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Glorious Arstotzka

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Battle Report 1: Summer 1938

In preparation for war, Forenia has made a new weapon: The 'Dolphin' Torpedo. It is similar in size to the Cannalan Shark torpedo, and designed exclusively to be dropped from aircraft for the the time being. However, its wet heater motor and gyro stablizer are delicate instruments, requiring aircraft to get low and slow before dropping the Dolphin.

The Forenian Army currently has the following equipment:

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UF Weapons:
-AS-SP30: [L] General infantry sidearm. An Arstotzka-made semi-automatic pistol, firing 9mm. It has a 10-round magazine and can fire quickly with moderate accuracy, at short range. Moderate stopping power. It is pretty reliable, and has a threaded barrel and can be fitted with a suppressor.
-AS-AR34: [L] The AR34 is an assault rifle chambered in new 7.62L ammunition, an intermediate powered cartridge. It is fed at the bottom from a wide 24-round magazine, or a 40-round drum, and ejects cartridges to the right side. It has a tactical rail an adjustable iron sights on top. It is select-fire, with a sliding knob for either single-shot or automatic. The knob is very stiff and requires soldiers to take their left hand off the weapon and force it. It has aluminum furniture, and a vertical pistol grip and foregrip. It weighs under 6kg. It has good stopping power and accuracy out to medium range, and is relatively easy for users to control even on automatic fire. It's about as long as the AS-F14, which means it is usable in close quarters but not ideal. Costs 2 ore (1 Al).
-Sawed-off Shotgun: [L]General infantry sidearm. Fires twice before breech loading, very effective at short range, ineffective otherwise. Poor armor penetration. Uses 12 gauge shells.
-Cascade Sub-Machine Gun: This is a sub-machine gun, firing the .35 cal short pistol round. It uses a reliable closed-bolt blowback system. The bolt system is large, leaving room for an 8 inch barrel with a slotted hand guard. The stock is wooden, ugly, and stops at the receiver, where brass is ejected from the bottom of the gun. The short barrel gives poor accuracy, especially when hot, and the .35 cal short bullets have short range. The system fires about 400 rounds per minute.
-M3 Sorraia GPMG: [L] A .30 caliber machine gun fed from a belt. 50-round belts can be strung together for extended fire or stored in a belt box attached to the Sorraia, which for practical purposes is similar to a magazine. It uses a recoil action, and is configured to fire around 800 rounds per minute, achieved with the help of a muzzle booster (which looks like a flared end on the barrel). Weighs 22 pounds. Comes with a bipod, or tripod for emplacements. It uses copper heat sinks, which are now shrouded. It has a changeable barrel, which is necessary for emplacement use. It is effective to about 800 yards when mounted. Costs 2 ore.
-AS-F14A: [L] A 7.62mm, semi-automatic rifle. It is an open bolt blowback action, and uses a 12-round box magazine with a small charge handle on the side. It has adjustable iron sights. The weight of the moving action makes the gun difficult to control, but this is mitigated by a heavy barrel. The blowback action is fairly reliable despite being open bolt. Also available as a carbine.
-M2 Osprey: [L] The Osprey is a bolt-action rifle, chambered in 7.62mm, intended for snipers and marksmen. It is bolt-action, and has a 10 round magazine. It has a wooden stock, and the magazine protrudes a few inches beneath the rifle. It features a heavy barrel, and with its bolt action mechanism, has excellent grouping at long range. On top of the gun is a set of adjustable iron sights with a fine crosshair, and a rail for a telescopic sight.
-Eagle Sight MkII: [L] [Expensive] A refractive telescopic sight designed with the Osprey rifle in mind. It is available in two types with variable magnification from 4x to 7x (long-range type), or from 1.5x to 4x (short-range type). Has a large objective lens which creates a bright picture, but short eye relief and a narrow field of view. They are [Complex], and they must be custom fitted to weapons which do not have rails.
-Scimitar: [L] [Expensive] Officer sidearm. Elite soldiers receive a scimitar, a deadly curved sword which can be used on foot or horseback. Even in 1938, an officer's uniform is incomplete without his sword.
-Incinerator Flamethrower: [L] A heavy weapon, consists of two tanks on a soldier's back (one of harmless nitrogen as a propellant, and one of flamethrower fuel) and a nozzle with a pilot light. Shoots a jet of burning liquid about 25 feet. Includes an emergency cutoff valve. Costs 2 ore, 2 oil.
-AS-1911 8cm Mortar: [L] A light mortar tube with rocket-propelled explosive shells, which fire after being dropped into the tube and striking the bottom.
-AS-AC18: An advanced primer ignition autocannon, which ignites cartridge primers before the round is fully chambered. It fires the new, large, 20x100mm round, fed from a top-mounted 25 round C-shaped magazine with a powerful spring, usually armor piercing, about 600 times per minute. The weapon is quite large with a simple action but heavy barrel, weighing over 40 kilograms, and it requires being mounted to a carriage, foundation, or vehicle to fire with accuracy, although recoil is reduced by the nature of its action. It is dependent on a careful balance between the force of the shell and the force of the action, which means that different ammo types cannot be interchanged without recalibrating the gun. It has a terrifying ability to punch through armor and emplacements. Costs 3 ore due to its size and the size of its ammo.
-AS-RPG28 A: [L] A rocket-propelled grenade, fired out of a launch tube. The grenade itself consists of a conical shape with a narrow tube of propellent out the back, and twisted fins in the middle of the tube. The launch tube is 3cm wide, a meter long and the rocket fits in up to the fins, and is just a metal tube with a handle. To ignite the propellant, soldiers remove a pin, on the rocket, which is first clipped by a short chain to a trigger on the handle. The tube itself and each grenade each weigh 3kg. It is accurate enough to hit a tank out to almost 100 meters, after which it drops quickly. Rockets are available with warheads based on each type of grenade, including a HEAT conical shaped charge. Requires 2 ore, 1 oil.
-AS-G27: [L] The basic AS-G27 grenade is an oblong ball that fits comfortably in the hand, with a four second fuze started by pulling a ring. The casing breaks into fragments when it explodes. The AS-G27I is incendiary, the AS-G27S deploys smoke. The AS-G27AT is a cylinder shaped, magnetic shaped charge for tanks. A soldier can penetrate medium armor with it, but they have to run right up to a tank to stick one on. Costs 2 oil.
-AS-LM20: [L] A landmine! Consists of an explosive, metal shell and button. Armed by removing a key. The mines are cheap and simple, and reliably kill or dismember infantry who step on them.
-M34 Viper Landmine: [L] A multipurpose landmine, but mainly used for tanks. It's a disc shaped box full of explosives, with a trigger on top. The mines are specially designed to be stacked, their triggers ignite eachother simultaneously. The trigger is locked with a removable pin. The mines weigh 2.5 kilos each. Two or three are effective against vehicles, but a bit taller and heavier than a single mine would be with the same explosive content. Be extremely careful when stacking the mines! Costs 2 oil.
-AS-1912 Artillery A [L]: A field gun firing 80mm shells, loaded through a sliding bolt. The action is not dissimilar to a bolt action rifle, where the old casing is ejected when the bolt is opened. Must be towed by a truck. It can fire about 12 times a minute, and the barrel rests on shocks which keep it on target after firing. Aims between 0 and 90 degrees vertical. It has several kilometers of range. Costs 3 ore.
-B2 Destroyer: [L] [Expensive] A big, long piece of artillery with firing 100mm rounds. The barrel is nearly 3 meters long, for maximum muzzle velocity and accuracy. Its barrel sits on a hydro suspension mechanism, and lurches back each time the gun fires. It weighs more than a ton and can fire at great distance around 10 times a minute, when hand loaded in its locking screw breech. These rounds can be placed with pretty good consistency, for their range. Must be towed by a truck. Costs 4 ore.
-Bumblebee AT/AA: [L] A 40mm inch gun. It can be aimed down close to the ground, or up the sky. It is aimed by a gunner who sits in a seat which inclines and declines with the gun itself, and has an iron sight which consists of two rings, the front of which has a "spiderweb" design. The gun is aimed with two traversal wheels. Fires fuzed flak rounds, which have an adjustable timer set by a dial on the gun itself. There is also a mechanical targeting calculator, which has a dial for target range, and rate of change of range, which can set the fuze time for shells accurately as the target moves. Additionally given an altitude and angle, the sight will automatically offset so that the gunner need merely keep the crosshair over the target. It is pretty effective, and also cheap and reliable. However, adjusting targeting calculator takes too long to aim at dive bombers and close, low-altitude planes. Fires about 15 times a minute. Costs 2 ore.
-AS-AC18: [L] An advanced primer ignition autocannon, which ignites cartridge primers before the round is fully chambered. It fires the 20x100mm round, fed from a top-mounted 25 round C-shaped magazine with a powerful spring, about 600 times per minute. The weapon is quite large with a simple action but heavy barrel, weighing over 40 kilograms, and it requires being mounted to fire with accuracy, although recoil is reduced by the nature of its action. It is dependent on a careful balance between the force of the shell and the force of the action, which means that different ammo types cannot be interchanged without recalibrating the gun, AP rounds are used most often. 3 Ore.

