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[Blood_Librarian]

Cryogenics Devision

The building itself looks eerily like a smaller Refinery, based upon designs for large-scale industrial efforts learned from our yearning industrial focus, along with automation designs from Cannalan engineers with a single goal; A centralized semi-independent facility for processing an entire army worth of troops utilizing the next generation of Cryostat "Thinking" tanks.

The facility, built in a secret area ( Forest near the capital city), is expansive and filled with an ambitious amount of cryostatic tanks along with its supporting infrastructure. Each tank draws its chemical from a centralized infrastructure, drastically reducing the need for overall technicians and hopefully increasing efficency. The tanks themselves in this facility has been improved, implementing Automation techniques shown in the Cannalan brewery.

Simply put, this facility has been engineered both as a test facility and as a mass production area, designed to apply chemical procedures that utilize cryostatic tanks on a massive level, with the end goal of being able to apply treatments ( of varying quality) to our entire army and then as an area for developing new Cryostatic treatments.  All current Cryostatic tanks that are not in vital positions are to be moved to this facility to ease resource constructions, as they will be refitted to fit upon the modern generation of Cryostatic Tanks.

My favorite part of the facility is the cryostatic tank rooms. They are big enough to get lost in, and ironically enough, the frigid temperatures combined with the stark lack of moisture in the rooms require sub-zero clothing, and more then one of our personnel has gained frostbite from the biting cold, In that aspect, the brutes on the other side of the ocean has us beat. Rows and rows of Cryostatic tanks necessitate the cold, after all. Wandering down the frosty metal halls, viewing through the glass slits, and watching my Wards, and my captives churn in the cold.  I live in a winter wonderland, and all my toys are becoming reality. 

Tl;Dr  Build a big lab filled with automated cryotanks to make the next generation of ze super soldiers.

[The Ensorceler]

Is there any reason not to stick the Cryogenics Devision on top of The Refinery, in the old Division of Biological Manipulation rooms? It gives you easy access to the 'supporting infrastructure' you wanted, and construction would be cheaper.

[Blood_Librarian]

Because unlike the Refinery, this needs access to our army as well as industrial resources, and I am a little uncomfortable having large portions of our army near our incredibly hillarious Refinery.

[The Ensorceler]

I don't think The Refinery is that dangerous... Ah, well, its your revision.

Revision: The Rebound Circuit
The main gun of the Halberd has highlighted an inefficiency present in all our coilguns; they waste power like nobody's business. The Rebound Circuit, constructed from heavy duty metallized ceramic diodes and capacitors, replaces the Halberd's existing coilgun charging circuit, and solves this problem by capturing the current induced by the firing of a magnetic weapon and putting it back into the capacitors used to charge the weapon, as opposed to the crude safety mechanism of the original designs, which allowed it to dissipate into heat for fear of damaging the circutry. No more! The metallization of industry had not reached far enough, but the new generation diodes and capacitors can wrestle that lightning back into the bottle from whence it came.

[Shadowclaw777]

Revisions:
Cryogenics Division: [1] Blood_Librarian
The Rebound Circuit [2] The Ensorceler, Shadowclaw

[SamSpeeds]

Revisions:
Cryogenics Division: [1] Blood_Librarian
The Rebound Circuit [3] The Ensorceler, Shadowclaw, SamSpeeds

Yeah, we kinda need better armor and weapons now. I'll pass on creating more infrastructure until we have a clear, lasting advantage.

[Chiefwaffles]

Revision: The Rebound Circuit
The main gun of the Halberd has highlighted an inefficiency present in all our coilguns; they waste power like nobody's business. The Rebound Circuit, constructed from heavy duty metallized ceramic diodes and capacitors, replaces the Halberd's existing coilgun charging circuit, and solves this problem by capturing the current induced by the firing of a magnetic weapon and putting it back into the capacitors used to charge the weapon, as opposed to the crude safety mechanism of the original designs, which allowed it to dissipate into heat for fear of damaging the circutry. No more! The metallization of industry had not reached far enough, but the new generation diodes and capacitors can wrestle that lightning back into the bottle from whence it came.

Revision: The Rebound Circuit
Normal: (1+1) = 2: Utter Failure

It turns out that the fear of damaging circuitry was very much a realistic fear.

We've created a prototype coilgun cannon similar to that of the Halberd using new circuits built from the requisite materials, but the circuits are simply unable to handle the capturing of electricity used in powering coilgun blasts. When the prototype fires, we can succesfully partially refill the capacitors, but in the process the circuitry is melted into uselessness. As it stands, if we attempted to incorporate this into our current coilguns then the gun would be rendered useless after its first shot.

On the slightly brighter side, some engineers have come up with the basis of a proposal to use metal recombinators to achieve a more resistant circuitry. It would still take some work to implement, but it means that if we attempted to do this (or something similar) again we'd have something better to work off of.

