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    Matsura Asuka
    Head Designer for Ohara Airworks
    Age 24 (Legally 25)
    Year 12 AF (After Flight)

    Design Stats
    Aerodynamics Engineering - +2
    Structural Engineering - +2
    Chemical Engineering - +1
    Mechanical Engineering - +1
    Ballistics Engineering - +1
    Electrical Engineering - 0

    Personal/Political Stats
    Social Skills - 0
    Politics Skills - 0
    Importance - 2
    Income - 1
    Investments - Ohara

    Resources
    Power - 0
    Wealth - 2

    Designs
    Type 1 Series - Military Variation (Designated T1M1)
    Type 2 Racer (World Speed Record October 1910-April 1911, 180kph)
    Model 2 Scout (Designated T1M2)
    Navy Scout Prototype (Drowned Rat)
    Dive Bomber B1M1 "Duck"
    Machine Gun Carrier R1A "Dragonfly" (World Speed Record May-July 1911, 200kph)
    Naval Rescue Water-Landing Supply Plane NR1M0 "Dolphin" (World speed record 240kph)
    Rhino Demon Train Hunter
    The world's first airliner
    The world's first pulsejet airplane

    Assets
    Slide Rule
    Computator (1 Reroll per Routine)

    Languages
    Albian
    Gallian

    Familiar Vices
    Drinking
    Prostitutes
    Dancing

    Family Life
    - Engaged to Arita Yachi, formerly the leading Ace in the Imperial Army. Designated #1 Cutest Army Boy, he's having some serious problems with PTSD right now.
    - Taking a second try at dating Mikami Kiho, ex-dockerwork from the south.

    Upgrades
    - 3 XP to upgrade a stat.

    Ohara Airworks
    Start Up, Imperial Capital, Akitsukuni

    Owner
    - Mr. Ohara, Rich. Aircraft Enthusiast. Business guy.

    Engineers

    Kibe Koume, 26, Office Manager
    Tiny & angry, Kibe went to school in Albia, picking up the language, the religion, and a fuckload of swear words. Speaks Albian.
    Mechanical +2, Ballistics +1
    Office Manager: If Kibe is not assigned to a team, the Office Stress is reduced by 1.

    Sakane Jun, 26, Second Team Leader
    A soured patriot, Sakane is married and has a young child being raised gender-neutrally. His two brothers who fought in the war.
    Structural +2, Aerodynamics +1
    Team Leader: If there are any additional projects, Sakane will lead them.
    Joinery: Sakane has training in the traditional Akitsukuni carpentry art of joinery, creating complex self-supporting joints with no fasteners or glue. When working with non-monocoque wooden spars or ribs, +1 Structural.

    Tezuka Kenji, ???
    A stoner with occasional flashes of insight. Nobody really knows what he does, but he's probably useful?
    Aerodynamics +2, Chemical +1
    Flashes of Brilliance: Each natural 10 rolled by any team Tezuka is assigned to gives +1 forward to the next research roll.

    Hasegawa Morio, 26
    A hopeless nerd with a photography habit, mostly on account of developing his own film, Hasegawa seems to do nothing but work and stack card houses, but somehow has an incredible attractive boyfriend. Speaks Gallian.
    Chemical +2, Ballistic +1
    Silent Workhorse: Hasegawa can work on two different projects at once for no cost to Office Stress, providing they use different stats.

    Kawamura Yosai, 25.
    Serially successful womanizer and incredibly attractive, Kawamura doesn't seem to have much of a personality outside of seducing women. Well, except for that time he seduced Asuka, which nobody talks about. Speaks Dyske.
    Structural +2, Electrical +1, Social +1
    Easily Distracted: If Kawamura is working on the same team as a female or non-binary employee, the team is at -1d10.

    Koide Hatsu, 24.
    One of the few female graduates of an Akitsukuni engineering school, Koide is brilliant and incredibly driven, but her first job at Akibara was both humiliating and exposed her to an abusive coworker. Her father is a rich businessman with factories in Joseon, and she's engaged to Ken from Castles of Steel. Speaks Joseon.
    Mechanical +2, Structural +1
    No Sleep: If you let her, Koide will work herself to death. She can work a second project for no Office Stress, but all her stats will be reduced to 1 for the routine.

