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[Kashyyk]

That's what those grenades we designed the other turn are for. We've got our transport this turn, so we can cram her full of grenades and use them to blast our way through their fortifications.

If I understand Draig's tech description correctly, 4 grenades cost one equipment space (as we can equip 1 marine with 4 grenades, or 1 crossbow, or one vest, etc), and there are 32 equipment slots per space unit. Thus for 12c, 12o and 1.5 space we can provide enough grenades for all our active squads. We might as well add another set for 4c, 4o and fill the remaining space with additional marine reserves with swords, for a total cost of 16c, 18o. This will give us an amazing amount of damage output for pressing the assault, but we won't be able to do this and spend three dice on Vertical Envelopment.

[NAV]

[3] Vanguard Cannon (3 dice, 6c, 6o) + Signal Flashers (1 die, 2w) + bank 2 dice: Shadowclaw, NAV, Helmacon
[2] Vertical Envelopment (3 dice, 9c, 9o, 15w, 15s) + Signal Flashers (1 die, 2w) + bank 2 dice: Taricus, Jerrick
[1] Vertical Envelopment (1 dice, 1 rush, 3c, 3o, 5w, 5s) + Signal Flashers (1 die, 2w) + bank 4 dice: Kashyyk

New Projects:
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[2] Option 2: Kashyyk, helmacon
[2] Option 3: Kashyyk, NAV
[] Option 4:
[] Option 5:

[Kashyyk]

[4] Vanguard Cannon (3 dice, 6c, 6o) + Signal Flashers (1 die, 2w) + bank 2 dice: Shadowclaw, NAV, Helmacon, Kashyyk
[2] Vertical Envelopment (3 dice, 9c, 9o, 15w, 15s) + Signal Flashers (1 die, 2w) + bank 2 dice: Taricus, Jerrick
[] Vertical Envelopment (1 dice, 1 rush, 3c, 3o, 5w, 5s) + Signal Flashers (1 die, 2w) + bank 4 dice:

New Projects:
None...

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[2] Option 2: Kashyyk, helmacon
[2] Option 3: Kashyyk, NAV
[] Option 4:
[] Option 5:

So as to avoid ties.

[Taricus]

[4] Vanguard Cannon (3 dice, 6c, 6o) + Signal Flashers (1 die, 2w) + bank 2 dice: Shadowclaw, NAV, Helmacon, Kashyyk
[2] Vertical Envelopment (3 dice, 9c, 9o, 9w, 21s) + Signal Flashers (1 die, 2s) + bank 2 dice: Taricus, Jerrick
[] Vertical Envelopment (1 dice, 1 rush, 3c, 3o, 5w, 5s) + Signal Flashers (1 die, 2w) + bank 4 dice:

New Projects:
None...

Flags
[] Option 1:
[3] Option 2: Kashyyk, helmacon, Taricus
[2] Option 3: Kashyyk, NAV
[] Option 4:
[] Option 5:

We're not even going to be able to use the vanguard cannons. We're better off putting that on the backburner until next turn since we can revise the viper to use them this turn. Also, if we have the wood we should start building hulls with it.

[Draignean]

Vanguard Cannon
Progress:  19/18 (1+4+5)

The Vanguard Cannon is now production ready, as soon as Kasgyrite scientists figure out how to actually mount it on something.

Signal Flashers
Progress: 12/10 (3)

At long last, a formal training regiment is implemented and permanent instructors obtained so that communications officers can be produced regularly.


It is now the revision phase. You have 2 dice to spend.


