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[syvarris]

Oh, we're doing RP?  Ehhh...

As the sole military organization at the forefront of ending the Kaiju threat, USSCCI intends to share information and advice on the various weapons systems currently available on the market.

Simply put, infantry and artillery are the most valuable units available.  Infantry, while vulnerable, weak, and slow, are cheap to field, and extremely resilient for their price.  They will not deal substantial damage to Kaiju, but will deal some, and will more importantly serve to attract and distract the creatures.  Artillery, on the other hand, is simply the most cost efficient way to damage the creatures, and can easily be adapted to fire any special munitions we develop.  If kaiju are allowed to approach artillery, there will be substantial losses, but in such a scenario it is unlikely that we will be capable of stopping the creature regardless of what units we field.

Secondary units are tanks, and MRLS vehicles.  Tanks are far more resilient and likely to survive sustained attacks, while contributing a relevant degree of damage.  MRLS, while substantially more expensive than artillery, are more capable of manuever, and less vulnerable to direct attack.  Such vehicles are secondary priorities at best, and are not within our budgets to field in significant numbers.

Most all other units are a waste of time and money.  Technicals are one of the worst offenders, being almost strictly inferior to infantry, along with helicopters of any kind, which are inferior to planes.  Both are cheaper alternatives, but they lose too much capability to justify their cost.  A priority research subject would be to develop an affordable light vehicle of similar mobility and weaponry to the technical, but with some degree of resilience and armor; provided with improved weaponry, this would result in an extremely functional unit.

Additional research subjects of interest are munitions that can be fired from artillery, and lightweight weapons that can be carried by infantry or small vehicles.  Heavier technologies will be substantially more difficult to field expediently, and we really have no information on what types of weaponry will be most effective against kaiju.

As the primary bottleneck to fielding large forces will always be our aeriel lifting capacity, and at this point in time it is difficult to say what research avenues will result in better weaponry, USSCCI is currently focusing on the construction of improved aircraft.  It is our intent that this technology will be shared publically, for the good of mankind.

USSCCI will begin construction of a large lab, so that I can actually follow through on that "research planes" promise.  -.-

Additionally, purchase two artillery units, and a single infantry unit.

For research, reverse engineer artillery, so that they can be constructed within workshops rather than purchased.

[IronyOwl]

"Happy Atrocities Inc. would like to make its appreciation for the bright young minds of tomorrow known. Your selfless pursuit of ruthless biological warfare gives us hope for a brighter future and lucrative research contracts."

Hire Infantry Platoon (-50)
Purchase Modern Tank (-250)
Research improved equipment for harvesting or transporting Kaiju samples (-20, small lab) [Budget Cuts]

[Devastator]

(Mad scientists and kaiju intel to follow tomorrow.)

Spoiler: Egan_BW (click to show/hide)

Emerald Robin:

For the bids, you do not recieve the new scientist, nor do you get the smoke generators,  But you do get the infantry ammunition.

Your laser technical project goes well.  It seems the bed of the technical provides plenty of room for the laser generator, and it isn't too difficult to work out a mount and aiming system.  The project is already completed, and it'll cost 75 bucks to make a new Laser Technical.

Egan_BW
Intel

Base (Greece), 10

Large Hangar, 10
-> Air Transport.  (Large, capacity 2xMedium)

Large Airstrip, 20

Barracks, 10
->Infantry Platoon. 10
Barracks, 10
->Infantry Platoon. 10
Small Lab, 10
Kaiju Lab, 20
Medium Workshop, 20
Intel Hub, 20
Stores, 0

1 Lead Scientist.
1 x Kaiju Skin
1 x Kaiju Muscle
8 x Depleted Uranium rounds for small arms.

Total Upkeep: 150/month.

Money: 129
Funding: 300/month.

Spoiler: Stirk (click to show/hide)

You successfully acquire the second lead scientist.  Construction begins on your large lab and hangar, with the hanger finishing early and the lab just beginning.

Your man-portable nuclear weaponry project begins.  Acquiring the nuclear material is possible, and suprisingly inexpesive, but the council of funding nations demanded the right to observe the process as it continues.. no unauthorized, or should it be said, unexpected nuclear arms.

As for the project, the scientists figure they will complete it in three years.  In general, they figure that the main issue is size.. it's hard to design a nuke to fit into something so small, and a larger delivery system should make it much quicker to develop.

