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[Screech9791]

<insert fluff text I can't be bothered to type out here that can just be summed up as "Aliens are attacking the earth, and it's up to us, an underfunded and outgunned group of soldiers, scientists, and engineers, to stop them!">

This will be a simple (in theory) PVE arms race where the player team (the Task Force) has to stop an alien invasion, with humanity's survival on the line. Surely entrusting a bunch of B12 users with no situational awareness will work, right?

The rules are: no knowingly contributing designs/strategies that will cause us to lose missions for stupid reasons, follow all B12 rules, and be intelligent.

Spoiler: Phases (click to show/hide)

This game uses a simple 5 phase turn system. Each turn takes roughly 3 ingame days for reference, and will usually take a few days per phase (but it might be shorter if everyone places their votes early).

Strategy Phase: Get updates on bullshit happening outside of the base, determine where to send interceptors, etc.
Design Phase: Vote to design new equipment to use on the field, such as simple upgrades to existing equipment, to completely new designs. One D6 die will be rolled for the most voted design, which determines quality. Low rolls are likely to have bugs and are questionable in terms of quality, but high rolls will be ayylien-slaying machines of asskicking.
Research Phase: Vote to research various alien artifacts recovered, and new technologies. Each research phase allows people to vote on what they research, and each research phase will reveal a varying amount of information about the research topic, based on a 1d6 roll, with bonuses/disadvantages based on knowledge of any related technology. Items researched will only consume the parts researched when applicable, so keep that in mind.
Engineering phase: Choose what to manufacture, and how much. The main
Tactical Phase: Vote on available operations, and how you'll execute them. Keep in mind that there's only resources for 2 operations per turn, so choose high priority operations. When a phase begins, the results of the previous phase will be revealed.

Spoiler: Starting Equipment (click to show/hide)

Weapons:
-M16: An assault rifle chambered in 5.56x45 NATO rounds. Has 20 round mags and questionable reliability since our suppliers either fail to trust us with actually decent equipment, or just hate us. Acceptable for medium range.
 -Infinite Supply
-M9: A semi automatic pistol chambered in 9x19mm with 15 round mags. Compact, but short range.
 -Infinite Supply

Armor:
-Basic Armor: Surplus armor vests and helmets, worn over surplus camo. It might provide some protection from kinetic attacks, but who knows. Video cameras have been attached to the helmets, for live combat footage.
 -Infinite Supply

Aircraft:
-Condor: A modified F-16, that has been optimized for UFO combat. Various modifications include heat resistant metals being used for plating, larger fuel tanks, and a lighter payload to reduce weight.
 -1 cannon hardpoint, 4 light hardpoints
 -Max 6 (but time consuming to repair if downed)
-Blackhawk: A transport helicopter. Has a decent amount of room.
 -Can carry 8 soldiers and 1 vehicle
 -Max 2 (but time consuming to repair if downed)

Aircraft Weapons:
-Autocannon: A modified Vulcan 20mm autocannon that's used on our interceptors. It has enough ammo for 300 shots, and shoots quite fast, but it hasn't been tested for anti-UFO usage.
 -Infinite Supply
-Sidewinder Missiles: Light air to air missiles. One per hardpoint.
 -Infinite Supply

It is currently the Strategy Phase.

Known UFO locations:
UFO-001: Above USA, very small, no escorts
UFO-002: Above Europe, small, no escorts

[The Canadian kitten]

PTW

[Glass]

VIGILO CONFIDO!

[King Zultan]

PTW

[Screech9791]

well shit i just realized I posted an unfinished OP, please re-read the first post

[King Zultan]

I say we go after UFO-001: Above USA, very small, no escorts.

[Kashyyk]

We apparently have six interceptors, so I suggest three at each. Should be a good judge of the difference in risk between Small and Very Small UFOs

[King Zultan]

We apparently have six interceptors, so I suggest three at each. Should be a good judge of the difference in risk between Small and Very Small UFOs

+1 Testing the waters is probably a better idea than just going after just one.

[The Canadian kitten]

We apparently have six interceptors, so I suggest three at each. Should be a good judge of the difference in risk between Small and Very Small UFOs

+1 Testing the waters is probably a better idea than just going after just one.

+1

[Screech9791]

After you prepare your interceptors for air combat, you send the first squadron (Condor-001, Condor-002, and Condor-003) after UFO-001, with 3 Condors returning (one being badly damaged with a wing nearly melted and the other being lightly damaged from burns) with the UFO crashing in a farm, and the second squadron (Condor-004, Condor-005, and Condor-006) gets sent after the small UFO, and only two make it back without getting destroyed, both considerably damaged, and the small UFO crashes inside a small town.

