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[EagleV]

(Heh. I just realized this one thread already caused 2 other games.)

Edit to previous edit: more time than I would have thought. It's alive!

Behold, for it is the new scrap system! To gice it a start, everyone will get 80% of his scrap as scrappy and 20% as nice.

Blueprints and construction plans are shared (right?), so the complete list is added in a seperate spoiler.

Furthermore, I increased plot digging speed.

Also...

farm plots, planted a day apart

It took me 5 minutes to figure out you didn't want them planted a days' travel apart.

Spoiler: inteuniso (click to show/hide)

Survivors of Mossena Arcade

The rifles are indeed bolt-action.

The recruits quickly adapt to the idea of soldiering, and the physical and shooting exercises from yesterday are repeated by noon. Most of them proceed to train tactics, while the two best shooters stay at the field to practice shooting cans with their rifles. Like yesterday, the training goes well, and your squad knows the basics of firefights now. (1d100 = 73)

The medic continues his training, though apparently the professors just try too hard - the poor nurse can't handle the amount of scientific information, and goes to bed utterly confused. (1d100 = 16)

The traders depart, and although the rifles stay with the recruits, the bring the coilguns and the pistols. They spend the day tearing down every single bit of the station, including the wires leading to the farm - though they dare not touch the wires coming from the south. The building itself is concrete, though inside is a lot of metal, and when they ram a door with a rusted lock they find the control room! A whole bunch of scrap (24) is tied to the trike, and some of the traders carry a total of 9 electric components with them. (2d100 = 68,92)

The pump works like it was supposed to from the beginning. What's more, they use only basic metal. The welding classes of one of them finally pay off. (1d100 = 75)

Finally, the meat gets cooked. The sheer size means the cooks need a full day, and soon the smell of 64 pieces of roasted meat fills the bunker. You knew food had an impact on morale, but even the sheer smell of it makes all your people look forward to the delicious meat, instead of the generic liquid foodstuff. (Good Morale gives you +1 to all rolls next turn) (1d100 = 84)

Your crafters must have a specialization in kickass. Or that welder guy is on a killing spree. Either way, a bit before bedtime your crafters amuse themselves joyriding in the cart behind the trike. It runs perfectly smooth, and only the frame is metal - the rerst is made from wood, straight out of the forest. (1d100 = 98)

The miners dig on. And on. And on. They seem inexhaustible, and by the end of the day the room is finished - along with a nice fresh supply of ore. (5d100 =88,39,59,91,67)

The corn is a little less than halfway.

Status:
2320 water
2480 food
33 scrappy scrap
16 nice scrap
Good Morale

Available troops:
47 miners + 3 LW + 5 HW (4 †)
20 scientists
15 crafters
11 traders + 1 HW

5 privates
2 pvt. 1st class
1 sergeant

96 total

Items:
10 space suits
1 Old, Rusty Jetpack. What in Hell².
1 Meteorite. What in Hell (tm)
1 Plastics Fabricator

Weapons:
4 Coil Hunting Rifles
34 Coil Shells
4 Semi-auto 'Mossena' pistols
2 Bolt-action 'Mossena' rifles
25 Mossena Cartridges, 8 shots each

Resources:
1 Fist-sized Ruby. What in Hell.
3 small rubies.
1 Wolf corpse, cut open
11 pieces of Iron
7 pieces of Aluminium

Vehicles:
2-seater Trike
 - Cart

Outside Buildings:
Trade Depot, space for vehicle, pulley system.
3 x 3 plot
Underground river

Farming:
9 corn plots (3) (o)

Spoiler: x2yzh9 (click to show/hide)

Populus of Palus

The scientists don't really know where to start, it's not like stem cells is an everyday research subject after all. However, they research the cells of the strawberry plants, especially in relation to the mineral food, and design a kind of food that will boost growth. They'll need several chemical components for that though, something they lack now. (4d100 = 53,96,54,54)

Your miners suck. That, or digging in the loose loam ground from the surface was not a good idea. The whole thing collapses before they even get a decent shaft dug. (5d100 =
8,13,14,10,32)