UF Other Equipment:
General Tereshkova: The Forenian army is led by General Tereshkova, 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.
-Uniform AS-GU23: [L] The Forenian uniforms are based on the 1923 Arstotzkan ones, and come in patterned camouflage colors, grey/white, beige and olive. The uniform has parade dress colors on the inside, so can be worn inside-out at official funtions. Armor plates and helmet are lightweight Aluminum. Includes all the pockets and bandoliers a soldier could ask for, and one right on the elbow that nobody asked for. Costs 2 ore.
-AS-P32: [L] Parachute rigging. The parachute itself is large and round, and various straps, clips and buckles allow a soldier to carry a light primary weapon, their ammo and a grenade. Alternatively, a paratrooper could also bring a mortar or LMG and a few rounds, but only their sidearm with it. Radios need to be dropped separately.
-Tiger Infantry Armor: [L] Infantry armor made of a forged manganese steel alloy. All of the armor plates are relatively thick for infantry, and the full suit weighs in at 36 pounds. The helmet is particularly thick, and fits round and close around the head, low over the eyes and down to the neck with a little outward slope. It can be attached with a face mask, which when worn allows a wide but very narrow viewing slit between the mask and helmet, while even covering the neck. The breastplate is curved outwards for optimal armor angle, with appearance of a ridge down the middle. The backplate is thick, but flat. At the waist these plates end and there are flat curved single-piece taces to protect the upper legs, below the knee the armor has no coverage. The pauldrons allow comfortable shoulder motion, being made of three layered plates, and the upper arms are covered by rerebraces, which are round fitted plates to the outside of the arm. While the lower arms, lower legs, and sometimes gaps around the shoulders are exposed, most parts of the armor will stop a pistol bullet at point blank. The breastplate and taces will stop rifle bullets at all but very close range. AP Horsekillers easily penetrate at medium range. The armor is tiring and cumbersome, troops cannot effectively crawl and kneeling is difficult, as is aiming down rifle sights while using the mask. Costs 3 ore.
-Model 3 Radio: [L] Vacuum tube radio, in two separate 30-pound boxes requiring two men to carry. It also includes a light, flexible antenna to attach to a tent pole or vehicle frame. It can fit into most vehicles without affecting performance. Transmits and receives audio.
-Tiger's Whisper: [L] This radio device, instead of being used to transmit speech, issues and receives 26 discreet amplitudes on a given frequency. The amplitude broadcast is selected with a dial, and the amplitude received is is used to indicate a letter, using a fully circular meter which reads amplitude and is labeled with letters. When the dial, or meter, falls to zero after displaying a letter, it moves the paper indicator by an amount based on its highest position, like a rotary telephone dial. This means that the messages are bit more complex than a simple substitution. A communications officer must jot down each letter as he reads it. The letter indicators both on the dial and meter are pieces of card paper which can be changed, so that new substitutions can be issued to communications officers regularly in case a radio communicator falls into enemy hands.
-AS-DC29: [L] An Arstotzkan device design to solve Moskurg's cipher. It is basically a Tiger's Whisper, with its own code card with the numbers 1 through 26. It uses a typewriter mechanism to stamp each number onto a ticker tape. The numbers on the ticker tape are the simple cipher version of the Moskurg message, which is relatively easy to solve by hand. In addition it includes a counter for each letter, displaying the frequency in which letters occur which helps solve ciphers faster. An average Arstotzkan officer is clever enough to use this to crack a Moskurg message in five to ten minutes. With a stolen code card, it can also act exactly as a Tiger's Whisper would, where communications officers must write down each letter as it appears. It is [Complex] and fits into a very heavy backpack.
-The Death Ball: [L] [National Effort] [A 30-foot boulder, on two equally large steel wheels, which themselves are lined with rockets to propel it. The boulder is hewn smooth and round, and hollowed by stoneworkers (in 1935!) to support a stabilizing gyroscope. It can reliably roll in something resembling a straight line thanks to its gyroscope, although large moguls or divots will send it wildly off course. For the ten seconds or so it keeps to speed, it can crush a tank hull. In fact the most difficult thing about its use is moving it around before firing it. It, or the boulder from which it is constructed, is too large to move around on a truck, so it is instead dragged on a sled by several trucks, in a modern mechanized method which resembles the way in which ancient people moved stone megaliths. Once hewn into shape and given their gyro, chassis and rockets, they are generally not moved, but kept in place and rotated to aim. Costs 6 ore, 2 oil, and can only be deployed in areas with flat land access to a stone quarry. The Gyro system renders it [Complex].


UF Ground Vehicles:
-L-1 Tiger: [L] The Tiger is, despite its fierce name, a truck. It has a long, narrow nose in front of the cab containing a twelve cylinder engine, and the steering wheels are next to it under round cowls. It has a bed where a hopper, tanker, seats, trailer hitches or other things can easily be attached. There are six rear drive wheels, on independent suspension. Costs 3 ore, 2 oil. Provides +1 Transport Capacity.
-AS-M17A: [L] A motorcycle which seats one passenger, and a second in a sidecar. The petrol motor is Arstotzka's first, with three in-line cylinders. On its own, the bike is capable of more than 80 kilometers per hour, cross country, and 110 on a road. The sidecar is available with a machine gun, sometimes on a pintle mount to aim at aircraft. 2 Ore, 1 Oil.
-AS-MV21-AL: [L] [This is an armoured car, designed to be maneuverable in tight quarters and offroad. The frame, armor and engine block are all built from aluminium for reduced weight. It sits on four big tires, the rear ones shrouded by armor, on hydro suspension. The V-6 motor gets it up to 70 KPH. Its shape is tight and rectangular around the crew cabin, which holds only a driver and gunner, to minimize the quantity of armor needed. The engine is in the rear, and includes the lightest (thin) armor in the slats over the radiator. The front armor is medium and most of the armor is light. A belt-fed AS-AC18 gun fires from the top of car, with the gunner's hatch open. The gunner hatch provides the gunner a small amount of cover. 4 Ore (2 Al), 2 Oil
-T2 Breaker: [L] [Expensive] A tank. It is medium armored throughout with RHA, with a slanted front but mostly square. The turret is specially cast as a rounded dome and rotates with electrical motors. Includes a 1.6 inch rifled Breaker cannon, with a long barrel, suspension and muzzle brake. The Breaker cannon can fire about 24 times a minute, it is single loaded by hand. It also has a coaxially mounted M3 Sorraia. The exit hatch is towards rear with another MG. The tank is a heavy, it sits on wide cowled treads and is powered by a big 12-cylinder diesel engine, and can get up to about 35 kph. Crewed by a driver, loader, gunner, and commander. Now with extra slat armor. Costs 5 Ore, 2 Oil.
-AS-MAT26-50 [L]: [Expensive] A light tracked platform for the DT25 gun originally designed for the AS-T25 tank. Moves on a simply 8-cylinder motor and treads. It has thin RHA armor in the front only, with the rest open to the air. The DT-25 gun has an extended barrel with a muzzle brake, and is mounted on a front-facing armature with good side-to-side and vertical angling, for direct fire. It includes an M3 Sorraia for good measure against aircraft. Costs 4 ore, 2 oil.
-AS-T33: [L] [Very Expensive] A tank similar to the AS-T25, with Heavy frontal armor, a radio as a standard feature. The shape is basically the same, a wedge with a cylindrical turret towards the back. It is powered by a turbocharged and fuel injected diesel engine, with twelve cylinders, which allows the tank to reach 45 kph. It is also armed with a new, enormous DT33 75mm cannon, which loads with a screw breech and can be fired about 12 times a minute, which happily penetrates medium armor at long range with HEAT rounds, and has similar accuracy but better range than the DT25. It includes one M3 Sorraia coaxially in the turret and one for a commander/spotter to use on a pintle. The turret is now operated by an electric motor on the horizontal traverse, and the tank has light spaced armor skirts around the turret, and on the sides down to the treads which help defend against HEAT rounds. A bit prone to running short on ammunition. Costs 6 ore, 3 oil.
-SPAT: [L] A self-propelled gun vehicle consisting of a petrol engine, caterpillar tracks, and a forward-facing Bombardier howitzer with just enough armor plating to hide the crew behind. Rolls on treads with 4 driving wheels. They are prone to coming loose from the wheels from time to time. The armor is light, with a gap in the middle for the gun to rotate, raise and lower. Ammunition sits in racks behind the armor. The vehicle has a top speed of about 8 mph. The gun is just a 90mm Bombardier howitzer, fixed to the SPAT on a frame which pitches and yaws on a pair of hand cranks. The SPAT has a set of jacks to use when firing, which improve accuracy considerably by preventing the vehicle from shaking. Costs 3 ore, 2 oil.

UF Air Force:
-Model 4 Yellowjacket: [L] [Expensive] A fighter aircraft, built fully of aluminium. It has flat low wings on a relatively long, narrow fuselage which holds its V12 motor. The motor is fuel injected, and cooled by a water radiator. It has six exhaust pipes poking out under the wing on each side, and a canopy-covered pilot seat close to the tail. It is relatively sturdy and maneuverable, it is fast and makes tight maneuvers but is "temperamental", prone to going into out-of-control rolls and requiring a tight grip on the joystick. The canopy includes a tubular gun sight. The six Sorraia guns in the wings provide ample firepower, but the six guns and their ammo are somewhat heavy. Moves faster and maneuvers better than the Wasp, as well as having a higher altitude ceiling. Costs 3 ore, 3 oil.
-AS-DB-HF-23: [L] [Expensive] An airplane built entirely from aluminium. This lighter, sturdier frame allows the plane be reasonably fast with a 9-cylinder radial engine and make aggressive dives and recoveries for bombing, with half a ton of bombs. The radial engine is designed entirely around an AS-AC18 which fires through the prop shaft, necessitating a relatively heavy and thick prop shaft. It has decent maneuverability, with its metal design allowing for strong forces on the wings and tail, and large control surfaces, but it is best at dogfighting while not carrying a bomb load. Costs 4 ore, 3 oil.
-AS-1931-HAFB: [L] [Very Expensive] A three-engine bomber with a shoulder wing. It is constructed of a geodetic aluminium frame with resin-treated fabric skin. The pilot sits in a cockpit on the front of the plane with a pyramidal canopy, and between the two wings is an AC18 gunner, on top of the plane, with a 360 degree rotation under a trapezoidal canopy.  Has 3 turbocharged and injected engines, one in the nose and under each wing. Despite its size, this enables it to almost keep pace with AS-HF-24s and gives it a high altitude ceiling. These engines burn a lot of fuel, limiting range. It carries a two-ton payload of bombs, and a bomber with a sight which can be adjusted based on a written table for airspeed and altitude. At full altitude, these bombs are incapable of hitting precise targets, and especially moving targets. The plane also has fixed landing gear. Costs 5 ore, 4 oil.
-AS-HF-32: [L] [Expensive] An aluminum built fighter with a mid wing. It has a long narrow fuselage with a water cooled, turbo charged and fuel injected V10 motor. It has a square-ish closed canopy and fixed landing gear. It is armed with 2 AC-18s in the wings and 2 AS-1924s in the nose, on an interrupter gear. It is faster and can climb higher than the AS-DB or AS-1931 by a good margin, and despite some turbulence from the landing gear it has better maneuverability at high speeds. Not often, but sometimes, the landing gear breaks off in an extreme maneuver, forcing pilots to land the craft on its belly. It also includes two bomb mounts (up to 200 kg of bombs), which can be fitted with extra fuel tanks (+1 oil when in use). It costs 4 ore, 3 oil.
-AS-ARAC-35: [L] [National Effort] The ARAC is a mobile runway, carried by coal train on more than 30 consecutive train cars, which unfold their top armor into a runway long and wide enough for a HAFB to land, be drawn back by a winch and cable (as it cannot taxi), then take off after being refueled and rearmed. The runway panels are supported by jacks on either side and take about a day to setup or pack away. The process of landing and takeoff takes about forty minutes, limiting the amount of traffic that can use the runway. The train also requires a sufficiently flat and straight railway to be useful as a runway. This often constitutes making a special track, but is easier than building a runway. There is a good section of track in the central desert, east desert, and plains. There is currently no system to move aircraft from the runway to the ground and back. The runways can land a few planes and take them off in order, which park on the ends of the runway, but far less than a normal runway could store. Costs 10 ore.
TPD 'DOLPHIN' 38-1: 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. Both of these have proven to be delicate and finicky devices, and so much time was spent getting them to work that a planned magnetic detonator was never implemented, so it sits close to the surface and detonates on impact. Both the wet heater and gyroscope are delicate, so it must be dropped close to the water and at a low speed. [2 Ore, 1 Oil]