    Kobayashi Ayao, ???
    Disowned heiress of the Kobayashi family, all Kobayashi wanted was a career and to be a modern woman. For her trouble, a cousin threw acid on her, scarring her face, neck, much of her torso, and her left arm. Despite appearing serene and above it all, she's actually an avowed communist activist and baseball player.
    Aerodynamics +2, Social +2

    Adachi Ren, 24
    Adachi learned chemistry from her father, one of the most famous chemical engineers in the country, rather than through formal schooling. She's married, has a kid, and takes spirituality very seriously. Yes, you did the math right, she had Yuki when she was 17. It's 1912, folks.
    Chemical +2, Electrical +1
    Young Mother: Adachi will cause double Office Stress if she has to work multiple tasks.

    Uyeno Sei, Ballistics Engineer, 31.
    The oldest member of the crew, this is Uyeno's second career. Her first was as an officer in the Imperial Navy with specialized technical training: her very promising career was cut short by her transition. Her work in a naval arsenal on machine-guns landed her the job here. Briefly dated Satomi (the age range is a bit creepy but again, 1912), she's missing a piece of her ear and is deaf on that side, from an exploding cannon. Recently returned from Varnmark from experimental surgery, she's known for her skill navigating gendered bureaucracy.
    Ballistic +3

    Mi Kyung-Jae, 23
    A recent graduate of the Imperial College of Heijo, Mi is from the recently annexed territory of Joseon. For those keeping track at home, that means he's a Korean national living in Imperial Japan in 1912. We haven't seen much of his personality because he's rightfully terrified of everything around him. He has a specialty in endurance engine design and modification. Speaks Joseon.
    Mechanical +1, Chemical +1
    Endurance Engines: Mi has an excellent understanding of metallurgy and tolerances. Any engine he works on gains +1 Reliability if a 16+ is rolled.
    Pulsejet Wizard: Mi is now one of the world's leading experts on the pulsejet engine. He can be given his own project to custom-craft pulsejet engines, and he gives +1 to any pulsejet-related project.
    Joseon National: Mi does not have security clearance to work on any top-secret projects.

    Miyoshi Shigeri, 23.
    A non-binary person and admirer of Asuka's work, they were in an support role in the Army before joining the company.
    Structural +1, Mechanical +1, Aerodynamic +1
    Mechanic: Miyoshi has some experience repairing and refurbishing aircraft. They get +1 if assigned on the clean-up phase.


    Other Employees
    - Ohara Satomi, 22, Mr. Ohara's niece and the company test pilot, Ohara is a general lesbian disaster. She's good at flying planes, driving cars, and kissing girls. She's bad at being patient, being respectable, and sticking to literally anyones conceptions of gender roles. Deeply in lesbians with Coralie D'Amboise.
    - Fujkikawa Sotatsu, old, modelmaker. He's an old man and toymaker and we don't see much of him because he locks himself in his workshop a lot. He's friends with Kawamura?

    Assets
    - Engine Test Rig (Allows engine tweaking and optimization.
    - Wind Tunnel (+1 Aerodynamics)
    - Rapid Prototype Lab (+1 Clean Up)
    Expanded Cast

    Akitsukuni Industry
    - Homura Mohoko: Head Engine Designer for Kobayashi. First female engineer in the country. A lot of sex appeal.
    - Okumura: Head of Akibara aircraft design.
    - Yamanaka Hajime: Kobayashi engineer. Young and eager.
    - Igarashi Masazumi: Kobayashi engineer. Reserved and experienced.
    - Admiral Akibara Toru: Imperial Navy Admiral. Maximum nepotism. Maximum douchebag.
    - Lt.Cmnd Akibara Shinzo: The above's son. A hottie but very forward.



