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[KitRougard]

Quick edit made, and as such...

Swizzler (3): Failbird, The Ensorceler, Slick
Fizz-balloon ():
Rainmaker ():
Boiler Pack ():
Newspaper Knight ():
Davy Jones (1): Piratejoe
The Roll-Out (1): KitRougard

Another reminder that the next Vehicle (which The Roll-Out is!) gets a +1 to its score.

[Failbird105]

An update from the discord. It's not specifically the next vehicle it's just whatever vehicle design/revision we want to use it on. So we could totally upgrade the sky-breeze a bit more or make a minor variant of it without wasting the +1

[Failbird105]

A new design from the discord. Definitely not meant for this turn. It's a simple way to get a start to using Octarians, pretty much taking a design directly from the games themselves and importing it into our forces. The intention is to effectively be a moving wall that our soldiers can stand behind, with some minor ability to defend itself if necessary.

Octostamp
Octarians are a known and well documented phenomena already, Octoling loses a tentacle, tentacle eventually sprouts legs and grows a face, then grows into a creature all its own. This would be incredible for us... if they weren't so dumb and lacking in arms. This doesn't mean they can't be useful though, and this idea is just one way we are looking into utilizing them. The Octostamp is effectively an Octarian grown inside of a large stamp-like casing, in such a way that the two are effectively inseparable. These Octarians are protected from the sides, top, and bottom(except their legs) by thick layer of plastic. The 'face' of the casing meanwhile, has a face carved into it through which the Octarian can see and be fed, and has an outer layer of spongey foam(the solid kind used for paint rollers not frothy liquid) which ink soaks into and holds to rather well, with a less thick inner layer that is once again just plastic.
The Octarians own ink flows through the casing, and into the stamp face. While the ink being constantly sent to its stamp stops it from spitting projectile globs of the stuff, this whole casing contraption effectively means that the Octostamp, though slow and heavy, is very hard to damage from the protected sides with ink-based weapons. That being said, for various reasons(medical, economical, and more), we had to leave a side unobstructed, so its back is exposed, making it vulnerable to typical inktech attacks from behind. Additionally, and we don't exactly know if this is some undeveloped expression of ink energy or what, but the Octostamps seem to have the ability to leap up into the air rather high despite their slow speed, stumpy legs, and heavy casing, but of course their weight sends them crashing to the ground face first. This is actually somewhat useful, since their face is soaked with ink and they're so big and heavy this means that getting hit by one directly is straight-up deadly to the average 'ling, and on landing they create a decently sized splat that can also be harmful, though this manuever does of course open their one weakpoint to attack and leaves them struggling to get up.
Primarily, the Octostamps purpose is to act as mobile walls, walking forward and shrugging off the enemies futile attacks on its face and sides as a few(or less depending on individual size) Octolings take cover behind it, but it can also be used as an effective ambush starter in areas with lots of vertical differences.

After all, one of our biggest problems tends to be that we can't reach their snipers because of the lack of cover between us and them, therefor, why not make cover that can move.

[Happerry]

Design : Swizzler (Normal Difficulty)
4+1 = 5: Average

It's an amazing thing, engineering these days. Taking a Splatling and turning it into a charger/blaster hybrid is some doing, but it's a doing the engineers have done proudly. Somehow the spinning gyroscopic force causes the ink to stay together instead of spraying everything as it flies by, and a new and advanced scope means the Octolings using this new weapon can properly employ the range this spinning grants to the utmost. Things aren't all perfect, of course, as the needed winding gives it a noticeable waiting time between shots and the gun has noticeable kickback when fired due to the force of a long ranged shot and all that spinning. Lastly, while the spinning does give it an unusually pretty explosive splash pattern and allow it to sustain bolt coherency farther then any other Octoling weapon, it does cause the bolt to start... well, spinning apart at the far ends of its range, reducing its power from 'splat in one hit' to 'wow that really hurt' and causing a certain wobble in the trajectory which doesn't help accuracy at said far extent of the range. It's also fairly ink efficient at all ranges.

Still, it's a sniping weapon superior (for that purpose) to the Bamboozler Mk.2b and should therefor allow some much needed counter-snipping verses the enemy Markslings.

