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Glorious Moskurg

13 (12.3%)

Ingloriously Didn't Play

76 (71.7%)

Total Members Voted: 106

[Light forger]

Here is my suggestion for the race car:

UFC-RC-1939-S 'Valor'
Forenia first and probably last race car. Just behind the middle of the car sits a massive V-12 supercharged engine. The supercharger significantly increases engine output at the cost of burning more fuel. This helps the car from ironic becoming air-borne with it's massive horse power. The driver and the transmission sit right in front of the engine and gives the car a center of mass roughly close to the middle.

RADAR (w/ Research Credit): (3) GUNINANRUNIN Piratejoe, Lightforger

[Parsely]

I throw my vote in with RADAR w/research credit.  If other people are against it, I propose we develop a powerfun new engine to give our aircraft a better power-to-weight ratio.  An amphibious APC can wait 4 more turns, as our paratroopers are doing just fine.

RADAR (w/ Research Credit): (4) GUNINANRUNIN, Piratejoe, evictedSaint, Lightforger

[Kashyyk]

RADAR (w/ Research Credit): (4) GUNINANRUNIN, Piratejoe, evictedSaint, Lightforger
UF-39-APC "Croc": (2) Kashyyk, Khan
UF-39-LT "Barduk": (1) Mulisa

[Strongpoint]

Radar that can fit on a torpedo is in the realm of impossible. If you guys want radar that much, then design something plausible.

Helicopters are too complex at this stage.

Yes and no. We can get there with dedicated effort. There are no reason why we can't get those earlier than real life.

[andrea]

I agree that aiming for torpedo radar on first design is slightly... overambitious.

Not sure what to vote for. Radar is not an extreme priority before winter but... basically the reason we lost ground this turn was the air. losing the air made us retreat.

[Madman198237]

Radar will help us be effective through all forms of weather, and with our encrypted radios/general radio abilities, it might even allow night-time level-bombing airstrikes to be made. Radar control ship/station directs aircraft to the target, whether or not they can really see it, and they can then scatter bombs across it. Highly inaccurate, but effective.

RADAR (w/ Research Credit): (4) GUNINANRUNIN, Piratejoe, evictedSaint, Lightforger, Madman198237
UF-39-APC "Croc": (2) Kashyyk, Khan
UF-39-LT "Barduk": (1) Mulisa

EDIT: Plus our carriers will never be caught with their pants down again, since they'll have several extra minutes of scramble time.

[Parsely]

Radar that can fit on a torpedo is in the realm of impossible. If you guys want radar that much, then design something plausible.

I tend to treat designs as a wish list. Edited the RADAR description so it ranges from land installations to DDs.

[Khan Boyzitbig]

Please no Tankettes they just fail horribly at everything. None of the advantages of a tank and all the disadvantages of an armoured car.

Helicopters with our rocket techs may work quite well, early models did show up around the end of the war irl and were used not that long after.

[Strongpoint]

Radar will help us be effective through all forms of weather, and with our encrypted radios/general radio abilities, it might even allow night-time level-bombing airstrikes to be made. Radar control ship/station directs aircraft to the target, whether or not they can really see it, and they can then scatter bombs across it. Highly inaccurate, but effective.

Yea! Everything will work perfectly like that (Hint: if we are lucky we will get something that barely works not a win button like you all expect. That if we get lucky roll. Technologies like that are long term investment)

[Happerry]

RADAR (w/ Research Credit): (5) GUNINANRUNIN, Piratejoe, evictedSaint, Lightforger, Happerry
UF-39-APC "Croc": (2) Kashyyk, Khan
UF-39-LT "Barduk": (1) Mulisa

Radar time is fun time. And then hopefully we can finally get around to revising a better torpedo this turn.

[Mulisa]

Radar that can fit on a torpedo is in the realm of impossible. If you guys want radar that much, then design something plausible.

Helicopters are too complex at this stage.

Yes and no. We can get there with dedicated effort. There are no reason why we can't get those earlier than real life.

How about basing it off of the Freya. A fairly mobile, if not very powerful system for the time, and one that supported an IFF system as well.

[Taricus]

Hm.. I think I have a better idea for an APC"

IFV-39 'Crocodile'
Following a more modern armour scheme, this 'Infantry Fighting Vehicle' is intended to be the bane of the raider. Mounting heavy armour at the front and turret with medium armour everywhere else with all the armour sloped, the front, sides and turret. Mounting a single AC18 (Revised for a blowback operation for reliability and simplicity at the cost of extra weight.) in the turret, a pair of RPG 'pods' mounted on either side of the turret, each consisting of seven launchers, offers particularly good strike capabilities against enemy armour. Capable of carrying a full squad, the 'crocodile' lacks the raider's amphibious capability but instead packs a niftly little feature: Fire ports for the infantry inside the vehicle, enabling the squad transported by the 'croc' to fire out on the enemy without having to leave the vehicle. The 'Crocodile' is also designed to keep pace with the T33's impressive speed, enabling true mechanised tactics to be used.

[andrea]

It has as much armor as the T33... isn't that excessive for an IFV?

also: fire ports?

[Strongpoint]

I fail to see any meaningful effect from something like Freya, please, show it to me. What is the benefit? We don't have naval guns to direct with radar. We are not suffering from enemy bombing raids. Radar offers a minimal impact.

[Madman198237]

Happerry, you lost my vote.

RADAR (w/ Research Credit): (6) GUNINANRUNIN, Piratejoe, evictedSaint, Lightforger, Madman981237, Happerry
UF-39-APC "Croc": (2) Kashyyk, Khan
UF-39-LT "Barduk": (1) Mulisa