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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.



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    • Crusher Bob said:
    Mostly because of an inability to admit to fuck-ups, which meant that the causes of those fuck-ups couldn't be addressed.

    The Soviet Army started with a dose of the same problem, but had that brutally and violently stomped out of them. The Japanese just seemed to cling to it all the more.
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    Can you give examples?
    DaLintyGuy said:
    They should have drawn the US into a pitched naval battle off the shores of the Philippines instead of sinking the American navy at easily salvaged anchor?
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    Wait, Pearl Harbor was easily salvageable?

    Because sneak-attacking your enemy's fleet while its at anchor is essentially one of the best moves on naval warfare, afaik.
     
    TotallyNotEvil said:
    Wait, Pearl Harbor was easily salvageable?

    Because sneak-attacking your enemy's fleet while its at anchor is essentially one of the best moves on naval warfare, afaik.
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    Pearl Harbor is shallow and all but like one of the BBs sunk there were refloated in a year and a half-ish. What should have been destroyed was the tank farms, drydocks, and other things that would have allowed the Pacific Fleet to operate.

    However, had the Japanese simply done their thing in SEA and the US sortied to protect the Philippines and gotten smashed, public support might not have been large enough to avoid a temporary peace deal with the Japanese as all that would have been being fought over were Asians, which... Weren't generally a Western concern at the time, sad to say.
     
    open_sketchbook said:
    You also got the seed money invested in what is probably the fastest-growing company in the country, meaning pretty soon you're going to be in World Influence Rich territory.
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    I still find it hilarious that we got that seed money from winning a bet on the outcome of the race. Now, because of it, Asuka is going to be fairly wealthy, even if it isn't very liquid. We went from financially irresponsible (the bet) to very responsible (investing the earnings back into a high-growth company).
     
    DaLintyGuy said:
    Pearl Harbor is shallow and all but like one of the BBs sunk there were refloated in a year and a half-ish. What should have been destroyed was the tank farms, drydocks, and other things that would have allowed the Pacific Fleet to operate.

    However, had the Japanese simply done their thing in SEA and the US sortied to protect the Philippines and gotten smashed, public support might not have been large enough to avoid a temporary peace deal with the Japanese as all that would have been being fought over were Asians, which... Weren't generally a Western concern at the time, sad to say.
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    I mean, the plan wasn't terrible. The Aircraft carriers that were their main target would have been much harder to dredge up and get operational again, and they take a long time to build. Without those to hand, the IJN would have pretty much had free-reign in the Pacific.

    It's just, they weren't where they thought they'd be.
     
    Decim said:
    I still find it hilarious that we got that seed money from winning a bet on the outcome of the race. Now, because of it, Asuka is going to be fairly wealthy, even if it isn't very liquid. We went from financially irresponsible (the bet) to very responsible (investing the earnings back into a high-growth company).
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    Clearly Asuka realized they couldn't count on this shit again after hearing that the pilot only survived, let alone won, due to a burst of irreplicable instinct.
     
    Tylonius said:
    I mean, the plan wasn't terrible. The Aircraft carriers that were their main target would have been much harder to dredge up and get operational again, and they take a long time to build. Without those to hand, the IJN would have pretty much had free-reign in the Pacific.

    It's just, they weren't where they thought they'd be.
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    Even if the carriers had been at port, and they'd managed to take out all the battleships, carriers, and all the operational installations (which they flat-out lacked the bombing capacity to manage unless you assume they're using aimbot cheats somehow), it would have extended the Pacific war by two, maybe three years. Because here's the disgusting part -- in 1944, the US was producing about as much war materiel as the rest of the Allies and the Axis combined. The US actually started demobilizing its industry before 1944 was over, to avoid a post-war economic malaise.

    Japan picked a fight they could not win. It's like pitting an anemic ten year old against a linebacker -- the real determining factor is how much the linebacker wants to beat the hell out of a kid.
     