Costs 4 Plastic and 0 Super Sea Snails, making it Expensive.

Spoiler: Resources (click to show/hide)

Basic Resources
Plastics : 2
Super Sea Snails : 1

Advanced Resources
Zapfish : 2

Spoiler: Octoling 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. Recent advances in Ink Tank pump speed have increased the Bamboozler's charging speed by around 5%, and an additional redesign of the nozzle and front half of the gun has increased ranged by an astonishing 15%.
  Cheap - Cost : 2 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.
• Bamboozler Mk.2b : A reconstructed version of the Bamboozler that replaces the old ink compressor and awkward trigger/plunger set up with an entirely new selection of complicated gearing and valves, using a two tank air/ink pressure system to achieve greater range, charging speed, and ink usage efficiency then the Mk.1 Bamboozler. While originally the Mk.2 was overly complicated to build and maintain, a recent redesign has dramatically simplified and 'cleaned up' the inkarm. While this results in it working a bit better in most ways, most noticeably in Ink Efficiency as it has stopped being a bit leaky, the biggest result to this is that it's far easier to build. Additionally, new generation nozzle compression technology has increased its viable range by an astonishing 15% above and beyond its original specs.
  Expensive -  Cost : 3 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.
• Splatling Cannon : A large crank operated automatic ink cannon. Has short range, extreme weight and size, and equally extreme inkpower. Can be operated at either a low firing speed, which actually has accuracy, or a high firing speed which can suck dry an entire ink tank in under thirty seconds using the higher pump speeds made possible by the Rotodynamic Pump but in return can barely hope to hit the broad side of a barn due to the crank and the pump knocking the weapon around as it fires as well as the increased recoil.
  Expensive - Cost : 3 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.
  
  • Wind-Up Cannon : A modification of the Splatling Cannon by way of the addition of a rubber band winder to the crank. Now can be wound up in advance for at least half a minute of fire where one doesn't need to work the crank, allowing for substantially increased accuracy until the band winder finishes unwinding. After that, users have to go back to working the crank because it takes to long to rewind the winder for the average skirmish.
    Expensive - Cost : +1 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.
• Swizzler : A splatling turned into a charger/blaster hybrid, the Swizzler uses spiralling force to contain its explosive bolt of ink and force it to hold together in its long flight, turning a short ranged assault weapon into a long ranged sniper. It takes substantial wind up between each shot, has enough kickback to bruise an unwary user, and suffers some coherency and accuracy issues at the far end of its range. But it's still strong enough to splat most targets with a single hit, and combined with the attached scope can use its range to the fullest extent. Surprisingly ink efficient, too.
  Expensive -  Cost : 4 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.

Sub Weapon

• Balloon Mine : A large balloon, inflated close to bursting with ink. Being sturdy enough to avoid accidental discharges means it requires some amount of focused firepower to detonate, and it takes around a minute and a full ink tank to deploy in the first place. Covers a large area with friendly ink when it does detonate, however, and has an optional automatic pump to allow for deployment without manual operation.
  Cheap - Cost : 2 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails. When used with the Automatic Pump, gains the Complex tag and therefor becomes Expensive.
• Punt Bomb : A foot sized balloon designed to be kicked at enemies. Has a somewhat weird shape that makes it hard to throw, but easier to kick. Can be filled directly from an ink tank or with a Balloon Bomb pump. It's horizontal range is noticeably superior to its vertical range (well, you can still kick it high, but when you do it's almost impossible to aim), and it has some trouble with windows.
  Cheap - Cost : 1 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.

Specials

• Krakenblade : A average sized blade of raw Ink and Ink Energy, stabilized by an anchoring hilt and internal spine. Takes a moment to form and is only effective at melee range, but does hold the power to splat anything you get a direct hit on. The blades lasts for around fifteen seconds before loosing cohesion, and also allows the user to rechannel the Ink Energy to power a hyperspeed dash forwards three to four yards. This dash can either be done as a blade dash, where the user swings the sword as they dash, striking everything between their starting and stopping point but also burning through the rest of the special's energy. Or it can be utilized as a normal dash that merely uses up most of the energy and allows for up to five seconds of continued use after the dash.
  Expensive - Cost : 0 Plastic, 2 Super Sea Snails.

