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[NUKE9.13]

Gyrocopters? I could've sworn they were balloons.

[TricMagic]

Sky Breeze Octo-Balloon : A floating one octoling balloon ship, with sails and a small engine to power the propeller.

They can also still turn it, but it's propelled. Not a gryocopter.

[testmen]

They still have the advantage of being able to more easily maneuver through places such as Morey towers since they are not forced to keep moving in order to stay airborne.

[TricMagic]

We have an inktastic shirt. And keep in mind that that's not the only place. There is the port for air support. And the Mount for even more defense. Being able to attack their Superweapon is nice.

[TricMagic]

Idolopolis Studios

A brilliant studio, meant to bring species of all races in Inkopolis to sing to the beat. Running a Audition Campaign to find the best groups that will energize others at home, they do their best to train them into top Idol Groups.

While it may seem merely fresh, these Idols make use of special SSS gear to apply a buff to those listening. Those who listen feel upbeat, and when hearing those beats, will have their Specials begin to fill up on their own. Listen to your Beat!


Thought of this. Though we would need our own way... Do we have music disks?

[Happerry]

Revision : Inkternal Combustion Engine (Very Hard)
1+1-2 = 0: Utter failure

In theory, there's nothing preventing the Inkternal Combustion Engine from becoming a success. The science theoretically checks out, as does the math, and the engineers are interested in trying to bring the design to life. In theory, nothing should have gone wrong.

In theory.

Incidentally, there's a giant flaming crater where Lab 13 used to be and the season's budget is going to be used up replacing it, and definitely wasn't wasted trying to make bumper cars with the first prototypes that then caught on fire when the prototype engines backfires which caught the lab on fire which made all the other prototypes explode leaving a giant flaming crater where the lab used to be.

Spoiler: Resources (click to show/hide)

Basic Resources
Plastics : 2
Super Sea Snails : 1

Advanced Resources
Zapfish : 2

Spoiler: Inkling Armory (click to show/hide)

Primary Weapon

• Bamboozler : A compression powered ink gun that was recently invented before the Great Turf War. It charges somewhat slowly, is hard to charge on the move, can not store a charge, has limited maximum range, has low ink usage efficiency hampering repeated use before one must refill their ink tank, and can not be fired while uncharged. In other words, a revolutionary improvement over all that came before. Despite being shaped somewhat like a hammer, it is not advisable to use it in melee to hit someone over the head with.
  Cheap - Cost : 2 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.
  
  • Bamboozler Quickcharge Cartridges : A modification of the Bamboozler that adds a socket for a pre-filled and pressurized cartridge of ink. A simple lever allows the user to switch between normal firing mode and using the cartridge to fire an instant and fully charged shot, if one at only around 85% the range and power of a normal charged shot. Takes a little bit to unscrew the old cartridge and then screw another one in, limiting their ability to be used more then once in an exchange.
  • Spiral Barrel Refit : A modification of the Bamboozler that adds a new barrel as well as an air compression tank, thusly resulting in enhanced firing range, shot damage, and ink efficiency. While improved noticeably over the original model, this is still inferior to the second generation Bamboozler the Octolings have in production, among other things being around 15% shorter ranged then the enemy model. Produced in enough numbers to allow for mass deployment by way of hiring some Urchins to do the needed carving of Super Sea Snail shell.
    Cheap - Cost : 2 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.
• Inkerial Blotter : An ink shell launching gun powered by super sea snail homeopathy and applied anti-logic. It fires blobs of ink that burst upon contact with a target, splattering a small area around said target with ink. It is hampered by its relatively short range, but uses a triple firing chamber array to permit an acceptable rate of fire. It's ink shells are also fired in an arc, instead of having a straight trajectory like other inkarms, permitting a limited amount of indirect fire. The recent addition of a proper pressurization chamber has both increased the AOE of the shells to a more average radius, and also has somewhat increased the range of fire to 'below average'. Also has snazzy new stone triggers.
  Expensive - Cost : 3 Plastic, 2 Super Sea Snails.
• ⑨-Scope : A powerful charger that uses eight Quickcharge Cartridges arranged around the primary compression chamber to achieve the forces needed for long ranged fire. The necessity to replace all the Cartridges between shots as well as re-compress the ink in the primary chamber ensure the ⑨-Scope has an absurdly low firing speed as well as a ferocious amount of recoil when fired. On the other hand, with a normal compression chamber and eight cartridges powering the shot, at least it hits hard. Also, the designers ran out of time and never got around to designing a scope for the gun, hindering its accuracy at its maximum range.
  Very Expensive - Cost : 4 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails, Complex.
• 3D-Scope : A powerful charger that uses three secondary compression chambers around the primary chamber to power its shots. Using all three of the secondary chambers requires more charging time then using fewer of them for a weaker shot, but only when all chambers are used does the 3D-Scope gain its true power and range. Comes with a simple scope for accurate fire out into the long range bracket, but uses up lots and lots of ink when being fired out to its full range and power. Unlike the ⑨-Scope, using it will no longer cover your entire shoulder and or arms in bruises from the recoil.
  Expensive - Cost : 4 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.
• Rapid Shooter : A short ranged triple chambered gun, the Rapid Shooter is the first proper Shooter to be put into production in the Great Turf War. It's short ranged and has minor accuracy issues at the edge of its range, but it is also light, handy, and can recharge its compression chamber on the go. As such, as long as one doesn't literally hold the trigger down until the compression chamber is empty, it can maintain a continual stream of fire no other gun in the turf war can yet match.
  Cheap - Cost : 2 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.

