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[Sensei]

Big rock?

Mostly, yeah. It represents a lot of mining effort to carve out a megalith like that. And it has metal bits.

[Kashyyk]

We were kinda hoping for it to not cost ore to be honest.

Anyway, revision time. What shall we use it on? reducing the ore cost of the Tiger Armour?

[Sheb]

Make a wooden version of your big boulder?

[Devastator]

Losing can be fun.  It could be spectacular, such as the chaotic breakdown of a highly-organized system.  It could be co-operative, such as it being part of a gripping drama or a necessary position, such as a play or a heel.  It could be fulfilling, such as the end of a glorious, we'll-matched contest, or at the hands of a demonstration of beauty and brilliance.

This, well, wasn't any of those.  It was a more ordinary sort of failure, drawn out and painful, with little going for it save too much effort and forlorn hope.

Even right now, people are proclaiming this the best turn ever, and my mind is going 'if only we made a battleship..'  We would have still lost, but we wouldn't have made yet another ineffective, ill-conceived device that fails at even being a good joke object.

It's like, I don't know, watching people protest GMOs.  You see a lot of people thoroughly enjoying themselves, but behind it all is a firm reminder that the people having fun are living in a different world than you, and in that world you have no place.

[Kashyyk]

Make a wooden version of your big boulder?

I get the feeling that'll stop it from being effective in any way.

[andrea]

be creative, find ways to add weight that aren't a big, solid, single piece boulder which is hard to find, move and work with.

( I know I shouldn't be here and usually I don't read the latest turns in this thread, but we finished our turn and... well, this turn is this turn, with all its absurd designs ( those who poke in our thread will know). Besides, our front lines are so advanced that our soldiers can just hear you talking )

[Kashyyk]

It's true, I have to throw rocks at them every now and again to stop them reading the design boards.

On the theme of other ways to make it heavy (so totally my idea and not taken from any Arstotzkans), we could make the boulder out of wood reinforced with steel, but fill the non-gyroscopic parts with gravel or something.

[Sheb]

Why not a big wooden barrel that you fill with sands and smaller rocks? I have the impression that the issue is largely due to the huge amount of labour involved in sculpting the boulder.

Edit: Ninja

[Playergamer]

Lower the expense of the Indy Boulder to VE.

If we can do that somehow, we can then spend our expense credit on it and win the game.

[andrea]

make it out of concrete? seems more modern.And can be cast in the right shape. Although I am not sure why I am designing for you.

[Sheb]

Oh, yeah, reinforced concrete should be nice no?

[Kashyyk]

Although I am not sure why I am designing for you.

Because you want to see how effective this will actually be. Maybe if all your soldiers are laughing too much they won't notice all the sniper support.

[andrea]

but, have you seen what we designed? your snipers will be too busy looking at that to snipe anything.

Interesting turn. Your design screams desperation to use anything to stop the invading army ( and seems like it would be reasonably effective in ambushes at least, if concrete makes it cheaper). Our design screams incalculable hubris. Overall, the game just took a turn off the rails ( take a guess at what destroyed the rails ) in an hilarious way. Can't wait to see combat reports.

[Sheb]

To be honest, our design is a semi-rational response to the fact that the game mechanics prevent us from establishing airfields anywhere to support our planes.

[andrea]

rational goal, irrational awesome solution. But we should not give too many details here for the sake of those who haven't witnesses our glory yet.