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[NAV]

Grenades are 1 crystal and 1 ore.
For 1 ore our options are: Lead sling bullets for one squad, grappling hooks for one squad, bronze helmets for one fireteam, or bronze helmet and breastplate for one marine.

Or save it for next turn to make 15 squads of grenades instead of 14.

[Rockeater]

We will wait a round anyway so we could use the Vipers so probobly grenades

[NAV]

We're not wasting our ore to buy our marines expensive coffee from starbucks!

[helmacon]

I vote for the single heavily armored commander.

[Jerick]

Here's my submission to the event;

Kasgyr has changed.

Once upon a time every Kasgyr craftsman would try and imbue the things they crafted with artistic flair and ostentatious decorations. I remember that leading up to the war and in the war’s early years that every building built was made to be a piece of art. I remember how that shaped the people of Kasgyr into a people who loved pomp and grand ceremonies. Our military existed to wear fancy uniforms and march in joyous parades. Once they existed mostly to be an honour guard, to be something looked at and never used. Once Kasgyr was a place of beauty and finery.

But Kasgyr has changed.

War has no need for art. Killing a man has no call for decorations. Kasgyr artistry has yielded to cold hard practicality. The things forged by the tradesmen these days are simple and efficient and are cranked out by the dozen. The buildings built now are cold and grey. They are built for sturdiness in the event of invasion but never their appearance. That cold pragmatism has seeped into the people. Many of the things that once brought the people of Kasgyr joy have been discarded like a teenager discarding the childhood toys they have outgrown. Many ceremonies and events are still held but they have been cut down and streamlined to be quicker and more efficient. They have become little more than passing barely acknowledged nods to the way Kasgyr was before the war and are barely even attended by the public anymore. Our military make few appearances at these events as they are too busy training and preparing to kill. Their fancy ostentatious uniforms replaced by hard to see camo. Everywhere you look in Kasgyr art has fallen to the wayside and been replaced by militarism. It has become fashionable to own and train with weapons. Children receive instruction on the use of a sword from their parents in order to better protect them should them be called to serve.

The mood of the people has shifted considerably in the last thirty years as has the balance of power within the Spire. The aristocracy was never the most powerful faction in Kasgyr but their refusal to act has cost them. They declared that the war would be over quickly and refused to contribute. Decades of war have seen them rendered irrelevant by their choices. Important posts and lucrative contracts and opportunities are awarded most often to those who can have been contributing the most to the war effort. The aristocracy has lost its influence and wealth and in their place the guilds have risen to prominence. The Guilds have eagerly fed the insatiable Kasgyr war machine and grown prosperous in the process. Free of the decadence of the aristocracy the guilds have exploded in strength in the last thirty years. More and more the poverty stricken and down toden are recruited either by the military or by the guilds as they seek to keep up with demand by training large groups of craftsmen. While the aristocracy falls into complete irrelevance the monarchy rises. The Princess’s willingness to partake in wartime resource programs aimed at the common folk has earned her their loyalty. Loyalty which she wields carefully to stop problems before they arise where she can with brief but skillful intercessions. In these trying times she has shown herself to be a great leader and that fact is not lost on the populace. The monarchy hasn’t been as popular with the common folk anytime in the last two hundred years as it is now. The Princess’s name is saluted in bars throughout Kasgyr.

The name of Spire Wreth on the other hand has become hated. They know about some of the horrible things Wreth has done and rumors circulate as to the casualties inflicted on Kasgyr civilians by indiscriminate cannon fire. They know how the paper stamping, ink licking bastards turned down every attempt by their beloved Princess to open a evacuation corridor while they fired cannons at people’s homes and shops and into crowds. There are even quiet whispers of Wrethians feeding people to a monster at the Unfinished. Anger at Wreth has been simmering for so long it has become a tradition but some of their recent actions has sparked fresh outrage. There isn’t even need for propaganda as it is clear to almost everyone that Wreth is evil while the Princess is a force for good standing in its way. If Wreth wins this war they will surely kill the monarchy, beloved Princess and all, and then they will impose their twisted mad system of endless forms on the Kasgyr people. Wreth’s madness must be stopped.

