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[10ebbor10]

Minor nitpick, but our jet uses two engines placed beneath it's wings.

[NAV]

No. The older Tunderbird jet had 2. The newer Lightning Streak has 1.

[evictedSaint]

Spoiler: Progress #2 (click to show/hide)

Looking better, but still not finished.  Considering how well the haast looks with simple flat cells, I'm kinda regretting not doing the whole poster that way.  Might make another variant with simple flats, depending on how tedious finishing this turns out to be. 

Click to see the full-sized version.

[10ebbor10]

No. The older Tunderbird jet had 2. The newer Lightning Streak has 1.

I completely forgot that thing existed.

[Sensei]

I hope to write the turn or at least a good portion of it today, if I have the time. I'd like everyone to get their last propaganda submissions in soon.

[andrea]

do we have to submit propaganda in embassy?

[evictedSaint]

Spoiler: Progress #3 (click to show/hide)

This is pretty much finished.  The Bjorn needs to get cleaned up, and then the Tiger armor needs to get simplified to look like the rest of the image, but other than that it should be presentable for the propaganda contest.

EDIT:

Spoiler: Progress #4 (click to show/hide)

Welp, this is about as much as I'm gonna get done tonight.  I might fiddle with it some more later, but I'm gonna go ahead and submit this for our propaganda contest.  Do I need to do anything special to submit it, or does this count as it is?

[Sensei]

Battle Report 19: Winter 1942

lol so the turn's a bit late eh
Imma be honest it's still going to be an irregular schedule from here on

Also no more stalemates
You guys ain't waiting a month just to see stalemates. One side must gain ground, if both are attacking on the same front.

New Equipment:

This turn, the Forenians have designed the UF-MBT-42 'Bjorn', a tank with Heavy armor and a Very Heavy front glacis. The armor is made of an improved Manganese alloy and the tank is designed to include ERA. The tank is very wide and flat, with armor at an extreme angle, making it resilient but difficult for the crew to move about in. It also boasts a powerful 100mm L/55 cannon and other small features such as a smoke grenade launcher shameless copying the Cannalans. For their revision they've built the APS-42 "Reality Check", an 'Active Protective System' which mounts Forenia's existing flares (originally used for infantry visibility) on the outside of aircraft. One module contains 25 flares on 5 separate triggers, so that each time the device is triggered it fires 5 flares in succession. In theory this should distract Cannala's heat-seeking missiles, but it's untested as Forenia doesn't have Cannalan seekers to test it with. It's somewhat bulky and un-aerodynamic, which is a small concern for bombers but a larger one for fighters.

Cannala has spent the season designing and perfecting the M1942 Proximity Fuze, Radio Detection, which can be used in artillery shells 3 inches or larger and, of course, MAGIC Missiles. This allows a munition to detonate upon coming within a certain distance of a solid object which reflects radio waves, so that artillery shells can detonate above the ground or missiles can detonate near aircraft. The distance is configurable from 2-10 yards.

The Forenian Army currently has the following equipment, not including legacy equipment which can be found near the OP:

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UF Weapons:
UF-MRL-40 'SARUKH': The Sarukh is a multiple rocket launcher, which fires rockets one meter long to deliver 6kg warheads at a maximum range of 12000 meters. The rockets have impressive destructive power, compared to shells they do not need thick metal casings, so most of the weight of the rocket is either warhead or propellant. The rockets are launched electrically off of rails, and the rails are in a 4x2 array. The rockets can be fired all at once, but it takes about four minutes to reload the whole launcher, so the sustained rate of fire is not better than regular artillery. However, a rocket array is extremely light compared to a cannon, and can move very quickly, firing all at once and retreating before fire is returned from the enemy. Accuracy is poor compared to shells; to reliably hit a single target with a volley they should be used within 8km. Currently available as a truck trailer. [1 Ore, 3 Oil]
UF-ASA-40 "Overcompensator" Coastal Artillery System: This is an enormous 30cm gun, made specifically for covered ground emplacements. Like a ship gun, shells and powder casings are stored below the barrel itself and lifted up by an electric hoist and ramming system, which fires a little over twice a minute. The shells weigh about 350kg and reach a range which is greater than existing artillery, but not extremely impessive for their size- except the rocket propelled shells, which can go almost 30km. It normally sits in a reinforced concrete bunker with a wide aiming slit, on the shore to aim at ships. It lacks any advanced fire control as much of the time was spent developing a barrel and breech which could withstand the pressure necessary, so commanders must find a firing solution by pen, paper and slide-rule alone, and correct their aim based on visual observation. It also needs a large steam power generator on site or nearby, which needs a bunker of its own, and the generator or power lines are a potential vulnerability. [5 Ore, 3 Oil]
UF-RTS-41 'Long Shot' A: This is a radar fire-control system, which allows radar operators to directly control the Overcompensator gun by its electric motors. This is based on the entirely-mechanical Bumblebee aiming system, the radar operator simply aligns a metal ring which slides on rails on two axes over the radar blip on his screen. With manual calibration for each unique gun and radar position, this sets the gun to a firing solution. It is crude, and imprecise to the point where it almost never hits. It has only found practical use as a means of moving the gun near where it will need to be aimed while a firing solution is calculated the old fashioned way, on pen and paper.
UF-AC-41 Velociraptor: This autocannon is a revision of AC18, with several improvements. The gun is a little more tolerant of different ammo weights and the shells have been modified so that mixed ammo belts are possible. The use of more advanced materials has allowed some parts to become lighter, while a heavier bolt and stronger spring allows a rate of fire of 750 RPM, with a final gun weight of 48kg. In infantry use, it has noticeably more recoil, but this is less of a concern on vehicles.

UF Other Equipment:
General Tereshkova: The Forenian army is led by General Tereshkov, an expert pilot. With experience spanning back to the days of the terrifying AS-19 aircraft which pilots believed to be haunting, he trains Forenian pilots to quick witted and always on guard, and out-fly their enemies.
RDN-39-2 "DEADLIER RAY" [Expensive] The "Deadlier Ray" is a more sophisticated radar than the old Death Ray, using an array of antennae on a rotating swivel, a single unit can get the direction and range of enemy aircraft to about 150km, and ships to within about 30km. It's huge though, and requires a building or an entire dedicated CV-22 ship to manage all the equipment. The operator can see contacts on a CRT display with a circular progression, it looks really cool and goes beep. [Complex]
RDN-42-4 "DEADLIEST RAY": [Expensive] The Mk. 4 version of the Forenian Radar Defense Network drastically reduces its size and power consumption using a cavity magnetron. This generatres high-frequency radio waves, which can be interpreted by much smaller receiving antennas, reflect clearly off of smaller objects, and generate a clearer image in inclement weather. It can interpret the range and altitude of ships and aircraft with enough resolution to make out how many aircraft are in a group, and their relative size. It can be operated off a dedicated truck using power from the truck's motor, as well as be mounted on a ship using the ship's generator, or used in camps and bases with a power source. It has a rotating antenna array which is about two meters across. [Complex]
UF-R4-39 'Tigers Roar': This dramatically named radio is very similar to the Model 3, but fits in a single backpack and supports voice or morse over FM. When communicating in morse code, it can be attached to a separate Tiger's Whisper machine for coded messages.
Binoculars: Cheap binoculars are available to all soldiers.
Flashlights: The UF standard flashlight uses leak-resistant zinc-carbon batteries, in an aluminum frame. It fits on weapon rail mounts, or on helmets. It's rather heavy though, so soldiers prefer to hold them by hand when they can, possibly with a pistol in the other hand. Also includes colored lenses for signalling.
UF-PAR-41 'Trustfall': These are large, circular nylon parachutes, capable of supporting cargo crates on wooden pallets, or supporting some vehicles on a two-parachute rig with specialized wooden pallets under the wheels.
UF-ERA-42 'Blood Eagle': The Blood Eagle is a system of Explosive-Reactive Armor plates. These provide significant protection against shaped-charge HEAT warheads, the armor explodes on contact and the warhead becomes deformed, making it much less effective. The Blood Eagle armor tends to detonate all at once, so that all of the ERA on one side of the tank or the entire tank will be expended after one hit, causing minor damage to the tank. Blood Eagle plates cannot be quickly replaced as they destroy their mounts, requiring a mechanic to weld new ones. It's not very effective against traditional AP rounds. It can be retrofitted to existing armored vehicles, though retrofits will have noticeable gaps in their coverage. [Complex] [+1 Oil]