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    Godwinson said:
    Japan picked a fight they could not win. It's like pitting an anemic ten year old against a linebacker -- the real determining factor is how much the linebacker wants to beat the hell out of a kid.
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    There's some conjecture online that says that supposed Japan took out all the targets like the battleships, carriers, submarine pens, repair facilities, and oil tanks at Pearl Harbour the US would still win based off the production numbers in 1944+.

    firestorm440 said:
    They tried to beat the most industrialized power on Earth with wild dreams and the power of Bushido.
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    The bushido thing isn't even a joke, the powers in Japan looked down on US resolve. One of the goals of Pearl Harbour (in addition to the strategic strike) was to demoralize the states, trying to shock them with a hard military blow that the states would go "yeah, let's just abandon all our territorial holdings in Asia, it's not worth fighting for."
     
    AntiSanity said:
    There's some conjecture online that says that supposed Japan took out all the targets like the battleships, carriers, submarine pens, repair facilities, and oil tanks at Pearl Harbour the US would still win based off the production numbers in 1944+.




    The bushido thing isn't even a joke, the powers in Japan looked down on US resolve. One of the goals of Pearl Harbour (in addition to the strategic strike) was to demoralize the states, trying to shock them with a hard military blow that the states would go "yeah, let's just abandon all our territorial holdings in Asia, it's not worth fighting for."
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    Forgetting, of course, that this is America they're talking about.

    They really should have seen the freight train we backed over them coming a lot further out.
     
    TotallyNotEvil said:
    Why do you consider WWII Japan particularly imcopetent?
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    1) More broadly, Japan willfully pursued a strategy of conquering lands for resources that it could have just purchased if it hadn't been such a militaristic bag of dicks. Almost no developed nation could have sat out World War II more easily than Japan did. Staying neutral would have cost Japan nothing, and they could probably have gotten away with a grossly favorable negotiated agreement to hold territory in China, at least for a while. If only they hadn't kept trying to gain physical control over raw materials that would place them in conflict with just about every European power plus America, they'd have been fine.

    2) As discussed, Japan vastly mis-estimated the strength and resolve of its enemies. This was a direct enabler of their fundamental mistake in (1).

    3) As discussed, Japan's military had NO institutional ability to admit mistakes. This proved disastrous because they kept wasting resources reinforcing losing plans. As long as the plans were good and the enemy wasn't equipped to exploit any vulnerabilities in Japanese equipment and deployment that went well, but that didn't last, see below.

    4) On a related note, Japan's extreme cultural inhibitions against criticizing superiors, admitting mistakes in general, and acknowledging flaws in a plan made it very difficult for them to plan military operations once "victory disease" set in. Their campaign in the first 5-6 months of the Pacific War was very impressive, well-organized and using economy of force to do a lot with what little they had, but at and after Midway it all fell apart because the Japanese were too arrogant to admit that their battleplans wouldn't go as planned.

    5) At the tactical level, the excess of militarism, inability to admit mistakes and compulsion to keep reinforcing a losing hand and make performative displays of warrior spirit resulted in the Japanese routinely overcrowding small islands with soldiers who would serve no strategic purpose except to die fighting better equipped US Marines after having been cut off and starved out by the Navy. Nor was this the only such extremely bad choice.

    I mean, let's drop the semi-self-congratulatory "heh heh their mistake was fighting 'MERICA" even though that was pretty clearly a disastrous error on their part. More generally, the decision to join the war at all was never going to pay off for them in a useful way, and the constant obsession with dying gloriously and with coming up with brilliant battle plans that just happened not to have any margin for error started biting them in the ass in 1942 and just dug in and kept biting throughout the next three years of war.

    TotallyNotEvil said:
    Pull a Mr. Ohara: Ride our stocks into retirement on a cosy beach somewhere.
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    Yeah, there's a bunch of lovely tropical islands Akitsukuni has; I'm sure they'll never turn into a war zone.