Ability
No Abilities start out designed.

Personnel

• Octoling Guardsman/Guardswoman : An Octoling member of a volunteer weekend warrior association, where they train in basic military skills and teamwork. The association consistently turns out professionalized militia with consistent if not outstanding fundamental skills as well as a well honed sense of squad wide mutual trust and teamwork. Now have improved physical conditioning from a new exercise program.
• Octoling Elite Agent : An Octoling graduate of the S.T.E.P Up Program, they are harder, faster, better, and even stronger then normal Octoling Guardsmen or Guardswoman. They also come with advanced tactical training, but their primary and greatest advantage is simply that they are all highly physically conditioned and drilled until responses and tactical calls are, if not genius, pretty much instant. The program for training them was suprisingly effective, so instead of being Rare these agents are Uncommon.
• Giant Octoling : A subspecies of Octoling which, as the name suggests, commonly reaches sizes far greater then the average Octoling. Their additional strength and endurance makes them natural heavy weapon experts, but also reduces their speed and makes them easier targets for enemy fire.

Cultural Artifacts

• Octo Valley Radio Network : A popular radio broadcast station in Octo Valley that broadcasts music, news, and humor, as well as speculation. Many though not all octoling soldiers are fans, and listening to its daily broadcasts can put a spring in their step.

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.
  
  • Rotodynamic Ink Pumps : A new rotational pump for the Ink Tank. It's smaller size and more efficient form allows for an increased ink reservoir as well as faster pumping, both for refilling the tank and for output to weapons. The increased tank pumping speed for refills is partially countered by the increased tank size however, and ends up only being somewhat faster.
• Octoling Home Guard Program: A volunteer training organization that meets twice a week to train with weapons and with working together. Beyond the teamwork and unity drills, each meeting addresses a different subject of military life, from weapon certification and recognition to maneuvering in Ink Form to theoretical tactical studies, with specially formatted programs meant to drill the basics into the skulls of civilians. And it works. The Home Guard may not be legends nor cutting edge professionals, but they learn the basic skills they'll need to survive a war. And more importantly, they learn to trust one another. Now has an improved exercise program derived from the S.T.E.P. program's training.
• S.T.E.P Up : The Superior Trained Enlisted Personal initiative is an upgraded training program based on the older weekend warrior program. It scopes the best of the best out of the Home Guard Program and puts them through continual and dedicated training. Afterwards, what returns are Elite Octoling Agents, skilled and drilled to the max. Unexpectedly, they've managed to put many more Octolings through the training program then originally anticipated, and parts of their exercise regime has made it to the Home Guard.
• Society For Prevention of Biased Species Interaction : A group of sign waving fanatics whom are against treating any subspecies of Octoling differently in any way, shape, form, or ink. This represents a noticeable issue with any attempts to train Octolings to use their subspecies specific advantages to their, well, advantage.
• "Born This Way" Initiative : An art, music, and radio based initiative designed to show SFPBSI's repressive and chilling effects on Octoling subspecies. Caused a great reducement of SFPBSI's membership rolls, and also now allows subspecies with proper training and recruitment programs designed to be, well, recruited.

Vehicles

• Sky Breeze Octo-Balloon : A floating one octoling balloon ship, with sails and a small engine to power the propeller. Has a front mounted Splattling that is turned by the engine, allowing continual max speed fire without accuracy issues. Moves decently fast now, and can still be peddled (and go on battery power) for a slower 'sneaky mode', as well as being more resistant to enemy firepower. Can carry either six Punt Bombs or one Balloon Mine as a bomb, though the Balloon Mine is heavy enough to really slow the Sky Breeze down. With a wind in the proper direction, can use sails to increase its speed.
  Very Expensive - Cost : 5 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.

Superweapons

• Typhoon Assault Airship : A giant airship with four giant engines, a nose mounted respawn pad that fires respawned Octolings back to their squad, and a medium load of balloon bombs. Flies far to high to be attacked by any weapon, meaning it's only vulnerable on the ground, when it lands to reload. Or, well, to some crazy Inkling shooting its bombs out of the sky and back into the airship to send it careening down into the ground in a flaming crash, but who'd be crazy enough to do that?
  Needs 2 Zapfish to be deployed.