UF Ground Vehicles:
UF-39-APC "Salamander" Pattern B: The Salamander is a large amphibious APC, with a wide body to keep itself stable on the water. It is covered in medium armor, and the body is in a "hexagonal cross-section" shape, which means that any point on its sides or front is either sloping up or down, with the front being long and narrow while the sides are flatter. It has 8 large wheels, the front and rear axles both drive and steer, while the middle two axles are dummies. Water propulsion is from two small propellers. This was a necessary compromise to keep transmission weight down, but land performance isn't amazing. It holds about fourteen soldiers, or a few less if they're bringing heavy weapons and Tiger Armor. Soldiers exit double file through a watertight rear door/ramp and there's a top front crew hatch. It is armed with an AS-AC18 turret and coaxial Sorraia. [5 Ore 3 Oil]
UF-MBT-42 'Bjorn': [Very Expensive] The Bjorn is a heavy tank, with Very Heavy frontal armor and Heavy armor on the rest of the tank and turret. It is very wide and flat, to give the armor a shallow slope on all sides which extends over the top of the tracks. The armor is well-covered with ERA, and the material itself is a manganese alloy. The turret is a shallow conical-section shape which comes nearly flush with the flat top of the hull, and sits towards the rear of the tank. The tank is so shallow that the crew must crawl about the tank, and performing many simple tasks like moving ammo from storage to the cannon is difficult. The driver even lays on his stomach. It includes wet ammo storage, which spills water over rounds if it is damaged to prevent fires, and lensed periscopes which allow for view ports which don't break up the slope of the armor. It's powered by a twin-charged diesel V12 engine, which takes up much of the tank's front (theoretically protecting the crew), and has intakes and exhaust cutouts in the top armor. This gets the enormously heavy tank to an acceptable speed, and powers electric motors for the turret. It is armed with the 100mm L/55 sliding-breech Bjorn cannon, the 5.5m barrel extends shortly beyond the front of the tank in a forward position. This cannon is slow to load, partly owing to the tank's layout, but has impressive range and power. It is also armed with an M3 Sorraia coaxial to gun and on top of the turret, and smoke grenade launchers shamelessly stolen from Cannala's designs. Costs 8 Ore (1Mn), 5 Oil.


UF Air Force:
TPD 'DOLPHIN' 38b: This is an aerial torpedo, weighing in a bit more than half a ton. It is powered by a wet heater motor, and stabilized by a gyroscope. The revised 'b' version includes a magnetic detonator to explode beneath ships, and can be dropped from considerable height and speed without failure. [2 Ore, 1 Oil]
UFS-BL-38-A 'Firecracker': This bunch of letters followed by a word denotes a 2.5kg finned bomblet, with a either a HEAT+Fragment warhead, or an incendiary warhead. These come in pods of 100 which fit on standard bomb mounts, and release their bomblets at an experimentally-determined altitude which causes them to cover a 50 meter square with roughly one bomb every 5 meters- enough to hit a group of armor, or more forgiving of error than a single 250kg bomb when trying to hit a single target.
UFAF-MTA-38 'Reckless Effect': The MT stands for Military Transport Aircraft, but nobody is sure what 'Reckless Effect' is supposed to mean other than sounding cool. This is a large cargo aircraft with four V12 engines, normally aspirated with an eye towards fuel efficiency. It has a broad wingspan with a high wing, ample cargo space, and adequate power to take off from a long runway with a four ton load, just don't expect much in the way of evasive maneuvers. Befitting its role as a dedicated cargo craft, the body terminates is a large cargo door/ramp at the rear. The frame is largely aluminium for weight. Even an L-1 Tiger truck or AS-MV-21-AL just barely fit within the size and weight limits! The door can also be opened in flight for paratroopers, or for an emergency cargo jettison. It's remarkably durable, and can keep flying even through two engine failures. [4 Ore (1 Al), 4 Oil]
UFAF-F39-W 'Haast': The Haast is a single-engine heavy fighter. It has a single supercharged, fuel-injected V12 petrol motor with a notably bigger displacement than those on the Falcon or Stinger. It's about at the limits of what V12 is capable of without more elaborate induction, different fuel or more cylinders. It is very heavily armed with two M3 Sorraia nose guns, and four wing-mounted AC-18's. The cabin is armored with a manganese-alloy "bathtub". It has deep ellipse wings to create the lift necessary for its considerable weight, plus that of bomb mounts- it can wrangle 1000kg of bombs on three mounts, potentially holding two Dolphin torpedoes. It doesn't outmaneuver existing fighters, and it's relatively slow. It has a large wingspan, but can fit on Wasp Nest carriers thanks to folding wings, and the large control surfaces are easier to control thanks to servo tabs. It also includes some other new features: foam-lined fuel tanks act to self seal in the event of leaks, and a new Oxygen Regulator which safely controls the pilot's oxygen supply. It can't take off of a Wasp Nest with bombs, the runway is just a little too short. [5 Ore (1Al, 1Mn), 4 Oil]
UFAF-F-40 "Thunderbird":  This is a jet aircraft, powered by two of Forenia's first functional turbojet engines. It is a relatively small fighter, the pilot sits in a round glass cockpit with two AS-AC18 cannons and a Sorraia in the nose. The wings are as narrow as possible, low-mounted and swept back, and have small wing fences to prevent sweep-related instability. The tail is relatively high-mounted to put it outside the jet wash from the wings. It also features air brakes. The Thunderbird's revised aT-J04b engines are relatively small, axial-flow turbojets, and they are somewhat crude in nature. The interior of the turbojet becomes extremely hot, the moving parts are made of complicated nickel alloys, and they burn lean using excess air for cooling. The two engines burn kerosene, and lots of it, and they sit in nacelles under the wings- each generates almost as much power as a Haast engine. Overall the aircraft has a speed a significantly faster than the Stinger (though much less than what these new turbojets are theorized to be capable of), and its jet engines have a higher altitude ceiling. The air brakes are a good choice, because the jet engines must maintain a lot of thrust at their minimum speed to avoid a flame out, so landings and slower combat engagements benefit from them. Requires a long runway for takeoff. [5 Ore, 4 Oil]
UFAF-HAT-41 "Ice Giant" B: [Very Expensive] This is an enormous transport aircraft, powered by eight turbo-prop engines. Each of these engines is based on the aT-J04b, but drives a shaft which powers a propeller, which is more efficient for low-speed applications. The final result is engines which are relatively efficient, but each of them is small, as designing larger turbines would have taken too long. Most of the effort is poured into the enormous airframe, constructed largely of wood. The wing spar and some important reinforcements use aluminum beams. The majority of the frame is arranged in a geodetic structure, but it's still much less resilient to damage and fire than a metal frame. It can carry a single fully loaded Salamander, or about 13 tons of cargo. Compared to smaller bombers, it's slow and flies with the grace of an emu. It lands on eight large, partially-retracting wheels to support its weight. [6 Ore (1 Al), 2 Wood, 7 Oil]
UFAF-F-41 Lightning Streak: This is a single-engine jet fighter, with a large aT-J20 jet taking up most of the fuselage. The aT-J20 is a low-bypass turbofan; some of the air taken in by the compressor blades passes around the engine core and is not combusted. A planned afterburner system wasn't prepared, but the bypass system provides useful cooling. The Lightning Streak has a relatively fat fuselage, which widens out in the middle after the intake and narrows again at the exhaust, there there is a rudder and two tail wings directly on the fuselage. With the round glass canopy (using 15mm of heavy laminated glass) the aircraft has sort of an egg shape, with thin swept wings. The wings have no bomb mounts and are as light as possible for speed and maneuverability, it is armed solely with three AC41 Velociraptor cannons in the nose above the intake, with somewhat limited ammo. It also includes airbrakes on the body near the tail, and hydraulic controls. Since it was designed as an absolutely dedicated fighter, and the aT-J20 is larger and with better weight-specific performance than the J04b, the speed and maneuverability are remarkable. [5 Ore, 4 Oil]
APS-42 "Reality Check": The "Active Protective System" is a module bolted on to the outside of planes, which deploys 25mm magnesium flares, to distract infrared guided missiles. Each canister contains 25 flares. There are five fuses, each of which lights off five flares (and causes them to drop from the plane) at half-second intervals. The fuses are ignited electrically by the pilot. The APS is a bit of a large box which mounts on the outside of a plane and isn't aerodynamic, which is a small concern for bombers but a larger one for fighters.[/b]


