They're going to spend the turn designing a transporter of their own, probably.
They don't need it. They've already got a 3 TC cargo ship.
Anyway, the Albatross and the Reckless Effort seem fairly similar to me. I would like to give our cargo planes at least light armaments, but I can see the reason not to- our rapidly emerging doctrine of
'Cut corners until the thing resembles a sphere, just to keep the cost down' (sphere joke credit to... someone in the Discord, I forget who)Also, the Reckless Effort should specify the cargo weight we are looking for- 8 tons makes the most sense, I think.
Big question... Can we get a transport plane out of a revision? It is basically just pulling out everything interesting and heavy then trying to give it more grunt...
Our current "Heavy" bomber has a 2 ton bomb load. Strip out unnecessary equipment and you might manage to get 3 tons of cargo in. Which
might be enough for 1 TC, but it wouldn't be as useful for delivering troops and materiel to the front- which is one of the advantages of a transport plane: it lets us bypass their naval blockades.
So whilst we could perhaps do that, I'd rather design a bigger plane.
That reminds me, one reason we are losing in the southern island is due to lack of supplies. A transport plane would improve our logistical situation there.
...but that has me worrying that it might not improve the situation enough to beat them + whatever they roll out this turn. And if we lose our foothold on the island, we won't be getting it back for quite some time- we'd need to design a lander, some new land tech, and weaken their naval advantage. Perhaps we should use our revision to create some bigger artillery, or make some other land-based improvement.
Or perhaps the better weather will both increase our aerial advantage whilst reducing their naval one enough that we manage to hang on to our ports for another season.
Remember we have two designs.
We do not have two designs. The Research Credit lets us roll at an advantage when designing (that is, we roll twice and only use the higher value)