UF Navy:
-AS-CV22: [L] A steam-powered ship, worthy of sea travel. Uses two AS-51 S steam engines, which each power one screw. The vessel is around 60 meters long, and carries cargo enough to provide +1 Transport Capacity. It mounts an AC-18 on the bow for air defense, and an AS-1910 on top of the con tower. Costs 3 ore.

UF Resources:
Transport Capacity: 1 by land, 1 by sea
(note: consider re-instating trains to arms list if ground transport becomes a concern)
3 Ore
2 Oil
1 Aluminum
1 Manganese

[Sensei]

The Cannalan army currently has the following equipment:
Note: I may need to take measures to shorten the Cannalan list soon! Their list alone is 36,000 characters.

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CANNALAN WEAPONS:
Nightwind Howitzer: [L] This is a 3" cannon built for brass shells, with a screw breech. It is mounted on a hydraulic recoil piston, which recharges in about three seconds. If mounted on a heavy carriage or other sturdy structure, the cannon can be fired very consistently. A good crew can get off about 12 shots a minute. Can easily be placed on fixed naval mounts, due to its lack of recoil. [3 Ore]
Cutlasses: [L] Small, curved swords.
1911 Mano Derecha: [L] This is a single-action revolver, firing .40 caliber centerfire pistol cartridges. It has a five inch barrel, giving good stopping power, good range for a handgun, and a mild kick which is mitigated by the gun's heavy frame. The gun is issued with a few optional moon clips, which allow all six bullets to be inserted and removed from the revolver chamber at once. The gun is of heavy, simple design and fires reliably, even when dirty or muddy.
Mano Derecha Carbine: [L]A carbine variant of the 1911 Mano Derecha, a single-action revolving pistol. It has the same action and cartridge, but with an extended barrel and stock. It's small enough to comfortably use indoors, but too heavy to be a sidearm, and its pistol ammunition prevents it from being useful at very long range.
Double Derringer: [Stealth][L] This, the Cannalan stealth weapon, is an extremely small concealable pistol. It holds two .40 caliber Mano Derecha rounds, in two barrels. The entire thing is about three inches long. A shooter using this gun needs to get close to their target, but it can easily be concealed in a boot, sleeve, hat, skirt, sandwich, or so on.
M1913 Standard Service Rifle:[L] This is the first Cannalan bolt-action rifle, using centerfire brass cartridge technology and a spring-loaded magazine. The magazine holds five bullets, which can be loaded at once from a stripper clip. Magazines flex around the top to pinch cartridges in and keep them in place, but old magazines wear out and stop holding rounds reliably. The magazine is internal and can be removed for cleaning. The gun uses new "M19 BRC" cartridges, which have a 25 caliber, inch long bullet and taper out to a rather large half inches by three inches. This is a big, high-energy cartridge, and the 8.5 pound gun has a considerable kick. The sights are a hooded front post and adjustable rear sight for ranges 100-1000 yards. It is a fairly accurate weapon, in the hands of a shooter who can handle it. [1 Ore]
M1915 HMG "Muerte":[L] This is Cannala's first machine gun, a recoil-action gun using rigid feed strips, each holding 25 rounds. Feed strips are pulled into the gun by a toothed wheel, and sit in a pan on the left side of the gun where up to five strips can be stacked on top of each other and drawn into the gun consecutively. The rounds are drawn out of the feed strip, fired, and the empty brass is returned to the feed strip, which falls out the right side of the gun when the last round is fired. The gun is water cooled. It has a very wide tripod, because without it, it tends to tip over to the left when the pan is fully loaded. Three men can carry the gun mechanism, barrel, tripod and ammo, or it can be mounted on the railings of ships, carriages, etc. [2 Ore]
1.25 Inch "Can Opener" Light Gun:[L] This is a lightweight cannon firing 1.25 inch rounds, with a full eight inches of powder behind them. It has a long barrel for its caliber to allow all of the powder to burn. Aside from this it is essentially a scaled-down Nightwind, with a similar breech and recoil piston, and a similar rate of fire. Its rounds travel extremely fast, giving it good direct-fire accuracy. Developed alongside it are hardened steel armor-piercing cannon rounds, available for both Cannalan cannons. It weighs a bit under half a ton and can be mounted the usual ways. [2 Ore]
M1921 Multiple Explosive Deliverance System (MEDS) "Thumper": [L] This is a a system for launching new 1.5 inch grenades. The grenades are explosive charges with a ribbed fragmenting shell, with a brass casing and centerfire primer. They have a similar area of effect to a Can Opener HE shell. The recoil from this would ordinarily necessitate a mounted weapon, so the entire action (a break action which opens upwards) and barrel are sitting on a heavy recoil spring, separate from a bullpup style trigger and butt assembly. It weighs almost as much as a rifle but with a 15 inch barrel it is very compact. It is effective to medium range and fires with a loud snap, followed by a "sproing" sound. [1 Ore 2 Oil]
Thumper Hand Grenade:[L] An explosive thumper shell for hand throwing. Ignites on a three second fuze when a pin is pulled. Fragments of the ribbed case are lethal in a significant area.
Can Shredder Autocannon:[L] The Can Shredder is a fully automatic variant on the Can Opener. It is arranged in a twin recoil setup, where there are two guns and the firing of one reloads the other. It achieves a 1000 round per minute rate of fire, or 500 from each barrel. The muzzle velocity is just a bit less than the Can Opener, and there is more significant recoil. For the lack of a recoil piston, the entire Can Shredder weighs not much more than the Can Opener, but it can exhaust literally tons of ammo, and heat is a concern after prolonged firing. The two sides each load from a 90 round drum.  Also comes with a carriage that supports the use of an optical scope, and electric traversal motors which can be powered by an automobile engine and a battery pack. Can be deck mounted as well. Also available in .75 cal "Can Perforator" variant. [3 Ore]
Nightstorm Howitzer: [L] A 6" cannon, meant to pack more punch at a longer range than the 3" Nightwind. It packs more punch at a longer range than the Nightwind, and uses a sliding block breech which allows heavy shells to be easily loaded at various gun inclinations. It's available on a large carriage with pneumatic tires and deployable stabilizers, or new Kraken turrets (+1 ore cost over the original Kraken). It has a good inclination and some decline on the carriage, as well as moderate traversal, but it's to the size where it's rather slow to aim on any axis with hand cranks. [3 Ore]
M1933 QFW Mk2 SSRA: [L] This is an updated version of the M1926 QFW, a bullpup assault rifle. It is gas-operated, and its "Short Rifle Cartridge" gives fairly little recoil. Takes 40 round mags, or belts with a special adapter. The belt adapter has a rotating gear operated by an exposed notch in the gas piston to feed new cartridges into the gun, and it is rather heavy and bulky but this is only a minor concern where belts are being used. The 1933 rifle shares the spartan aluminum fixtures, bullpup arrangement, and fire selector of its predecessor, but the stock is much shorter as only a small recoil spring is needed. All but six inches of the gun is barrel length (with the mag over the barrel), so there is a 24 inch Carbine variant which weighs nine pounds and a 36 inch Long variant which weighs twelve pounds, the barrel being thicker to handle more heat. Fairly accurate with good ballistics to medium range. [3 Ore]
QFS: [L]The QFS is a QFW modified to fire shotgun rounds. The only real change is that the barrel is a smooth bore, and wider as the shotgun shells are not necked. The shot shells are designed to be as similar in size to the Short Rifle Cartridge as possible, similar to a standard .410 2.5" cartridge, for reference. During extended fire, it has significant barrel heat issues due to the fact that the barrel walls are comparatively narrow (having been bored out) and the barrel is lighter. Also, the shot shells occasionally jam in the helical portion of the magazine, due to being made of a softer material than the brass cartridges. [3 ore]
Type 19 Kurosaka Mortar (S1917I): [L] This is a man-portable mortar, which consists of a simple 10cm wide steel launch tube with ballast and a bipod, easily carried by one soldier. It fires special rounds using a solid propellant, which have a blasting cap on the bottom ignited by simply dropping rounds into the launch tube. To these, extra solid propellant charges can be added, making the mortar suitable for a variety of ranges. The rounds are new explosive shells, which burst into metal fragments on impact threatening soft targets in a vicinity of several meters. At a 45 degree angle with the maximum amount of propellant a shell can be propelled as far as a rifle shot, but any shell fired with the maximum propellant is of dubious accuracy. [1 Ore 2 Oil]
Type 5 SMG (S1924I): [L] The Type 5 is a blowback operated submachine gun. It is chambered for the 10x25 Juraki pistol round. The simple action has a 10cm recoil spring housing behind it, a squat ejector port on the right which can usually be seen as the gun fires from an open bolt, and a 35cm barrel. The gun is a bullpup, so the back of the action comes against the user's should inside a wood stock. The trigger pull is very "mushy", and it's almost impossible to fire less than three shots from the weapon, which cycles at a rate of about 400 rounds per minute. The accuracy is dubious on a good day, and the rear center of gravity contributes to muzzle rise, which a small compensator on the end of the barrel does little to, er, compensate for. As such anything other than a wild spray at close range requires the shooter to grip the muzzle guard with their off hand, making this more a carbine sort of weapon than a sidearm. For all its quirks, it's surprisingly reliable due to its simple design. [2 Ore]
Type 50 RPG (S1930I): [L] [Expensive] The type 50 is a tube, 90cm in diameter. It fires a large, finned rocket with a shaped charge. It is ignited with a sparker magneto trigger. Aside from being a tube, it has very little furniture except for ironsights, the trigger and firegrip, and a wooden shoulder rest. The rocket is effective at piercing armor, but accurate only to a fairly short range. If the hit is not square against a tank's armor, it will be relatively ineffective. It is heavy, a soldier can only carry the rocket launcher with a couple rockets and a sidearm. [2 Ore 1 Oil]
Type 51 Rockets (S1930E): [L]New rockets have a round ballistic cap with a flat warhead beneath, which has a normalizing effect on impacts- that is, the rocket flattens itself against surfaces before detonating so that hits don't have to be so square. It also includes more effective fins. The rocket is more accurate overall. Unfortunately, both of these new features are made from cardboard, and can be ruined if crushed or soaked.
'Bouncer' Anti-Personnel Mine (S1935E1): [L] This is a mine which detonates after a victim has stepped on the trigger and stepped off again. When it goes off, an initial charge launches the mine into the air and a second charge detonates the mine in mid-air, spewing fragments of glass, metal, and stones. It is very cheaply constructed, using wood where possible and thin steel sheets. They are cheaply constructed and occasionally misfire or go off at odd heights, but the idea is that uncertainty will only make the mines more terrifying. [1 ore]
'Surprise' Landmine (S1935E2): [L] [Expensive] The Surprise is an antitank mine which shares a trigger mechanism with the Bouncer landmine. However, instead of jumping into the air and spewing shrapnel, it consists of a single large shaped charge. [1 ore, 1 oil]