Kasgyr has changed and it will change further. If we win this war what will become of us? Will the guilds grown fat on supplying the war effort ever support peace again? Will the military granted such importance and power slink back into obscurity and surrender the power they’ve been granted? Or will our economy and society become so warped by the act of waging war that it cannot survive peace? Will victory bring an end to war or will it mark the search for the next enemy? After so long at war will our children even understand peace? I fear the future. I fear the present. Is this the beginning of our transition from a peaceful nation into a conquering empire? What are we becoming?

[NAV]

Here's a list of Viper Corvette Names for us to use. Feel free to suggest more. Or to suggest some be moved further up. In general, the best sounding names that haven't been used yet should be at the top.

Xenocalamus
Boidae
Aniliidae
Elapidae
Pareidae
Bolyeriidae
Colubridae
Crotalinae 
Epicrates
Fordonia
Dipsina
Viperidae II
Serpentis II
Ophidian II
Pythonidae II
Causinae II
Anguis III

[Draignean]

Medium Docks
Progress: 42/40  (1 +3 +4 +1 +5 +5 +4 +6 +5 +4)  1 die refunded.

After much sweat, blood, and tears, after saving every last penny in order to put it all into construction, the new docks stand ready. Similar reconstruction protocols are distributed throughout friendly spires, which should result in a surge in defensive potential. Of course, the more important part is that the enormous section of funds diverted into making sure that materials and labor is now mature, and that means that ships are ready to roll off the line.

The Medium Docks are now complete.


Spire Kasgyre's Production stands at
12(+12)/y Crystal, 0/125 Banked
12(+2)/y Ore, 1/95 banked
17/y Wood, 0/95 banked
10/y Silk, 0/55 banked

It is now the revision phase. You have 1 die to spend.

Spoiler: Projects (click to show/hide)

Viper Production Line: 1/35 | 7C + 5O + 5W + 2S, +15 From any combination of any resource | Rushed 0 Times | Nothing Invested
Vertical Envelopment 2/10 | 3 from each of COWS + 4 from Any combination of COWS | Rushed 0 times | Nothing Invested
AIM (Special Project) 16/27 | - | 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 2/14 |  W ?/14
Territory: 2/4 | 2/4
---> Squad A:  1/4 Tpz. Pistols | 1/4 Pistols
---> Squad B:  1/4 Tpz. Pistols | 1/4 Pistols
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: 1+2C, 2O, 1W, 4S
Conditions: Spider Nursery, narrow and twisting tunnels
—> Hanging Gardens x2

Glowcove
Marine Presence: K 0/20 |  W 0/20
Territory: 4/4 | 0/4
Resources: 1C, 2O, 6W, 1S
Conditions: Verdant galleries, significant bio-luminescence


The Belt

Three Captains
Marine Presence: K 0/20 |  W ?/20
Territory: 0/4 | 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 7/24 |  W ?/24
Territory: 4/4 | ?/4
--->Marine Squad Siegmeyer: 1/4 Tower Shields | 3/4 Aetheric Pistols | 1/4 Witch-Hunters | Aetheric Grenades (1 per squad)
--->Marine Squad Sieglinde: 1/4 Silk Vests | 3/4 Aetheric Pistols | 1/4 Witch-Hunters | Aetheric Grenades (1 per squad)
--->Marine Squad Siegward: 3/4 Aetheric Pistols | 1/4 Witch-Hunters | Aetheric Grenades (1 per squad)
--->Marine Squad Siegfried: 1/4 Aetheric Pistols | 1/4 Witch Hunters | 2/4 Cutlasses
--->Marine Squad Sieghard: 4/4 Cutlasses
--->Marine Squad Siegbald: 2/4 Cutlasses
--->Marine Squad Siegrun: / [25%]
Resources: 1C, 10O, 1W, 0S
Conditions: Inexplicably Molten Core, Hundreds of narrow tunnels and small galleries.

The Unfinished
Marine Presence: K 0/0 |  W 0/0
Territory: ?/4 | ?/4
Resources: 0C, 0O, 0W, 0S
Conditions: Destroyed.

