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[Zanzetkuken The Great]

May want to put a bit of work on creating your flag while you are waiting for the turn.  I apologize if I am being too insistent, but I really want to introduce the propaganda office mechanic on this coming turn, and I did state that I would be waiting on your flag to be made before I put that in.

[Sheb]

I might do a flag if no one else does it... IT'll wait for tomorrow though.

[RAM]

Well I possess no art skills and am allergic to uploading images, so... Go team!

[Funk]

Spoiler: Thunderbolt dart rife mk1 (click to show/hide)

The Thunderbolt dart rife consistes of 2 parts, a adapted Victoria II Air Rifle, and the explosive Thunderbolt.

The adapted Victoria II is bigger than stranded takeing a .70 ball also the magazine is removed converting the rifle to top a muzzle loader.
It's valves are adapted to use more air to counter the heavier shot.
The dart has a long wood shaft that fits in the barrel, The tip with a short cast iron head containing the gunpowder charge.
The head has a trio of stiff leather flights help guide it and a pair of slow match fuses to give a safe time delay to the gunpowder.
The dart weights 2lb loaded.

By using a custom launcher we remove the risk that the dart fired from the less powerfull rifles.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

I might do a flag if no one else does it... IT'll wait for tomorrow though.

What design are you thinking of, by the way?

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

A Message from the Dunwich Military Council to the National Development Force, March 18, 1780

Your designs have done splendid in crushing our foes at Fort Coombe, but the casualty count was grave.  If that was a great victory, we cannot have too many more of these great victories without losing our army.  With reports coming in of what was fielded by Fort Alton and the Monarchy, much less the Loyalists, there are some who are concerned with our progression in regards to them.  While the Whateley Pistol had managed to prove itself upon the battlefield, members of the council do request you do something about our current lack on the Artillery Front.  We trust that you will provide us with something useful.

In regards to the results of our attempt to take from the Loyalists, we were met with success in capturing the designs of how they made the wagonways.  There are some apparent problems with the system on curves and at high speeds, so we will be forced to keep them out of the mountains, but our production lines elsewhere will be improved, implementation planned over the next year.  Furthermore, while being unable to get any of their carbines, we have managed to gain enough copies of the Fort Coombe Pickle Gun that we are able to compile a design that we could use.  Both may prove useful to our future efforts if applied properly.

Let us both hope your next designs are better this year than in the last.


Begin 1782 Design Phase

[RAM]

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Pickle Howitzer?

[Baffler]

I have something in the works, but I might not be able to finish it today. If someone else comes up with something before then that's fine with me, I really just want to get things moving.

Just make sure to get something up soon.

Does this work for everyone?

Spoiler: Flag (click to show/hide)

The curved text took twice as much time to get right as the whole rest of the flag combined, and it's definitely not a ripoff of the Imperial Portuguese flag.

[Funk]

Just so it's submitted,

Spoiler: Thunderbolt dart rife mk1 (click to show/hide)

The Thunderbolt dart rife consists of 2 parts, a adapted Victoria II Air Rifle, and the explosive Thunderbolt.

The adapted Victoria II is bigger than stranded takeing a .70 ball also the magazine is removed converting the rifle to top a muzzle loader.
It's valves are adapted to use more air to counter the heavier shot.
The dart has a long wood shaft that fits in the barrel, The tip with a short cast iron head containing the gunpowder charge.
The head has a trio of stiff leather flights help guide it and a pair of slow match fuses to give a safe time delay to the gunpowder.
The dart weights 2lb loaded.

By using a custom launcher we remove the risk that the dart fired from the less powerfull rifles.

...

Pickle Howitzer?

So some kind of light revolver cannon? use the same darts as the Thunderbolt dart rife above?

I have something in the works, but I might not be able to finish it today. If someone else comes up with something before then that's fine with me, I really just want to get things moving.

Just make sure to get something up soon.

Does this work for everyone?

Spoiler: Flag (click to show/hide)

The curved text took twice as much time to get right as the whole rest of the flag combined, and it's definitely not a ripoff of the Imperial Portuguese flag.

