The Sandman
So Zetta Slowpoke
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Hopefully, of course, this stays apocrypha by dint of us stopping the Germans much farther west.
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.
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- his hidden lair
I mean... we did choose one the chief architect of Operation Uranus and the Stalingrad counteroffensive to coordinate military spending with.
Not one step past the Dnieper! We'll stop them at Minsk and Kiev instead of Moscow and Stalingrad, just you wait.
The Sandman
So Zetta Slowpoke
- Location
- Wherever I am, which isn't where I'm not
Personally I prefer "sabotage the German war effort by cutting off the resource spigot and crippling their armaments production at the start of 1940, making it likely that France holds out" for how to deal with the Hitlerites.
Yes, DP-28 is not nearly comparable to MG-34, but it is a good enough LMG - not that much worse than Bren and better than BAR.
Of course, if we do manage to get PKM in time for WW2, nobody would complain, but it's not the end of the world if we don't.
For that you need political capital and, hopefully, more foreign trade with France. That should tip the scales during Sudeten Crisis, allowing us to sidestep the whole WW2 debacle. If that stays as per OTL, and we don't get an anti-nazi pact going by summer of 1939, then Molotov-Ribbentrop pact becomes a very strong possibility if not inevitability, as we'd be playing hot potato with potato being dealing with Nazi Germany.
Needless to say, losing such a game is inadvisable. The only worse outcome is remaining the last player in the game (And even that is debatable).
As such, I'd like to see more trade with France, as that would mean better chances of getting them to actively intervene in Czechoslovakia, and pressure Poland and/or Romania into either allowing our soldiers through or getting them to pile in on Germany.
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Battleherb
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Sorry, but might I ask how are we going to 'strangle' the NAZI's economy?
A significant amount of high explosives if I have any say
By buying out all the swedish ores, for example.
Use the forces of market economy against them so that germans have to fight the whole of Europe and become horrifically overextended while we use all this time to build a classical russian steamroller capable of rolling over everything on its' way to Paris.
Battleherb
Disposable minion
Upon finishing some light reading about this(Wikipedia) I thank you for enlightening me about a whole section of WW2 I didn't know existed, comrade.
The army appears to go through us to talk to Stalin, what's our influence with them? Does this apply to the navy? If so could we get them to theorise and plan for a blockade?(If our current efforts fail which reminds me, are sacrifices for the dice gods allowed in a atheist state?)
The Sandman
So Zetta Slowpoke
- Location
- Wherever I am, which isn't where I'm not
Part of Molotov-Ribbentrop was that Germany started buying substantial quantities of raw materials from the Soviet Union, rendering the British blockade much less effective throughout 1940 and the first half of 1941. Still reading through my copy of Wages of Destruction and haven't reached its discussion of Barbarossa myself, but IIRC the volume of raw materials the Germans were able to extract from their conquests in the Soviet Union at no point equaled the amount they were being traded pre-Barbarossa.
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- his hidden lair
The thing is we're not fighting the Brits or the Americans. And neither fought the Germans in circumstances as dire as the Soviets. We're fighting the Germans coming in with most of their A-game, and that means we really want the ability to put out suppressing fire the likes of which requires belts.
I don't know why you keep referencing an LMG from the 60s when I'm talking about ones developed in the 40s, but there's a simple solution you obstinately seem to be ignoring the RP-46 is literally just a reinforced DP-27 modified for belts. We could easily refurbish every DP-27 into an RP-46 equivalent on the cheap! And that saves our machine gunners something like ~10 kilograms of ammo weight not having clunky pan magazines. Fixing our machine-guns is vital, and is such obvious low hanging fruit it'd be criminal not to. We chose to play a solid infantry game right now, so let's give them actually competitive tools.
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Sure, getting better LMGs would be nice. But not critical, as DP is still serviceable, and your proposed solution would only give us a bit better LMG.
