Maybe, but it's a big energy hog. Personally, I'd settle for developing the Apollo-A and refitting the existing factories. Remember, we have missile warheads that are capable of dealing with the armored fighters; it's just that we didn't happen to have those fighters on hand at the time.
Think about the math.
Though it should be noted that up until Steel Vanguard, a significant number of the 'Yellow Zoners' we were bringing into GDI were people who'd been caught up in the rapid expansion of the Yellow Zones during and immediately after Tib War III- they were residents of territories that had been Blue Zones in 2046, and who can quite honestly say "we didn't cross the Nod/GDI border, the border crossed us... twice."
I don't think it's necessary. We have the budget to do portal research and Anadyr and a bit of Bergen. Most of the other stuff you talk about isn't even a problem, because the budgetary cost per die is low enough that we can do it as a matter of routine. Spending Agriculture dice on food storage stuff is cheap relative to our current average cost-per-die; if we didn't have to do it we might do it anyway to save money. The shipyards and ASAT/OSRCT are actually not that far off from the cost-per-die you'd get if you just took our whole budget and divided it by the number of dice we roll, so those aren't really a problem for us to fund either.
Liquid tiberium power plant construction has been delayed because we have an attractive alternative that works about as well and has none of the safety issues: fusion power. We don't have an alternative to what portals will one day do.
Don't get me wrong, we totally COULD afford it this turn and still be doing other cool stuff. Basically, think of it as: "roll a portal die, get tendrils-this-turn, two dice on Anadyr, pick any two" and you're not far wrong.
Shipyards aren't our main source of pressure here. The portals roll Service dice, not Military dice, and finding the Resources to pay for the shipyards isn't hard or something we're constrained from doing by the expense of rolling a single portal die.
Sports is a cheap project. It's an option we can take any time we like, either before or after Plan reallocation. Frankly, we should probably wait to be sure our Health metric is good before we commit to it.
Well, increasing our tiberium income by +90, followed by +100 from the second phase of the tendril project, plus a bunch from Red Zone Offensives and whatever else? That'll help a lot, just for starters.
To repeat what I said on Discord, I would argue in favour of at least a small deployment (1 factory) of Guardian Mark 2s as necessary to support a Zone Armour rollout and effectively give them operational mobility. Even if we do no other vehicle revisions, we need to get this done.
No, because it's at least plausible that the project will take more than two dice to complete. Whereas it is absurdly unlikely (if not strictly impossible) that it will take more than three.
It's worth considering, but I think the proper way to handle this goes like:
True, but the generals may not be listing "High Priority" in the same sense of "is this specifically going to focus us in on Eastern Paris." For instance, standoff munitions for the Air Force in general may not preoccupy them quite as much as they should if they were specifically focusing around the need to hit targets in Nod India without coming into range of Nod SAM sites.
Well, the latter isn't (as far as I can tell anyway) required for Guardian 2, I don't think. That's more retrofitting the designs to existing vehicle assembly, it's a developed tech already. Guardian Mark 2 should (again, I think) have FA armour baked in if it's considered worth it.
To clarify I meant in the sense of "projects on your proposed shortlist that are marked High Priority should be considered as such," sorry about miscommunicating that. I agree with the prioritization as proposed, I just think that when it comes time we shouldn't get fancy with it and we should use that tag as a guideline for what on the shortlist needs building first.
Ahh. Well, the big caveat there is that these projects are considered High Priority by different branches.
The Generals are not giving you the Eastern Paris shortlist, especially not right now. Most of the listed projects are primarily oriented towards winning a global conflict and making sure more of our guys get home. It is focused on winning in Siberia, winning in America, winning in Africa, not so much winning in India.
And this is a good example. In terms of general use, right now, glide munitions are a bit specialized, because across most of the world, it is IR missiles that are the big threat, and more specifically IR missiles that are in hidden positions, protecting other hidden positions.
You have already developed the Ferro Aluminum, and it will be on as standard in any project that can use it.
You might want to count up the (likely) number of dice needed for this. I think you are strongly underestimating just how much Military stuff we can pump out in one year.
Fair though I am somewhat reluctant to stop investing in hulls but after Karachi we probably will have to anyway so it works out I suppose.
That's broadly in line with my own somewhat rougher estimates. I didn't want to assume heavy Free Dice investment, because I really think we should step back a little from twelve dice per turn to more like ten or nine even.
The problem with the assault ships is that if we design the hulls now and build (some of) the shipyards in, realistically, early 2062, it's unclear whether there will be a strategically relevant number of hulls in the water when we hit GO KARACHI time. With the escort carriers we at least know we can get one wave of hulls into the water from each shipyard before the balloon goes up. I'm not clear on how long the assault ships are likely to take to build.
I think that for at least a year or two we can afford to focus on projects that help the Navy, things like tech upgrades and Advanced ECCM, which will improve their capabilities indirectly, then finish the offensive navy projects starting some time in 2063.
Agree, but I can't see any further shipyards being built until the second half of the next Plan, which should be after we claim Karachi.
Well, no. It's because we decided to go for the "attack their staging points" strategy, and Karachi would have involved a massive diversion of resources from that. Both military and other.
The main issue is that we're going to be in pitched battle with Nod India in a way we really haven't been with the other warlords, because we're going to be opening up a whole new front against Nod for the first time in a very, very long time.
Turtle, no, prepare, yes. Nod India is assured to have some secret weapons we haven't planned for; we need to have secret weapons they haven't planned for.
Counterpoint - strategically relevant numbers is unimportant. Right now, we're using converted barges and merchantmen to stage amphibious operations on and have been since at least the mid 2050s. Any number of proper amphib ships for Karachi means fewer conversions sitting off the coast getting fucked. And given how much of an argument was raised in thread over temporarily using converted merchantmen to cover the gap until we have proper escort carriers because we're cruelly throwing away more lives with conversions, you'd think there'd be a bigger drive to get proper ships to any extent for Karachi.
"Oh, I guess nobody cares about our sailors and soldiers' LIVES!" is the kind of thing that normally causes me to reflexively vote against whatever is being suggested, out of spite. Because to me, it registers as an attempt to manipulate me.