    Decim said:
    I still find it hilarious that we got that seed money from winning a bet on the outcome of the race. Now, because of it, Asuka is going to be fairly wealthy, even if it isn't very liquid. We went from financially irresponsible (the bet) to very responsible (investing the earnings back into a high-growth company).
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    The thing is, we were betting on ourselves, in a sense, in having built the best racing plane in the world for the purpose. So it was in a real sense a way of parlaying our talents into money, though it was very daring of us.
     
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    TotallyNotEvil said:
    Why do you consider WWII Japan particularly imcopetent?
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    Speaking from an army side, the fact that something like 90+% of their senior officers were so off base as to be dangerously delusional in their planning is only the first of many problems. In no particular order:
    • Logistical incompetence - "Long distance supply" meant a couple dozen trucks going a hundred km. This is not long distance in the era of mechanized warfare, you're thinking several decades in the past. Like even compared to WW1 that's not particularly long distance supply.
      • In 6 months an entire tank division advanced less than 300km and was rendered combat ineffective against an enemy with no tanks because they couldn't get enough spare parts.
      • In less than 2 months an entire army managed to avoid starvation only due to the fact that they captured enemy supplies at the conclusion of the campaign
      • THESE PEOPLE THINK YOU CAN SUPPORT A 33 DIVISION OFFENSIVE WITH LESS THAN 1000 TRUCKS! Including ones taken from civilian unsuited to military cargo use.
    • Artillery command and control system is abysmal.
    • When troops on the ground went "We need bigger guns because they have tanks and we can't stop them" the response from command was generally "Try harder". And not because the bigger guns were nonexistant but because higher officers didn't want to relinquish them. This is a abject failure.
    • A complete disregard for the necessary bureaucracy of war. I don't care if it means a dozen extra rifles, you don't have anybody collecting and compiling all of your intel or coordinating trucks to say which supplies go where and now you don't have any idea what you're doing because the guy who should be doing the planning has to do both of those jobs as well as his own.
    • Their intelligence apparatus was a complete joke. Completely incapable of detecting the fact that close to every country it fought against cracked it's code
    • Their high command was delusion enough to think they could render the Soviet Union combat ineffective without ever going west of Lake Baikal which isn't even on the western side of the mongolian border
    There's more but it's late and I have to work tomorrow.
     
    Sorry to break things up here but good news: I just did the new rebuild of the Plane Builder. After a sanity check from our resident Engineer Folks we'll be ready to roll with wings and shit!
     
    TotallyNotEvil said:
    Can you give examples?

    Wait, Pearl Harbor was easily salvageable?

    Because sneak-attacking your enemy's fleet while its at anchor is essentially one of the best moves on naval warfare, afaik.
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    Examples: Finland then the first few months of the German invasion. Put aside the winter beat Germany memes that arose due to the education of the US during the Cold War that the soviet army was poorly equipped and ill disciplined and research it, you find that of the German divisions, IIRC 85% were rendered fit only for defensive or rear-line operations before the soldiers stationed east of the Urals ever arrived.

    Sneak attacking the enemies fleet at anchor used to be one of the best things you could do in naval warfare because once you sunk an ironclad, steamship or other vessel it was gone since it would take months to refloat and the wood would have rotted. For metal ships in harbour, well, look at pearl harbour.
     
    KhazintheDark said:
    Examples: Finland then the first few months of the German invasion. Put aside the winter beat Germany memes that arose due to the education of the US during the Cold War that the soviet army was poorly equipped and ill disciplined and research it, you find that of the German divisions, IIRC 85% were rendered fit only for defensive or rear-line operations before the soldiers stationed east of the Urals ever arrived.
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    Well, by that point they had advanced across... I don't know, something like 600-800 kilometers, maybe more? They only had three major railroad trunks to resupply their forces, which were pretty much at full capacity as I understand it, or at least at full capacity subject to the limits of what they could manage with Russian partisan attacks.