Sub Weapon

• Inkdisc-A Bomb/Mine : A disk shaped plastic casing for ink filled balloons that can be used as a thrown projectile detonated upon impact with a needle of hardened ink, or with the flip of a lever the needle may remain unused to allow for the deployment of the Inkdisc as a sort of non-stealthy mine. While limited in range, despite and because of its frisbee like shape, by the muscle power and throwing ability of its user one good direct hit within its range can splat the average target. Takes a few seconds to inflate though.
  Cheap - Cost : 2 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.
• "Big Smoke" Smoke Bomb : A shell shaped throwing weapon that emits aerosolized ink from three separate ports, providing concealment, soothing friendly Inkantry, and serving as a low level ablative defense verses enemy shots. Enemies moving through a cloud will feel like they're moving through a cloud of itching powder, and the cloud is pretty effective at blocking line of sight. Of course, like other smoke weapons, that includes friendly line of sight...
  Expensive - Cost : 2 Plastic, 3 Super Sea Snails.
• Ink-Missile : A weapon based equally off the Inkdisc and the Big Air Ink Bomb, the Ink-Missile is a plastic disk with an almost frictionless bottom, allowing it to be sent skating into enemy lines where an ink signature detecting sensor causes it to explode as soon as it gets close enough to an enemy. Or sufficiently inked enemy turf, for that matter. It also has a motion sensor to cause it to explode when it finally comes to a halt if it manages to find no targets at all during its long skid. Has a somewhat smaller explosion radius then the Inkdisc due to the space taken up by the sensors and special bottom.
  Expensive - Cost : 3 Plastic, 1 Super Sea Snails.
• Pocket Spray : A spraycan shaped container of pressurized aerosolized glowing ink. When sprayed on a fellow Inkling it can rapidly heal them, just as fast as taking a bath in friendly ink, as well as being useable to spray into the air to make walls of smoke, thrown as an improvised smoke bomb, or sprayed directly on surfaces to ink territory directly, hopefully in snazzy glowing patterns. A well designed and easy to use product marred only by the fact that its intended users see very little reason to actually use it.
  Expensive - Cost : 2 Plastic, 3 Super Sea Snails.

