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Glorious Arstotzka

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Glorious Moskurg

13 (12.3%)

Ingloriously Didn't Play

76 (71.7%)

Total Members Voted: 106

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

The Socialist Party of Forenia forms!

In a combined response to the other political parties forming, a number of former members of the Arsotzkan government and Labor Unions of the province of Moskurg have allied together to form the Socialist Party of Forenia.  They are advocating for a large number of national programs to assist with both the lower classes of society, and the expansion of policies to deal with the unsanctioned destruction caused by the old Loyalists, chiefly through the expansion of the Riot Control Force.  Further, they promise to lower the taxation rate thanks to revenue brought in by the nationalization of properties and businesses seized from arrested Loyalists and Loyalist-backing individuals.  The relative new nature and rapid growth of the party has caused few major figures to emerge, but it is notable that the former Arstotzkan elite sniper Petyr Tavish and the former Moskurg spy known still by the codename of Kingsnake have joined the party.

[Madman198237]

Parties are a waste of space, time, and effort. Just sayin'.

[evictedSaint]

Madman is a mad man because he was never invited to a party.

[Madman198237]

(And the funny part is, I never have been xD. Guess you need friends for that)


And I'm a madman, not a mad man. I'm actually a card-carrying Mad Scientist. That silly piece of nigh-indestructible paperlike substance gets me into all sorts of trouble at airport security.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Madman is a mad man because he was never invited to a party.

He has actually directly stated he's more in favor of Forenia splitting into two nations after this war is over, so if a Province Rights or Forenian Conservative party was made, he'd probably line up with it.  It is just that all current parties are leaning more towards keeping the continent together, which is against his ideology for the nation.

[Madman198237]

heh....
I'm still joking. If you can physically split the subcontinent/large island of Forenia into two similarly-sized and well-defined (Conflicts would happen faster, otherwise) pieces and separate them by, say, 100 miles of sea (Enough that you shouldn't be able to see the other except from mountaintops) then you should develop two separate nations to nullify most future conflict. Since that's not going to happen, combined government will be best until "Forenia" is the identity, not "Moskurgian", etc.

[helmacon]

Ask not what you can punch in your country, ask what your country can punch in the world.

[Sensei]

Battle Report 2: Autumn 1938

First there are a few notes to make: On the Forenian side, rocket-assisted artillery shells were not being used. The Ministry of Festive Pyrotechnics was holding on to all of them, but they have been forced to hand them over to the military. These increase the range of Forenian artillery shells but are incompatible with special warheads. Also, the Bumblebee, originally manufactured as a 3.6-inch cannon, has gone back into production as a 90mm gun. Its main purpose is still to deliver fuzed air-burst shells, while the slightly larger B2 Destroyer targets enemies which are not airborne. On the Cannalan side, armor-piercing rounds are already in use, but perhaps bear mentioning for frequently.

This turn, the Forenians started on the slow road (or possibly canal) to having a functional navy, with the UFS-DD-38 'Archer', a ship armed with four Bumblebee guns, a few crude torpedo launchers which is fast but unarmored. Two of the Bumblebees sit in turrets meant for larger guns, and all of them have their anti-air targeting systems but are hand-operated otherwise. Lightly armed and unarmed, its only meaningful advantage is that it is fast and cheap. For their revision, they have made UFS-BL-38-A 'Firecracker', a fairly advanced cluster bomb which can drop incendiaries, or little dual purpose shaped-charge-and-fragment bombs. Rather than scattering directly from the plane, they fall and then scatter at a specific altitude, covering a 50 meter square with 100 2.5kg bomblets.

