Edge of the Inner Sphere (A BattleTech Quest)
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[X] Plan: Matters of Stability
-[X] The Attendance of the President
-[X] The Attendance of Balthazar's Director
-[X] Complete Transparency
-[X] Implement a Tax Cut (Economy drops by 1, ~58% Chance of Stability increasing by 1)
-[X] to form three new regiments for the defense of our planet!"
-[X] The Attendance of the President
-[X] The Attendance of Balthazar's Director
-[X] Complete Transparency
-[X] Implement a Tax Cut (Economy drops by 1, ~58% Chance of Stability increasing by 1)
-[X] to form three new regiments for the defense of our planet!"
I went with motorized because that makes feild guns doable without losing the infantry's cover bonus from being able to dig in.
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Regimental Combat Teams are a thing in canon, alongside Light Combat Teams.
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Just a heads up, but the plan was changed to integrate the new infantry with our mech companies. You can see it here:
Do we have the option of asking Aldis Industries, Kallon, Defiance, or even Quickscell or other tank producers or a mix of them about assorted tank licenses. Even if the non Quickscell options don't pan out so long as anything Quickscell is simply a license we should be fine since a lot of people have licenses with them for the classic LRM and SRM carriers if nothing else.
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If you buy from quick cell, only buy licenses. Their manufacturing divsion is trash.
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[X] Plan: Matters of Stability
-[X] The Attendance of the President
-[X] The Attendance of Balthazar's Director
-[X] Complete Transparency
-[X] Implement a Tax Cut (Economy drops by 1, ~58% Chance of Stability increasing by 1)
-[X] to augment the 1st National Guard's Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Companies with three Motorized Infantry Regiments!" (3 Motorized Infantry Regiments are raised and attached to the 1st National Guard in exchange for 720 Currency over the next two quarters)
-[X] The Attendance of the President
-[X] The Attendance of Balthazar's Director
-[X] Complete Transparency
-[X] Implement a Tax Cut (Economy drops by 1, ~58% Chance of Stability increasing by 1)
-[X] to augment the 1st National Guard's Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Companies with three Motorized Infantry Regiments!" (3 Motorized Infantry Regiments are raised and attached to the 1st National Guard in exchange for 720 Currency over the next two quarters)
Yeah. Mind you on the list of licenses they have do have the frickin Manticore and more useful for us right now the bulldog, the laser, LRM, and SRM carriers, the Pegasus, and assorted APC of the standard and heavy variety.
Another option that we can currently import would be pikes since the canopians are trying to sell those around the periphery and inner sphere in this era
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Sorry about not answering this earlier, I think I just somehow read past it. If you make them fully mechanized, it would indeed cost a bit more.
You can eventually do so, though right now you just don't have the funds for it.
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Say @Fullyautomagic can we pick more than one option of in the Drafting Legislation?
[ ] to implement a system of selective service." (32% Chance of Stability decreasing by 1.)
- An Infantry Battalion can be called forth in any settlement during wartime.
[ ] to establish the framework for a draft." (58% Chance of Stability decreasing by 1.)
- An Infantry Regiment can be called forth in any settlement during wartime. The longer this Regiment is called to serve, the higher chance there is of Stability decreasing.
[ ] to form a new regiment for the defense of our planet!"
- A new Infantry Regiment is created in exchange for 240 Currency over the next two quarters.
[ ] to form three new regiments for the defense of our planet!"
- Three new Infantry Regiments are created in exchange for 720 Currency over the next two quarters.
I mean the first two option are only going to be used if we deemed necessary, so is going to open additional choices in the future. While the other two are meant to expand the military right now.
I think the vote should be separate in two areas in this subject. One to deal with draft while the other deal with the current military.
[ ] to implement a system of selective service." (32% Chance of Stability decreasing by 1.)
- An Infantry Battalion can be called forth in any settlement during wartime.
[ ] to establish the framework for a draft." (58% Chance of Stability decreasing by 1.)
- An Infantry Regiment can be called forth in any settlement during wartime. The longer this Regiment is called to serve, the higher chance there is of Stability decreasing.
[ ] to form a new regiment for the defense of our planet!"
