Turn 25(1940 1st Half): The Eternal Flame of Lenin Leads Us Results
Resources per turn 870+80+ULAG=950+ULAG with 5 in storage
Party Support 40+10+5+10+10-20=55
Current Status of ULAG:
Population: 1,131,000 (I'll round to the nearest 100k)
Attitude: Stable
Food State: Hearty Meals, -82.5 Resources Per Turn
Guard State: Intensive Monitoring, -27.5 Resources Per Turn
Resource Income: Construction focused, 165 Resources Per Turn, Additional Actions
Infrastructure
Regional Interlinked Grid Modernization: The new discoveries in superior methods of power transmission need a considerable amount of resources and funding to be applied to the grid as a whole. While the effort will focus on constructing additional sub-stations, these stations will be reasonably large electrical facilities due to the conversions necessary and the voltages. But, after such improvements, electricity will fully be able to be sent across the Union without losing more than half of the power. (192+10(Omake Bonus)/200) (Completed)
The massive modernization effort of the old transformer stations takes a significant amount of resources, but old units are ripped out and swapped out at great speed. The old power lines are simply just refurbished, and some of the more worn-down cables are re-covered, but overall the effort progresses rapidly. While this does not mean that the total power capacity of the Union can be shifted entirely into any particular corner, it does mean that a good faction of the power usage in any one region can be supplied externally in case of interruption to supply.
Expand Western Rail Networks: With the current state of rail all over the Union, a general expansion would be prudent to ensure that every one of the small lines fully links into towns and factories. These new lines will significantly ease the areas of densest traffic on the network and will allow a steady stream of goods to flow all over the region. Still, such an effort will be a relatively large undertaking as the new lines to be laid down will be based on concrete ties and new superior grades of steel. Hopefully, resulting in a railway network that is far lower maintenance than the old wood-based ones. (296/250) (Completed)
The new railroad networks are constructed out to many small towns in the west, with a large portion of NKPS labor and trucks assigned to the effort. These lines are mostly small two-track lines focused on delivering steady streams of goods to relatively remote cities. Still, with the proliferation of trains and train stations over the Unions' populated portions, multiple new passenger lines have been created. Most of them only have a few tourists going to more southern regions for their short vacations, but traffic is steadily picking up. As a side benefit of the western rail networks, it is now possible to send a letter anywhere in the Western half of the Union and arrive within a week.
Create Trolly Lines: With the current expansion of bus-transit in many urban areas, it will be prudent to start developing a massive electric trolly system all over the Union. While this will take a fair degree of electric power, it will allow workers to move around cities far easier. Simultaneously, the bulk of this effort will be focused on Moscow, renovating the home of the revolution to a new standard in ease of movement and quality of life. These will be all-electric and should also help to reduce the amount of smog inside of cities. (344/300) (Completed)
With a bit of added effort and the proliferation of the standard trolly and power supply system all over the Union, many urban areas now have cost-effective and straightforward transport for the workers. While the trolleys are not nearly as quick as busses, they allow many people to quickly move to new industries and obtain a far greater variety of products. While so far ridership is relatively low, multiple media campaigns have been started to inform the workers about the new service and how best to utilize it causing thousands of maps of the network and easy transfer points to be printed. Using the techniques pioneered in making the trains more efficient, multiple new projects have been opened to create new subway systems, ensuring that workers can far more rapidly reach their factories.
Heavy Industry
Gorky Machine-building Plant(Stage 4): Now that the plant is in full production and can quickly meet the goals set out for it, the planned future expansion can be attempted. This expansion will massively expand the city. It is built-in along with considerably ramping up production. Such heavy machinery production will cause a massive amount of steel and coal use and allow mechanisms to be issued to construction crews. While this will make many construction efforts more expensive, it will considerably speed up constructive effort all over the Union and free up a considerable amount of manpower. (10 Party Influence) (723/600, Stage 4 Completed) (Stage 5 123/800) (+80 Resources per Turn)
As over fifty NKPS labor units are assigned to the massive factory, and with the Union's rail and logistics network focusing on this single point, the plant's construction is assured. A large quantity of equipment is made on-site and transferred over to the new massive facilities being constructed. However, most of the effort is focused on the large-scale assembly lines for more dozers and construction equipment. These new licensed designs, once proliferated, will ensure that workers will no longer need to work doing manual labor, as progress can be made with the use of actual industrial machinery. While the bulk of the designs are licensed American projects, some minor tweaks are made towards improving their performance in worse climates. With the completion of the plant, though, and with some added time, construction all over the Union will never be done in the same way again as machinery will pick up the slack for the worker.
