ore, 3 oil.

MK Resources:
4 Captured Tigers. Don't stick your hand in the cage.
1 Overwhelming National Pride
X Bureau of Cleverness. Provides X spies. X is discussed at private dinner parties, to which the truly loyal are invited.
1 Ore. Spare some change for the poor?
2 Oil. Products which use more fuel than a car are Expensive.
Nuclear Weapons Progress: 0/10 Crayon

[Sheb]

We only get the Nazi Ore starting next year, right?

[andrea]

a sniper rifle and better optics! AH! called it!

our agent was awesome this year, and shows the superiority of our land vehicles. Even though the motorcycle was designed in 1917.
of course this was a custom bike, but it only shows the mechanical prowess and tinkering habits of Arstotzka citizens.

[Kashyyk]

But also the wastefulness of ink and the massive deathtrap that is a load of armed explosives in the basement.

Oh well, this has long been a game of dragging out our demise for as long as possible anyway.

[10ebbor10]

Why did we not get the improvement?

I mean, Moskurg got the improvement we made to our tank engines when they stole that design. A matter of rolls?

[Kashyyk]

Either that or GM forgetting. We shall see.

[Andres]

But also the wastefulness of ink and the massive deathtrap that is a load of armed explosives in the basement.

The use of ink shows how much ink we have which in turn is a sign of Arstotzka's prosperity. The basement was specifically designed as a counter-measure to deter incompetent Moskurg spies, which it succeeded in doing. This is also a testament to the Patience of Arstotzkans who know intrinsically to be careful and so don't need thinks like "safety and regulations".

Glory to Arstotzka.

As always, Sensei, you succeed in making absolutely hilarious espionage actions. There is no other GM that has made me laugh so hard as you and so consistently. It truly is a pleasure.

Just remember that our T33s become Expensive next year due to Nazi Ore.

[Sheb]

Uh, I cannot see the Tiger Armor in our army list. I guess Moskurg will have to revert to Horsekillers to deal with our soldiers now.

Killing Moskurger armed with terrible, oversized rifles... Just like old time!

[10ebbor10]

Moskurg also has armor piercing ammunition, so they'll be about as effective as we are.

[andrea]

Why did we not get the improvement?

because the kind of cheapening they used is in some ways a pre-industrial process, requiring not just properly designed machines, but an high degree of personal competence and skill from a group of purposefully trained blacksmiths. We stole the designs, but we can't steal their blacksmiths. We would need to train our own, or try something else.