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Which team did you play in the last game?

Glorious Arstotzka
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Author Topic: Intercontinental Arms Race: Finale  (Read 604135 times)

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Re: Intercontinental Arms Race: Summer 1943 (Design Phase)
« Reply #5685 on: March 24, 2018, 12:27:03 am »

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Wild Ride (w/ research credit) (6): QuakeIV, Zanzetkuken, McHuman, Happerry, NAV, Funk
UFN-HA-43 'Frightening' (2): Powder Miner, Madman
UFAF-F-43 "Grey Owl' (1): Lightforge
UFS-DD-43 "Arbalest" (2): RAM, eS


Stupid logic.  But we better do an ASM next turn or I swear the PAROI Party burns the parliament building down again.
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Re: Intercontinental Arms Race: Summer 1943 (Design Phase)
« Reply #5686 on: March 24, 2018, 01:29:25 am »

B. Steal the Cannalans' missile with this turn's revision, and use it to make a good anti-shipping missile next turn, leaving us AHEAD of the Cannalans in missile tech and action economy (one revision + one design instead of 3 designs or so and who knows how many revisions. Also, we'd likely be able to reuse their infrared tracking tech to attack their tanks and their fancy jet and whatnot with just another revision, so more like 2 missiles for a design and two revisions)
Stupid logic.  But we better do an ASM next turn or I swear the PAROI Party burns the parliament building down again.
Plus, umm, something that exceeds numerical values...
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Re: Intercontinental Arms Race: Summer 1943 (Design Phase)
« Reply #5687 on: March 24, 2018, 01:42:03 am »

How dare you use logic against me. Fuck you, RAM.

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Re: Intercontinental Arms Race: Summer 1943 (Design Phase)
« Reply #5688 on: March 24, 2018, 02:33:01 am »

Quote from: Design Vote
Wild Ride (w/ research credit) (6): QuakeIV, Zanzetkuken, McHuman, Happerry, NAV, Funk
UFN-HA-43 'Frightening' (2): Powder Miner, Madman
UFAF-F-43 "Grey Owl' (1): Lightforge
UFS-DD-43 "Arbalest" (3): RAM, eS, Kashyyk
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Re: Intercontinental Arms Race: Summer 1943 (Design Phase)
« Reply #5689 on: March 24, 2018, 03:11:51 am »

Quote from: Design Vote
Wild Ride (w/ research credit) (6): QuakeIV, Zanzetkuken, McHuman, Happerry, NAV, Funk
UFN-HA-43 'Frightening' (2): Powder Miner, Madman
UFAF-F-43 "Grey Owl' (1): Lightforge
UFS-DD-43 "Arbalest" (4): RAM, eS, Kashyyk, NUKE9.13
I think Madman has a point. Even if we don't get a usable missile out of it, a reverse-engineering revision would give us as much if not more experience than a design. Action economy is king, don't'cha'know.
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Re: Intercontinental Arms Race: Summer 1943 (Design Phase)
« Reply #5690 on: March 24, 2018, 03:13:06 am »

Quote from: Design Vote
Wild Ride (w/ research credit) (5): QuakeIV, Zanzetkuken, Happerry, NAV, Funk
UFN-HA-43 'Frightening' (2): Powder Miner, Madman
UFAF-F-43 "Grey Owl' (1): Lightforge
UFS-DD-43 "Arbalest" (5): RAM, eS, Kashyyk, NUKE9.13, McHuman
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Re: Intercontinental Arms Race: Summer 1943 (Design Phase)
« Reply #5691 on: March 24, 2018, 03:30:18 am »

Quote from: Design Vote
Wild Ride (w/ research credit) (5): QuakeIV, Zanzetkuken, Happerry, NAV, Funk
UFN-HA-43 'Frightening' (2): Powder Miner, Madman
UFAF-F-43 "Grey Owl' (1): Lightforge
UFS-DD-43 "Arbalest" (6): RAM, eS, Kashyyk, NUKE9.13, McHuman, Taricus
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Re: Intercontinental Arms Race: Summer 1943 (Design Phase)
« Reply #5692 on: March 24, 2018, 03:44:43 am »

Do we actually learn from failed attempts at stealing tech?  It also kinda seems like we are likely to get an acutally functioning heat seeker in addition to the ASM if we do the ASM this turn.
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Re: Intercontinental Arms Race: Summer 1943 (Design Phase)
« Reply #5693 on: March 24, 2018, 03:50:14 am »

There's no accounting for bad rolls, man.  If we get our sixth 2 in a row this turn, we can play "what if" all we want.

If we roll decently for the first time in six attempts, then we get a new technology (that neither we nor Cannala have) and an actual decent DD.  If we roll badly, then...oh well.  Didn't really matter anyways.
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Re: Intercontinental Arms Race: Summer 1943 (Design Phase)
« Reply #5694 on: March 24, 2018, 03:58:26 am »

Its rather a lot of RND to pick up in one revision even if we do roll well, it seems like.
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Re: Intercontinental Arms Race: Summer 1943 (Design Phase)
« Reply #5695 on: March 24, 2018, 04:04:35 am »

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Wild Ride (w/ research credit) (4): QuakeIV, Zanzetkuken, NAV, Funk
UFN-HA-43 'Frightening' (2): Powder Miner, Madman
UFAF-F-43 "Grey Owl' (1): Lightforge
UFS-DD-43 "Arbalest" (7): RAM, eS, Kashyyk, NUKE9.13, McHuman, Taricus, Happerry
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Re: Intercontinental Arms Race: Summer 1943 (Design Phase)
« Reply #5696 on: March 24, 2018, 04:08:30 am »

I'm not really happy with the Arbalest.

I mean, it's basically a Cataphract with a few less guns, a few more torpedoes and a sonar.
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Re: Intercontinental Arms Race: Summer 1943 (Design Phase)
« Reply #5697 on: March 24, 2018, 04:11:39 am »

And with one of the guns being... awkwardly placed between smokestacks, I can't help but feel it could use a bit of finetuning.
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Re: Intercontinental Arms Race: Summer 1943 (Design Phase)
« Reply #5698 on: March 24, 2018, 04:28:01 am »

And with one of the guns being... awkwardly placed between smokestacks, I can't help but feel it could use a bit of finetuning.

Where would you suggest placing it? Amidship turrets had targeting solutions when angled at least 15 degrees.  I mean, I guess we could place it on the bow, but at that point the turret is sticking out of the ship kinda awkwardly.

It's pretty much a copy of the Fletcher, which is one of the last WWII Destroyers before everything became about missiles.  It could always be replaced by an ASM launcher later >_>
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Re: Intercontinental Arms Race: Summer 1943 (Design Phase)
« Reply #5699 on: March 24, 2018, 04:41:22 am »

It wasn't until the mitscher class that they were able to do missile destroyer refits, and it weighed a full 80% more than the fletcher.
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