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[IronyOwl]

Why don't we revise the gun, so we have a harder hitting marksman rifle variant? Should be well within our capabilities, and we might as well see about getting an extra "class" of weaponry started while we don't have seventeen designs to fix.

A major feature of the gun is that it's crudely semiautomatic. I think we'd want an entirely new design for marksman rifles.

Mm, revising ammo gives us something we can use with all our guns, though.

Assuming we want to use revolver ammo for all our designs, yes.

[Maxim_inc]

As for ammo, well, it's a Jakobs so I'm not sold on elementals.

What?

[Man of Paper]

It's a Borderlands joke. It's ok, I got it.

[m1895]

Modèle 1912 "Spitfire" Automatic Rifle
With Monsieur Gryf busy overseeing the scaling up of his rifle's production, one of the other contestants was licensed to make a specialized variant of it.
The most obvious difference is the full length tube magazine, giving the Spitfire an impressive 15+2 rounds it can fire before needing to reload. The spitfire also has a rapid firemode, continuously firing as long as the trigger is held, thus bringing a fraction of the machine gun's potential on the move, in this age of daring maneuver, such a boon is worth its weight in gold, and the house-clearing potential is unmatched. Of course this has its costs, we've had to reinforce the gun to keep up with the rigors of automatic fire, though thankfully the light cartridge has kept this down to a reasonable level. Further, the sheer rate of fire required the development of specialized tube loaders to keep the soldier from spending most of their time reloading, and the long magazine interferes with the bayonet, preventing it from being affixed. This all makes the Spitfire the armament of squad weapon specialists and specialist squads.

[Maxim_inc]

Modèle 1912 "Spitfire" Automatic Rifle
With Monsieur Gryf busy overseeing the scaling up of his rifle's production, one of the other contestants was licensed to make a specialized variant of it.
The most obvious difference is the full length tube magazine, giving the Spitfire an impressive 15+2 rounds it can fire before needing to reload. The spitfire also has a rapid firemode, continuously firing as long as the trigger is held, thus bringing a fraction of the machine gun's potential on the move, in this age of daring maneuver, such a boon is worth its weight in gold, and the house-clearing potential is unmatched. Of course this has its costs, we've had to reinforce the gun to keep up with the rigors of automatic fire, though thankfully the light cartridge has kept this down to a reasonable level. Further, the sheer rate of fire required the development of specialized tube loaders to keep the soldier from spending most of their time reloading, and the long magazine interferes with the bayonet, preventing it from being affixed. This all makes the Spitfire the armament of squad weapon specialists and specialist squads.

I like it though I question the use of french terms when Gryf is a Polish name and Polish seems to be the theme so far.

[m1895]

Two reasons, the company I made for the design phase is semi-canon, alongside the rifle submissions. This cements that. Old school kingdoms of this type also tend to be notably multinational in character, so multiple languages isn't eye raising.

[FallacyofUrist]

I like it though I question the use of french terms when Gryf is a Polish name and Polish seems to be the theme so far.

I don't really think one design gets to set the theme for the entire game.

In-world, though, of course our kingdom has a wide variety of citizens - our King invites the very best to join us, no matter their origin!

(Unless of course they're Northern bureaucrats)

[m1895]

2 - 'Redbird' Rounds - IronyOwl, Fallacy
5 - Pęknięcie Ammunition - Maxim, TricMagic, force200, TCK, UristMcRiley
1 - Royal Sidearm "Ostrze Wojenne" - Kashyyk
0 - Anthrax Ammunition -
0 - Spiczasty Bullets -
1 - Mle 1912 "Spitfire" Automatic Rifle - m1895

[Thanatos Russ]

2 - 'Redbird' Rounds - IronyOwl, Fallacy
6 - Pęknięcie Ammunition - Maxim, TricMagic, force200, ThanatosRuss,TCK, UristMcRiley
1 - Royal Sidearm "Ostrze Wojenne" - Kashyyk
0 - Anthrax Ammunition -
0 - Spiczasty Bullets -
1 - Mle 1912 "Spitfire" Automatic Rifle - m1895

[Maxim_inc]

Well this seems pretty clear.

[IronyOwl]

Now we're just waiting on those pen-pushers to finish pushing their pens. Into an early grave, because they're going to be torn apart by semi-semi-automatic exploding bullets soon.

[Maxim_inc]

Now we're just waiting on those pen-pushers to finish pushing their pens. Into an early grave, because they're going to be torn apart by semi-semi-automatic exploding bullets soon.