    Character Families
    - Matsura(?) Mizuko: Asuka's sister. Was paralyzed in an accident in Asuka's first flight. Lives Elsewhere and is married now. Can't forgive Asuka, even though she's tried.
    - Adachi Motoki: Adachi's husband, an accountant. Legally blind.
    - Adachi Yuki: Adachi's 7 year old daughter and wannabe pilot. Very adorable.
    - Yachi's Brother: Exists.
    - Sakane's Wife: Exists. Drives him a bit crazy, but he loves her.
    - Yachi's Brother's Wife: Exists. Is statistically likely to be pregnant.
    - Lt. Coralie D'Amboise: Gallian pilot in exile. Satomi's girlfriend. 25. Accomplished bisexual duelist. She flew in the war for a single day, and for her troubles got a hole blown in her cheek and had her left arm paralyzed.

    Akisukuni Army & Ex-Army
    - Lt. Torio Tanaka: Yachi's former observer as an enlisted man. Was jumped up to fly Ducks and lost a leg on his first mission. A trained painter, married to Torio Saya.
    - Captain Amari Shiro: A Dragonfly pilot who ended up flying as Yachi's partner. Kind of delightfully twinky. They sorta slept together at one point, which wasn't great. He lost his previous boyfriend in the April Offensive and turned his plane into a shrine. He was shot in the gut and is still recovering.
    - Major Izuhara: Logistics officer, Imperial Army, this bespectled officer stood up to the Caspian Crown Prince and accidentally kicked off the Akitsikuni-Caspian War. The guilt was so much that, after almost a year of running Army procurement, he shot himself in a phone both.
    - Captain Nakai Sekien: Army scout pilot. First person to drop a bomb from an airplane, later head of the Duck Squadrons.
    - Captain Teshima: A Desk pilot that fought with Yachi. Lost an arm in the process, took over for Major Izuhara after his death. Seems cheery despite it all.
    - Captain Nashio: A real piece of shit dude and probably a rapist, he's also a war hero as the second-highest scoring ace on the Akitsukuni side. He was a young shitty kid in way over his head but it's no excuse.
    - Lt. Kinjo: Kind of a dumb lump and Nashio's friend, one of the desk pilots. Dead at 19.
    - Lt. Okazaki: Yachi's friend from before the war and pilot, he died in a spin in his dragonfly. His death probably hit Yachi the hardest.

    Westerners
    - Rose & Antoinette Sears: Pioneers of flight. Sisters. Black in 1910s not!America. Yikes.
    - Timina Guasti: Famous aircraft designer from Otrusia. Likes big planes and green.
    - Prince Protasov Vasilyevich: Crown Prince of Great Caspia. Real dick. You gotta hand it to him though, a decent flier.
    - Count von Zeppelin: Invented rigid airships. Runs a successful airline business. Damned impressive.
    - Bennhold: Aircraft Engineer. Experimenting with metal aircraft.
    - Aileen Middlemiss: Albian reporter for the Artimis Times. Well meaning and oblivious.
    Available Tech
    • Materials: Wood, Duralumin, Molded Wood, Wood & Silk Composite, etc
    • All engine mounts
    • All wing types
    • Basic reinforcement
    • Wing warping and ailerons
    • Basic water radiators
    • Flying Wings
    • Semi-Monocoque design (requires at least half the slots have frame pieces)
    • Valved pulsejets
    • Basic weapon mounts and turrets
    Tech not Yet Developed
    • Custom engines
    • Monocoque construction
    • Cantilever Wings and associated tech
    • V and T tails
    • Tailless designs
    • Aluminum and titanium
    • Cellulose surfacing
    • Any kind of radar
    • Weapon accessability mods
    • Interruptor gear
    • Geared propellers
    • And Maybe Other Stuff
    Akitsukuni
    Island Nation

    Government
    Constitutional Monarchy
    - The democratic portions of the government are dubiously legitimate.
    - The head of state is the Empress of Akitsukuni. She gives her blessing to newly formed governments.
    - The Navy and a small number of families have undue influence on politics.

    Economy
    Developing Mixed Market
    - Most industry is controlled by a small number of wealthy, family-owned companies.
    - The state provides most contracts to industry. Consumer good market is anemic.
    - Exports are few, mostly cultural.
    - Imports are raw minerals, food, oil, and expertise.
    - Currently suffering an economic crash after the last war.

