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- Location
- Behind You
Our tanks will also have actual ammunition, now that Kulik can no longer sabotage them.
Attempting to Fulfill the Plan MNKh Edition
- Thread starter Blackstar
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- Alt. History Users' Choice!
Voted best in category in the Users' Choice awards.
Might be a good idea to expand them though, to keep the feedstock supplies coming, and add extra shell filling lines.
- Location
- Fort Worth, TX
We need to make sure these factories are located far inside the Union.
- Location
- his hidden lair
While this is true, wasn't Kulik evidently an advocate for not massacring Polish POWs? I'm just wiki walking, but it argues he managed to convince Stalin to let the enlisted men and not be massacred at Katyn.
Did we stumble our way into making an OTL Soviet atrocity worse? I think might be the first thing we made worse.
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Turn 24(1939 2nd Half): The Anvil of Labor Results
- Location
- The United States
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Turn 24(1939 2nd Half): The Anvil of Labor Results
Resources per turn 790+ULAG with 5 in storage
Party Support 45+5-10=40
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 Grids(Siberia): The construction of a full regional scale grid is necessary to ensure that every city and town can be connected to the central network of electrical capacity. While such an effort would be a massive arduous undertaking, progress will allow an enormous leap forward in the workers' comfort and quality of life. Such measures would also enable the expansion of new types of an industry exploiting the production of electric power. (331/300) (Nat 100) (Completed)
The construction of the grid sees multiple new innovations deployed for constructing the large cross-linking lines. While previously, these large and heavy lines have just relied upon extremely high voltages to function, with advances in technology and the development of DC substations, power transmission efficiency can be raised considerably. While this change has only been applied across the Siberian region, with a reasonably costly project, all of the other networks can be updated with the technology, allowing power to be truly transmitted across the Union. The weather for most of the effort is also fairly nice, as the summer in Siberia, while cold, is still entirely survivable with a good amount of warm clothes.
White Sea-Baltic Canal: There has always been a need to connect the white sea to the baltic sea. Now, with a single large scale canal construction effort, such an endeavor will be possible. While the project itself will be challenging due to the cold and distance, it should be reasonably light on resources, only necessitating a large quantity of manpower. With heated trains and some limited heating for tents, the workforce casualties will also be kept to acceptable levels. (5 Party Influence) (266/200) (Completed)
Despite the cold weather and the geological problems in constructing the large canal network, progress is made rapidly as more than a dozen NKPS divisions are transferred to the site and told to dig as rapidly as possible. The work is hard and grueling as the earth is still mostly firm and necessitates constant back-breaking effort to break up the soil's rocks. As November starts, the canal is dug out and ready to take on water and transfer shallow hulled ships, greatly expanding the degree of trade in the region and allowing for more development.
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 upon completion, 35 Resources per dice (126/600))
The first small scale construction efforts for the new plant occur during the summer, with a new large housing complex made for the workers soon to be in the plant's machinery section. The new apartments can be considered a steady improvement in both quality and comfort, as more and more cheap insulation and appliances are made available. While the new rooms are, on average, more electrically intensive to operate, the drop in coal demand for cities has allowed considerable logistical savings. Still, there is a newly expanded quarter of the city with a bus network and a new massive city built, just needing the accompanying industrial plant to be constructed.
Power Production Campaigns(Stage 4): The next step is constructing yet more thermal power stations to power the Union. 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 (386/500))
The first twenty thermal power stations are constructed at an accelerated pace as many new turbines and boilers are sent out as pre-assemblies for later construction. The bulk of the effort around the plants themselves is the cooling towers needed to turn the steam back to the water, necessitating large crews of local labor and constructing the infrastructure to supply them with coal. With enough NKPS units, the construction goes acceptably well, managing to massively improve power supplies throughout the Union and even manage to start on an additional series of twenty plants.
