Battle Report 12, 1901This year we worked on the
Cheops Personal Machine Gun Model 1901, or the CPMG 1901. A light hand healed machine gun that can be deadly at close range and is slightly more accurate then our heavier machine guns. However, its trigger is very...stiff, and it tends to get stuck, usually when pulled to fire making conversation with ammo quite difficult. We also made the
Toth-Type Observational Kite Balloon and binoculars, the balloon is able to go quite high in the sky and help with the detection of flares and enemy artillery from long range, increasing the range our artillery can fire at and still reliably hit things.
The Khanate has worked on two very interesting things this year, first of which is the
Mogoi Torpedo, a fast warhead that propels itself under the water to strike and destroy the hulls of ships from under the waterline. The other thing they have worked on is an engine of sorts that goes into a Tos-Mori truck, the thing made for project horse, further description of such a design is listed below in the report of our spy's actions.
Battle Report, Naval combat: The fight at the sea started off fairly badly for us, our captains not expecting the enemies new underwater weapon. But, soon enough they wised up to their tricks and could tell when one was coming and how to evade them. Although it didn't really change much due to the fact they where mostly used by Luu's and at close range, but it helped. We still are able to deal with their ships with our guns quite handily but otherwise the torpedoes do damage and are a major threat, things have been made a bit more even,
more then even, in fact the Karikhitans have a bit of an edge thanks to their torpedoes and took a advantage.Battle Report, Mountains. Attackers, Karikhita: Presumably thinking their little advantage at sea is able to cut off our supplies enough to prevent a repeat of last year, the Karikhitan's have attacked here once again. They where right that it made things more difficult for us to defend, but they where wrong to think it was enough to push us back. They where able to advance and see slightly more success then last year, but for the same reasons we arrive at the same result, and
as such, we are able to push them back and defend the mountains once again from their antics. [Nafuna 4/4, Karikhita 0/4]Battle Report, Villages. Attackers, Nafuna, Karikhita: The war here just got a lot more interesting over here. Here is where the first use of the Toth type observation balloon is seen, and where our new masses of artillery are unleashed upon our foe. With our new masses of artillery and our better range over the Karikhitans own guns, we are able to do effective counter battery fire along with ground support for our own troops safely out of their own effective range. Our new machine gun also sees some service here and is decent enough, although most soldiers just use the good old 1900 rifle, wanting to keep their accuracy and range along with not having to deal with the "Gods damned terrible trigger that breaks and gets stuck in the firing position every time my finger so much as twitches" of course, this is an exaggeration from one of our soldiers, but the point still stands that most soldiers here forgo it in exchange for a full machine gun or the rifles.
With our artillery up and running however, and our better rifles put to better use with the new support, we are able to hold the line against the Karikhitan's and push them back to the hills, although with heavy losses. [Nafuna 4/4, Karikhita 0/4]Battle Report, Swamps. Attackers, Nafuna: The battle here is brutal and where our personal machine guns are most used. The soldiers have a love hate relationship with the thing, love in the fact it can save their life and kill a number of enemies in front of them, hate in how damn unreliable the thing is here. Its issue here in the swamps is magnified with all the mud, and anything short of cleaning and polishing it to a shine will keep it working and firing, still its fairly effective when it does work, but the amount of times soldiers have had to try and get the trigger unstuck before reloading are painful to say the least. Our artillery is also able to make a bit of minor assistance, but flares are a bit harder to spot...
Sadly, just barely are we pushed back. If our machine gun didn't have such issues, we would have taken it for sure. [Nafuna 0/4, Karikhita 4/4]Espionage Report, Nafuni Mission 6Our new agent was sent over to Karikhita for a few weeks to gather information on project horse. He managed to find out what it was and how a person named Tsaasen, owner of Tsaasen motors, worked on a brand new engine for project horse. He then proceeded to get a job as a security guard there for the night shift and slowly got use to the place and learned the patrols of everyone who worked there at night and what their jobs where. On his last day of the week, he entered the building, knocked out a guard from behind who had the keys to the room holding the designs, entered said room, then had to deal with a guard who knew someone was in there and knocked them out as well, and then engraved a stone nearby before escaping in a fully operational Tos Mori truck. He managed to get the truck on a ship from a relative and arrived in a nafuni port on a old water wolf boat where the designs and the truck where delivered here and placed in these files here.
The new engine by Tsaasen is quite remarkable. Its a lightweight yet powerful engine that is air cooled, has a decent 3 litre capacity and produces more horsepower then we thought, reaching 15hp, three more then we thought. Tests have also showed that the engine is much more robust then the engine the Tos-Mori had. Nothing short of hitting it hard with a hammer a couple of times on the pistons seems to damage it, and even then, unless it gets shot it can be fixed. To top it all off, Tsaasen's engine actually can fit into the Tos-Mori with some slight modifications. And tests with it have proven that it is quite useful, going 72 kilometers (or 45 miles if you are from Nafuna or Brittan) an hour on level ground with no turns. It may not be the fastest engine in the world, but its respectable especially given how it can accelerate decently as well. When used in place of the old engine, it still costs the same as what the Tos-Mori was when it had its old engine.
We should be able to use this for our own work, and with the working model, it should be very easy to get our own properly made designs of it, of course, we could always try to sneak in some improvements as well.