ADD
Business

Base (New Mexico)

Large Hangar, 10
-> Air Transport.  (Large, capacity 2xMedium)
Large Hangar, 10

Large Airstrip, 20

Barracks, 10
->Infantry Platoon, 10
Large Lab, (Under Construction, 3 turns remaining)
Small Lab, 10 (manportable nuclear arms, ~3 years remaining.)
Kaiju Lab, 20
Medium Workshop, 20
Stores, 0
-> Artillery Piece, 10

Total Upkeep: 130/month.

2 x Lead Scientist.
1 x Kaiju Skin
1 x Kaiju Muscle

Money: 80
Funding: 350/month.

Spoiler: Shadowclaw777 (click to show/hide)

Construction begins with no unexpected events.  Your project into portable defensive protection fields begins, and your lead scientist says that although the fields won't be that strong, they should benefit from a similar mechanism to explosive armour, providing a strong burst of protection when necessary, or a much weaker field over a long period of time.  About 3 turns remain, on a design suitable for a small or larger vehicle.

"Coke" Knights
Black Market

Base (Peru)

Large Hangar, 10
-> Air Transport.  (Large, capacity 2xMedium)

Large Airstrip, 20

Barracks, 10
-> Infantry Platoon, 10
Large Lab, (Under Construction, 3 turns remain)
Small Lab, 10 Electromagnetic Force Fields, 3 turns remain.
Kaiju Lab, 20
Medium Workshop, 20
Stores, 0
-> Artillery Piece, 10

Total Upkeep: 120/month.

1 Lead Scientist.
1 x Kaiju Skin
1 x Kaiju Muscle

Money: 30
Funding: 300/month.

Spoiler: Syvarris (click to show/hide)

Construction goes well, and your new units arrive without any issues.  You end up reverse-engineering the artillery, but are slightly annoyed that there are no great manufacturing savings.. they still cost 50.

USSCI
Military

Base (Florida)

Large Hangar, 10
-> Air Transport.  (Large, capacity 2xMedium)

Large Airstrip, 20
Proving Grounds, 20

Barracks, 10
-> Infantry Platoon, 10
Large Lab, (Under Construction, 3 turns.)
Small Lab, 10
Kaiju Lab, 20
Medium Workshop, 20
Stores, 0
-> Artillery piece, 10
-> Artillery piece, 10

Total Upkeep: 150/month.

1 Lead Scientist.
1 x Kaiju Skin
1 x Kaiju Muscle

Money: 17
Funding: 300/month.

Spoiler: Irony Owl (click to show/hide)

Your tank arrives, and you squeeze it into the empty workshop space.  Nothing untoward happens, and you're ready for the kaiju attack.. hopefully.

Happytime Atrocities, Inc.
Political

Base (Hong Kong)

Large Hangar, 10
-> Air Transport.  (Large, capacity 2xMedium)

Large Airstrip, 20

Barracks, 10
-> Infantry Platoon
Small Lab, 10
Kaiju Lab, 20
Medium Workshop, 20
-> Modern Tank, 50
Stores, 0

Total Upkeep: 100/month.

1 Lead Scientist.
1 x Kaiju Skin
1 x Kaiju Muscle

Money: 0
Funding: 300/month.

[Egan_BW]

Nobody wanted that DU ammo? Well, okay, I got them for a 1!
Laser Technicals get! Cost 75, effectiveness untested!

[Devastator]

Spoiler: Naturegirl1999 (click to show/hide)

Your toxin work goes pretty well, as you start with the simple ones, various small organometallics for the fun of it, along with some strong oxygen scavengers.  The result is a pretty potent brew that you think might help get it done, but it is enough?  Those Kaiju are big, and you remember your Paracelsus..

Base Details:

Command Chamber
Mad Science: Biology Lab.
Medium Lab Zone.  Toxins.

Money: 40.
Upkeep: (80/month)
Income: 5/month.

Spoiler: Roboson (click to show/hide)

You submit your bid for the scientist, but are rebuffed.. apparently you were outbid.  How outrageous!  Also, to make matters worse, nobody will sell you an artillery piece on credit.  (You have 40 cash, and artillery pieces cost 50.)

The research does go.. somewhat.. well, though.  Unfortunately all the government money has went for people who have founded organizations, not private mad scientists like yourself, but you do manage to figure out a way to siphon off small amounts of funds via a sort of semi-automated proposal method, that produces funding requests quickly and effectively.  The payout is something, but is it enough?

Building researched: Automated Contract Machine, Cost, 60, increases income 6/month.

Dr. Rob Oson

Base Details:

Command Chamber
Mad Science: Lobbying Firm.
Medium Lab Zone.  Building:  Automated Contract Machine.