- A new Infantry Regiment is created in exchange for 240 Currency over the next two quarters.
[ ] to form three new regiments for the defense of our planet!"
- Three new Infantry Regiments are created in exchange for 720 Currency over the next two quarters.
I mean the first two option are only going to be used if we deemed necessary, so is going to open additional choices in the future. While the other two are meant to expand the military right now.
I think the vote should be separate in two areas in this subject. One to deal with draft while the other deal with the current military.
Or the influence. Probably will have the means on that front once we make non primitive mechs and are in a coalition with several star systems
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For now, I'm going to keep it as a single vote, but I'll be open to letting you guys start laying the framework for a draft or expanding your military further in the future.
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[X] Matters of Stability
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[X] Plan: Matters of Stability
-[X] The Attendance of the President
-[X] The Attendance of Balthazar's Director
-[X] Complete Transparency
-[X] Implement a Tax Cut (Economy drops by 1, ~58% Chance of Stability increasing by 1)
-[X] to augment the 1st National Guard's Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Companies with three Motorized Infantry Regiments!" (3 Motorized Infantry Regiments are raised and attached to the 1st National Guard in exchange for 720 Currency over the next two quarters)
-[X] The Attendance of the President
-[X] The Attendance of Balthazar's Director
-[X] Complete Transparency
-[X] Implement a Tax Cut (Economy drops by 1, ~58% Chance of Stability increasing by 1)
-[X] to augment the 1st National Guard's Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Companies with three Motorized Infantry Regiments!" (3 Motorized Infantry Regiments are raised and attached to the 1st National Guard in exchange for 720 Currency over the next two quarters)
that reminds me.....do our motorized infantry get APCs? any form of IFV? Because if the latter.....that massively beefs up their capabilities and survivability . infantry with maxims, goblins, vargrs, and slepnirs among others as their ride are no joke. if probably very expensive.
the former makes hauling around supplies and field guns a lot easier and does a lot against stuff like artillery fire sans long toms or direct hits.
speaking of the big guns we should look into getting some of those ideally in SPG form be it thumper or ballista and also some partisans. because that would dramatically beef up the combined arms aspect of our forces and give us a huge advantage on the ground since AA platfoms and Artillery are rare in the periphery. Oh and of course probably should look into buy more combat armor that aren't IFVs or AA/Artillery especially since we can't make non primitve mechs or mechs that aren't mediums. Be it demolishers, ontos, behemoths, bulldogs, weapons carriers be they AC-2, Laser, SRM, or LRMs, Hetzers, LRM Hassers, Pegasus, Saracens, Saldins, Scimatars, J Edgars, Pikes, Hunters, Condors, or LVT-4s.
I'd add fusion powered vehicles that aren't the J Edgar or Hunter or newer stuff like the sturmfuer to that list but the odds are we would lack the means or influence to get thema(save maybe the brutus due to the capcon due to political reasons not liking the design) and I also refuse to add the terrible design that is the galleon or the SRM Harrasser to the mix since they'll just die without doing much. the skuller....not sure. and alas the striker isn't a thing till 3006; well the CV that is. The 80 ton battlemech of the same name exists if rare since despite being a easy to maintain assault mech non bothered to restart production of the design post the plant being blasted and honestly if we get the chance we should probably buy mechs of that design or better yet the license/exclusive rights in the future. also on the no buy list unless getting a stupidly good deal is the scorpion(save maybe the LRM variant) since we literally make the vedette.
also should look into getting some VTOLs. probably a mix of warriors, rippers, karnovs, and ferrets. I'd say conventional air as well but save for transport birds those aren't worth are our time or money unless getting ASFs is impossible save maybe the mechbuster since AC-20 or as a source of cheap and easy to get fusion engines.
edit: on another note we should probably if possible in the future look into buying up Arcuturan Arms or getting a production license for their designs from them since I'm pretty sure they're all but broke but are sitting on tooling for the Crossbow, Marsden II, and Buffel VI given how quickly in otl post new dallas core they managed to revive production of them.
yes I know we can't do of this right now or reasonably speaking all of it period but setting up a list of nice options for the future isn't a bad idea.
the former makes hauling around supplies and field guns a lot easier and does a lot against stuff like artillery fire sans long toms or direct hits.
