- Pronouns
- They/Them
I also think it's foolishness to train new Squads of soldiers if we can't even equip them with the weapons that make our Soldiers so feared and potent locally.
Age of Strife
- Pronouns
- He/Him
The front page is getting updated tonight after work, but it was either do everything all at once tonight or get the update to you last night and fix the front page today and update later tonight so that you can spend two days on the argument on personal actions since I am busy Friday nights.
redzonejoe
Vaguely Pastafarian
- Location
- Canada
Yay more debates!
I'm only a little bit sarcastic, they can be quite fun at times. Any answers for the many questions we have?
I'm only a little bit sarcastic, they can be quite fun at times. Any answers for the many questions we have?
- Pronouns
- He/Him
On the phone at work trying to resolve a problem. Answers will have to wait a few hours.
All our regular soldiers are using military grade EM assault rifles, some with underbarrel grenade launchers.
These assault rifles are at least comparabe, probably superior to a conventional machine gun.
I intend to try to convince people to buy next turn AA LAC's for at least 6000, better 8000 or more.
This way we will be able to effectively engage air borne targets. While this would not change us getting crushed by Authority, 60 or so AA LAC's will be a far better intimidation/deterrent than twenty or so more SAW's.
Because all these LAC's could shoot down an Authority transport, were we to get lucky, and these are losses that Authority can ill afford.
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AA would definitely deter them much more than any number of SAWs, if what we know of their tech is accurate they don't have the ability to replace aircraft at all.
Not much argument this time since everyone's united on the plan to fix our brain with Gravekeeper books.
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- Location
- National Capital Region, USA
[X] Seek more immigrants from the Free Volunteers populations
[X] Trade with the Machine Heads
[X] Train Soldiers
[X] Upgrade Military (SAWs) – 10 SAWs, 1500C
[X] Upgrade Archival Tools to be networked together. Cost: 600C + maintenance each turn (3% of population in C)
[X] Barracks (own public and Dragonflies would like this)
[X] Dig into the 504s - The 504s have secrets, you just need to get at them
[X] Investigate 504s technology
[X] Improved Teaching Methods II 6/320
Our Academics are aging, and we need more. Our research advantage is one of our biggest assets, so let's take steps to continue it.
[X] Trade with the Machine Heads
[X] Train Soldiers
[X] Upgrade Military (SAWs) – 10 SAWs, 1500C
[X] Upgrade Archival Tools to be networked together. Cost: 600C + maintenance each turn (3% of population in C)
[X] Barracks (own public and Dragonflies would like this)
[X] Dig into the 504s - The 504s have secrets, you just need to get at them
[X] Investigate 504s technology
[X] Improved Teaching Methods II 6/320
Our Academics are aging, and we need more. Our research advantage is one of our biggest assets, so let's take steps to continue it.
And what does Improved Teaching Methods have to do with that? Remember that all it does is reduce the amount of Academics/Artisans who have to act as teachers in the schools. The schools themselves still educate the same numbers of students.
Actions, and Space/Power concerns are more of a restriction for us, here, than the amount of teachers necessary. It'd be nifty if we'd need less, but not really all that crucial, compared to simply opening up more schools.
Besides the Land train should allow us recruitment of people/whole settlements further out, thus gaining more artisans/academics as well.
SuperSonicSound
Shadowmancer of the Shadow Cabal
We lack artisans to man the teaching centres and ideally we should massively ramp up the number of them we have. For me the next tech (after this one) is a toss up between ai1 and teaching methods as it frees up both academics and artisans. Being able to train twenty artisans a turn and taking up 60 to do so is vastly superior to our current outlay of 80 to 20. Especially as we should ideally have a good few more mprts for our artisans and academics to staff.
i would vote for AI, since it will improve the "Upgrade Archival Tools to be networked together." action we are taking this turn.
But yes, better teaching methods are relatively cheap and important, especially since we need more teaching centers.