Spire Kasgyre's production stands at,
13/y Crystal, 15/65 Banked
17/y Ore, 28/85 banked
19/y Wood, 64/95 banked
10/y Silk, 45/50 banked

Spoiler: Projects (click to show/hide)

Viper Production Line: 1/45 | 7C + 5O + 5W + 2S, +15 From any combination of any resource | Rushed 0 Times | Nothing Invested
Vanguard Cannon: 9/18 | 2 Ore, 2 Crystal | Rushed 1 Times | 4 Ore, 4 Crystal Invested
Signal Flashers: 9/10 | 2 from Any combination of COWS | Rushed 0 times | 3w, 3s
Vertical Envelopment 2/13 | 3 from each of COWS + 4 from Any combination of COWS | Rushed 0 times | Nothing Invested

Spoiler: Map (click to show/hide)

The Calm: The calm is a region of the aerosphere with almost no wind beyond fleeting turbulence, and absolutely no aetheric currents. It's frigidly cold, and filled with fine red 'snow' that barely moves. Traversing it with a conventional vessel is impossible due to the lack of energy to fuel the lift and trim crystals.
The Everstorm: As the name suggests, the everstorm is a region of the aerosphere dominated by an enormous and eternal thunderstorm. It's a chaotic region of raging winds and surging aetheric energy that manifests in terrible bursts of prismatic flame. No conventional vessel could hope to survive the nightmarish storm conditions.


Kasgyre Territory

Blackstone
Marine Presence: K 1/14 |  W 0/14
---> Marine unit 6: Proto. Bronze armour (Squad Officer), Aethersilk vest (Team Leaders), Aether Gauntlet (1 per team), Cutlass (full squad)
Territory: 4/4 | 0/4
Resources: 1C, 5O, 2W, 0S
Conditions: Rocky, large caverns, very dark

The Hive
Marine Presence: K 0/10 |  W 0/10
Territory: 4/4 | 0/4
Resources: 1C, 2O, 1W, 4S
Conditions: Spider Nursery, narrow and twisting tunnels

Glowcove
Marine Presence: K 1/20 |  W 0/20
--->Marine unit 3: Proto. Bronze armour (Squad Officer), Aethersilk vest (Team Leaders), Crossbows (1 per team), Cutlass (full squad)
Territory: 4/4 | 0/4
Resources: 1C, 2O, 6W, 1S
Conditions: Verdant galleries, significant bio-luminescence


The Belt

Three Captains
Marine Presence: K 5/20 |  W ?/20
--->Marine unit 1:  Bronze armour (Squad Officer), Aethersilk vest (Team Leaders), Crossbows (full squad), Aether Gauntlet (1 per fireteam) [75% Strength]
--->Marine unit 1b:  Bronze armour (Squad Officer), Aethersilk vest (Team Leaders), Crossbows (full squad), Aether Gauntlet (1 per fireteam)
--->Marine unit 2b:  Aethersilk vest (Squad Officer), Crossbows (full squad), Aether Gauntlet (1 per fireteam)
--->Marine unit 1c: Bronze Cutlass (full squad) [75% strength]
--->Marine unit 2c:  Bronze Cutlass (full squad)
Territory: 1/4 | ?/4
Resources: 1C, 6O, 2W, 6S
Conditions: Kinetoluminescent Ores, Heavily Infested

Wrackspire
Marine Presence: K 0/12 |  W ?/12
Territory: 0/4 | ?/4
Resources: 3C, 4O, 4W, 2S
Conditions: Unstable Aetheric Phenomena, Broken Spire

Burned Mountain
Marine Presence: K 0/24 |  W ?/24
Territory: 0/4 | ?/4
Resources: 1C, 10O, 1W, 0S
Conditions: Inexplicably Molten Core, Hundreds of narrow tunnels and small galleries.

The Unfinished
Marine Presence: K 0/45 |  W ?/45
Territory: 0/4 | ?/4
Resources: 8C, 0O, 6W, 2S
Conditions: Unfinished infrastructure, Massive open rooms and halls.