CANNALAN NAVY:
Kraken Coastal Defense Ship: [L] [Expensive] Release the Kraken! Much larger than the "Coastal Defense" name would imply, it is a heavily armored Ironclad with four deck turrets (each mounting a pair of Nightwinds) and four armored side turrets with Can Openers. With these guns, there is still a lot of empty space. It is powered by two large steam turbines, located with ammunition and other critical components in a heavily armored citadel, featuring nigh on a foot of nickel steel armor down to just below the waterline. The rest of the ship has only a few inches of armor. Armed as she is, she is a relatively fast ship but does not turn quickly. The majority of the ship beams are steel, but decks, furniture and structures like the command tower are wooden. [2 Wood, 4 Ore, 2 Oil]
Kalmar: [L] [Expensive] A Kraken with new 6" Nightstorm Howitzers as its main armament. A bit more expensive. [2 Wood, 5 Ore, 2 Oil]
Kraken-C: [L] With the citadel armor mostly removed, and space used for housing soldiers and Nightwind ammunition as well as driving the turrets freed up, the Kraken can hold a significant amount of cargo. The Kraken-C grants 3 Transport Capacity.
Buccaneer Boat: [L] [Expensive] The Buccaneer is a combination transport and gunboat. It has a pointed bow for seaworthiness, but a shallow draft so it can run aground on beaches and is small enough to travel in rivers. It is powered by large V12 diesel motor and consists mainly of a six foot tall front hull wall which provides cover from machine gun fire, and a raised rear cabin with a Can Opener, all in a 50 foot length. It's also armed with a machine gun on each side, next to the short stairs that lead from the protected deck out of the boat. It can carry three dozen soldiers, or a vehicle, though the vehicle has to lifted out. Designed alongside it are davits which allow a Kraken to lift and carry two Buccaneers. The boat is rather fast, easily outpacing and outmaneuvering any large steam ship. [3 Ore, 3 Oil]
Khorne Class Battleship: [L] [Very Expensive] The Khorne is a massive battleship with six gun batteries, each of which is armed with three Nightstorm Howitzers. The armored gun batteries are arranged in a group three on the front and back in stair step formation, so all six batteries can be used in a broadside or three against a target to the bow or stern. The guns are loaded with hydraulic rammers but are otherwise similar to standard Nightstorms in power and barrel length. The ship's bridge is in the center and elevated well above the deck, and the gun batteries can be controlled in unison from a fire control system called the Director, which allows all of the guns to be aimed in unison at a given heading and range (elevation is calculated automatically, and elevation and heading and automatically adjusted based on a manually entered windage) and even allows the guns to be fired from the bridge. Only the rocking of the ship needs to be manually accounted for, but if the Director fails, turrets must be rotated by emergency hand cranks, which requires the work of several swarthy sailors at once. The ship's secondary armaments include six Can Shredders and twelve Can Perforators on deck, and eight Can Openers in armored side turrets. The ship is armored, depending on the exact location, equally or less than the Kraken, and includes a torpedo belt which is both armored and compartmentalized. Unlike the Kraken, magazines and other vitals are distributed through the ship. It is powered by four extra-large steam turbines and can keep pace with a Kraken. [6 Ore, 4 Oil]
Corsair Destroyer: [L] [Expensive] The Corsair is a moderate sized ship with light (for a ship) steel hull armor. It has a light cannon armament of two hydraulic-equipped Nightwind cannons and four Can Shredders. However, its main armament is its Shark Torpedo launchers (it has a couple on each side) and newly-invented Seahorse mines, which use the same warheads as Shark torpedoes but rest on the sea surface, detonating on cpntact with ships. It is powered by steam turbines and easily outpaces battleships like the Kalmar, Kraken and Kurokami. [4 ore 3 Oil]
Walrus Landing Ship: [L] [Expensive] Based on the Kraken-C cargo ship, this huge lander has a shallow-draft bow for landing on beaches, with clamshell doors, which depend on the world's biggest rubber gasket to seal shut, made of quality imported Tropican rubber. The interior can hold a large number of vehicles and soldiers, and it has cranes capable of lifting cargo as well as Bucaneer Boats. It is well equipped with a hospital, galley, mechanic shop and the like. It has reduced armor and a defensive armament of for Can Shredders and some Can Perforators. [2 Wood, 4 Ore, 3 Oil]
M1922 Shark Torpedo:[L] This delivers a warhead to an enemy ship below the waterline. It has a 10 inch diameter with a fairly long warhead, and a (dry) heater engine which burns a mixture of compressed air and kerosene to turn a propeller, giving it decent range and speed. It is stabilized by four fins controlled with a gyroscope, which tends tends to cause it to oscillate around the correct trajectory. [2 Ore, 1 oil]
Type 48 Akasame Torpedoes (S1921E): [L] These are torpedoes, 40cm diameter. They are propeller-driven and powered by small compressed-air motors, reaching speeds fast enough to catch up with any battleship. They are controlled with a mechanical hydrostatic valve-and-pendulum system, which uses two fins to regulate the depth of the torpedo in water while traveling to one meter, give or take 30cm. They have explosive warheads, which can do significant damage to a ship by opening a hole below the waterline. They have only a modest range before their compressed air runs out. They include deck launch tubes, which eject torpedoes by a charge of the same propellant used in the Type 19 mortar. [2 Ore]
Seaweed Anti-Air Cruiser: [L] [Very Expensive] Formerly named the Kurokami Cruiser, this is a huge ship with eight 5-inch Maretto cannons, in four turrets, three of which are superfiring in the fore. These weapons are fully equipped with power rammers and hydraulically actuated turrets. They are operated from the command bridge instead of inside each turret by a fire director system which rotates, elevates and fires each gun in unison based on control dials and switches. It can even correct for wind of a given speed and heading, but the hydraulics cannot be operated without it, leaving gunners to use very slow hand cranks if the Director fails or the command crew is incapacitated. There are miscellaneous Type 68 guns on deck as well for anti-aircraft fire and boat defense. The important parts of the ship are arranged into a central citadel which is heavily armored with face-hardened steel superior to that used on the Kraken, and it includes a strong torpedo belt. Steam turbines bring the heavy craft to a moderate speed. The control tower, close to the stern due to the turret configuration, is lightly armored and includes vacuum-tube amplified telegraph equipment. [5 Ore, 3 Oil]