Cannala has built M3T1A1 Raider, a very advanced armored personnel carrier. It is amphibious, an accomplishment aided by the use of a diesel-electric drive. It holds ten soldiers in its lightly-armored hull, and can fit a medium-armored turret with a Can Shredder, as well as an external RPG and Thumper grenade launchers which mainly serve to deploy smoke cover... and that's just in its base configuration, which is designed to be interchangeable for later weapons. However, naval landings or any rough water passages are best undertaken with the turret removed, as it is prone to capsizing. For their revision they enacted the Drunken Pirate Encryption, a slight variant on a One Time Pad system. It has a couple small steps to confuse decryption, but still ultimately relies on couriers to securely take encryption pad itself to future recipients of encoded messages. There are decoy couriers, and messages are normally sent only after all the real couriers are confirmed to have arrived safely, but this procedure limits the utility of the system to only the most important messages, and only to relatively secure locations that are limited in number as printing hundreds of one-time-pads increases the odds of one falling into enemy hands.

The Forenians begin exploiting the desert oil this turn. This makes their Model 4 Yellowjacket fighter plane cheap, and as such it will now enter service in larger numbers to supplement to better-performing HF-32. Furthermore, the HF-32 is now only Expensive when detachable fuel tanks are used.

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 90mm gun. It can be aimed down close to the ground, or up at 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 two-ringed "spiderweb" sight. 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] 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]
UFS-BL-38-A 'Firecracker': This bunch of letters followed by a word denotes a 2.5kg finned bomblet, with a either a HEAT+Fragment warhead, or an incendiary warhead. These come in pods of 100 which fit on standard bomb mounts, and release their bomblets at an experimentally-determined altitude which causes them to cover a 50 meter square with roughly one bomb every 5 meters- enough to hit a group of armor, or more forgiving of error than a single 250kg bomb when trying to hit a single target.

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.
UFS-DD-38 Pattern E 'Archer': The Archer is Forenia's first combat ship. It is relatively small, and made of steel but unarmored, with two 90mm Bumblebee guns, complete with targeting system, in covered turrets on either side of a center con tower. There are also two more Bumblebees not in covered turrets, as the ones in the turrets were supposed to be larger originally. It is powered by two steam turbines, and it is relatively fast. Auxiliary weapons include an AS-AC18 on each side, and some Sorraia machineguns on railing mounts. There are also four Dolphin torpedo in launchers on deck: These are basically wooden chutes which can be aimed on a swivel, before the torpedo is released by untying a knot. [3 Ore, 2 Oil]


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
3 Oil, using 1 TC by sea
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]
M3T1A1 Raider: The Raider is a Diesel-Electric tracked APC designed to serve as a base platform for many roles. It has light RHA armor with a sloped front, plus slats. It holds ten passengers and three crew, making it look like a large metal box. It has an interchangeable turret, which is very wide and flat with medium armor. Default armament is a Can shredder, plus 6 external Thumper barrels for smoke grenades and an RPG, these can only be reloaded from the outside. It's also chemical warfare protected, and last but not least, amphibious, with a trim vane and two electric powered propellers. Exits are on large rear hatch and one small top hatch, only latter can be used while afloat. Threatens to capsize if the turret is not removed while swimming. [3 Ore 2 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.
Drunken Pirate Encryption: The Cannalans have adopted a slightly modified One-Time-Pad encryption system. Paper sheets with a unique encryption key are distributed by courier before important orders are read aloud but in code over radio. There are a couple other simple steps to obscure the message, and decoy couriers are also sent with fake pads, but it still has the inherent drawbacks of OTP. There is a delay in sending pads and confirming they have arrived safely, and then since the pads are only used once, encryption is reserved for important and long-term orders.


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 This Turn:
Realizing that they will need resources, both Forenia and Cannala have begun annexing their less powerful neighbors. This has left less of their army to press the attack between them, and both have decided to push on the northern island.


The Battle at Sea
The Forenians have only just begun to fight back at sea. Their Archer destroyers are deployed en-masse, but, they are also sunk en-masse. Their use of rocket-assisted shells in the Bumblebee cannons actually let them out-range the Kalmar's howitzers, and narrow the gap between them and the Khorne significantly. However, all of that range still doesn't make killing one of these larger ships easy- the many-gunned Cannalan ships can match a small group of Archers for volume of fire, and while a Forenian 90mm Bumblebee shell might disable a turret or damage a section of armor, a Cannalan 150mm Nightstorm Longbow shell can be relied upon to disable an Archer on the first hit, or even cause the hull to spectacularly rupture all at once. Cannala's experienced admirals also have the skills to prevent the more-numberous Forenian ships from encircling them. At least for Forenia, it's actually a fight, and some Cannalan casualties occur.