Civilian Truck Plants: With the constant need to transport goods from the railhead towards and away from farms, the production of an additional number of civilian trucks is a prudent endeavor. These large scale plants will be focused on the production of a version of the military ZiS-6 truck. While these trucks will be built towards a slightly lower standard than the military models, they should be a good amount cheaper. They will allow many citizens of the Union to transport grain and livestock far more efficiently than before. As an added benefit, the far greater stocking speed will ensure that industrial products made in distant regions can reach remote towns. (307/300) (Completed)
The cheap and reliably military design for the 6x4 truck has its production further ramped up now in a civilian context. While the design is considerably simplified with a more straightforward to manufacture mostly cast engine block and multiple other cost-saving measures, it does function well. Almost immediately, the new simplified and cheaper design is rushed into production, as its mean time to failure is not appreciable more than previous truck models. A series of two new plants are also constructed from whole cloth for the assembly line manufacture of the truck to ensure that at least most farming complexes can more easily transport their produce to railway hubs. At the same time, ensuring that goods made in factories can make the final transit to far more regional distribution centers.
Light and Chemical Industry
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 upon completion, 30 Resources per dice (153/250))
Steady progress is made in constructing a new large scale production center for creating yet more rubber. While so far, only the core pre-processing sections of the plant and the building have been completed, construction is proceeding at a good pace. While the production of more rubber will take a few more months and need a large scale expansion of the plant, progress is being made. With the completion of the plant itself, the Union will finally be fully rubber independent, as long as another massive rubber project is not initiated.
Expanded Radio Plants Further: Given the significant coordination issues of military units in Spain, further radio production is needed. This current proposal for improving radio access will be targeted towards the company level, with a new standardized truck mounting a large scale radio unit made. The advantage of such a setup is that the truck can power its own radio-unit and haul the fuel needed to run the generator while providing a mobile platform for coordinating the infantry. The production of such a quantity of radio, especially with the degree of mobilization, will pose a massive challenge, but the challenge can be overcome with time and labor. (476/400) (Nat 100) (Completed) (Next-Generation Radar Production Trial (76/50), Completed)
With the commitment of just a bit more engineering and construction units, the primary plants for additional radios' construction are completed. While these will take a few years to fully supply the army with new radio equipment, the proliferation should allow for a good degree of command and coordination. With a good amount of technological effort dedicated to producing new radio signals and receivers, multiple breakthroughs have been made in the production and intensification of radio-detection devices. These have rapidly led to a new modernized version of the RUS-2 system now being rushed into mass production due to the leap in detection capability represented by the system.
Agriculture
Nothing Selected
Services
Nothing Selected
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 Fighters: Despite the performance of the new I-180 aircraft, more fighters are needed for the Union, and there is also a new 14 cylinder engine that can easily be utilized. There are currently many bids from three separate OKB's necessitating extensive trails, but all of the models should be viable and possible to put into production. These new planes will also represent the actual second generation of airframes to secure air supremacy, featuring more advanced features and far more range and durability. (99/40) (Completed) (Military Dice: 16)
The new fighter models' trial has the new ASh-82 engine paired with many new airframes, with models made by Yakovlev, Lavochkin, and Mikoyan. While tragically, the entry made by Mikoyan fails all of the performance criteria due to the use of a far heavier aircraft design, both Yakovlev and Lavochkin make similar planes that manage to pass on most criteria. Both models are equipped with a simple metallic plate for pilot protection, a bakelite dashboard, seat, and twin up-caliber Berezins firing in 20mm. However, the big difference between the two models is their construction methods, as the Yak has a simple composite airframe made of wood with structural aluminum components allowing it to be far lighter and thus more agile than previous fighters. However, the small weight and large engine have caused some issues on take-off and landing, as the propeller torque poses a constant and significant problem. The Lavochkin, however, suffers from different issues as it uses an all wooden airframe saving a considerable amount of money. Due to the greater amount of material required for constructing the airframe and the far heavier plane, its agility is far worse than the Yak. Nevertheless, both aircraft are considered viable candidates and are ordered into service.