Spoiler: Designs (click to show/hide)

Transport Capacity: 1
Resources: 3 Ore, 2 Oil, 2 Rare Chemicals

Weapons

• "Pursuit" Rifle: An 20-round magazine automatic rifle with mediocre accuracy at Medium range (and useless accuracy further).
  [Cheap] 1 Ore
• "Machete" Pistol: A 6-round semiautomatic pistol semi-accurate up to Short range. Reliable.
  [Cheap] 1 Ore
• "Jumper" EMA Grenade Launcher: The Electromagnetically Assisted Grenade Launcher "Jumper" is roughly the shape of a very noticeably thicker bazooka-like assembly. It uses inefficient brick-sized SynthOil batteries that provide enough charge for one shot per battery. Once a battery is inserted, the Jumper has to "charge" for roughly thirty seconds before being able to fire, and can fire 1.5 inch specially-made grenades with "average" radii and okay accuracy, silently. It's fairly bulky. The manufacturing of the coilgun adds severe complexity.
  [Expensive] 2 Ore, 1 Oil, Complex
• HMKR-59 'Osprey': Hybrid Magnetic Kinetic Rifle; a variant of the Pursuit rifle that houses coilgun components to increase the velocity of bullets after conventional firing. Has a slot in the back for a single SynthOil battery, which has enough charge for 10 powered shots (soldiers carry 2 batteries total). Powered shots are accurate to Medium range (unpowered shots to Short range) and have increased lethality and armor piercing capabilities.
  [Cheap] 1 Ore, 1 Oil

Land Vehicles

• M3T1A1 Raider: The Raider is a Diesel-Electric tracked APC designed to serve as a base platform for many roles. It has light RHA armor with a sloped front, plus slats. It holds ten passengers and three crew, making it look like a large metal box. It has an interchangeable turret, which is very wide and flat with medium armor. Default armament is a Can shredder, plus 6 external Thumper barrels for smoke grenades and an RPG, these can only be reloaded from the outside. It's also chemical warfare protected, and last but not least, amphibious, with a trim vane and two electric powered propellers. Exits are on large rear hatch and one small top hatch, only latter can be used while afloat.
  [Cheap] 3 Ore 2 Oil
• Privateer 1 1/2 Ton Truck: Cannala's first truck, it's a cabover on an antiquated 3-cylinder, the transmission only has a forward and reverse setting. It's still better than horses, though.
  [Cheap] 2 Ore, 2 Oil, Provides 1 TC
• "Halberd"-Electromagnetic Coil Cannon Battletank ECCB-60: A large silent tank armed with a 120mm coilgun and a coaxially-mounted unpowered auto-loading Osprey. Has a respectable speed for its size, and the Coilgun turret is powered but manually aimed. Powered by two SynthOil batteries - one provides enough power for six Coilgun shots, the other provides enough power for four hours of full throttle movement and ten hours of less-fast "travel" movement.
  [Very Expensive] 5 Ore, 4 Oil

Air Vehicles

• M1938 A-3 'Parrot': The Parrot is a low-cost air superiority fighter, designed to counter the Yellowjacket. It looks very similar to the Falcon, but without the complicated prop system and reduced to a 10-cyclinder, normally aspirated power plant. It too is fully aluminum, and contains most of the little features like retractable gear, an oxygen system, and a reflex sight. It is actually quite heavily armed with two Muerte heavy machine guns and two Can Perforators, though the perforators don't have a lot of ammo.
  [Cheap] 3 Ore, 2 Oil
• M1942 A-5B 'Spearhead-B' Air Superiority Fighter: Following Forenia's Thunderbird design, the Spearhead is an aluminum-built fighter with two turbojet engines. It features a rounded canopy, swept wings, pointy nose, and the engines are under each wing, but hug the body closely; the inlets are flush with the fuselage. A heavy Can Shredder sits in the nose. Two Morei turbojets burn kerosene and take some advantage of experiences of the Bull tank's turboshaft, it includes a water-cooling system (the shared radiator creates a third intake under the body). Despite carrying more weight, it's very nearly as fast as the Thunderbird, but it does have trouble recovering from stalls. On the other hand, when it's keeping good speed it can make impressive turns thanks to its hydraulic control system; the pilot can pull the relatively large control surfaces with ease. The Can Shredder can do serious damage to bombers from a safe distance. A hardpoint for 500lb bombs or missiles has been added under each wing.
  [Very Expensive] 4 Ore, 4 Oil

Navy

• Corsair Destroyer: The Corsair is a moderate sized ship with light (for a ship) steel hull armor. It has a light cannon armament of two hydraulic-equipped Nightwind cannons and four Can Shredders. However, its main armament is its Shark Torpedo launchers (it has a couple on each side) and newly-invented Seahorse mines, which use the same warheads as Shark torpedoes but rest on the sea surface, detonating on cpntact with ships. It is powered by steam turbines and easily outpaces battleships like the Kalmar, Kraken and Kurokami.
  [Expensive] 4 Ore, 3 Oil
• Santos-Class Naval Aircraft Support Vessel: The Santos is a large aircraft carrier. It is about the size of the Khorne but not armored. It's powered by four oil-burning steam turbines, which are more powerful than coal ones. The hangar deck stores two dozen fighters, moved to the flight deck by a hydraulic lift. On deck is an Eagle Eye Radar system, con tower, a few Firecracker AA guns and a miscellaneous autocannons wherever there's spare room. It also has a decent sized flight deck, with an arrester cable for landing aircraft, and two overlapping runways with room for ready aircraft on deck. It also has a steam catapult, which allows it to launch some planes which could not normally take off from its short runway. [5 Ore, 4 Oil]
  [Very Expensive] 5 Ore, 4 Oil

