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[piratejoe]

(Nafunan Banner/flag made by Nikola/Thanik and slightly modified by Talion)
Over a thousand years ago we where forced to leave our home and the Nile, and we sailed in the hopes of finding a new home where we would be safe. We found that home here, and for a thousand years we lived in peace and prosperity, the lands we landed on like home. At first, there where others here, but over the years they slowly came and joined us as we grew from a small group of people to a true nation like Egypt once was and managed to build great cities and farmed the land. Over time, we grew over the land and the gods helped us. But little over six hundred years ago, another people ended up on this land to the north. For a time, we lived in peace. But then, they started raiding and taking our land while we where unprepared to defend ourselves and our new home. A mistake we haven't made since. We have been at war ever since then, and we never have been able to finish off these invaders once and for all. However, that might change now. Not too long ago, an odd ship sailed and made landfall, strange people with odd accents and languages came. Over the course of a month, we managed to make communication with them and learned that the world has advanced far past what we have technologically, but that will change in time. With this edge, we will finally push off the invaders once and for all, and you have by order of the Pharaoh been put in charge of saving our lands from the invaders.

OOC and rules/what the hell is this here

Spoiler: Map (click to show/hide)

             Karikhita Cap
    /                     |              \
Forest(4/0)  Plains(4/0)   Jungle Island(4/0)
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Mountains(4/0) Hill(4/0)  Ancient Ruins(4/0)
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Swamp(4/0)  Villages(0/4)     Mountains(0/4)
|                         |                   |
Savan(0/4)   Desert(0/4)  Tropic Forest(0/4)
|                         |                   |
Jungle(0/4)   Farm(0/4)     City Island(0/4)
    \                     |                 /
                   Nafuna Cap

Resources
Jungle 1 oil, 1 wood
Farm 2 Ore
City Island 2 Ore
Tropical Forest 1 wood, Manganese
Desert 1/2 Oil
Savana 2 Ore
Swamp 1 oil, Aluminum
Villages 1 Ore, 1 oil
Island Mountain 1 ore, Titanium
Mountains 2 ore
Hills 1 ore, 1 oil
Ruins 1 Ore, Manganese
Forest 1 wood 1 oil
Plains 1 ore 1 oil
Jungle island 1 wood 1 ore

Spoiler: Current Equipment and tech (click to show/hide)

Weapons
Khopesh A classic short sword design we have not forgotten even after all these years, the major difference between it and the original is the use of steel instead of iron or bronze and it is much sharper then what we had before. Costs 1 Ore-Cheep

Composite Bow A favorite of both our own troops and our enemy, it is a simple bow that is able to pack much more of a punch then a self bow, it comes with a quiver. Costs 1 Wood -Cheap

Shield A simple Shield using wood and covered with leather that is able to protect the user against blows by ground troops or protect against arrows. Costs 1 Wood -Cheap

Armored Chariot Unlike our foe, we do not ride atop horses in battle, instead, we use chariots. These particular chariots are armored and quite sturdy so they wont have an unlikely chance of being set on fire. It is only used by skilled archers, as we have limited numbers of them due to the required skill needed to make them. Costs 2 Wood, 1 Ore -Complex, Expensive

Toth Mk.1 Matchlock Rifle, A simple mussel loaded rifle with a matchlock system where a wick is used to ignite the gunpowder in the pan. The match needs to remain lit making it prone to go out in windy situations, making it unusable by our chariots, and in rain or mist its more or less a fancy club or spear. The glow of the match burning also can give away the gunners position in the dark. Its been thoroughly studied and designs for our smiths have been made, along with a bayonet for melee combat and calvery. Costs 1 Wood 1 Ore -Complex, Expensive

Pharaoh Narmer 6-pound Cannon, A bronze cannon that is basically an up sized version of the gun we where given. It is able to fire a lead ball or a set of metal parts in a scatter shot. It is relatively light for a cannon and is quite reliable. It is transported using a chariot, and ammo and powder for the cannon is usually carried in another chariot, however, both chariots are larger then normal, and said difference can be noticed by the enemy. Thanks to our designs, skilled smiths can make it without too much trouble. Costs 3 ore and 2 wood -Complex, Expensive.

