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[Sensei]

With our resource woes taken care of, we should be able to start pushing forwards now.

Anyone think we should try to invent a proper sniper rifle? Also, Sensei, is developing encrypted radios a design action or a revision action?

Espionage. Unless maybe you're building a more permanent encoding machine.

[Devastator]

Looks like that's it, then.  Surrender?

Moskurg High Command would like to gently remind you that any further use of the S-word may result in a court marshal.

Just do it already, then.  I don't have the required support of my fellow officers, which is necessary to make a difference in the war effort.  Put it to them and see what happens.

On second thought, I'll just quit.  This is a sweet game, but you guys were losing badly on your own, you can continue to lose without my support.

[Kashyyk]

Screw it. Let's build an enigma machine.

[evilcherry]

((I thought of Ammo for the Rhino... anyway.))
(The codebreaking is definitely a spy action)

Just throwing out ideas.

Bearbreaker .61cal AMR
This scoped rifle is chambered in a new Bearbreaker .61 round, which is a .60 with a more propelling charge, and a wider variety of ammo like the newly developed AP and APHE. Having a barrel length of at least 30 inches, it is designed for a team of 2 or 3 (each will retain a pistol or SMG for self defense) to pick out machine gun nests and SPGs from afar.

Bearkiller .60cal Sniper Rifle
This scoped rifle uses the same old .60 cal, making it capable of firing the ammo of the Stallion. It is designed for lone soldiers wearing our brand new camo to kill off high-value personnel from afar.

Bearsmasher .30cal DMR
This scoped rifle uses the .30 cal, and is in some sense, a sibling of the MK-47. It can fit the magazine of the MK-47, and retains some of the automatic action, though only to cycle rounds, making it essentially a semi-auto. More importantly, there is a bolt lock equipped, so the rifle can be used as a bolt-lock if needed.

Dashbreaker 1.5" Autocannon
This gun is another development of the Bolt action system of the Cascade, and fires a new, large, and high velocity round of 1.5 in caliber, at a high rate of fire. Barrel length should be at least 60 calibers. Designed with water-cooling and belt-fed for AA versions, or as an alternative tank gun, air-cooled and speedloaded.

"Stronk" 4" Cannon
Because our T2s needed something more substantial. Long-barrel gun, designed to defeat armor at range, or, with Shrapnel shells, an AA gun.

[Happerry]

Screw it. Let's build an enigma machine.

I don't know about that, but some form of advanced radio that keeps them from hearing our messages seems called for.

[evilcherry]

Screw it. Let's build an enigma machine.

I don't know about that, but some form of advanced radio that keeps them from hearing our messages seems called for.

This will be very hard without some form of semiconductor technology. Of course we can make use of enigma machines but they are not very useful on the tactical level.

[Parsely]

This will be very hard without some form of semiconductor technology. Of course we can make use of enigma machines but they are not very useful on the tactical level.

An enigma machine is no more complicated, from an electrical engineering standpoint, than a portable radio. And there will be no time for tactics if we have no strategic advantage to speak of because enemy knows exactly where, when, and how we're going to be across all fronts.

NCOs are, by definition, not commanders, so they should only be identified by a different camouflage.

That's a really awesome way to get your officers killed by snipers. No: DON'T give your officers special weapons (officers in the American Army during WW2 were known to carry SMGs and this helped snipers identify them), DON'T give your officers special insignia, clothes, or hats.

[heydude6]

I vote for optics now. This will give us a huge advantage in the mountains and it will give our tanks the chance to out range the tank destroyers .

It may also help in the war in the air.

[Parsely]

I vote for optics now. This will give us a huge advantage in the mountains and it will give our tanks the chance to out range the tank destroyers .

It may also help in the war in the air.

+1 to my Optics suggestion

[evilcherry]

This will be very hard without some form of semiconductor technology. Of course we can make use of enigma machines but they are not very useful on the tactical level.

An enigma machine is no more complicated, from an electrical engineering standpoint, than a portable radio. And there will be no time for tactics if we have no strategic advantage to speak of because enemy knows exactly where, when, and how we're going to be across all fronts.

NCOs are, by definition, not commanders, so they should only be identified by a different camouflage.

That's a really awesome way to get your officers killed by snipers. No: DON'T give your officers special weapons (officers in the American Army during WW2 were known to carry SMGs and this helped snipers identify them), DON'T give your officers special insignia, clothes, or hats.

An Enigma machine is of course not a complicated technology. Using an enigma machine at anything below company level needs superhuman ability.

[Parsely]

This will be very hard without some form of semiconductor technology. Of course we can make use of enigma machines but they are not very useful on the tactical level.

An enigma machine is no more complicated, from an electrical engineering standpoint, than a portable radio. And there will be no time for tactics if we have no strategic advantage to speak of because enemy knows exactly where, when, and how we're going to be across all fronts.

NCOs are, by definition, not commanders, so they should only be identified by a different camouflage.

That's a really awesome way to get your officers killed by snipers. No: DON'T give your officers special weapons (officers in the American Army during WW2 were known to carry SMGs and this helped snipers identify them), DON'T give your officers special insignia, clothes, or hats.

An Enigma machine is of course not a complicated technology.

Using an enigma machine at anything below company level needs superhuman ability.

You just claimed that it would be hard to make because of deficiencies in semiconductor technology.

Why would an analogue cypher machine ever replace our radios? If we want to encrypt squad-level communications, we should revise the existing radios to have encrypt/decrypt capability (its really simple; your radio garbles outgoing messages with noise, and you can only hear the message if your radio is tuned to wash out the same frequency of noise). The machine is supposed to be used to encrypt high-level military communications, such that they can't be intercepted even if your enemy guesses your radio frequency the hard way or obtains it through documents or prisoners. You'd only ever have the machines accompanying general staff. Those two things together would make communications as secure as reasonably possible.

[Sensei]

Optical sights have basically all the votes since the 1927 turn was posted, so optical sights it is.

Eagle Sight: A basic refractive telescopic sight for use on Moskurg rifles, machine guns (where they can benefit from a scope) and tanks alike. They can be manufactured for magnification between 1.5x and 4x, but the magnification cannot be adjusted. They must be custom-fitted onto weapons, and the precision required in lens manufacturing makes them Expensive. A sight can be adjusted with screws on the top and side, and must be sighted in regularly. The sights have small eye relief (one must put their eye very close to sight to see clearly) and are prone to "biting" when used on rifles, leaving a mark around a careless soldier's eye. They also have a pretty narrow field of view.

You've gain Telescopic Sights.

[Sensei]

Bump, for Moskurg glory.

[Happerry]

I vote to revise our radios into encrypted radios.

[heydude6]

I vote to revise our radios into encrypted radios.

+1, but into encrypted perfectly man-portable radios.