CANNALAN LAND VEHICLES:
Privateer 1 1/2 Ton Truck: [L] This is a truck, with a straight three-cylinder petrol motor. Like many early cars, the engine sticks in front of the cab in a compartment narrower than the rest of the vehicle, with a water-filled radiator in front. It has a short square cabin with a windscreen and open sides, and a bench seat for a driver (on the left) and a passenger, or two skinny passengers. The back of the truck is an eight by six foot bed with cleats to rope down cargo. It sits on six tall, narrow wheels with solid rubber tires and leaf spring suspension, the front two steer. The cabin has a only a steering wheel, throttle pedal, hand clutch and brake levers (which can lock open or closed) and forward/reverse selector. It isn't fast even on a good day, but when at its advertised load of 1.5 tons it can outrun (or outwalk) a team of half a dozen horses. It can carry two tons, in fact, if the road isn't too steep. It provides 2 resource points, or whatever I called them, replacing the horse and cart. On or near the battlefield, it can be made to carry whatever fits in its bed or can be towed behind on wheels, including cannons. [2 Ore, 2 Oil]
Privateer M1A1 Assault Vehicle: [L] This is an armored half track, equipped to cross trenches and fight infantry and other armored vehicles. The motor is a petrol straight six with an overhead cam. It sits on two front steering wheels and two rear caterpillar tracks, which do all the driving and have independent gear, clutch and brake levers (so that the driver has six levers to operate plus a throttle pedal and steering wheel). There is also a roller in front of the vehicle, which allows it to cross trenches. It is armed with one water cooled Muerte MG in the passenger position which has a limited field of view, unable to aim behind or left of the vehicle. In back is an armored turret featuring a Can Opener cannon, aimed by hand crank. Tracks support the weight of the gun, but the turret is still cramped and slow. The vehicle is covered mostly in Light steel armor, with Thin armor on the top and bottom. Its tracks make it slow, averaging walking pace over an open field, but it has high torque and decent hill climbing capability. [3 Ore, 2 Oil]
M2A1 Armadillo:[L] [Expensive] A main battle tank. It is armored fully in Medium-thickness RHA. The frontal armor is slanted in a snow plow shape (not that Cannalans know what a snow plow is) to better deflect incoming shells, and the rest of the armor is near-flat with a bevel close to the top, the shape of the whole hull somewhat resembles an overturned boat. The turret is a trapezoidal shape, and is filled mostly with the new 2.5" Armadillo Gun, which has a sliding action based on the Nightstorm. This weapon rocks the tank on its suspension when fired, and is a rather slow to rotate and elevate with hand cranks. There is a water-cooled Muerte machine gun in the co-drivers spot facing forward, and one on top of the turret, as well as one mounted coaxially to the cannon- the fore and coaxial MG's create small gaps in the armor. Working inside the somewhat cramped turret, the gunner can fire about nine times per minute. The tank is powered by a Seadog 10-cylinder inline motor with a radiator, and gets up to a running pace with a bit of a head start. There are the comparatively weak armor slats at the rear where the radiator ventilates. The whole thing is mounted on wide treads. [4 Ore 3 Oil]
M1A2 SPAA: [L] [Expensive] This is an M1A1 halftrack chassis powered by the M2A1 motor and carrying a hydraulically-actuated open-air turret armed with a pair of the Can Perforator .75 Caliber cannons found in the Dragonfly fighter. The guns are fed from belts and stacked one on top of the other, for a total of four rapid firing .75 caliber barrels. The gunner's seat rotates along with the gun assembly, sitting just to the left of it. The gunner has a new reflector sight, to better track moving targets, but that provides no magnification. Although specialized for AA, it can aim low enough to attack infantry and light vehicles as well. [3 Ore 3 Oil]
M2A2 Mobile Assault Gun: [L] [Expensive] With great effort, a tremendous Nightstorm Longbow 6-inch cannon is packed onto an M2 tank chassis. In fact, the barrel length is much closer to that of the Nightstorm Howitzer, as the full sized naval barrel would be unsuitable for anything but long range artillery which fires from a stationary position. The Nightstorm is mounted forward-facing under shallow sloped armor, and has relatively narrow angles of traverse and elevation. The tank is only medium armored, with light armor to the sides and back, as the M2 chassis is strained under the weight of the Nightstorm. Its secondary armaments include a front-facing Muerte and QFW Mk2 in a small commander's cupola. The gun can fire about six times a minute, and will easily destroy other armored vehicles and can potentially kill bunkers. [5 Ore 2 Oil]
Type 36 Tank Destroyer (S1928W): [L ] [Expensive] The Type 36 is a Type 22 (a light, fast Juraki tank) that's traded in its armor for a somewhat shortened 4-inch Raikou cannon. The cannon has a shortened barrel, with modest inclination and a very narrow arc of rotation in front of the vehicle. It is armored with a slanted front piece of Thin RHA armor with a vertical slat for the cannon barrel, the back half of the tank is open to the air. It's about as fast as the normal Type 22 with the same wonky transmission. For protection, it is armed with a forward-facing 13mm machine gun. [4 Ore 3 Oil]

CANNALAN AIR FORCE:
1923 'Tombstone' 200 Pound Bomb: [L] This is a 200 pound, three foot long box of boom. It has fins on the back so that when dropped from a height, the trajectory of the bomb straightens out and it falls nose first. The explosion has a larger radius, and the fragments more penetrating power, than a 3 inch cannon shell. The Barnacle can carry two. (Note: To be merged into Barnacle description).
A-2 "Spark" Interceptor: [L] [Expensive] The Spark is a heavy but relatively fast aircraft, build around two mid-wing Seadog straight-10 engines. The plane's shape consists of a central fuselage with the guns and pilot, then the square engine nacelles low on each wing, which connect to twin booms leading to a unified tail with two rudders- it very much gives the impression of three separate fuselages strapped together. The nacelles each have a scoop on top and terminate in grills below the narrow open-frame booms, as the Seadog engines are oil-cooled with a radiator. It has a 65 foot wingspan across a mono wing, and the the tail is almost half as wide with a single elevator. The elevator and rudders provide the majority of the craft's control, with the ailerons suitable only for gentle or correctional rolls. It is armed in the nose with a Can Shredder autocannon fed from 120-round drums, which is enough to make the craft nose-heavy when fully loaded, and two Muerte MG's fed from 300 round drums. Optionally, it can carry two torpedoes or four bombs, reducing maneuverability considerably. It is crewed only by the pilot in an open cockpit. The Spark is fast and has good climbing power, but it risks going into an uncontrollable spin from steep rolls and the engine-laden wings flex unnervingly during rapid changes in pitch. The Spark uses short runways, but requires long runways when loaded with bombs or torpedoes. [1 Wood 3 Ore 3 Oil]
Dragonfly Floatplane Fighter: [L] [Expensive] The Dragonfly is a fighter plane, optimized for interception. It is a full metal, low-wing monoplane with an aluminum frame. The cockpit is fully enclosed over a tubular body, and the single unusual feature is that it is built with pontoons, enabling it to land on water. It is powered by a large 11-cylinder carbureted radial engine in the nose. It is armed with two air-cooled 3/4 inch Can Shredder variants, one in each wing. The plane is light, maneuverable and has decent climbing power. The use of pontoons adds weight and (more importantly) drag, which reduces top speed and energy retention. It can carry half a ton of bombs/torpedoes on two mounts, but flies like an over-ambitious chicken when doing so. As a small plane with a heavy engine, it handles well but has a hig minimum speed. [5 Ore (1 Al) 3 Oil]
B-1M2 Man'O War Class Heavy Bomber: [L] [Very Expensive] The Manowar is a large, steel-and-aluminum bomber. It has four V10 "Sparrowhawk" engines, which are turbocharged, on the wings. The turbochargers increase the space taken up by the engines significantly, but this is a small concern for a bomber. Each of these engines is quite powerful and allows for a considerable weight, including its four turrets. There is one in the tall nose, below the cockpit, one on top of the plane just behind the wings, one in the tail, and a ball turret on the belly, each of which has a .75 caliber Can Perforator. It has fixed landing gear with pneumatic tires, and a small amount of armor around the cockpit, engines and fuel. The massive plane can take off with up to three tons of bombs, and the bomber has an adjustable iron bombsight for rough aiming. The rotating turrets are covered in glass, but not air sealed, and the plane is not pressurized in any way. Regardless of bomb load, it is ungainly in flight despite its powerful engines, and difficult to land. It rattles violently in flight and is reinforced with heavy metal plates, which somewhat exacerbate the lack of maneuverability. Long runway required. [5 Ore (1Al), 4 Oil]
Falcon Multi Role Fighter: [L] [Very Expensive] Like the Dragonfly, this is an aluminum low-wing aircraft, armed with two Can Perforators. It has an extremely powerful engine- the new V12 BlTackhawk. his uses an aluminum block, saving weight, as well as being turbo charged and oil cooled. It drives a pair of three-blade, contra-rotating propellers which gives a lot of propeller surface area while eliminating propeller-induced roll. It develops great horsepower at less weight than ever before. It reaches altitudes which necessitate an oxygen mask, and a pressurized oxygen mask system is included for the pilot (the cabin is not pressurized). Optional radio fits in the cabin along with reflex sights, and the canopy is mostly rounded glass with minimal metal frame, for visibility. It also includes retractable landing gear and five bomb hardpoints, two on each wing and one in the center. If there's more than a couple bombs, it needs a long runway. [6 ore (2Al), 4 Oil]
B2M1 'Warhog' Heavy Bomber: [L] [Very Expensive] This is a large aircraft designed to fill the role of the notoriously difficult-to-fly Man'O'War bomber. It is made of steel and aluminum and powered by four V12 Blackhawk Turbo engines, which are the same as the ones in the Blackhawk fighter. There is a pair of engines on each wing, and they are contra-rotating to each other, with three-blade props. It is defended with a dorsal and ventral ball turret, each of which is armed with two formidable Can Perforators. It can manage a load of four tons of bombs which are dropped from a central bomb bay, and aimed with a fairly accurate telescopic bomb sight. For an aircraft of its size, it handles well, a skilled pilot can land very safely. The Warhog can reach an altitude where oxygen masks are necessary, and the flight cabin is pressurized (but the turrets and bomb bay are not). The bomb bay holds modular bomb racks, which can be removed to make room for cargo or paratroopers. Unfortunately, the plane isn't good for dropping paratroopers. Paratroopers stepping out of plane are liable to hit the tail, the effects of wind on a soldier stepping out of a moving plane were grossly underestimated. The Warhog, like any proper bomber, requires a long runway. It has retractable wheeled landing gear as well as retractable pontoons on the wings. It provides 1 Transport Capacity. [6 Ore (1 Al), 5 Oil]
'Anchor' 2000 Pound Penetrating Bomb: [L] 2000lb bomb. It has offset stabilizer fins which cause it to spin while falling, stabilizing its trajectory. It has a nose of a couple inches of hardened steel. Finally, it has a fuze which sets the bomb off a moment after it impacts, helping it explode inside of a bunker. This easily penetrates four to six feet of concrete. [2 Ore 2 Oil]
M1935-SIHE 'Rum Barrel' 5lb Bomb:[L] The Rum Barrel is a light incendiary bomb intended to be dropped in great numbers. They have a magnesium body with an iron nose, and ignite with incendiary pellets on impact, which are intended to spread around after the bomb hits.
Type 33B 500lb Multipurpose Incendiary Explosive Bomb (S1927E): [L] This is a bomb with a timed fuze, meant to penetrate ship decks or roofs and detonate inside. It has a load of ordinary high explosives but magnesium bearings, which burn after the bomb goes off. [2 Ore]