Asennu-class Shunefu A light Barque with 26 cannons with 2 of them astern to fight off anything behind it. It is first ship we made and quite a big one as well. The fact we pulled it off is clear sign of both our genius and the gods favor. It is relatively fast, and its cargo veriant is able to take much much more cargo then our old river boats. Costs 3 ore 2 wood -Complex Expensive

1891 Nafuni Soldier Uniform Standardization A standardization of our soldiers equipment and outfit. It protects them quite a bit and it also allows those equipped with Thoth mk 1's to have more ammo then they would have otherwise. The boots help in the mountains and swamps, and the helm protects against arrows. -Cheep

Reseph Neithhotep Series 1 Sparkrifle A rife with a Sparklock and loaded with Reseph balls, its a accurate and reliable rifle, able to be fired in windy weather and is protected quite well against rain. It is also quick to load and fire, and is no longer complex due to Industrialization. Cost 1 Ore 1 Wood Cheap

Reseph Neithhotep Series 2 Smoothbore A smoothbore rifle that is no where near as complex to make as the series 1, but not as accurate either. However it is just as reliable and fast to load and shoot. Naturally, this makes it simple and cheap for our smiths to make. Costs 1 Ore 1 Wood, Cheap

Hor-Aha 12 lb Cannon An effective and long range cannon that is fairly accurate and light, it also packs a heavy punch due to its size and is quite reliable. Costs 2 ore 1 wood -complex, Expensive

Carrera Series 1 Model 1 Repeating Rifle, A rifle designed by a immigrant from the nation called Cannala. It is a rifle with a revolver and brake action for reloading, which takes some time, however it can get all six shots off fairly quickly. It is deadly at close range and is about as fast as the Karikhitans own rifles. 1 Ore 1 Wood, Cheap

Asimov Artillery Shell, A explosive shell made by another immigrant, this time from Arstotzka. The shell is explosive on impact, or when set to a different range, which can lead it to exploding after it hits the ground or before it does. It is extremely effective on concentrations of soldiers and ships. Cheap

.305 Reseph-Vizier Series 1 Service Rifle, A bolt action rifle that includes the ability to mount a scope. It is accurate and powerful even at long ranges when in the hands of someone skilled. Cheap

Reseph-Vizier S1SSR 8x1.26' Scope, A scope for the Reseph-Vizier. It is exclusively used by skirmisher squads who shoot from afar. It is extremely helpful in aiming long range shots and can allow eagle eyes shoot at targets from even longer ranges. Cheap
Technology
Imperial system, brought over by the friendly 'British' person who landed a while ago
Matchlock&black powder, also given by the 'British' man, in exchange for a few of our fine gold crafts. Useful for 'guns'
Metal working- Smiting, steel, bronze.
Flintlock, Flint striking steel to set off gunpowder
Pinfire, A spike jabbing into a percussion cap to ignite gunpowder in a casing.
Steam Power, Water heated by fire into steam that drives pistons.
Smokeless Powder, Smokeless gunpowder that is able to put more force into bullets then old blackpowder
Machine Guns, Large Rapid fire guns that can fire plenty of bullets and have large clips of ammo
Artillery, Proper, modern large artillery peaces that fire indirectly and cause the enemy true devastation
Internal Combustion Engines, compressing and igniting gas in a piston chamber to make power.
Transportation
Markata 2-8-4 Steam Locomotive Series-A model 1899, A fancy train for transporting goods and people, it can carry a lot of cars full of cargo or soldiers 3 TC
Asennu-class Shunefu, The cargo version of the barque is able to carry much more then the old and outdated Riverboat. It also is armed with a few cannons which protects it from enemy ships. 3TC
Aseskara-Class Aeroredoubt AD0X ssh.I A flying machine that is not really designed for carrying cargo, but can do so anyway in place of bombs. 1 TC
Marthad Mark II T2GPT/MSB-03V8 General Purpose Truck, A large truck good for going off road and for handling terrain that other vehicles would struggle in, along with having a powerful engine to top it all off. 2 TC