UF Navy:
UFS-DD-38 Pattern E 'Archer': The Archer is Forenia's first combat ship. It is relatively small, and made of steel but unarmored, with two 90mm Bumblebee guns, complete with targeting system, in covered turrets on either side of a center con tower. There are also two more Bumblebees not in covered turrets, as the ones in the turrets were supposed to be larger originally. It is powered by two steam turbines, and it is relatively fast. Auxiliary weapons include an AS-AC18 on each side, and some Sorraia machineguns on railing mounts. There are also four Dolphin torpedo in launchers on deck: These are basically wooden chutes which can be aimed on a swivel, before the torpedo is released by untying a knot. [3 Ore, 2 Oil]
UFS-CV 'Wasp Nest' 38, Pattern A: Forenia's first aircraft carrier, and their biggest ship by far compared to the CV22 cargo ship and Archer. Its hull contains four of the turbines used to power the Archer, and is unarmored except for a torpedo belt. ABout a dozen planes stored belowdecks are lifted by a single hydraulic lift. The command center is below-decks, so that the wooden flight deck almost completely covers the ship, giving it a low, flat appearance. There are two Bumblebee AA guns on each side, one deck below on exposed platforms, plus several AC18's for point defense. The last important feature is a set of arresting cables on deck allowing planes to land safely, these catch hooks on the planes themselves, and are lowered out of the way for takeoff. [4 Ore, 2 Oil]
UFS-CV-40 'Zheleznogorod' B: [Expensive] This is Forenia's biggest ship yet; an aircraft carrier with two vertically stacked flight decks. Each deck is longer than those of the Wasp Nest, and built of steel. The lower flight deck is directly connected with the hangar deck, and can only launch aircraft. The upper flight deck can launch and recover aircraft with an arrester, which are transported from the hangar deck with a lift. Each flight deck terminates in a "ski ramp". Between some space on the top flight deck, the hangar deck's floor, and cable winches from the hangar deck ceiling, the Zeleznogorod can carry about 36 planes, but only 20 are able to quickly deploy. However, planes stored on the ceiling are prone to swinging about and often damaged during ordinary ship maneuvers. There is a steam catapult launch assist system, on the lower and longer flight deck only.. This system, broadly speaking, works: heavier aircraft are accelerated enough to take off, but a launch fills the hangar deck with smoke for a few minutes and the rocket motors are lot more expensive than a steam system. There is a con tower as well, but no radar. The space taken up by the two flight decks, hangar, and living quarters leaves fairly little space for the engines. The ship is armed with a few AS-AC18's for point defense only, and armored with a moderate torpedo belt. It is top-heavy, and neither fast nor maneuverable. [6 Ore, 5 Oil]
UFS-CV-50b 'Sea Lift': This is a ship based on the Zheleznogorod hull, but used instead to transport cargo. It includes its own crane and is lightly armed with a Bumblebee and some AC18's. It provides 3 TC, and serves for general purpose logistics such as moving tanks and soldiers to areas with docks.  [6 Ore, 4 Oil]
UFN-CA-41 Catraphract: The Cataphract is a cruiser built to rival Cannala's ships. It is armed with 3x3 150mm gun turrets, each using a fully electrified loading system based on the moderately-performing Overcompensator, except that the 60kg shells are moved in one piece. Each gun can fire 8 times a minute. It has an armored citadel with 300mm of nickel-steel armor (Heavy), and a torpedo belt as well. The deck is also heavily armored, at 120mm (Light) to defend against plunging fire, plus an extra splinter deck. The turrets are similarly armored but take advantage of mangalloy for greater durability. There is a central director in the con tower which controls all the electrically-driven turrets, though there is no advanced firing calculator. Additionally there are three turrets with two bumblebees on each side of the ship, capable of firing on aircraft or ships, and miscellaneous autocannons wherever there is room. It is powered by oil-burning steam turbines, and there are a lot of them though with its considerable armor it only musters moderate speed. [5 Ore (1Mn), 4 Oil]
UFN-BB-41 Vodka: [Expensive] This is a direct copy of the Cannalan Victoria Battlecruiser, from stolen plans. The radar system is not included, and it uses gun turrets derived from the domestic Overcompensator design. Like the Victoria, it has three turrets with two 30cm guns each, a gun control system, heavy citadel armor, and under-performing diesel-electic engines. [7 Ore, 4 Oil]
UF-LST22-42 "Wooden Spear": This is a lander based on the AS-CV22 hull, which has large clamshell doors on the bow and a keel capable of beaching safely. On the lower deck with direct ramp access, there is space for four vehicles, and above there are living quarters to support infantry. The clamshell doors are prone to being wedged shut on the sand when the ship beaches itself, which can make exiting the ship extremely difficult. They also leak constantly and require pumping, if the pumps fail for any reason the ship is endangered.


UF Design Doctrines:
Vehicle Radios: Most vehicles are equipped with a Model 3 Radio set, in a configuration suitable to the size and power source of the vehicle.
Retractable Landing Gear: Unless noted otherwise, aircraft are fitted with retractable landing gear.
Oxygen Regulators: Aircraft are equipped with oxygen systems which are self-regulating and allow the crew to operate at a significant altitude.
Fuel Tank Liners: Unarmored combat vehicles have foam fuel tank liners which can stop or slow leaks if the tank is punctured.
Warheads: Missiles, shells and bombs of various sizes can have various types of warhead attached, such as high-explosive, HEAT, incendiary, and so on. Developing a new warhead type means it will be available in other applications where it could easily apply, and new sizes of shells or bombs are available with various warheads.
Pintle Mounts: Following old Arstotzkan design doctrine, machine guns are placed on pintle mounts where possible, to give them a good verticle aiming range capable of hitting ground and air targets.

