Pattern 802 Torpedo: Looks nice, and should be nicely usable.
Pattern 802 Jupiter Automatic Pistol: Also nice.
Trenchbroom: Quite interesting. They are slightly more than double the expense of our service rifle, but should provide a good, and mobile, short-range firepower addition for trench warfare.
Field Gun: We need a test range?
Artillery tractor: Well.
Production: Looks good. The 10x60mmRS round is the new smokeless round, and is used in both the revolving cannon and the revolving rifle but can't be used in the pattern 782 troop rifle, right?
The main questions I have right now is:
a) How do we build anything?
b) How do we build an armament facility, how many people do we need?
c) What do we need to test our artillery, and how to build it?
d) What do we need to test and build a torpedo boat or something like it?
Edit: Since I stumbled over the naming scheme again, I wanted to bring up that it's quite inconvenient. For example, look at the Pattern 801 Light Revolving Cannon and the Pattern 801 Revolving Rifle Mk I. Those are pretty difficult to discern at first glance. I'd therefore propose we append instead of prepend the Pattern designation, changing the naming as such:
Pattern 782 Standard Troop Rifle --> Standard Troop Rifle Pattern 782
Pattern 784 Revolver --> Revolver Pattern 784
Pattern 793 Revolving Cannon --> 37mm Revolving Cannon Pattern 793
Pattern 800 Jupiter Automatic Pistol --> Automatic Pistol Pattern 800 "Jupiter"
Pattern 801 Light Revolving Cannon --> 10mm light revolving cannon Pattern 801
Pattern 801 Revolving Rifle Mk 1 --> Revolving Rifle Pattern 801 Mk 1
Pattern 802 Torpedo/Launcher, 14" --> 14" Torpedo/Launcher Pattern 802
Pattern 802 Trench Broom Auto Weapon --> Trench Broom Auto Weapon Pattern 802
Pattern 803 Torpedo, 15.7" --> 15.7" Torpedo Pattern 803
Pattern 803 Trench Broom Auto Weapon --> Trench Broom Auto Weapon Mk II Pattern 803
Pattern 803 Jupiter Automatic Pistol --> Automatic Pistol Mk II Jupiter Mk II" Pattern 803
Thoughts on that?
I'd also like to change us completely to metric measurements, assuming it's not too much work for you, Aseaheru.
Also, have a list of all designs:
Starting Designs:
Obsoleted by the Pattern 801 Revolving Rifle.
A rolling block rifle firing the black-powder 10x60mm cartridge. Provisions are made for a bayonet to be mounted, and there are crude iron sights. However, there is no safety, indicators to show if the weapon is loaded or cocked, and almost no effort at making the weapon "nice" to use.
The weapon is 6ft long, although shorter variants do exist for cavalry, engineers, naval forces, artillery, mounted infantry, and military police. Each are differing lengths.
The weapon weighs 7lb unloaded.
Costs .5pp each
Obsoleted by the Pattern 800 Jupiter Automatic Pistol
A five shot revolver firing the black-powder 10x35mm cartridge. There are simple iron sights fitted. The weapon is loaded one round at a time from a loading gate on the left side of the weapon, as it is intended for cavalry and officers, who still ride horses in combat. Officers are granted single action versions, while the rank and file who are granted one are only given double action weapons.
The weapon possesses a 6inch barrel, weighs five and a half pounds unloaded, and is typically an officer-only weapon.
Costs .5pp each
Our latest design, a six barreled, manually operated cannon firing a 37mm, 16oz projectile. Each turn of the handle fires a round, loads another, and ejects a third. While the crank can be turned continuously, the barrels do not turn for the entire cycle, which allows better accuracy.
The weapon loads from a 10-round clip.
This weapon is use as secondary armament on our warships, and as our main field gun.