[X] Seek more immigrants from the Free Volunteers populations
[X] Trade with the Machine Heads
[X] Train Soldiers
[X] Upgrade Military (SAWs)
– 29 SAWs, 1500C
[X] Command Centre Design - With the completion of the proving grounds and military academy, your thoughts now turn towards the fact that as your military grows there will be even more needed, although the idea is a long term project
[X] Upgrade Archival Tools to be networked together. Cost: 600C + maintenance each turn (3% of population in C)
[X] Barracks (own public and Dragonflies would like this)
Not sure yet about intelligence actions or Research. I'll admit, Improved Teaching is tempting. It's a pretty tiny project.
[X] Trade with the Machine Heads
[X] Train Soldiers
[X] Upgrade Military (SAWs)
– 29 SAWs, 1500C
[X] Command Centre Design - With the completion of the proving grounds and military academy, your thoughts now turn towards the fact that as your military grows there will be even more needed, although the idea is a long term project
[X] Upgrade Archival Tools to be networked together. Cost: 600C + maintenance each turn (3% of population in C)
[X] Barracks (own public and Dragonflies would like this)
Not sure yet about intelligence actions or Research. I'll admit, Improved Teaching is tempting. It's a pretty tiny project.
While we'll probably want Improved Teaching II soon - my inclination would be once UAM Design is complete - right now it doesn't really help us, What we'd need to do is assign our Research and Teaching Centers to teaching - paticularly Artisans, and *KEEP* them on teaching. Which means we'll likely have to shut down one of our Machine Shops for a year, and assign the staff to teaching, instead.
Then, see about building some schools.
*NOT* Research and Teaching Centers, but simply schools. With no ability - and thus no temptation - to change them from teaching to research.
Then, see about building some schools.
*NOT* Research and Teaching Centers, but simply schools. With no ability - and thus no temptation - to change them from teaching to research.
[X] Seek more immigrants from the Free Volunteers populations
[X] Trade with the Machine Heads
[X] Train Soldiers
[X] Upgrade Military (SAWs)
- [X] 29 SAWs
[X] Command Centre Design
[X] Building Industrial Fusion Reactor in Greengraft, will complete in 1 turn
[X] Upgrade Archival Tools to be networked together. Cost: 600C + maintenance each turn (3% of population in C)
[X] Barracks (own public and Dragonflies would like this)
[X] Infiltrate the Dragonflies Secret Police
[X] Investigate the Machine Heads
[X] Improved Teaching Methods II
[X] Trade with the Machine Heads
[X] Train Soldiers
[X] Upgrade Military (SAWs)
- [X] 29 SAWs
[X] Command Centre Design
[X] Building Industrial Fusion Reactor in Greengraft, will complete in 1 turn
[X] Upgrade Archival Tools to be networked together. Cost: 600C + maintenance each turn (3% of population in C)
[X] Barracks (own public and Dragonflies would like this)
[X] Infiltrate the Dragonflies Secret Police
[X] Investigate the Machine Heads
[X] Improved Teaching Methods II
This comes down to the urgency with which we expect to use our full compliment of troops. The crew's brainbug is compelling us to work full-tilt towards the UAM design tech which will drop their prices "like a stone", and there is a nontrivial chance that we will end up purchasing the entire tech from the Machine Heads this turn anyway. There's also the point that that action could be used to train a pretty hefty chunk of soldiers- who might be more of a combat advantage than additional SAWs considering that they come with armor, are the only local force who can really work in the woods, and already have grenade launchers and EM rifles as standard arms.
We already have 20 mechs' worth in the bank, and unless we are going to be sharing compact reactor and weaponized mech tech the value of their contribution is uncertain.
On the plus side, we also folded like a wet napkin and they decided their new toy was not as fun as they had hoped.
I don't think that the Eldar challenge is going to come down to force of arms. If it does, we have little choice but to join up with The Authority since they don't seem to be doing terribly well despite being decades beyond what we are capable of.
The AC(L) are not currently capable of AA work, our SAWs are comparable in hitting power while being more maneuverable, we don't know if they would have any effect on The Authority's craft (we had to wait for the scorched wreckage of their crashed scout craft to turn its own shield off because we literally had no way to get through it even at point blank range in controlled conditions), and if they did The Authority can drop several hundred of their wallrunning supercyborg jetpack shocktroopers into the forest to storm the emplacements before completely depopulating us as we have been told they have to several other polities.