speaking of the big guns we should look into getting some of those ideally in SPG form be it thumper or ballista and also some partisans. because that would dramatically beef up the combined arms aspect of our forces and give us a huge advantage on the ground since AA platfoms and Artillery are rare in the periphery. Oh and of course probably should look into buy more combat armor that aren't IFVs or AA/Artillery especially since we can't make non primitve mechs or mechs that aren't mediums. Be it demolishers, ontos, behemoths, bulldogs, weapons carriers be they AC-2, Laser, SRM, or LRMs, Hetzers, LRM Hassers, Pegasus, Saracens, Saldins, Scimatars, J Edgars, Pikes, Hunters, Condors, or LVT-4s.
I'd add fusion powered vehicles that aren't the J Edgar or Hunter or newer stuff like the sturmfuer to that list but the odds are we would lack the means or influence to get thema(save maybe the brutus due to the capcon due to political reasons not liking the design) and I also refuse to add the terrible design that is the galleon or the SRM Harrasser to the mix since they'll just die without doing much. the skuller....not sure. and alas the striker isn't a thing till 3006; well the CV that is. The 80 ton battlemech of the same name exists if rare since despite being a easy to maintain assault mech non bothered to restart production of the design post the plant being blasted and honestly if we get the chance we should probably buy mechs of that design or better yet the license/exclusive rights in the future. also on the no buy list unless getting a stupidly good deal is the scorpion(save maybe the LRM variant) since we literally make the vedette.
also should look into getting some VTOLs. probably a mix of warriors, rippers, karnovs, and ferrets. I'd say conventional air as well but save for transport birds those aren't worth are our time or money unless getting ASFs is impossible save maybe the mechbuster since AC-20 or as a source of cheap and easy to get fusion engines.
edit: on another note we should probably if possible in the future look into buying up Arcuturan Arms or getting a production license for their designs from them since I'm pretty sure they're all but broke but are sitting on tooling for the Crossbow, Marsden II, and Buffel VI given how quickly in otl post new dallas core they managed to revive production of them.
yes I know we can't do of this right now or reasonably speaking all of it period but setting up a list of nice options for the future isn't a bad idea.
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Motorized infantry get ATVs and Humvee equivlents and can tow feild guns. Mechanized Infantry get bargin bin apcs but on table top lose the cover bonus infantry normally enjoy.
Battletech is future of the 80s as seen by pop culture so IFVs aren't that popular in setting.
Which is strange given the whole everyone and their dog had them by them or wanted them.
On another note do we make our own Ammo, heatsinks, and armor and if so how much?
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80s pop culture. They were going off how war worked in ww2.
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[X] Plan: Matters of Stability
-[X] The Attendance of the President
-[X] The Attendance of Balthazar's Director
-[X] Complete Transparency
-[X] Implement a Tax Cut (Economy drops by 1, ~58% Chance of Stability increasing by 1)
-[X] to augment the 1st National Guard's Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Companies with three Motorized Infantry Regiments!" (3 Motorized Infantry Regiments are raised and attached to the 1st National Guard in exchange for 720 Currency over the next two quarters)
-[X] The Attendance of the President
-[X] The Attendance of Balthazar's Director
-[X] Complete Transparency
-[X] Implement a Tax Cut (Economy drops by 1, ~58% Chance of Stability increasing by 1)
-[X] to augment the 1st National Guard's Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Companies with three Motorized Infantry Regiments!" (3 Motorized Infantry Regiments are raised and attached to the 1st National Guard in exchange for 720 Currency over the next two quarters)
To be fair you can put regular,motor, or jump infantry in IFVs or APCs. Just need more of them
What I'm getting at is battletech is weird about it. We ca. Break the mold but and do late to post cold war Nato style mechanized Infantry but it's gonna take a major chunk of investment to pull off as we need to get a good IFV desgin/license and build a factory to produce a crapload of it.
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A Btech mechanised infantry battalion built using combat vehicle IFV's rather than the 'mechanised infantry' mini vee's would require somewhere in the region of 30-40 vehicles. It's not so many... but it's a few.
40, 36 for fighting, 4 for the headquarters lance.