I think we should go for the German design. It would let us get both an AT gun or autocannon to stop their Struunk and SPAT and some kind of logistic enhancement tech to get the extra ressources.
We gave sold the Central Power a MG, so we have some political capital to spend calming the Germans.
It's 1918 and the only thing Forenia has given to Axis is a machine gun design. They've lost.
I know this sounds a bit trite and I know it sounds like I have an obsession with small arms, but I think we should design a semi-automatic battle rifle. All we have to do is upsize our carbine. Our carbine is currently unreliable because it uses the full, rifle-size 7.76mm instead of a carbine version.
If we design this gun, it'll obsolete our Nosin due to having equal range, accuracy, stopping power, armour-penetration, and reliability while having a greater rate of fire and a larger magazine size. It'll give us ground in both the Mountains (I'll explain in a spoiler why this is important) and the Jungle. Most importantly, the rate of fire, range, accuracy, and power combined with our AP rounds should easily be able to destroy the Struunks in the desert. A squad with these rifles would have equal performance with a machine gun except they'll be mobile.
The Struunk is Expensive. This is due to the complexity of its engine being Expensive and it requiring more Ore than they have.
This puts them one step above Expensive. Its Brumby, being complex, adds another 1 to the Expense. It is now two steps above Expensive. If we take more of the Mountains and start shelling their trains (like we did last time), they have less 1 less Ore. This increases the Struunk's Expense by 1 point. It is not at three points past Expensive, making it Very Expensive.
The Struunk comes with a Stallion, however, which itself costs 2 Ore. If we start shelling the mines, they'd only have 1 Ore, so the Stallion becomes Expensive. This adds another point of Expense to the Struunk, putting it one point above Very Expensive.
Even if it doesn't work quite like this, they'll have to choose whether they want their machine guns on their vehicles or with their infantry. If they put them on their vehicles, they'll no longer have anything to defend the Mountains and Jungle with. If they give them to their infantry, their Struunks are useless.
The AS-SAR17 is a semi-automatic battle rifle partially based off the F14. Due to actually being made for standard 7.76mm rounds, it is more reliable than it. It has equal performance to the Nosin in terms of range, accuracy, and power.
I do understand, however, if people don't want to go with my design.
Glory to Arstotzka.
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Topic: Arms Race, Arstotzka: 1935 Production (Read 164581 times)