Where Forenia still makes up for it is in the air- the addition of their Yellowjacket fighters in large numbers has firmly solidified Forenian air superiority. The Yellowjacket is an inferior energy fighter, but it's not incapable of catching up to Warhog bombers and Forenian pilots know techniques to lure any Cannalan pilot who gets overconfident into an outnumbered dogfight. With air superiority established, both DB-HF dive-bombers and HAFB bombers engage Cannalan ships with bombs or torpedoes, while the remaining fighters strafe and cause chaos. The Seaweed Anti-Air cruisers are a pretty good defense against the bombers, but the other aircraft are very numerous. The Dolphin torpedoes are poor against Cannalan torpedo belts, but getting hit with multiple torpedoes, plus conventional and incendiary bombs on deck is enough to disable even Khorne battleships. Overall, the Cannalans are reduced to a Major Naval Advantage as on rare occasions a Walrus is lost and their ability to harass Forenian ships is slightly mitigated.

The Battle for the Jungle:
Attacking: Both
As the northern landmass holds the most valuable resources, the armies of Forenia and Cannala are focusing their efforts here. The fighting has spilled into the western jungle, during the Autumn, which marks the start of the dry season here. Unlike in the desert, the fighting here is at close to medium range, there is ample concealment from vegetation, passage of vehicles is sometimes limited by small rivers and muddy roads (though they're not at their worst during this time of the year), and the value of aircraft and artillery alike is partially mitigated by the jungle canopy which conceals the position of soldiers from above.

Infantry combat at close range is performed with the Cannalan SSRA and Forenian AS-AR34, and the assault rifle format they both follow is very well suited to this purpose. Forenia is still making use of the Tiger armor, but it is not as much of an advantage here- in some circumstances, armored soldiers standing up are not much better off than soldiers in standard uniforms lying down in the bushes, so the Tiger armor usually stays in the back of the truck until it's time to set up camp somewhere. In between pitched battles for valuable encampments, a lot of time is spent patrolling through the jungle, and hoping not to step on a landmine or get ambushed. Encounters between patrols involve a lot of panicked firing into the bushes, a situation for which the Cannalan Quickfire Shotgun is naturally adapted. The Forenians have short-barreled shotguns available, but usually prefer to use their assault rifles in situations which might call for it. In the damp however, QFS's often jam in the helical magazine, which isn't easily cleared and forces soldiers to rely on their Mano Derecha sidearm- but at least that's reliable. The SSRA's belt feed adapter sees a lot of use here, intermediate bullets lighten a machine gunner's load when clambering through the muddle jungle trails so it's a pretty good choice, and not much disadvantage to the Sorraia. Most infantry battles are indecisive, except when the Forenian flamethrowers are brought to bear- a well-defended Cannalan position, or area where there might or might not be a Cannalan ambush for that matter, can suddenly turn into a smoke-filled hazard zone at any time.

Armored combat in the Desert favored the Forenians, and where heavy tanks are involved it still does. Most combat occurs at close to medium range, so equipped with armor piercing or HEAT ammo, both sides' cannons are very effective, but the AS-T33 still has a chance of deflecting shots when it brings its front armor to bear. Infantry can get very close to tanks, so land mines and RPGs are a considerable threat here- infantry squads sometimes even fire RPGs in pairs to defeat spaced or slat armor, or they simply target weak points since they're already close enough to have the opportunity. The real game changer here is Cannala's amphibious APC, the Raider, which is sometimes present in battles where T2 Breaker or AS-T33 tanks can't reach. It can ford river crossings and bring its autocannon and other support weapons to bear on Forenian soldiers, while protecting its passengers from Sorraia emplacements to unload them where they can outflank the enemy. With the turret removed, it can also travel by river instead of just crossing rivers, which is sometimes faster than taking the winding muddy roads. The choice of medium armor for the turret also provides a good defense against the Forenians' infantry-portable mortars. While they're not invulnerable to grenades, mines or RPGs, Raiders are cheap and plentiful enough to represent a significant advantage for Cannala.