Spoiler: Ships (click to show/hide)

Skiffs With No Name - Skyskiff Class (x4)
Loadout
2 Light Aether Cannons+ (Kettlegun).
1 Very Small Basic Core Crystal
1 Very Small Basic Lift Crystal
4 Trim Crystals
2 reams of webbing
Location: The Unfinished
Status: Shipshape

RKNV Serpintus - Viper Class
Loadout
1 Communications Officer
10 Light Aether Cannons+ (Kettlegun)
2 Sections Light Copper Armor
1 Medium Core Crystal 
1 Small Basic Lift Crystal
12 Trim Webs
6 reams of webbing
Location: Three Captains
Status:  Shipshape

RKNV Pythonidae - Viper Class
Loadout
1 Communications Officer
10 Light Aether Cannons+ (Kettlegun)
2 Sections Light Copper Armor
1 Medium Core Crystal 
1 Small Basic Lift Crystal
12 Trim Webs
6 reams of webbing
Location: Three Captains
Status: Shipshape

Skiffs With No Name - Skyskiff Class (x6)
Loadout
2 Light Aether Cannons+ (Kettlegun).
1 Very Small Basic Core Crystal
1 Very Small Basic Lift Crystal
4 Trim Crystals
2 reams of webbing
Location: Three Captains
Status: Shipshape

RKNV Ophidian - Viper Class
Loadout
1 Communications Officer
7 Light Aether Cannons+ (Kettlegun) [2 Front, 1 Rear Missing]
2 Sections Light Copper Armor
1 Medium Core Crystal 
1 Small Basic Lift Crystal
12 Trim Webs
6 reams of webbing
Location: Three Captains
Status: Shipshape

Mercury - Transport Barge
Loadout
1 Small Basic Core Crystal
1 Small Basic Lift Crystal
2 Trim Crystals
1 reams of webbing
Carrying: 0/6
Location:  Spire Kasgyre
Status: Shipshape

Spoiler: Goods Stockpile (click to show/hide)

6 Trim Crystals

Mothballed Anguis Hull [6 Reams of Silk]

Spoiler: Infantry (click to show/hide)

Marines x21

Current Technology

Spoiler: Tech (click to show/hide)

Infantry

Flintlock Pistol: Cost: 2 ore to give one of either to every fireteam in a squad, 8 to give to every man. Inaccurate beyond spitting distance, incapable of dealing significant damage against hard armor, and liable to explode when used regularly even when given the most expert maintenance,  the primary advantage of these weapons is that they can punch straight through shrouds like they didn't exist, and they're slowed by aethersilk officer's coats as much as by an ordinary silk shirt.

Flintlock Rifle: Cost: 3 ore to give one of either to every fireteam in a squad, 12 to give to every man. Reasonably accurate, but slow to reload and still incapable of dealing significant damage against hard armor or ship hulls. These weapons still require expert maintenance to keep them from being single-use weapons, and sustained use still makes these weapons terrifyingly unreliable as service weapons. Still, an excellent choice for shooting through silk shirts and ignoring shrouds.

Grappling Gear: Cost: 1 ore to give to every member of a squad. Standard issue ropes and hooks for boarding vessels or climbing the outside of spires. Cumbersome if you're not going to use it.

Aetheric Gauntlet: Cost: 1 Ore, 1 crystal to give one to every fireteam in a squad, 4 of each to give one to everyone. A gauntlet (usually left handed to keep the right hand free) of copper and leather with a tiny weapons crystal locked into the palm. Capable of firing dozens of low energy blasts of aetheric energy at the user's discretion, but is difficult to aim and the copper cage used to draw heat from the crystal has the unsettling tendency to leave disfiguring gauntlet burns, melt, or set the user on fire if used too frequently.

Bronze Cutlass: Cost: 2 Ore to give to every member of a squad. A simple, heavy blade of bronze attached to a wooden handle. Simple, and brutally effective in close quarters.

Aethersilk Vest: Cost: 1 Silk to give to a squad's ranking officer, 5 silk to provide to ranking officer and team leads, 16 silk to give to every member of a squad. A double layer vest of dense aethersilk, capable of absorbing a considerable amount of Aetheric energy. Can stop multiple point-blank shots from a gauntlet, but doesn't cover the arms, legs, or head. Does nothing against physical weapons or projectiles.
 