Outside world and Internal affairs: After his work, our good old ex Karikhitan engineer seemed to just...vanish, he was given a few gifts by the Pharaoh herself personally for his work but after he took them he seemed to have gone away for greener pastures...We also, thanks to our industrialization, have managed to drill into the Oil in the jungle. In other news Queen Victoria's funeral takes place in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, England. In Bremen an assassin attempts to kill Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid rob train of forty thousand dollars at Wagner, Montana. The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21 in Fairfield, Connecticut, happened. And Guglielmo Marconi attempts to send the first transatlantic radio signal, from Poldhu in Cornwall to Newfoundland, Canada using a 500-foot (150 m) kite-supported antenna for reception.
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
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. -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
Reseph-Vizier Series 2 Service Rifle Model 1900, 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 and it fires slightly faster then the Karikhitans own rifle. 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
Carrera Series 3 Model 2 Rapid Repeater Revolver, The first Rapid Repeater gun in the war, this heavy and fast firing monster is extremely useful against the Karikhitan advance, and with it we have decided to shift our tactics to a bit more of a defensive stance. After all, we are the defenders in this war. Costs 2 ore, -Complex, Expensive.
Sekhmet 1.6-inch Revolver Cannon, A heavy and hard to move emplacement that is able to penetrate cover quite well and honestly is a bit overkill. Its also a bit faster firing then our Rapid Repeater and is a very very good defensive emplacement, although its mobility is quite bad. It includes a shield to protect the gunner Costs 3 ore, -Cheap.
QF Tauret Field Artillery Piece model 1898, The fruits of Project Hippo's labor. A heavy hitting fast firing artillery that has range long enough to be able to properly use indirect fire, so long as someone uses the new flares we made. Costs, 3 ore, -Cheap
Sobek class Nushunefu, Our first and best Ironclad, armoured with 4 inches of iron and armed with four Tauret's and 12 Djer-Khenthap's, one would expect such a ship would be slow, but that is not the case at all! It is fairly fast and goes at about 14 knots at max speed. Costs 3 Ore, 2 Wood -Complex Expensive
Markata 2-8-4 Steam Locomotive Series-A model 1899, The first train ever to be used and made on Janal, it helps us with our transport and our industry.
Cheops Personal Machine Gun Model 1901, A hand held machine gun that has the tendency to have the trigger get stuck, quite a lot everywhere except the swamp, where its most of the time. Otherwise, its a good gun at close range.
Toth Type Observational Balloon, A observation balloon that gives us some nice help in spotting things from high in the air. It is fairly stable and is able to make our arty fire from further away while still not firing blindly and inefficiently.
Tos-Mori Truck, Its a truck that was, ahtem, acquired and has been brought back to be studied thoroughly, it is not as fast as our train and cant carry as much but there is plenty of potential in this thing for future designs and even current use. Costs 2 ore 1 oil
Mongol Sabre, A old sword design that has served us well even after all these years, It can be used on horseback just as well as it can be used on foot. Costs 1 Ore -Cheap
Bear Armour, Sadly, not made out of bear leather, Bear armour is simple but effective cloth and leather armour able to stop arrows from killing at medium and long range, however, it doesn't stop musket shots at anything short of extreme range, at which point, you have to be lucky, which considering how accurate a musket is at that range, means you probably aren't. The arms aren't armored for flexibility, and it doesn't include a helm, so shots to the head or arms will be more effective then the chest. -Cheap
SS Yalagdashgui, Its a large ship armed with the Karikhitans Ayanga. Its slow but hard to damage except at 5000 yards. It is powered by steam.
Burgud Infantry Rifle, Karikhitans infantry rifle, it is able to fire multiple shots without reloading and uses smokeless powder like our own rifle. Other then that its a bolt action rifle.
Luu-Class Cruiser, A light and fast Ironclad that, theoretically could stay afloat in a fight with our own, if it actually got into a fight and didn't just sail away from us.
Algasahk Rifle Scope, A rifle scope we know little about. It looks kinda like a spyglass though.
Shuurga LMG, A light Machinegun that is in all likelihood better then ours. It appears to load faster and heat up slower, along with the whole very light thing.
Osolt HE TNT, A explosive shell like our old one, filled with TNT and makes a nice big boom, sometimes it doesn't though.
Ayanga QF-12cm L40, A new 120 mm of gun that is used by the Karikhitans on their ships and on the ground. On the ground there is a scary amount of them, so many they just keep coming...
Tos-Mori Truck, a truck powered by a W3L-Mk1 Engine. We managed to acquire one thanks to a particular ex engineer of the Khan...
Mogoi Torpedo, A explosive that propels itself beneath the waves of the ocean to strike at our ships. A single hit is deady and can sink our ships and will at very least cause major damage if it hits.
Since some people asked for it.
Karikhita Cap
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Forest Plains Jungle Island
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Mountains Hill Ancient Ruins
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Swamp Villages Mountains
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Savannah Desert Tropic Forest
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Jungle Farm City Island
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Nafuna Cap
It is now the Design Phase, Neferu still seems happy, but not as happy as before.
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Topic: The Ameliorate War, An Arms Race game, Nafuna, 1904 Battle Phase (Read 53412 times)