THIS IS THE FINAL GAME-POST Yah, Im calling it, this is dead. However, as a bonus bit, I am going to shove all the WIP bits I have stored here and there at this post, for those interested.
Cause of death is working on implementing NPC designs.
Swordfish C
1x basic naval
2x basic
->Swordfish C
The latest of the Swordfish revisions. To be done is, in order of priority:
- Fix the Ratio mount powering.
- Include the new 40mm cannon if designed, on a special naval mounting.
- Add the Pattern 808 radio.
This will probably include a redesign of the electrical systems; if they need it, they are authorized to use a Pattern 807 engine to power a generator.
Should time remain, they are to start refitting B Swordfishs to C standard, as are the Dockyards.
Pattern 809 40mm quick-fire cannon
3x basic and talented firearms engineers
1x basic and highly talented firearms engineer
1 x untrained but amazingly talented firearms expert
->Pattern 809 40mm quick-fire cannon
The Pattern 809 40mm quick-fire gun, firing the new Pattern 809 40x160mmR shell, is a multi-purpose gun. Its primary mounting point are our Swordfish boats, where they should serve against both torpedo boats and the - soon-expected - aeroplanes. On land, it is going to be used in the Landshark tank or, on a dual-purpose mount, against both other tanks and aeroplanes.
The gun barrel has a length of 40 calibres, and fires 40mm shells. It is air-cooled (should make it lighter than the QF 2-pounder) and its firing rate is therefore restricted to 50 rounds per minute from a disintegrating belt. It is mounted on a dual-purpose mount, which allows it to engage both aircraft and ground targets.
Pattern 809 40mm shell
1x basic ammunition engineer
3x basic engineer
1x untrained munitions expert, maimed
->Pattern 809 40x160mmR shell
Shell to be fired by the Pattern 809 40mm quick-fire cannon. Available in armour-piercing, high-explosive and anti-aircraft shrapnel.
Mule truck
3x basic engineer
->Mule Redesign
The goal of the engineers is to finish the Mule design. To do so, they are allowed to deviate from last turn's very specific motor instructions. Possible alternatives are coupling both motors, or both motors powering the rear axle. This is to be decided by the engineers doing so. Any additional time should be spent on making it as reliable and cheap as possible.
Pattern 809 Tank Landshark
1x good engineer
1x armour engineer
3x basic engineer
1x untrained but talented firearms expert
->Pattern 809 Tank Landshark
Looking at the performance of the Make of 799 artillery tractor on uneven ground, it appears we could build a vehicle that is able to cross no-man's-land. Imagine it armoured to withstand enemy rifle fire, and armed to clear the trenches!
The Landshark mounts a single Pattern 807 engine, which drives the two-thread layout. A driver and commander/gunner make up the crew. The commander/gunner has two available weapons: The new 40mm cannon, and a Pattern 806 HMG (Should the 40mm gun be too late, keep the large-ish turret ring, and include a second machine gun instead). Armour is supposed to be increased on the front (about 22mm), and less at the back and on top (down to 8mm). Total weight is probably going to be less than 10 tons, keeping weight and cost down, and mobility up.
Tractor adaption:
1x basic
->The tractor is fine, but its engine's rubbish. This engineer should take the large engine, and replace it with our Pattern 807 engine. This should be as simple as possible - just remove the original engine, weld in a frame to hold the new one, and connect it to the drive shaft.
Training
1x good engineer
15x Newbie
->Many of our engineers are fine, but several lack experience. The good engineer is supposed to teach the other ones those tricks you learn from experience. The goal is to promote as many of the untrained/newbies to at least basic competency.
Classroom
1x untrained architect
->Building a classroom/teaching facility for better teaching (not in the office) for the next turns.