Status:
2580 water
2200 food
41 scrap

Available troops:
54 miners + 1 HW
19 scientists + 1 HW
13 crafters + 1 MW
10 traders

100 total

Items:
10 space suits
1 Message-sending radar

Weapons:
1 Rail Turret, uses PoPDarts
100 PoPDarts

Resources:
13 Pieces of Iron
8 Pieces of Tin
3 Pieces of Platinum
Hazelnuts, for 8 plots

Vehicles:

Outside Buildings:
Rail Turret Emplacement, needs 1 crew on the spot to operate.
2 x 2 farm plot
Pipe to near SMA bunker, hooked up to water supply.

Farming:
5 strawberry plots (3) (i)
2 hazelnut plots (3) (o)

Spoiler: Nirur Torir (click to show/hide)

Torir Hegemony

The farmers think they will need 5 people every day to plant the new seeds, and to care for the other plants, and another 5 to harvest. Of course, the plots will have to be digged first. Seperating the single plot with a rope and diggin 4 more plots will cost 2 people. The other 50 plots will need 25 people working a full day.

The three farmers plant the seeds.

The crafters melt a part of the aluminium, and use their combined smithing experience to combine the custom parts with the last scrap parts. However, the unused aluminium is now in bars - easier to craft, and directly usable as scrap. And while they're at it, they smelt the rest, as well. The buggy now has a new, light engine. (2d100 = 95,78)

The crossbowmakers head out into the woods, and while crossbows are hard and slow to make, the stakes are easy. The crafters use one of the iron bars to give them metal boltheads. (2d100 = 40,88)

The machine has worked hard so far, though now it gives up. After a day of not being used, it simply doesn't want to start again, and the miner finds no obvious causes. (1d100 = 13)

The scientists figure that some wood logs should do as a shelter, with some metal plates as a roof. All in all, shouldn't use too much scrap. The tools, however, will require some work, and lots of electric components. The plans for both building and tools are done now. (2d100 = 32,84)

The defence of the bunker seems an impossible task. after some carefull examination, the chokepoints are too far apart and too numerous to set up a good defence system. The scientist opt for a wall around the camp. (2d100 = 19,30)

The miners start with the wall, and one can see the are used to working with ground. although one of them gets a heavy rock on the ankle, the work goes fast, and by night, the bunker entrance and the farm plots are protected by a low earth wall, with the moat in front of it, and as a finishing touch, some of them placed shitloads of brambles and wooden spikes on the outside... It'll take one badass attacker to get inside. Don't worry, they left an opening, wide enough for the buggy. (9d100 = 9,40,78,11,96,90,32,62,91)

The traders stand watch, but nothing more than a few birds comes within sight.

Status:
2309 water
2109 food
5 scrappy scrap

Available troops:
45 miners (5 †)
20 scientists
20 crafters
8 traders (2 †)
5 farmers

98 total

Items:
9 space suits
1 Heavy Engine
1 Broken Mining Drill

Weapons:
15 crossbows
200 wooden stakes
50 metal-tipped wooden stakes
2 9mm handguns
42 9mm cartridges, 12 ammo each
50 empty AA batteries
10 bows
22 arrows
(sixbarrel)
2 sixbarrel belts, 200 shots each

Resources:
8 bars of iron
3 bars of magnetic iron
10 bars of aluminium

Vehicles:
1 electric buggy
 - Mounted sixbarrel
1 electric car

Outside Buildings:
4 x 4 plot
Defensive earth wall
 - moat
 - brambles and spikes

Farming:
1 blueberry plot (1) (o)
3 cabbage plots (1) (o)
3 tomato plots (1) (o)

Spoiler: Shared knowledge (click to show/hide)

Coil Rifle Blueprints (No penalty when crafting. Needs nice scrap, approx. 3/rifle)
Electric Engine Blueprints (Crafted with NS, approx. 10, no penalty)
Enhanced Electric Engine Blueprints (Crafted with NS, approx.10, 25 penalty unless you make custom aluminium parts)
Garage (Uses wood and a little scrap)
Garage tools (Require nice scrap, as wel as SS)

If you'd like to make blueprints of something you own and have researched (or made yourself) I'll add them. That's a free action.