New Actions
Tbilisi Plant(La-1) (25 Resources Per Dice 0/100)
Leningrad Plant(La-1) (25 Resources Per Dice 0/100)
Engels Plant(Yak-1) (25 Resources Per Dice 0/150)
Saratov Plant(Yak-1) (25 Resources Per Dice 0/150)
Tatischevo Plant(Yak-1) (25 Resources Per Dice 0/150)
New Moscow Aviation Plant: With the new I-180 aircraft set to enter service, and the technical testing of the design proving it as sound, full production should rapidly start. While it would be relatively simple to convert the old plants making the I-16 to new standards, a new plant's construction will allow a new and dedicated factory to be made. Such a plant will also allow a dedicated manufacturing plant to be assigned to the Polycarpov OKB. With such a plant, future designs will be considerably improved (185/150) (Completed) (Military Dice: 27)
The new industrial complex for the production of the new Polycarpov aircraft is constructed at a decent pace. The majority of the focus is spent on creating a large prototyping wing for the development of new fighter designs, as the other two plants are already spooled up to full production. Due to the limited transfers of experienced personnel from the other two plants, the new factory has minor issues as work crews are inexperienced and utterly green. With this lack of experience, persistent small errors are made in production, slowing down the overall orders, but by the end of June, planes are still rolling out of doors on a near-daily basis.
Kulebaki Automotive Plant: The production of armored cars is necessary as they pose one of the only viable ground scouting assets. Despite the minor problems in the current chassis, it should be quick and cheap to rush into production to ensure that most units can be equipped with at least a scouting company of the cars. Any problems with the cars' reliability can likely be fixed in later production as they can be replaced by far more updated models. (163/100) (Completed) (Military Dice: 42)
Mass production of the new armored cars starts at a decent pace as many crews experienced in casting are transferred over to the plant. Despite the equipment used benign relatively lacking and having many minor problems, the cars come out at a steady pace. The cheap and straightforward welded sheet metal for armor and the ease of gun manufacture allows hundreds to be built in a month. Given a few years, these new armored cars will form the bulk of the land recon assets of the red army, and maybe even can be upgraded to new models.
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 35/100)
Minor progress is made on the Stalingrad plant's retooling, as the new suspensions system takes a considerably more considerable amount of conversions than initially expected. Due to the old system used on the T28, most of the components are not inter-compatible, causing the production line itself to entirely halt as new parts are brought in and the replacement made. Still, with a bit of additional effort, the project can remain fully on track and capable of finishing in the first few months of 1940.
Kharkiv Plant Retooling: With the notable improvement in both armor and firepower of the T34 over the BT series of tanks, a conversion of this plant will allow for the rapid construction of more modern armored assets. The plant is already equipped with the infrastructure to construct the suspension systems for the tanks. The plant's issue is that it is currently unused to cast large armor plates, possibly creating multiple manufacturing problems. (132/100) (Completed) (Military Dice: 40)
With the experience in making the BT rapidly applied to the far larger and heavier T34, the production conversions occur quickly. Despite the plant's staff's slight inexperience with making thick cast armor plates, multiple technicians from the KV plants are transferred over to teach the staff. Thus, while initial model production will have some minor issues, they will be ironed out with time and work-crew experience.
Barricade Arms Plant Expansion(Stalingrad): The production of additional howitzers is a critical aspect of the army militarization program. While the bulk of the guns will be transferred into support units and attached at the army levels, there has been some talk of the formation of dedicated artillery divisions. Still, such formations have a massive need for many new long guns to ensure that enemy batteries can be quickly suppressed. (125/100) (Completed) (Military Dice: 68)
The production of the new guns is initiated with experienced work crews coming in from other artillery plants for the construction of new heavy counterbattery guns. While so far, the production of the guns will take a few months to spool up to the level needed, already multiple new artillery units are forming to be attached to army commands so that the presence of long-range counter-battery support can be ensured. So far, another curious use of the guns has occurred with coastal installations. The weapon's range and armor penetration are far superior to old coastal artillery, driving their replacement and the liberation of more steel.