Produces:
75mm Pattern 806 Field Gun Ratio: 315/turn (+195/turn)
M1 Pattern 806 HMG: 120/turn
Swordfish B TBD: up to 3.9/turn (some spent on refitting to C)
Revolving Rifle: 0/turn (-1,500/turn)
Trench Broom: ~180/turn
Torpedo: 18.75 launchers/turn
Jupiter Pattern 803 Automatic Pistol: 0/turn (-600/turn)
Helmet: 10,000/turn (-1,000/turn)
80mm mortar: 200/turn
Pattern 807 engine: 300/turn (+300/turn)
Pattern 808 RS-MP: 20/turn (+20/turn)
Make of 799 Artillery Tractor (our engine): up to 30/turn, plus refit (+up to 30/turn)
On-Site factory complex
- General (300pp): Torpedo (18.75 launchers/turn)
- General (300pp): 75mm field gun Ratio (30/turn)
- General (300pp): 75mm field gun Ratio (30/turn)
- General (300pp): Pattern 808 RS-MP (20/turn)
- Small-Arms (600pp): M1 HMG (120/turn)
On-Site Artillery Complex
- Artillery (300pp): 75mm field gun Ratio (30/turn)
- Artillery (300pp): 75mm field gun Ratio (30/turn)
- Artillery (300pp): 75mm field gun Ratio (30/turn)
Off-site (dispersed)
- 2x General (250pp): 80mm mortar (total 200/turn)
- 2x General (250pp): Helmet (total of 10,000/turn)
- 1x General (250pp): Pattern 803 Trench Broom (~180/turn)
- 4x General (300pp): 75mm field gun Ratio (total 120/turn)
On-site Naval
- Dockyard (300t): Swordfish B TBD, help with refit to C: up to 1.3/turn
- Dockyard (300t): Swordfish B TBD, help with refit to C: up to 1.3/turn
Off-site Naval
- Dockyard (300t): Swordfish B TBD, help with refit to C: up to 1.3/turn
Truck Complex
- Engine (300pp): Pattern 807 Engine (300/turn)
- 1x Vehicle (300pp) Make of 799 Artillery Tractor for new engine plus refit (up to 30/turn)
- 2x Vehicle (300pp): 75mm field gun Ratio (less effective; 45/turn)
M808 SMG: 1 Amazing engineer, 1 basic engineers, 2 newbie engineer
2.5" mortar ammunition: 1 good engineer, 1 untrained ordinance engineer,1 untrained and amazingly talented ordinance engineer, 2 basic engineer, 1 newbie engineer
Ram mk2:1 good and amazingly talented engine expert, 1 basic engineer, 2 newbie engineer
->improving on the mk1, the mk2 uses a heated engine by injecting and igniting Methanol to heat up the air. Sea water is also injected into the system to keep the engine from over heating allowing more fuel to be used, coincidentally the steam generated will also provide more pressure to power the engine.
Coastal Fast Attack Craft Mk 1: 1 great engineer, 1 good engineer, basic naval engineer, 1 newbie engineer
->improving on the mk 0 prototype the mk1 is designed to be cheaper to produce using more readily available and cheaper wood while hopefully with similar durability to mahogany. In terms of armaments it has been decided to add 2 torpedo tubes allowing them to be a threat to ships too heavily armored for their striker howitzers.
M1 grenade:2 good engineer, 2 basic engineer, 1 newbie engineers
off site small arms factory 5 lines of 250: 1 good engineer (MAIMED), 1 Newbie(MAIMED), 3 newbie engineer
->the M1 is a ball shaped fragmentation grenade with a 5 sec fuse. The fuse is primed be pulling the safety pin and releasing the clip on top of the grenade.
off site 3 air ship hangers:1 good engineer, 2 basic engineers, 2 newbie engineer
off site artillery factory 5 lines of 300: 1 good engineer, 1 basic engineers, 2 newbie engineer
off site automobile factory 3 lines of 300 for vehicle production 4 lines of 200 for engines:1 good engineer, 2 basic engineer, 2 newbie engineer, 1 Newbie(MAIMED)
dry docks 4 200 tons and 1 2100 tons: 1 good engineer, 2 basic engineers, 2 newbie engineer
REPUBLIC
Begin 810
The war has taken a decided turn for the worse this year, with new fronts opening in the north and south as the Monarchies allies join the war and the fight at sea taking a decided dip with the arrival of an actually functional navy built around armored cruisers. This has caused the limited stocks of APDS to be broken out to give our warships atleast the ability to poke holes into their hulls.