Specials

• Vortex Armor : A defensive special that generates a vortex of ink around the user. Its immense energy expenses prevent it from lasting beyond four to six seconds, with its time falling to half of that while being heavily used. While the vortex lasts it will cover anything nearby in friendly ink, turf or foe, as well as intercept enemy shots with its own ink. Its defensive coverage isn't perfect though, and well aimed, sufficiently lucky, or singularly powerful enough shots can penetrate its defensive shroud.
  Cheap - Cost 1 Plastic, 1 Super Sea Snail
• Big Air Ink Bomb : A special that allows the user to fire a glowing artillery shot of ink up into the sky, to then fall back down and land on an unfortunate Octoling's head. Has some minor issues aiming, but has decent range, enough damage to splat basically anyone directly hit, good splash radius, and leaves a five second cloud of aerosolized ink floating around the impact site. Was immediately co-opted by tactical officers for use as a signal flare. It's simplicity allows it to be charged faster then normal for a special.
  Cheap - Cost 1 Plastic, 1 Super Sea Snail

Ability

• Ace Swimmer Shirt : A specially designed shirt that offers minimal interference with surrounding ink as the Inkling swims, allowing for greater top swimming speed as well as less surface disturbance while swimming. The slickness of the shirt is sufficient to allow some enemy ink to 'slide off' in the moments after it impacts, though it does not actually decrease the original impact. It also makes the Inklings wearing it feel somewhat more Fresh, and is cheap and easy to put through the laundry.
  Cheap - Cost 1 Plastic, 1 Super Sea Snail

Personnel

• Inkantry : Brave Inklings, run through basic training and drilled repeatedly in weapon use and other skills needed on the modern battlefield. The Inkantry not only know how to use a gun, but also hold a basic understanding of the concepts of planning, crossfires, flanking maneuvers, and actually communicating with each other, and have superior running and swimming speed from all those athletic drills. They're still fairly basic soldiers, but they actually are soldiers now.
• Markslings: Inklings whom have powered through the frequent and blatant distractions and misuse of the Firink Field to maximize their accuracy, snapshot skills, and ability to assess cover to as high as the Firink Field could take them. While few are dedicated enough to become known as a Marksling, those whom are are rightfully known for their skills.
  Uncommon Specialist.
• Inkrunners: Inklings trained in Camp Booyah for speed, agility, and the arcane art of the Dodge Roll. Not actually better in direct combat then a normal Inkantry, but harder to hit and able to get to the fight, or any other location of interest, faster then a normal Inkantry. They need to use a light and easy to use weapon to be able to properly employ their skills however, preventing them from using most of the current armory. As only the best trainees can achieve this title, they are somewhat Uncommon.

Cultural Artifacts

• The Inkspire : A vast and continual open air market and cultural festival without end that has grown around Inkopolis Tower, better known as the Inkspire in those times. While of little direct military use, it's presence as a sign of what all Inklings fought for had noticeable effects on their overall morale. And besides, I found the cutest pair of booties there last time I went! Must visit again soon. And this time, I'll avoid drinking that homemade fire-water.

Other Gear

• Mark 1 Ink Tank : A basic ink tank, invented by the same inventor that invented the Bamboozler, and designed to work with the Bamboozler. A quarter of its mass is taken up with the complicated gearing that connects it to a Lings primary weapon and the generator for the subweapon, limiting how much ink it can store. Still better then having to produce ink manually whenever you need a refill though.
  Cheap - Cost : 2 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.
  
  • Super Sea Snail Filters: The heavy valves that controlled ink flow in the Mark 1 Ink Tank have been replaced with a system of Super Sea Snail derived filters, which control the flow of ink without any jams or needed maintenance. The decreased size of the filters, in comparison to the original valve system, allows the non-tank part of the Ink Tank to decrease to taking up only around 15% of its mass instead of 25%. This does, however, mean that the Ink Tank now needs Super Sea Snails for construction.
    +1 Super Sea Snails (Cheap)
• Military Inkline Camp : A camp that teaches a two month course on the basics of military skills, with plenty of athletic and accuracy drills, as well as a new standardized basic training program to teach students how to be proper soldiers whom actually have basic military skills. Doesn't stand out as being awesome, but grants all students whom are put through its training a solid foundation for their new roll as Inkantry.
• Firink Range : An expanded weapons testing and training field with automatic targets that do things such as move and shoot back, as well as a multitude of different firing positions to practice from. For some reason the Inkantry have taken to using the place as a tournament ground, hindering attempts to train within it. Still, for those whom persist and fail to be distracted by the team verses team playfights, a noticeable level of skill can emerge. Markslings may not be common, but they have learned the lessons of the Firink Range well and full-heartedly.
• Camp Booyah : An alternate training area, Camp Booyah is an obstacle course that specializes in training Inkrunners instead of long ranged combatants. Unlike earlier obstacle courses it is far less likely to traumatize and splat it's victim-, er, trainees. On the other tentacle, it also produces far less lawsuits.
• Spike Covered Crevasses : It turns out that these are illegal to drop Inklings into, and do not in fact make good obstacle courses.