    Politics
    The Diet is currently ruled by a Constitutional Nationalist government. It has a system of nonlocal proportional representation, with representatives appointed by the party in accordance to their share of the vote.
    - Constitutional Nationalists: 50%
    - Purity Club: 9%
    - New Independents: 26%
    - Fairness Association: 11%
    - United Communist League: 2%
    - Monarchists: 1%
    - Assorted Fringe Parties: 5%

    Demographics
    Akitsukuni is mostly very ethnically homogeneous. Around 5% of the population are various minorities, most from nearby countries. Roughly .1% are westerners here for business or in advisory positions.
    - Population: 55 Million
    - Religion: Mostly Kodo. Roughly 2% of the population follows western religions.
    - Wealth: Most wealth is concentrated in the top 5% of the country. Nearly 20% of the population lives in conditions indistinguishable from peasantry.
    - Urbanization: Heavily urbanized for a small economy: 35% and rapidly growing.

    Military
    At Peace
    - Imperial Akitsukuni Navy (IAN): The 6th largest in the world, and the most experienced.
    - Imperial Akitsukuni Army (IAA): 150,000 highly experienced soldiers, and a considerable reserve.

    Aspects
    - Poor Resources: Aluminum costs +1.
    - Damn Akitsukuni Engines!: Engines have -1 Reliability.



    The Main Character Of This Quest Is Nonbinary And Uses They/Them Pronouns.

    I Am Putting This Here Because The Next Person To Misgender Them Is Getting Yeeted Into The Trash

    Also here's the Gayaverse TV Tropes page, because why not.​
     
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    [X] A traditional biplane arrangement with the staggered wings.

    tryrar said:
    @Simon_Jester .......we really don't need that slow of a stall speed. Why would we even use that?
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    A spotter plane's main job is to loiter in the air around a target area, not zoom around all over the combat area. It's also easier to spot things on the ground when you're not moving very fast. Hence the Army is likely to be happier with the plane the lower we can make the stall speed.
     
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    tryrar said:
    @Simon_Jester .......we really don't need that slow of a stall speed. Why would we even use that?
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    Because lower stall speeds equate to a more forgiving aircraft, which is good because the Army will be using inexperienced pilots for this, and because in the future we may adapt this plane into a trainer aircraft. Also, a slower-stalling airplane can operate from shorter runways- and is at less risk on a rough field, because it's less likely to hit anything big enough to wreck it on takeoff.

    On a more hypothetical note, I can think of applications for which being able to choose to fly slowly is desirable. Remember that anti-aircraft artillery is very much in its infancy from the sound of it; if you're above rifle range, you're pretty safe. Being able to loiter above the ground at speeds no greater than a galloping horse might actually be a good way to get precise observation information on targets.

    ...

    @Crasian01 , @brmj , your wing area votes don't align optimally with your choices. For reference, the optimal wing area solutions, as per @samdamandias , are:

    BIPLANE, WING AREA 4
    Biplane, no optimzation: Stall 40, Max 90, DNE 150, thrust 20

    SESQUIPLANE, WING AREA 3
    Sesquiplane, no optimization: Stall 50, Max 100, DNE 150, thrust 20

    (in both cases I'm assuming no optimization, for comparison purposes).

    The stubby lower wing gives us more top speed but higher stall speed.

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    Also, we are going to send these blueprints by scanning phototelegraphy, holy shit that is high tech for this era. Needs a shorter name, though. Fax?

    Between this and what miiiight be the fastest racing plane in the world if no one's built this yet, and maybe even if they have... wow, Ohara Airworks is what you'd call a disruptive startup, a century before its time. :D
     
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    [x] 4 Wing Area
    [X] A traditional biplane arrangement with the staggered wings.

    Sometimes slow is the way to go.

    Controlled crashes Landings and takeoffs are excellent opportunities to use that low stall speed.
     
    open_sketchbook said:
    I'm leaving for GenCon in like, six hours, so first I thought I show the quest some very relevant things in the form of 4 airplanes I'll be bringing, versions of real life planes from early WW1 and about what starting characters fly.

