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[milo christiansen]

SWARM:
  -One dice
  -Rolled at advantage (ie 2 dice): (2) NUKE9.13, Milo
  -SWARM + HIVE (2 dice): (1)Tack
Dogpile: (2) NUKE9.13, Milo
ESP Transmitter Size Reduction: (1) Tack
ESP Transmitter Size Reduction (detailed version): (1) Milo
ESP Cannonade Accumulation: (2) NUKE9.13, Tack

Why use a ESP revision that is two lines at best when a properly fluffed version exists?

[NUKE9.13]

You, uh, might want to follow the link there.
Cos I agree, which is why I left my size reduction revision off of the list.
You're voting for the same thing.

SWARM:
  -One dice
  -Rolled at advantage (ie 2 dice): (2) NUKE9.13, Milo
  -SWARM + HIVE (2 dice): (1)Tack
Dogpile: (2) NUKE9.13, Milo
ESP Transmitter Size Reduction: (2) Tack, Milo
ESP Cannonade Accumulation: (2) NUKE9.13, Tack
PEW Crystals: (1) NUKE9.13

[milo christiansen]

Oooh. I saw the link was different and... Anyway, that brings up the question: Why not use the direct link instead of linking to a post with a link?

[Tack]

Hierarchically Integrated Vehicular Ensigns
“HIVEs” are an administrative tool to aid in the implementation of improved AGILE tactics. Through this change, the crews of small ships will no longer be “an island alone”, but be barracked and practice together as extended squads. Spotters, Pilots and Gunners will no longer be tied to a single craft, but be assigned via roster across the different crafts in their hive, allowing each crewman to get an instinctual feeling for the capacities of each aeronaut and the vessels they work upon.
Thusly, when working together with other captains, they not only have a greater sense of comraderie and protectiveness, but can also better predict the movements and capabilities of their fleetmates.

No longer attached to SWARM, but able to be used in a two-prong with SWARM for potential refunds.

Also, much as i’d love every design to see action, there is not yet a vote for saving any dice, so we may want to see a vot box more like:
Simply for clarity’s sake.

[Small Ship Tactics]
SWARM:
  -One dice
  -Rolled at advantage (ie 2 dice): (2) NUKE9.13, Milo
  -SWARM + HIVE (2 dice): (1)Tack
[Medium Ship Tactics]
Dogpile: (2) NUKE9.13, Milo
[ESP]
ESP Transmitter Size Reduction: (2) Tack, Milo
ESP Cannonade Accumulation: (2) NUKE9.13, Tack
[EMERALD]
PEW Crystals: (1) NUKE9.13

[andrea]

[Small Ship Tactics]
SWARM:
  -One dice
  -Rolled at advantage (ie 2 dice): (3) NUKE9.13, Milo, Andrea
  -SWARM + HIVE (2 dice): (1)Tack
[Medium Ship Tactics]
Dogpile: (3) NUKE9.13, Milo, Andrea
 -Rolled at advantage (2 dice): (1) Andrea
[ESP]
ESP Transmitter Size Reduction: (3) Tack, Milo, Andrea
ESP Cannonade Accumulation: (2) NUKE9.13, Tack
[EMERALD]
PEW Crystals: (1) NUKE9.13

I want tactics to be ensured as working. Not sure if we should revise ESP twice.

[NUKE9.13]

[Small Ship Tactics]
SWARM:
  -One dice
  -Rolled at advantage (ie 2 dice): (3) NUKE9.13, Milo, Andrea
  -SWARM + HIVE (2 dice): (1)Tack
[Medium Ship Tactics]
Dogpile: (3) NUKE9.13, Milo, Andrea
 -Rolled at advantage (2 dice): (1) Andrea
[ESP]
ESP Transmitter Size Reduction: (4) Tack, Milo, Andrea, NUKE9.13
ESP Cannonade Accumulation: (1) Tack
[EMERALD]
PEW Crystals: (1) NUKE9.13

Switching my ESP vote, cos I don't want to do two revisions to it right now. We aren't in a rush to finish it, so we can space out the revisions.

Oooh. I saw the link was different and... Anyway, that brings up the question: Why not use the direct link instead of linking to a post with a link?

I did it primarily for shits and giggles.