MONARCHISTS
End of 809
The war has taken a decided turn to our advantage this year, with the opening of new fronts to the north and south beginning to siphon off some of the Republics forces fighting on the main front, while the of shotguns and better long-range firepower capibilities have helped even the battlefield slightly, the weapons typically being issued to specialist troops attached to standard units. However, the Republic still has an aggrivating ability to tip the ballence, unvieling a design of handgrenade that can be both thrown by their troops or launched by a rifle. Their communications net has also seemingly had an upgrade, with their artillery(supplemented by some very heavy howitzers provided by their allies) able to shift their fire at a shockingly rapid rate. Our best guess asto how this is possible is that they have developed somesort of (technically) manportable radio set, which may explain the groups of enemy troops carrying chests forward while under fire. It also appears that their artillery has gotten a mobility upgrade, with tracked vehicles towing fieldguns into new positions to cover their attacks. Judging from our scouts reports, these seem to be a now rather out of date design developed for agriculture.
At sea, the arrival of an armored cruiser has almost lead to a stalemate, as while their 75mm cannon can pierce its armor the rounds used (a solid spike of dense metals) does little damage after the fact. Still, there is only one of our battlecruisers, and their torpedo boat destroyers seem to have been equipped with radio sets. However, with our allies navies to bolster our forces(including four more of the Iron Duke class and two of the vessels replacing it) our convoys are able to get through mostly unmolested.
In other news, our airship has been finally filled with lifting gas, taking a short flight before almost everything was stripped off of her that could be, the airship being grossly overloaded. The craft then spent the rest of the year touring the countryside and making a bref trip to the north to the worlds fair in an effort to bolster morale and exhibit our prowers.
NORTH REPUBLICAN ALLY
801 Observation Balloons
A hot air balloon with a gas burner
3" Howitzer
Screwbreach cheap thing, used instead of machine guns
SOUTH REPUBLIC ALLY
10mm Revolver
10mm, 7 shots; 1.5kg loaded; barrel length 15cm
Effective Range: About 50 metres
8mm rifle
8mm Bolt-Action; 8 shots, 4.5kg loaded; barrel length 45cm
Effective Range: About 300 metres
8mm machine gun
8mm machine gun; belt-fed. 13kg without belt; barrel length ca 75cm
Effective Range (Aimed): About 600 metres; effective range (bullets): About 2.2km
Vehicle:
Equivalent to the Motor War Car (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_War_Car)
6mm armour; 16hp engine; two 8mm machine guns; 14km/h. Crew of four.
Artillery Gun:
105mm shells; peak RoF 11 shots/minute; weight: 1000kg; barrel length ca 580cm
Maximum Indirect fire range: Ca. 32km
50% chance of hitting 100m radius at 13km
50% HE kill radius: 3m; 50% HE injury radius: 8m; fragmentation out to 50m
Navy:
Equivalent to the Durandal Class
300t; 26knots; 2x 75mm artillery gun "Ratio"; 6x 37mm rotary cannon; 2x torpedo tubes
Both the main gun and torpedo tubes have been upgraded with Republican Tech.
NORTH MONARCHISTS
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Armoured car
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Panzerjagdwagen MK 1 (kind of a Austro-Daimler Armoured Car
The Panzerjagdwagen MK 1 is the pride of Cunco's army, a modern wonder weapon.
The body is made from 5mm steel plates riveted togeater.
In side the cramped body is 3 seats for the driver, gunner and comander.
The gunner operates a mk1 automatic in a small turret.
A Mk 1 Engine engine mounted in the front and powers it's four solid rubber tyres.
Weight: 3200 KG
Size: 5 meters long by 2 meters wide and 2 meters tall.
Engine: Mk 1 Engine
Drive: 4x4
Main weapon: mk1 automatic
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Engine
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Mk 1 Engine
Fuel: petrol
Cylinder arrangement: 6 cylinder inline
Displacement : 4 litters
Valvetrain: T head sidevalve arrangement
Power: 50 hp
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Machine gun
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mk1 automatic (Hotchkiss M1909 knockoff)
The Cunco mk1 automatic, is a medium size gas-actuated, air cooled machinegun fed by metal strips holding 30 rounds.
Weight: 13kg
Length: 1300mm
Caliber: 8x51mm
Rate of fire: 600 rounds per minute
Feed system: 30-round strip magazine
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Rifle
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M3k "twin band" rife
A conventional magazine fed bolt action rifle in 8x51mm.
Can be fitted with ES telescoping optics.
Lee-enfield bolt system, roll for magazine.
