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[Tack]

I was thinking of trying to kitbash a model
But, eh. Time and money etc

[Madman198237]

I was just attempting to provide inspiration, I have no artistic skill and no time to get any such skill with

[andrea]

Project Progress:
Invest 2 dice in ECD (4C, 120, 8W): (2) NUKE9.13, Andrea
Invest 2 dice in Aetherforge (Free): (2) NUKE9.13, Andrea

I support this plan. 2 dice gives us good chance to finish, and leaves us enough resources to actually purchase the things.

[Tack]

Does ECD need the cost reduction?
Otherwise it might be ready to roll out.

[andrea]

it is ready to roll out. It could use a cost reduction, but that can be done after project is finished. It is quite important to deploy it this turn.

[johiah]

Project Progress:
Invest 2 dice in ECD (4C, 120, 8W): (3) NUKE9.13, Andrea, Johiah
Invest 2 dice in Aetherforge (Free): (3) NUKE9.13, Andrea, Johiah

We should think about improving ground forces or our armor next turn.

[milo christiansen]

Project Progress:
Invest 2 dice in ECD (4C, 120, 8W): (2) NUKE9.13, Milo
Invest 2 dice in Aetherforge (Free): (2) NUKE9.13, Milo

[andrea]

You erased 2 votes, milo

[Tack]

Project Progress:
Invest 2 dice in ECD (4C, 120, 8W): (5) NUKE9.13, Andrea, Johiah, Milo, Tack
Invest 2 dice in Aetherforge (Free): (5) NUKE9.13, Andrea, Johiah, Milo, Tack

[milo christiansen]

You erased 2 votes, milo

Oh, oops.

[Draignean]

Eastern Cave Dragun
Progress: 9/10 (2+2)
There are some minor technical issues with getting manufacturing set up to produce the frames of the cannons, very minor issues that have absolutely nothing to do with random explosions during field tests, and your engineers assure the brass that the problems can be ironed out in no time at all with just a smidge more time and funding.

Aetherforge
Progress: 14/27 (6+6)
The work on the Aetherforge, however, rockets towards being ready for mass production, with some of the trickier theoretical work dealing with crystal spacing and charge control worked out. The aetherforge is still a long ways from being common place, but it has been successfully transformed from a loose collection of half-insane notes and into an actual design document.


Spire Wreth's Production Stands At,
13(+8)/y Crystal, 35/65 Banked
19(+2)/y Ore, 24/95 banked
19(+6)/y Wood, 86/95 banked
10/y Silk, 34/50 banked

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

Spoiler: Projects (click to show/hide)

E.S.P: 6/20 | 2 Ore, 2 Crystal | Rushed 0 Times | 2O, 2C
Aether Forge 14/27 | - | Rushed 0 Times | Nothing Invested
Eastern Cave Dragun: 9/10 | 2 Crystal, 6 Ore, 4 Wood | Nothing invested | Rushed 0 Times

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 ?/20 |  W 6/20
--->Marines
---> Defense Squad D:  Silk Vest (Officer) | Pincushion (1/4) | Suppressor (1/4) | Gauntlets (2/4) | BLOCK | PLACE x2 | Envenomed Bolts
---> Defense Squad E:  Silk Vest (Officer) | Pincushion (2/4) | Gauntlets (2/4) | BLOCK | PLACE x2
---> Support Squad G:  Silk Vest (Officer) | Pincushion (3/4) | Suppressor (1/4) | PLACE x 2 | Envenomed Bolts [50%
---> M: Rifles (4/4) | 2x MOVE PLACE
---> L: Rifles (4/4) | 1x MOVE PLACE
Territory: 1/4 | 3/4
Resources: 1C, 6O, 2W, 6S
Conditions: Kinetoluminescent Ores, Heavily Infested

Wrackspire
Marine Presence: K ?/12 |  W 0/12
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: Western Kasgyrite Spire
Status: All papers are in order.

