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[Andres]

My primary problem that is that the ability to move seems quite essential for our infantry.

We don't necessarily have to apply it to all our infantry. Giving it to those who don't move much would be enough.

Soldiers who may find it useful:
MV21 crew (both gunners and driver)
T25 gunner (armour might be too hot for inside crewmembers, maybe)
MAT26 crewmembers
All aircraft pilots
Shock troops
Low-mobility infantry (like those who'll be clearing buildings in urban environments)
Snipers
Heavy machine gunners
Motorcycle riders and gunners

indeed. A better solution to the problem of fighting in the cities would be removing the cities.

How does a 3000 mm artillery piece sound to you?

A 3 metre artillery piece is insane. Absolutely insane. No one has ever built a 3 metre artillery piece. Rail artillery was about a tenth of that and they proved hugely impractical.

[andrea]

I hope you added a zero to much to that.

nope. I did say I wanted to remove cities. lets outdo the barrel size obsessed germans.

Actually, lets outdo the gun nuts of Jules verne's "from the earth to the moon". lets make a 20 m cannon!
aiming that might be troublesome...

edit: in case it is not clear, this is meant in jest.

[10ebbor10]

Anyway :

Update.

We're now losing in the mountains, and held at bay in both desert and Jungle.

[Andres]

Communication and snipers are what's killing us this time around. We'll need to use our Design phase to design a scope for our Nosins and our Revision for an encrypter.

Glory to Arstotzka.

[andrea]

priorities: make our communications safe again ( this one is BIG) and counter their snipers.

edit: ninja

Still. why design a scope for the mosin, when we can design a whole new sniper rifle? I am sure there is room for improvement.

[Andres]

I'm not sure we can design a new gun and a scope in the same turn. Sensei said we needed a full Design phase to design a scope.

[Kot]

Fuck, they actually fight back, who would have thought.
We need artillery, radio that they can't listen to and something to kill snipers. Also do something against their scopes on everything
Fast.
Let's throw our cheap MG on Chinese or, alternatively, give RPG to Commies (dunno if we need more ore) and shove the same thing on Brits.

DADADADA NEW POST NEW POST CAN I TURN THIS THING OFF

EDIT:
What protects against snipers good? Is it snipers or, dunno, more tanks?

[10ebbor10]

I'm not sure we can design a new gun and a scope in the same turn. Sensei said we needed a full Design phase to design a scope.

Sensei explicitedly said that a scope can be part of a weapon design.

[Kot]

Scoped assault rifles.
I'm actually in favour this time.

[Aseaheru]

He did? Well, herere comes a big ol' sniper weapon!

Editing this post. Dont noone ninja me with one. Particularly not a sissy 12.7mm gun.

Also: Dang ninja

-Edit-

Spoiler: AS-AMR-29 (click to show/hide)

 A single shot, bolt action anti-material rifle (more of a light cannon) using the same rounds as the AS-AC18 (20x100mm). The gun operates in a manner similar to the old Nosin single, mostly to keep weight down. To save further weight much of the weapon is made of aluminum. The weapon is to feature an integrated bipod, a muzzle brake, and a telescopic sight (preferably 20x) inorder to take advantage of the power of the 20x100mm round (aswell as to hopefully keep the sniper out of the range of the enemies DMRs).

 While this weapon will be of low use in urban and jungle fighting, on the desert and in the mountains it should prove useful. And yes, it is rather heavy, but it does keep us from needing to get a new round, is not the most insane anti-material rifle out there (theres one firing 20x105mm, aswell as the various semi automatic and automatic 20x~mm AT rifles). And, hey. Telescopic sights.

 Also, I cant say I am not somewhat irked that they beat us to optics.

 Also, what do we want to do for the Chinese? Supply the communists, and cement our reputation with the Russians (and then ruin it by stealing a spy) or go with the nationalists and get in the good graces of 'Murica?

 Oh, and can we reverse engineer their code machines? Make our owh copies, supplied with their own keys? Or should we just hand out one-time pads to everyone with a radio, each individualized?

[andrea]

scoped assault rifle is a bad idea. Too many potential failures.

[10ebbor10]

Isn't that contradictory? I though assault rifles were close to medium range thingies.

On that note, we don't need to be reactionary. We can innovate on our own with a different design not relevant to any of these threats.

[Kot]

Isn't that contradictory? I though assault rifles were close to medium range thingies.

On that note, we don't need to be reactionary. We can innovate on our own with a different design not relevant to any of these threats.

Germans had scoped Stg44s. They were damn good at longer distance with scope, actually.

[Andres]

I'm not sure we can design a new gun and a scope in the same turn. Sensei said we needed a full Design phase to design a scope.

Sensei explicitedly said that a scope can be part of a weapon design.

Excellent.

Desing the AS-SR29.

Spoiler: AS-SR29 (click to show/hide)

The AS-SR29 is a bolt-action, detachable magazine-fed sniper rifle chambering the 7.62×51mm round. It comes with a scope that gives 4x magnification.

scoped assault rifle is a bad idea. Too many potential failures.

Exactly. Assault rifle aren't even accurate enough to put a scope on.

On that note, we don't need to be reactionary. We can innovate on our own with a different design not relevant to any of these threats.

I think we kinda do need to be reactionary, at least when it comes to sniper rifles.

Glory to Arstotzka.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Well, very I must say it is a very meh turn. We lost one point in mountains, our situation in desert is not that good.

If you ask me I prefer to focus on jungles in attempt to trade that 1 ore in mountains for 1 ore\1oil in jungles and so I want jungle focused weapon After all their scopes are useless in jungles. Yes, they will get +1 in ore, but we can get +1 in oil.

Stuff to achieve jungle dominance

AS-AR29, 6mm*36mm full automatic rifle - to negate their infantry advantage.
AS-GB29 - motor gunboat armed with a turret taken from T25 and capable to carry marine infantry.

Spoiler: AS-FP-29 (click to show/hide)

Cheap wooden utility\light-bomber floatplane byplane. Has only one nose mounted 7.62mm gun for self-defence. Uses silent engine and can glide for prolonged amount of time to avoid being detected. Can carry supplies, drop light bombs(including incendiary) and deploy paratroopers. Can have on board radio. Can be used outside of frontlines as light transport (fraction of logistics point?) Costs up to 2 ore, 2 oil. If time permits, develop cranes for CV-22 that will allow them to pick up the plane out from the sea. l

- bringing airforce to jungles

I think there are more.

Revisions:
Make that cheap SMG
Create floatplane variants of current aircrafts
Encode our radios

As for holding mountains....
I think that there other ways to counter that scopes if we choose this route. No need to counter their advantages with exact copy.