+1 to that flag

[Playergamer]

We need some simple, effective heavy artillery.

Spoiler: Libertat Field Gun (click to show/hide)

A 12-pounder, smoothbore cannon, with a barrel approximately 7 and a half feet long. A well-trained crew can fire approximately once per minute, with an effective range between 900 and 1000 yards. It can also fire canister shot, at approximately 80% of the round shot's effective range. The gun requires six horses to pull it, and is crewed by fifteen men.

I doubt the armies on this island have hundreds of guns each, so, even if this is a national effort, it'll still be able to do some serious damage.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

It can also fire canister shot, at approximately 80% of the round shot's effective range.

You can just state that it is able to use Dunwich Cannister Shot.

The curved text took twice as much time to get right as the whole rest of the flag combined, and it's definitely not a ripoff of the Imperial Portuguese flag.

Wow.

I'll put the flag up in the OP if it is agreed to.

[RAM]

+1 thunderbolt dart rifle mk.1.

Probably best to do the dart rifle, it lacks range, but, well, is awesome. We really do need range though. And yes, some sort of revolver cannon. It would require a fairly light round, as far as cannons go, but we could probably manage 6 pounds, just not any more than that, although maybe four would be more sensible. I imagine that it would have relatively low power, due to not being cast as a single piece, and the rate of fire would probably be only slightly improved, and even that would require using all of the chambers(probably three) which would be a downside because... In an emergency you could fire in very(for a cannon) quick succession. It would mostly be a defensive piece, used to deliver unparalleled canister barrages against assaults, but if it could be moved while loaded it would be able to provide a burst of fire to secure its posting after being repositioned. If it worked well it might even be possible to upscale it to a prestige piece, the same drawbacks would apply, making it a pain to upscale, but the ability to temporarily increase the effective count of guns could make accoutrements(such as longer barrels, rifled barrels, custom reloading platforms, crew armour, aiming winches...) more practical.

But for now, cavalry with R.P.G.s should hold us together for the short-term.

P.S.
 I think that the G.M. took pity on the automatic pistol and made it awesome, it should be simple enough to revise it to be at least vaguely safe.

P.P.S.
 the other fort stole my shield idea, I must be avenged!

P.P.P.S.
 did anyone else get a "landing ship" vibe from the loyalists? It is a good thing that we didn't fight a long and bitter war to gain extensive swathes of coastline with them...

P.P.P.S.P.S.
 Actually, the dart rifle would probably be very useful against a landing, moreso than comparatively slow artillery pieces.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

How about a dedicated cheap boarding vessel? Looks like we are rather ahead in close combat to try win against enemy navy by zerg rushing?

Something like

A nimble ship armed with 1 6 pounder and several Coombe mini-Cannon. Built for a low cost speed and boarding enemy vessels. Can be used in most rivers for fire support
?

[Sheb]

I don't think ship are an issue. Even if the Loyalists target us, they'll probably need a turn to take over the rest of the sea... And we are much stronger than them on land.

So we are doing more than decently with infantry (our Victorias should be cheap next turn). Our cavalry is a bit behind, I think a Victoria carbines might be a good idea.

Our artillery is weak though. Why don't we leverage our understanding of compressed air to create a dynamite gun?

[Ukrainian Ranger]

I am not a fan of trying 1880 year tech that early... Besides we have no dynamite to fire

I like the idea of 12 pounder now, when we have more ore.... But I have a counter offer.
My offer and vote goes to:

Sharpshooter 6 pounder gun
Long barrelled sturdy gun that is two times heavier than standard 6 pounder. Confederacy uses all its experience in compressed air to build a reinforced chamber that can tolerate larger amount of gunpowder than any other cannon. Main priorities of the gun is range and accuracy with 1000 yards being a max range and enough accuracy at 750 yards to reliably hit a moving ship. Being heavy it is meant to be used as coastal or siege artillery piece


And yet I think that ignoring navy will bite us in the ass. Can we consider revising gunboats to be cheaper and more boarding friendly?