Spoiler: Current map (click to show/hide)

x2yzh9 - I feel almost sorry for that roll.
Nirur Torir - watch your scrap
Inteuniso - I think you're hacking my dice. You lucky bastard :p

[inteuniso]

I are Hacker. w00t.

Anyways, it's amazing how good I'm doing.

x2, I'm sorry to say, but if you don't have a vehicle next turn that can carry people and supplies, we're going to have to leave you behind. We need to leave soon.

Have 10 crafters build a 2x3 smelter/furnace in the southern room, and another 2x3 workshop above it if they have enough time.

Have the last 5 crafters make basic armor.

Have 17 scientists work on designing heavy-duty suspension, axles made out of iron, a coil rifle swivel turret, and a transport buggy chassis that can fit 5 people. It shall use the improved electric engine.

Have the 3 scientists try to teach the medic the advanced stuff again. Use literal examples on whatever is left of the wolf's organs.

Have the two sharpshooters both be promoted to corporals and have them train leading squads in War Games. 1 of the privates will rotate in after every round. Use sticks and stones. Wear heavy clothing.

Have 50 miners dig plots to increase my farm size. Make it as big as possible.

Have 11 traders go to the farm on the trike, with the pistols and coil rifles, and retrieve MAGNIFICENT LASOR OF DEATH whatever they can. Be safe!

[x2yzh9]

Populus of Palus

Have 10 scientists in the base work on a trike design, and if i already have one then build a trike using 7 craftsmen

Have 9 scientists work on the rifle blueprint, and if i already have one have 6 craftsmen make one and ammo for it.

By the way, inteuniso, i thought we were going on foot? You guys never said anything about needing vehicles.

[inteuniso]

x2yzh9, I seriously suggest you get yourself a vehicle. We will cover much more ground if we are just using vehicles. I would suggest a buggy, truck, or trike. Design it this turn and build it the next, and we'll set out then.

I did.

Besides, it's just a smarter idea. We can haul more, we can carry more manpower, and we can cover more ground. I'll need it with only my guys being skilled in military tactics.

Also, I seriously suggest you get some weaponry. Right now, you have hammers. And picks. That's about it. You have a stationary turret as well.

[Nirur Torir]

Torir Hegemony

23 miners and 4 farmers will plow the fields.

1 farmer will tend the plants.

Remaining miners build a garage. With 9 crafters if they are needed.

1 crafter examines the drill.

19(10) crafters work on the car. It doesn't need to be armed, but I'll be using it to hold cargo.

10 scientists will design a specialized ore smelter

10 scientists will try to figure out tactics that the scouting party will use.

Traders stand watch again.

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Why is my car still labeled a wreck? It's got an engine and moves.
Low scrap? That's what the metal's for.
Question: Are metal bars all turned into scrappy scrap?

[EagleV]

The car is fixed. The metal bars can either be thrown directly on the scrappy scrap pile (2 for low value, like copper, 3 for medium, like iron, 4 for high, like aluminium) or they can be made into custom components. This will require smithing (roll) but it will double the worth in scrap. Of course, customizing requires you to know what you want to make with it.

You can't make nice scrap with the tools you have now.

[EagleV]

Spoiler: inteuniso (click to show/hide)

Survivors of Mossena Arcade

The crafters work as har as they can, but building the furnace - and making it as failsafe as possible - take up the whole day, as wel as quite some scrap, and a few electrical components for the furnace jumpstart. (2d100 = 42+1,37+1)

Armor is a new challenge to the crafters, and every prototype they come up with is wrong. Some are to heavy, others block movement, and those that are light and easy to use simply won't stop anything. (1d100 = 9+1)

When the scientists finally finish there design, it doensn't really look like you would want it to. The coilgun turret still has the same practical issues as before, and has been scrapped. And- well, there are five places for people to sit, if you have a bit of imagination and don't mind bum burns. Three normal seats, including the driver's. The axles and suspension can be forged and found in the srap, respectively. (3d100 = 21+1,5+1,63+1)

