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[LordSlowpoke]

Try to make the radio smaller. It needs to be man-portable, not cart-portable..

+1

[Parsely]

((Its really hard to keep up with the situation on a phone for 4 days.))

A few things there.

1. I can't understand our obsession on the grenade here, though it has a use. Its too defensive and risky to be used as an aggressive weapon.
2. The SPAT actually isn't bad. If we got better armour and have twice as much power driving it, this will be a very, very respectable main battle tank. Also as one might suggest, the SPAT has to work alongside struunks to work to their advantage.
The Arstotzkaian steam tank is, frankly speaking, shit. If we can run around them and hit them in the side or in the back, they are just sitting ducks.
3. Their main advantage is not the tank, but their brand new .35 cal SMG.

^^This so much

+1 to radio revision.

[Happerry]

Next design phase we might want to look into pump action shotguns to replace our current two shot breachloaders.

Personally, my wish for Grenades is less to have grenades in specific, though they should be pretty useful, but for practice for both RPGs and Grenade Launchers, both of which could be very very useful. (And if we end up making a fragmentation grenade, that probably counts as practice for fragmentation artillery shells.)

[Sensei]

You engineers set to work on making a better radio. Random.org is possibly allied with Arstotzka.

Model 2 Radio: This new radio is battery powered, and a bit smaller- it fits onto a wheelbarrow-like carriage which can be moved by a man. It takes two operators, and still requires frequent hand-cranking, but it can at least be fit into a trench. Has a four foot radio mast. Transmits and receives Morse code. It is Expensive due to its complexity and requires 2 ore.

[Iituem]

CURSE YOU, RANDOM NUMBER GODS!!!

[Parsely]

hhhhhhhhhhnnnggggrtnriuwvnevniu

[Devastator]

1. I can't understand our obsession on the grenade here, though it has a use. Its too defensive and risky to be used as an aggressive weapon.

I'd just like to point out that the enemy is heavy with man-portable machine guns and mortars.  Grenades are how you deal with such things.  They're very much offensive weapons.

[Parsely]

Why would grenades let you deal with mortars? They're indirect, back of the line weapons.

Machine guns kill soldiers who try to rush them. Grenades let you soften up entrenched enemies, but only if you can get close. They're not a hard counter as evidenced by WW1 trench designs; in a proper trench or bunker you would have a grenade sump that you kick enemy grenades into, which means that grenades are never 100% effective against an entrenched enemy.

[evilcherry]

1. I can't understand our obsession on the grenade here, though it has a use. Its too defensive and risky to be used as an aggressive weapon.

I'd just like to point out that the enemy is heavy with man-portable machine guns and mortars.  Grenades are how you deal with such things.  They're very much offensive weapons.

Mortars are best dealt with... mortars. Well the Mortar is, for all purposes and intent, a large launched grenade.

Spoiler: "Anti-coward Quickfire Mortar, for future rounds" (click to show/hide)

Caliber: 3" (nominal)
Barrel Length: 4'6"

Description:
A tube with a firing pin attached fixed on the bottom facing the inside of the barrel. Opposite this pin is a screw peg, used to fine-tune the elevation, and ends on a screw socket welded in the middle of a steel bar, designed to fit on a ratcheted baseplate. The front of the tube has two hinges which in turn rests on a pair of a-framed legs, which can be fitted on the baseplate. An integral simple clinometer provides the tube elevation.

Its fires a type of field-modifable compound ammunition, which consists of the actual shell, pre-measured bags of propellant, and a outer shell primed on the bottom. The primer is designed to fire upon percussion by a pin, which is not coincidentally matched by the pin on the tube, so one can just drop in the projectile and it will fire as soon as it dropped to the bottom. By referring to a table of propellants and elevation, one can find out the exact configuration to be used against a target of a specific distance away.

By default this boy fires HE or shrapnel shells, but it can also be used for delivery of other ordnance as long as its stable enough to survive the firing.

Best used against cowards cowering in trenches.

[Devastator]

Why would grenades let you deal with mortars? They're indirect, back of the line weapons.

Machine guns kill soldiers who try to rush them. Grenades let you soften up entrenched enemies, but only if you can get close.

Like, say, if you're fighting in a jungle or a mountainous area?

I'd recommend working on stuff that's useful everywhere, rather than only one one, limited section of the war.

[evilcherry]

Why would grenades let you deal with mortars? They're indirect, back of the line weapons.

Machine guns kill soldiers who try to rush them. Grenades let you soften up entrenched enemies, but only if you can get close.

Like, say, if you're fighting in a jungle or a mountainous area?

I'd recommend working on stuff that's useful everywhere, rather than only one one, limited section of the war.

'nades are good utility weapons, but they are just ill-suited to take out a tank at range.

[Iituem]

Any particular production orders, guys?  Beyond 'put radios into production, try and shove some into a spare seat in the Struunks if nothing else'.

[Taricus]

Also slap some onto the SPAT and some observation outposts? That'll let us call in artillery more accurately.

[Sensei]

Any particular production orders, guys?  Beyond 'put radios into production, try and shove some into a spare seat in the Struunks if nothing else'.

Remember you don't need to give production orders, although I'll try to implement any that seem important. Production Phase isn't a real phase, it's the downtime while I haven't yet written the battle report.

You have gained the following stolen blueprint thanks to Agent Tiger Fucker:
-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. It is produced in metric measurements, which makes it Very Expensive.

[Devastator]

'nades are good utility weapons, but they are just ill-suited to take out a tank at range.

They're also not web-shooters, and do not catch crooks like flies.

Anyway, I don't understand the opposition to allowing soldiers to throw bombs at the enemy.  If the only thing that matters is anti-tank capability, rifle grenades, PIATs or bazookas would be the natural follow-up to small explosives, and could then be done next year.

I'd also suggest using the spy to delay them another year from grabbing the plains resources.