    Arntwerks Jäger c.10 (AKA the Fokker E.III)

    Schneider 91 A1 (AKA the Neuport 11)

    Thelen Adler II (AKA the Albatros II)

    Harke VX7 Bomber (AKA the Airco FE2)
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    Hm. Good reference points. All of them a bit ahead of our starting point, technologically, or that 125 km/h world speed record would have been broken.

    I figure our worst probable case for this race is that the accursed cheese-eaters break out the Deperdussin Monocoque on us. Which might actually be able to keep up with the Type 2, but does not, so far as I can tell, have the range to make the entire flight, requiring a refueling stop (technically allowed under the rules?). Most of the other racing airplanes of the day don't have the fuel tankage, either.

    We may show up to this contest as the only people who actually designed a plane capable of flying the entire distance. We'll be the aviation equivalent of Cliff Young, innocently batting our eyes at the finish line and going "wait, we were allowed to take a refueling stop?"
     
    Simon_Jester said:
    We may show up to this contest as the only people who actually designed a plane capable of flying the entire distance. We'll be the aviation equivalent of Cliff Young, innocently batting our eyes at the finish line and going "wait, we were allowed to take a refueling stop?"
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    I mean...do we have any reason to expect that? It seems entirely plausible that other competitors will bring purpose-built planes just like we're doing.
     
    [x] 3 Wing Area
    [x] A sesquiplane arrangement with a smaller lower wing.

    The sesquiplane is cool to me, and has interesting implications for variant designs later on.
     
    Wiadi said:
    I mean...do we have any reason to expect that? It seems entirely plausible that other competitors will bring purpose-built planes just like we're doing.
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    That's possible. On the other hand, if they do, those planes are likely to be a lot slower than ours. Note that many long distance races of this period DID allow for refueling stops.

    I honestly think we're likely to see a mix of true 'proper' racing aircraft that are as fast or almost as fast as the Type 2 in the air, but can't make the full distance in one go... And longer-range but much slower aircraft that can't remotely keep up.
     
    Maybe we're not. Maybe I'm misinterpreting a few things @open_sketchbook said, along the lines of "stops are allowed, but not encouraged."

    My point is, well, everything I've already said:

    1) That any aircraft in the world that's capable of keeping up with the Type 2 will almost certainly not be capable of making the entire trip without a refueling stop. We've got speed (if not aerobatic) performance competitive with the best racing monoplane of 1912-13, on a much heavier and thus longer-ranged twin engine aircraft.

    2) That honestly, even the Type 2 may have a bit of trouble making the trip in one hop; we've got juuust the minimum amount of fuel necessary for the specifications given to us. Unfavorable wind conditions or Satomi just plain getting a bit lost and having to circle while looking for landmarks could interfere.

    3) That it's normative for long distance endurance races in the early 1910s to include refueling stops. See for reference the 1910 London-Manchester race sponsored by the Daily Mail, over a comparable distance. PDF of the winner's account, published in the New York Times, here. Note that Paulhan was in fact running on fumes when he set down in a field in Lichfeld about a third of the way to his destination to sleep overnight and refill the gas tank.

    ...

    Hm.

    I'm sorely tempted to write a Not!London Times article on the race... Omake fun ahoy! :D
     
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    Simon_Jester said:
    2) That honestly, even the Type 2 may have a bit of trouble making the trip in one hop; we've got juuust the minimum amount of fuel necessary for the specifications given to us. Unfavorable wind conditions or Satomi just plain getting a bit lost and having to circle while looking for landmarks could interfere.
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    One fuel stop for like 1/4 of a tank is definitely shorter than one fuel stop for a full tank though (where "tank" refers to "total fuel capacity"), so it's still advantageous to have the biggest fuel tank you can manage to cram in.

    Boy howdy it would be a good news article to make it all the way on one tank though....
     
