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Author Topic: Refit and Repair 2. Veenland, Spring, 1896, Revision&Refit Phase.  (Read 18653 times)

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Re: Refit and Repair 2. Veenland, Autumn, 1895, Design Phase.
« Reply #150 on: November 18, 2021, 04:38:15 pm »

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Re: Refit and Repair 2. Veenland, Autumn, 1895, Design Phase.
« Reply #151 on: November 18, 2021, 04:41:49 pm »

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Re: Refit and Repair 2. Veenland, Autumn, 1895, Design Phase.
« Reply #152 on: November 19, 2021, 08:52:54 am »

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Re: Refit and Repair 2. Veenland, Autumn, 1895, Design Phase.
« Reply #153 on: November 21, 2021, 04:36:01 pm »

Autumn, 1895, Design Phase.
Quote from: Compromis Halverwege Zwaar Artillerieproject.
With the success of the light gun program the heavy gun project aims to to develop new 8", 10", 11.5" guns built from the ground up to utilize the Draadkruit smokeless powder.

      The new guns will be of a wire-wound gun design while also utilizing autofrettage developed from our light gun project to achieve guns that are exceptionally light for their size. Similar to the light guns these guns will also use vertical sliding block breaches,with the propellant consisting of a “main charge” in a brass casing, and a silk-bag “fore charge” to keep the brass case size down to something sane and reasonable.

     Additionally the project will also look into developing improved power rammers and replaceable liners.


M1895 8"/45
M1895 10"/45
M1895 11.5"/45
Time: 1 | Progress: 4 | Expense: 2

Work on the creation of a 8, 10, and oddly an 11 and a half inch gun is underway, though the workers set upon the project expect it to take some time and to cost a fair bit. Despite this, they believe they have done almost a quarter of the work necessary to get the guns up and running for our ships. And despite the costs, provided a decent amount of funding is sent to the workers experimenting on the various gun designs, the guns should be capable

Compromis Halverwege Zwaar Artillerieproject | 4/20 | 3 PP per die | Rushed 0 times | 3 PP invested

Effectiveness: 6 | Cost: 5 | Bugs: 5

Despite the costs of the project the results from early testing appear to be well worth it. The guns are shockingly cheap for their size (something that honestly is a surprise for anything out of the Veenlandish navy that's good at this point), accurate, long range, reliable, and hard hitting. Naturally, the guns are likely to be the envy of all other navies in the world once on a battleship, provided the rest of the world doesn't catch up in a year or two... Still, they are solid guns, with the 11.5 inch gun capable of a range of 25K yards, though it's effective range is about half that. Other than this, it should also be noted that the loading time on the guns is decent too, arguably slightly faster than normal, though this is most noticeable on the 8 inch guns, which can be loaded a whole two and a half seconds faster than our old 8 inchers. Though on the larger guns this time is a bit slower. Regardless, to top it all off, the guns are capable of going without maintenance or replacement for quite some time, provided they aren't subject to a high explosive or armor pricing ordinance hitting it directly...Regardless, it is clear the great thinkers of Veenland have greatly aided the workers in their struggle, and the Navy thanks them. Let's just hope they finish faster than expected...



It is now the Revision and Refit phase of Autumn, 1895. You have 3 dice remaining to spend on Revisions and Refits, or save for next turn.

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Re: Refit and Repair 2. Veenland, Autumn, 1895, Revision & Refit Phase.
« Reply #154 on: November 21, 2021, 05:56:42 pm »

Quote from: Joint Machine-Gun Procurement
The idea is simple: the Navy doesn’t have any machine guns in inventory, the Army probably doesn’t have them in great supply at the moment either. Thus, we should work with the Army to conduct trials, purchase a batch of guns from overseas, and try to secure license production for domestic production.