Heroes

• Dofley, Sketch Artist with a Big Gun : A Giant Octoling, equipped with a custom giant Splattling Cannon, custom giant Ink Tank, custom giant Krakenblade, and a second old style hilt only Krakenblade strapped onto his Spattling Cannon. A well trained wrecking ball of brute force, whom also does scroll art between combat missions as part of a failed PR scheme. Has unusually great control over his own personal Ink Energy, allowing him to use Krakenblades with unusual efficiency and also allowing snap activations or deactivations when needed or desired.

The Revision Phase of Fall, Year 2 has begun.

[Failbird105]

Dofley Blademaster Training
Dofley has managed something special with those Krakenblades of his. His ability to control his own Ink Energy to such a degree makes him the ideal user of these weapons, we simply need to train him better. Our attempt to use him as a way to push past prejudices against training subspecies of Octoling in ways fit to their talents costed him training time and achieved nothing. So we're going to be giving him more training, and true to our ideals, that training will be to emphasize on his own skills and talents. This training will aim to make him a master of the Krakenblade, starting with training to perfect his general swordslingship, then moving onto traits more unique to the Krakenblade itself. Things such as using its intense inkflow to stop enemy projectiles mid-air, possibly even their discs, and the ability to change directions while dashing. Should we still have more time, we will try to achieve one more thing, the ability to dash multiple times before running out of energy, if we can even manage as much as one extra full length dash out of this then it would be a massive boon to Dofleys abilities.
While succeeding at this last aspect would be a tremendous accomplishment, we realize there's only so much that can be done within the amount of time being provided, and there can always be further sessions should we find such a thing to truly be necessary. Simply managing the first two portions of the training will be a success in our books, and should make Dofley all the more terrifying and effective a combatant.

Giant Octoling Specialization Training
Our Giant Octoling soldiers have already proven themselves a great boon to our forces, and have put the specialized training of other sub-species into consideration. However they could certainly be made better. While they've been trained in ways to put the particular talents of their race into use on the battlefield, ways that in particular lend to them being natural heavy weapons specialists. Despite this though, we haven't really given them dedicated training as heavy weapons specialists. So, that's what we're doing here, training them specifically with heavy weapons, maximizing their skill at handling their heft, managing recoil, and so on. Just generally working to make them more skilled with heavy weaponry, which currently just means our splatling(we should really work on getting more of it), over our other equipment.

Auto-Pump Simplification project
This is a fairly simple project. The current auto-pumps that we use for our balloon mines are complex and slow, lacking in efficiency and thus made harder to produce, limiting our ability to make them and limiting the usability of the balloon mines in general. So, for this we want to work on fixing up the Automatic Pumps, simply looking through the design specifications, finding components that are unnecessary and/or inefficient, and removing/replacing them to make the pumps just generally easier to make and capable of faster pumping. If all goes well, we may even be able to apply this to the pumps used by our ink tanks to potentially increase refill speed.

[Failbird105]

Double Ink-Tank
So you know how Dofley has a custom ink tank that's just two normal ink tanks connected to each other? This is effectively just mass producing that. Not exactly of course, specifically the main change we're making is to actually combine them properly into one tank instead of just a pair of tanks with combined systems, thus giving access to the potential ink capacity that would otherwise be wasted. These will be issued to our Giant Octolings primarily, normal Octolings may be able to handle the weight, but they don't really use the sort of weaponry that needs so much ink capacity anyway, while our Giant Octolings mostly use the ink-hungry Splatlings. Obviously we will of course let Dofley have one of these to replace his current one, we'd have to be morons to not keep our heroes equipment up to date.


Frankly, I'm somewhat interested in this one, though I feel like working on Dofleys skills would perhaps be better, give him a better chance against the enemy heroes.

