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[frostgiant]

HeadsUP Tripmine

A shrapnel mine that once activated will fly up 6 meters, or until it hits a ceiling through the use of a small Caelum crystal-powered by a prototype nickel-cadmium rechargeable battery. Afterwards a small tripwire is let loose, and the person setting the mine will tie it to a anchor of their choice (or attach it with the bladed screw head) into something like a door, a small branch or any other places for the potential tripwire to be hit depening on the terrain (In a hallway this would include a piece of furniture, anoth doorway or even just leaving it in the middle of the hallway. The trip wire is made from two very small wires that create a circuit, so if the tripwire is cut, the HeadUP will detonate. Of course, multiple HeadUP mines can be placed, to make slipping past the mines near impossible.

The headUP is meant to be an area denial device as much as a trap, being very hard to disarm, with a lack of access to the bomb itself, being over the enemies heads. With how difficult it is to safely disarm, let alone quietly, it allows our royal soldiers to Mine an area, and be assured that the enemies will not be sneaking through it.  best used in forested areas or tight urban areas.

Something mean I came up with earlier.
just as easy for it to be incendiary and burn down the building with the enemy in it.
Before we try to make jumper armour, we should try to make Superheavy armour without the ability to do that, just weights as much as a normal infantry man. Should use less cealium and hoopefully we could give it to everyone.

[Doubloon-Seven]

Designs:
ARA Model-001B Semiautomatic Pistol: ()
Iron Rain Mortar: (3) DoubloonSeven, Doomblade, Jerick
ARA Diablo Field Artillery: (0)
ARA Draco Trench Gun: (2) Frostgiant, Kashyyk
-ARA Model-001B 'Draco' Trench Shotun: (1) DoubloonSeven
ARA Type-A1 Machine Gun : (0)
Gorgon Long Range Artillery Piece: (4) Doomblade, Frostgiant, Jerick, Kashyyk
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Revision:
Clamp Down: (0)
Chemical Industry: (1) DoubloonSeven,
Wickerman Improvement Project: (4) Doomblade, Frostgiant, Jerick, Kashyyk
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Resource
Caelium: (6) Doubloon,Tyrant Leviathan,  frostgiant, Doomblade, Jerick, Kashyyk
Helium: 0
Promethium: (0)

Caelium stuff:

Spoiler: Monitor-Class Scout Airship (click to show/hide)

A three decked Caelium airship with thin steel armor. The uppermost deck holds a diesel-electric generator powering a Caelium lifting core, along with two propeller pods on each side. The middle deck has crew quarters, piloting controls, and a few gun ports to fire from with a machine gun or with rifles for defense. The lower deck is really more of an open air platform for taking photographs from.

We don't need wingless planes, we need gasbagless zeppelins.

Edit: Post 1000. Neat.

[Jerick]

Why though? Howitzers can tilt, so you just have the maximum safe powder load in a cartridge and tilt the barrel for different ranges. Putting the shell and powder in separately just makes the system more complex, slower, and liable to getting wet. If separate loading is what you want, use a metal casing instead of a bag.

Well for a start putting the max safe charge in every cartridge is a sure fire way to destroy the barrel in relatively short order and is a terrible idea. You don't want to use any machine at it's maximum tolerances every time it's used least of all one who's purpose is to contain explosions. Firing the maximum charge every time just stresses the weapon unnecessarily.  Secondly explosives are expensive, by having it separate it can be cheaper by a considerable margin as you're eliminating a considerable amount of unnecessary use. Since in most arms races the weapon's lifetime ammo is included in the initial cost this should reduce the cost of the weapon as a whole. Thirdly ballistics are bit more complicated than just tilting the barrel to the correct angle. Ideally we want our shells falling on the enemy defensive positions from as steep an angle as possible in order to negate the benefits of their cover. Max charge shells will typically have a shallow arcs unless firing at extreme ranges where as with adjustable propellant skilled gun crews can get plunging fire into enemy trenches at any range.