Main candidates for license production at the moment are the American M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun and the Maxim. The British are relatively unlikely to sell to us considering our relations, but it’s worth a try. Reach out to the Germans to see if they’re willing to make a deal under the table if the Brits say no.
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Re: Refit and Repair 2. Veenland, Autumn, 1895, Revision & Refit Phase.
« Reply #155 on: November 21, 2021, 08:15:18 pm »

 The other three proposed revisions that we can actually do at this point in time, and aren't planned revisions for projects we haven't even started yet

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    The Zeeslang Mk3 has two goals; to further increase the range and speed of the torpedo and to improve the exploder mechanism of the torpedo, reducing duds. Most of these improvements take the form simply of optimizations to their current designs based on wartime experience with the weapons, taking input from the users and manufacturers of the weapons to better serve the Unions.
    Any additional time possessed is to be utilized in developing improved launchers, including multi-tube launchers, that could be fitted to existing vessels.
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Continued work on our 2-6" QF guns, with improved liners to ease refit time and costs, incremental improvements to production and general form based on experience in manufacture and use of the guns, and new shell types including: Ballistic Capped armor-piercing rounds, smoke rounds, parachute flares, shrapnel shells, improved high explosive fillers for AP and HE shells(i.e., TNT, Amatol, or similar compounds)
Quote from: Draadkruit Productieverbeteringsprogramma
    The Chemical Workers Union has had issues of late with the formulation and manufacture of Draadkruit propellants. However, with experience in its manufacture, storage and use, along with increased ability to replace outdated equipment, most of these problems should be fairly simple to correct. Thus, the Draadkruit Production Improvement Project, aiming to rectify these problems via, well, doing a bit more work on the process at hand.
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Re: Refit and Repair 2. Veenland, Autumn, 1895, Revision & Refit Phase.
« Reply #156 on: November 25, 2021, 06:39:58 am »

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Re: Refit and Repair 2. Veenland, Autumn, 1895, Revision & Refit Phase.
« Reply #157 on: November 25, 2021, 02:17:25 pm »

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Draadkruit Productieverbeteringsprogramma(2): khang36, Vostok
Joint Machine-Gun Procurement(2): Khang36, Vostok
QF continuation(2): Khang36


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Re: Refit and Repair 2. Veenland, Autumn, 1895, Revision & Refit Phase.
« Reply #158 on: November 25, 2021, 02:28:15 pm »

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Draadkruit Productieverbeteringsprogramma(3): khang36, Vostok, AseaHeru
Joint Machine-Gun Procurement(3): Khang36, Vostok, AseaHeru
QF continuation(2): Khang36
Zeeslang Mk3 Torpedo Revision(1): AseaHeru


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Re: Refit and Repair 2. Veenland, Autumn, 1895, Revision & Refit Phase.
« Reply #159 on: November 25, 2021, 03:50:40 pm »

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Draadkruit Productieverbeteringsprogramma(3): khang36, Vostok, AseaHeru
Joint Machine-Gun Procurement(3): Khang36, Vostok, AseaHeru
QF continuation(2): Khang36, Vostok
Zeeslang Mk3 Torpedo Revision(1): AseaHeru


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Re: Refit and Repair 2. Veenland, Autumn, 1895, Revision & Refit Phase.
« Reply #160 on: November 28, 2021, 09:39:50 am »

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Draadkruit Productieverbeteringsprogramma(4): khang36, Vostok, AseaHeru, NUKE9.13
Joint Machine-Gun Procurement(4): Khang36, Vostok, AseaHeru, NUKE9.13
QF continuation(2): Khang36, Vostok
Zeeslang Mk3 Torpedo Revision(1): AseaHeru


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Re: Refit and Repair 2. Veenland, Autumn, 1895, Design Phase.
« Reply #161 on: November 29, 2021, 12:43:38 am »

Autumn, 1895, Revision & Refit Phase.

Quote from: QF continuation
Continued work on our 2-6" QF guns, with improved liners to ease refit time and costs, incremental improvements to production and general form based on experience in manufacture and use of the guns, and new shell types including: Ballistic Capped armor-piercing rounds, smoke rounds, parachute flares, shrapnel shells, improved high explosive fillers for AP and HE shells(i.e., TNT, Amatol, or similar compounds)

Effectiveness: 6

Work on creating better versions of our current quickfire guns, mainly through simplification of the manufacture process alongside the addition of work upon various useful rounds has gone quite well. The rounds include a AP shell with a improved cap, smoke rounds, parachute flares, HE, and a shrapnel shell as most call it. The latter is fairly obviously not really used much for our main armament. Though there is always the chance we'll get the perfect time to use them against enemy land forces that aren't entrenched and in the open. A few gunners have suggested shooting it at the decks of enemy ships and calling them 'splinter shells' instead though. We aren't sure if they are joking or not though...