Chemicals & Drugs

• Spice: An extremely potent manufactured drug resulting in extreme schizophrenia, delusions of power, frequent seizures, and eventually death. Extremely addictive. Those who undergo the week-long "Goldeneye" treatment in a CryoStat tank become accustomed (and permanently addicted) to low dosages of Spice, enabling very high awareness of surroundings and mildly increased reaction and thinking speeds when under the influence of the drug.
  [Very Expensive] 5 Rare Chemicals, Complex.
• Combat Drug 'Fury': A Spice-based drug that massively decreases reaction time, and lasts for ~2 hours. Also incites rage, decreasing soldier effectiveness at range and chances of occasional friendly fire. Mild hallucinations are common, preventing users from being effective at recon/espionage/etc. roles. Makes veins much more apparent and red. Addictive, and takes effect >5 minutes after injection.
  [Expensive] 3 Rare Chemicals
• Metal Recominators: A special mixture that separates pure metal from ore, obsoleting a large part of Aratam's refining industry. A variant can also be used to fuse metal with (likely) any other matter.
  Provides 1 Ore.

Other

• Standard Uniform: A plain red featureless uniform. The red's mild enough that it doesn't really stick out.
• CryoStat Tank: A large three-meter tall "coffin" with a small glass vertical slit inside showing a tank. Dozens of tubes connect it to the other machinery required for operation, taking up ~36 square meters of space total. Trained technicians monitor and operate it and prepare subjects for submerging. Subjects are put into "stasis" via a numbing solution they're submersed in, and medical drugs are constantly pumped into their body via dozens of injection sites prepared pre-submerging. Once taken out, subjects are put into a machine to recover from the effects of the tank. A day stabilizes minor life-threatening wounds, and a week stabilizes near all wounds. A month starts completely healing scars and generally brings up health status to pristine, and a year can restore lost limbs. Also used for life-extending "rejuvenation" processes by important people.
  [Very Expensive] 4 Rare Chemicals, Complex
• SynthOil: SMRO-58 "SynthOil" is an advanced form of oil - it's made using a combination of oil and other chemicals, making a much more stable and energy-dense solution. Has a peculiar property - with the right tools, it can directly produce electricity.
  Provides 1 Oil

Infrastructure

• The Refinery: An extremely secretive facility hidden under the canopy in a remote part of the rainforest, identifiable only by its smoke. Contains large liquid storage tanks and refineries for the production of chemicals, well-equipped laboratories, cells for test subjects, a steady supply of test subjects from Aratam's prisoners, and more. Useful as a base for chemical research.
  Provides 1 Rare Chemical
• Division of Biological Manipulation: An abandoned set of rooms on top of the Refinery; originally intended for biological manipulation research but was never finished due to a sudden test subject escape.

• Embassy "The Brewery": An embassy for Cannalan diplomats that doubles as a highly advanced brewery of Aratam's signature drink, Arachaca. The Cannalans can see the brewing process below through their glass flooring and taps straight form the brewery are available for Arachaca straight from the source. Uses basic electronic systems for very limited automation in conjunction with its general advanced brewing systems.

The Combat Phase of 1960 has begun.

[Chiefwaffles]

Combat Phase 1961
Link to Combat Report (Core Thread)

The Mountains
The Halberd Battletank apparently just wasn't enough to continue our advance.

Our new battletank is a good tank, but it doesn't fare well against Mereth's army. The new main coilgun has no real use in the field. It's too unwieldy at the moment to use against infantry, and while it would be great against Merethan armor, Mereth doesn't have armor. The Osprey is okay against regular infantry, but without its powered assisted shots it's practically useless against their Bear Armor troopers. When combined with the fact that Mereth already has an anti-tank weapon imported from Forenia, the tank just doesn't have a large enough impact.


The Sea
We're somewhat surprised that Mereth continues to not help their sea, but we'll take what we can get.

Next year we'll fight on the plains, and the rest of the military has asked us to prepare accordingly.

Spoiler: Designs (click to show/hide)

Transport Capacity: 1
Resources: 3 Ore, 2 Oil, 2 Rare Chemicals

Weapons

• "Pursuit" Rifle: An 20-round magazine automatic rifle with mediocre accuracy at Medium range (and useless accuracy further).
  [Cheap] 1 Ore
• "Machete" Pistol: A 6-round semiautomatic pistol semi-accurate up to Short range. Reliable.
  [Cheap] 1 Ore
• "Jumper" EMA Grenade Launcher: The Electromagnetically Assisted Grenade Launcher "Jumper" is roughly the shape of a very noticeably thicker bazooka-like assembly. It uses inefficient brick-sized SynthOil batteries that provide enough charge for one shot per battery. Once a battery is inserted, the Jumper has to "charge" for roughly thirty seconds before being able to fire, and can fire 1.5 inch specially-made grenades with "average" radii and okay accuracy, silently. It's fairly bulky. The manufacturing of the coilgun adds severe complexity.
  [Expensive] 2 Ore, 1 Oil, Complex
• HMKR-59 'Osprey': Hybrid Magnetic Kinetic Rifle; a variant of the Pursuit rifle that houses coilgun components to increase the velocity of bullets after conventional firing. Has a slot in the back for a single SynthOil battery, which has enough charge for 10 powered shots (soldiers carry 2 batteries total). Powered shots are accurate to Medium range (unpowered shots to Short range) and have increased lethality and armor piercing capabilities.
  [Cheap] 1 Ore, 1 Oil

