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Author Topic: Arms Race, Moskurg: 1935 Production  (Read 99511 times)

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Re: Arms Race, Moskurg: 1935 Design
« Reply #1950 on: September 11, 2015, 05:24:02 pm »

This is a a national effort joke, Please take it seriously.

The Death Ball

What happens when you strap rockets and a gyroscope to a boulder? You get the death ball. The Death Ball is a giant boulder (about 3 stories tall) that is designed to roll over all Arztoskan infantry, and tanks, and trees, and landmines, and snipers, and officers, buildings,  and factories. The rockets propel it forward and then we just hope it works. The gyroscopes make sure that it keeps getting propelled forward as well as prevent it from sinking in the ground So about steering it? The answer is simple, fire another one; just more accurately.

The first Moskurg weapon that has no real life equivalent (except the Indiana Jones boulder trap). Desperation always breeds creative ingenuity.

I will be interested in seeing how effective it is. If it works, let's spend our expense credit on it.


On the bright side, this thing predominately uses oil rather than ore. It might not even be a national effort. If so, then definitely use our expense credit on it.
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Re: Arms Race, Moskurg: 1935 Design
« Reply #1951 on: September 11, 2015, 05:42:29 pm »

This is a a national effort joke, Please take it seriously.

The Death Ball

What happens when you strap rockets and a gyroscope to a boulder? You get the death ball. The Death Ball is a giant boulder (about 3 stories tall) that is designed to roll over all Arztoskan infantry, and tanks, and trees, and landmines, and snipers, and officers, buildings,  and factories. The rockets propel it forward and then we just hope it works. The gyroscopes make sure that it keeps getting propelled forward as well as prevent it from sinking in the ground So about steering it? The answer is simple, fire another one; just more accurately.

The first Moskurg weapon that has no real life equivalent (except the Indiana Jones boulder trap). Desperation always breeds creative ingenuity.

I will be interested in seeing how effective it is. If it works, let's spend our expense credit on it.


On the bright side, this thing predominately uses oil rather than ore. It might not even be a national effort. If so, then definitely use our expense credit on it.
Dear god. This....this is genius.

+1.
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Re: Arms Race, Moskurg: 1935 Design
« Reply #1952 on: September 11, 2015, 05:47:07 pm »

It's absolutely beautiful.
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Re: Arms Race, Moskurg: 1935 Design
« Reply #1953 on: September 11, 2015, 05:50:42 pm »

Historically, Germany Britain (I always assume it's Germany with the ridiculous wunderwaffe) actually tried to do that, but on a smaller scale.



So, it actually does have a real world equivalent.
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Re: Arms Race, Moskurg: 1935 Design
« Reply #1954 on: September 11, 2015, 07:21:11 pm »

Historically, Germany Britain (I always assume it's Germany with the ridiculous wunderwaffe) actually tried to do that, but on a smaller scale.



So, it actually does have a real world equivalent.

"Not to be removed" indeed.

Edit: On the topic of ridiculous hailmary wunderwaffen, we could also try to build a helicopter. We'd only technically be ahead of the game by a single year, and we could totally mount a rhino/hippo or stallion/brumby on it.
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Re: Arms Race, Moskurg: 1935 Design
« Reply #1955 on: September 11, 2015, 08:34:40 pm »

This is a a national effort joke, Please take it seriously.

The Death Ball

What happens when you strap rockets and a gyroscope to a boulder? You get the death ball. The Death Ball is a giant boulder (about 3 stories tall) that is designed to roll over all Arztoskan infantry, and tanks, and trees, and landmines, and snipers, and officers, buildings,  and factories. The rockets propel it forward and then we just hope it works. The gyroscopes make sure that it keeps getting propelled forward as well as prevent it from sinking in the ground So about steering it? The answer is simple, fire another one; just more accurately.

The first Moskurg weapon that has no real life equivalent (except the Indiana Jones boulder trap). Desperation always breeds creative ingenuity.

I will be interested in seeing how effective it is. If it works, let's spend our expense credit on it.


