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[Sensei]

Alright, looks like votes tonight are in favor of designing both the M2 Osprey and the M34 Landmine.

[heydude6]

My main complaint about the landmine is that Arztoska already tried stacking them together. It didn't work.

[Taricus]

See, that's putting one landmine ontop of another. What we're doing is just making a big one straight off.

[Sensei]

M34 "Viper" Landmine

A flat disk-shaped landmine. The disks each have their own trigger, and can interlock to increase explosive force enough to destroy enemy vehicles or be buried individually to better confound enemy infantry movement. The weight used to trigger the mine can be adjusted in the field before the charge is primed to prevent infantry from triggering mines intended to destroy enemy vehicles. They are designed to become inoperative after 30 days to prevent civilian casualties.

Heh, "Don't tread on me."

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.

Osprey Marksman Rifle

A dedicated bolt-action sniper rifle chambering the same .30 round as the M1 service rifle, loaded from an 8-round en-bloc clip. It has an iron sight adjustable to 1 kilometer, and a rail mount for a telescopic sight. This sight has adjustment controls for focus, windage, and parallax. Magnification can be adjusted by turning a knob that moves an adjustment lens closer or farther from the eyepiece.

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.

[Taricus]

Ah, we decided on a different version of the Osprey, let me dig it out.

Edit: Here is is!

Fair enough. Though looking over that sniper rifle, the weapon itself isn't that good... Also, I think we might want to avoid any armoured vehicle designs for the time being, we just don't have the resources for them.

So, a counter-proposal!

M2 'Osprey' Rifle
A bolt-action rifle fed from a 10-round detachable box magazine built purely for long-range engagements, and able to do it well thanks to the improved scope. It has an iron sight adjustable to 1 kilometer, and a rail mount for a telescopic sight. This sight has adjustment controls for focus, windage, and parallax. Magnification can be adjusted by turning a knob that moves an adjustment lens closer or farther from the eyepiece. Also comes standard with an integral folding bipod to improve the weapon's stability and accuracy.

[Sensei]

Ah, we decided on a different version of the Osprey, let me dig it out.

Edit: Here is is!

Fair enough. Though looking over that sniper rifle, the weapon itself isn't that good... Also, I think we might want to avoid any armoured vehicle designs for the time being, we just don't have the resources for them.

So, a counter-proposal!

M2 'Osprey' Rifle
A bolt-action rifle fed from a 10-round detachable box magazine built purely for long-range engagements, and able to do it well thanks to the improved scope. It has an iron sight adjustable to 1 kilometer, and a rail mount for a telescopic sight. This sight has adjustment controls for focus, windage, and parallax. Magnification can be adjusted by turning a knob that moves an adjustment lens closer or farther from the eyepiece. Also comes standard with an integral folding bipod to improve the weapon's stability and accuracy.

Oh, you wanted a regular mag instead? Sure, whatevs.

[evilcherry]

Both are good weapons.

Fix the Bumblebee perhaps? or throw another bunch of good money at the recoilless rifle?

[Happerry]

Anyone wanna revise up a version of the Struunk with a Flamethrower for jungle operations?

[heydude6]

I'm pretty sure we agreed on making the armour cheaper.

[evilcherry]

Anyone wanna revise up a version of the Struunk with a Flamethrower for jungle operations?

Simply put no.

But then we seriously need to improve our light tank/armored car/IFV line.

[Baffler]

I'm not convinced making the armor cheaper is worth the revision, at least not on its own, given our already significant investment into infantry this turn. How about a light tank able to outmaneuver their vehicles, or a PaK clone? Or maybe we could dial up the ambition and try to get an APC from our tiger (the truck,) or a self propelled, SU76-esque gun?

[Taricus]

I'd prefer a 6-inch gun for wiping out whatever they have. Make it a gun howitzer and supply it with AP shells and it'd be pretty good.

And for the revision, it's going to be primarily infantry based because we have no issues that revising a vehicle can solve. And anything a vehicle can solve, is something we'll need a design phase for. Hence, revising the armour. That stuff has already proved it's worth, and while I doubt we can make it cheaper, we can try making it be so that it isn't complex.

Either that, or revising our scopes to be cheaper so we get a massive swing in regards to the mountains, and help out our ailing armour as well.

[evilcherry]

Another thing to throw good money on!

Model A4 "Attack Yellowjacket"

More of a partial redesign than a revision, this attack/CAS aircraft uses an enlarged fuselage and wings over the yellowjacket powerplant. Armament is the usual fare of Stallions, or augmented/replaced by a bomb load.

[Kashyyk]

My reasons for voting for the armour.

1) Sensei explicitly said that this armour makes our troops almost immune to bullets.
2) Having bulletproof soldiers will allow them to get close enough to the Rpg troopers in the mountains to stop them killing our vehicles.  This will help us take back the mountains.
3) In the city and the jungle we are mainly facing CQC, another situation our armour excels at.

[Ghazkull]

Yup armour revision to make it cheaper and more common or alternatively revision of our epic tanks to make them cheaper and more common.