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Double Ink-Tank (1): Failbird

[piratejoe]

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Double Ink-Tank (2): Failbird, Piratejoe73

[Slick]

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Double Ink-Tank (3): Failbird, Piratejoe73, Slick

[KitRougard]

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Double Ink-Tank (4): Failbird, Piratejoe73, Slick, KitRougard

[Happerry]

Revision : Double Ink-Tank (Easy Difficulty)
3+1+1 = 5: Average

When it comes down to it, taking something you already have and making it bigger is not an especially difficult task. While engineers do examine Dofley's twin tanked ink tank, the larger gearing that allows it to function efficiently instead of taking substantially more time refill, as well as adaptions for making sure the ink flow to weapons remains at optimal flow levels, depends on the separate tanks and the resulting twin flows of ink. As such, while still taking what seems useful from the existing larger tank, they go back to the original blueprints and start scaling things up. After the first few errors involving pumps and tubes that are much too large, they come up with a nice new reinforced pump and pneumatic tubing array that allows for Giant Octolings to use a tank twice the size of the ones used by a normal Octoling. Without loosing any major degree in pumping and refilling speed, either! Oh, it does take longer to refill... but only a second or three longer instead of the '50% longer' some original projections suggested would be necessary.

The engineers even managed to keep the plastic use efficient enough that it costs about the same, proportionally, as a normal ink tank. Thus allowing them to be given to every Giant Octoling in service.

Costs 2 Plastic and 0 Super Sea Snails, making it Cheap.

Spoiler: Resources (click to show/hide)

Basic Resources
Plastics : 2
Super Sea Snails : 1

Advanced Resources
Zapfish : 2

Spoiler: Octoling 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. Recent advances in Ink Tank pump speed have increased the Bamboozler's charging speed by around 5%, and an additional redesign of the nozzle and front half of the gun has increased ranged by an astonishing 15%.
  Cheap - Cost : 2 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.
• Bamboozler Mk.2b : A reconstructed version of the Bamboozler that replaces the old ink compressor and awkward trigger/plunger set up with an entirely new selection of complicated gearing and valves, using a two tank air/ink pressure system to achieve greater range, charging speed, and ink usage efficiency then the Mk.1 Bamboozler. While originally the Mk.2 was overly complicated to build and maintain, a recent redesign has dramatically simplified and 'cleaned up' the inkarm. While this results in it working a bit better in most ways, most noticeably in Ink Efficiency as it has stopped being a bit leaky, the biggest result to this is that it's far easier to build. Additionally, new generation nozzle compression technology has increased its viable range by an astonishing 15% above and beyond its original specs.
  Expensive -  Cost : 3 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.
• Splatling Cannon : A large crank operated automatic ink cannon. Has short range, extreme weight and size, and equally extreme inkpower. Can be operated at either a low firing speed, which actually has accuracy, or a high firing speed which can suck dry an entire ink tank in under thirty seconds using the higher pump speeds made possible by the Rotodynamic Pump but in return can barely hope to hit the broad side of a barn due to the crank and the pump knocking the weapon around as it fires as well as the increased recoil.
  Expensive - Cost : 3 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.
  
  • Wind-Up Cannon : A modification of the Splatling Cannon by way of the addition of a rubber band winder to the crank. Now can be wound up in advance for at least half a minute of fire where one doesn't need to work the crank, allowing for substantially increased accuracy until the band winder finishes unwinding. After that, users have to go back to working the crank because it takes to long to rewind the winder for the average skirmish.
    Expensive - Cost : +1 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.
• Swizzler : A splatling turned into a charger/blaster hybrid, the Swizzler uses spiralling force to contain its explosive bolt of ink and force it to hold together in its long flight, turning a short ranged assault weapon into a long ranged sniper. It takes substantial wind up between each shot, has enough kickback to bruise an unwary user, and suffers some coherency and accuracy issues at the far end of its range. But it's still strong enough to splat most targets with a single hit, and combined with the attached scope can use its range to the fullest extent. Surprisingly ink efficient, too.
  Expensive -  Cost : 4 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.

Sub Weapon

• Balloon Mine : A large balloon, inflated close to bursting with ink. Being sturdy enough to avoid accidental discharges means it requires some amount of focused firepower to detonate, and it takes around a minute and a full ink tank to deploy in the first place. Covers a large area with friendly ink when it does detonate, however, and has an optional automatic pump to allow for deployment without manual operation.
  Cheap - Cost : 2 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails. When used with the Automatic Pump, gains the Complex tag and therefor becomes Expensive.
• Punt Bomb : A foot sized balloon designed to be kicked at enemies. Has a somewhat weird shape that makes it hard to throw, but easier to kick. Can be filled directly from an ink tank or with a Balloon Bomb pump. It's horizontal range is noticeably superior to its vertical range (well, you can still kick it high, but when you do it's almost impossible to aim), and it has some trouble with windows.
  Cheap - Cost : 1 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.