UF Resources:
Transport Capacity: 1 by land, 3 by sea (-1 for naval disadvantage), 1 by air
(note: consider re-instating trains to arms list if ground transport becomes a concern)
5 Ore, using 1 TC by air, and receiving 1 from the Axis
4 Oil, using 1 TC by sea, and 1 TC by air
1 Aluminum
1 Manganese

[Sensei]

The Cannalan army currently has the following equipment, not including legacy equipment which can be found near the OP:

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CANNALAN WEAPONS:
4" MSLAAC "Daybreaker": The Mechanical Self-Loading Anti Armor Cannon is an application of a complicated mechanical system to quickly load rounds. Most of the system sits in the tank turret. Rounds are stored in a carousel in the body of the tank before being lifted up to the turret. An electric motor drives the system which rotates the carousel, lifts a new shells into the turret while ejecting the old casing out a flap on the top of the tank, then rams the new shell into the gun- even with 30° inclination or 10° declination, as the shell slides along a set of inter-meshing rails. Turrets containing the autoloader are smaller, longer and much flatter than normal ones, though the 4" cannon and autoloading equipment still isn't lightweight. The system fires 10 times per minute, which is slower than a very skilled crew but still impressive. Replacing the 18-round carousel takes almost a minute, and the carousel can be stopped if a special round needs to be used (such as switching from anti-tank to anti-infantry) which takes about twice as long as a normal load. [+1 Ore if retrofitted to vehicles with a smaller gun]
M1939 "La Sierra" GPMG: The La Sierra is gas-operated open bolt machine gun for the BRC1913 rifle cartridge. It fires from 50-round belts, which can be strung together. It has mounts for a bipod, standard tripod/pintle mounts, or an optical sight, but it's normally used with iron sights. It's relatively light at 21 pounds. [2 Ore 1 Oil]
Gast Autocannon Modernization Revision: This is an update to Cannala's Gast-style autocannons, the Can Shredder and its smaller derivative the Can Perforator. Weight has been saved by altering the alloys used in parts of the gun and replacing some heavy cast parts with smaller stamped ones. The barrels are closer together and the guns are more compact. The weight saving on vehicle mounted guns is minor (though beneficial to aircraft), but carriages have been lightened significantly with hollow aluminum frame construction. All autocannons can easily fit belts or drums, and mixes of ammo types are standardized into anti-infantry, anti-armor and anti-aircraft belts, as well as general purpose belts. Vehicle-mounted guns use electric triggers. There is also a gas bleed valve to tweak rate of fire; normally vehicle rate of fire isn't tampered with but infantry prefer a low rate of fire (and recoil) except when firing up at aircraft. Recoil felt by users has been reduced slightly.

CANNALAN NAVY:
Santos-Class Naval Aircraft Support Vessel: [Expensive] The Santos is a large aircraft carrier. It is about the size of the Khorne but not armored. It's powered by four oil-burning steam turbines, which are more powerful than coal ones. The hangar deck stores two dozen fighters, moved to the flight deck by a hydraulic lift. On deck is an Eagle Eye Radar system, con tower, a few Firecracker AA guns and a miscellaneous autocannons wherever there's spare room. It also has a decent sized flight deck, with an arrester cable for landing aircraft, and two overlapping runways with room for ready aircraft on deck. It also has a steam catapult, which allows it to launch some planes which could not normally take off from its short runway. [5 Ore, 4 Oil]
Victoria-Class Battlecruiser: [Very Expensive] The Victoria is built to carry her three gun turrets, each of which mounts two 12" cannons, a vast increase in size over the Nightstorm guns. Each gun (for now called a Victoria Cannon) fires shells weighing about 800 pounds out of a built-up barrel nearly 50 feet long, to a distance much greater than the Nighstorm (though moderate for guns of this class). Shells and powder charges are rammed in separately by a complicated hydraulic lift system, the guns can fire once about every 25 seconds. Each gun is controlled by a more advanced version of the fire director from the Khorne: Various information is fed by spotters on deck to the fire control room, where mechanical calculators aid a team to form a firing solution, which they feed back to the guns, and the system also helps to fire the guns when the ship is exactly level. This is necessary to effectively aim at the ranges the guns are capable of. There is a Heavy armored citadel, a torpedo belt with empty compartments, and large diesel-electric engines. They are the first diesel engines of this size in Cannala, and are less powerful than steam turbines but easier to fit within the safety of the citadel armor, the Victoria is a slow and lumbering beast. Extra armaments include six Firecracker-style AA turrets, on a separate director system, about a dozen Can Shredders, and a few Type 45 Torpedo launchers on deck where there was room. It has a radar system as well; the deck is crowded between the turrets, armaments and other features. [7 Ore, 4 Oil]
Keres-Class Cruiser: The Keres is essentially a Victoria variant designed to be cheaper. Is has only 2x3 batteries of 9" guns, and the armor around the citadel is less but it has gained an armored deck. It has the same engines, but it's a bit faster for the lost weight. [6 Ore, 4 Oil]


CANNALAN LAND VEHICLES:
M3T1A1 Raider: [Cheap] Daybreaker Variant: [Cheap] The Raider is a Diesel-Electric tracked APC designed to serve as a base platform for many roles. It has light RHA armor with a sloped front, plus slats. It holds ten passengers and three crew, making it look like a large metal box. It has an interchangeable turret, which is very wide and flat with medium armor. Default armament is a Can shredder, plus 6 external Thumper barrels for smoke grenades and an RPG, these can only be reloaded from the outside. It's also chemical warfare protected, and last but not least, amphibious, with a trim vane and two electric powered propellers. Exits are on large rear hatch and one small top hatch, only latter can be used while afloat. [3 Ore 2 Oil] Daybreaker Variant: [4 Ore 2 Oil]
M3T1A3 "Dragon" Flamethrower Raider: The Dragon is a raider turret which spews flame over a long distance, it occupies most of the passenger space with fuel. To work the raider must be stopped, and a lever thrown to connect the engine to the pump instead of the transmission. Fuel can be pumped out to medium range over a pilot light, burning everything in its path. Operators need to watch the pressure of their tanks very carefully, as they grow hotter while the Dragon flames. It is best to operate only in short bursts. +1 Oil over regular Raider cost.
M3T3A1 SPAAG "Firecracker": The Self-Propelled AA Gun is placed on a Raider chassis, although it was found far easier to operate with the entire roof of the Raider removed and some of the passenger space taken up by the weapon than fitting in the existing turret place. It relies on a specially modified Daybreaker system, the section which lifts rounds out of the carousel is curved to match the gun's movement range. It has a fuze system for air-burst rounds, where the gunner sets the altitude on a dial and the actual fuze time is determined based on that and the angle of the gun. [4 Ore 2 Oil]
M4A1 "Bull": [Expensive] The bull is a main battletank powered by a novel turboshaft engine. It carries a Daybreaker in a heavy-armored turret with heavy front armor, and medium armor over the rest of the tank. Secondary armaments include a coaxial MG and pintle MG, and 14 smoke grenade launchers (6 on the turret 8 on the body), arguably a result of interference from contractor Al's Fireworks and Parlor Tricks. The bull's kerosene-fueled turboshaft engine is the first example of a self-compressing gas turbine motor in Cannala, and relies on high-temperature alloys to allow the turbine blades to function downstream of the combustor, and it's watercooled to keep it from getting too hot. The turboshaft is small, mainly because only a small design was found to be reliable, but it it allows the tank a relatively low profile and generates as much power as a Blackhawk engine. It sucks in air through small scoops on top of the rear tank body, and exhausts through vents on the back, which cause a fairly large weak spot in the armor. It's also dangerous to stand behind, the exhaust can cause first degree burns in just a few seconds. It's uncomfortably hot inside the tank as well. [6 Ore (1 Ti), 4 Oil]