    There comes a point at which no realistic amount of preparation could make it possible to sustain an army in offensive-capable conditions, in the face of that little infrastructure, over that much distance and against that much opposition. The German mistake was in not doing the math in advance and realizing what they couldn't do.

    Sneak attacking the enemies fleet at anchor used to be one of the best things you could do in naval warfare because once you sunk an ironclad, steamship or other vessel it was gone since it would take months to refloat and the wood would have rotted. For metal ships in harbour, well, look at pearl harbour.
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    If attacking the US was ever going to work at all, then it would have to have worked before the US could salvage those battleships anyway. Ultimately, refloating most of the 'Ghosts of Pearl' was a boon for the US, but not a huge one; a few things might have taken longer and Surigao Strait could have been ugly without the extra battleships, but it really was a carrier war.
     
    TotallyNotEvil said:
    Why do you consider WWII Japan particularly imcopetent?
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    Grim Economic Realities

    Read 'em and weep, skippy. America, in one year (1943) produced more planes than Japan did in six. You don't build factories to build factories in the thirties and forties- no, what you do is you use what you've got. The fact that what America had was so much more staggeringly titantic than what Japan had should make it obvious this was not a fight you were going to win- there'd just be another pile of planes on carriers waiting for you.
     
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    The design of the new gun carrier was rapidly consolidating. You'd discarded the drafts with two crew for a single pilot to save weight; it would give the machine a better chance of catching its prey. The design did not call for much endurance, so you decided to go for a single small fuel tank, with the option to expand to 2 if you needed it later. There was also need for a castor oil tank, which you put under the pilot's seat.

    An advantage to the pusher mount was that it needed less bracing against the frame than a tractor mount, owing to the fact that it was not essentially trying to pull itself off the aircraft. The mount was little more than a circle of wire braced in place into which the crankshaft fit, the pilot's back right against it. Ahead of them was the body, which was a simple tube for a fuselage, ending in a pleasing aerodynamic point, to which the wings would be attached.

    While you pondered your options and lead the team through studies, you were working all the while on the thousand-stitch belt for Yachi. It was a simple procedure: you'd bought a length of black fabric to match his scarf (most were white), and in army blue thread you were placing a grid of little stitches. Fortunately, Adachi had taught you how to do it properly, and now there was a lovely little pattern spreading across the design. The ends of the design would be bound into a rope to tie the belt in place. You weren't nearly as skilled as some of the women you'd seen working on them, who'd embroidered tigers, patriotic messages, or small flags into their design, but you were proud of your accomplishment, as much as it was uncomfortable working on it in public. You caught yourself talking in a lower tone than usual while you had the scarf in your hand to work on, which felt embarrassingly obvious. You couldn't just counter something feminine with something masculine, that was crude!

    The machine would still be wood, of course, as steel for a framework was even less attainable than usual and obviously much too heavy. But for the surface of the plane, there were options. With a plane this small, you could likely afford some interesting materials.

    Skin. You require 2 sections.
    [ ] Naked (+3 Drag, -1 Mass. Vision bonus when used on crew slots)
    [ ] Canvas (+1 Drag, +1 Structure.)
    [ ] Tense Silk (+1 Drag, +2 Structure. Offers limited armour. 3 Cost per section)
    [ ] Treated Paper (+1 Drag, -1 Mass.)
    [ ] Molded Wood (+1 Mass, +5 Structure. Costs 1 per section.)
    [ ] Thin Sheet Steel (+2 Mass, +5 Structure, offers limited armour. 3 Cost per Section)

    Frame. You require at least 2 frame slots, but can take more. Each wooden frame slot costs 1, giving +1 Mass and +4 Structure.
    [ ] 2 Frame Slots (2 cost, +2 Mass, +6 Structure)
    [ ] 3 Frame Slots (3 cost, +3 Mass, +9 Structure)
    [ ] 4 Frame Slots (4 cost, +4 Mass, +12 Structure)
    [ ] Write In