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.
Wire telegraphs- [L] Messages can move instantly from El Presidente to forward camps.
Semaphore- [L]Communication between ships, or where there are no telegraphs, is performed with signaling flags.
Service Rifle Scope:[L] [Expensive] This is a refraction telescope, meant to be mounted on top of a rifle by screwing into the wooden stock. The objective lens is 1" in diameter, focusing light onto a smaller eyepiece for a 3.5x magnification. The eyepiece can be adjusted on the vertical and horizontal axes with a knob, to correct for range, windage, and imperfections in the scope mount. It has a short eye relief, meaning shooters must press their eye close to the scope, and keep a solid grip on their (very powerful) rifle to avoid getting a black eye from the scope. The lenses are complex to manufacture.
Steel AP Rounds: [L]Hardened steel cannon shells improve the armor-piercing capability of a weapon. A weapon loaded with these costs 1 more ore than usual.
HE Shells: Explosive fragmenting shells, for cannons.
Tracer-Incendiary Rounds: [L]Bullets that emit a bright light, and might set things on fire. The capacity to cause fires diminishes at long range, and also depends on the size of the round. Available in rifle caliber and up.
Beuraucrat's Lover Radio Set:[L] [Expensive] A copy of the Juraki one, shamefully. [Complex]
The M1926 Short Rifle Cartridge is a brass cased, center fire rifle round using smokeless power measuring one-half inch by one-and-a-quarter inch, firing a quarter inch by three-quarter inch pointed, copper jacketed, boat tail projectile weighing five grams. The case is bottlenecked to fit the smaller projectile, and has a recessed rim for extraction.
Beuraucrat's Mistress Radio Set: [L] [Expensive] The second awkwardly named Cannalan communications device is a vacuum tube voice transceiver radio. It can transmit and receive AM radio through a telephone handset on a narrow range of frequencies. The device weighs about 45 pounds, with batteries and a 15 foot deployable antenna that grounds to the earth. It's use requires one trained operator who can use the handset or operate the radio for another person (a ground crew can configure the radio for an aircraft pilot to use on one frequency). It's battery lasts several minutes at a time and can be recharged by hand or from vehicle/building power. In its portable form it has a range of about three miles, but with an antenna tower (or trees) and a non-battery power source it can transmit far further. It can also repeat signals, creating a radio network. Some frequencies are used for repeating all the way back to the Capitol and some are used for local comms. Great for ships too! [Complex]
M1930 Uniforms: [L]The new, more modern uniforms are comfortable fitting with a wide variety of camoflauge. Officers have done away with exaggerated feathered hats in favor of standard helmets, and rank is indentified by comparatively subtle shoulder patches. Flak vests are available where appropriate. Parachutes and life jackets are available. Binoculars are issued where they are a priority, but remain expensive.
Slat Armor: Slats of cheap, extra armor damage HEAT rounds to prevent them from penetrating.
M1937 Gas Protection System:[L] Based loosely on oxygen masks used by pilots, this is mask which fully covers and seals around the face when properly tightened, and has built-in glass goggles. Instead of breathing from an oxygen take, users breathe outside air through a replaceable filter. The filter consists of a physical particulate filter and an activated charcoal layer. The masks contain asbestos, which top Cannalan doctors assure us is perfectly safe. There wasn't time to distribute special belts, coats and gloves with drawstrings to help seal out chemicals, so soldiers are simply instructed to tuck all their clothes into eachother and hold everything tight with belts, in order to protect their skin.
APHE Shells (S1918E): [L] These are annealed steel armor-piercing shells, with a rear cavity containing explosives and a fuze. Upon impact, the fuze ignites the explosive, hopefully shattering the shell after it has penetrated the armor of the target. It's not quite as explodey as a plain HE shell, or armor-piercey as the pure steel AP shells.
Air-burst rounds (S1929E): [L] HE shells which burst in air, to attack aircraft. Their timing is set by a device on the gun which fires them.

CANNALAN TECHNOLOGY:
English System of Measurement- Pounds, feet, gallons!
Lenses- Used in various optical devices, including telescopic sights and rangefinders. Large lenses require very precise engineering. [Complex]
Vacuum Tubes- Diodes and more necessary for complex electrical machines. Much better than relays at serving the purpose of being the basic building block for computers, but not as good as semiconductors.
Select-fire- Firearms with a selector that can make the weapon either fire a single shot per trigger pull, or multiple.
Bullpup trigger- A trigger in front of the action makes the gun shorter, but arguably more difficult to load, and the trigger pull is often unresponsive or "mushy".
Reflector sight- a sight which paints an image in line with the gun even when viewed from an angle, making large weapons easy to aim correctly. Requires a light source.

CANNALAN RESOURCES:
Transport Capacity: 1 by land, 3 by sea, 1 by air.
2 Wood
3 Ore
2 Oil
1 Aluminum
1 Magnesium?

[Sensei]

The War Has Begun!
After the intitial declaration of war, both Forenia and Cannala have scrambled to take control of the islands between them, promptly evicting or... envassaling? Vassalizing? Annexing, anyhow, the few inhabitants that are there, and their armies have met in the middle. The Forenians are lucky to have had time to hastily establish harbors on the larger landmasses, so that men and materiel can be transported off of their cargo ships. As men march and tanks trundle towards their rivals, every soldier is on edge. From the front line infantry to the grunts refueling aircraft on landing strips, and even the men laboring away in relative safety on the mainland to supply the army, there is a sense of dread and uncertainty. The coming battles will determine the nature of the entire war to follow, but for the first time everyone is fighting a completely unfamiliar force- before now people had been fighting their ancient enemies, and generals, soldiers, even the general public had an understanding of their capabilities.

The Battle at Sea
The nation-continents of Cannala and Forenia will fight first and foremost on the water, for water is what lies between them- and it will be this way for the entirety of the war, barring an unprecedented seismic upheaval, which top scientists assure us is extremely unlikely. Naval "battles" favor the Cannalans, needless to say, who liken fighting AS-CV22 ships to raiding unarmed merchantmen. The AS-CV22, armed with a single machine gun and light cannon, is vulnerable to the Kalmar and Khorne ships- although technically outnumbered, these Cannalan ships can destroy an entire convoy of Forenians without being threatened whatsoever. Even Buccaneer Boats can single-handedly raid an Arstotzkan ship, thanks to the Cannalans' superior seamanship. In short, it is a given than Forenian boats are practically helpless. What is more interesting to look at is aircraft. Planes participate in naval battles in limited numbers, being mostly fielded from nearby island runways or harbors in the case of seaplanes. The pride of the Cannalan airforce is the (currently Muy Expensivo) Falcon Multi Role Fighter, with the majority of squads being made up of Dragonfly float planes and A-2 Sparks which carry bombs or torpedoes. The Forenian Airforce's fastest fighter is the AS-HF-32, which has fewer advanced features than the Falcon but is similarly powered by a large, liquid cooled, forced induction engine. The AS-DB-HF-23 is Forenia's main means of delivering ordnance, torpedoes in this case. In comparison to the Falcon, the AS-HF-32 is similarly armed but hampered by fixed landing gear, no oxygen mask, and a less efficient propeller. However, with superior numbers, Forenians still reliably overcome their Cannalan counterparts, favoring a tactic of luring a Falcon into a slower dogfight where its superior aerodynamics are less of an issue, and having a second HF-32 pilot close in for the kill from behind. While the HF-32 was once thought to be the best plane around, it has forced Forenian pilots to adopt an attitude of "It's not the best, but we fly it and win anyway." AS-DB's manage to damage or sink a few Kalmars, but the larger Khornes which have a torpedo belt remain afloat after being hit. The small torpedo isn't enough to take out torpedo-adapted ships, and massed AA fire means that a full squad of bombers will only manage to get one or two planes into the torpedo's limited dropping range without being shot down or forced to evade. Some of them have better luck with regular bombs, and damage ships decks or disable turrets on large ships. The Cannalans have a massive advantage at sea.

The Battle for the Archipelago:
Attacking: Cannala
Needless to say, Cannala sweeps through the archipelago. The only hiccup is that their Walrus landing ship, being absolutely enormous, often cannot deploy at small islands due to reefs. Even in this sense they are less limited than the Forenians, who lack any landing-capable craft and have great difficulty deploying soldiers. Where Forenians do deploy, they face being outnumbered by Cannalan soldiers as well as shelled from offshore. Cannalan General Cortez declares the largest island to be so safe from Forenian incursion that he will build his personal vacation home there. He changes his plans after a few Forenian bombing runs successfully target this area, but still the Forenians stand no chance of actually gaining ground. Cannala controls the Archipelago [2/2] They will receive its resources after holding it for one more turn.

The Battle for the North:
Attacking: Both
The landmass in the north of the sea is immediately a high priority for both countries, thanks to its abundant natural resources. Fortunately for Forenia, the harbor closest to the mainland is such a short distance from home that they can reliably move their troops without Cannalan naval interference. Where the armies meet, exactly in the middle, is the river spanning from a small region if highlands. Here there is light forestation, with large clearings, and mostly flat ground with occasional rocky hills which provide a vantage point and restrict movement. Infantry engagements occur at medium to long range, in terrain which offers limited cover. The assault rifles developed by both sides are weapons of choice here, The AS-AR34 and the Cannalan SSRA. The ballistic performance of the guns is fairly similar, while the AR-34 is less compact but more reliable, and lighter. Officers of both sides often choose to use optical scopes, the Forenians with their Osprey rifle and Eagle sight and the Cannalans with their standard service rifle and Service Rifle Scope. The Forenian arrangement is better specialized to this role, with a slightly more accurate rifle and a scope capable of greater magnification. Mortars, mines, and grenade launchers or RPGs are used against infantry by both sides, and are important, but in this are neither side has a drastic advantage against the other in this regard. The Forenians make good use of their M3 Sorraia as a portable machine gun with long range and belt feeds, whereas for the most part Cannala relies on the SSRA's belt attachment, which lacks in range and heat capacity comparatively. Compared to all of this, the greatest differences between the two armies are a couple of items posessed only by the Forenians: A flamethrower is often called in to dispense with Cannalan positions hidden in the bushes, to limited range and sometimes not much greater effect than a good mortar strike, but it is quite effective at causing fear in Cannalan soldiers. More important is the Tiger Infantry Armor, the complicated, heavy, metal armor which covers its wearer except at the hands and below the knees. While Forenian soldiers are slow wearing this, if they are careful to protect their exposed areas (they still cannot wade straight into battle standing upright) they are protected from any infantry weapon except explosives, or armor piercing shots from a full sized rifle such as the M1913. They are of greatest effect when sitting on heavy machine gun emplacemnts, or otherwise on the defensive, and they cannot aim their rifles accurately enough to fight at long range- but even so, this terrifying force strikes fear into the heart of their enemies and patriotism in their comrades, and grants Forenian infantry a decisive advantage.