CANNALAN AIR FORCE:
M1938 A-3 'Parrot': The Parrot is a low-cost air superiority fighter, designed to counter the Yellowjacket. It looks very similar to the Falcon, but without the complicated prop system and reduced to a 10-cyclinder, normally aspirated power plant. It too is fully aluminum, and contains most of the little features like retractable gear, an oxygen system, and a reflex sight. It is actually quite heavily armed with two Muerte heavy machine guns and two Can Perforators, though the perforators don't have a lot of ammo. [3 Ore (2Al), 2 Oil]
M1940 A-5 'Spearhead' Air Superiority Fighter: Following Forenia's Thunderbird design, the Spearhead is an aluminum-built fighter with two turbojet engines. It features a rounded canopy, swept wings, pointy nose, and the engines are under each wing, but hug the body closely; the inlets are flush with the fuselage. It's also fairly heavily armed: Each wing has a double-barrel Can Perforator, and a heavy Can Shredder sits in the nose, so the whole thing is built a bit beefier than the Thunderbird. The two Morei turbojets burn kerosene and take some advantage of experiences of the Bull tank's turboshaft, it includes a water-cooling system (the shared radiator creates a third intake under the body). They use the same easier manufacturing process too, and the performance of the plane is only slightly worse for the added weight of the cooler. Despite carrying more weight, it's very nearly as fast as the Thunderbird, but it does have trouble recovering from stalls. On the other hand, when it's keeping good speed it can make impressive turns thanks to its hydraulic control system; the pilot can pull the relatively large control surfaces with ease. It has good killing power too: The smaller cannons are good for dogfighting and the Can Shredder can do serious damage to bombers from a safe distance. It has very little ammo, but also needs very little: pilots must simply be careful not to waste it all on a quick burst. [4 Ore (1 Ti, 1 Al), 4 Oil]
M1942 A-5B ‘Spearhead-B’ Air Superiority Fighter: The B version of the Spearhead has the heavy Can Shredder autocannon removed. A bunch of stuff the American wind tunnel engineer tried to explain about votrexes or teeth or whatever was ignored, it didn't make any sense. The empty space where the Can Shredder was has been used for a little more Can Perforator ammo and fuel, and a hardpoint for 500lb bombs or missiles has been added under each wing.
H-1 "Twinblade" Combat Synchrocopter: [Expensive] The Twinblade is a synchropter (I checked the spelling twice), which is a helicopter with two closely intermeshing rotors, each with two blades, separated on the roll axis. Each one is powered by a turboshaft, on either side of the fuselage. Adjusting the pitch and relative torque of these rotors allows the Twinblade to pitch and yaw, and additional control is provided by control surfaces on the tail, it has a rudder and elevator like an airplane. It is operated by two crewmembers who sit in the centerline, in the higher rear part is the pilot and the lower front part is the gunner, who controls a can-perforator on a turret below him. The turret gun is controlled by a hydraulic joystick and also move a gun sight to show where the gun is aiming, it has about a 120 degree lateral range and 60 degree declination/15 degree inclination. There are also two winglets which support 250lb bomb mounts. It has a relatively large body which provides room for up to four passengers. The Twinblade now has light armor over some critical components and the pilot/gunner to make it less vulnerable to rifle fire. A further re-adjustment of the maneuvering controls brings it to the somewhat underwhelming pinnacle of what is possible without a redesign: To really maneuver, it needs get some forward speed and rely on its control surfaces. Otherwise, its abilities to stop, strafe, and roll are tolerable, but it's still slow to yaw which is troublesome when tracking ground targets while hovering. [5 Ore (1 Ti, 1 Al), 4 Oil]
M-1942 Missile Auto-Guided Infrared Camera (MAGIC): The MAGIC is a guided missile, controlled by a system of five infrared sensors. With five lenses on the front of the missile, the sensors detect the presence or absence of a heat source in quadrants above, below, left, right, and within a narrow angle center of the missile's nose. Each of these sensors is tied to a vacuum tube which deflects (or locks straight) the missile's four tail fins, which steer the missile up, down, left, or right respectively. The fins are actuated by two solenoids, one for the vertical fins and one for the horizontal fins, which are always either straight or fully deflected in one direction, and a battery provides power for up to 20 seconds after launch. The missile is a fat, straight cylinder, the control system adds a lot of bulk. It is propelled by solid propellant for up to 25 seconds (a little longer than the battery life). It weighs about 700 pounds total, with a small-for-this-missile, impact-detonated 50 pound warhead which is more than enough for any air targets. It's not particularly fast as missiles go and tends to snake inaccurately through the air, it can't hit anything faster or smaller than a bomber. It locks on at about one mile on a good day, but can fly two miles. It has a noticeable dud rate due to vacuum tube failures. [Complex] [3 Ore, 3 Oil]
M1942 Missile, Auto-Guided, Infrared Camera (MAGIC) Mk.2 "Hellfire": [Expensive] The Hellfire Missile is an improvement over the original MAGIC Mk.1 in a few ways. The basic technology behind it as a rocket has improved, a specialized propellant is much more compact and powerful than the one adapted from infantry RPGs, so the rocket is lighter and faster. The structure has gotten lighter as well. The Hellfire includes an entirely new guidance system in the nose, and two sets of fins. Four rear fins are fixed stabilizers, and four fins close to the nose are controlled by servos, rather than solenoids, which gives them the ability to make partial turns. The sensor head now consists of 13 individual sensors under a single lens, in a diamond shape. There is a rotating circular shroud on top of the sensors, so that only a single "line" of sensors, including the center one and three or four others, can "see" at a time. This system reduces the number of necessary vacuum tubes to a fraction of those needed if all sensors were viewing all the time, and the output is reduced to merely the approximate angle to which the target is off-center of the missile. The direction is interpreted based on the position of the shroud, by a rotating electro-mechanical apparatus, which determines the power delivered to the four servos. This seeker head is much heavier than the Magic Mk.1 and includes a larger battery as well. The last new feature is a "tone generator", which makes a noise in the cockpit to alert the pilot when one or more of the missiles on his plane has a target somewhere in his field of view, but doesn't alter based on how well-centered he is or other information. This is a simple retrofit to any planes which might carry the Hellfire missile. The missile's guidance is more accurate and reliable than the Mk.1, but the rotating shroud means that it might take a second to adjust to a chance in its target's direction, and it tends to slightly spiral around its intended course, a marked improvement from the Mk.1's violent zig-zags. It has a maximum flight time of about 25 seconds, and a maximum range of four miles in that time, and the seeker head can find a target from two to three miles on a good day. The warhead has been reduced to 25 pounds, and the total missile weight is down to 500 pounds. It is [Complex] and has a cost of 3 Ore, 3 Oil.


CANNALAN COMMUNICATIONS AND OTHER:
General Cortez: General Cortez is a storied pirate sailor, and under him the Cannalan Navy has an inherent advantage in battle.
M1938 HEAT: These shells contain a shaped charge, like with the antitank RPG warheads. At 100mm, they are effective against heavy armor. These are still fairly basic, like Forenian rounds.
M1938 APDS: A long and narrow kinetic penetrator fired from cannons in a sabot. Unlike HEAT, they're good against spaced armor but poor against sloped armor. Currently accuracy is poorer than conventional rounds. Made from hardened steel, they're cheaper than existing full sized hardened steel rounds.
Drunken Pirate Encryption: The Cannalans have adopted a slightly modified One-Time-Pad encryption system. Paper sheets with a unique encryption key are distributed by courier before important orders are read aloud but in code over radio. There are a couple other simple steps to obscure the message, and decoy couriers are also sent with fake pads, but it still has the inherent drawbacks of OTP. There is a delay in sending pads and confirming they have arrived safely, and then since the pads are only used once, encryption is reserved for important and long-term orders.
Eagle Eye RADAR: [Expensive] The Eagle Eye is a relatively advanced radar system which can identify an aircraft at significant range, showing the range, direction, and approximate altitude. This is accomplished with an array of antennae in a metal frame, which rotates on a turntable. It has a CRT display with a rotating refresh line which the operator can read. It can be mounted on ships, where it takes up about a turret's worth of space including the magazine below deck, or in a temporary installation of four trucks, which takes a few hours to set up. There is also a separate version which looks identical, but can only identify sea-surface contacts. [Complex]
Bureacrat's Wife Radio Equipment: This is a portable radio system with a variety of new features. First, the entire system fits in a single backpack, with a battery good for about an hour and a hand crank charger (it can also charge off a truck). A two-way voice handset or morse transmitter can be attacked. It also has a "scrambler" which comes in a separate backpack-sized box- the vaccuum tubes necessary to make it work couldn't fit in the first. On this are three dials which set a "scramble pattern" and buttons for "wait" and "start". While in the "wait" state, the radio does not begin working until hearing a three-second "start tone" from another scrambler. Then both both begin switching frequencies multiple times per second in sync with each other, on an arbitrary pattern determined by the setting dials, making the voice or morse communication impossible to listen in on.
'Immortal' Armor: This alternative armor set replaces the chest and back piece two back plates, and four chest plates of thin molybdenum steel alloy. The splitting of chest and back coverage into multiple plates gives soldiers the ability to crouch, crawl and maneuver in relative comfort. The plates are in a "carrier vest", allowing them to be easily removed and replaced. However the important feature is that soldiers in immobile positions, such as aircraft crews, some tank crew members, and machine gunners can double-layer the chest and back armor. [3 Ore]
1941 Infrared Sighting System "Aswang": [Expensive] This is a night vision device, consisting of an infrared spotlight, a scope which allows the user to view infrared light, and a rechargeable battery. The spotlight is simply filtered, so that only invisible infrared light passes through. The scope contains a small cathode ray tube, operated by power transformed from the battery to several kilovolts. The battery is in a backpack and makes up the bulk of the system's weight, at 32 pounds it is man-portable but uncomfortably heavy. The large spotlight and scope are normally attached to the weapon, whether the weapon is a sniper rifle or machine gun, and these add seven pounds to weapon making it unwieldy without a bipod. The scope looks bulky and the seven-inch spotlight looks enormous on top of it, and there are some wires running along the outside and a cable to the backpack, as well as some adjustment dials and an on/off switch visible along the side of the scope. The Aswang's spotlight illuminates targets up to a little over 100 yards, without revealing the user's position. [Complex]
1942 Infrared Sighting System "Aswang II" Revision: [Expensive] The Aswang II is based on the original Aswang night vision system, but the entire thing is smaller and more efficient. The system is down to about 22 pounds for the same lifetime, and the spotlight is only four and a half inches. Vehicle-powered spotlights are larger, at ten inches, and illuminate to about 250 yards. The viewing scopes are also a bit shorter. The system is still Complex.
M1942 Proximity Fuze, Radio Detection: This is a fuze which projects a radio signal, and detonates if the radio signal is reflected off of an object which is close enough. It can fit in shells or missiles with at least a 3 inch diameter. The distance from a solid object at which is detonates is configurable, from 2-10 yards.