When you approach the kitchen, the smell of roasted meat is replaced by the stench of blood and intestines. A wide variety of organs is lying on the table, several of them bearing the marks of a practical EHBO training. The exercises help a lot, and by the time the scientists finished, the medic knows enough to apply first aid on any kind of wound, keep heavily wounded people alive, and bring them back to the base without killing them. (1d100 = 92+1)

The War Games start of well, and different tactics are tried by both teams. Everything is running smoothly until one of the recruits stumbles into the river. He stays under water for some moments before a helper arrives, but he managed to hold on to the pump. He's coughing a lot, and is undercooled - though nothing too serious. (2d100 = 64+1,3+1)

BOOM
The last sound you expect to hear on a farm plot, but there it is. After a few seconds of shocked silence, one of the miners begins to scream - the others all yelling to each other, and the rest of the people running to the farmground. A single miner is lies on the ground near you. Most of him, that is. From a crater, a plume of smoke appears. Apparently the last civil war let behind quite a mess. And explosives. On the plus side, some plots are dug. (5d100 = 2+1,4+1,7+1,78+1,34+1)

The traders have more luck. When they return, they carry quite an amount of resources - as well as a bag of potato seeds, enough for at least 10 plots. (2d100 = 89+1,45+1)

Status:
2320 water
2380 food
15 scrappy scrap
14 nice scrap
Good Morale

Available troops:
38 miners + 4 HW (5 †)
20 scientists
15 crafters
10 traders

5 privates  (former traders)
2 corporals (former miners)
1 sergeant  (former miner)

95 total

Items:
10 space suits
1 Old, Rusty Jetpack. What in Hell˛.
1 Meteorite. What in Hell (tm)
1 Plastics Fabricator

Weapons:
4 Coil Hunting Rifles
34 Coil Shells
4 Semi-auto 'Mossena' pistols
2 Bolt-action 'Mossena' rifles
25 Mossena Cartridges, 8 shots each

Resources:
1 Fist-sized Ruby. What in Hell.
3 small rubies.
1 Wolf corpse, cut open
11 pieces of Iron
7 pieces of Aluminium
Potato seeds, 10 plots worth

Vehicles:
Twoseater Trike
 - Cart

Outside Buildings:
Trade Depot, space for vehicle, pulley system.
5 x 5 plot
Underground river with pump

Farming:
9 corn plots (4) (o)

Spoiler: x2yzh9 (click to show/hide)

Populus of Palus

Using the information sent to you by the SMA, your scientists and crafters start assembling the trike. Their combined efforts quickly yield results, as after a day you have a rather cool-looking, two-seated trike - a replica of the SMA one, with your own accents. (3d100 = 62,45,76)

The rifle works perfectly well - your crafters didn't really stick to the plan though, and they now have a single, high-powered coil rifle, very accurate, but needs time to replenish its energy after each shot. The best part? It uses PoPDarts. (3d100 = 96,66,56)

Status:
2570 water
2100 food
32 scappy scrap
9 nice scrap

Available troops:
54 miners + 1 HW
19 scientists + 1 HW
13 crafters + 1 MW
10 traders

100 total

Items:
10 space suits
1 Message-sending radar

Weapons:
1 Rail Turret, uses PoPDarts
1 PoPSniper
200 PoPDarts

Resources:
13 Pieces of Iron
8 Pieces of Tin
3 Pieces of Platinum
Hazelnuts, for 8 plots

Vehicles:
Twoseated Trike

Outside Buildings:
Rail Turret Emplacement, needs 1 crew on the spot to operate.
2 x 2 farm plot
Pipe to near SMA bunker, hooked up to water supply.