Costs 10pp each
Obsoleted by the 10x60mm RS, unless in use with the Pattern 782 Troop Rifle
A large shell used by the Pattern 782 STR and its many, many, many differing length variants. Not nearly as powerful as it could be, thanks to its black powder loading
A rather oversized and yet weak(thanks to its black powder propellant) round used in the Pattern 784 revolver and much disliked by our troops. For whatever reason, only ball ammunition is available for military use
A large shell that fires a 37mm warhead weighing 16oz, used in the Pattern 793 Revolving cannon. Comes in HE and AP variants
Varies from service to service, with no exact specification in any
Designs of 800
Obsoleted by the Pattern 803 Jupiter Automatic Pistol
Chambered in the 12.5x30mm pistol cartridge
9in barrel, 8rd internal box magazine, weighs 2lb loaded
Faulty magazine
Cheap to make (.5pp each)
High power
Expensive to produce
Designs of 801
A fire barreled, hopper fed, hand cranked weapon using the new 10x60mm rifle round. Weighs in at only 15kg, almost never fails to fire when it needs to, and well liked by its testing crews, who have worn out the two prototypes in gleeful abandon stresstesting it.
Costs 9.5pp each
First thing to consiter is that there are two forms of this lever action rifle, that chambered for the 10x60mm rifle round and that chambered for the 10x30mm "Special". Both are lever action, weigh around 8lb, are about 46 inches long, and have a 10-round rotating magazine wherein the projectiles are held in place via clips and pushed into the gun by the lever action. In the 10x60mmRS version the fired round is pulled back into place after firing and is removed via a hinged port on the right side of the gun and is fed into the gun from 5-round chargers (inserted into the same space). In the 10x30mm version the gun is loaded almost exactly the same way (the chargers are different), though it does not need to extract rounds. provisions are, of course, made for mounting a bayonet.
Oh, out of the ten rifles made (five of each type) we only know what has happened to seven of them, all of which have, quite simply been shot to death. Infact, the (now idle again) factories have had their workers making up rounds just to keep up with the demand.
Costs .6pp each
10x60mm centerfire cartage
A centerfire, smokeless, rimmed rifle cartridge used in the Pattern 801 LRC and the Pattern 801 RR Mk1. About as best as it can be for the time, though it is still a round-nosed round.
A caseless centerfire round used only in certain versions of the Pattern 801 RR Mk1 (notated with a "B" after its name), this round is surprisingly powerful for what is in effect a pistol round that has to carry its case with it. However, its light weight and surprisingly low cost excite many of the officers who have seen it shoot.
Designs of 802
Obsoleted by the Pattern 803 Torpedo/Launcher, 15.7"
A bronze-built torpedo using wet guncotton as an explosive, powered by an internal tank of compressed air. The weapon has a range of about 1.8 kilometers, a remarkable achievement for the method of propelling it. It weighs in at a little over 680lb and travels at 25 knots. Reloading a launcher (and then charging the torpedo with compressed air) takes nearly a quarter of a hour per launch.
Launchers cost 16pp each
Obsoleted by the Pattern 803 Trench Broom Auto Weapon
A mostly sheet-steel weapon, the Trench Broom is a high capacity, low weight, theoretically high rate of fire weapon firing the 10x30mm special round, kept in a paper belt, itself stored within large drums that reside around the sides of the weapon. These belts have been determined to be one of the main reasons for the jamming.
In any event, the weapon weighs about 3lb unloaded and is just over a foot and a half long.
One of these costs 1.2pp each
Designs of 803
Obsoletes the Pattern 802 Torpedo, 14"
A bronze-built torpedo using wet guncotton as an explosive, powered by an internal tank of compressed, hot air. The weapon has a range of about 2.4 kilometers. It weighs in at a little over 661lb and travels at 28 knots. Reloading a launcher (and then charging the torpedo with compressed air) takes less time than the old style, although the launchers have changed a fair deal.
Launchers cost 16pp each
Obsoletes the Pattern 802 Trench Broom auto weapon
A pattern 802 trench broom with the magazine replaced by a spring-fed stick magazine, sticking out the side, thus solving almost all the jamming issues with the gun. The testers loved it and the prototypes are missing or worn out by constant fire.
One of these and a few spare magazines costs 1.4pp each
Obsoletes the Pattern 800 Jupiter Automatic Pistol
Chambered in the 12.5x30mm pistol cartridge
9in barrel, 8rd internal box magazine, weighs 2lb loaded
The older pattern 800 version, now with detachable box magazines that feed correctly! As expected, all prototypes are now missing, as the testers loved them to bits and demand more.
Cheap to make (.5pp each)