Bureaucracy
Introduce Statistical Planning: The massive policy change that Bazarov has been advocating for all of this time. With the use of statistics and means in planning, a fair amount more progress could be made. While cooking the books will become far harder, this should allow for greater coordination and action through the plan, at the minor cost of necessitating an education to really get into planning aspects. (-10 Party Support) (DC 60/86) (Completed)
When the statisticians are spread through the Union to provide their reports on the plants' states and each institution's average production, everyone expects to see a reasonable result with only minor discrepancies. This all rapidly changes when a secretary, terrified out of his mind, goes to present in front of all departmental heads on the industry's actual state. The report is damning across many sectors with consistent fabrication and over-reporting by a multitude of plants, inefficient production of the order of mismanagement on others, and employees with less than a third of the average productivity per hour that is expected of them. The report is a death sentence for almost every person in the room, including the poor secretary who's only job was to make a presentation. After the first few pages of red figures across a multitude of plants, the room can do nothing but stay silent and look to you for some sort of direction, some kind of way to get them out of this mess.
[]Dispose of the Statisticians: There are too many lives and too much at stake for the reports to start being distributed. These will massively set back plan goals, blow a large portion of the system apart, and can even cause the falling apart of the entire system. (Nothing Happens)
[]Persevere: The report is damning across a multitude of fields, and the men in the room know that they must shape up or face a bullet. With hard work and the new statistical department, something can be salvaged from the plan, leading to as few administrative deaths as possible. There is no fortress that Bolsheviks cannot storm, and what is tackling massive structural issues in the plan but another fortress? (New Modifiers and updates to all plan indicators) (New Projects) (Good Luck)
Moratorium 2 Hours
Current Economic Issues:
Rail: Minor Surplus
Coal: Minor Surplus
Aluminum: Major Surplus
Steel: Major Surplus
Energy: Minor Surplus
Food: Major Surplus
Labor: Minor Shortage
Resources per turn 790+ULAG with 5 in storage
Party Support 45+5-10=40
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 Grids(Siberia): The construction of a full regional scale grid is necessary to ensure that every city and town can be connected to the central network of electrical capacity. While such an effort would be a massive arduous undertaking, progress will allow an enormous leap forward in the workers' comfort and quality of life. Such measures would also enable the expansion of new types of an industry exploiting the production of electric power. (331/300) (Nat 100) (Completed)
The construction of the grid sees multiple new innovations deployed for constructing the large cross-linking lines. While previously, these large and heavy lines have just relied upon extremely high voltages to function, with advances in technology and the development of DC substations, power transmission efficiency can be raised considerably. While this change has only been applied across the Siberian region, with a reasonably costly project, all of the other networks can be updated with the technology, allowing power to be truly transmitted across the Union. The weather for most of the effort is also fairly nice, as the summer in Siberia, while cold, is still entirely survivable with a good amount of warm clothes.
White Sea-Baltic Canal: There has always been a need to connect the white sea to the baltic sea. Now, with a single large scale canal construction effort, such an endeavor will be possible. While the project itself will be challenging due to the cold and distance, it should be reasonably light on resources, only necessitating a large quantity of manpower. With heated trains and some limited heating for tents, the workforce casualties will also be kept to acceptable levels. (5 Party Influence) (266/200) (Completed)
Despite the cold weather and the geological problems in constructing the large canal network, progress is made rapidly as more than a dozen NKPS divisions are transferred to the site and told to dig as rapidly as possible. The work is hard and grueling as the earth is still mostly firm and necessitates constant back-breaking effort to break up the soil's rocks. As November starts, the canal is dug out and ready to take on water and transfer shallow hulled ships, greatly expanding the degree of trade in the region and allowing for more development.
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 upon completion, 35 Resources per dice (126/600))
The first small scale construction efforts for the new plant occur during the summer, with a new large housing complex made for the workers soon to be in the plant's machinery section. The new apartments can be considered a steady improvement in both quality and comfort, as more and more cheap insulation and appliances are made available. While the new rooms are, on average, more electrically intensive to operate, the drop in coal demand for cities has allowed considerable logistical savings. Still, there is a newly expanded quarter of the city with a bus network and a new massive city built, just needing the accompanying industrial plant to be constructed.
Power Production Campaigns(Stage 4): The next step is constructing yet more thermal power stations to power the Union. 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 (386/500))
The first twenty thermal power stations are constructed at an accelerated pace as many new turbines and boilers are sent out as pre-assemblies for later construction. The bulk of the effort around the plants themselves is the cooling towers needed to turn the steam back to the water, necessitating large crews of local labor and constructing the infrastructure to supply them with coal. With enough NKPS units, the construction goes acceptably well, managing to massively improve power supplies throughout the Union and even manage to start on an additional series of twenty plants.