Resources
Ore 5/7 Wood 2/2 Oil 2/3. 0/1 Manganese, 0/1 Titanium

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So, to protect our home, what will we design?

[Talion]

For the hope of Nafuna. Let us retake our lands.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Looks to be more people on Karikhita's side, so let's go with this one.  First order of buisness, let's go with one of the easiest methods of building a gunpowder weapon and make some form of cannon.  They were made before handheld weaponry, so it should be a bit easier than trying to improve our matchlocks right now.

Spoiler: Possible Design.  Spoilered so people curious as to what both sides have before wanting to join one don't see it by accident, causing cheating if they join the other side. (click to show/hide)

Pharoah Narmer 6-Pound Cannon
The 'British' people spoke of a much larger type of weapon than the matchlock rifles they had sent us by the name of the 'Cannon'.  As this is the first of these gunpowder weapons of our own design, it is named after the Pharoah that united Upper and Lower Egypt into one nation back in the ancient homeland.  This weapon is prepared to fire via shoving a flammable bag of gunpowder down the barrel using a long reinforced rod with a box slightly smaller than the cannon barrel's interior, then shoving a six pound lead ball atop it, though a bag filled with scrap metal can be used instead as a shorter range scatter shot.  The weapon is then fired by placing a small flaming bit of rope mounted at the end of a treated rod into a small opening at the top of the back that provides access to the gunpowder.  After firing, the barrel is cleaned out with a rod that has a piece of fleece or lambskin wrapped around the end in order to clear out any sparks or fire remaining in the barrel.  The cannon is reverse mounted (ie. Barrel faces away from the side with the horses) upon the base of a chariot, reinforced to be able to carry the weight of the weapon's barrel, allowing for the weapon to be moved by horses.  A secondary chariot is used to carry ammunition for the weapon.

[Shadowclaw777]

This games all about for being in an atoll archipelago, we need a war-boats and future water transport. I'd recommending first trying to introduce a steam-boat because it's 1890 and we can use the industrial revolution to our advantage here.

Steam Corvette mk 1:
Source Idea

Utilizing current revolutions across the globe of the industrial kind, combining the power of a steam turbine engine to power our ship would be more powerful than any form of sails or paddles. This steamship is supposed to have of the thin-light armor class since we barely understand aerodynamics and trying to thicken the armor and having it fall into the ocean would not be ideal. As of now we may lack access to cannons and other sources of weapons, but it will be built with the proper weapon holes to be able to use this technology in the future.

The Steam Corvette will have the ability with its steam engine to ram slower sailing vessels, and has the ability to have a light amount of land and boarding raiders, with a requirement of only 25 sailors, most of them being skilled technicians to maintain the goddamn boat steam propeller. And an hold barracks of 25 soldier marines, for the purposes of assisting boarding and amphibious raiding.

The Steam Corvette from one tip to the other, should be about 41m (135 ft) from one tip to the other, and an effectively reach in height so that aerodynamics takes place.

Pharaoh Narmer 6-pound Cannon
Steam Corvette: (1) Shadowclaw

[Taricus]

Just a note that we're going to be industrialising by event, rather than through techs so it's worth remembering to keep that in mind. Building steamers is a bit far fetched if we don't even have steam engines or factories.

Though all that being said, that design is a pretty solid one Zan. Getting better artillery means we can knock those filthy mongols of their horses. And knock their horses off the ground as well.