If that's your interest it is time to slap a reactor into an airship and go exploring.
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[X] Seek more immigrants from the Free Volunteers populations
[X] Trade with the Machine Heads
[X] Train Soldiers
[X] Upgrade Military (SAWs)
-[X] Purchase 29 SAWs
[X] Upgrade Archival Tools to be networked together
[X] Barracks (own public and Dragonflies would like this)
[X] Infiltrate the Dragonflies Secret Police
[X] Investigate the Machine Heads
[X] Land Train 0/200
I'm pretty sure that we get access to the design logic of a category after we research one example of that category, and we have a number of high cost vehicle projects (flare shield and orbital transport) that could be majorly advanced. Best case scenario we get a 500 rp vehicle design logic to boost us 2750+ rp (25% of 10000+1500), although we are likely to get less due to having chunks gated by field physics and the like.
[X] Trade with the Machine Heads
[X] Train Soldiers
[X] Upgrade Military (SAWs)
-[X] Purchase 29 SAWs
[X] Upgrade Archival Tools to be networked together
[X] Barracks (own public and Dragonflies would like this)
[X] Infiltrate the Dragonflies Secret Police
[X] Investigate the Machine Heads
[X] Land Train 0/200
I'm pretty sure that we get access to the design logic of a category after we research one example of that category, and we have a number of high cost vehicle projects (flare shield and orbital transport) that could be majorly advanced. Best case scenario we get a 500 rp vehicle design logic to boost us 2750+ rp (25% of 10000+1500), although we are likely to get less due to having chunks gated by field physics and the like.
piebox
Blueberry
[X] Seek more immigrants from the Free Volunteers populations
[X] Trade with the Machine Heads
[X] Train Soldiers
[X] Train Soldiers x2
[X] Command Centre Design - With the completion of the proving grounds and military academy, your thoughts now turn towards the fact that as your military grows there will be even more needed, although the idea is a long term project
[X] Building Industrial Fusion Reactor in Greengraft, will complete in 1 turn
[X] Upgrade Archival Tools to be networked together. Cost: 600C + maintenance each turn (3% of population in C)
[X] Barracks (own public and Dragonflies would like this)
[X] Infiltrate the Dragonflies Secret Police
[X] Investigate the Machine Heads
[X] Land Train 0/200
[X] Trade with the Machine Heads
[X] Train Soldiers
[X] Train Soldiers x2
[X] Command Centre Design - With the completion of the proving grounds and military academy, your thoughts now turn towards the fact that as your military grows there will be even more needed, although the idea is a long term project
[X] Building Industrial Fusion Reactor in Greengraft, will complete in 1 turn
[X] Upgrade Archival Tools to be networked together. Cost: 600C + maintenance each turn (3% of population in C)
[X] Barracks (own public and Dragonflies would like this)
[X] Infiltrate the Dragonflies Secret Police
[X] Investigate the Machine Heads
[X] Land Train 0/200
- Location
- That light in the sky with a decaying orbit.
[X] Seek more immigrants from the Free Volunteers populations
[X] Trade with the Machine Heads
[X] Train Soldiers
[X] Upgrade Military (SAWs)
- [X] 29 SAWs
[X] Command Centre Design - With the completion of the proving grounds and military academy, your thoughts now turn towards the fact that as your military grows there will be even more needed, although the idea is a long term project
[X] Building Industrial Fusion Reactor in Glenshade Manor, will complete in 1 turn
[X] Upgrade Archival Tools to be networked together. Cost: 600C + maintenance each turn (3% of population in C)
[X] Barracks (own public and Dragonflies would like this)
[X] Infiltrate the Dragonflies Secret Police
[X] Investigate the Machine Heads
[X] Land Train 0/200
We might want to consider building another barracks in Glenshade manor, that would help deal with the military coverage issues that the surrounding communities are worried about. As for Auto-cannon, those should wait until we have the AA-mountings ready.