What is actually needed is either getting a good MMG (like SG-43) or GPMG (like PK/PKM). Getting one of those is critical, as right now we have Maxim for an MMG. DP pans being on the heavy side doesn't rate in comparison to that problem, particularly if we unfuck SVT enough to give every conscript one - americans managed well enough with Garands and BARs, after all, and BAR cannot be called a good LMG.
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- his hidden lair
- My proposed solution let's a soldier carry 20+ pounds less of ammo or carry 20 more pounds of ammo that they can far more efficiently put down range to the Germans. That's an enormous increase in effective firepower per machine gunner and infantry section.
- The PK is a completely different gun and isn't invented for 20 years. It's the succesor to the RP-46 and SG-43 after all.
- The SG-43 uses the exact same round as the DP-27 and has a similar rate of fire. The only differences mainly being that the gun carriage can carry a lot of ammo and I think it's slightly heavier.
- The PKM is a GPM that uses the exact same round, and the only reason it's more of a GPMG was because it used a rifle round no longer the traditional rifle round (given the 5.45mm replaced 7.62). There essentially isn't a GPMG concept right now because the MGs either use larger than rifle rounds or rifle rounds given intermediate rounds are barely a thing.
- The Americans fought a vastly different war than the Soviets, it's a false equivalency and given how horrific WW2 was on the Eastern front we shouldn't accept for the bare minimum. Moreover, I don't see us fighting in North Africa or France.
- I've pointed out how upgrading DP-27's should use an existing production pipeline and just involve reworking the barrel and the ammo feed. It should by all rights be significantly cheaper to introduce than the SVT-40.
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Can RP-46 or similar DP derivative fulfill the role of MMG, and replace M1910 Maxim in most of it's applications as an emplaced MG? That's the question.
If it can, then by all means we should go for it. If it cannot, then replacing M1910 with something better seems to me to be a far more important task than making sure we have a better LMG, as DP is adequate for WWII while Maxim is certainly not.
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I don't see why it can't, the only distinction is that the M1910 has a wheeled mount, the RP-46 is less than 1/5 the weight, superior muzzle velocity, and superior ROF. And you could probably develop the SG-43's wheel gun mount, or simply develop them in tandem. Truth be told, I'm not sure why the Soviet's didn't create a bipod fitted/man-portable SG-43 or use the RP-46 with the same heavier mounts the SG-43 used- I don't understand the minutia of machine guns well enough to argue that. It seems like a 5-inch longer barrel and a lower muzzle velocity in the SG-43.
Mechanicaly, we have bad rolls. Narratively, someone must be responsible ror all this shit!
There must be some way to get bonus to quality rolls.
There must be some way to get bonus to quality rolls.
No, narratively it's just what happens when you try to match the output of industrialized nations that has a 100 year headstart in 10 years. Shit happens. There aren't any so called 'wreckers' doing it intentionally. Just — as the logs notes several times — people being out of depth in trying to work with faulty equipments and teething issues that comes from crash-industralization. And even if there are wreckers, with Yagoda at helm of the NKVD and the clock ticking ever closer to 1937, any "Trial X" options are liable to get thousands shot, reduce that related X's institutional capacity field when we're about to wage war against the fascists, and with the only silver linings being getting our PI up more — potentially to the Danger Zone — and getting more ULAG workers.
Not very worth it at this juncture.
I know! I just want to do something!
Turn 16(1935 2nd Half): Glory to Those that Look Forward Results
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- The United States
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Turn 16(1935 2nd Half): Glory to Those that Look Forward Results
Resources per turn 580+10+30-5+ULAG with 0+30 in storage.