[milo christiansen]

[Small Ship Tactics]
SWARM:
  -One dice
  -Rolled at advantage (ie 2 dice): (3) NUKE9.13, Milo, Andrea
  -SWARM + HIVE (2 dice): (1)Tack
[Medium Ship Tactics]
Dogpile: (3) NUKE9.13, Milo, Andrea
 -Rolled at advantage (2 dice): (1) Andrea
[ESP]
ESP Transmitter Size Reduction: (4) Tack, Milo, Andrea, NUKE9.13
ESP Cannonade Accumulation: (1) Tack
[EMERALD]
PEW Crystals: (1) NUKE9.13
Feeder Coils, Take 2: (1) Milo

Don't do any revision with less than two votes: (1) Milo

The feeder coil idea has great potential, it just needs to be developed.

One of the engineers assigned to the first disastrous attempt continued experimenting on his own time, and has come to the conclusion that the problem is actually quite simple. The first coils were too "weak" and not boosting the current enough to matter, while the coil used in the last experiment was too "strong" and literally vaporized the barrel coils.

It appears that the exact ratios of coil sizes and winding can produce vastly different effects, and more testing is required to find one that is strong enough to improve barrel coil performance without overstressing them. Now that the dangers are better known, it should also be possible to test feeder coils without actually using a cannon until after it is know if the barrel coils will hold up.

[NUKE9.13]

[Small Ship Tactics]
SWARM:
  -One dice
  -Rolled at advantage (ie 2 dice): (3) NUKE9.13, Milo, Andrea
  -SWARM + HIVE (2 dice): (1)Tack
[Medium Ship Tactics]
Dogpile: (3) NUKE9.13, Milo, Andrea
 -Rolled at advantage (2 dice): (1) Andrea
[ESP]
ESP Transmitter Size Reduction: (4) Tack, Milo, Andrea, NUKE9.13
ESP Cannonade Accumulation: (1) Tack
[EMERALD]
PEW Crystals:
Feeder Coils, Take 2: (2) Milo, NUKE9.13
Don't do any revision with less than two votes: (2) Milo, NUKE9.13

Sure, that works too.

[Jilladilla]

Can we make that 'Don't do any revision with less than two votes' a Standing Order sort of thing?

[Small Ship Tactics]
SWARM:
  -One dice
  -Rolled at advantage (ie 2 dice): (4) NUKE9.13, Milo, Andrea, Jilladilla
  -SWARM + HIVE (2 dice): (1)Tack
[Medium Ship Tactics]
Dogpile: (4) NUKE9.13, Milo, Andrea, Jilladilla
 -Rolled at advantage (2 dice): (1) Andrea
[ESP]
ESP Transmitter Size Reduction: (5) Tack, Milo, Andrea, NUKE9.13, Jilladilla
ESP Cannonade Accumulation: (1) Tack
[EMERALD]
PEW Crystals:
Feeder Coils, Take 2: (3) Milo, NUKE9.13, Jilladilla
Don't do any revision with less than two votes: (3) Milo, NUKE9.13, Jilladilla

[Draignean]

SWARM
Efficacy: 5 (5,5)
SWARM Tactics are a definite upgrade from AGILE, and a test that shows that skiff captains can actually take on leadership rolls (at least over other skiff captains) without the apocalypse beginning in force. It's still a bit rough around the edges without communication, but sub-groups are generally identified by swatches of colored fabric, and good drilling and focus ensures that the sub-group members aren't likely to get confused and start following someone else in the fray of a large battle. In dry runs, skiff SWARM groups show excellent performance against disarrayed or otherwise separated individuals, and their superior small-group coordination can make them a credible threat to more heavily shrouded targets.

SWARM: AGILE, focused into 3 ship groups with one skiff (or similar vessel) leading the maneuvers. Effective at focusing skiff fire and allowing more skiffs to operate at peak maneuvers without real communication or formal command structure.


Dogpile
Efficacy: 2
Skiff captains are nice to work with. They're men who are cramped into tiny floating tinderboxes and are grateful for any edge that helps them not die. Windrider captains, however, are a different story. It's not that the tactic is overly complex, it's not that the communication is overly strenuous, it's more pervasive culture that each Windrider captain should be able to choose his own targets, and acting as a glorified janitor to a captain who can't finish a vessel himself... it's like being made his tertiary secretary. Captains assigned dogpile will make more of an effort than usual to focus fire on the leader's vessel, but they'll not try terribly hard.


ESP Transmitter Size Reduction
Efficacy: 2
Getting the size of the ESP down is difficult work for the engineers. The technology is new, and the underlying principles are still not fully understood. The lightening of the parts results in frequent fires and shorts in the internal circuitry, and a reduction in wholesale scale frequently results unacceptable drop-offs in range. The resulting transmitter is reduced in size and effective range (to a max of about a mile), but not in effective expense due to the higher quality and precision engineering of the parts needed. It's size is still too cumbersome to fit into a Windrider, though it could be slotted into a transport and take up 4TU.