[X] Trade with the Machine Heads
[X] Train Soldiers
[X] Upgrade Military (SAWs)
- [X] 29 SAWs
[X] Command Centre Design - With the completion of the proving grounds and military academy, your thoughts now turn towards the fact that as your military grows there will be even more needed, although the idea is a long term project
[X] Building Industrial Fusion Reactor in Glenshade Manor, will complete in 1 turn
[X] Upgrade Archival Tools to be networked together. Cost: 600C + maintenance each turn (3% of population in C)
[X] Barracks (own public and Dragonflies would like this)
[X] Infiltrate the Dragonflies Secret Police
[X] Investigate the Machine Heads
[X] Land Train 0/200
We might want to consider building another barracks in Glenshade manor, that would help deal with the military coverage issues that the surrounding communities are worried about. As for Auto-cannon, those should wait until we have the AA-mountings ready.
SuperSonicSound
Shadowmancer of the Shadow Cabal
Doomsough, I think the Barracks should be put in Amythest gardens if we want to do that.
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- He/Him
[X] Seek more immigrants from the Free Volunteers populations
[X] Trade with the Machine Heads
[X] Train Soldiers
[X] Upgrade Military (SAWs)
- [X] 60 SAWs
[X] Command Centre Design
[X] Building Industrial Fusion Reactor in Greengraft, will complete in 1 turn
[X] Upgrade Archival Tools to be networked together. Cost: 600C + maintenance each turn (3% of population in C)
[X] Barracks (own public and Dragonflies would like this)
[X] Dig into the 504s - The 504s have secrets, you just need to get at them
[X] Investigate the Machine Heads
[X] Land Train 0/200
I would rather use the intelligence advantage we just got against the 504's than start up the same laborious task of infiltration with the Dragonflies.
[X] Trade with the Machine Heads
[X] Train Soldiers
[X] Upgrade Military (SAWs)
- [X] 60 SAWs
[X] Command Centre Design
[X] Building Industrial Fusion Reactor in Greengraft, will complete in 1 turn
[X] Upgrade Archival Tools to be networked together. Cost: 600C + maintenance each turn (3% of population in C)
[X] Barracks (own public and Dragonflies would like this)
[X] Dig into the 504s - The 504s have secrets, you just need to get at them
[X] Investigate the Machine Heads
[X] Land Train 0/200
I would rather use the intelligence advantage we just got against the 504's than start up the same laborious task of infiltration with the Dragonflies.
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- Location
- That light in the sky with a decaying orbit.
Thanks for the correction, I keep forgetting what is next in line because it hasn't been added to the first page yet.
[X] Seek more immigrants from the Free Volunteers populations
[X] Trade with the Machine Heads
[X] Train Soldiers
[X] Upgrade Military (SAWs)
- [X] 29 SAWs
[X] Command Centre Design - With the completion of the proving grounds and military academy, your thoughts now turn towards the fact that as your military grows there will be even more needed, although the idea is a long term project
[X] Building Industrial Fusion Reactor in Greengraft, will complete in 1 turn
[X] Upgrade Archival Tools to be networked together. Cost: 600C + maintenance each turn (3% of population in C)
[X] Barracks (own public and Dragonflies would like this)
[X] Infiltrate the Dragonflies Secret Police
[X] Investigate 504s technology
[X] Land Train 0/200
[X] Trade with the Machine Heads
[X] Train Soldiers
[X] Upgrade Military (SAWs)
- [X] 29 SAWs
[X] Command Centre Design - With the completion of the proving grounds and military academy, your thoughts now turn towards the fact that as your military grows there will be even more needed, although the idea is a long term project
[X] Building Industrial Fusion Reactor in Greengraft, will complete in 1 turn
[X] Upgrade Archival Tools to be networked together. Cost: 600C + maintenance each turn (3% of population in C)
[X] Barracks (own public and Dragonflies would like this)
[X] Infiltrate the Dragonflies Secret Police
[X] Investigate 504s technology
[X] Land Train 0/200
- Location
- Cyberspace
