Sky Temple
The Sky Temple is a pyramid shaped ship, equipped with a Sun Temple cannon and by using the sacred Shu Stones placed around a bronze-clad wood structure, it can float and remain stable above any surface, even water, or move forward and turn when it needs to, on it's own. It's large enough to house troops for a short duration or to carry some other stuff inside.
(Very Hard) (2,4) -2 =4 Below average
The generals commanding the army have always envied the fire power available to the fleet, the marvellous Sun Cannon. Its deployment on land, however, requires a suitable platform. A major breakthrough came when, after a long day of brainstorming around the Celestial table, you took notice of the fact that it was very heavy and floating. After some disassembling, it seems that the levitation effect is caused by small compact objects named “Shu stones”. Those seem to almost nullify the weight of the things they are mounted on, meaning that it takes very little force to lift them off the ground, force conveniently provided by the stones themselves. Servants are sent to scavenge the warehouse for Shu stones, while the Sky temple is being built.
The Sky temple is a relatively large structure, as big as a ship, shaped like a pyramid and covered entirely in bronze on top of its sturdy wood frame. The top of the temple, rather than being pointy, houses the same kind of Sun Cannon that is used on ships. Almost impervious to damage from anything short of a Sun cannon (among the weapons currently fielded), its size means that it can carry some cargo or some soldiers, but it has a couple of problems. First problem: The Shu stones mean that only little force is needed to lift the temple and little force is what they produce, meaning that it can only advance at a crawl. Second: it is expensive. The ships are already barely affordable, and the Sun temple adds Shu stones and bronze armour to it. Only one could be built before the allotted time was over. Due to the elevated position of the cannon, it has trouble aiming at enemies close to its base, but it is a weakness heavily mitigated by the presence of other forces escorting it. The Sun cannon performs as well as it does in the ship.
[3 wood 3 ore 4 Relics][Alien(Cannon, Shu stones)] [National effort]
You will need to decide where to deploy it.
Alien tags don't stack with each other, so it is still only one level more expensive than normal depsite having multiple [Alien] components. However, all components need to be de-[Alien]-ified before the design loses the tag. A word of warning for the future: [Complex] and [Alien] do stack.
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Sky temple - A pyramid shaped structure, it is heavily built and armored. It has a Sun cannon which it uses as a heavy weapon. Floats roughly 1 m from the ground and is extremely slow. [3 wood 3 ore, 4 Relics][Alien] [National effort]
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Topic: Ancient arms race - Temple of Thoth - 2994 B.C Revision (Read 12000 times)