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Sidearm
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1902 Valyize pistol (bergmann-bayard, extra long mag for the 12 shot)
Weight : 1,000 grams
Length : 260mm
Barrel length : 100mm
Cartridge : 9mm Valyize (9x23mmLargo knockoff)
Feed system : 6, 10 or 12 round removable box magazine
Shotgun
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Warder Shotgun
Developed for prison guards, the Warder shotgun is a pump action with a six round tube magazine, measuring 48 inches in length and weighing in at 8 pounds.
Costs 5pp each
-10 bore shell
Used in the Warder Shotgun. Comes in shot and slug forms, with ten pellets in the shot form.
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Arty
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11inch coastal defense howitzer
A sliding block, 10.5 ton howitzer able to lob 478lbs of high explosive 8500 yards. They take four days to ready for firing thanks to their need for prepared firing positions.
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Other
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ES telescoping optics
A fixed magnification optic affixed in a factory to a weapon. Can be removed from weapon for carrying, but affixing to other weapons would cause severe inaccuracy. Sightpicture is of a thin crosshair zeroed to 600 yards at 4.5x zoom. Fitting a rifle with these costs an extra .2pp
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Cruisers
Did you have to pick the middle of the Anglo-German naval arms race and South American dreadnought race?
What is a cruiser changes alot over a few years.
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Stahlwelle Jäger class Cruiser (SMS Fürst Bismarck with some new paint)
Displacement: 11,000 ton
Length: 130 m
Beam: 21 m
Draft: 8 m
Installed power:
3-shaft triple expansion engines
13,500 hp (10,100 kW)
Speed: 18 knots (34 km/h 21 mph)
Armament:
4 × 24 cm (9.4 in) (2 × 2)
12 × 15 cm (5.9 in) (12 × 1)
10 × 8.8 cm (3.5 in) (10 × 1)
6 × 45 cm (18 in) torpedo tubes
Armor:
Belt: 20 cm (7.9 in)
Turrets: 20 cm (7.9 in)
Deck: 3 cm (1.2 in)
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And now by the power of spring sharp
The X
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X class Cruiser
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Displacement:
15,188 ton normal; 17,365 ton full load
Dimensions: Length (overall / waterline) x beam x draught (normal/deep)
(176.78 m / 163.07 m) x 24.38 m x (9.14 / 10.02 m)
Armament:
6 - 8.20" / 208 mm 45.0 cal guns - 278.03lbs / 126.11kg shells, 50 per gun
Breech loading guns in turret on barbette mounts,
2 x Twin mounts on sides, forward deck forward
1 x Twin mount on centreline, aft deck centre
6 - 6.00" / 152 mm 45.0 cal guns - 108.92lbs / 49.41kg shells, 150 per gun
Breech loading guns in turret on barbette mounts,
6 x Single mounts on sides, evenly spread
Weight of broadside 2,322 lbs / 1,053 kg
Main Torpedoes
4 - 17.7" / 450 mm, 13.12 ft / 4.00 m torpedoes - 0.632 t each, 2.530 t total
submerged bow tubes
Armour:
- Belts: Width (max) Length (avg) Height (avg)
Main: 6.00" / 152 mm 310.00 ft / 94.49 m 20.00 ft / 6.10 m
Ends: 2.00" / 51 mm 30.00 ft / 9.14 m 25.00 ft / 7.62 m
Main Belt covers 89 % of normal length
- Torpedo Bulkhead - Additional damage containing bulkheads:
Width (max) Length (avg) Height (avg)
1.00" / 25 mm 80.00 ft / 24.38 m 40.00 ft / 12.19 m
Beam between torpedo bulkheads 60.00 ft / 18.29 m
- Gun armour: Face (max) Other gunhouse (avg) Barbette/hoist (max)
Main: 5.00" / 127 mm - 2.00" / 51 mm
2nd: 5.00" / 127 mm - -
- Conning towers: Forward 8.00" / 203 mm, Aft 3.00" / 76 mm
Machinery:
Diesel Internal combustion motors, plus diesel motors,
Direct drive, 3 shafts, 34,816 shp / 25,973 Kw = 23.67 kts
Range 25,000nm at 10.00 kts
Bunker at max displacement = 4,898 tons
Crew Complement: 683 - 889
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MOUNTAIN MONARCHEST FRIEND
-Monarchist rifle
-Revolver
-Carbine revolver
-Pack Howitzer
-Rockets!
-Hydrogen observation baloon
-Super-duper light mountan gun (2lber?)
-Old trapdoor conversion rifle
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