Witch Hunter Crossbow: Cost: 2 wood 2 ore to give one to every fireteam, 8 wood 8 ore for every man.The cranequin mechanism is much swifter than many similar designs (though that isn't saying much), and is integrated directly into the weapon in order to avoid a cumbersome stage of attaching and reattaching. A trained infantryman operating the weapon can crank back that 175 pound arms and fire in approximately 45 seconds. The bolts themselves are typically made with a bronze broadhead point to better shred infantry, and have passed every performance test asked of them- and engineers are confident that they could go through light infantry armor if modified with a chisel point. Includes an escessive amount of brass ornamentation, as well as an ornate identification plate for Division markings.

Aetheric Grenades: Cost: 1 Crystal, 1 ore to give one to every man in a squad, or four to every member of a fireteam. | Fist sized grenades carrying tiny precharged weapon and core crystals, capable of exploding after a delay of 5-ish seconds. Cheap assembly means that the soldier is never sure where in the realm of 5-ish that delay is. Roughly a quarter as powerful as an LAC blast, and operates primarily on the initial blast of plasma and burning metal. An ordinary marine can currently (safely) carry up to four grenades. Each round, every man in a fireteam has a 75% chance to use a grenade. This is evaluated per fireteam, not per man.

Bronze Breastplate and Helm: Cost: 1 ore for the officer, 3 ore for squad leaders, 10 ore for every man. Whilst a little on the heavy side, all of that weight is put into protection rather than ornamentation. The new design is thick over the vitals, well sculpted around the arms to allow freedom of motion, and flared at the sides to rest on the hips and keep the weight off the soldier's shoulders. Tests against pistols have shown that the armor has an excellent chance of absorbing shots from beyond point-blank range. Witch Hunter Crossbows penetrate much more readily. Comes with a pair of rip-buckles for quick removal, useful when the armour overheats from repeated aetheric blast strikes.

Ship Tech

Signal Flashers: Costs One squad of marines, 1 crystal, 1 ore, per set of 3 communications officers. Each ship needs only a single communications officer | A trained aeronaut with a handheld lightgun, capable of transmitting a considerable amount of information over long distance via military shorthand flashsign signals. Of course, to be understood, the reciever also needs to have a comms officer. All spires, by default, are considered to have comms officers on watch.

Light Aether Cannon+ (Kettle Gun): 1 Crystal, 1 Ore for one.  A small cannon, capable of being mounted on deck without reinforcement. Fires powerful blasts of aetheric energy, and uses a removable block of copper as a heat-sink. Relatively inaccurate, short ranged, hot, power hungry, and prone to exploding violently if hit directly by enemy fire. Still, it can blow wood into flaming cinders and will melt through light plating in a few shots.
---> Kasgyrian modifications to use water based heat sinks for the cooling block and additional pipes for the barrel have reduced cannon weight and increased the initial volley the cannon can make before becoming dangerously hot. Causes the cannon to make a distinctive whistle during the first volley, akin to that of a kettle.
---> Further Modifications allow the cannon's water reserve to be refilled during combat. Still, this is a delicate operation that requires a degree of platform stability, provides at best one additional reload in a combat situation, and cannot be done at all on skiffs.

Vanguard Cannon (Medium-Small  Cannon)  5 Ore, 3 Crystal, Requires a Medium Mount | A triple barreled, water cooled monster. Her only significant issue is a slight issue with water leakage that impacts overall ROF slightly, but aside from that she can fire a full power LAC shot every two seconds, and can sustain that rate of fire nearly indefinitely.

Basic Core Crystal: [VS 3 Crystal | S 6 Crystal]  A massive rough gem, grown in vats and used to transduce aetheric energy into electric current. This particular model is relatively inefficient, both as a transducer and as a storage unit. It can generate a defensive shroud around a vessel, but more than a single shot from a light Aether cannon on the same point will knock a hole in the shroud. Will explode spectacularly if hit directly.