Civilian Truck Plants: With the constant need to transport goods from the railhead towards and away from farms, the production of an additional number of civilian trucks is a prudent endeavor. These large scale plants will be focused on the production of a version of the military ZiS-6 truck. While these trucks will be built towards a slightly lower standard than the military models, they should be a good amount cheaper. They will allow many citizens of the Union to transport grain and livestock far more efficiently than before. As an added benefit, the far greater stocking speed will ensure that industrial products made in distant regions can reach remote towns. (307/300) (Completed)
The cheap and reliably military design for the 6x4 truck has its production further ramped up now in a civilian context. While the design is considerably simplified with a more straightforward to manufacture mostly cast engine block and multiple other cost-saving measures, it does function well. Almost immediately, the new simplified and cheaper design is rushed into production, as its mean time to failure is not appreciable more than previous truck models. A series of two new plants are also constructed from whole cloth for the assembly line manufacture of the truck to ensure that at least most farming complexes can more easily transport their produce to railway hubs. At the same time, ensuring that goods made in factories can make the final transit to far more regional distribution centers.
Light and Chemical Industry
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 upon completion, 30 Resources per dice (153/250))
Steady progress is made in constructing a new large scale production center for creating yet more rubber. While so far, only the core pre-processing sections of the plant and the building have been completed, construction is proceeding at a good pace. While the production of more rubber will take a few more months and need a large scale expansion of the plant, progress is being made. With the completion of the plant itself, the Union will finally be fully rubber independent, as long as another massive rubber project is not initiated.
Expanded Radio Plants Further: Given the significant coordination issues of military units in Spain, further radio production is needed. This current proposal for improving radio access will be targeted towards the company level, with a new standardized truck mounting a large scale radio unit made. The advantage of such a setup is that the truck can power its own radio-unit and haul the fuel needed to run the generator while providing a mobile platform for coordinating the infantry. The production of such a quantity of radio, especially with the degree of mobilization, will pose a massive challenge, but the challenge can be overcome with time and labor. (476/400) (Nat 100) (Completed) (Next-Generation Radar Production Trial (76/50), Completed)
With the commitment of just a bit more engineering and construction units, the primary plants for additional radios' construction are completed. While these will take a few years to fully supply the army with new radio equipment, the proliferation should allow for a good degree of command and coordination. With a good amount of technological effort dedicated to producing new radio signals and receivers, multiple breakthroughs have been made in the production and intensification of radio-detection devices. These have rapidly led to a new modernized version of the RUS-2 system now being rushed into mass production due to the leap in detection capability represented by the system.
Agriculture
Nothing Selected
Services
Nothing Selected
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 Fighters: Despite the performance of the new I-180 aircraft, more fighters are needed for the Union, and there is also a new 14 cylinder engine that can easily be utilized. There are currently many bids from three separate OKB's necessitating extensive trails, but all of the models should be viable and possible to put into production. These new planes will also represent the actual second generation of airframes to secure air supremacy, featuring more advanced features and far more range and durability. (99/40) (Completed) (Military Dice: 16)
The new fighter models' trial has the new ASh-82 engine paired with many new airframes, with models made by Yakovlev, Lavochkin, and Mikoyan. While tragically, the entry made by Mikoyan fails all of the performance criteria due to the use of a far heavier aircraft design, both Yakovlev and Lavochkin make similar planes that manage to pass on most criteria. Both models are equipped with a simple metallic plate for pilot protection, a bakelite dashboard, seat, and twin up-caliber Berezins firing in 20mm. However, the big difference between the two models is their construction methods, as the Yak has a simple composite airframe made of wood with structural aluminum components allowing it to be far lighter and thus more agile than previous fighters. However, the small weight and large engine have caused some issues on take-off and landing, as the propeller torque poses a constant and significant problem. The Lavochkin, however, suffers from different issues as it uses an all wooden airframe saving a considerable amount of money. Due to the greater amount of material required for constructing the airframe and the far heavier plane, its agility is far worse than the Yak. Nevertheless, both aircraft are considered viable candidates and are ordered into service.