    Crasian01 said:
    One fuel stop for like 1/4 of a tank is definitely shorter than one fuel stop for a full tank though (where "tank" refers to "total fuel capacity"), so it's still advantageous to have the biggest fuel tank you can manage to cram in.
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    The time required to fill up one quarter of an umpty-gallon gas tank is pretty similar to the time required to fill the entire gas tank, especially when "how to refill a gas tank" consists of having guys pour literal jars or jugs of gasoline into the tank after your plane makes a rough-field landing outside some town in northern France.

    The few minutes saved one way or the other by less time spent pouring gasoline into the tank would be pretty minimal compared to other relevant factors in the race, even assuming that all planes travel at their top speed the entire duration of the race. It'd be significant if we were dealing with something more like Formula One racing where everyone's cars are broadly competitive, the design technology is mature, and winning or losing is entirely a function of precise details of individual fine-tuned designs. But 1910-era aviation... is not that kind of a field, to put it mildly.
     
    Crasian01 said:
    One fuel stop for like 1/4 of a tank is definitely shorter than one fuel stop for a full tank though (where "tank" refers to "total fuel capacity"), so it's still advantageous to have the biggest fuel tank you can manage to cram in.

    Boy howdy it would be a good news article to make it all the way on one tank though....
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    If we have a good enough lead we can always slow down to save fuel. I wonder if our stall speed will be lowered when we lose weight due to fuel being used up?
     
    Axslashel said:
    If we have a good enough lead we can always slow down to save fuel. I wonder if our stall speed will be lowered when we lose weight due to fuel being used up?
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    If we go full-realism... we don't have enough test flight data to be confident of how the fuel economy curve for the Type 2 looks. The plane no doubt has an optimal cruising speed, determined by calculating kilometers per liter of fuel consumed as a function of airspeed. But there's no guarantee that going slower will be more efficient, plus the Type 2 has a very high stall speed for the era and isn't going to be forgiving of attempts to slow down.

    Remember that fuel economy is measured in distance per unit volume consumed, not units of volume consumed per unit of time. Creeping along at one mile per hour in a car is not a more fuel-efficient way to travel distance than rolling along at thirty miles per hour, to illustrate why this matters. Because it takes thirty times as long to get anywhere, and while the car is burning less fuel, it's not burning one thirtieth as much fuel.

    Given that the inherent maximum speed possible for the Type 2's airframe and the engines available is actually far greater than the do-not-exceed speed imposed by its structural strength, it's quite possible that 180 km/h IS the optimal cruising speed from a fuel economy standpoint, or that the plane will get better and better fuel economy the faster it goes up to and even past the point where the airframe tears itself apart. Except that we don't know any of this because the Type 2 is an experimental prototype aircraft that's only flown twice, both for relatively short periods of time.
     
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    True. Though if I were in Satomi's aviator goggles, I wouldn't want to take many chances with the stall speed of this aircraft. Again, the lack of experience from an extended battery of test flights is an issue.

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    Exploiting the better climb performance is a different matter, mind you. Satomi might be well advised to climb to several thousand feet over southern Albia or the Channel as some of the fuel load burns off, because the reduced drag will make it easier to get high speed performance out of her aircraft safely.

    Or that's how I understand it?
     
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    Simon_Jester said:
    True. Though if I were in Satomi's aviator goggles, I wouldn't want to take many chances with the stall speed of this aircraft. Again, the lack of experience from an extended battery of test flights is an issue.

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    Exploiting the better climb performance is a different matter, mind you. Satomi might be well advised to climb to several thousand feet over southern Albia or the Channel as some of the fuel load burns off, because the reduced drag will make it easier to get high speed performance out of her aircraft safely.

    Or that's how I understand it?
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    You can think of it as the aircraft wanting to fly at a less loaded state. As the fuel burns off, weight goes down, and so the aircraft must either decrease its coefficient of lift, decrease its speed, or decrease the density of air it is flying through. Usually it's not terribly practical to decrease speed, and decreasing coefficient of life changes your trim settings which means you're constantly fiddling with the controls which most people don't want to do. As a result, the aircraft wants to fly at a higher altitude over the course of the cruise.
     
    I just noticed the new map and oh boy is it delicious.

