Next year I was thinking we could revise our train engine so that it uses more of its heat in the process rather than expelling it as waste heat. This will make our tanks faster, less uncomfortable, and most importantly, it'll let us get that Ore from the Plains as well as the Oil. Building planes and light armoured vehicles out of aluminium would be cheap. Tanks of RHA or mild steel would become cheap too, assuming we design a non-complex one.
I was thinking that all of our future small arms should have some aluminium in them to decrease weight and possibly increase performance. It'll make them all jump in cost from 1 Ore to 2 Ore, but because of our home advantage we always have 2 Ore anyway. If Moskurg decides to steal this idea and make all
their small arms with aluminium, they risk having a major shortage if we start taking ground in the Mountains or our plane actually starts being good.
Because we'll be revising our steam engine, we'll need to get a better plane with the Design phase. A biplane would reduce drag (increasing its performance) and use less metal to keep the wings together (decreasing cost) and we could also go for higher speed and more manoeuvrability while we're at it.
Glory to Arstotzka.
Oh for fucks sake, we're blitzkrieging with our new armored car which, at least according to the writeup, is fast, manueverable, has an autocannon, and importantly for the jungle, has armor that is just about immune to any weapon short of a full cannon; plus supported by our new, non-shitty MG-equipped motorcycles. Combined with our still good SMGs(so what if they're not issued to every trooper?!) and rifles, I don't think they're holding the jungle for long.
Calm down! I'm not objecting to this plan, you know. I'm just asking what we're using or planning to use the Expense credit for. At the moment we're deciding to
not use it as far as I know. If that's changed, I think I missed the post.
I'm just wondering if making cheap armoured cars is like making cheap artillery. I'm guessing it'll actually be useful but I'm not certain.