Money: 40.
Upkeep: (80/month)
Income: 5/month.

Spoiler: Failbird105 (click to show/hide)

Heinz Doofenshmirtz

Deciding to go with one of the stronger basic ideas of simply sticking them with the hot beamy end, you begin working on a fairly compact, but glorious, Energy Beam!
The result is a good sized cannon with a fairly impressive punch, as it puts a lot of power onto a small target.  Ingenious, if you say so yourself.  But is it strong enough?

Base Details:

Command Chamber
Mad Science: The Un-giant-Inator!
Medium Lab Zone. Energy Blaster! (small)

Money: 40.
Upkeep: (80/month)
Income: 5/month.

Spoiler: Piecewise (click to show/hide)

Dr. Bill Pelican
Origin of funding: Chain of android strip clubs.
Flavor text: A balding man with thick glasses, robot arms, and several restraining orders; Bill Pelican is here for the hedonistic fun of inventing a crotch mounted chainsaw while high on ketamine.

Base details:

Deciding that the best way to destroy something is to begin with the fundamental nature of reality, and realizing that the Kaiju, however strong they are remain poor fleshy creatures, you work on destabilizing the basic components of the body.. Proteins.
At the end of it, you come up with something.. quite good.  You think it'll badly destabilize muscle tissue, and cause serious damage, if it can be delivered properly.  Still, though, is it enough?  It's not liquifying flesh from bones yet.. and Kaiju are quite large..

Command Chamber
Mad Science: Chamber of Random Stabbing
Medium Lab Zone: Prions

Money: 40.
Upkeep: (80/month)
Income: 5/month.

Spoiler: Happerry (click to show/hide)

Lord Silver

Knuckling down, (and activating the Doom Pendulum, for ambience), you begin work on your portable Death Ray Truck.
Unfortunately, you get a little bogged down arranging the spikes on the front end, and gearing the suspension for maximum capability of plowing over fields of corpses, that you don't yet have time to complete the Death Ray portion of the vehicle.  No matter, plenty of time..

Base Details:

Command Chamber
Mad Science: Laboratory of Evil Physics.
Medium Lab Zone: Death Ray Truck. (No Death Ray)

Money: 40.
Upkeep: (80/month)
Income: 5/month.

Spoiler: King Zultan (click to show/hide)

Dr. Unpleasant

Deciding on an end run around the kaiju threat, you work on forumlating some serious hallucinogens.  Maybe if the Kaiju are ten miles high, they won't be so nasty?
Anyway, the next few weeks are a bit muddled, but in the end you have some nasty yellow stuff.  You think it'll have a great effect, but the colour isn't quite right yet.  You think the real good stuff should be blue, not yellow.  Maybe with a bit more work?

Base Details:

Command Chamber
Mad Science: Low quality chemistry lab
Medium Lab Zone: Potent Hallucinogens.

Money: 40.
Upkeep: (80/month)
Income: 5/month.

The next Kaiju is expected to make landfall from a similar location to the last one, albeit on the opposite side of the subcontinent.  Perhaps in Bangladesh or Myanmar.

It's composition is largely unknown, but it is suspected of having powerful special abilities, as it is similar in size and overall power to the smaller of the more recent Kaiju.  It is still enormous, however.

Please list what you are sending, the name of your organization, and any battle tactics you wish to use.  Same if you are doing any actions unrelated to the Kaiju attack.  (eg, mad scientists)

Also note that two small units may fit in a medium space.

[Happerry]

Er, question.

Comparing the original status post for Lord Silver...

Spoiler: Lord Silver (click to show/hide)

Happerry
Origin of funding: Swiss Bank Account.
Flavor text: Once, Lord Silver mustered the forces known as E.vil V.iolent E.xtreme L.ords, or EVIL for short, and sought to threaten the very world itself with destruction if it did not give in. His legion of minions was vast, his death rays powerful, his mutated monsters spread chaos, and his primary evil lieutenant known only as Dr Doom was a major threat to everything peaceful in and of himself. It was not to be. The forces of good and light rallied and snatched victory from the jaws of defeat at the last minute (with only a succession of major earthquakes left behind from the attempt to crack the world in half.) Thus, defeated and even temporarily captured by the forces of good before being broke out, Lord Silver faded into history, his final victory denied.

Base Details:

Command Chamber
Mad Science: Laboratory of Evil Physics.
Medium Lab Zone.

Money: 40.
Upkeep: (80/month)
Income: 5/month.

To the newest one...

