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Kashyyk

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Arms Race - 1784: British Loyalist Design Phase
« on: December 30, 2015, 08:54:33 pm »

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Greeting Engineers. As I'm sure you observed, he who controls the sea, controls who can invade whom. However, just because we can land troops with impunity, does not mean they will take ground. Our forces are still behind in the land battle. This needs to be rectified.

We were also unsuccessful in stealing the “Combe Mini-cannon” design. I trust you will be able to handle this set back.
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Re: Arms Race - 1783: British Loyalist Design Phase
« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2015, 09:13:50 pm »

 No pucklegun? Ahwell.

 Also, looking at it, mas-produced sidearms may be useful, artillery is needed, and we may want a new ship... We could also finish work on our new rifle.

 Oh, whats our tradegood? Coffee? Tea? Watercress?
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Re: Arms Race - 1783: British Loyalist Design Phase
« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2015, 09:19:13 pm »

Posting to watch new thread, need to read what happened.
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Re: Arms Race - 1783: British Loyalist Design Phase
« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2015, 10:53:34 pm »

We need some easy way to overcome the fact they push us away every damn time.
Not a direct resolution but should totally make hand grenades for our glorious BRITISH GRENADIERS.
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Re: Arms Race - 1783: British Loyalist Design Phase
« Reply #4 on: December 30, 2015, 10:57:15 pm »

 Really, I wonder why we dont have them...

 Probably for the same reason why we almost didn't have gunpowder.
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Re: Arms Race - 1783: British Loyalist Design Phase
« Reply #5 on: December 30, 2015, 11:00:40 pm »

Well, I might be biased but seriously, last time the grenades were the most versatile thing Arstotzka ever got, so we should totally go for it.
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Re: Arms Race - 1783: British Loyalist Design Phase
« Reply #6 on: December 30, 2015, 11:03:17 pm »

 Dident we use them as bombs at one point? Or did we develop bombs first?
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« Reply #7 on: December 30, 2015, 11:22:43 pm »

I support grenades, I don't think we have developed bombs yet but that would work too.  We should also think about improving our navy or just rebuilding it.

Also trade good, I'm thinking something like oysters or some other aquatic thing since we have full access to all the best locations.
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Re: Arms Race - 1783: British Loyalist Design Phase
« Reply #8 on: December 30, 2015, 11:41:21 pm »

actually, I am worried about the situation in the sea.
atterton's steam ship is now actually decent ad the only reason we won so easily is that we greatly outrange them. Maybe it is time to get a steamship of our own.
Or, instead, we could try to develope cannons able to fire explosive shells safely. Forgot the name. against steamships they should be even more effective, since they are more explodey than normal ships.

by the way, has our rifle become cheaper, or will a reduction in complexity take longer?

depending on the answer, for the revision we could try once again to fix it. widespread rifles would be of great help in holding ground I feel. Or we could try to get another resource.

edit: dunwich also gained a quite great artillery piece, robbing us of advantage in that field. That is bad.
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Re: Arms Race - 1783: British Loyalist Design Phase
« Reply #9 on: December 30, 2015, 11:46:43 pm »

I support grenades, I don't think we have developed bombs yet but that would work too.  We should also think about improving our navy or just rebuilding it.

Also trade good, I'm thinking something like oysters or some other aquatic thing since we have full access to all the best locations.
Pearls?
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« Reply #10 on: December 31, 2015, 01:09:14 am »

Coral perhaps?
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« Reply #11 on: December 31, 2015, 03:16:27 am »

Well, one benefit is that next turn we will deploy the Pirate Jaeger. While much smaller than our other warship, it's far more maneuverable, which should be a great help against the enemies Mullard. Their steam ship is a paddle ship, which means that it has a terrible turn radius. Yes, it can sail against the wind, but it can only do that slowly. In addition, paddle wheels are quite big and easy targets.

On that note, the Atterton's appear to have developed some kind of railroad network, so they might be able to bring additional resources to bear. I highly doubt though, that their ships are cheaper than ours, thus they won't be able to get them cheaper.

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The efforts of our scouts were much more successful this year.  They had managed to steal the plans of the AM-R-II 12 Pound Howit from the palace of the Monarchy itself.  They likely did not notice it missing during the time it took for our scouts to copy down the plans and then replant the originals.  The addition of the case and low yield explosive shots should prove useful to our efforts when we land upon the isle proper.

We know the events in the American colonies are a bit distressing, but continue with your work.  We must not allow the disasters that are occurring there to happen here.

We should have the AM-R-12 Pound Howitzer. We stole it last turn. That should have given us an advantage in artillery, though I'm not sure it would have won us the invasion. On the other hand, that cannon seems to have worked for the Monarchy, so ...
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Re: Arms Race - 1783: British Loyalist Design Phase
« Reply #12 on: December 31, 2015, 03:24:19 am »

 It looks like they have steam locomotives. Interesting.

 Also, Kashyyk, what about privateers? Can we take enemy shipping, and thus get their imported material?
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Re: Arms Race - 1783: British Loyalist Design Phase
« Reply #13 on: December 31, 2015, 03:30:44 am »


We totally can steal other player's resources, if we maintain control of the seas.
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Re: Arms Race - 1783: British Loyalist Design Phase
« Reply #14 on: December 31, 2015, 03:31:19 am »

Ah, missed the last sentence.
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