Comets - Skyskiff Class (x7)
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:  Western Kasgyrite Spire
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: The Wrackspire
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: Spire Wreth
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:  Western Kasgyrite Spire
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:   Western Kasgyrite Spire
Status: All papers are in order.

WOSV Crystalclear - 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  [Slagged Port Armor, 2 Ore to repair]
Location:  Western Kasgyrite Spire
Status: Damaged

WOSV Black Ink - 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: Three Captains
Status: All papers are in order.

WOSV Deadline - 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 + Ikusasa)
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 Ledger - Transport Barge
Loadout
1 Small Core Crystal+ (Itshana Refinement+ Ikusasa)
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 Imafuku - Transport Barge
Loadout
1 Small Core Crystal+ (Itshana Refinement+ Ikusasa)
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.

Spoiler: Infantry (click to show/hide)

Marines 13

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

1x Prototype ESP Transmitter
3x Prototype ESP Receiver
1x Prototype ECD

Current Technology

[10ebbor10]

Anyway, ideas

Leather-Silk Uniforms An improvement on our silk uniform that includes a leather gambeson, and is thus capable of stopping arrows and aetheric blasts alike.

PINCER PINCER is a tactic in which we simultaneously attack both flanks of an enemy formation. It can both defensively (where we attack an enemy that is attacking our fortified position) as well offensively (in support of a standard assault). If properly executed, a pincer maneuver can lead to the enemy being attacked not only from the front, but also the sides, and even the rear, if the flanking squads manage to link. Few forces can stand up to such sudden crossfire.

Sustained Operations War rests for no one, and neither should our enemy. Sustained operations is a tactic that focuses on continuing combat operations during the night or other inconventional times. Units on sustained attack will attach themselves to units with other tactics, and will use their weaponry and tactics during their shift.

Night-time operations War rests for no one. Forces using this tactic execute a secondary tactic (chosen during that period) at night, when no one normally fights.

Nighttime Harrasment Sleep is very important to the well functioning Marine. The function of these marines is to ensure that the enemy gets none. By using minor harassment attacks, threats and occassional loud noise they force the enemy to maintain alert 24/ exhausting their force. The nighttime harrasers enjoy a good sleep at day.

[milo christiansen]

Revisions with at least a little fluff tend to do better...

The archives and offices of the glorious Wreth bureaucracy never sleep, why should marines be any different? By running the marines in shifts just like their civilian brethren, a greatly expanded period of operations can be achieved.

Squads assigned to this tactic will attach themselves to other squads with a different tactic, and will take their place and use their tactic as needed to ensure the greatest possible amount of time spent actively fighting. Squads linked up in this way will shift loadouts among themselves to ensure the "active" squad has the best weaponry, also troops are shifted around as needed to keep each "shift" at more-or-less equal strength.

[Tack]

ECD Materials Review:
The Engineers may have indeed gone overboard on the development of this weapon, and once again it is up to the fleet of auditors to see whether the brass etchings are strictly necessary for the smooth functioning of the gun. This is by now a routine function of the department, and becoming regarded among the brass as a necessary penitence for our scientific utopia.

ESP cannonade accumulation (size and cost reduction)
ESP is a simple concept made complex by our lack of understanding.
However, our weapon designs team seem to have far more overlap with this technology than we had previously considered. Using coils such as those from the EMERALD technology, the power draw used for plasma generation in our cannons, and the additional core power from SUCKERPUNCH and Ikusasa, we are able to generate the charge used for sparking far more effectively, and at a smaller scale.

Edit:
Overwhelm
For situations in which we outnumber the enemy significantly, we may take fewer losses if we just flat-out charge the enemy ranks. At the very least we will increase the kill or capture rate of enemy troops, speeding their expulsion from the spire.


Also, could we repair at a fully-occupied TC?

[NUKE9.13]

I believe we'd have to specifically install docks there to do so.

Anyway, since the GM says it is possible (provided we don't roll toilets (so it isn't possible)), I'm gonna vote for Sustained Operations.

Sustained Operations: (1) NUKE9.13