CANNALAN DESIGN DOCTRINES:
Vehicle Radios: Most vehicles come standard with a Bureaucrat's Wife radio system, with broadcast range appropriate to the size of the vehicle and its power source.
Slat Armor: Ground armored vehicles are retrofitted with slat armor over their normal armor, to help defeat HEAT warheads.
Retractable Landing Gear: Unless otherwise specified, aircraft have retractable wheeled landing gear.
Oxygen Systems: Aircraft come with an oxygen system for the crew.
Filters: Enclosed armored vehicles come with the necessary equipment to seal themselves and filter the crew's air in case of a gas attack.
Warheads: Missiles, shells and bombs of various sizes can have various types of warhead attached, such as high-explosive, HEAT, incendiary, and so on. Developing a new warhead type means it will be available in other applications where it could easily apply, and new sizes of shells or bombs are available with various warheads.
Compartmentalization: Large ships are separated into many compartments which can be sealed individually if one begins flooding, to prevent the flooding from spreading to the rest of the ship.

CANNALAN RESOURCES:
Transport Capacity: 1 by land, 3 by sea, 1 by air.
2 Wood
4 Ore, using 1 TC by sea
4 Oil, using 1 TC by sea, and receiving 1 from the Allies
2 Aluminum, Using 1 TC by sea
1 Titanium, using 1 TC by air
1 Magnesium

[Sensei]

The War This Turn:
This season, Forenia is attacking on North Cannala and Titan, while Cannala is attempting to push into Tereshkova in the north and regain their ground in the West Forenian jungle.

The Battle at Sea
General Tereshkova leads a wing fighters to the coast of Cannala- behind them, the bombers and transports that make up Forenia's most valuable force. Opposing Cannalan fighters are coming from straight ahead. Tereshkova orders her wingmen to stay back, wait until the Cannalans launch their seeking missiles and says, "watch this." It's a maneuver she's done before: She pushes her plane to full throttle and causes multiple missiles to divert. Then when they get close, she doubles back and the missiles streak off into empty sky. Except this time, two missiles explode in mid-air. The rumors that Cannala had developed proximity fuzes were true, and sooner than anyone had imagined. Tereshkova's wing watches in horror as her plane sputters smoke and spirals down, the controls locked. A parachute emerges, and several planes are detached to make sure the Cannalans don't shoot her on the way down.

Cannala's new Proximity Fuze is first used in combat at sea. Its use in missiles is the most greatly anticipated- pilots record a high number of bomber kills with the Hellfire and MAGIC MK I. While the new Forenian flares often divert missiles away from their targets, the proximity fuze can be configured to detonate the missile a good distance away and still do serious damage to an aircraft with its large warhead. This can reliably kill large craft or damage them enough to prevent them from reaching their destination, except for the notoriously durable Reckless Effect. A few fighter kills are recorded as well, but even with the proximity fuze the missiles lack the maneuverability to reliable chase fighters. Overall while the proximity fuze might have granted Cannala's missiles an extremely high kill rate, the Forenian flares mean that multiple missiles are still typically expended per target.

However, where the proximity fuze really shines is in AAA use. Cannala employs a large number of cannons and even some dedicated ships to firing at Forenian aircraft, which are responsible for a large number of ship losses. However, even a high volume of fire has always been an unreliable means of stopping enemy aircraft. Now, it's possible for massed fire to effectively screen aircraft out from an area. Forenia's Haast is durable and well suited to the role, but wings of fighters like this can no longer reliably get close enough to ships to destroy them with bombs and cannons if they're protected by craft like the Seaweed AAA Cruiser.

Forenia continues to have some advantages- their fighters are more effective than Cannala's, and they can put out a lot of cannon fire with their Vodka battlecruisers, which are cheaper than Cannala's Victoria. But the leadership of General Cortez and the tactical advantage of sea mines and small torpedo boats means that Cannala is taking back the seas.

Cannala has an advantage at sea.

The Battle for North Cannala
Attacking: Forenia

Forenia's new battle tank, the Bjorn, is first deployed here. The open hilly fields play are an excellent environment for the low-profile tank, which can peek over hilltops while exposing a very small silhouette, and maneuver at full speed. Its full-length 100mm gun is effective against the Bull tank, and its armor can often stop Daybreaker rounds- in particular, the first impacts HEAT rounds are defeated by the ERA and any impacts by APDS are defeated by the extreme slope of the armor. There are some downsides, the cannon takes much longer to load than the Daybreaker thanks to the tank's internal layout and the wide, flat top armor with its exhaust vents is vulnerable to artillery and presents an easy target to aircraft if there are no Forenian fighters close at hand. Overall, the Bjorn is enough to push armored combat in Forenia's favor.

However, the more pressing issue is that Forenia's navy and air transport craft have both had a big bite taken out of them at sea. Forenians landing on Cannala are simply outnumbered.

Forenia fails to take ground on Cannala.


The Battle for the Tereshkova Jungle
Attacking: Cannala
The wet season begins.

With the Forenian attempt at taking North Cannala failed, Cannala gaining land on Tereshkova is all but inevitable. There are other contributing factors as well though: Cannala's naval advantage is back, and their proximity fuzes have weakened Forenia's bomber attacks and air transport (which they rely on very heavily here) as well as improving the effectiveness of their artillery against soft targets in general. The Bjorn tank also struggles to maneuver in the mud of the jungle wet season, and its wide profile adds difficulty with clearing roads and crossing bridges, reducing its effectiveness which had been so remarkable on open ground.

Cannala gains ground! [Cannala 1/4, Forenia 3/4] Forenia will lose access to the ore here!

The Battle for Titan:
Attacking: Forenia

Forenia puts up much more of a fight here. Like in Cannala, the wide-open spaces favor their Bjorn tank. Their infantry armor and better sniper rifles are significant advantages as well, although troops bemoan the fact that even after all these years optical scopes are too expensive to be standard issue. Both sides put up a similar amount of naval bombardment -Forenia's cheap Vodka ship are matched by Victoria ships with proximity fuzes and better crews- and Cannala does have some numbers advantage. Cannalan soldiers make little use of their night vision, the open spaces on Titan give few places to hide and aren't hard to illuminate with ordinary light, and the winter nights on Titan are so cold as to risk casualties in any case. However, as foul weather fills the skies and ice moves in the harbor, Forenia finds an unexpected advantage: Many turbine aircraft are forced to stay grounded, allowing their piston engined Reckless Effect transports to deploy vehicles and soldiers, while both sides struggle with landing ships. Combined with the significant advantage of armor and infantry combat, Forenia makes a foothold on the frozen wastes.