Armored warfare is important here, as there are many open areas where the frontlines are determined by the position of armored groups, but the presence of the river limits armored movement significantly compared to infantry; there is a lack of bridges and neither side has a light river boat from which armored vehicles can move directly on shore, nor amphibious vehicles. The Cannalans use their venerable but cheap Privateer M1A1 halftracks, with their covered turrets and heavy machine guns, as well as a light cannon, as widely available IFVs. Their main tank is the M1A2 Armadillo, a respectable all around tank with Medium RHA armor, and a 2.5" cannon. It looks like an overturned boat, but maneuvers better than that description would imply, and for long range engagements the Type 36 Tank Destroyer, a mobile but lightly defended tank with a huge 4-inch cannon is used. Both of these are Expensive. The Forenians' armor largely mirrors the Cannalans: As their armored car they have thee MV21-AL, a slightly newer vehicle which is vulnerable to anything bigger than rifle fire, sadly including the plentiful Can Shredders which Cannala uses to defend their lines, but very fast and armed with an AC-18 20mm autocannon of its own, the fragmenting rounds are a threat to groups of infantry, though not as deadly as in the days when most soldiers lacked lightweight armor to protect from fragments. The Expensive vehicles include the T2 Breaker, a tank with medium armor and a very light 40mm cannon. It's fast, and good for fighting the M1A1's as well as destroying Can Shredder emplacements, but its lack of a good cannon means it is much more difficult for it score a kill shot on an Armadillo tank, than it is for the Armadillo to kill it. The Mat-26-50 is Forenia's light, fast tank destroyer, but with only a 50mm cannon it is decidedly inferior to the Type 36, although better defended. Forenia also has a Very Expensive tank, the AS-T33. With a 75mm HEAT cannon, it punches through T2 Breakers very effectively, the slat armor on Cannalan tanks being mostly effective against RPGs. It also features heavy armor on the front, with good sloping, making it well protected except against the Type 36 cannon, which even then might bounce at long range. It's even reasonably fast. However, its lack of numbers and focus on frontal armor over other armor make it best suited for defensive positions. Overall, tank battles are very rock-paper-scissors so while they aren't stalemates per se, both sides claim a similar number of victories. The Forenian armored car is arguable better, but it's mostly relegated to moving troops around the edges of the battlefield as frontlines on both sides see the deployment of autocannons which are extremely effective against current armor cars.

Infantry anti-armor is of mixed effectiveness, slat or spaced armor does a decent job of defeating current HEAT RPGs, but careful shooting can still take out wheels and tracks. So far, antitank mines are proving more effective.

In the rear lines, Forenians gain themselves another advantage by coordinating their troops with encrypted radios, whereas the Cannalans quickly learn that if they give orders by radio too far in advance, their communications will be intercepted and the Forenians will move to anticipate them. On the other hand, the Cannalans have no luck penetrating Forenia's encrypted messages. Artillery wise, Cannala uses 3-inch, truck-pulled Nightwind Howitzers can their cheap cannons and mobile 6" Nightstorm Longbow guns on the Expensive M2A2 Mobile Assault Gun. Forenia uses the truck-pulled 80mm AS-1912 artillery almost exclusively, as their SPAT Self Propelled Artillery guns are the same price, and so slow that the value of their being self-propelled is dubious at best. Their Expensive artillery is the Moskurg B2 Destroyer, a 100mm gun which still has inferior range and power to the M2A2's Nightstorm and is less mobile, as it must be moved by truck. Although superior radio communication helps the Forenians communicate artillery targets well, there is no doubt that the Cannalan artillery lineup of large, hydraulic power-ramming artillery is greatly superior- in fact, it's arguably their best weapon for taking out Forenia's troublesome T33 tanks. In terms of rear-line activity, the armies are about equal, with Forenia using superior communication to cope with Cannala's weathering artillery strikes.

The last factor is air support, and anti-air. Both sides employ autocannons, and fuzed flak rounds in their larger guns for AA. The Cannalans make good use of the Juraki-built Maretto cannon, but only on the defensive as it still requires to be placed on a concrete foundation, and its long range for fuzed flak rounds. Their also have their SPAA with Can Perforator autocannons for close support on the front lines. The Forenians use their 40mm Bumblebee inch AA/AT gun with fuzed rounds as well, but it doesn't have the Maretto's massive range, and the larger Forenian cannons lack fuze setters. What it does have is its targeting assist device, which helps greatly to make up for its smaller burst rounds by making them more accurate. Air fighter superiority was discussed previously, and the Forenians have a minor advantage. For the time being, both of the Cannalan bomber designs are Very Expensive, so they primarily use their more recent one, the B2M1 'Warhog' heavy bomber. Aside from a grossly ineffective paratrooper door, which often causes paratroopers to hit the Warhog's tail and die, it's an effective bomber. It has a four-ton bomb capacity and a couple autocannon turrets protecting it, and flies high enough that it's not extremely vulnerable to Forenian AA, though AS-32-HF fighters are a big threat. The Forenians' bomber, the AS-1931-HAFB, has half the capacity of the Warhog but is only Expensive. More of them are shot down by the Maretto AA guns, but on the whole, bombers on both sides drop about the same amount of bombs, and Forenians also successfully drop paratroopers here and there. Dive bombing is practiced on both sides to some effectiveness, and the Cannalan Type 36 TD's are also very vulnerable to strafing, though dive bombers suffer heavy casualties to ground guns as they lack much protection for the pilot.
Forenia pushes into the Jungle [Cannala 3/4, Forenia 1/4]. Forenia will gain the desert oil as of next turn.

The Battle for the South:
Attacking: Forenia
Unlike the in the north, Cannalans have some opportunity to intercept Forenian ships, so their forces outnumber the Forenians here. During the summer, there is only shallow snow, and the land is fairly passable without specialized equipment. The only meaningful threat to Cannalan ships here is the icebergs, which through the season cause one Forenian ship to sink and damage several of Cannala's larger ships, but compartmentalization and armor at the waterline prevent any actual losses. The area is flat, wide-open, with a lack of cover which is conducive to long-range warfare. As discussed before, Forenians generally have an advantage in infantry combat, including at long range. While assault rifles are available, the full sized Forenian F14A rifle and Cannalan M1913 rifle are the primary weapons here. The F14A has the distinct advantage of being semi-automatic, but its awkward action is still unsuitable for the sort of ranges at which one makes full use of an optical scope, so officers with access to a scope use the bolt-action Osprey. It is also of note that the Tiger Infantry Armor is mainly used for emplacement gun crews here, it hampers mobility and shooting at long range while wearing the armor is quite difficult. Trenches are often dug for emplacement weapons, but they aren't very formidable defenses as both sides have armored vehicles to cross them easily. Tiger Armor soldiers inside a trench are very difficult to kill with the Cannalans' normally very effective Quickfire Shotgun or SMG. However, the fact that Cannalans have significantly better ability to reinforce their troops means it's a wash.

Armored action especially favors long ranged weapons, so the Type 36 Tank Destroyer is one of the most important armored vehicles, but its light armor in turn makes it vulnerable to long-ranged attacks with even weak cannons, and ground attack aircraft are still its natural predator. The armored cars are both fairly vulnerable, but serve their purpose in moving infantry where they need to be quickly- the Forenian one doing a much better job, as it is simply faster. Emplacements are usually assaulted with medium-armored tanks, and the current light cannons like the Bumblebee or Can Opener are ineffective, and infantry-based HEAT RPGs are also somewhat wanting. AT mines are a useful defense where they're heavily deployed, and while this necessarily can't be everywhere since troops need a place to move forward from their own lines, they can funnel tanks into somewhere they are vulnerable to a larger weapon like a Tank Destroyer or a carriage-mounted cannon of similar size.

While Cannalan Nightstorm Longbows (land-based only) are still some of the best artillery in use, during this battle another significant component joins the fray: Offshore ships. Heavy with AA defenses, a single Seaweed Anti-Air Cruiser and a couple of Kalmar escorts can be a signficant feature of the battlefield, both shelling ground positions within a few miles from the shore and providing an unprecedented quantity of flak fire to protect Cannalan forces from Forenian bombers. Careful positioning usually means that the Cannalan navy can threaten ground near the shore without risking exposure to fire from Forenia's B2 Destroyer cannons. Forenia still chalks up a valuable point for superior communications, but learning where the Cannalan navy is going to move ahead of time mostly means they can retreat before they get there, not mount an effective ambush or counter-attack. A lot of the battle still happens inland, and this looks similar to what occurs in the north.

Forenia's aircraft chalk up a large number of armor kills against Type 36 tank destroyers, and some by bombing T2's as well. However, Cannala's generally superior anti-air helps to offset Forenia's good air performance.
Due to being outnumbered by Cannalan soldiers, Forenia does not gain ground. [Cannala 2/4, Forenia 2/4]

The Outside World:
It is early 1938, and the alliances and conflicts which will start the second world war are falling into place. The Anti-Comintern Pact has been signed forming the Axis, chiefly with Germany, Japan, Italy and Spain. Japan has invaded China, and controls a large portion of it, while Russia is supplying the Chinese army with support, even as there is an ongoing civil war in China between the communist army, loyalist army, and individual warlords.  Hitler forms the new High Command of the Wehrmacht removing any military leaders who disfavor him and giving himself direct command of the German army. In March, Germany annexes Austria. In lighter news, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is released in theatres following a premier last year, and first commercial use of nylon fibers begins, as bristles on a toothbrush.