Spoiler: Happerry (click to show/hide)

Lord Silver

Knuckling down, (and activating the Doom Pendulum, for ambience), you begin work on your portable Death Ray Truck.
Unfortunately, you get a little bogged down arranging the spikes on the front end, and gearing the suspension for maximum capability of plowing over fields of corpses, that you don't yet have time to complete the Death Ray portion of the vehicle.  No matter, plenty of time..

Base Details:

Command Chamber
Mad Science: Laboratory of Evil Physics.
Medium Lab Zone: Death Ray Truck. (No Death Ray)

Money: 40.
Upkeep: (80/month)
Income: 5/month.

Spoiler: Actual question (click to show/hide)

Is it just me or did my income not give me any money?

[Devastator]

Er, question.

Spoiler: Actual question (click to show/hide)

Is it just me or did my income not give me any money?

That's correct.  Income gives you money every other turn.

[IronyOwl]

Happytime Atrocities Inc. Deployment Report
Air transport carrying our shiny new tank and the infantry platoon.
Tank is to stay mobile and out of the enemy's reach if possible. Battle is expected to be one of attrition, so behave accordingly.
Platoon is there as support staff, not primary combatants. If they think they can do something useful, sure, go for it. Otherwise their job is to assist the tank if necessary and harvest whatever's left after the fact.

[Naturegirl1999]

Private message to ADD
I need to figure out how deadly my toxin is. Below is the experiment I’m performing this month as a start to figuring out the best dosing method. This will not be the only experiment I’m doing, just the first. Maybe eventually I can create proteins that produce this toxin, genes that produce the proteins, creatures that can dig inside Kaiju and release the toxins into their bodies. They can reproduce within the Kaiju until the toxins kill the hosts, then we can collect the parasites in the Kaiju parts, so we can give them more hosts, more Kaiju. But there must always be a first step, the first question is what is the best way to give the toxins? This will influence the traits I will select for in the future Parasite Breeding program.
figure out the median lethal dose (LD50) of my new toxins, on the largest species of animal I can get 300 of. They will be divided into 3 groups of 100. Group A gets 10 mg ingested, group B gets 10 mg inhaled, group C gets 10 mg absorbed through the skin. If no deaths occur within a day, add 10 more mg to each group the same way as before, A always ingesting the toxin, B always inhaling the toxin, C always absorbing the toxin. Continue waiting a day before administering 10 mg. Record the amount of deaths by day and dose for each group. Each group getting a line. Dosage on the y axis, percent dead on the x axis. Continue until 50% of deaths are reached in each of the three groups. Compare LD50 numbers for each group to determine which mode of dosing produced the lowest LD50 and which produced the highest LD50.

Best regards, Ashley Flare

[King Zultan]

Dr. Unpleasant continues to sit in his Abandoned factory super high tech lab, and work on his hallucinogens.
Keep working on the powerful hallucinogens.

[Failbird105]

Okay, solid energy weapon, good base for an inator. But there needs to be more, Heinz Doofenshmirtz don't do 'zap them with a laser'-inators.
Keep the blueprints for later use, but upgrade the current cannon to deconstruct the target into bricks of its component elements.

[Shadowclaw777]

”Coke Knights”:
Air Transport deploys the current Artillery Piece and Infantry Squad, the squad stays near the kaiju’s position to get access to the harvesting of the corpse at the end while blasting it with mortars and recoiled rifles (totally a viable strategy), while the Artilllery Piece maintains radio with the Platoon to continuously bombard the Kaiju from maximum projectile distance.

[Egan_BW]

So it begins.

Deploy the 51801 & 51802 Jeweled Magpies infantry platoons to engage the threat. Equip both with a unit of DU small arms ammo.
51801 and 51802 are to engage the threat aggressively!

Send 1 unit of DU small arms ammo to USSCCI to take advantage of their capability for gaining intel on new arms.
Additionally send 1 unit of DU small arms ammo to any organization deploying infantry in combat in the upcoming fight.

[Naturegirl1999]

”Coke Knights:
Air Transport deploys the current Artillery Piece and Infantry Squad, the squad stays near the kaiju’s position to get access to the harvesting of the corpse at the end, while the Artilllery Piece maintains radio with the Platoon to continuously bombard the end my

Your what?

[Egan_BW]

Dear trusted allies:

We have recently acquired a supply of enhanced, Depleted-Uranium ammunition for small arms for a very reasonable price. Given the upcoming kaiju threat, we'll we willing to share as many rounds as you're willing to fire. Combat effectiveness is untested, of course, but this is a good opportunity to create data. I'm sure that we'll all need as many edges as possible for the fight ahead.

-ER