Forenia gains ground! [Cannala 3/4, Forenia 1/4]

The Battle for the Forenian Jungle
Attacking: Cannala

The terrain in West Forenia is similar to that of West Tereshkova, with thick jungles. Cannala's small boats are also useful in the rivers here, and they make good use of their night vision. Forenia's ERA-equipped APCs are still a significant advantage. However, with reduced bombing capability, Forenia can't hold Cannalan forces at bay.

Cannala takes a foothold once again. [Cannala 1/2, Forenia 1/2]

Events outside the War:

The Outside World:
German submarine attacks are sinking allied military and merchant ships at an alarming rate. Mahatma Gandhi is arrested by British imperial forces after demanding independence for India. Plutonium is first isolated, in the Metallurgy Lab at the University of Chicago. Luxembourg is formally annexed by Germany. The Jewish Lachwa Ghetto, in occupied Poland, starts an uprising against the German police and soldiers controlling it. Most of the residents are killed, but a few hundred escape. A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on Mt. Emily, on the coast of Oregon in an attempt to start a forest fire. This is the first attack on the continental United States of the war.

Local Events:
The Secret Police have issued a report: It is believed that Vlanlados still has a secret cell of spies who are stealing resources from Forenia. Vlanlados has aided Arstotzkan rebels in the past. However, their intelligence says that the Arstotzkan rebels are inactive. Be on the lookout, one of your neighbors could still be a spy!

In Cannala, the secret police report that whatever spies were active in Cannala have been stopped or gone into hiding. What resources do go missing are probably just regular corruption clerical oversight.

Propaganda Contest

Cannalan Entries:

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Mandemon:

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Victoria: The best Battlecruiser in archipelago

Victoria is the jewel of the Cannalan Navy. Far more powerful than anything else on the sea, it's massive 12'' guns can rip apart any other vessel on the sea, it's armor holds against other vessels, it's loading mechanism allows it unprecedented rate of fire for its guns size and it's director system allows accurate firing. With powerful engines the ship is surprisingly fast too, being able to maintain steady advance alongside lighter ships.

However, what is the most impressive fact about Victoria, is that even Forenia agrees how great it is. Is it not said that "Imitation is the highest form of flattery"? Indeed, Forenian Vodka-class cruisers are direct imitations of Victoria, down to the smallest detail. This includes "CNS Victoria" written in the mess hall, because apparently they thought it was a critical detail!

NikolaAnic007

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While United Forenia boasts of it's skills in the field of rocketry, housing an entire party dedicated to it and claiming to have built a rocket to send a man to the Moon, even it's claimed national successes wither in face of Cannala's quickly developing rocket program, which has, just in the last couple of years, delivered a guided missile surpassing any comparative programs not only in the Archipelago, but also in the world at large.

Missile, Auto-Guided, Infrared Camera, or MAGIC as it is better known among Cannalan engineers and pilots, is a true game changer in aerial warfare. Since the first days of aerial warfare, when pilots shot each other using pistols, combat in the sky has focused around engaging the enemy where you can see them, finding a perfect angle and engaging in what is called dog fighting, or strafing the target. MAGIC, both the Mark 1 and the Mark 2, make these tactics obsolete. Cannala's pilots no longer need to see the enemy to send death their way, and the enemy can no longer avoid a shot simply by flying slightly off from their nose, mid-strafe. MAGIC is a true hunter, as, using guidance technology, it locks onto it's target and then chases it until it's been intercepted and destroyed - presenting a notable advantage over unguided rockets, autocannons or machine guns employed in most air forces.

Forenia may claim to have introduced the jet engine, but even their jet fighters relied on the same old weapons and the same tactics in battle. More importantly, the nature of war in the skies did not change. After the introduction of MAGIC, no enemy is safe - and no target out of reach for long. Aerial warfare will never be the same again.

BBBence111:

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Comparing Forenia's best tank to Cannala's doesn't seem very fair, as the Cannalan Bull can laugh off shots from the first, while taking out Forenia's "top of the line" T33s as some light target practice. Despite having similar cost in materials (the Bull using superior Titanium, but still costing about the same), the two tanks' differences quickly become apparent.

The Bull's heavy front and medium side/back armor easily outperforms the T33's armor which at best can be called medium on the front. Even the newly designed "Blood Eagle" ERA fails to help, as it tends to blow up after one hit, injuring infantry around it.

The Bull's turboshaft engine is the first in the world, and despite being small it performs reliably and effectively. The only apparent fault is the heat output making the tank dangerous to stand close to, but soldiers reported that during winter they prefer the heat. Meanwhile Forenia opted for a traditional 12 cylinder diesel engine.

The T33 has been described by Forenian engineers as a "wedge with a gun". It's turret fails to penetrate most armor, as while it could get through "medium" armor when it was created, it has not been updated to modern armor standards.

The Bull's Daybreaker cannon's self loading system is a top of the line invention (While the T33 only allows for manual reload), that allows for reload even with 30° inclination or 10° declination. The 4" shells used have no problem penetrating most armor types.

Forenian Entries:

Wizgrot:

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When speculating about who will win a war, it is useful to compare the rank and file side by side. While most of the war consists in how you treat your enemies, killing them dead, for example, a quick look at physical unit of the army, the individual fighter, offers distinct insight about the doctrines that govern each army.

Let´s start with a typical Cannalan “fighter”. To further appreciate the appeal of this particular species, we must observe it in its natural habitat. A puddle of vomit in a shabby bar. Having just puked the last month´s pay in the floor, the Cannalan soldier offers quite a disgraceful view. Wearing shorts, T-shirt and flip-flops, its rusty M1913 nowhere to be seen, pawned off in exchange for more watered down rum. However, it would be untrue to judge the Cannalan army as totally hopeless. A careful medical examination of POWs shows that the average Cannalan soldier is a vector for no less than four different diseases, two of them, on average, of venereal nature. While there was speculation of a “ultimate warrior breeding program” taking place, further investigations have confirmed that the sanitary corps of the Cannalan army treat soap as an option, asking for more rum-based disinfectant from the supply line, most of which disappears down their throats.

At the opposite end of the spectrum, we have the typical Forenian soldier. Unlike the scurvy laden conscripts that we reviewed earlier, this time we are in front of a hardened veteran. Disciplined, resourceful but, most important of all, confident. Not the kind of blind and hopeless faith that those pirate rats get from a bottle, but the firm belief that when he fights, he is backed by the might of his homeland, from the coldest tundra of Arstotska to the hottest desert of Moskurg. And it shows in his equipment. He is dressed to kill, with boots from the best leather, uniforms sewn with the latest nylon technology, with detachable armor plates and a thousand other quirks that make his life easier and his opponents´, short. In his hands, he holds the mighty AS13, considered by some* the most advanced rifle in this war, a piece of technology so sublime it may as well a piece of art and the gun of choice of Germany during the occupation of Czechoslovakia. It is said that the poorly trained forces of our enemies flee in terror from their sunglasses-covered eyes. They are, in every sense conceivable, dressed to kill.
In conclusion, the result of the Forenian-Cannalan theater has been decided from the start. Our nation wins in every category, whether it being technology, discipline or style. It would be wise, no matter ideological allegiance, to plan in accord of this development. The Forenian Engineering Board is always ready to cooperate with any friendly nation to further develop our technology and bring forth a brand-new, Cannalan-free world.