Land Vehicles

• M3T1A1 Raider: The Raider is a Diesel-Electric tracked APC designed to serve as a base platform for many roles. It has light RHA armor with a sloped front, plus slats. It holds ten passengers and three crew, making it look like a large metal box. It has an interchangeable turret, which is very wide and flat with medium armor. Default armament is a Can shredder, plus 6 external Thumper barrels for smoke grenades and an RPG, these can only be reloaded from the outside. It's also chemical warfare protected, and last but not least, amphibious, with a trim vane and two electric powered propellers. Exits are on large rear hatch and one small top hatch, only latter can be used while afloat.
  [Cheap] 3 Ore 2 Oil
• Privateer 1 1/2 Ton Truck: Cannala's first truck, it's a cabover on an antiquated 3-cylinder, the transmission only has a forward and reverse setting. It's still better than horses, though.
  [Cheap] 2 Ore, 2 Oil, Provides 1 TC
• "Halberd"-Electromagnetic Coil Cannon Battletank ECCB-60: A large silent tank armed with a 120mm coilgun and a coaxially-mounted unpowered auto-loading Osprey. Has a respectable speed for its size, and the Coilgun turret is powered but manually aimed. Powered by two SynthOil batteries - one provides enough power for six Coilgun shots, the other provides enough power for four hours of full throttle movement and ten hours of less-fast "travel" movement.
  [Very Expensive] 5 Ore, 4 Oil

Air Vehicles

• M1938 A-3 'Parrot': The Parrot is a low-cost air superiority fighter, designed to counter the Yellowjacket. It looks very similar to the Falcon, but without the complicated prop system and reduced to a 10-cyclinder, normally aspirated power plant. It too is fully aluminum, and contains most of the little features like retractable gear, an oxygen system, and a reflex sight. It is actually quite heavily armed with two Muerte heavy machine guns and two Can Perforators, though the perforators don't have a lot of ammo.
  [Cheap] 3 Ore, 2 Oil
• M1942 A-5B 'Spearhead-B' Air Superiority Fighter: Following Forenia's Thunderbird design, the Spearhead is an aluminum-built fighter with two turbojet engines. It features a rounded canopy, swept wings, pointy nose, and the engines are under each wing, but hug the body closely; the inlets are flush with the fuselage. A heavy Can Shredder sits in the nose. Two Morei turbojets burn kerosene and take some advantage of experiences of the Bull tank's turboshaft, it includes a water-cooling system (the shared radiator creates a third intake under the body). Despite carrying more weight, it's very nearly as fast as the Thunderbird, but it does have trouble recovering from stalls. On the other hand, when it's keeping good speed it can make impressive turns thanks to its hydraulic control system; the pilot can pull the relatively large control surfaces with ease. The Can Shredder can do serious damage to bombers from a safe distance. A hardpoint for 500lb bombs or missiles has been added under each wing.
  [Very Expensive] 4 Ore, 4 Oil

Navy

• Corsair Destroyer: The Corsair is a moderate sized ship with light (for a ship) steel hull armor. It has a light cannon armament of two hydraulic-equipped Nightwind cannons and four Can Shredders. However, its main armament is its Shark Torpedo launchers (it has a couple on each side) and newly-invented Seahorse mines, which use the same warheads as Shark torpedoes but rest on the sea surface, detonating on cpntact with ships. It is powered by steam turbines and easily outpaces battleships like the Kalmar, Kraken and Kurokami.
  [Expensive] 4 Ore, 3 Oil
• Santos-Class Naval Aircraft Support Vessel: The Santos is a large aircraft carrier. It is about the size of the Khorne but not armored. It's powered by four oil-burning steam turbines, which are more powerful than coal ones. The hangar deck stores two dozen fighters, moved to the flight deck by a hydraulic lift. On deck is an Eagle Eye Radar system, con tower, a few Firecracker AA guns and a miscellaneous autocannons wherever there's spare room. It also has a decent sized flight deck, with an arrester cable for landing aircraft, and two overlapping runways with room for ready aircraft on deck. It also has a steam catapult, which allows it to launch some planes which could not normally take off from its short runway. [5 Ore, 4 Oil]
  [Very Expensive] 5 Ore, 4 Oil

Chemicals & Drugs

• Spice: An extremely potent manufactured drug resulting in extreme schizophrenia, delusions of power, frequent seizures, and eventually death. Extremely addictive. Those who undergo the week-long "Goldeneye" treatment in a CryoStat tank become accustomed (and permanently addicted) to low dosages of Spice, enabling very high awareness of surroundings and mildly increased reaction and thinking speeds when under the influence of the drug.
  [Very Expensive] 5 Rare Chemicals, Complex.
• Combat Drug 'Fury': A Spice-based drug that massively decreases reaction time, and lasts for ~2 hours. Also incites rage, decreasing soldier effectiveness at range and chances of occasional friendly fire. Mild hallucinations are common, preventing users from being effective at recon/espionage/etc. roles. Makes veins much more apparent and red. Addictive, and takes effect >5 minutes after injection.
  [Expensive] 3 Rare Chemicals
• Metal Recominators: A special mixture that separates pure metal from ore, obsoleting a large part of Aratam's refining industry. A variant can also be used to fuse metal with (likely) any other matter.
  Provides 1 Ore.