The Forenians' new cluster incendiary bombs aren't a revolutionary idea, and in fact they're terribly similar to Cannalan Rum Barrel bombs developed earlier, but the RUm Barrels have one significant problem: They're inside bombers which keep getting shot down. The Forenians burn away large sections of jungle, causing untold environmental damage to the jungle's delicate ecosystem, and exposing Cannalan positions to more targeted anti-air fire or the shaped-charged warheads which are extremely effective against Raider convoys. The jungle makes engaging ground targets from the air difficult, but Forenia still manages many decisive attacks which help overcome the Cannalans' significant advantage in troop movement. The Forenians continue to gain ground as they watch the jungle burn. [Cannala 2/4, Forenia 2/4]

The Western Mountain Island:
Attacking: Cannala
El Presidente has invoked the Pirate Code to challenge Captain Redbeard for the right to "exploit, extort, and rob" the people of Redbeard's Isle- the fact that Captain Redbeard has openly declared this to be an exclusive right of himself and his subordinates is about the extent of the government there. By mid-may a group of special marines appointed by El Presidente himself has successfully raided Redbeard's rather antiquated ship for his capture and imprisonment. Cannalan forces are now engaged in the rather difficult task of kicking out all the rabble before establishing any real industrial operations. [Cannala 1/2]

The Eastern Tundra Island:
Forenia has decided to annex the Tundra island, which is a remote and small English colony. After getting approval in parliament, the issue was passed to the Ministry of Ethics, which decided that, yes, it is ethical to annex smaller countries if you really need their resources. The small hunter population there made a surprisingly good defense, attacking Forenians where they came ashore to build a new harbor, and protecting the existing harbor with some old cannons and shore-launched torpedoes. After a couple months, though, Forenian blockades have prevented them from being resupplied and shelled the harbor town into submission, and Forenia has made a foothold there. [Forenia 1/2]

The Outside World:
The European policy of appeasement continues, as the German annexation of Austria is legitimized and the Italian control of Ethiopia is officially recognized. France appoints a strongly pro-appeasement foreign minister. The Spanish Civil War rages on. Outside of the the growing European tensions, the first President of Ireland is elected, and in America, Action Comics #1 is released, the first appearance of Superman.

Research Assistance:
An American university has expressed interest in a foreign exchange program, as some very forward-thinking technological ideas have emerged from Cannala and Forenia. However, they refuse to work with an illegitimate, belligerent government- and both countries have some concerns in this area. Cannala aggressively conquered the Juraki Shogunate, and United Forenia resulted from a violent rebellion forcing two nations into one, which some citizens clearly dispute. Write the best explanation as to why your government has a legitimate right to rule, and your rival does not, and you will receive one Research Credit. Post it in your Embassy Thread.

Turn 3, Commence!
You may now begin voting for your design phase!

[NUKE9.13]

So... carrier?

[evictedSaint]

yes, it is ethical to annex smaller countries if you really need their resources.

Kek

So... carrier?

Carrier.

[Parsely]

As seen in the report, the DD is not valuable without other ships, which is why I'm going to push again for the CV.

'Wasp Nest': (1) GUNINANRUNIN

[evictedSaint]

'Wasp Nest': (2) GUNINANRUNIN, evictedSaint

The Archer does what it's supposed to; it challenges the Cannalan navy and floats.  We couldn't possibly ask for more.  It can be retrofitted with better torps and cannons later.  For now, we need a foothold in the thing that will render their fleet obsolete; CV's.

[Khan Boyzitbig]

Right. Looking good in the north there.

'Wasp Nest': (3) GUNINANRUNIN, Khan Boyzitbig,evictedSaint

Lets get some more birds in the air on top of the cannalan pirate scum!