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[10ebbor10]

Yup. We need to redistribute our manpower flow.

The enemy uses (rougly) 50 30 20.

[RAM]

Leg Springs are not for jumping, they are for conserving energy during a walking/running motion. This should mean that more energy is available for moving faster and that less energy is expended on travelling. It would still be using the basic leg arrangement which seems more focused on lifting than acrobatics.

[Strongpoint]

Are there any tactics revision that may help us more than faster reinforcements?

What can we do to reduce causalities from artillery\ranged units by tactics alone?

[RAM]

Well, ranged can be mitigated by having cover, we could try carrying random junk as shields. Also marching behind soldiers. Artillery ought to be mitigated by spreading out, but that results in slower marching speeds because some of your people will be significantly further from the battlefield, by virtue of occupying a larger area, and you want all of your forces to reach the battlefield so being further away means slower...

We really don't have the visual acuity to react to artillery. so any spotter + evasion tactic won't be viable.

Artillery does tend to throw a lot of shock and shards about, could be that a bit more of a focus on treating injuries could reduce the effective losses. If, instead of being marched over and having its remaining legs crushed, a beetle was righted, had its leaks plugged, and found a stick strapped to it to rest on where it lost most of its legs, then it might be able to get back into the battle...

[Strongpoint]

Hmmm, Field medicine and crude hospitals to save some drones can be a quite good way of reducing our causalities.

[Iituem]

Revision: Infra-Red Cell Clusters  [Effectiveness:  5]

By concentrating the Infra-Red cells into a pair of dark spots, the Queen has created secondary simple eyespots, flanking the standard compound eye.  The interference with colour vision has been largely removed, and blue-violet perception restored, save for some legacy issues with keeping all of the sensory inputs in mind - not a real problem for now.  The 'scout worker' still costs 10% more than the standard worker, but has restored melee functionality and can fight in night ambushes with a full third of the capacity of their combat in melee.


Revision: Larval Mitosis  [Effectiveness: 3]

Ultimately, we cannot increase our maximum capacity of drones without increasing food supply or food metabolism.  What we can try to do is pump them out faster.  Without a full cycle devoted to redesigning the embryonic stage of development, we are limited in what we can do, but the Queen has been able to force mitosis in a limited percentage of cases.  Many of the resulting eggs prove infertile or too mutated to be of use, but taking the failures after the successes this should result in a 6% increase in reproductive rate.  Our maximum capacity will remain the same, however.


It is now the Strategy Phase.  You have 1 die remaining.

[10ebbor10]

Excellent rolls.

Also, the first evidence that we're not using a d4.

Edit : Do these mutations transfer to all workers, or only to the new ones.

[Iituem]

At your discretion, you can choose to either apply the IR eye-spot mutation to all workers (increasing worker cost by 10% across the board) or implement a new worker sub-class of 'scout workers', and assign them a Budget percentage this turn (up to 10% Budget reassignment is free).  The reproduction rate increase is across the board.

Remember that you can move your National Effort for free in the Strategy Phase.

[10ebbor10]

If we apply it to all workers, do 10% of the workers already on the field evaporate?

Anyway, the enemy distribution is 0.45%, 0.30%, 0.25%.

[Iituem]

If we apply it to all workers, do 10% of the workers already on the field evaporate?

Anyway, the enemy distribution is 0.45%, 0.30%, 0.25%.

No, but they suddenly consume 10% more food and get you 10% closer to the manpower cap.  They would only evaporate if you were already at max capacity.

[NUKE9.13]

Alright. Strategy time.

-Rebalance our fronts from 33/33/33 to 40/30/30 (Consumes 1 die)

-Move National Effort to Front One. (Free)

-Upgrade all Workers to have IR eye-spots. (Free)

[10ebbor10]

Uhm.

Iituem, I don't understand your reinforcement mathematics.

We spend 800 manpower to reinforce 27 Soldiers and 600 workers.
600*1 = 600
27*6 = 162

What happened to the rest? Shouldn't we be reinforcing 33 Warriors?

[10ebbor10]

Anyway, my proposal.

-Rebalance our fronts from 33/33/33 to 50/30/20 (Consumes 1 die)
-Move National Effort to Front One. (Free)
-Upgrade all Workers to have IR eye-spots. (Free)

[Iituem]

Uhm.

Iituem, I don't understand your reinforcement mathematics.

We spend 800 manpower to reinforce 27 Soldiers and 600 workers.
600*1 = 600
27*6 = 162

What happened to the rest? Shouldn't we be reinforcing 33 Warriors?

Fixed that bug this morning.  I was reporting numbers of troops, not total manpower, so it was counting each Soldier improperly.

Edit in progress:  Okay, there's two bugs.  Because of how I'm patching in the National Effort reinforcements, it's slightly screwing over the apparent manpower assignment for the other fronts - the total troops overall are correct, but distribution's out by about 5%.  I'll look at fixing that one up.

Edit 2:  Fixed that, has to tweak the code a fair bit but it's now representative.

[NUKE9.13]

-Rebalance our fronts from 33/33/33 to 50/30/20 (Consumes 1 die)
-Move National Effort to Front One. (Free)
-Upgrade all Workers to have IR eye-spots. (Free)

After thinking about it for a minute, sure, I can get behind these proportions.

Rebalancing Fronts:
-50/30/20: (2) 10ebbor10, NUKE9.13

National Focus:
-Front One: (2) 10ebbor10, NUKE9.13

IR eye-spots:
-All Workers: (2) 10ebbor10

E: Incidentally, since Iituem has declined to comment on the discrepancy between our troop numbers and our TC on the Western Front, I surmise that is is not in fact a mistake, but that he cannot reveal why the values are different.
I think my theory of secret TC-reduction magic might be correct. I mean, we haven't seen any other magic from them.