Superweapons

• Thunderbird Lightning Plane: A giant plastic airplane with four propellers, two wing mounted zapfish, a dump bay for air deployed Inkantry or masses of Inkdisks, and a lightning rod cannon on the nose. Accumulates lightning from the wing tips and the propellers and then fires lightning rods down to guide said lightning down and fry everything in an area. Totally not at risk of something crazy attacking a charged lightning rod and sending the lightning crashing back up into the airplane. Who'd be stupid enough to try that, after all?
  Needs 2 Zapfish to be deployed.

Heroes

• Commander Cauldo : A former instructor of the Inkantry Brevetted to Commander and deployed to battle. Armed with a refined Inkerial Blotter using lighter materials and a five-firing chamber arrangement for greater firing speed and usability, as well as experimental ink energy batteries that are no longer mildly explosive when things go wrong. Commander Cauldo is known for his tactical skill and ability at small scale unit command, skills which seem to come from his days as an instructor, and unlike most heroes works closely with an attached squad of Inkantry. His presence is inspiring to said squad and any other Inklings around, and he can use his reputation to get other squads to listen to him, increasing local coordination.
• Aoi the Painter: A former security guard and self employed manga artist, Aoi has been recruited into the ranks of the special Inkling Agents as Agent 2. She's armed with a self designed giant paintbrush weapon able to really paint some turf as long as the enemy is at point blank range, and uses compressed air to let her throw the ink off the brush farther when she swings it around. Even if the compressed air capsule has to be replaces every few minutes as it runs out of air, it still gives her a bit of extra range. Aoi is pretty fast on her feet and nimble, if not unreasonably so. Lastly, her glowing facepaint makes her look extra fresh.

The Deployment Phase of Spring, Year 3 has begun.

[TricMagic]

Aoi deploys to Moray Towers
Cauldro deploys to Port Mackrel
Thunderbird deploys to Port Mackrel

Push Moray Towers and Port Mackrel

With next turn likely being us trying the Inkternal Combustion Engine in a plane for our forces, we should have aerial superiority that turn, giving us full advantage against rooftop combat. For now though, the Thunderbird will be useful at Port Mackrel, and with the new shirts, we can likely stand to be aggressive there.

It is of course possible they can choose to go to Mount Nantai, but that goes the same way for them as it usually does whenever we push the Canyon. Aerial superiority there will prove useful next season for taking back if they do somehow manage it.

With the new shirts, Aoi can play ninja hero in the towers, as can the rest, since they will need to constantly ink the areas to prevent us from moving past them in our own ink.

Of course, the planes won't help that much in the country. But maybe we can use the revision to revist the whole ninja thing we failed at one point.


Revision for Spring.
Ink-fin Sensor Bomb

The Ink-fin Sensor Bomb is a mix of sorts. It uses the "Big Smoke" Smoke Bomb as a base. Instead of spraying a cloud of aerosolized ink however, it instead blasts out a cloud of ink. This ink is far more solid, and sticks to anything hit, dealing a massive amount of damage for those in the blast radius, and inking turf and terrain. It can easily be said anyone in the blast range is going to get splatted, and it could even splat those who aren't since the cloud will keep going till it loses force and falls to the ground due to gravity. It's a pretty simple change.

