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The continued degradation of our heavy industry for an additional turn of not doing Partial Demob is a sacrifice I think we have to make. The Third Wave is the Big One, the single largest reinforcement wave they enemy is ever getting, and they'll be making planetfall in a period where the Mouran Island chain, our industrial heartlands, are within range enough that an assault on them is plausible. Furthermore, they'll be hitting in a time period where our primary expected counters to their armor and aircraft are only just starting to hit the field.

In order to counter that sort of assault, we need as much metal as we can being thrown out now in order to slow them down. That means for this turn, we need to go all-in on the drone swarm, especially projects that have a long lead-time like the Heavy Drone Systems. A single month could mean the difference between them being deployed en-masse and ready for the assault, and only having a handful just rolling off the factory lines.

Just the Drone Production isn't enough, because the design actions are still needed to, well, design the drones that the production is supposed to pump out. We can absolutely squeeze in Partial Demob next turn, but for this turn I think our utmost priority needs to be making sure the primary drone designs and production are set up and running.
 
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[X]Plan 3000 Black Helicopters of Dannan

Our best hope is to choke the enemy on waves of expendable metal until we are rolling out our new counters for enemy armor. We can put some effort into industrial refits when the enemy is not about to grind us to hamburger under the treads of their tanks.
 
[X] Plan Black Skies

Work programs pls, they've been wildly successful and we should keep the effort up without interruption instead of letting it get interrupted for a month.
 
MSH said:
Fundamentally, we can expect maximum aggression from the enemy now that they are fucked and not getting any more money.
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Not quite sure how you've read that the third wave approaching is going to be a massive concentration of armour and expected to be followed by later (smaller) waves and interpreted it as the enemy being fucked.

Let's be clear, when this third wave turns up it is probably going to be the deciding point of the war, and us losing is still all too plausible

MSH said:
It is important that we do not create for the PSC an effective myth of martyrdom. As they will continue their operations no matter what action is taken, seeming to be the ones to split the front is a terrible unforced blunder on our part. Instead, we must make them the unreasonable traitors who could not even muster up the slightest patriotism not to murder random civilians and steal nuclear weapons when they were supposed to be doing their jobs defending Dannan. Once this is done we will have all we need to declare the fascists terminally useless splitters and act accordingly, securing the postwar both physically and ideologically.
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Us condemning the fascists for detonating a dirty bomb in a hospital is not an unforced blunder and is unlikely to make them any more popular, 'myth of martyrdom' or not. Instead it's more likely to turn public sentiment further against them as having gone too far
 
[X] Plan Maintaining Momentum
 
Chimeraguard said:
Plan Purple meanwhile is a huge gamble, albeit one that if it works could obliterate the very understrength Curach garrison and remove their first beachhead, main command center, and collaborator government. Oh, and 600 800kt nuclear shells going off is probably bad for the environment.
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Hm. How would we be fitting an 800 kiloton warhead into a feasible sized artillery shell? These aren't battleship guns we're talking about, as I recall. My impression is that there's a fairly fixed practical size limit with fissile materials, where you can only get single digit kilotons per kilogram.
 
Simon_Jester said:
Hm. How would we be fitting an 800 kiloton warhead into a feasible sized artillery shell? These aren't battleship guns we're talking about, as I recall. My impression is that there's a fairly fixed practical size limit with fissile materials, where you can only get single digit kilotons per kilogram.
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Well, "shells" probably isn't the right word. Those hypersonic missiles we made have been in production for at least a couple months by now, so we'd probably be using those.
 
[X] Plan Black Skies
[X]Plan 3000 Black Helicopters of Dannan
[X] Plan Maximum Drones


I do think Denounce and Support would be better at the cost of a possible political troubles for Ricky personally after the war, but I guess it's not the hill to die on.
 
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[X]Plan 3000 Black Helicopters of Dannan

I'm guessing our biggest issue right this second is rushing our very finicky and heavy new vehicles into the islands, and keeping the entire army moving and supplied as everything continues to be a rainy mud pit. Boats + choppers helps with that.

Mass printing the murder bots while literally everything is being rationed is grim, but given what's coming I think we can afford to delay a turn on the other stuff.
 
[X] Plan Cogadh Uathoibríoch
-[X]Plan Black
-[X]Institute Guidelines
-[X]Continued Work Programs: (-20 Mobilization Capacity for 6 Months)
-[X]Decentralization of Energy System Production: (-15 Mobilization Capacity for 6 Months)
-[X]Expand Housing Allocations: (-20 Mobilization Capacity for 4 Months)
-[X]Type 36 Automatization: (-15 Mobilization Capacity)
-[X]VTOL Modification: (-35 Mobilization Capacity)
-[X]Heavy Drone Systems: (-30 Mobilization Capacity)
-[X]Prepare Drone Production: (-20 Mobilization Capacity for 4 Months)
-[X]Mobile Mine Swarms: (-30 Mobilization Capacity)
 
[X] Plan Maximum Drones
-[X]Plan White
-[X]Denounce Officially
-[X]Attritional Drones (-25 MC)
-[X]Heavy Drone Systems (-30 MC)
-[X]Prepare Drone Production (-20x4)
-[X]Mobile Mine Swarms(-30 MC)
-[X]Continued Work Programs (-20x6)
-[X]Partial Demobilization (-60 total)
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Also known as I Tried to do versions of the Black Skies and Maintaining Momentum that drop Mainline Yards and ended up with the same plan two times : V

But yeah. I consider Mainline Yards as less urgent that Partial DeMob. So this started as an effort to drop that instead for Black Skies. And that and a similar attempt with Maintaining Momentum both ended up as Maximum Drones.

It both gets us our Drone Swarms for the Third Wave and aids our desperately struggling economy. And it does The Most Drones and is therefore best : V

So Vote for it! :p
 
[X] Plan Maintaining Momentum
[X] Plan Maximum Drones
[X] Plan Black Skies
 
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[X]Plan 3000 Black Helicopters of Dannan

If we are planning to do partial demobilization, I'd rather not also have us committed to Work Programs with our lower budget; since the latter seems more like a morale program we don't desperately need, while probably not having much impact on the economic basics compared to demobilization. Since it seems like the consensus is for demobilization this turn or next, better not to select Work Programs now.
 
[X] Plan Black Skies
[X] Plan Maximum Drones
[X]Plan 3000 Black Helicopters of Dannan

This looks good. I want those attritional drones.
 
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[X] Plan Maintaining Momentum
 
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