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[Jerick]

My ideas for upgrades to the Kadesh;

• Switch it to electric. Oil is a valuable resource and it must be conserved where ever possible. Ignore the naysayers who say that electric engines of this time aren't very powerful and that batteries are heavy and don't contain much power they are mistaken and underselling our mighty technology.
• Put a small wind turbine on the front to reclaim energy as it drives forward. With this we can build an electric tank that refills its power stores as it drives forward. Why yes the laws of physics and conversation of energy totally work that way.
• Move the tank's main gun so it's facing backwards. We don't want our tank gunners to be firing through the wind turbine or the tank will run out of power so we've altered the configuration to eliminate this possibility. The tank can only now fire behind it.

[Aigre Excalibur]

What about one of them double sided turrets with two guns inside, with one that fires backwards!

Or a turret on a turret. That way there are more guns and more turrets. (And more moving parts... and crazy interior compartments)

[Thanatos Russ]

What about just keep adding competently made things to the tank?

[Aigre Excalibur]

My ideas for upgrades to the Kadesh;

• Switch it to electric. Oil is a valuable resource and it must be conserved where ever possible. Ignore the naysayers who say that electric engines of this time aren't very powerful and that batteries are heavy and don't contain much power they are mistaken and underselling our mighty technology.
• Put a small wind turbine on the front to reclaim energy as it drives forward. With this we can build an electric tank that refills its power stores as it drives forward. Why yes the laws of physics and conversation of energy totally work that way.
• Move the tank's main gun so it's facing backwards. We don't want our tank gunners to be firing through the wind turbine or the tank will run out of power so we've altered the configuration to eliminate this possibility. The tank can only now fire behind it.

+1 to move this along.

[Jerick]

Well we're actually waiting on BBBence1111 right now. We'll get our first battle report when he's ready and then we'll design things. We don't need to vote on anything currently. Right now I'm just spit-balling ideas rather than posting full blown design writeups.

[VoidSlayer]

I am eager to see how well the glorious Russoland forces do with the excellent equipment we have provided.

[NUKE9.13]

I am eager to see how well the glorious Russoland forces do with the excellent equipment we have provided.

We haven't provided it. We provided equipment to Deutschia, they provided equipment to us. Where us is Russoland.
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You know what I mean. Hopefully.

[BBBence1111]

Update: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=173625.new#new

While the report got to you a little late in the year, the leadership is happy about the war so far. Except the navy. They request that you improve their ships. The rest of the leadership reassures you that you may work on otther things as well, no pressure just yet.

[Thanatos Russ]

We need to improve our navy by giving them trebuchets.

[VoidSlayer]

Clearly we do not need to provide anything to the navy right now, that is just a distraction from the victory at land.

Now the biggest weakness we have is that not everyone has a melee weapon, melee weapons being very important to both jungle and trench warfare.

Therefor I propose this based on the Magistrate Pistol:

Judiciary Type-5 Gunsword

This is a blowback-operated automatic pistol, firing a new 11x26mm centerfire pistol cartridge. It is loaded from a long 30 round single stack magazine for longer engagement times.  It is designed to be fully automatic so that pressing the trigger results in several shots being fired if the finger is not removed fast enough, no fire select mode exists to make it simpler and cheaper to design.  A stainless steel 100cm strait longsword blade is firmly welded to the bottom of the pistol in line with the pistol grip allowing a quick shift from short range firepower to melee combat.  Any imbalance issues with the pistol or sword are made up for with the superior skills of our soldiers.

[Thanatos Russ]

[X] Judiciary Type-5 Gunsword.

[Happerry]

[X] Judiciary Type-5 Gunsword.

[Jerick]

Judiciary Type-5 Gunsword (3): Thanatos Russ, Happerry, Jerick

[VoidSlayer]

As awesome as the gunsword will be in making our soldiers and marines invincible on the battlefield we should think about upgrading our navy as well next turn.

Maybe coal boiler based paddlewheels we can add to the Asennu along with 3 inchs of steel armor.  Cut out some of the 12.5 inch cannons to make room for a middle deck coal bed.  Our ships will be invincible and able to travel long distances even against the wind.