ESP Mini-Transmitter:  6 Crystal 12 ore | A poorly 'miniaturized' transmitter with a one mile-ish range. Requires 4TU, or a specialized compartment, to mount into a ship.


Feeder Coils Mk. 2
Efficacy: 6
Persistence pays off occasionally, as the engineer who decided to work on the new design of feeder coils learns. Pioneering the field of Transformative Sympathy, his modifications to the EMERALD cannons have striking effects. The most militarily relevant is another 20% increase in range over baseline, giving the cannons a 60% advantage over their standard ancestors. However, he also appears to have discovered a compression limit- a point at which the aether can no longer be compressed without causing it to become chaotic. When the field generated by the barrel coils is too powerful, the compressed projectile loses accuracy at an exponential rate, and, peculiarly, the barrel circuit begins to gain heat much more quickly than anticipated as though receiving feedback from the projectile.


Spire Wreth's Production Stands At,
13(+8)/y Crystal, 30/65 Banked
19(+2)/y Ore, 33/95 banked
19(+6)/y Wood, 49/95 banked
10/y Silk, 14/50 banked

It is now the production, deployment, and tactics phase.

Spoiler: Projects (click to show/hide)

E.S.P: 4/20 | 2 Ore, 2 Crystal | Rushed 0 Times | Nothing Invested
Aether Forge 2/27 | - | Rushed 0 Times | Nothing Invested
EMERALD 8/12 | 3 Crystal, 3 Ore, +4 of either C or O | Rushed 0 Times | 14 Crystal, 6 ore 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.

Wreth Territory

Haze-Maze
Marine Presence: K 0/8 |  W 1/8
--->Marines
---> Squad G (No Equip)
Territory: 0/4 | 4/4
Resources: 1C, 3O, 1W, 2S
Conditions: Deadly Gas Pockets, significant vertical shafts and steep tunnels.

Miner's Folly
Marine Presence: K 0/18 |  W 1/18
--->Marines
---> Squad G (No Equip)
Territory: 0/4 | 4/4
Resources: 1C, 6O, 0W, 1S
Conditions: Toxic Stone, Massive Caverns, pitch-black

The Verdant Vista
Marine Presence: K 0/18 |  W 0/18
Territory: 0/4 | 4/4
Resources: 1C, 0O, 8W, 2S
Conditions: Mostly earth and soil, Unstable pocket caves


The Belt

Three Captains
Marine Presence: K 0/20 |  W 6/20
--->Marines
---> Defense Squad D:  Silk Vest (Officer) | Pincushion (1/4) | Suppressor (1/4) | Gauntlets (2/4) | BLOCK | PLACE | Envenomed Bolts
---> Defense Squad E:  Silk Vest (Officer) | Pincushion (2/4) | Gauntlets (2/4) | BLOCK | PLACE
---> Support Squad F:  Silk Vest (Officer) | Pincushion (3/4) | Suppressor (1/4) | PLACE | Envenomed Bolts
---> Support Squad G:  Silk Vest (Officer) | Pincushion (3/4) | Suppressor (1/4) | PLACE | Envenomed Bolts
---> H:   Silk Vest (Officer) | Pincushion (1/4) | Gauntlets (1/4) |  [50%]
---> I:  Silk Vest (Officer) | Suppressors (3/4) | Gauntlets (1/4) | Envenomed Bolts
Territory: 0/4 | 4/4
Resources: 1C, 6O, 2W, 6S
Conditions: Kinetoluminescent Ores, Heavily Infested

Wrackspire
Marine Presence: K ?/12 |  W 1/12
--->Marines
-->Marine Unit B-A | Cutlass (Full Squad) | Grappling Gear (full squad) [25%]
Territory: ?/4 | 1/4
Resources: 3C, 4O, 4W, 2S
Conditions: Unstable Aetheric Phenomena, Broken Spire

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

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

Spoiler: Ships (click to show/hide)

WOSV Chimera - Windrider Class
Loadout
8 SUCKERPUNCH Light Aether Cannons+ (Flanged Heatsinks, Itshana Select) [4 unit Broadsides]
1 Dragun Cannon+ (Sapshot) [Specialized Dragun Bow Mount]
1 Medium Ikusasa Core Crystal
2 Small Basic Lift Crystal+ (Itshana Refinement)
12 Itshana Select Trim Crystals
4 Itshana Trim Crystals+ (Itshana Refinement)
8 reams of webbing
Armored Skin 
2 Unit of Armor
Location: Spire Wreth
Status: All papers are in order.

