gunin suggested rocket artillery a while ago, but i don't think we'll particularly need it what with our new arty inbound to their positions
i also want to bring up the idea of the giant, capitol-bombing airplane that i want to see happen
Which is a giant target for their AA.
we could also use the second design phase to make our new tank cheaper, equal to putting in two revise phases, if i read the mechanics right and proper
We have a main battle tank- at least, a good IFV, more akin to BMDs than tanks, but nevertheless some form of armored cavalry. We are designing the Breaker, so this front should be well covered for the moment. They should be designing a even more badass tank to counter our threat, but well.
mbt as a concept wasn't a thing until after ww2
True but they will be going for a bigger gun. Its moving to the MBT route quickly (any note that it took only 6-8 years for the concept to form, due to the lack of investment beforehand)
if you want to go balls deep with armored cavalry, let's do helicopters
Its even more ahead of time.
I feel the revision should go to the Wasp. For some reason, their chain of hyphens got much better performance, even it don't look particularly maneuverable as drawn. We need a revision to restore some parity.
I too believe the Stallion needs urgent revision, or redesign. It has been firing a round which has become a relic of a bygone age, and to counter their MG threat we have to design a more badass MG.
the wasp is okay mostly, i'd agree on a revision but we need to cut off production of our older planes in production phase and focus on pushing out the wasp and derivatives
stallion needed revision since before it hit the front lines (the slow turn rate made it bad at holding trenches well, and some armor would help against arstotzkans sniping the crew away)
Mustang Machine Gun: A Machine gun designed for a 4-men team, one carrying the gun, one carrying the mount, and the other two carrying ammo in belt form. It fires a .601 cal round, which is actually .60 but named so to remove confusion with similarly gauged ammo. Despite the similar caliber, it is in every way a modernized round rather than the .60 "horsekiller" which is an updated relic of a bygone age. It utilizes a bolt system not dissimilar to the Brumby, but we should have accumulated enough knowledge to make MGs no longer complicated. It also has a selective fire mode and in theory it can act as a makeshift sniper rifle in single shot.
Alternatively, it can also act as a vehicular autocannon, but as it cycles using its own gas there should be no need of a complicated motor assembly.
how exactly do you modernize a round, make it more aerodynamic?
Feeding mechanisms and rims, higher pressure for a higher velocity, or maybe making AP shells for it. Definitely, though, to get rid of its black powder heritage.
and snipers are by design meant to be stealthy, our uniforms are unstealthy as hell much less four such uniforms with mg on top
Ever heard of those 2000+ yard kills by M2 wielding soldiers? A single shot mode is provided, that's all.
vehicular autocannon is good, i'm okay with this, but historically a gas-operated autocannon has been harder to design than a motor-operated (it was better than motor though, spun up far faster - makes it great for aerial combat)
Yes, but we NEED a man portable HMG/Autocannon NOW. We are losing on this front horribly.
also, it would be great for us if we spent a design or revision phase doing theoreticals (science mostly - nuclear, electronics, if we focus enough we can get transistors before 1940 and transistors would revolutionize pretty much every vehicle we have)
Except this is a real luxury. I'm not sure if everyone is happy with ceding ground for a better push later.
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