Yep. Now have a turn.
As a note, the 801 Light Revolving Cannon is now the 801 Heavy Revolving Rifle. It looks like it was initially named that and I decided to be strange and name it something to confuse myself later with. Also, the 37mm cannon is still blackpowder, just a note.
END 805 This year was a bit of a let-down compared to the success that was last year. of the four proposals made, only two made the cut.
To start with, we have the imaginatively named 75mm Artillery Cannon, which among other things was also tasked with creating their own arty shells, which may have caused most of the delays the project suffered from, along with the specifics of the proposed recoil absorption feature. Despite all that, the team was close to having an actually functional prototype at years end.
Next up, the camo/clothing development group, who spent all year yelling at eachother, touring textile mills, and trying to work out what shape load bearing equipment should take. So, in other words, no progress.
Now we come to our first actual bit of progress, the Swordfish Torpedo Boat Destroyer.
A 220-ton steam-powered(two engines, each with four high-pressure water boilers supplying steam to a turbine each(which also serve to provide the vessel with electricity)) and managing a top speed of over 30 knots, it is armed with a quartet of pattern 793 revolving cannon, with two in a forward mount and two single mounts located amidships and aft. The vessel is also equipped with a pair of torpedo launchers for the Pattern 803 15.7" torpedo. Provisions are also made for the mounting of several pattern 801 Heavy Revolving Rifle in various points along each side of the vessel.
The pattern 793 turrets are lightly armored and open topped, and are rotated via electric motors. Low powered electric motors have also been fitted on the guns to actuate them, and in the case of the single-gun mounts there are also motors powering elevation of the guns.
Speaking of these secondary turrets, they are mounted below the arc of fire of the main turret, which does restrict their firing arc slightly.
Now, the two torpedo positions. The two single-tube launchers share a "ready storage room", which can hold but six of the crafts thirty-fish load. The remainder are held below deck. They also are not centerline mounted, which means that the craft has to fire one, turn around, and fire the other.
The vessel uses signal flags for communication, although the lanterns have been replaced with electric lights. Talk has been made of outfitting the vessel with electric spotlights, or even a radio.
For armor, the ship has nothing, not even coal bunkers. For whatever reason, coal is stowed amidships and down low, acting as basalt. As soon as the vessel was determined to be seaworthy, she was hoisted out of the still-blocked harbor and loaded on a special train, making a roughly 100mile trip to a port it can actually operate out of along track that can handle the clearances needed.
Finally, a new factory was built with a capacity of 575pp per year. In doing this, the untrained engineer assigned to the product has become specialized in architecture.
In international news, a trio of siblings (consisting of two females and their brother) constructed and flew the first heavier than air craft for a grand total of six seconds. The first diesel powered seagoing ship returned from her first voyage, a small nation almost on the other side of the globe adopted a semi-automatic rifle as their standard smallarm, and a worker strike near our border with the Monarchy was put down by royal troops armed with smokeless repeating bolt action rifles, helmets, and blackpowder revolvers. As most of the workers where from our nation, the government has gotten quite angry, and has demanded recompense. The Monarchy, thus far, has ignored our demands.
Swordfish Torpedo Boat Destroyer
Armament:
-1x twin-mount pattern 793 revolving cannon
-2x single-mount pattern 793 revolving cannon
-2x single-tube Pattern 803 15.7" torpedo launcher, with 30 total torpedoes and 6 held in readiness at any given time
-A number of mounts for heavy machineguns along the sides of the vessel(typically 6x Pattern 801 Heavy Revolving Rifle)
Communications:
-signal flags
-electric lights
Propulsion:
-2x power plants consisting of single steam turbine, four water-tube boilers and two electric generators each turning one screw
Top speed: 32 knots
Range: 3000nmi
Equivalent Cost(in PP):129 for armaments(not counting modifications or smallarms)
Five off-site factories producing ammunition (2x 10x60mmRS cartridge, 1x 10x30mm(black) cartridge, 1x 37mm cannon)
One on-site factory complex with four production lines of 300pp each and one of 575pp
One on-site workshop, for designing new things
One on-site design studio
One harbor, mostly blocked by sediment and the scuttled hulk of a wooden sailing ship(now partially damaged by torpedoes)
One dockyard with yearly capacity of 300 ton
One world class firing range, with attached offices for range table calculation
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6 newbies
1 untrained architect
6 basic engineers
1 basic naval engineer
3 basic firearms engineers
1 amazingly talented but untrained firearms engineer
Guys, its one distinct thing per action. Shells are not designed at the same time as the gun, you cant stack a pile of distinct things together (unless they dont have combat use, so messkits, food, field stoves and the like are the exception to this), and so on. But hey, if I was really nasty, I would have split the ship into about 20 different designs, like both forms of turret and the turbines. Alright, five designs then. But still a annoying ammount of designs.