WOSV Marge - Transport Barge
Loadout
1 Small Core Crystal+ (Itshana Refinement)
1 Small Basic Lift Crystal+ (Itshana Refinement)
2 Trim Crystals+ (Itshana Refinement)
1 reams of webbing
Carrying: 0/6
Location: Spire Wreth
Status:  All papers are in order.

WOSV Shibboleth - Transport Barge
Loadout
1 Small Core Crystal+ (Itshana Refinement)
1 Small Basic Lift Crystal+ (Itshana Refinement)
2 Trim Crystals+ (Itshana Refinement)
1 reams of webbing
Carrying: 0/6
Location: Spire Wreth
Status:  All papers are in order.

Comets - Skyskiff Class (x8)
Loadout
2 SUCKERPUNCH Light Aether Cannons (Flanged Heat Sinks)
1 Very Small Select Core Crystal
1 Very Small Select Lift Crystal
4 Select Trim Crystals
2 reams of webbing
Location:Spire Wreth
Status: All papers are in order.

Comets - Skyskiff Class (x1)
Loadout
2 SUCKERPUNCH Light Aether Cannons (Flanged Heat Sinks)
1 Very Small Select Core Crystal
1 Very Small Select Lift Crystal
4 Select Trim Crystals
2 reams of webbing
Location: Three Captains
Status: All papers are in order.

Comets - Skyskiff Class (x1)
Loadout
2 SUCKERPUNCH Light Aether Cannons (Flanged Heat Sinks)
1 Very Small Select Core Crystal
1 Very Small Select Lift Crystal
4 Select Trim Crystals
2 reams of webbing
Location: SThe Unfinished
Status: All papers are in order.

WOSV Longlast - Windrider Class
Loadout
8 SUCKERPUNCH Light Aether Cannons+ (Flanged Heatsinks, Itshana Select) [4 unit Broadsides]
1 Dragun Cannon+ (Sapshot) [Specialized Dragun Bow Mount]
1 Medium Ikusasa Core Crystal
2 Small Basic Lift Crystal+ (Itshana Refinement)
12 Itshana Select Trim Crystals
4 Itshana Trim Crystals+ (Itshana Refinement)
8 reams of webbing
Armored Skin 
2 Unit of Armor
Location: Spire Wreth
Status: All papers are in order.

WOSV Payoff - Windrider Class
Loadout
8 SUCKERPUNCH Light Aether Cannons+ (Flanged Heatsinks, Itshana Select) [4 unit Broadsides]
1 Dragun Cannon+ (Sapshot) [Specialized Dragun Bow Mount]
1 Medium Ikusasa Core Crystal
2 Small Basic Lift Crystal+ (Itshana Refinement)
12 Itshana Select Trim Crystals
4 Itshana Trim Crystals+ (Itshana Refinement)
8 reams of webbing
Armored Skin 
2 Unit of Armor
Location: Spire Wreth
Status: All papers are in order.

Spoiler: Infantry (click to show/hide)

Marines 11

Spoiler: Misc. Goods (click to show/hide)

1x Prototype ESP Transmitter
3x Prototype ESP Receiver
MOVE-PLACE x2

Current Technology

[NUKE9.13]

Production: -

Ships:
WOSV Chimera, Longlast, & Payoff: Move to Three Captains. Tactic: Dogpile (Chimera leading)
All Skiffs @ Wreth: Move to Three Captains. Tactic: SWARM
Skiff @ TC: Wait for allies to arrive, then join them. Tactic: High Vigil.
Skiff @ TU: Stay put. Tactic: PEEK-A-BOO

Infantry:
All: Fortify

It's sort of a toss up between Dogpile and Boom&Zoom for the Windriders' tactics. I figure, we haven't had much luck dodging them anyway, so might as well try for increased damage.
Then again, I might be forgetting how well BZ works, since we haven't used it in ages.

[Tack]

I’d half consider going back to Ambish.
... not sure why though.

[andrea]

Plan A (1): Andrea

I think boom and zoom may be better, since with this strategy it doesn't really seem that the windriders will focus... but this should be the turn more or less.

[milo christiansen]

Production:
-

Ships:
WOSV Chimera, Longlast, & Payoff: Move to Three Captains. Tactic: Boom & Zoom
All Skiffs @ Wreth: Move to Three Captains. Tactic: SWARM
Skiff @ TC: Wait for allies to arrive, then join them. Tactic: High Vigil.
Skiff @ TU: Stay put. Tactic: PEEK-A-BOO

Infantry:
All: Fortify

Plan A: (1) Andrea
Plan B: (1) Milo

[andrea]

Plan A:
Plan B: (2) Milo, Andrea

Fine