Well they're certain active judging by their post rate increasing so hopefully they've reached their own voting consensus.

[Man of Paper]

Preliminary Turn 1 Revision Phase

Proposal: Pęknięcie Ammunition
Difficulty: Very Hard
Result: (3+2)-2=3, Buggy Mess

Pęknięcie Ammunition uses copper-jacketed spitzer shaped bullets to deliver a small payload of mercury fulminate to targets. The internal workings of the rounds are very clever, with tip of the bullet housing a spring that uses the rod's forward momentum to propel it backward into the explosive when the round strikes the target. The fulminated mercury charge is large enough to fragment the bullet's jacket, causing some damage from the explosion itself with the majority of post-impact injury resulting from shrapnel, and minimal (but not zero) risk of collateral damage. There is a brief delay between impact and detonation, allowing the round to penetrate targets briefly to maximize damage from the explosion.

Unfortunately, Pęknięcie Ammunition is very complicated to produce. The detonator rod tension springs need to be calibrated perfectly in order to keep the rods in position and the mercury fulminate unexploded until the desired time. In conjunction with the abundance of caution required when working with mercury fulminate, production of Pęknięcie Ammunition is almost too intensive both financially and in man-hours to provide at a level the Royal Army could appreciate at this point.

While otherwise perfectly fine and surprisingly stable, Pęknięcie Ammunition is currently so difficult to produce in large numbers that it will be a National Effort until the bullet is modified or industry augmented. This means a single soldier will be equipped with the exploding bullets for now.

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It is now the Strategy Phase. In this phase you will be voting for two lanes (West, Center, East) to attack along. You will also choose which lanes to deploy your various National Efforts. While control of territory won't be changing in the Preliminary Turns, for practice and consistency (especially since you have a National Effort to practice with potentially for the only time in the prelims) I've decided that we will be voting strategies.

This means that, when you break it down, you have THREE votes right now:

Two for lanes to attack.
One for lane to deploy Pęknięcie Ammunition.

You cannot vote to attack the same lane twice.

Spoiler: Armory (click to show/hide)

Arms and Equipment
Gryf's Szybki Rifle: A self-loading 105cm long, 3.3kg rifle firing 9.5x35mmR rounds from a tube magazine with a 10+1 capacity. Captured gas is used to cycle the weapon, and the system can be disconnected in the event of a malfunction to allow manual bolt action operation. Tangent sights match the rifle's 600m effective range, and mild recoil provides an improved ability to maintain accuracy with a higher rate of fire. Comes with a 50cm bayonet. Cheap
Pęknięcie Ammunition: Spitzer-shaped bullets with copper jackets that carry a small payload of mercury fulminate. Tip of the bullet houses a spring and rod assembly that that strikes the fulminate to detonate it. Rounds detonate shortly after striking targets, causing some explosive damage, fragmentation of the copper jacket, and a slight chance of collateral injuries. Some might say slightly over-engineered. National Effort

Spoiler: Territories (click to show/hide)

Capital
Kingdom of The Southern Star: 2/0

Western Lane
Southern Star Mountains: 2/0
Southern Plain: 3/0
NO MAN'S LAND: NEUTRAL
Northern Plain: 0/3
Administrative Forest: 0/2

Central Lane
Southern Star Mountains: 2/0
Southern Plain: 3/0
NO MAN'S LAND: NEUTRAL
Northern Plain: 0/3
Administrative Forest: 0/2

Eastern Lane
Southern Star Mountains: 2/0
Southern Plain: 3/0
NO MAN'S LAND: NEUTRAL
Northern Plain: 0/3
Administrative Forest: 0/2

Capital
Northern States Administration: 0/2

Spoiler: Map (click to show/hide)

TURNTURNTURN

[Maxim_inc]

I don't know where the spring came from but okay, it was always meant to be a friction fit where the impact drove the rod backwards. I guess if we really wanted to we could revise it to be part of the jacket itself so there's no way for it to be complex.

Anyways I'm thinking East and West Plains, and deploy the PA to an elite marksman in the East to target enemy officers of high caliber.

[IronyOwl]

Okay well that one soldier is still gonna be pretty terrifying!

Attack
0 - East
1 - Middle - IronyOwl
1 - West - IronyOwl

Deploy Pęknięcie
0 - East
0 - Middle
1 - West - IronyOwl