    Strategic notes/questions

    -Both Albia and Akitsukuni proper are bloody huuuuuuge

    -Fake Portugal has retained Fake Brazil. Potentially a better counterweight to Fake Spain?

    -I think the Mega Mekong branches off from the bit in Cathay that would be analagous to Shanghai by going through Lake Baikal? We seem to also control Hainan, a dagger pointed straight at the heart of Cathay. Dashes presumably represent extreme soft power or dispute.

    -I bet 5 Internet headpats that we will have a dispute with New Allegheny over the Kingdom of Katuroa(fake Hawai'i).

    -We have a dispute with Grand Caspia over Sakhalin/Karafuto. You better win this bloody war Navy.

    -Dutch East Indies is unfortunately French. No easy Dutch pickings for us sadly.

    -Is our Army personnel numbers just the active duty members, or does it include the reserve? I am in great fear if it is the latter.

    -Grand Caspia is in just the worst position. The Mediterranean appears to be blocked off to it by the Ottomans, as well as a Pan-Caucasian and Pan-Balkan state, the Baltic is enclosed by a single, legitimately powerful Scandinavia, and in the Pacific, there is us. If we beat them in a war, they may very well collapse entirely. This would unfortunately remove most of the impetus for Albia to ally with us.

    -I guarantee that there will be disputes from other great powers over our control of the Mega Mekong.
     
    Sturmi said:
    I just noticed the new map and oh boy is it delicious.

    Strategic notes/questions

    -Both Albia and Akitsukuni proper are bloody huuuuuuge

    -Fake Portugal has retained Fake Brazil. Potentially a better counterweight to Fake Spain?

    -I think the Mega Mekong branches off from the bit in Cathay that would be analagous to Shanghai by going through Lake Baikal? We seem to also control Hainan, a dagger pointed straight at the heart of Cathay. Dashes presumably represent extreme soft power or dispute.

    -I bet 5 Internet headpats that we will have a dispute with New Allegheny over the Kingdom of Katuroa(fake Hawai'i).

    -We have a dispute with Grand Caspia over Sakhalin/Karafuto. You better win this bloody war Navy.

    -Dutch East Indies is unfortunately French. No easy Dutch pickings for us sadly.

    -Is our Army personnel numbers just the active duty members, or does it include the reserve? I am in great fear if it is the latter.

    -Grand Caspia is in just the worst position. The Mediterranean appears to be blocked off to it by the Ottomans, as well as a Pan-Caucasian and Pan-Balkan state, the Baltic is enclosed by a single, legitimately powerful Scandinavia, and in the Pacific, there is us. If we beat them in a war, they may very well collapse entirely. This would unfortunately remove most of the impetus for Albia to ally with us.

    -I guarantee that there will be disputes from other great powers over our control of the Mega Mekong.
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    Well, the oil and rubber could very well be in the Dyskland/not!Dutch controlled not!New Guinea so we might not be out of luck. I agree that our army seems a ridiculously small. I really hope too that it is only the standing army and we have a well functioning conscription system (I doubt it). The closest analogue is the pre ww1 irl UK that had about 250 000 regulars and an extra 150 00 territorial troops. But they were the best trained troops in the world at the time and our army; not so much. Of course our Navy might have a gigantic marine contingent .
     
    adsfhgjlk175 said:
    We have plenty of fuel, 19.5 uses per engine when we only need 15. We are using a 13 uses per fuel tank design and have 3 fuel tanks.
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    Huh. I must have misremembered something.

    Axslashel said:
    Well, the oil and rubber could very well be in the Dyskland/not!Dutch controlled not!New Guinea so we might not be out of luck. I agree that our army seems a ridiculously small. I really hope too that it is only the standing army and we have a well functioning conscription system (I doubt it). The closest analogue is the pre ww1 irl UK that had about 250 000 regulars and an extra 150 00 territorial troops. But they were the best trained troops in the world at the time and our army; not so much. Of course our Navy might have a gigantic marine contingent .
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    @open_sketchbook :

    For the record, are you aware of how conscription typically worked in WWI-era militaries, and how does that awareness apply to Akitsukuni?
     
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