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[High tyrol]

Name:Ki-1 Sume-1952
Type:Submarine

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[Aseaheru]

 The heck is with that naming system? Thats not what we use...

 Also, which language? Google translate thinks its Romanian of all things.

[piratejoe]

We are going to do the classic arstotzkan New Guinean thing of adding numbers to names,also its 1 because its the first version of it and 1952 because that's the year it was made...

Ps removing the numbers makes a name of a character.

PPs im so happy people like my first idea,submarines are great nuke editions ho!

[Aseaheru]

So whats the Ki bit about? With the system we use, I would expect either NG-CS52, CS-52, or something similar.

* Aseaheru looks up the name

 Just... What the fuck does that have to do with A) this game, B) subs, or C) weapons in general?

[stabbymcstabstab]

Maybe we should design a radar unit? If they're going for air power having the ability to have a early warning system would greatly help us gain air superiority(See Battle of Britain.). beside then we could build AA guns equipped with radar which would drastically improve it's effectiveness.

[piratejoe]

* Aseaheru looks up the name

 Just... What the fuck does that have to do with A) this game, B) subs, or C) weapons in general?

Its just a name,jeez,how about i start nit picking on your name.

Edit Screw it im changing the name,happy now?

[piratejoe]

That will be useful but we wont be dealing with the feds till at least two turns(besides the use of subs),besides the two things we are making this turn are a sub and a AA it from what it seems at the moment,and how useful is a radar without AA or fighter aircraft,next turn i suggest we make a fighter and a large radar system,then fix the landing craft and make that damn non extant gun.

[Kot]

We need to make something rocket related to get them techs going, so when we actually face the other side, we will have stuff like AA missiles ready.

[piratejoe]

All i have to say is thank the goddesses we have a few turns to prepare for the feds,and they wont like our little surprises

[RAM]

Thats probably going to die horribly RAM.

Please do post an alternate model if you note any obvious faults. Or is there some specific fault that you would like me to try to address? At present we are facing resistance and something like that would hopefully be quite devastating against such things and also serve well when supported by ground forces. It is not designed to attack strategic targets... I do suspect that it would be too heavy, but it should be easy to remove such things if we do not object to wasting a revision on being greedy with the design... The flak gun is desirable for discouraging pursuit when engaged by aerial threats and should also prove to be useful when circling around a ground-target, so is not a indication of any intention to confront air targets. I admit that two heavy weapons is probably too much, but, meh, I am really unclear as to what we are supposed to be getting away with at this point...

I do love the submarine idea, hopefully we could field them in some capacity that can inhibit the Mals without instigating open warfare... It does seem a bit early to be honest, we want to claim territory quickly, and a surface vessel(or naval bomber) would likely be better suited to supporting our troop movements, but the submarine suits my personal interests so I am voting for it, for now...

And yeah, I would tend towards maintaining the current naming scheme of NG-<two letter abbreviation of role><two-digit abbreviation of year> to keep everything obvious, but meh, long live freedom, down with censorship, rah rah rah and all that. Still, if you want inconsistent designation, why join team metric?

Spoiler: A shotgun (click to show/hide)

Name: NG-SG 52 "Antlion"
Type: Dakka Personal equipment(Large)
Designation: General Infantry
Description: A 32mm 6-shot revolver shotgun with a standard razor round and alternate flechette rounds and high-explosive-shrapnel slug/grenade. Has an integrated mechanically-powered* gyroscope to give the gun a tendency to seek to be level. Ships with a speed-loader.
This shotgun is primarily designed to pacify an area using many razors that tend to scatter a lot while in flight. It also offers flechette rounds for penetrating soft cover to sanitise entrances prior to breaching and grenade slugs for circumventing cover at a distance. The gyroscope makes the weapon awkward and slow at first, but with practice should result in more consistent performance.
Projected Cost: 2 ore 1 oil
*Two pins either side of under the barrel can be pulled simultaneously with a single finger each to turn a one-way gear that spins a flywheel positioned above the barrel.

Spoiler: A buggy (click to show/hide)

Name: NG-AC 52 "Mayfly"
Type: Vehicle(small)
Designation: General Infantry
Description: A small fast vehicle designed to be impervious to small arms fire but ill-equipped to withstand anti-tank ordnance. There is a forward-top-mounted turret featuring a 16mm automatic armour-piercing rifle designed to invalidate most forms of improvised cover. The rear of the vehicle is dedicated to carrying infantry, with collapsible seating for six and rear-mounted doors.
Projected Cost: 3 ore 2 oil

[piratejoe]

I do love the submarine idea.

I don't know why but i am so happy from people liking my idea.

[piratejoe]

Also in terms of design names i like to think im a freelance designer hired by the Republic of New Guinea and not an actual citizen,that's my excuse and im sticking to it.

[RAM]

That is fair, so long as you use metric.

And I reserve the right to change my vote, if a new design that meets my criteria comes up.

[piratejoe]

Changing it to metric now,though most ship cannons are ranked by inches.

[Aseaheru]

 Ram, the reason I am under the belief that your ground attack aircraft wont do well is, from the description, it appears to be a bit of a glass cannon, and will likely be extremely slow. Meanwhile, thanks to the size, mass, and retaliative scarcity of our radios(what are they, company level?), it will be of limited utility.
 While lack of speed can be a defense against quick opponents, our foe also has weapon systems that can hit it, the bumblebee. So, until we are in a situation where one of the above issues is corrected, I would rather have us design other systems.

 Commenting on your other designs, the shotgun appears to me to have issues of its own, notably that it has a cylinder which lessens its power and slows potential reloads. The caliber also makes me itch slightly, but thats not really a major(or even a minor) concern.
 The buggy I have issues mostly just with its armament, which appears to be a totally new design in another totally new design.
 
 Now, for my issues with the sub: Mostly the same issues I have with RAM's buggy. Designing a new weapon within a new design. Also, deck weapons are, at this timeframe, mostly obsolete. The lack of snorkel, radio, and similar equipment is also causing me issues.

 Finally, nitpicking Funk's mobile AAA: Designing a new weapon in a new design. I also think that we could get a radar system designed in there, although that causes part of my brain to vibrate(and incidentally, brings me to my main issue with this system, that designing more new stuff at once does not have a drawback, atleast none that I can find.)


 So, here goes with my suggestion: A variation on Funk's design.

 

Spoiler: NG-MAAA52 (click to show/hide)

 The New Guinean mobile anti-air artillery model of 1952 is a proposed weapon system based upon the AS-T25 chassis and intended to replace the Bumblebee AT/AA system currently in service, armed with twin 3.6in cannon rigged with autoloading systems intended to increase rate of fire by a large percentage. In addition to the standard targeting systems already in use with the bumblebee, the proposal features electronic traverse, a radio to link it with command, and a radio-based rangefinding system linked into the mechanical targeting computer.
 The vehicle is also equipped with a simplified system for indirect fire, inorder to allow the system act as makeshift, likely low effectiveness artillery.

 Target Cost: 4 Ore, 3 Oil
 Type: Vehicle, Medium, Specialized

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 Joe, from what I can tell, more naval guns are listed by shell weight than diameter in inches, followed closely by metric measurements.

 Of course, thats after skimming this list for roughly 120 seconds.