Other

• Standard Uniform: A plain red featureless uniform. The red's mild enough that it doesn't really stick out.
• CryoStat Tank: A large three-meter tall "coffin" with a small glass vertical slit inside showing a tank. Dozens of tubes connect it to the other machinery required for operation, taking up ~36 square meters of space total. Trained technicians monitor and operate it and prepare subjects for submerging. Subjects are put into "stasis" via a numbing solution they're submersed in, and medical drugs are constantly pumped into their body via dozens of injection sites prepared pre-submerging. Once taken out, subjects are put into a machine to recover from the effects of the tank. A day stabilizes minor life-threatening wounds, and a week stabilizes near all wounds. A month starts completely healing scars and generally brings up health status to pristine, and a year can restore lost limbs. Also used for life-extending "rejuvenation" processes by important people.
  [Very Expensive] 4 Rare Chemicals, Complex
• SynthOil: SMRO-58 "SynthOil" is an advanced form of oil - it's made using a combination of oil and other chemicals, making a much more stable and energy-dense solution. Has a peculiar property - with the right tools, it can directly produce electricity.
  Provides 1 Oil

Infrastructure

• The Refinery: An extremely secretive facility hidden under the canopy in a remote part of the rainforest, identifiable only by its smoke. Contains large liquid storage tanks and refineries for the production of chemicals, well-equipped laboratories, cells for test subjects, a steady supply of test subjects from Aratam's prisoners, and more. Useful as a base for chemical research.
  Provides 1 Rare Chemical
• Division of Biological Manipulation: An abandoned set of rooms on top of the Refinery; originally intended for biological manipulation research but was never finished due to a sudden test subject escape.

• Embassy "The Brewery": An embassy for Cannalan diplomats that doubles as a highly advanced brewery of Aratam's signature drink, Arachaca. The Cannalans can see the brewing process below through their glass flooring and taps straight form the brewery are available for Arachaca straight from the source. Uses basic electronic systems for very limited automation in conjunction with its general advanced brewing systems.

Spoiler: Known Mereth Designs (click to show/hide)

Transport Capacity: 1
Resources: 3 Ore, 1 Oil

Weapons

• "Stalwart" Rifle: A semi-automatic rifle with mediocre accuracy at Long range and good accuracy at Medium (and useless accuracy further).
  [Cheap] 1 Ore
• "Heartstopper" Pistol: A 2-round semiautomatic pistol semi-accurate up to Short range. Has enormous stopping power. Pride of the Merethan army.
  [Cheap] 1 Ore
• UF-AC-41 Velociraptor: This autocannon is a revision of AC18, with several improvements. The gun is a little more tolerant of different ammo weights and the shells have been modified so that mixed ammo belts are possible. The use of more advanced materials has allowed some parts to become lighter, while a heavier bolt and stronger spring allows a rate of fire of 750 RPM, with a final gun weight of 48kg. In infantry use, it has noticeably more recoil, but this is less of a concern on vehicles.
  [Cheap] 3 Ore
  
  • AS-AC18: An advanced primer ignition autocannon, which ignites cartridge primers before the round is fully chambered. It fires the new, large, 20x100mm round, fed from a top-mounted 25 round C-shaped magazine with a powerful spring, usually armor piercing, about 600 times per minute. The weapon is quite large with a simple action but heavy barrel, weighing over 40 kilograms, and it requires being mounted to a carriage, foundation, or vehicle to fire with accuracy, although recoil is reduced by the nature of its action. It is dependent on a careful balance between the force of the shell and the force of the action, which means that different ammo types cannot be interchanged without recalibrating the gun. It has a terrifying ability to punch through armor and emplacements.
    [Cheap] 3 Ore
• UF-MRL-40 'SARUKH': The Sarukh is a multiple rocket launcher, which fires rockets one meter long to deliver 6kg warheads at a maximum range of 12000 meters. The rockets have impressive destructive power, compared to shells they do not need thick metal casings, so most of the weight of the rocket is either warhead or propellant. The rockets are launched electrically off of rails, and the rails are in a 4x2 array. The rockets can be fired all at once, but it takes about four minutes to reload the whole launcher, so the sustained rate of fire is not better than regular artillery. However, a rocket array is extremely light compared to a cannon, and can move very quickly, firing all at once and retreating before fire is returned from the enemy. Accuracy is poor compared to shells; to reliably hit a single target with a volley they should be used within 8km. Currently available as a truck trailer.
  [Expensive] 1 Ore, 3 Oil
  