Quote from: Draadkruit Productieverbeteringsprogramma
    The Chemical Workers Union has had issues of late with the formulation and manufacture of Draadkruit propellants. However, with experience in its manufacture, storage and use, along with increased ability to replace outdated equipment, most of these problems should be fairly simple to correct. Thus, the Draadkruit Production Improvement Project, aiming to rectify these problems via, well, doing a bit more work on the process at hand.

Effectiveness: 4

With a bit more familiarity, and update to the equipment, partially as a result of the fact that the workers demanded that the highly explosive compound they were working with was actually safe to work with and not likely to have the rare industrial accident, along with the obvious cost of repairing things from said accidents meant that the union wasn't exactly slow to enact things to better produce the material. Mainly, a bit of the volatile nature of the substance has been cut back, and the thing is a bit easier to produce. Still not to the level our old powder was at, but that's made up for the fact of it's quality, and it's not that much less.

Quote from: Joint Machine-Gun Procurement
The idea is simple: the Navy doesn’t have any machine guns in inventory, the Army probably doesn’t have them in great supply at the moment either. Thus, we should work with the Army to conduct trials, purchase a batch of guns from overseas, and try to secure license production for domestic production.

Main candidates for license production at the moment are the American M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun and the Maxim. The British are relatively unlikely to sell to us considering our relations, but it’s worth a try. Reach out to the Germans to see if they’re willing to make a deal under the table if the Brits say no.

Effectiveness: 6

While we offered aid to the Army to get a machinegun, they actually accepted quite eagerly as they didn't really have one. When we were attempting to initially get the Maxim though, the Army decided to be stubborn. Despite this though, this stubbornness payed off, a they, with some of our help, were able to get their hands on a few documents and from there a few of our and the army's engineers worked away on creating a machinegun of our own, made by the working class! The results were fantastic! A heavy machinegun, water-cooled, and capable of about half a thousand rounds a minute, with proper rifle caliber bullets, and it's capable of being accurate at a long range too, well provided you aim it and don't just spray and pray. Most people call it the Stoommachine due to the noise it makes being vaguely similar to a locomotive alongside the fact it's water cooled and can produce steam when fired for long enough. Regardless, the British have the Maxim, and we do not. But the Maxim is poor, and we can go without.



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Re: Refit and Repair 2. Veenland, Autumn, 1895, Production&Strategy Phase.
« Reply #162 on: November 29, 2021, 09:54:32 pm »

posting some war plans

group a: Zeerover*, Pirat Avonturier
group b: Geest*,Zwerver,
group c: Lourens van Vilet*, The Union, Herman Van Veen
group d:Reinout van Diermen*, Eldert Schimmelpennink

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continue what we were doing last turn, all groups will be based at SaarBaai to continue our attack there the CDS groups will be tasked with controling the sea around area and providing coastal bombardment in support of the army's advance with group c focusing Traste and Casadine and group d focusing on Zamoviedo and Catalejos. groups a and b will be task with screening our cds and intercepting any transport ships attempting to send supplies to the magna forces, group a support group d and group b will support group c. If the army has everything under control at Traste we will commence landing at Catalejos to secure total control of the main island.
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The navy will head over to center to relieve our beleaguered forces on the island, all ships will be stationed at Donkerwoude. If the Magana navy continues to focuse their attention in the area all groups will remain in harbor during the day and sail out and hour before dusk to attack the Magna battleships engaged in coastal bombardment from the east where they will be silhouetted by the setting sun once nightfall our ships can use flares to continue illuminating the enemy ships to continue the attack.

If there are no battle ships present, groups a and d will be tasked patrolling the blue corridor and protecting our transport ships sending supplies to the army. Group C will be tasked with providing coastal bombardment to support the army with group B screening for the CDS.
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« Reply #163 on: November 30, 2021, 03:17:33 pm »

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« Reply #164 on: November 30, 2021, 04:59:29 pm »

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