Specials

• Krakenblade : A average sized blade of raw Ink and Ink Energy, stabilized by an anchoring hilt and internal spine. Takes a moment to form and is only effective at melee range, but does hold the power to splat anything you get a direct hit on. The blades lasts for around fifteen seconds before loosing cohesion, and also allows the user to rechannel the Ink Energy to power a hyperspeed dash forwards three to four yards. This dash can either be done as a blade dash, where the user swings the sword as they dash, striking everything between their starting and stopping point but also burning through the rest of the special's energy. Or it can be utilized as a normal dash that merely uses up most of the energy and allows for up to five seconds of continued use after the dash.
  Expensive - Cost : 0 Plastic, 2 Super Sea Snails.

Ability
No Abilities start out designed.

Personnel

• Octoling Guardsman/Guardswoman : An Octoling member of a volunteer weekend warrior association, where they train in basic military skills and teamwork. The association consistently turns out professionalized militia with consistent if not outstanding fundamental skills as well as a well honed sense of squad wide mutual trust and teamwork. Now have improved physical conditioning from a new exercise program.
• Octoling Elite Agent : An Octoling graduate of the S.T.E.P Up Program, they are harder, faster, better, and even stronger then normal Octoling Guardsmen or Guardswoman. They also come with advanced tactical training, but their primary and greatest advantage is simply that they are all highly physically conditioned and drilled until responses and tactical calls are, if not genius, pretty much instant. The program for training them was suprisingly effective, so instead of being Rare these agents are Uncommon.
• Giant Octoling : A subspecies of Octoling which, as the name suggests, commonly reaches sizes far greater then the average Octoling. Their additional strength and endurance makes them natural heavy weapon experts, but also reduces their speed and makes them easier targets for enemy fire.

Cultural Artifacts

• Octo Valley Radio Network : A popular radio broadcast station in Octo Valley that broadcasts music, news, and humor, as well as speculation. Many though not all octoling soldiers are fans, and listening to its daily broadcasts can put a spring in their step.

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.
  
  • Rotodynamic Ink Pumps : A new rotational pump for the Ink Tank. It's smaller size and more efficient form allows for an increased ink reservoir as well as faster pumping, both for refilling the tank and for output to weapons. The increased tank pumping speed for refills is partially countered by the increased tank size however, and ends up only being somewhat faster.
• Octoling Home Guard Program: A volunteer training organization that meets twice a week to train with weapons and with working together. Beyond the teamwork and unity drills, each meeting addresses a different subject of military life, from weapon certification and recognition to maneuvering in Ink Form to theoretical tactical studies, with specially formatted programs meant to drill the basics into the skulls of civilians. And it works. The Home Guard may not be legends nor cutting edge professionals, but they learn the basic skills they'll need to survive a war. And more importantly, they learn to trust one another. Now has an improved exercise program derived from the S.T.E.P. program's training.
• S.T.E.P Up : The Superior Trained Enlisted Personal initiative is an upgraded training program based on the older weekend warrior program. It scopes the best of the best out of the Home Guard Program and puts them through continual and dedicated training. Afterwards, what returns are Elite Octoling Agents, skilled and drilled to the max. Unexpectedly, they've managed to put many more Octolings through the training program then originally anticipated, and parts of their exercise regime has made it to the Home Guard.
• Society For Prevention of Biased Species Interaction : A group of sign waving fanatics whom are against treating any subspecies of Octoling differently in any way, shape, form, or ink. This represents a noticeable issue with any attempts to train Octolings to use their subspecies specific advantages to their, well, advantage.
• "Born This Way" Initiative : An art, music, and radio based initiative designed to show SFPBSI's repressive and chilling effects on Octoling subspecies. Caused a great reducement of SFPBSI's membership rolls, and also now allows subspecies with proper training and recruitment programs designed to be, well, recruited.
• Double Ink-Tank : A new, double sized ink tank that acomplishes wonders in increased storage by dint of 'make it bigger'. Holds twice as much ink as a normal tank, while refilling almost as fast and without flow issues to any attached weapons, specials, or sub-weapons, with an integrated Rotodynamic Ink Pump. Unfortunately, they are also far to heavy or bulky for anyone but a Giant Octoling, or any other entity of similar stature, to carry.
  Cheap - Cost : 2 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.