It is now the research phase. Find something to research. Perhaps you might want to look into half decent ground equipment designs, or maybe something else?

Spoiler: Designs (click to show/hide)

Weapons:
-M16: An assault rifle chambered in 5.56x45 NATO rounds. Has 20 round mags and questionable reliability since our suppliers either fail to trust us with actually decent equipment, or just hate us. Acceptable for medium range.
 -Infinite Supply
-M9: A semi automatic pistol chambered in 9x19mm with 15 round mags. Compact, but short range.
 -Infinite Supply

Armor:
-Basic Armor: Surplus armor vests and helmets, worn over surplus camo. It might provide some protection from kinetic attacks, but who knows. Video cameras have been attached to the helmets, for live combat footage.
 -Infinite Supply

Aircraft:
-Condor: A modified F-16, that has been optimized for UFO combat. Various modifications include heat resistant metals being used for plating, larger fuel tanks, and a lighter payload to reduce weight.
 -1 cannon hardpoint, 4 light hardpoints
 -Max 6 (but time consuming to repair if downed)
-Blackhawk: A transport helicopter. Has a decent amount of room.
 -Can carry 8 soldiers and 1 vehicle
 -Max 2 (but time consuming to repair if downed)

Aircraft Weapons:
-Autocannon: A modified Vulcan 20mm autocannon that's used on our interceptors. It has enough ammo for 300 shots, and shoots quite fast, but it hasn't been tested for anti-UFO usage.
 -Infinite Supply
-Sidewinder Missiles: Light air to air missiles. One per hardpoint.
 -Infinite Supply

Spoiler: Storage (click to show/hide)

There's nothing that you need to worry about currently. Food, ammunition, fuel, basic supplies, etc. are all things donated to us by our suppliers. When we manufacture stuff, or recover alien tech from the field, this spoiler will have actual content.

Spoiler: Hangar (click to show/hide)

Condor-001: Available | Loadout: 1x Autocannon, 4x Sidewinder Missiles
Condor-002: Repairing (1 turn) | Loadout: 1x Autocannon, 4x Sidewinder Missiles
Condor-003: Repairing (1 turn) | Loadout: 1x Autocannon, 4x Sidewinder Missiles
Condor-004: Repairing (1 turn) | Loadout: 1x Autocannon, 4x Sidewinder Missiles
Condor-005: Retrieving (2 turns) | Loadout: 1x Autocannon, 4x Sidewinder Missiles
Condor-006: Repairing (1 turn) | Loadout: 1x Autocannon, 4x Sidewinder Missiles

Blackhawk-001: Available
Blackhawk-001: Available

Spoiler: Operation Sites (click to show/hide)

USA:
 -Crashsite-001: 1 crashed light scout, farmland, expires in 2 turns, minimal estimated hostile count
Europe:
 -Crashsite-002: 1 crashed scout, farmland, expires in 2 turns, low estimated hostile count

[UristMcRiley]

Design:
While Black Hawks are a fantastic troop transport for the role they are designed they carry few personnel and are frankly a bit expensive to simply ferry soldiers, scientists, and engineers to small crashed vessels which may or may not even have any resistance. Thus i suggest purchasing some used Buses off the internet for continental operations they can carry more men travel more inconspicuously and we can pretty easily make them modular by removing rows of seats install a pen for alien containment or a couple of sealed tubs for transporting artifacts and scraps of machinery simple solution for complicated problems.

[Screech9791]

-snip-

The dropships (like the Blackhawk) are meant for troop transportation. We recover loot and everything alien that's bolted down/not bolted down via salvage teams that arrive when the AO is clear, so our scientists and engineers can interact with the ayylien shit back at base.

[UristMcRiley]

Yeah but if the operatives can throw the shit in the back certainly doesnt hurt to save on the budget. Also I just like the image of highly trained and equipped operators with a captive alien stuck in downtown traffic in a school bus.

[The Canadian kitten]

-Blackhawk: A transport helicopter. Has a decent amount of room.
 -Can carry 8 soldiers and 1 vehicle
 -Max 2 (but time consuming to repair if downed)

Maybe we can put the bus on the helicopter to add extra troop space?

[Shadowclaw777]

Gladiator: Since we have vehicle transport space on our Black Hawks we should probably use them up, the Gladiator is a unmanned ground vehicle that is remotely operated from some operator back in base with radio waves, or one of our soldiers can personally take control of it for more precise usage on the field. Equipped with a .50 cal machine gun on the top and a 360 degree camera for our operators, armored composite plating to shape its body where it holds vital wiring and you have a form of mobile Armor platform that can be delivered through a transport aircraft.

Based on this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiator_Tactical_Unmanned_Ground_Vehicle