(Every turn, you will get the choice of what category to update with construction machinery first. For projects that are heavy on construction work, this will double the resource cost per dice and halve the target number. For industrial projects, this impact will be smaller but still reasonably notable.)
[]Infrastructure
[]Heavy Industry
[]Light Industry and Chemical Industry
[]Agriculture
[]Services
[]Military
Power Production Campaigns(Stage 4): The next step is constructing more thermal power stations to power the Union with a factor of redundancy. This stage of the effort will build a truly massive number of electric stations and use a similarly enormous quantity of coal. It will allow a good amount of grid redundancy and the introduction of central electric heating, as no longer will power under-production be able to cause people to freeze. This stage of the program will also ensure that most towns and segments of the grid have a similar redundancy level, hopefully relegating full blackouts to the past. (20 Resources per dice 469/500)
The campaigns continue to do well, with thirty-four of the forty plants planned for this phase of expansion brought online. While so far, the coal supply has been sufficient, the power production expansions will be needed to ensure that a steady supply of fuel and power can be maintained. So far, these stations are also equipped with truly modern turbines, allowing them to attain an almost Western level of power efficiency despite multiple cost limitations. With more progress in the field, the total utilization of coal may be possible, allowing the minimization of wasted fuel.
Turbine Upgrade Programs: Many power plants in the Union have been using far older and far less optimal turbines. While they are mostly functional, additional capacity can be extracted from the locations through more modern hardware and electrics. Such an effort will be costly and may cause some brown-outs, but it is necessary to improve the Union's power production capacity. (25 Resources per dice 25/150)
Before any turbine upgrades can be carried out, a general assessment must be done of all power plants and dams. When it comes in, the report is far worse than hoped but still better than some of the worst-case projections made by the department. Overall, the power plants of the Union are under-producing by almost fifteen percent of their capability. With this survey, prospective plants have been selected for upgrades to ensure that the underutilization of capacity is minimized to only five percent.
Casting Industry Refurbishment: With the current constant lack of experienced personnel and the issues with creating hard cast steel tools, a general refurbishment and upgrade of the industrial plants are needed. Due to the noticed problems with these parts and the constant defects created, a new educational and quality improvement initiative is necessary. While the current issues are relatively minor in most applications, the military has had persistent problems with improperly made bulk steel plates. (20 Resources per dice 131/200)
Many experts are moved in from various other industrial enterprises to ensure that higher quality cast plates can be made. While these movements have caused some minor problems in other industrial plants, the new combined factory has managed to train up a full staff for making the new standard cast plates. While they are still weaker than various examples of hardened steel that have been obtained from the Germans, the massive economic benefits of casting armored plates are ensuring that more tanks can be made. There is still a lot of work to do for the plant to supplant most of the Union's production, but progress is steadily being made.
Light and Chemical Industry
Baku Field Upgrades: With the large quantity of old and obsolescent equipment currently located in the oil fields, large scale upgrades are needed. While output will probably not rise significantly due to these improvements, energy efficiency will improve massively. Simultaneously, these new pumps and refineries will significantly expand how long the oil extraction will be sustainable. (144/100) (Completed)
The obsolescent oil extraction infrastructure constructed in the Baku oil fields has mostly served acceptable for a time. Still, with ongoing maintenance piling up and equipment failures, the time for modernization has come. The production of new modernized derricks and refinery infrastructure has been accelerated, with many of the old facilities replaced in full. While there has been a minor reduction in production due to the necessary shifts, oil production has already recovered by the end of the six months.