Medium Core Crystal: [18 Crystal] Three small core crystals, fused together in a propietary process. While it shares the inefficiencies of its smaller cousins, she's approximately four times more powerful. Under stress, there is a chance that the core crystal will desynchronize, greatly reducing its power output. A desynchronized core can only be fixed by a refit action at the home spire.
---> Medium core crystals now come with a suite of tools designed to monitor its state and resynchronize it in the event something goes wrong. However, the monitoring tools are so effective that an engineer who is familiar with the 'heartbeat' of the core he or she works with can virtually eliminate any chance of desynchronization.

Basic Lift Crystal: [VS 2 Crystal, 2 ore | S 3 Crystal, 2 ore for one] A chunk of crystal the size of a bathtub, heavily reinforced so that it can be locked into a ship's spine. When fed electricity, it will progressively invert gravity's effect on itself, flying upwards and pulling anything attached up with it. This basic model is incredibly power hungry, produces only enough lift for a small ship and internal flaws mean that extreme maneuvers could easily cause it to crack.

Basic Trim Crystals: 1 Crystal for two.  Head sized chunks of crystal, similar to lift crystals, though of greater refinement. These produce directional gravity when powered, allowing a ship to make finer maneuvers. Like the basic lift crystal, these are power hungry and prone to fracture of used for rapid maneuverability.

Trim Web: Cost 1 Crystal, 1 ore, 3 wood to substitute for 2 trim crystals.  A trim web essentially spreads out the power of a single trim crystal throughout a dozen or more smaller crystals networked together. While this network is of essentially equal power to a single trim crystal, it's ability to spread force out over a larger area allows for much higher acceleration without cracking the crystal. Sadly, it currently needs extensive and custom refit procedures relative to standard trim crystals.

Basic Webbing: 2 Silk per ream. Aethersilk webbing, designed to catch hold of aetheric currents and shunt them into a ship's core crystal. Particularly susceptible to fire from aetheric weapons, which will rapidly cause overloads that burn out whole sections of webbing.

Light Copper Ship Plating: 3 ore per section. Nearly pure copper plates, heavy, but with good thermal conductivity. Useful for spreading out the heat generated by an aether blast. Low melting point does mean that repeated impacts will melt the armor and set fire to the wood beneath.

Ship Hulls

Viper Corvette:12 wood, 5 ore for one.
A fifty foot long frame of wood and bronze reinforcement, her unusual structure reminiscent of the head of a pit viper. She's designed with forward firepower and incredible speed in mind, featuring eight bow mounts and two aft mounts, all of which integrate the mechanical hand-crank system to aim the cannons. She has a notable ability to keep up a good fight even when all of the webbing outside her shroud has been disabled.

She has no usable cargo capacity.
Armament
10 light cannon mounts | 8 in the bow 2 aft.
Armor
None intrinsic
Can mount two sections of armor on the head.
Requires:
1 Core Crystal (At least small, up to medium)
1 Lift Crystal (At least small, up to medium)
4/8/12 Trim Crystals for poor/avg/good performace
6 reams of webbing

Skyskiff 5 wood, 2 ore for one.
At her heart, the Skyskiff is an 18ft long frame of sleek timber and brass reinforcement, built from the ground up to be light on the air and quick to handle. Her basic design is quite old, dating back before the perfection of trim crystals, and she still sports a rudimentary mast that a sail can be run from in addition to the normal spars to run out web. In service, she's typically run by a crew of four. Two gunners who worked crouched in the middle of the ship, a pilot who spends their time practically laying on top of the core crystal in order to manipulate the power control, and the spotter who usually stands at the rear of the ship and calls out directions and threats. Generally, the captain of the vessel is the spotter, due to their superior vantage point and ability to see the entire local theatre.