EvictedSaint:

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Nuke9.13:

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They said it couldn't be done! They called us mad! Who's laughing now!?
Where other nations dedicate the time of their top weapon engineers to nothing but weapons, United Forenia dared to break the mold. What would happen, we asked, if instead of designing weapons, we designed every non-weapon piece of equipment a soldier carries? Yes, we set out to make our soldiers' lives better in numerous small ways, that would eventually add up to a substantial advantage. It's this sort of out-of-the-box thinking that sets UF apart from lesser nations.
Did you know that the Cannalans allegedly haven't designed a single new thing this entire war, but rather have been pulling stockpiled designs out of a giant folder? Truly, they epitomise the rigid thinking that shackles mankind- shackles that must be broken so that we may reach forwards to the glorious future!

The project, dubbed "Infantry Quality of Life", was a resounding success. It would be literally impossible to do better. To name but one example of QoL's many benefits, take Forenia's stylish sunglasses. Obviously they are superior to Cannala's non-existent sunglasses, but we contend that they are, in fact, the best sunglasses in the world- comfortable, effective, and safe to wear in combat. On at least one occasion, the use of sunglasses turned the tide of an entire battle, turning what could've been a defeat into glorious victory. Not only that, but that battle turned out to be a pivotal moment in the defence of Mt. Konstantin- a single pair of sunglasses was responsible for driving the Cannalans of the island.

There are, of course, foul rumours that QoL was a waste of time- but pay them no heed. Have I not outlined a true, verifiable story in which the smallest item in this groundbreaking project had massive ramifications for the war at large?

andrea:

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Haast, pride of army and air force

The Haast is one of the finest pieces in Forenian arsenal and it shows its exceptional engineering in many ways. The powerful V12 engine is pushed to the limit of this configuration, the large ellipse wing provide exceptional lift; this allows the Haast to have surprising speed and agility for its weight. Thanks to this incredible weight allowance a mangalloy armor around the cabin was implemented, called a “bathtub”, which protects the pilot from anything short of autocannons. The weapon payload is also extraordinary, boosting 2 machineguns, 4 autocannons and one tonne of bomb capacity on 3 hardpoints. The Raptor autocannon used in the design is a marvellous design of light weight engineering, perhaps the lightest of our time while still having excellent performance; thanks to this, ammunition storage is plentiful permitting sustained fire. If this wasn’t enough, the plane is also extraordinarily sturdy: Forenian patented self-sealing tanks, great lift and armor make it extremely hard to shoot down, to the point that pilots joke that it could keep going even with both wings torn off. Plus, its folding wings make it suitable for deployment on sea as well as on land.

But, with all those innovative features, what does the Haast do? It is not a fighter and not a bomber, but it created a new class for itself, the close air support aircraft (or CAS for shortness), which is designed and operated to closely help ground troopers on the ground. It descends on the battlefield using its many cannons to devastate vehicles and infantry alike, while the bomb payload is dropped on the hardiest targets; deployed from a carrier, it brings torpedoes to the naval game, aiding our ships as well as it aids our brave infantrymen on the ground. Any common plane would be easily shot down flying so close to the battlefield, or it would fly by too quickly to make a useful attack run. The Haast however can stay airborne at surprisingly low speeds thanks to its wing design and its resilience make attacks from the ground almost unconcerning.

It would be useful to compare it to other planes of its kind, but the truth is that there is none that match the role and capability of the Haast. The only other vehicle that may attempt to fill a similar niche on the battlefield is the Cannalan twinblade, a rotating wing contraption that is supposed to hover on the battlefield and provide continuous support. However, while the Haast is an astounding success, the twinblade is prone to crashes, spinning out of control and rapid unplanned disassemblies. All the opposite compared to the extraordinary airplane that that flies in our skies and rains death on our foes.

Here, in the CAS aircraft field, Forenia proves its engineering leadership, opening a new era of warfare in which air and ground are more linked than ever.


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My colleague has gone into great depth with the HAAST, but that is only one aspect of the Forenian air power that is vastly superior to the Canallans.  We had created the first aircraft carrier in the region, the Wasp Nest, as the second warship and the third ship we had ever attempted to produce, and swiftly followed it with the first practical twin-decked aircraft carrier.  We have made the first jet-powered engine in the archipelago and the first turboprop combat plane in the archipelago, the first turbofan combat plane in the world that nearly breaks the speed of sound at times, and have possession of the largest plane in the archipelago.  While their missile may seem impressive, if you look into its performance records, you would see that it is horrible at tracking anything smaller than a bomber class that is long out of date.

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[piratejoe]

The UFAF-SHB-42 "Hammer of Forenia" Is designed by Joseph Izz Stalling, an ace Arstotzkan pilot of Forenia and part time designer who is also the same guy who designed the Ice giant, only this time he probably downed 10 vodka's before designing this titan of a bomber. The gargantuan bomber has a grand total of 8 large turbojet engines on its massive wings that are air and water cooled with self sealing tanks with four on each wing, the engines are designed to be able to be used as at high of an altitude as possible along as being made for as long range as they could with a lot of fuel in the self sealing tanks, it has this many engines as well so to have a max payload of around about 20 tonnes. It is armed with 2 turrets, both armed with 4 20mm autocannons with one on the tail and one on the nose. The whole cabin is pressurized and the bombardier is in a compartment just above the bomb bay that is connected with the main cabin and has bombing sights for aiming, naturally, there are oxygen masks in case of a breach by enemy fire. The design is also has its structure armored a bit as to increase survivability, with critical parts of the frame made out of manganese steel. The large retractable landing gear are located in the wings and near the nose and are quite large to support the aircraft. The aircraft also has two loudspeaker systems in addition to the radio in the front, one labeled "For ordering the crew around" that is mostly to tell the bombardier they are near the target. And the other labeled "Taunt" which is just attached to a loudspeaker that is outside the aircraft, mostly for moral reasons. There are also five small compartments near the nose and one near the tail for snacks and maybe a pistol if any of the aircrew wants to take one, just in case the aircraft somehow starts going down, there is an ejection system in place to save the crew. Along with all of this, there is a large integrated flare system in the aircraft that in theory should be easy to retrofit with new flare designs as we make them, just in case the Cann's manage to fly high enough to strike at the bomber. There is also a cargo and civilian version of the design next to the military version, but the civilian version wasn't taken here for discussion and instead was given to GloryStar Airlines.

[Light forger]

UF-RJ-42 'Fair Fight Module'
The Fair Fight™ is a purpose built radio jammer coming in a broad range of sizes. The smallest size is made up of an umbrella shaped antenna, a box about the same size as our tiger's roar radio and, a separate battery pack shamelessly stolen from the said radio. The box has a number of options which include(but not limited too), three tuners to adjust the frequency of the jamming effect, a power modulator to adjust the strength of the signal, a pulse adjuster to change the timing of the pulses and, a 5 setting on/off switch able to set the jammer to one of the three setting or randomly swap between them. The system can be scaled up almost infinitely by increasing the size of the antenna size and power source. The module can be easily mounted just about anywhere on our ships, planes and, vehicles to protect them from proximity fuzes. The main options envisioned are mounting on the tail fin, nose, belly of planes(depending on size, only the tail for fighters all three for the ice giant etc...) and also mounting on the top of vehicles.

[RAM]

It is becoming increasingly apparent that we need to take out their over-laden missile aircraft before they get into range. We need an airborne radar to alert our bombers to incoming threats and to dispatch fighters to intercept.

[Jilladilla]

That would help, but discussion on discord did reveal that we can in fact jam their proximity fuses to render them non-functional. The flares work at preventing direct hits, but don't forget that their AAA is tearing us up our bombers at sea as well. The jammer works against those too; it forces them to score direct hits, and turns near-misses into just that, misses.

[Madman198237]

Actually, the jammer, if sized up appropriately, we be capable of prematurely detonating these munitions. If it's got enough range, they'll detonate them as soon as the projectiles arm (i.e., right after being fired). Using proximity detonation will be a hazard, not a benefit for them.