Oil Prospecting: With the current Baku fields already tapped by as much as possible, new areas need to be found. There are multiple promising field developments in Siberia, but these are mostly of a heavier oil type and will require numerous refining improvements. While these sources will also yield far fewer gasoline products, a far greater yield of diesel and fuel oil can be made from a similar quantity of oil feed-stock. These fields will represent a significant industrial investment, but a truly massive oil and gas amount will be made with them. (126/100) (Completed)
Many expeditions and trains with experimental bores are sent deep into Siberia to prospect for oil and locate new deposits. While the missions themselves mostly report uneventful drills and few results on finding oil. A single lucky expedition manages to locate multiple massive reserves of heavy oil that are not being tapped. After the find, a large number of far deeper and far spread drills are done to pinpoint the exact area of the field, finding it to be far more extensive than the previously used Baku fields and far richer in natural gas. While extraction will involve additional infrastructure construction, there is sufficient oil for literal generations of consumption.
Irkutsk Synthetic Rubber Plant: With the increase in both military and civilian usage of rubber, additional synthetic rubber plants are necessary. This plant will allow for a near-total decoupling of the internal rubber industry from that of the outside world, enabling true independence. Still, these plants will need further expansion if trucks and aircraft production is expanded to a massive extent. The technology can now be considered mature, with this plant set to have a considerably larger output than the previously constructed one. (5 Party Influence) (291/250) (Completed)
The construction of the new synthetic rubber plant has ensured that while the Soviet Union still must import rubber for civilian applications, military applications are no longer dependant on the constant import of rubber. While synthetic rubber lacks some of the qualities of all-natural rubber, it is far cheaper to use domestically for many applications. It has almost created a revolution in multiple products. Given its cheapness, the military is already aiming to utilize the material in many new boot designs to create the new modernized uniform.
Agriculture
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Services
Closed City Expansions: With the current amount of academics that the Union is producing in all fields, multiple universities focused closed cities have become relatively cramped. As these cities are made for students and those on their own initiative, it would be prudent to greatly expand and improve them. They may not match the grandeur of the capitalist's cities, but they will still be comfortable places to live and work to ensure the progress of science. (160/150) (Completed)
Due to the multitude of new engineering staff and students attracted by the closed city program, multiple new closed cities are constructed and funded, with all of them focusing on both teaching and research. As these are the locations where most of the grant money is spent, many students seeking higher education or going into academics have relocated themselves into the cities. Thus, with these relocations, research can be far better protected from foreign espionage while at the same time offering considerable benefits in comfort to the people parking in it.
Military
(Authors note: Most military efforts will have quality dice rolled after they are completed, which will affect the quality of the buildup/equipment/information)
Trial New Fighter (Polycarpov): Despite the massive improvements made by the other fighter aircraft designers, another further leap forward is possible. The newly constructed Polykarpov OKB has managed to create a novel design centered around an M-71 engine, promising to have more horsepower than almost any other plane in service and capable of outperforming any enemy fighter. Such an aircraft is aluminum expensive, but with its reliable protection package and triple twenty-millimeter cannons, it should be a force to be reckoned with. (69/40) (Completed) (Military Roll: 9)
The new fighter development appears to have an endless series of persistent issues with overheating, as the designers behind the aircraft continue to attempt to utilize far higher engine settings. Still, the development program does make a functional fighter plane with armored plates around the pilot that is capable of out-running any currently known aircraft and with a heavier armament than nearly any before it. The plane does suffer from constant overheating problems and requires landing and takeoffs to be done at high speed, managing to injure several test pilots. The production, though, is still viable, with multiple recommendations made to change over I-180 production as the I-185 is an improvement over it in all aspects.