As it becomes obvious that a war is brewing, your countries are approached by diplomats from both the Axis and Allied states, as well as Communist International, seeking allies for materiel support, and for your valuable location in the pacific. More on this in the future.

Local Troubles:
In Cannala, the rum crop is suffering horribly from the Red Rot, and the economic impacts aren't even completely offset by the rampant use of Juraki citizens for public work. Cannala, ever the enterprising state, is experimenting with a variety of unfair labor systems such as share-cropping, indentured servitude, labor camps where former Juraki soldiers must work to assign a debt claimed to be equal to material damage they dealt to the Cannalan army during the last war, and even medieval feudalism inspired by a gross misinterpretation of traditional Juraki law, in an effort to see which is the most effective. Despite the offer of fabulous prizes such as not being whipped, Juraki workers are notoriously unenthusiastic and unmotivated. This is a problem, as it actually represents a significant part of the continent's population.

In Forenia, some have seen a return to war as an opportunity to start infighting. There is an element of Arstotzkan loyalists who will take any opportunity to attack Moskurg citizens, business and ministers. Someone is even producing propaganda fliers denigrating the United Forenian government as "Traitorous rebels to Glorious Arstotzka" and calling for Arstotzkan citizens to take up arms while most of the army is away and violently reinstate the Arstotzkan government. Of course, the more they do this, the more Moskurgs are in turn inspired start trouble by smashing up Arstotzkan homes and businesses. It's such a problem that Parliament has approved the controversial reinstatement of the Ministry of Information, which, it is public knowledge, is chiefly concerned with finding papers with information they don't like and then burning them.

The Four Isles:
No doubt, many of you have been hungrily eyeing the small Desert and Tundra islands to the east of Forenia, and the Jungle and Mountain islands to the west of Cannala. Here is the lowdown:
On the Cannalan side:
The Jungle Island, is an old french-speaking colony, and attacking it will earn you the stern but probably inactive disapproval of the Allies.
The Mountain island is an independent pirate den, and taking it would be pretty much fair play. However, "Captain Redbeard" or whatever his real name is, is sort-of in charge and signed the Anti-Comintern pact when he was drunk one evening. The Axis won't rush to defend him, but Ribbentrop will be disappointed at losing his drinking buddy.
On the Forenian side:
The Tundra Island is a nominal member of the British Empire, and only some fur trappers and professional seal clubbers live there but the Allies will still be displeased if you annex it.
The Desert Island is inhabited by a small group of communists, and invading them will displease Communist International.

Neither of them should be a military challenge, but they will still take two turns to conquer and count as one of the fronts on which you can attack during your turn. You might also gain access to their resources if you join the relevant international alliance later, but this will take longer than just annexing them.

Turn 2, Commence!
You may now begin voting for your design phase!

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Yeah, I'm shifting over in favor of a destroyer of some variety.  Maybe we can use a revision if it goes well to turn its cannon into a land-deployable variant.


From Nuke's document, here's the plan he came up with.  Now, what do we change about it.  I'm thinking a specially designed gun rather than using our existing, as ours seems a bit...lacking.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Destroyer UFS-DD 'UNITY' 38-1
Backstory: After designing an aerial torpedo (and patting themselves on the back for a job well done), several of the new naval engineers sobered up and realised that, actually, they would need ships, if only to protect shipping and landers. With war looming, Forenia needed lots of ships, fast. The goal was set to design a simple, cheap, agile vessel that may not be able to outgun Cannalan ships, but can at least outrun them.
Description: The UFS-DD-38-1 is better known by the name given to its class, 'Unity'. She is modeled after (slightly outdated) destroyers from other navies, to ensure that all the tech is proven to work. The aim is to be fast, cheap, and simple. Staying power is not considered a priority, nor is firepower. She will operate in large numbers, using superior communication to coordinate attacks on lone enemy vessels, whilst avoiding the bulk of their fleet.
    Dimensions: 80 meters long, 8 meter beam, 3.6 meter draught.
    Displacement: 900 tons
    Engines: 3 water-tube boilers feeding 2 steam turbines, geared.
    Armament: 4xB2 Destroyers in turrets, 2xBumblebee as AA, 2xTwin Torpedo Tubes. (And a couple of M3 Sorraias)
    Armour: Very Light (for a ship (So probably Light?), possibly using cheap steel for cost)
    Other stuff: Encrypted Radio for communication. Decryption devices on fleet leaders.
ESTIMATED DIFFICULTY: HARD (We don’t have much experience building big ships. We could argue this should be easier since we are basing it on existing, decades-old tech)

[evictedSaint]

On the bright side, the Dolphin probably won't take much to put on the new destroyer.

I think our main focus should be making it effective rather than making it cheap.  It's the preliminary to designing a carrier, and its eventual goal is to be a bodyguard and island attacker.

It's too bad our airforce doesn't utterly outclass theirs like we were hoping. It seems like we went with the right general. 

[Powder Miner]

Yeah, unless our destroyer gets majorly fucked during design, we should really spend a revision on spiffing up the HF-32 or something like that, considering we've really been planning on using that air superiority... and most of our problems with the HF-32 are minor and easily revisable. We should really be gunning to ensure our air superiority.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Here's a thought.  Rather than the inferior B2s, how about we put on two 200mm guns instead?

[Light forger]

UFS-DD "Interdictor" 38-A
The first real warship to be produced in Forenia the Interdictor places a notable importance on speed and firepower; designed to cripple or destroy enemy ships and disappear before they can counter-attack. The Interdictor carries five 125mm guns based on upscaled B2's destroyers three fore, two aft, four Bumblebee AA guns arranged in a rough circle around the conning tower and finally 10 AS-AC18s spread around the ship. In order to insure effective naval use the Interdictor has 12 torpedo tubes able to be fired in rapid succession. The power plant of the ship is a pair of geared steam turbine engines using standard bunker oil as their fuel. The destroyer is fitted with a full suit of radio equipment letting it effectively communicate with other ship in order to form wolfpacks. While more then able to escort our own cargo ship the main use of the Interdictor true to it's name is to send Walrus landing ships to their watery grave with extreme prejudice.

It may seem over armed but, this is really just a normal destroyer load out. Also this is based in large part on a number of 1930ish destroyer so while we will have some trouble making it it's not going to be incredibly hard.

[evictedSaint]

Because 200 mm's will flip the damn thing in the first broadside.  140 mm's weren't used on anything lighter than a Light Cruiser; if we're looking to amp up the firepower we could go with that, a bunch of torpedo tubes and then pack every remaining surface with AAA

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Here's a thought that came up on the discord: Fore guns are set up as B2 destroyers, rear guns are set up as based on this '29 Soviet design:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/180mm_Pattern_1931-1933

Hell of a long range even if we only get close, so we'll be able to shoot them from afar.  Easier to make a bigger gun than a faster ship against those more experienced.  Besides, I really don't see how one 180 would be heavier than 2 100s.


Edit: Or as a design Kot showed, just have one 180mm turret.

[evictedSaint]

The destroyer must do two things to be effective against the Cannalan's.  They must:

1)  Out-range their Nightstorm artillery mounted on their ships.
2)  Be faster than any ship in the Cannalan navy.

I'd be surprised if we can do either of those things in this design, really.

[Parsely]

Indeed. The "Interdictor" has lighter guns than the "Khorne". It would chew our destroyer to pieces. Our torps are made for dropping from aircraft so they're short range, and we need the revision to improve our air force, so whatever we do the ship must have guns bigger than 6in/152mm (the size of the Khorne's guns).

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Working off of the Unity design:

Destroyer UFS-DD 'Sniper' 38, Pattern B
Description: The UFS-DD-38-1 is better known by the name given to its class, 'Unity'.  The aim is to be cheap, and powerful. Staying power is not considered a priority, instead focusing on firepower in order to eliminate as many foes as possible before going down.  She will operate in large numbers, using superior communication to coordinate attacks on lone enemy vessels, whilst avoiding the bulk of their fleet.
    Dimensions: 80 meters long, 8 meter beam, 3.6 meter draught.
    Displacement: 900 tons
    Engines: 3 water-tube boilers feeding 2 steam turbines, geared.
    Armament: A single turret mounting a 180mm gun near the center of the ship, in front of the conning tower, equipped with a Bumblebee targetting computer modified for the larger gun, a Bumblebee AA/AT gun at both ends of the ship for anti-air and anti-patrol craft purposes, four torpedo tubes able to fire Dolphin Torpedoes.
    Armour: Very Light (for a ship (So probably Light?), possibly using cheap steel for cost)
    Other stuff: Both Encryption and Decryption radios for communication.
ESTIMATED DIFFICULTY: HARD (We don’t have much experience building big ships. We could argue this should be easier since we are basing it on existing, decades-old tech)

Again, the main gun is based upon this 1929 design.  Given the size of their guns are apparently comparable to this one, we should outrange them with this, allowing us to sink a ship or two.  Especially if their range is shittier than that.

[evictedSaint]

That is very ambitious.

I'm not confident how much we can get done with a single destroyer design; our best bet might be to make as big a gun we can that won't flip the ship and slap it on a chopped cargoship.  We'll never actually achieve what we aim for; "Fast, cheap, simple, and high firepower" is asking for a lot. 

We need:
1) Firepower.  No good if it can't kill.
2) Fast.          Alternative to cheap; fast and firepower will let us hold them at range and peck them to death.
3) Cheap.       Put it everywhere we can to keep them from running roughshot on us.

[Parsely]

+1 to the Sniper, though I think it needs more light AA than a single Bumblebee.

Destroyer 'Sniper': (2) Zanzetkuken, GUNINANRUNIN