Well we can probably make enough material that unless your going out for an extended stay, you wont need to run out, or reload. Depending on the lethality. And even if you do run out, your gun fires an unending stream of ultra-sharp wraithbone needles.
Excluding the Aethersails and hull, the Sloops weapons cost 8+12=20 NEP (Heavy Las-Lance and Las PD), and the Cutters weapons cost 5+5=10 NEP (2 Las Lances).
I'm in favor. The reason to make factories now would be because we expect to need their production soon-ish, but the sooner we get more BP the faster it compounds.
Word of advice on the spreadsheet. Make the equations a single step per cell(so (x+Y)×Z) is two cells), you can hide rows/columns so it doesn't interfere with readablity. And it makes changing things later much easier (like say a new way to get BAP)
Eeeh. The overall industry scaling increasing factory output isn't exactly an argument not to take Enhance Industry actions.
I'm certainly in favor. That means v. limited BAP for tech development, but fitting in one or two items the very turn we plan to use them should still be possible.
| Turn | Expected BP Expenditure | Scenario 1 Expected # Foundries | Scenario 2 Expected # Foundries | Scenario 1 Total Production Units | Scenario 2 Total Production Units |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | ||||
| 2 | 1 | 1.5 | 0 | 1.5 | |
| 3 | 0.5 | 2 | 0 | 3.5 | |
| 4 | 2.25 | 0 | 5.75 | ||
| 5 | 0.5 | 2.25 | 0.5 | 8 | |
| 6 | 1 | 2.25 | 1.5 | 10.25 | |
| 7 | 1.5 | 2.25 | 3 | 12.5 | |
| 8 | 2 | 2.25 | 5 | 14.75 | |
| 9 | 2.5 | 2.25 | 7.5 | 17 | |
| 10 | 3 | 2.25 | 10.5 | 19.25 | |
| 11 | 3.5 | 2.25 | 14 | 21.5 | |
| 12 | 4 | 2.25 | 18 | 23.75 | |
| 13 | 4.5 | 2.25 | 22.5 | 26 | |
| 14 | 5 | 2.25 | 27.5 | 28.25 | |
| 15 | 5.5 | 2.25 | 33 | 30.5 | |
| 16 | 6 | 2.25 | 39 | 32.75 | |
| 17 | 6.5 | 2.25 | 45.5 | 35 | |
| 18 | 7 | 2.25 | 52.5 | 37.25 | |
| 19 | 7.5 | 2.25 | 60 | 39.5 | |
| 20 | 8 | 2.25 | 68 | 41.75 | |
| 21 | 8.5 | 2.25 | 76.5 | 44 | |
| 22 | 9 | 2.25 | 85.5 | 46.25 | |
| 23 | 9.5 | 2.25 | 95 | 48.5 | |
| 24 | 10 | 2.25 | 105 | 50.75 | |
| 25 | 10.5 | 2.25 | 115.5 | 53 |
Honestly we are probably set for tech for a bit.
Grenades could be very meaningful and very cheap. I'd argue for picking up handheld auspex if we're rationalizing elite infantry, because I'd like the mortar teams to have it. Etc. But if we do any, it should be because we expect to use it immediately. Not just because we expect it to unlock something cool.
At the moment, we really don't. Especially with the Orks meaning we can't really afford to keep putting off repairing our engines.
Would freeing up some of the psychic might currently bound up fighting off the Thirst and/or regaining some of our Deep Lore (whether for use in optimizing the manufacturing project or just more effective telepathic training) help mitigate those bottlenecks?
if we find a dead craft world breaking it up for rapid expansion might be doable. probably a multi turn project even with Forge of Vaule assistance, but maybe worth the effort.
I think long-term we aren't going to be able to hard focus on expanding either continuously once we work through our refits and need to build fleets. short term however we should Raise Bap for a few turns while we unlock a few more tech and design various bits of our army before we transition to making a handful of foundries every turn to set our wargear production up.
problem is we then need to design a refit suitable to that hall, and that also leads to fleet inconsistency. ultimately, we are going to have to bite the bullet and just make ships in bulk every few turns. haste makes waste.
Ironically the my current plan for turn 5 uses exactly 8/15 Bap for 2 enhance Industry +forge of vaul each and 1 armor factory. the other AP go to Arach-qin and Quilan arrangements, Replacing Primary power distribution, with a point left over that I was planning for developing Grenades or one of the other single ap develop actions, but could be put on refit instead.
Yeah.
we definitely need to start them turn 5, but we can afford to do just power distribution. the Ork leader doesn't know where our world is and he isn't going to find us for at least several turns. we can spend 2 AP each turn on the Minor failures and 3 AP Repairing Plasma System from turns 6 through 8, allowing us to finish engine repairs turn 9. this leaves us with 10 AP. 2 for obligations, 2 for an armor or weapon foundry each turn, and 6 for enhance industry, plus whatever increases over the course of those turns.
fair enough.