I'm still trying to figure out how to do a plane that doesn't need lift. So far, thinking a plane with very short wings and large manuevering parts in addition to a propulsion state.

Hrrmm I might have a design for this that might be interesting give me a minute.

[frostgiant]

Why model-001B? its not a second iteration or modification on the mona. if anything it would be model-002A or Model-002SG

Could probably get away with an adjustable propeller, Without wings and make it like a rocket. Never mind, wind resistance. no wings and no weight bad idea.

[Doubloon-Seven]

The numbering is a date indicator seeing as we never got an actual calendar.

[Doomblade187]

The numbering is a date indicator seeing as we never got an actual calendar.

Huh. I prefer model number personally. ARA-Model 002 sounds good.

[frostgiant]

LandFrigate "Tanker" mk1
Their are many damaged wrecks left in our docks. one day on their way to work, the queen, stopped at the harbour and questioned her military escort if a landship was possible. the party had at the time laughed it off with courtly means. But the engineering department caught wind of the joke. The landfrigate is the result.
The landfrigate is obviously half of a frigate welded to a pair of massive tracks, with a armour metal dome over the deck. The only reason the Landfrigate is capable of moving at all and not collapsing to devasting effect, is a pair of Caelium Generators that is housed inside its chassis. A large Crystal of Caelium hooked up to a personal generator, that is on perpetually, ensuring the land frigate is land viable.
The land frigate has enough armour that most land-bound guns will have trouble actually damaging it, and comes equipped with three-turreted Diablo guns.
The landfrigate is big, expensive, unwieldy and the scariest thing on land.

Meant to be easier to make, expensive and kinda silly. The important part is that the Caelium generator would be the hardest thing on the ship. The rest is simply, if really expensive and big. even if the Landfrigate gets relegated to nothing but artillery, the caelium generator is somethiung that can be used in all superheavy tanks from then on.

[Jerick]

Spoiler: Drifter Recon Aircraft (click to show/hide)

The Drifter is a recon aircraft without wings. It has fins on the front and back of the aircraft to stabilize the craft and allow the pilot control of pitch and roll, they are spaced so as to not obscure the pilots vision. Instead of wings the drifter is held in the air by a Caelium core, the electricity for which is drawn from the engine, this allows the drifter to ascend and descend rapidly. The drifter is relatively short and mounts a rotating engine nacelle below it's center of mass. By rotating the whole engine and pointing it in the direction of intended travel the drifter can move at full speed in any direction and nearly instantly change which direction it's travelling in. Additionally it includes mounting for an as yet undeveloped machine gun and bomb rack for a number of small explosive devices to drop on the enemy.

My shot at a Caelium aircraft.

[frostgiant]

Flamethrowers on jumper armour would be quite useful.

[Happerry]

Designs:
ARA Model-001B Semiautomatic Pistol: (1) Happerry
Iron Rain Mortar: (3) DoubloonSeven, Doomblade, Jerick
ARA Diablo Field Artillery: (0)
ARA Draco Trench Gun: (2) Frostgiant, Kashyyk
-ARA Model-001B 'Draco' Trench Shotun: (1) DoubloonSeven
ARA Type-A1 Machine Gun : (0)
Gorgon Long Range Artillery Piece: (5) Doomblade, Frostgiant, Jerick, Kashyyk, Happerry
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Revision:
Clamp Down: (0)
Chemical Industry: (1) DoubloonSeven,
Wickerman Improvement Project: (5) Doomblade, Frostgiant, Jerick, Kashyyk, Happerry
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Resource
Caelium: (6) Doubloon,Tyrant Leviathan,  frostgiant, Doomblade, Jerick, Kashyyk
Helium: 0
Promethium: (0)

[Doubloon-Seven]