Farming:
5 strawberry plots (4) (i)
2 hazelnut plots (4) (o)

Spoiler: Nirur Torir (click to show/hide)

Torir Hegemony

No explosives in your fields. The farmers help the miners plow the fields effectively, and in a day, you have your desired farm plots. (5d100 = 89,19,26,39,40)

The miners finish the garage, without the crafter's help. The tools, however, are just too complex for the inexperienced miners, and 5 crafters come to the resque. (3d100 = 75,72,43)

The crafter tries everything he can think off, but the drill doesn't seem to be working. He'll need to open it up. (1d100 = 47)

14 crafters demonstrate their skills on the car. They get everything that's too heavy out of it, and now have a car with a lot of space. Unfortunately, some of those removed parts were needed to keep the vehicle strong - it looks quite crappy for the moment. (3d100 = 31,34,14)

The scientists come up with the schematics for an advanced ore smelter. It has controllable temperature and airflow, and can stay active for hours without noticeable changes in temperature. It even has a matching set of tongs! (2d100 = 93,75)

Tactics? Someone said tactics? You are overwhelmed with information when a scientist / tabletop battlegamer starts explaining tactics that are so complex and impossibly fantastic, you have a feeling there's no battle this guy couldn't win. He is promoted to exploration leader. (2d100 = 98,36)

The watch passes without any incidents.

Status:
2109 water
2009 food
12 scrappy scrap

Available troops:
45 miners (5 †)
20 scientists
20 crafters
8 traders (2 †)
5 farmers

1 scientist: tactician

98 total

Items:
9 space suits
1 Heavy Engine
1 Broken Mining Drill

Weapons:
15 crossbows
200 wooden stakes
50 metal-tipped wooden stakes
2 9mm handguns
42 9mm cartridges, 12 ammo each
50 empty AA batteries
10 bows
22 arrows
(sixbarrel)
2 sixbarrel belts, 200 shots each

Resources:
8 bars of iron
3 bars of magnetic iron
10 bars of aluminium
Blue berries, for 1 plot
Cabbage seeds, for 3 plots
Tomato seeds, for 3 plots

Vehicles:
Twoseated Electric buggy
 - Mounted sixbarrel
Electric Car

Outside Buildings:
7 x 10 plot
Defensive earth wall
 - moat
 - brambles and spikes
Garage
 - tools

Farming:
1 blueberry plot (2) (o)
3 cabbage plots (2) (o)
3 tomato plots (2) (o)

Spoiler: Shared knowledge (click to show/hide)

Coil Rifle Blueprints (No penalty when crafting. Needs nice scrap, approx. 3/rifle)
Electric Engine Blueprints (Crafted with NS, approx. 10, no penalty)
Enhanced Electric Engine Blueprints (Crafted with NS, approx.10, 25 penalty unless you make custom aluminium parts)
Garage (Uses wood and a little scrap)
Garage tools (Require nice scrap, as wel as SS)
Ore Smelter (needs SS, and a little NS)

If you'd like to make blueprints of something you own and have researched (or made yourself) I'll add them. That's a free action.

Spoiler: Current map (click to show/hide)

x2yzh9 - Try doing a bit more every turn. you always have half of your people doing nothing, and lots of metal and seeds that can be turned into parts and food.
Nirur Torir - Not much to say, really
Inteuniso - Not so lucky anymore. You didn't score a crit fail, but I figured that 3 rolls out of 5 that score <10 give you some nice bonus

[inteuniso]

The coilgun turret still has the same practical issues as before, and has been scrapped.

What? I have plastics!

[x2yzh9]

The coilgun turret still has the same practical issues as before, and has been scrapped.

What? I have plastics!

What base are we departing from?

[inteuniso]

What base are we departing from?

Mine. It's easier for both of you to get there.

[Nirur Torir]

How many people is everybody bringing? I'll send food for 10 days, but I don't have any excess water. I'll bring two in my buggy, and another two in the car.

[x2yzh9]

I'll bring 2. One with a gun, we need your tally now inteuniso so i can see if i can pump that much water to your base within this turn.

[EagleV]

The coilgun turret still has the same practical issues as before, and has been scrapped.

What? I have plastics!

You're right. Yet, your rolls weren't high enough to get a weapon system. The continous, static magnetic coilfield would disturb the delicate insides of the electric engine, and acoording to your scientists, you're better safe than sorry...

[inteuniso]

I'll bring 5.  I'll also bring food and water.