    Numbers may drift a bit in the final version, we're still crunching.​
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    • open_sketchbook said:
    [ ] Thin Sheet Steel (+2 Mass, +5 Structure, offers limited armour. 3 Cost per Section)
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    Cost is after the Akitsukuni mark-up, correct? Because otherwise, I'd actually be tempted to go for a Silk and Molded wood composite.
    Actually, scratch that 'otherwise'. Compared to Sheet Steel, it gives us +2 Structure and -1 Mass, for +1 Cost and possibly +1 Drag depending on how exactly the wood and silk are arranged and which is on the surface. That's competitive with adding extra frames.

    Come to think, would cheaper sources of silk and added ability for molding wood more easily and cheaply be viable production upgrades in the future?
     
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    Cost is after the markup, yes.

    There's no rules for such a composite right now... but I'll let you roll +Materials to make it happen!!!!

    (The image of silk tightly bond around a sculpted wooden frame is like... the coolest shit in the fucking universe bro.)

    (There's actually a rule that's been added called "Unusual Modification" that lets you do shit like this and basically customize your plane beyond the bounds of normal customization. The trick is it basically gives the GM a ticket like "at any point for a hard move you can tell the player how it went wrong"). Thanks @Karlito !
     
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    open_sketchbook said:
    There's no rules for such a composite right now... but I'll let you roll +Materials to make it happen!!!!

    (The image of silk tightly bond around a sculpted wooden frame is like... the coolest shit in the fucking universe bro.)
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    Good to know. Would a full success allow sandwiching the silk between wood layers, to get rid of the Drag cost of the silk?
    (And why does silk cause drag anyway? Canvas I get, but silk strikes me as smoother than molded wood, unless it's laquered maybe. Is it because the silk flutters maybe?)

    Also, see the question on Production upgrades I edited in above.
     
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    Is there a way to download a copy of the spreadsheet for your plane & engine designer?

    I fancy playing around with it to see what I can come up with.
     
    Gnarker said:
    Good to know. Would a full success allow sandwiching the silk between wood layers, to get rid of the Drag cost of the silk?
    (And why does silk cause drag anyway? Canvas I get, but silk strikes me as smoother than molded wood, unless it's laquered maybe. Is it because the silk flutters maybe?)

    Also, see the question on Production upgrades I edited in above.
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    Even tense silk will have more flex and flutter to it than a bent plank of wood, so yeah, that explanation seems logical.
     
    Gnarker said:
    Good to know. Would a full success allow sandwiching the silk between wood layers, to get rid of the Drag cost of the silk?
    (And why does silk cause drag anyway? Canvas I get, but silk strikes me as smoother than molded wood, unless it's laquered maybe. Is it because the silk flutters maybe?)

    Also, see the question on Production upgrades I edited in above.
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    It could, but imagery-wise I like the idea of it being on the outside.

    The silk causes drag for the same reason as the canvas, because of imperfect fitting and, yeah, fluttery. But we can imagine a full success here being like... the process of fixing the silk to the wood smooths it out and eliminates the drag.

    KhazintheDark said:
    Is there a way to download a copy of the spreadsheet for your plane & engine designer?

    I fancy playing around with it to see what I can come up with.
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    I don't really know how, but head to the Plane Nerds thread for more stuff.
     
    [x] Canvas (+1 Drag, +1 Structure.)
    [] 3 Frame Slots (3 cost, +3 Mass, +9 Structure)

    Doesn't seem to be any reason to go crazy here. We can reserve the weirdness for later, probably.
     
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    open_sketchbook said:
    I don't really know how, but head to the Plane Nerds thread for more stuff.
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    Same way as minecraft mods did, upload to mediafire them post a download link. If it needs an email account then create a dummy one with a password you don't use for anything else then note it down so you can potentially update the link with the newest file version.
     
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