  • ICE (Intense Chemical Endotherm) Rocket: A rocket for the Sarukh equipped with an ICE non-explosive warhead that induces extreme cold. Instant lethalities within 5m, very high fatalities within 10m, serious injuries (and occasional fatality) along with (usually temporary) vehicle non-operation to 50m. The cold dissipates quickly outdoors.
• ICE Thrower: A 20m-ranged pressurized ICE thrower that can rapidly cool an area in front of the operator to (eventually) lethal levels or outright kill/severely harm those directly hit by ICE. The ICE doesn't naturally react until roughly 10m out from the barrel, though it can hit other things in its way and react with whatever it hits. Prolonged use is discouraged, due to close proximity with ICE and ICE-affected areas being very dangerous even with the extensive insulation operators wear.
  [Expensive] 2 Ore, 3 Oil
• AS-RPG28 A: A rocket-propelled grenade, fired out of a launch tube. The grenade itself consists of a conical shape with a narrow tube of propellent out the back, and twisted fins in the middle of the tube. The launch tube is 3cm wide, a meter long and the rocket fits in up to the fins, and is just a metal tube with a handle. To ignite the propellant, soldiers remove a pin, on the rocket, which is first clipped by a short chain to a trigger on the handle. The tube itself and each grenade each weigh 3kg. It is accurate enough to hit a tank out to almost 100 meters, after which it drops quickly. Rockets are available with warheads based on each type of grenade, including a HEAT conical shaped charge.
  [Cheap] 2 Ore, 1 Oil

Armor

• Standard Uniform: A plain blue featureless uniform. The blue's mild enough that it doesn't really stick out.
• ME-PA-59 'Bear Armour: "Infantry" armor based off of the Tiger suit. Boasts full (barring hands) body coverage, albeit with fairly frequent gaps in the joints; armor toughness is identical to Tiger Armor, with insulating fur inner lining. Armor plating is semi-manually removed from the outside through a series of switches to enter/exit/perform maintenance, and the suit must have its Electrogel very routinely replaced to maintain full charge. Lasts 16 hours of consistent high-power use, but use is carefully rationed due to no tracking of the charge. Embarking/disembarking from the outside takes about 30 seconds, and disembarking without assistance takes a few minutes. It stands at [~7 ft/~2m] tall, and uses a smallish bulletproof glass visor for limited visibility. Pilots boast slightly increased speed and slightly decreased agility (but same strength) over regular unarmored individuals while in the Armour, and have their skin dyed blue from the Electrogel. Has mounts for a WALK-TALK and larger ICE Thrower tank, and a velcro strip for maximum pilot comfort.
  [Expensive] 4 Ore, 2 Oil

Underground Vehicles

• UT-60 Excavator: A tracked medium-sized heavily-modified tunnel boring machine, most notably using GOFAST-fuel. Can go down to Moderate and Shallow depths, moves at Very Slow speeds while underground and at Moderate speeds aboveground. Possesses limited (but notable) agility underground. Contains space for 6 soldiers and small amounts of equipment of the equivalent amount of cargo in the back, in addition to the 2 crew in its cockpit. Light armor. Equipped with the ME-SM-57 'Earth Ear' for basic subterranean navigation.
  [Expensive] 3 Ore, 3 Oil; Provides 1 Ore.
• ME-CM-56 'Instant Roads': A very fast-acting sprayable concrete mixture very useful for reinforcing tunnels when sprayed by trailers hooked to a Burrower. Has to be re-applied occasionally to maintain integrity. Allows for use of Burrower tunnels for force movement and logistics.
  Provides 1 TC.

Air Vehicles

• UFAF-F-41 Lightning Streak: A single-engine jet fighter, with a large aT-J20 jet taking up most of the fuselage. The aT-J20 is a low-bypass turbofan; some of the air taken in by the compressor blades passes around the engine core and is not combusted; the bypass system provides useful cooling. The Lightning Streak has a relatively fat fuselage, which widens out in the middle after the intake and narrows again at the exhaust, there there is a rudder and two tail wings directly on the fuselage. With the round glass canopy (using 15mm of heavy laminated glass) the aircraft has sort of an egg shape, with thin swept wings. The wings have no bomb mounts and are as light as possible for speed and maneuverability, it is armed solely with three AC41 Velociraptor cannons in the nose above the intake, with somewhat limited ammo. It also includes airbrakes on the body near the tail, and hydraulic controls. Since it was designed as an absolutely dedicated fighter the speed and maneuverability are remarkable.
  [Very Expensive] 5 Ore, 4 Oil
• ME-LRMA-60 "Blizzard": A two-engine jet "Long-Range Multi-Role-Aircraft" based off of the Lightning Streak that uses a 4 "X"-shaped wing configuration via the "Tereshkova Effect" for slightly increased aerodynamics, improved redundancy, and greatly improved coolness. Its two aT-J60gi ICE ramjet engines allows it to be a fair bit faster than the Lightning Streak, but require very large amounts of a "watered down" ICE variant in order to operate. Has one large GOFAST tank and one large ICE tank allowing for a short range, capped by ICE usage. Equipped with 4x Velociraptor autocannons, 4 ICE missiles, and 1 tonne of bombs.
  [Very Expensive] 5 Ore, 4 Oil

Navy

• UFN-CA-41 Catraphract: The Cataphract is a cruiser built to rival Cannala's ships. It is armed with 3x3 150mm gun turrets, each using a fully electrified loading system based on the moderately-performing Overcompensator, except that the 60kg shells are moved in one piece. Each gun can fire 8 times a minute. It has an armored citadel with 300mm of nickel-steel armor (Heavy), and a torpedo belt as well. The deck is also heavily armored, at 120mm (Light) to defend against plunging fire, plus an extra splinter deck. The turrets are similarly armored. There is a central director in the con tower which controls all the electrically-driven turrets, though there is no advanced firing calculator. Additionally there are three turrets with two bumblebees on each side of the ship, capable of firing on aircraft or ships, and miscellaneous autocannons wherever there is room. It is powered by oil-burning steam turbines, and there are a lot of them though with its considerable armor it only musters moderate speed.
  [Very Expensive] 5 Ore, 4 Oil