A notable problem with the Skyskiff is that despite her speed, her web is cumbersome to replace, and without it she's painfully slow. In addition, both her Core Crystal and Her Lift Crystal slots are only designed to fit small crystals. Her small lift crystal means a lot of the burden for vertical maneuvers is still placed on the power hungry trim crystals, which in turn puts more demand on her small core. As a result, her shroud is weak, and a single light cannon blast will knock a hole in it. It still takes two or three more shots before her shroud will buckle entirely, but if another shot comes in the same spot swiftly enough- that's the end of the skiff. Except in the most fortunate of circumstances, a single cannon blast to an unshrouded skiff will destroy it.

She has no usable cargo capacity.
Armament
2 light cannon mounts. One on each side.
Requires:
1 Core Crystal (Up to Very Small in size)
1 Lift Crystal (Up to Very Small in size)
4 Trim Crystals
2 reams of webbing

Transport barge 7 wood, 2 ore for one.
In times of peace, this was the vessel most frequently seen going to and from Spires. She's little more than a wooden oval with a few metal bands designed to support the lift crystal. She's got capacity for crew and cargo, but she's quite slow when fully loaded, and her lack of significant trim crystals means that she can't maneuver with any speed. Her only real defense against attack is to dive down into the mist layer and hope that the attacking vessel loses her trail before the mistmaw comes lurking.

She can hold six units of cargo.
Armament
None
Requires:
1 Core Crystal (Up to small size)
1 Lift Crystal (Up to small size)
2 Trim Crystals
1 ream of webbing

Basic Dinghy (Special, used automatically by Marines to embark/disembark transports)
A very small boat, technically capable of transporting eight people as long as they aren't too broad, don't have a fear of heights, and their legs aren't too long. Her core crystal is about the size of a housecat, and kept powered by a fixed ventral web. She's solid wood, unarmed, and has the tendency to tip alarmingly as she doesn't actually use a lift crystal, but makes do entirely on a trio of small trim crystals. It's a slow and terrifying way to travel. Though she's the primary lifeboat of transports, your chances of survival are alarmingly small if you find yourself alone in a dingy .

When used by marines, she's typically crewed by five, with the squad leader acting as an extra member in every set of three boats. When going into a hostile spire, one marine steers, the other four act as spotters or (if one or more has a gauntlet or rifle) shooters. She's such a small vessel that it doesn't take more than a dozen gauntlet shots for her to break apart completely, and a single shot to her ventral web will (at best) cripple her.

Her core crystal is, technically, capable of generating a shroud. However, the limited energy the miniscule core crystal can process limits the crew to picking two of three options: Maintain Altitude control, maintain thrust, raise shroud. For obvious reasons, raising the shroud is something of a last resort. Worse, even when powered, the shroud can be penetrated by sustained gauntlet fire. This is to say nothing of a shot from a light cannon. The shroud will buckle completely after a single shot from a light cannon, though to its credit, that's one more cannon shot than the Dinghy would have survived normally.

Spoiler: Tactics (click to show/hide)

Marines
Massed Fire and Charge: When engaging, Marines will bunch up to focus fire with their ranged weapons until they run out of ammunition or become too hot to use (depending on weapon type), at which point they will charge in with melee weapons.

Defensive Fire: Instead of firing until charging, Marines will look for defensive positions, take cover, and then fire when able from behind said defensive positions. Includes methods for both staggered retreats and staggered advances.

Ambush+Stealth: Currently an abysmal failure of a strategic plan, as soldiers usually blow the ambush much to early and engage on first contact.

Flanking Tactics: Up to four squads of marines can be selected to work together and perform a flanking maneuver. One to three squads will attempt to engage the enemy, while the remaining squads will attempt to find a different venue of attack. The number of squads involved could be increased at a later date.

Fighting Retreat: Infantry will retreat, prioritizing their own lives, but will also take every opening provided by an advancing enemy to nettle them and inflict casualties. Tactical excellence also allows our captains to extend retreat actions, giving a small but significant chance to not lose ground even when in retreat.

Bait and Strike: Similar to a fighting retreat, except with less retreat and a lot more fight. Extremely good at holding territory against an enemy who has numbers but few other advantages, and is capable of inflicting dire casualties. Still, this is fundamentally based in false-retreats, and is largely ineffective at actually gaining ground.