New Actions
Gorky and Moscow Aviation Plant Modernization(I-185): (30 Resources per Dice 0/150)
Trial New Close Air Support: With the steady aging of the Su-2 attacker, and the need for many improvements decisively demonstrated in both battles in Spain and against japan. There needs to be some new attacker with a considerably heavier armament in auto-cannons and with the mounting of heavier rocket-based ordinance. Assuming this program is successful, large scale rocket launchers could be mounted to the attacker along with autocannons to ensure hits on fast-moving ground targets. (32/40) (Rush Completed) (Military Roll: 73)
With the development of the new aircraft, a large number of lessons learned from the previous performance of the Su-2 is incorporated into the trial requirements. The new aircraft must carry at least sixteen rockets and have the capacity to transport four hundred kilograms of bombs while being armed with two high caliber autocannons. To accomplish these requirements, two slightly different approaches are taken by designers. Sukhoi has created the Su-6 featuring a large ASh-71 engine and armored plates around the pilot to protect him from enemy anti-aircraft fire along with two 37mm autocannons, with one in each wing. Ilyushin has created the il-2 with the cheaper ASh-82 engine, and while the plane is less agile, its armor is heavier, the wing spars are thicker, and it is a small amount cheaper to produce. However, it does only have twin twenty-millimeter cannons instead of the far heavier guns of the Su-6.
New Actions
Kharkov Aviation Plant(Su-6): (30 Resources per Dice 0/200)
Moscow Aviation Plant(Su-6): (30 Resources per Dice 0/200)
Voronezh Aviation Plant(Il-2): (25 Resources per Dice 0/150)
Irkutsk Aviation Plant(Il-2): (25 Resources per Dice 0/150)
Trial Divisional Guns: The production of a new model of cheaper and more reliable divisional guns is needed. With the continuous developments in better armor, and the need to direct moderate caliber shells towards a multitude of hard-points, developing a new divisional gun is a prudent endeavor. The gun's current target is the capability to deal with a tank such as a KV while also delivering an acceptable HE payload to targets. (97/40) (Completed) (Military Roll: 64)
As the current F-22 divisional gun is utterly insufficient for dealing with tanks, a new radical solution is taken instead of producing the old gun. A new shell is needed to ensure that even with a compact barrel, a gun can have the velocity to deal with enemy heavy tanks. Thus, the gorky plant has created a new form of gun using an ultra-light carriage, muzzle brake, and utilizing the 76x558mmR shell to allow for much greater velocity. While the gun does not fully achieve the same velocity as the longer anti-aircraft gun, it is far cheaper, lighter, and easier to produce. With all of these qualities, the gun is rushed into production as fast as it can be as a direct upgrade to all current divisional guns and is considered a replacement for the old tank cannons.
New Actions
Gorky Artillery Plant Expansion: (25 Resources per Dice 0/150)
Shell Plants(Stage 1): The production of more ordinance for the artillery has never before had a more apparent need, as the current output of shells is inadequate for long term fighting. As successes at Khalkhin Gol have demonstrated, the artillery component of the army rapidly depletes local stocks of shells. Despite constant shell shortages, though, the howitzers proved immensely effective against the Japanese army forces, securing a great victory over them. Still, in any major war, a large quantity of shell production will be needed. (151/150) (Completed) (Military Roll: 8)
The construction of the shell production plants themselves goes well as production continues to ramp up steadily all over the Union, with multiple new ordinance plants made. These factories all use a large amount of nitric acid and have hand associated factories constructed near them to ensure a steady stream of shell production. When looking into shell stocks, the plants' overview commission has uncovered a massive problem with current stocks of shells for many tanks and the new weapon systems. 76x558mmR shells' production has been barely expanded, and many tanks are issued far too much-timed fuse ammunition and far too little anti-tank ammunition. To fix these problems, a rapid buildup of more shell factories is desperately needed as, without them, the army will not be ready for war.
Stalingrad Plant Retooling: Due to the massive improvements in the new T34 tank's performance over the old models of T28, a production shift is needed to secure enough tanks. The machinery for the construction and casting of turrets and internal systems is already there at the plant, easing conversion pressure. Instead, all that is needed to be built wholesale is the new suspension production line to ensure that a steady output of the new tank can be secured. (25 Resources per Dice 55/100)
The plant's work remains slow and with a constant stream of problems as the change in transmissions continues to confound the crews. New issues have appeared as the experienced old casting specialists have been steadily being moved around towards different industrial facilities. Still, the plant is slowly expanding but is massively behind schedule and needs to be finished.