Other

• GOFAST-Fuel: A special type of more energy-dense and stable fuel. Greatly increases fuel efficiency of anything it's in, doesn't require an oxidizer, and can rarely leak out of compromised containers.
  Adds 1 Oil to cost.
• MXETE: Discrete transistor digital mainframe computer - 2 MHz CPU, 4 Mb of magnetic drum long-term memory, and an operating memory of 1200*32 bits. Takes up an entire (very big) floor on the Design Division and creating another one is immensely impractical. Punch card input, with a tightly-packed light matrix called a "screen" for output.
• WALK-TALK: The Wireless Audio Local Kommunicator-Transistor Assistance Lowers Kost Radio. A small hand-held two-way transistor radio. Production is hampered by the ever-persistant Union of Electronics Workers, making it Complex.
  [Expensive] 1 Ore, Complex
• Electrogel: A very thick blue gel that creates and transmits electrical current corresponding to the amount of pressure applied to it. Comes with the "Electrogel Motor" - a very small motor with embedded Electrogel that works with power corresponding to Electrogel pressure. A patch of Electrogel can last roughly 8 hours when powering its corresponding motor nonstop at max power.
• UF-SM-57 'Earth Ear': A set of small attachments to be put on all available sides of a subterranean vehicle. Vibration pings allow it to present a map of "where stuff is" and "where stuff isn't" via a very basic 3D projection in a small gas-filled glass cube. Only useful at recognizing the terrain and notable landmarks, and has a range of 10km in every direction from the device. An increased resolution and the ability to detect movement between scans allows it to detect the movement of reasonably large forces (allied or hostile) and flash relevant sectors red in the display.

Infrastructure

The Design Phase of 1961 has begun.

[SamSpeeds]

Huh, completely outplayed. Well, I guess if they go for armor this turn we already have a contender lined up.

I considered a mobile coilgun AA truck or something, but we could probably solve our air inferiority more concisely with an aircraft of our own. Also, we should make a lander or artillery piece at some point for the plains. I kinda doubt they won't go for something to push us back in the sea, though, so it can perhaps wait. Also, I'm stupid and dumb and can't write semi-realistic modernish designs myself and will instead work on obtaining the Knowledge necessary to do so!

[Shadowclaw777]

Okay I have deviated from my own glances on what we lack as a military force in the Cold War, and the things that the enemy has over us that we could spend time on improving.
First off they have aerial support already from there Lightning Streak as it is a dedicated air-superiority jet fighter while we have propeller planes and a multi-role jet fighter, secondly they have artillery known as there ICE but secondly they have targets that can be bombed at, they lack any sort of armor or vehicles except there giant drills on the ground. This means if we research an artillery for our own the only targets we would have is masses of infantry, in which they really do not have. Conclusively there powered-armor troopers are still a problem, while powered shots from the Osprey will certainly pierce there armor, its not lethal is the problem, because of the extensive armor. Also conclusively our military is still utilizing destroyers when we should be utilizing missile cruisers in the Cold War. Let's hopefully with the revision import our missiles from cannala, and utilize our coil-technology and develop a very effective boat?. Anyways it seems like we need either a new aerial fighter, a anti-air vehicle, or a new missile cruiser that we could utilize once we import the missile from Cannala.

"Interceptor" Coil Based Air Superiority Jet Fighter CBASJF-6X

"Harbinger" Electromagnetic Propulsed Missile Cruiser EPMC-6X

"Hydra" Electric-Motor Flak Tank EMFT-61
As we have many problems with dealing with our enemies aerial support as we had to deal with the menacing Lightning Streaks and now the controversial how-the-hell-does-that-work four winged Blizzard jet vehicle, we needed a proper surface-to-air missile or cannon that we can utilize so that we can deal with these threats. Our knowledge of coils and magnets, but especially electric batteries have allowed us to develop such a vehicle.
This new form of a tank, in which we can both agree with on the Aratam national military that they would like new forms of tanks in their arsenal. Has a unique way in which it utilizes four heavy auto-loading cannons like the 120 mm cannon utilize in the halberd. However these four very auto-leading cannons are interfaced with a very advanced form of guidance and radio system that allows the operators of these tanks to interface with these four cannons to hit an aerial enemy target. The four normal cannons are all fired consecutively from each other and all have a intensive amount of reserve AA shrapnel shells so that the Hydra can fire its flak multiple time in the sky without interruption. Since all of the cannons on the tank are utilizing the power of shrapnel and that aircrafts are often lightly armored as it difficult to put armor in the sky, it would mean any aircraft ship that meets the force of one of the shrapnel of the shell will quickly realize the devastating force of the flailing metal will have completely penetrated it and nearly-guarenteed blown the aircraft up. All the shells utilize a proximity-based detection system that utilizes radio waves which makes the shrapnel shells explode if the targets gets close enough.