Ships
Close Aggressively: Ships will attempt to close distance with enemy vessels and engage at close range, firing all cannons until the enemy is destroyed.

Hit and Run: Ships will attempt to ambush enemy vessels from either high above or far below. Instead of remaining in engagement distance after the first volley, the vessel will retain speed and attempt to disengage before turning for another pass.

Airborne Ambush Maneuvers: Similar to hit and run, except with slightly more refined tactics. The fleet using this maneuver will attempt to form a simultaneous two pronged attack from both above and below, and will remain to engage the enemy after the initial onslaught.

Blockade: Orders ships to form up around a spire, out of range of enemy emplaced guns, and attempt to prevent vessels from coming or going. However, a strong kasgyrite sense of honor all put prevents them from firing on unarmed civilian vessels.

Scouting: Orders a ship or ships to find an overwatch position, either to defend a fleet or to scope out a particular location. Currently uses cannon fire signals, but will switch to more efficacious methods when able. Quite effective.

Spoiler: Infrastructure and Production Patterns (click to show/hide)

Gun Swivels: Rudimentary swivel mounts operated by hand cranks. These represent a first effort in the field, and are scarcely more effective than manual movement for light guns, except when trying to aim for a very precise point when still, but they can carry a decent amount of weight and serve as a reasonable proof of concept.

Small Docks: Relatively simple affairs of wood jutting out into the void, capable of servicing a relatively small number of light craft. These docks are best suited to peace time usage, and are ill-equipped to service or build true warships. Light defensive cannons have been mounted in strategic positions, and will be upgraded automatically when needed.
Provides a single production line that can be used for any small or smaller production pattern.

Marine Academy: The basic and unaugmented marine academy, where men and women are transformed from milksop civilians into hardened marines.
Provides a single production line to be used ONLY on Marine production.

Production Patterns

Basic Marine Training: [Max: 25 | Rate: 2]
Generates Marine units at the spire. These marines are capable in hand-to-hand combat, but are not provided any initial weapons. You might want to buy them swords, at the very least.

Skyskiff Pattern A: [Max: 10 | Rate: 2]
Creates two Skyskiff units per turn, up to a max of 10.  Each skyskiff is outfitted with
2 Light Aether Cannons.
1 Very Small Basic Core Crystal
1 Very Small Basic Lift Crystal
4 Trim Crystals
2 reams of webbing
Buyback cost: 9 crystal, 6 ore, 5 wood, 4 silk

Skyskiff Pattern B: [Max: 7 | Rate: 1]
Creates one Skyskiff units per turn, up to a max of 7.  Each skyskiff is outfitted with
2 Light Aether Cannons.
1 Very Small Basic Core Crystal
1 Very Small Basic Lift Crystal
4 Trim Webs
2 reams of webbing
Buyback cost: 9 crystal, 8 ore, 11 wood, 4 silk

[helmacon]

Shame about the order of the die there.

Revision 1: combined assault, AKA blitz tactics
We train our marines in blitz tactics, making use of flanking and all available equipment and manpower to overwhelm static defences from multiple directions at once. This tactic emphasises eliminating heavy enemy positions quickly, so as to spend the least amount of time possible fighting heavy weapons, and hopefully causing a route.

[Taricus]

We're already working on that with Vertical Envelopment Helmacon; we can't flank them conventionally since we take too many losses there.

[Kashyyk]

My suggested revisions:

Crossbow Cost Reduction
By using powered lathes and other machinery instead of hand carving the weapons we can reduce wood costs. By cutting out the brass ornamentation where unneeded, and simplifying it where it is required we can reduce ore costs. This should bring the the cost of a crossbow into line with an aether gauntlet or gunpowder rifle.

Many years ago, our engineers made this comment regarding the Vanguard:

Engineers think they might be able to come up with a revision plan to mount it into a specially refitted small mount, but it would fit much more ably onto a new, larger class of mounts.