Spoiler: Ships (click to show/hide)

RKNV Anguis II - Viper Class
Loadout
Bronzewood Hull: Medium Turret Mod
1 Communications Officer
2 Light Topaz Aether Cannons+ (Kettlegun) [2 front, 1 rear]
2 Light Aether Cannon+ (Kettlegun) [1 Front, 1 Rear]
1 Prototype Lance Cannon [Front]
1 Topaz Vanguard Cannon (Top Brz. Trim, Med Mount)
2 Sections Light Copper Armor
1 Medium Topaz Core Crystal 
1 Small Topaz Lift Crystal
2 Topaz Trim Webs, Brz. Reinforced.
8 Topaz Trim Crystals
6 reams of webbing
Location: The Hive
Status: Shipshape

RKNV Viperidea - Viper Class
Loadout
1 Communications Officer
4 Light Aether Cannons+ (Kettlegun) [2 front, 2 rear]
1 Light Topaz Aether Cannoń+ (Kettlegun) [Front]
1 Topaz Lance Cannon [Front]
1 Topaz Vanguard Cannon (Top Brz. Trim-Turret, Med Mount)
Bronzewood Hull
2 Sections Light Copper Armor
1 Medium Topaz Core Crystal 
1 Small Topaz Lift Crystal
2 Topaz Trim Crystals
8 Topaz Trim Webs Bronzewood reinforced
6 reams of webbing
Location: The Hive
Status: Shipshape

Natalie - Skyskiff Class (x1)
Loadout
2 Light Topaz Aether Cannons+ (Kettlegun)
1 Very Small Topaz Core Crystal
1 Very Small Topaz Lift Crystal
4 Topaz Trim Webs
2 reams of webbing
Location: Spire Kasgyre
Status: Shipshape

Natalie - Skyskiff Class (x1)
Loadout
2 Light Topaz Aether Cannons+ (Kettlegun)
1 Very Small Topaz Core Crystal
1 Very Small Topaz Lift Crystal
4 Topaz Trim Webs
2 reams of webbing
Location: Spire Kasgyre
Status: Shipshape

Natalies - Skyskiff Class (x1)
Loadout
2 Light Topaz Aether Cannons+ (Kettlegun)
1 Very Small Topaz Core Crystal
1 Very Small Topaz Lift Crystal
4 Topaz Trim Webs
2 reams of webbing
Location: Glowcove
Status: Shipshape

Natalies - Skyskiff Class (x3)
Loadout
Comms Officer
2 Light Topaz Aether Cannons+ (Kettlegun)
1 Very Small Topaz Core Crystal
1 Very Small Topaz Lift Crystal
4 Topaz Trim Webs
2 reams of webbing
Location: The Hive
Status: Shipshape

RKNV Jupiter - Battlebarge Class
Loadout
1 Communications Officer
4 Light Aether Cannons+ (Kettlegun) [2 front, 2 rear]
Bronzewood Hull
Medium Topaz Core
1 Small Topaz Lift Crystal
12 Standard Trim Crystals
5 reams of webbing
Carrying: 0/12
Location: Spire Kasgyre
Status: Shipshape

Dionysus - Transport Class
Loadout
Comms Officer
1 Small Topaz Core Crystal
1 Small Lift Crystal
2 Topaz Trim Crystals
1 ream of webbing
Carrying: 0/6
Location: Spire Kasgyre
Status: Shipshape

Ocker - Transport Class
Loadout
1 VS Topaz Core Crystal
1 S Lift Crystal
2 Topaz Trim Crystals
1 ream of webbing
Carrying: 0/6
Location:  Spire Kasgyre
Status: Shipshape

Spoiler: Goods Stockpile (click to show/hide)

Topaz Med Core
Topaz Trim Webs x2
Trim Webs x8
Topaz trim crystals x4
Topaz vanguard x1
Kettleguns x10
Anguis Hull (Viper: 1x vanguard conversion, 10x web conversion)

Spoiler: Infantry (click to show/hide)

Marines x15

Current Technology

[helmacon]

It's... it's beautiful.

[Wizgrot]

Kasgyr 2: Electric Viperiae is now on all cinemas

[Wizgrot]

For the revision:

Time to get serious

While the treaty failed, we can still take advantage out of it. Wave it around the citizens and show them how negotiations have failed. How, when we offered Wreth a way to try to prevent unnecessary dead and send Kasgyrinas back to their nation, they refused out of greed for Blackstone´s resources. They would rather slay hundreds of civilians than slow a bit their war effort.

We must make them understand that they are the only one who can save their children from being a property of the bureaucratic machine. That the noose is tightening and there is nowhere to run now, and that our only chance is to delay the Wrethians for enough time so reinforcements can arrive. Every man, woman and child must give their all in order to protect our way of living, be it building barricades, making improvised Witchunters or fighting at the front.