While indeed the tank utilize the same form of treads and armor plating that the Halberd has, their has been significant time on increasing the amount of electrical charge that a SynthOil battery pack can store so that it allows this vehicle to work in its intended role as mobile anti-air gun. The guidance system while still somewhat simplified to the technology of the Cold War, we have found ways to integrate a dedicated guidance system that configures with the tank's electronics to allow it target aerial targets that are hundred of meters off the ground and allow the tank's normal cannon to blow them up. The Hydra, also needs an only a single SynthOil battery pack as the other four cannons do not utilize electromagnetic-based technology and utilize normal AA Aircraft cannons to fire in a consecutive to reduce the strain in the vehicle gears and electronics, it only need a single SynthOil battery pack for it to power movement and just general parts of the tank. While still a novel idea and ignored in the Halberd tank, just like the APC it still equipped with smoke grenade launchers so that it create smoke clouds for our infantry in any guaranteed.

The guidance system is very simple actually, it's just utilizes radar and just notices the disturbances and messes with electromagnetic waves that aircraft often do in the skies to track and locate the basic "idea" of the target, as radar has the ability to mess and discern the location of object in the sky just making the slightest amount of light, this form of radar can track those objects in the sky. Rather the very normal not electromagnetic cannons all utilize Flak, so they shoot out shells into the sky that flail into a bunch of shrapnel that decimate aircraft through just pure area of effect, how is an airplane going to avoid shrapnel in the sky? Also the cannon really has two weapon subsystems as well, the tank has four cannon on its main head, but two cannons are aligned to the other side of each tank, which it can also utilize its cannon to slightly aim down against infantry and fire a bunch of "AP" shrapnel shells against infantry.


The Hydra Tank is a new incorporation of a mobile anti-aircraft gun that has the mobility and armor of a tank, developed with special guidance systems to allow the four auto-loading cannons to blow anything in the sky to many many pieces. It still has room for an electronic battery motor to power it as well, especially because all of its shells explode into a lot of shrapnel, and are based on proximity-based technology.

Spoiler: Image Depiction of the Hydra Tank (click to show/hide)

Edit: I am not currently done with the other two design's description, I wanted to get the Flak Tank idea out there before the aerial superiority fighter and missile cruiser.

Hydra Flak Tank: (1) Shadowclaw

[Blood_Librarian]

"Rectifier" ECC Battle Tank ECCB-62

Simply put, the ECCB-82 is a variant of the Halberd, with the intent on replacing the coil gun with another, designed for knocking out infantry as well as tanks. To this end, the barrel of the weapon has been converted to be able to "switch" its modes and instead fire a shells worth of magnetic flechettes if loaded with the associated shell. It's a shotgun of horrific proportions, the pellets are flung by a disposable "accelerator" plate that disperses the munitions the moment it leaves the barrel. The Flechettes design goal is to be fast enough and big enough to pierce Bear armor, as they have been formed with special regards to being able to pierce armor and accelerate as fast as possible using magnetic acceleration. to this end, many rare alloys like Cobalt, magnesium and other such materials are tested if they can fit into the niche of being both magnetic and armor piercing. the final metallic alloy is built in both the metal plate and the flechettes. The rotors and other such machinery are also rebuilt to hopefully handle faster movement and more accurate targeting acquisition. Although not directly attended, one optimistic goal is to have the tank be able to shoot down aircraft with its Flechette. Cannon.
In addition, the electronics division is tasked with figuring out how to put some good electric heaters in the tanks so as to speed up recovery from enemy cryo-weaponry, and maybe optimise the petrochemical batteries to be able to be refilled in the battlefield.

In short, the goal of the design (In order of importance) is to

• Create a coil weapon designed to shoot both standard rounds and "Flechette" rounds. If there are problems involved in this process, the weapon can be dedicated to the single laser focus of its Flechette variant
• Optimise the rotors of the Tanks main weapon
• Make a specialized alloy for the flechettes and the acceleration plate of the tank for AP rounds.
• Heaters.
• Optimise Petro-batteries so that they can be refilled on site, with a tank of gas. Disregard this if it's already possible.

Rectifier (1): Blood_Librarian
Hydra (1): Shadowclaw

[Shadowclaw777]

Besides just stating VOTE!; I am working on the electromagnetic propelled missile design that would be utilized by a Missile Cruiser and Jet Fighter, I guess getting that Missile import would be really valuable.

[The Ensorceler]

Rectifier (1): Blood_Librarian
Hydra (2): Shadowclaw, The Ensorceler

[Talion]

CryoStat Truck ‘Black Coach’
The latest generation of the CryoStat Tank, this variant is designed from the outset to fit all its machinery inside a truck. An update on the Privateer, the Black Coach uses a number of SynthOil batteries to power an efficient electric motor. When the Black Coach arrives at the deployment point, the cargo section can be unfolded and the CryoStat Tank quickly assembled to form a fully functional device. With the aid of the automation improvements from the Embassy and the use of the SynthOil batteries to power the CryoStat Tank when in deployed mode, a field hospital can be quickly formed. A variant without all the CryoStat machinery can also serve to replace the Privateer entirely.

Rectifier (1): Blood_Librarian
Hydra (2): Shadowclaw, The Ensorceler
Black Coach (1): Talion

[Blood_Librarian]

We don't need a field medical area right now, since its too slow to treat that many people.

I would prefer a better tank, but a Hydra works.