Designs:
ARA Model-001B Semiautomatic Pistol: (2) Happerry, DoubloonSeven
Iron Rain Mortar: (2) Doomblade, Jerick
ARA Diablo Field Artillery: (0)
ARA Draco Trench Gun: (2) Frostgiant, Kashyyk
-ARA Model-001C 'Draco' Trench Shotgun: (0)
ARA Type-A1 Machine Gun : (0)
Gorgon Long Range Artillery Piece: (6) Doomblade, Frostgiant, Jerick, Kashyyk, Happerry, DoubloonSeven
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Revision:
Clamp Down: (0)
Chemical Industry: (1) DoubloonSeven,
Wickerman Improvement Project: (5) Doomblade, Frostgiant, Jerick, Kashyyk, Happerry
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Resource
Caelium: (6) Doubloon,Tyrant Leviathan,  frostgiant, Doomblade, Jerick, Kashyyk
Helium: 0
Promethium: (0)

Apparently the two-part system is actually a thing that has some distinct advantages, and in a longer range, I guess the disadvantages wouldn't matter as much.

[frostgiant]

How thick should we look at for Paladin armour (The non jumper version of the caelium armour that serves as both cheaper version and test of concept)
13mm's on the breastplate? 15? Not looking to deleft artillery fire, just make them relatively bulletproof to things like rifles,pistols and smg's

[Tyrant Leviathan]

Yeah Caelium bullet deflecting repulsive/ Paladin Armor would basically be thick but lighter due to Caelium. Then jumper, then flight harness stuff.

Will do full descriptions tomorrow. Busy stuff happening.

[frostgiant]

Spoiler: “Paladin” Superheavy infantry armour. (click to show/hide)

In the war between Armour and bullet, the armour has lost out due to the sheer amount of weight that is required to defend against a modern rifle round.
Now, through the use of powdered caeluim, added to the metal during forging along with a small generator located at the small of the back, the sue of heavy armour has been reborn.
Caelium powdered plate, when activated with electricity, is greatly reduced in weight allowing a infantry man to carry armor equal or even outclassing a military ship, rending them bullet proof at no cost in endurance.
The breast plate of the Paladin armor is 15-13mm’s thick protecting the vital human organs. The chest is thus relatively bullet proof to most small arms fire. Extending up from the chest plate is a 8mm thick metal Collar that protects the neck from shrapnel.

The arms are protected by thick plating along the back and outside edge. 10 mm’s thick, the inside of the arm is protected by a series of 6mm thick metal bands, connecting to the outside arms thicker armour. The space between the bands are protected by the thick leather undersuit, and ensure the  Wearer has foul mobility, despite the thickness of the hard materiel.
The hands are protected on a wearer by wearer basis, with the wearers trigger hand, unarmored except for thin plates on the back of the hand and the wrist. This is to ensure that the wearer is capable of using our small arms without requiring large modifications to the trigger.
the other hand, if clad in a full metal gauntlets. Protecting it . This gauntlet can be used in close combat, because while lacking weight. It is still very hard metal propelled by the human body.
The legs are similarly protected, with the front, outer edge and inner edge protected from bullets.
The helmet is similar to a knights helm, with two thin slits allowing the wearer to see. The top, sides and facemask are all 5-8mm’s thick depending on the area.
All in all, the paladin amour looks superficial to a suit of knights plate, except much, much thicker.

The electricity to activate the paladins caelium plates is provided by a nikoline-cadmium rechargeable batterys, 12cm tall by 32cm long by 12cm wide. That sits in an armoured recess on the small of the paladins back. This battery is intended to be rechargeable back within our own lines, and every paladin will carry at least one back up battery to swamp out the current one if it begins to die. When the battery is turned on, the wearers will set a timer on their pocket watch, to ensure they do not lose track of time.

First draft of the paladin armour. Depending on what the request are next turn i want to do this in the design phase, and if not in the revision phase with one of our credits. it is a stepping stone to better suits of caelium armour, and is a very important step that should be taken quite early.
For picturing it in your head, i've been imagining a ww1 version of reinhardt without the massive jet engine on his back.

[Doomblade187]

@man of paper, in our special resource's current write-up, how would one go about lifting a generic block? Would we have to infuse the block with the mineral, or would a small core of the mineral lift the rest?