Basically, a way of justifying the Militia Recruitment and Armament revision of Nav´s, but this time trying to bring all civilians into the fold to prep defenses an manufacture weapons. The broken treaty should give us the moral boost they need to fight until the bitter end.

[NAV]

It is clear from our many years of fighting and losing ground to Wreth that portable cannons rule that battlefield. We have everything we need to revise one, just have to slap all the pieces together.

Start with a basic kettlegun.
Attach a dingy core crystal to power it.
Attach some silk collect aether.
Put it on a small wooden cart with two wheels.

There, we have a basic portable aether cannon.

If we can convert them from our existing stock of surplus kettleguns, that would be a very good logistics bonus.

If the dingy core retains its ability to produce a weak shroud, that would help a lot against their aether cannons.

It would also be a nice bonus if we can attach a modified bronzewood shield to protect the operators.

Estimated cost: 2 crystal, 1 ore, 1 wood, 1 silk to build from scratch.
1 crystal, 1 wood, 1 silk to convert from existing kettlegun.
+1 wood to attach a bronzewood shield.

It is clear that Wreth's cannons are the only thing letting them win battles on the ground. We have all the tools we need to destroy them, just need to use them effectively..

Marines use their camouflage to hide as best they can. Lie in wait for the cannons to come within range of our best anti-cannon weapon. When it's in range, fire.

After the cannon's destroyed, either mop up the Wrethian marines or engage in a fighting retreat depending on who's stronger.

This tactic currently uses sling grenades, but should be applicable to any future anti-cannon weapons up to cannons of our own.

[Kashyyk]

IIRC, their field cannons are about half the size of an LAC, which suggests they put a design into it. I'm not sure how much success we'd get out of a revision, but I suppose we can hold out for that miracle 6.

[Doomblade187]

We made it. The years of sacrifice, the ages of preparation.

It was all worth it.

[NAV]

While the treaty failed, we can still take advantage out of it. Wave it around the citizens and show them how negotiations have failed. How, when we offered Wreth a way to try to prevent unnecessary dead and send Kasgyrites back to their nation, they refused out of greed for Blackstone´s resources. They would rather slay hundreds of civilians than slow a bit their war effort.

We must make them understand that they are the only one who can save their children from being a property of the bureaucratic machine. That the noose is tightening and there is nowhere to run now, and that our only chance is to delay the Wrethians for enough time so reinforcements can arrive. Every man, woman and child must give their all in order to protect our way of living, be it building barricades, setting traps, making improvised Witchunters or fighting at the front.

Basically, a way of justifying the Militia Recruitment and Armament revision of Nav´s, but this time trying to bring all civilians into the fold to prep defenses an manufacture weapons. The broken treaty should give us the moral boost they need to fight until the bitter end.

Improvised weapon manufacturing remains the same as previous revision.

Spoiler: Improvised weapons. (click to show/hide)

Our Militia men and women don't have to go armed with just sticks and stones:

Appropriate pieces of wood can be carved into bows, or even crossbows in a poor imitation of our Witch-Hunters.
Knives and other sharp objects can be tied to sticks to form spears, for throwing or for stabbing with.
Many tools can be modified into more effective weapons. Shovels sharpened, scythes straightened, etc.
Almost anything can be used as a club, but if you carve a proper handle or form one of wrapped cloth, and attach some nails or studs to the head it becomes a deadly mace.
Planks of wood can be nailed together into shields, good for blocking the poisoned bolts Wreth still uses.
Strips of cloth or cord can be used to make slings for throwing rocks.
A larger sling on the end of a stick is a staff sling, it can throw larger rocks further, though probably limited in use to the largest caverns due to its high arc.
A glass bottle can be filled with spirits, lamp oil, or any other flammable liquid to make a firebomb.

Being our largest ore-producing colony, Blackstone should have a lot of picks, hammers, and other mining and forging tools ready for use as weapons.

With these weapons we can arm our militia to defend Blackstone. Should a marine ever find themselves unsatisfactorily armed, they can do the same.

[Wizgrot]

Time to vote. Remember one die.

Time to get serious ,NAV's Edit:(1) Wizgrot
Cassius Pattern Field Cannon:(0)
Ambush the Cannons:(0)

The militia I believe is the most cost effective revision this time. It also would allow to equip our marines with some sort of melee weapons, which I believe it´s kind of necessary for them to continue fighting effectively.