On the bright side, this thing predominately uses oil rather than ore. It might not even be a national effort. If so, then definitely use our expense credit on it.
Dear god. This....this is genius.

+1.

+1.

Hail Mary.

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Re: Arms Race, Moskurg: 1935 Design
« Reply #1956 on: September 11, 2015, 08:38:52 pm »

This is a a national effort joke, Please take it seriously.

The Death Ball

What happens when you strap rockets and a gyroscope to a boulder? You get the death ball. The Death Ball is a giant boulder (about 3 stories tall) that is designed to roll over all Arztoskan infantry, and tanks, and trees, and landmines, and snipers, and officers, buildings,  and factories. The rockets propel it forward and then we just hope it works. The gyroscopes make sure that it keeps getting propelled forward as well as prevent it from sinking in the ground So about steering it? The answer is simple, fire another one; just more accurately.

The first Moskurg weapon that has no real life equivalent (except the Indiana Jones boulder trap). Desperation always breeds creative ingenuity.

I will be interested in seeing how effective it is. If it works, let's spend our expense credit on it.


On the bright side, this thing predominately uses oil rather than ore. It might not even be a national effort. If so, then definitely use our expense credit on it.
Dear god. This....this is genius.

+1.

+1.

Hail Mary.

+1. This should be good.
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Re: Arms Race, Moskurg: 1935 Design
« Reply #1957 on: September 11, 2015, 08:51:50 pm »

We're screwed anyway. Why the hell not. +1
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Re: Arms Race, Moskurg: 1935 Design
« Reply #1958 on: September 11, 2015, 09:28:55 pm »

+1.
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Re: Arms Race, Moskurg: 1935 Design
« Reply #1959 on: September 12, 2015, 03:02:41 am »

I am sitting now in my chair, staring at a pair of dice on my desk which have a wry sense of humor. A one in thirty-six chance, and they use it on this? Truly, the random number god is fickle.

The Death Ball: A 30-foot boulder, on two equally large steel wheels, which themselves are lined with rockets to propel it. The boulder is hewn smooth and round, and hollowed by stoneworkers (in 1935!) to support a stabilizing gyroscope. It can reliably roll in something resembling a straight line thanks to its gyroscope, although large moguls or divots will send it wildly off course. For the ten seconds or so it keeps to speed, it can crush a tank hull. In fact the most difficult thing about its use is moving it around before firing it. It, or the boulder from it is constructed, is too large to move around on a truck, so it is instead dragged on a sled by several trucks, in a modern mechanized method which resembles the way in which ancient people moved stone megaliths. Once hewn into shape and given their gyro, chassis and rockets, they are generally not moved, but kept in place and rotated to aim. Costs 6 ore, 2 oil, and can only be deployed in areas with flat land access to a stone quarry.

Gained some ridiculous bullshit technology.
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Re: Arms Race, Moskurg: 1935 BC Revision
« Reply #1960 on: September 12, 2015, 03:27:11 am »

Congratulations, you made a NE that happens to be as cheap as something can be while still being a NE.  It's entirely fitting with the performance of the team for the entire game.
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Re: Arms Race, Moskurg: 1935 BC Revision
« Reply #1961 on: September 12, 2015, 03:52:11 am »

Congratulations, you made a NE that happens to be as cheap as something can be while still being a NE.  It's entirely fitting with the performance of the team for the entire game.
Damn dude, lighten up. Didn't anyone ever tell you that losing is fun?
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Re: Arms Race, Moskurg: 1935 BC Revision
« Reply #1962 on: September 12, 2015, 05:23:53 am »

This turn is the best turn yet. :p
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Re: Arms Race, Moskurg: 1935 BC Revision
« Reply #1963 on: September 12, 2015, 05:24:32 am »

I'm curious, why is it 6 ore?
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Re: Arms Race, Moskurg: 1935 BC Revision
« Reply #1964 on: September 12, 2015, 05:47:07 am »

Big rock?
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