The fun part is it also uses our sensor. 1 button press primes it to explode as soon as it nears enemy ink energy. 2 presses primes it to go off in three seconds, and 3 primes it for five seconds. It even comes with sticky ink(not included in the bomb, just a spreadable glue which can be applied), allowing this ball of destruction to act as a mine. Done right, it can cover a room in ink. This mode takes five button presses, and has a 1 second delay when the conditions for it to go off are met. It will only go off when a strong enough signal enters it's range, which is either when the whole area around it has hit a high enemy saturation point, or an enemy crosses it's path. For this, it's sensors  don't account for enemy ink energy behind a wall or surface it sticks to.

The ink is under quite a bit of pressure, but remember the can of ink, the healing bath? For maximum efficiency, this model uses that type of healing ink, so inklings in the blast radius get a heal, completely removing any damage from them. Kinda like a waterfall of ink that removes the enemy ink. This can be abused to make seemingly suicidal charges, and being at ground zero brings you to fighting fit shape.

It also comes in glow ink, rather than healing, for signalling purposes.

Kinda squishy and round, so gripping and throwing it is somewhat nice. The button is located on what is the top of it, though they don't collapse, so inklings need to carry a bag of them if they want to have more than three at any one time. The Glow Ink-fin model actually glow in the dark.

Finally, 7 button presses resets the Ink-fin. Kinda needed, given if it's used for it's sensor mode to counter ambushes, or you need to disengage it's mine mode, resetting it will let you use it still. It's about the size of a baseball, and has super sea shell mix used for the shell, so you know there is a lot of pressurized ink power in this thing.

Aoi guards the Fax Machine
Cauldro deploys to Port Mackrel
Thunderbird deploys to Port Mackrel

Push Port Mackrel and Moray Towers

Which one to push, is the question. The Mount, I suppose.

[testmen]

I should probably contribute.

All in Victory Plan: (0)
Full Port Rout: (1) testmen

[TricMagic]

Aoi deploys to Moray Towers
Cauldro deploys to Port Mackrel
Thunderbird deploys to Port Mackrel

Push Moray Towers and Port Mackrel

Aoi guards the Fax Machine
Cauldro deploys to Port Mackrel
Thunderbird deploys to Port Mackrel

Push Port Mackrel and Moray Towers

Aoi guards the Fax Machine
Cauldro deploys to Port Mackrel
Thunderbird deploys to Port Mackrel

Push Port Mackrel and Mount Nantai

3 plans. Though it's really a question of either pushing the Towers or the Mount.

[NUKE9.13]

All in Victory Plan: (0)
Full Port Rout (Tower): (1) testmen
Full Port Rout (Mount): (2) testmen, NUKE9.13

Not sure which version of the plan testmen is voting for, so I put them down for both. They can remove whichever doesn't apply.

Without air support, and with whatever new things the Octolings bring, I really don't like our odds of advancing in the Towers. Holding ground, maybe, but not advancing. So might as well just clean up the Mountain, where we are (or were, last turn) solidly ahead.

[TricMagic]

All in Victory Plan: (0)
Full Port Rout (Tower): (1) testmen
Full Port Rout (Mount): (2) testmen, NUKE9.13, TricMagic

Not sure which version of the plan testmen is voting for, so I put them down for both. They can remove whichever doesn't apply.

Without air support, and with whatever new things the Octolings bring, I really don't like our odds of advancing in the Towers. Holding ground, maybe, but not advancing. So might as well just clean up the Mountain, where we are (or were, last turn) solidly ahead.

My question is, can we simply choose to hold the Mount rather than try to take space in the Canyon? eh.

[NUKE9.13]

...we're at 2/3. We couldn't take territory in the Canyon if we wanted to.

[TricMagic]

? Isn't 3/3 when we push them into the canyon? I'm asking if we can just choose to guard the mount and fight there if we want.

[NUKE9.13]

Ah, I see what you're saying. You're saying that if we win, and we're at 3/3, next turn we'd be fighting in the Canyons. Yes. So? Even if we immediately lose the progress we made, that's still good for us, since it's one less Octo push on the Port/Towers.

[Happerry]

The Great Turf War of Spring, Year 3, has now Finished.

The Design Phase of Summer, Year 3 has begun.