New Actions
Tbilisi Plant(La-1) (25 Resources Per Dice 0/100)
Leningrad Plant(La-1) (25 Resources Per Dice 0/100)
Engels Plant(Yak-1) (25 Resources Per Dice 0/150)
Saratov Plant(Yak-1) (25 Resources Per Dice 0/150)
Tatischevo Plant(Yak-1) (25 Resources Per Dice 0/150)
New Moscow Aviation Plant: With the new I-180 aircraft set to enter service, and the technical testing of the design proving it as sound, full production should rapidly start. While it would be relatively simple to convert the old plants making the I-16 to new standards, a new plant's construction will allow a new and dedicated factory to be made. Such a plant will also allow a dedicated manufacturing plant to be assigned to the Polycarpov OKB. With such a plant, future designs will be considerably improved (185/150) (Completed) (Military Dice: 27)
The new industrial complex for the production of the new Polycarpov aircraft is constructed at a decent pace. The majority of the focus is spent on creating a large prototyping wing for the development of new fighter designs, as the other two plants are already spooled up to full production. Due to the limited transfers of experienced personnel from the other two plants, the new factory has minor issues as work crews are inexperienced and utterly green. With this lack of experience, persistent small errors are made in production, slowing down the overall orders, but by the end of June, planes are still rolling out of doors on a near-daily basis.
Kulebaki Automotive Plant: The production of armored cars is necessary as they pose one of the only viable ground scouting assets. Despite the minor problems in the current chassis, it should be quick and cheap to rush into production to ensure that most units can be equipped with at least a scouting company of the cars. Any problems with the cars' reliability can likely be fixed in later production as they can be replaced by far more updated models. (163/100) (Completed) (Military Dice: 42)
Mass production of the new armored cars starts at a decent pace as many crews experienced in casting are transferred over to the plant. Despite the equipment used benign relatively lacking and having many minor problems, the cars come out at a steady pace. The cheap and straightforward welded sheet metal for armor and the ease of gun manufacture allows hundreds to be built in a month. Given a few years, these new armored cars will form the bulk of the land recon assets of the red army, and maybe even can be upgraded to new models.
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 35/100)
Minor progress is made on the Stalingrad plant's retooling, as the new suspensions system takes a considerably more considerable amount of conversions than initially expected. Due to the old system used on the T28, most of the components are not inter-compatible, causing the production line itself to entirely halt as new parts are brought in and the replacement made. Still, with a bit of additional effort, the project can remain fully on track and capable of finishing in the first few months of 1940.
Kharkiv Plant Retooling: With the notable improvement in both armor and firepower of the T34 over the BT series of tanks, a conversion of this plant will allow for the rapid construction of more modern armored assets. The plant is already equipped with the infrastructure to construct the suspension systems for the tanks. The plant's issue is that it is currently unused to cast large armor plates, possibly creating multiple manufacturing problems. (132/100) (Completed) (Military Dice: 40)
With the experience in making the BT rapidly applied to the far larger and heavier T34, the production conversions occur quickly. Despite the plant's staff's slight inexperience with making thick cast armor plates, multiple technicians from the KV plants are transferred over to teach the staff. Thus, while initial model production will have some minor issues, they will be ironed out with time and work-crew experience.
Barricade Arms Plant Expansion(Stalingrad): The production of additional howitzers is a critical aspect of the army militarization program. While the bulk of the guns will be transferred into support units and attached at the army levels, there has been some talk of the formation of dedicated artillery divisions. Still, such formations have a massive need for many new long guns to ensure that enemy batteries can be quickly suppressed. (125/100) (Completed) (Military Dice: 68)
The production of the new guns is initiated with experienced work crews coming in from other artillery plants for the construction of new heavy counterbattery guns. While so far, the production of the guns will take a few months to spool up to the level needed, already multiple new artillery units are forming to be attached to army commands so that the presence of long-range counter-battery support can be ensured. So far, another curious use of the guns has occurred with coastal installations. The weapon's range and armor penetration are far superior to old coastal artillery, driving their replacement and the liberation of more steel.