Pilot Academies: The returning veterans from both Khalkhin Gol and the Spanish civil war have brought back many new improvements to current flight doctrine. While such improvements will take time to train into the bulk of pilots, establishing official piloting classes and starting to stockpile trained aviators will significantly improve the capabilities of the VVS. These efforts, however, will cost money and time, but the climb in tactical acumen and capability should be worth it. (15 Resources per Dice 147/300)
Multiple large rear-line airbases near the Urals are massively expanded, with many experienced pilots from all over the Military transferred over to the units. While the bulk of the aircraft issued out to the locations are the older models of I-15, they are still acceptable for training. Some limited modernizations of aircraft have also been initiated to update their cabins to the new standard of cockpits appearing on the Yak-1, La-1, and I-185. The units are relatively small and not-yet prepared to train enough pilots for the air force's upsizing, but future efforts are still planned.
Bureaucracy
Trial the Worst of the Misreporters: The structural problems with constant false information in the plan and the persistent problems in reporting accurate information up the chain has to be stopped somewhere. While the bulk of the personnel fabricating reports have so far done it to protect themselves, there are somewhere their errors are too egregious to be anything but sabotage. By clearing them out of the department and management while making examples, new younger blood can take their place. (10 Party Influence) (DC 20/104)
Those who have created a massive quantity of fake reports either out of self-preservation or seeking promotions must be tried wholesale. While there are many of them in high positions, the state services are more than willing to cut through them with the evidence against them. While a multitude professes some form of innocence and try to excuse their actions, these are the most guilty men in the department and are almost convicted to a man. Now, new empty posts are rapidly replaced by newly hired party officials and engineers to continue modernization programs.
Through the utilization of confessions in trials, many personnel have been proven guilty by their own words. The bulk of these personnel have had statistical information leading to their arrests. Still, as an admission of the information would discourage accurate reporting, it is kept secret with them confessing by their own merit.
-Statistical Commissariat, Classified Report
Trial the Bureaucrats: The party itself is also at fault for these numbers getting inflated at other phases, creating yet more stacking problems in the party. While the bulk of these cannot be easily disposed of, a slow and steady pressure on the miss reporters will allow the department to rapidly improve functionality. If the production statistics do not agree, an investigation must be launched into all that deviate significantly. (10 Party Influence) (DC 30/112)
Due to the massive number of various forgeries and problems with production and constant misreporting going up the chain, a new series of predictive statistics are made. These new master lists are easily made to calculate the average expected productivity of work-units down to single workers' shifts, analyzing them and rapidly finding several legitimate discrepancies. While some have lacked evidence and thus simply been demoted to the lower rungs, others have been found with massive production fabrications. For these cases, a simple approach is taken as examples are made of the officials that have misreported the information. Simultaneously, minor small leniencies are given to those that have underperformed and reported it accurately, as at least the department can cover for them and give them a few more resources.
I didn't do anything! I was just hired two weeks ago. I just published the last report by the previous guy, please, understand.
-Rodion Kiselev, Trial Testimony
Over one hundred officials have been tried for the massive fabrication of reports in the plan. Eighty-four have been convinced and sentenced to hard labor. The old guard positions have been replaced by more qualified personnel, but further replacements will be a challenge to obtain.
-Statistical Commissariat, Classified Report
Transfer Personnel: Many bureaucratic personnel are needed to ensure that the shock capacity of the NKPS can be retained. Due to the previous unfortunate incidents in personnel allocation, a good amount of the capacity has been lost to trials and time. Thus, a new cadre of experts must be hired and transferred into the command. These transfers will cause significant issues with other departments, but they are necessary to ensure the smooth functioning of the VSNKh. (-20 Party Influence) (DC 40/72)
With the current need for more mobilization and the desperate drive for more people to maintain the capacity of the VSNKh, multiple large scale personnel transfers are started from the other departments of the government. However, when these are not enough, many students who have before been outside the party are also hired into new roles to expand capability. While most everyone handed over and hired is green, they are at least educated.
Moratorium 2 Hours
Current Economic Issues:
Rail: Minor Surplus
Coal: Meeting Demand
Aluminum: Major Surplus
Steel: Minor Surplus
Energy: Minor Surplus
Food: Major Surplus
Labor: Moderate Shortage (May affect mobilization if more depleted)
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