Vehicles

• Sky Breeze Octo-Balloon : A floating one octoling balloon ship, with sails and a small engine to power the propeller. Has a front mounted Splattling that is turned by the engine, allowing continual max speed fire without accuracy issues. Moves decently fast now, and can still be peddled (and go on battery power) for a slower 'sneaky mode', as well as being more resistant to enemy firepower. Can carry either six Punt Bombs or one Balloon Mine as a bomb, though the Balloon Mine is heavy enough to really slow the Sky Breeze down. With a wind in the proper direction, can use sails to increase its speed.
  Very Expensive - Cost : 5 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.

Superweapons

• Typhoon Assault Airship : A giant airship with four giant engines, a nose mounted respawn pad that fires respawned Octolings back to their squad, and a medium load of balloon bombs. Flies far to high to be attacked by any weapon, meaning it's only vulnerable on the ground, when it lands to reload. Or, well, to some crazy Inkling shooting its bombs out of the sky and back into the airship to send it careening down into the ground in a flaming crash, but who'd be crazy enough to do that?
  Needs 2 Zapfish to be deployed.

Heroes

• Dofley, Sketch Artist with a Big Gun : A Giant Octoling, equipped with a custom giant Splattling Cannon, custom giant Ink Tank, custom giant Krakenblade, and a second old style hilt only Krakenblade strapped onto his Spattling Cannon. A well trained wrecking ball of brute force, whom also does scroll art between combat missions as part of a failed PR scheme. Has unusually great control over his own personal Ink Energy, allowing him to use Krakenblades with unusual efficiency and also allowing snap activations or deactivations when needed or desired. Has recently been equipped with a newly developed Double Ink Tank, increasing the amount of Ink he can use in combat.

The Deployment Phase of Fall, Year 2 has begun.
Please vote for which two fronts reinforcements should be actively deployed to in an attempt to push forwards, and where heroes should be sent- Warning, Warning. Anomalous energy signature detected. Scanning... Scanning...

Wild Zap Fish Detected!

Forces may be sent to capture the Wild Zap Fish, adding it to the reserves. Advisory Notice. It is highly likely enemy forces have also made the same detection. Opposition may be encountered in the field.

Sensors now have a lock on the Zap Fish, so if it is not captured this turn, by one side or another, forces can be sent after it next turn.

[Failbird105]

Plan "That's Bait"
Deploy one army to Moray Towers
Deploy Typhoon to Moray Towers
Deploy other army to Calamari Country
Send Dofley to steal enemy Zapfish.


The reasonings behind this plan are thus:
We deploy an army to Moray Towers because that's where we have the biggest advantage, and we can easily push there.
We deploy Typhoon to Moray Towers because with Dofley occupied Typhoon is vulnerable, so we'll send it to the place they'd least expect it to be, under the expectation that they'd send a hero to Calamari Country expecting Typhoon to be unguarded and understanding that CC is the best zone for it of the three options.
We deploy the other army to CC because it's not like there's a reason to stop pushing there.
We send Dofley to steal the enemy Zapfish instead of retrieving the wild one because we expect they'll be more focused on catching the wild one and/or guarding the lanes, and thus the ones they already have will be relatively undefended, thus we both gain a Zapfish, deny them from having 3 Zapfish, and can devote all of our troops to pushing.

The reason we're sending nothing to the Mountain is because if they push Mount Nantai, they wind up in a zone that Typhoon is almost perfect for just completely shit-stomping.

[The Ensorceler]

"That's Bait" (2): Failbird, The Ensorceler

[piratejoe]

"That's Bait" (3): Failbird, The Ensorceler, Piratejoe

[dgr11897]

"That's Bait" (4): Failbird, The Ensorceler, Piratejoe, DGR

[Slick]

"That's Bait" (5): Failbird, The Ensorceler, Piratejoe, DGR, Slick