Bureaucracy
Introduce Statistical Planning: The massive policy change that Bazarov has been advocating for all of this time. With the use of statistics and means in planning, a fair amount more progress could be made. While cooking the books will become far harder, this should allow for greater coordination and action through the plan, at the minor cost of necessitating an education to really get into planning aspects. (-10 Party Support) (DC 60/86) (Completed)
When the statisticians are spread through the Union to provide their reports on the plants' states and each institution's average production, everyone expects to see a reasonable result with only minor discrepancies. This all rapidly changes when a secretary, terrified out of his mind, goes to present in front of all departmental heads on the industry's actual state. The report is damning across many sectors with consistent fabrication and over-reporting by a multitude of plants, inefficient production of the order of mismanagement on others, and employees with less than a third of the average productivity per hour that is expected of them. The report is a death sentence for almost every person in the room, including the poor secretary who's only job was to make a presentation. After the first few pages of red figures across a multitude of plants, the room can do nothing but stay silent and look to you for some sort of direction, some kind of way to get them out of this mess.
[]Dispose of the Statisticians: There are too many lives and too much at stake for the reports to start being distributed. These will massively set back plan goals, blow a large portion of the system apart, and can even cause the falling apart of the entire system. (Nothing Happens)
[]Persevere: The report is damning across a multitude of fields, and the men in the room know that they must shape up or face a bullet. With hard work and the new statistical department, something can be salvaged from the plan, leading to as few administrative deaths as possible. There is no fortress that Bolsheviks cannot storm, and what is tackling massive structural issues in the plan but another fortress? (New Modifiers and updates to all plan indicators) (New Projects) (Good Luck)
Moratorium 2 Hours
Current Economic Issues:
Rail: Minor Surplus
Coal: Minor Surplus
Aluminum: Major Surplus
Steel: Major Surplus
Energy: Minor Surplus
Food: Major Surplus
Labor: Minor Shortage
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Well, in this timeline, we and not NKVD have authority over ULAG and prison system at large.
That means NKVD not being well-equipped to handle large masses of "criminals" - USSR recognized them as criminals and not POWs and thus not eligible to relevant protections. Thus they argued OTL that they did not cross international agreements while having their way in handling poles.
ITTL we appropriated the ULAG system, and we might be able to push for getting our hands on all these peeps (It would be another 600k people, aka +30 resources/turn!). After all, we can always shoot everyone who doesn't die in our winter Siberian projects later.
(Also, it might be a way to get sharashkas going, with polish prisoners of sufficient education. Lightened sentences for stuff like cool planes?).
[]Persevere
It's crunch time.
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- Location
- Reno
- Pronouns
- They/Them
[x]Persevere
Time to walk between the raindrops
Time to walk between the raindrops
[X]Persevere
Chimeraguard
We do deserve to exist.
2 hour Moratorium guys.
But yes, I agree on Persevering.
- Location
- Canada
This should have -10 for a total of 40.
Well obviously we have to do it, we didn't spend over a decade stockpiling all these nerds just to shoot them when they do their jobs. We might get shot instead, but fuck it we can at least pull off MFPG and then just hope we stockpile enough PI to beg for our lives after missing the other targets.
- Location
- Canada
Also, lol how bullshit is this list. We have surpluses in every category and were on track to complete the plan guys! Oh boy I can't wait to show Stalin and the party how well we are doing!
Capital goods is trailing a bit
The Phoenixian
The Glacier Witch
- Location
- My own little world
Honestly, this turn of all turns, I would assume it's not bullshit in the slightest.
After all, we first got these reports when Sergo hired scientists instead of yes men. And now we just had the statisticians come in and double check everything.
Those numbers are all lies and in reality everything is much, much worse.
The books aren't uncooked until we officially seal the deal and vote to listen to the nerds instead of shooting them. The numbers we're looking at right now are still cooked.
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It should be noted that OTL Soviets never did that with all the consequences that entails. We shall rise to it
You know if we survive to complete all of the plan Stalin would be so happy that we can actually more help the USSR to greater heights then it did in otl maybe become more democratic then it is in the OTL
Nostradamus
Lord
- Location
- sweden
let's watch as all those nice surpluses simply get Thanos snapped into dust
