Yay turn! Thanks, Aseaheru!
Now, for the turn itself:
- Pattern 808 RS-MP: 100kg of radio set is acceptable; the reliability and cost isn't. But it should work in supporting advances (100kg should be portable by four men, meaning we can get almost-real time information about advances), and on the seas. That it can't send and receive at the same time isn't a surprise; and, after all, it's still morse. Recommendation: Produce.
- Mule truck: Arglblargl. The one most important advance of this turn hasn't advanced. Probably due to the attempt to use our already-existing engines. Damn, damn, damn. Recommendation: Highest priority design project.
- Uniform update: Well, at least it's not red and blue anymore?
- Grenades: Rifle grenades is nice, gives us additional range. The high-explosive variants are good, fragmentation being poor is a downside, as is the weight. On the other hand, it being built by ammo industries is very good.
- Mortar round: ...
- Training centre: ...
- Truck complex: Yay! This'll give us a production of 300 (!) Pattern 807 engines per turn, plus no vehicles at all because the truck design failed. Recommend producing artillery guns on the vehicle lines instead, to get something out of it at least.
- General factory: ...
- New designs: The make of 792 6" naval gun looks nice, and we should be able to use it as both heavy artillery and coastal defense. We can also use it as a base for our own design. The mortar seems fairly useless, being less mobile and having the same range as the 6" naval gun. The artillery tractor, on the other hand, seems nice, though the engine used won't be that useful - it's ten times the cost of our 807 engine, at only 1.5 times the power.
- GM notes on the rifle: This is not that unexpected. We might think about designing a new rifle, or switching most of our production to the Trench Broom.
- Resources: They look fine, except for the oil, steel components and aluminum. Since we can assume the enemy to have similar resources, sea control becomes more important.
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Edit: Helmets: Well, at 98000, we should have enough for now.
Summary: Blargh. Fairly bad rolls, apparently.
Edit:
Actually if we want a light truck why not just make a Willy MB?:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willys_MB
Heck we got an engine for it.
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A very good point.
I'm unsure whether to go for such a lighter "truck" (probably a carrying capacity of half a ton at most) or continue on the Mule, which appears to be almost finished, with a higher carrying capacity.
They where intended jsut to be hand grenades, the firearms dude spent some time turning them into optional rifle grenades for free after some really nice rolls.
Awesome!
Hey would we need spend a re/design action in order to allow bundling of grenades?:
Geballte Ladung-style? That might work; although mostly effective against armoured vehicles. Let's keep it in mind for the redesign.