The Small Vanguard Mount is that revision plan.

[1] Combined Assault : helmacon
[1] Crossbow Cost Reduction : Kashyyk
[1] Small Vanguard Mount : Kashyyk
[1] Bank a die : helmacon
[] Bank 2 dice :

[Jerick]

Grenade Clearing
This tactic focuses on the clearing of enemy footholds and strong-points with co-ordinated use of grenades and covering fire. The grenades deal a great deal of damage, sows confusion and forces the enemy from cover. Some of our marines will then assault the enemy position with the remainder providing covering fire/throwing further grenades in order to prevent the enemy from reorganizing and repulsing the assault  This tactic is designed to work well together with flanking tactics

I have a suggestion for when it swings around to production. Do we want to produce some more signal flashers for the skysiffs (that way we can rotate out the Viper from scouting duty) because if we do then we'll have less space to deliver infantry equipment. And I rather think they'll make a move in the sky this turn so may need all the firepower in the sky we can get. But I also don't want to stay stuck in the same stalemate inside the spire.

[Taricus]

The problem with using grenades like that is getting close enough to throw them without dying. We go in through their fortifications we're going to lose a lot of men. Why do you thing I was gunning for the Vertical envelopment?

[Jerick]

I know, we but we got out voted. Anyway our troops are going to be using grenades soon so I'm worried about them idiot balling when handling small but very dangerous explosive devices. So I was hoping to get some for tactic as insurance against them blowing themselves up with them.

[NAV]

could a single grenade be used to demolish the barricade, then all the other grenades thrown at the people?

[VoidSlayer]

Why not design a new ship type to make full use of the medium turrets.

I am thinking some kind of light destroyer, three medium mounts per side, one rear and two in front, one mounted above the other.  The fore ones could double as an even larger spinal mount for a new class of higher powered blasters.  It would be larger with three cores, one dedicated to lift and trim, one to weapon systems and one to shielding.

The small mount is a good idea in the short term, but a dedicated new ship would be better.

[helmacon]

throwing out a proof of concept flag I made in paint and discussed a bit on the discord. still needs to be properly aligned with the stripes and other stuff. I was going to add a crown too, but I ran out of time and effort.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Let me know what you think of the color pattern/ flag pattern.

I was going to use the same lioness that the other flags used, but I couldn't find it. It's 1:30, I'm just throwing ideas out here.

[Jerick]

Woot more flags means more of a chance to get an awesome one!

That said time for some hopefully constructive criticisms; First paint is garbage, Gimp is much better and free. Gimp has layers which lets you keep different elements separate which is really useful when it comes to editing, moving or removing those elements. Secondly as you know that image of a lioness has a bunch of white pixels in it which make it look pretty bad. It's also off center by a bit, but that shouldn't be hard to fix. Thirdly I do not like that orange, now I'm terrible with colours as I mentioned on discord so apologies if my explanation of why I don't like it is a little off. Purple and blue will usually be pretty soft colours in comparison to orange so in any picture including orange, purple and blue the orange will tend to stand out. By giving the orange the central space of the flag you make it stand out even more and in the language of design convey that it is the most important aspect of the flag. This is exacerbated by the thick black outline around the orange region. The result is that when I look at that flag the first and only thing I think about is orange. It dominates the flag and the attention of anyone who looks at it. This would be good if orange had some deep, important significance to Kasgyr. My suggestion would be that you don't actually need the orange, those shades of purple and blue could look good together. A two colour flag with black divisions could work well. There is no rule stating that there has to be three colours after all. Maybe blue on the outsides and purple in the middle shape?

Edit:You may also want to consider not having an image on it altogether, the shape itself is enough to apply meaning to and may have more impact if unobstructed.

Hope that helps!

Since there is some demand for the images I used here's the base images. Some are watermarked however and like a bloody idiot I didn't save a basic copy after I removed the watermarks  . I might if I have time go back and remove the watermarks again but it can be a bit tedious.

Spoiler: base images (click to show/hide)