Pharaoh Narmer 6-pound Cannon (2?): Taricus, Zanzetkuken?
Steam Corvette (1): Shadowclaw

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Though all that being said, that design is a pretty solid one Zan. Getting better artillery means we can knock those filthy mongols of their horses. And knock their horses off the ground as well.

Bonus, it gives us access to a prototype cannister shot with the scrap metal.  That shit'll be devastating as hell against swordsmen and cavalry.

Anyway, for a revision (presuming the cannon goes well), should we try for switching over the match to use flint instead, or go for a generalized decomplexification?  Former would make the more reliable in different weather types and somewhat usable from a chariot, but the latter would make them more plentiful.

Edit: Could add a bayonet as well on either route...

Edit 2: Looking at the battlegrounds, improving the reliability would be best for the swamp, while reducing complexity would be better in the mountains.  Given I don't think cannons will be able to be used as often as the villages in either of those locations, that's roughly what the decision is about, though quantity would probably help in the villages more...

Pharaoh Narmer 6-pound Cannon (2): Taricus, Zanzetkuken
Steam Corvette (1): Shadowclaw

[NAV]

Pharaoh Narmer 6-pound Cannon (2): Taricus, Zanzetkuken
Steam Corvette (2): Shadowclaw, NAV

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Food for thought: Given we don't have steam engines yet and events will result in our industrialization, would it not be easier to make cannons now and save the steam ship for when we have steam engines arrive via event, allowing for us to start with a ship with cannons rather than being stuck with something who's only offensive ability would be ramming and it be far easier to actually make the ship?

[Taricus]

Again guys steam ships are vastly out of our manufacturing range, and we need to get out army up to napoleonic standards first. A sailship with cannons would be more effective than unarmed steamships anyway.

Flint sounds like a good idea, but I think we might want to save that design for the next phase and make flintlock muskets and revise in the flintlock rifles.

[Talion]

Pharaoh Narmer 6-pound Cannon (3): Taricus, Zanzetkuken, Talion
Steam Corvette (2): Shadowclaw, NAV

[NAV]

I guesss....just wanna get a headstart on the navy and islands.

[Talion]

Presently in the islands, we are fighting over mountains. If we lose out on the mainland we will be having fights in mountains and hills. As a result, there is certainly value in focusing on technology that helps us win in the mountains, as it allows us to fall behind in the short term while we research more difficult technologies.

[Taricus]

Which is what the cannons will give us. Neither side has the ability to build ironclads so even a basic cannonball will tear through any ship they can build. The ability to revise a better ship than they can build by virtue of ours being far better armed is not to be underestimated at all. Hell, we'll basically prevent them from even getting near our coasts with these guns.

For the mountains we'll just need better infantry weapons and ones that are more numerous at that. Bit of a hellish environment to design equipment for.

[Light forger]

Shrike Musket

  The shrike is a failing breech block smoothbore flintlock .60 cal musket. The failing breech block is operated by a lever off to the left hand side of the weapon. Pulling up on it lets the user insert a paper 'round' in which a musket ball and powder is contained. After which the user then slams the lever back down and uses a needle located on their powder horn to puncture the paper and expose it to the power tray. Then the user then places a small amount of gunpowder in the tray and cocks the firing mechanism and, is ready to fire. The entire 'receiver' of the weapon is made from cast bronze which greatly reduces the difficultly of the finer parts of it, at the cost of increased weight. In addition the bronze expands when hot more readily then iron, reduced although not defeating gas leakage. The barrel is just a smooth piece of cast iron.

Pharaoh Narmer 6-pound Cannon (3): Taricus, Zanzetkuken, Talion
Steam Corvette (2): Shadowclaw, NAV
Shrike Musket (1): Lightforger

[Taricus]

We could probably get muskets in revisions of our rifle (Which should be easy enough to do, any we don't have any rifle-specific ammo. So far we're still just using musket balls.) and getting something like the Minie ball round or something might need to wait until we have factories.