Party Support 60-10=50
Current Status of ULAG:
Population: 452,000 (I'll round to the nearest 100k)
Attitude: Stable
Food State: Hearty Meals, -37.5 Resources Per Turn
Guard State: Intensive Monitoring, -12.5 Resources Per Turn
Resource Income: Construction focused, 75 Resources Per Turn
Infrastructure
Ural Rail Lines: With the industrial buildup in the mountains, it would be highly prudent to increase the number of linking tracks in the region. While such a buildup would see more of the older steam locomotives brought out of storage, it would considerably reduce congestion in the region and offer travelers new routes. These lines will also be built with the new prefabricated concrete ties to ensure that they last for generations, and can in time take even faster trains running on them. (320/300) (Nat 1) (Completed)
The rail lines' construction starts with a massive shock effort by almost ten divisions of NKPS divisions. The new rail lines are issued out from the new factory and shipped over to the region to accelerate construction. However, the effort has multiple massive issues as the rails that are delivered have defects, and the prefabricated concrete ties prove to be slightly heavier than can easily be handled. While the improvements are sent back to the factory, there is a considerable number of delays causing the effort to extend into the winter, causing minor losses in personnel.
Heavy Industry
Zlatoust Planned City(Stage 4): While the initial stages of the Zlatoust industrial city have been fully completed, there is still a considerable amount of progress that can be done. For this step of the plan, an additional mass of infrastructure needs to be constructed, but nothing needs to be rebuilt due to good planning. With these large industrial expansions, a considerably greater amount of new alloys can be transferred to multiple industries. The most notable of these will be the production and processing of Tungsten, as the metal is critical for a large quantity of industrial machinery, and more is always in need. (10 Party Influence upon completion, 15 Resources per dice (139/700))
The planned city's construction goes slowly with multiple new houses constructed for the thousands of workers that the expanded complex will need. Simultaneously, a few additional mines are dug into the earth to ensure that a steady supply of material can reach the city when the eventual expansion occurs. While a far greater effort is needed to increase production, the current effort has at least opened a trickle of material from the mines.
Kuznetsk Basin Mine Expansion(Stage 2): Further expansion of the coal basin is needed for future metallurgical and power projects through the Urals. The expansion would feature additional mineshafts and deeper digging of mine shafts to extract more coal yet. This expansion would take a good quantity of additional labor but would secure a good amount of coal for the Union. (384/300) (Stage 2 Completed) (84/400 Stage 3) (+10 Resources per Turn)
The coal mine expansions proceed at a good pace with multiple new massive pits dug into the earth to secure truly massive quantities of coal. The effort recruits thousands of workers, and hundreds of new mechanisms are rapidly shipped to the site to ensure the optimal extraction of coal. The current steps are spread all over the basin, with coal extraction from the site more than tripling. While the work is heavy, there is now a local supply of coal from the Urals, allowing the Ukrainian coal basin and considerable logistics capacity to be freed up from supplying the Ural industrial complexes.
Stalingrad Metallurgical Plant: The production of aluminum from alumina represents an incredibly energy-intense and challenging process that all developed nations are currently undertaking. Where would the Union be if such plans are not undertaken for the domestic production of this new material? The region has the power, and it is time for it to be utilized to produce new materials with new exciting properties. This would be a good location for the plant, reasonably effective, with a current severe need for more aluminum. (5 Party Influence) (249/200) (Completed) (+30 Resources per Turn)
The new massive aluminum plant is constructed to utilize the bulk of the hydroelectric station's massive available power capacity. Another dozen new electrolyzing machinery sets are set up to ensure the steady production of the metal. While production capacity is insufficient for all of the dreams everyone has about the metal, this initial effort has set up a truly massive production quantity. Currently, there is little use of the material, allowing it to be exported for cheap while using power made from free-flowing water.
Light and Chemical Industry
Pharmaceutical Plants(Sulfa): With the newly published paper in Germany about the wonder drug capable of easily fighting Bacteria, mass production must be rapidly initiated. Prospects for it would allow the bulk of the people in the Union to fight off infection far more easily, a considerable improvement to military capabilities, and yield improvements in factory farms. The necessity to get production of these wondrous new classes of medications cannot be overstated as they shall revolutionize medicine. (40 Resources per dice (46/100))
The initial reaction vessels and plumbing are rapidly ordered and shipped in from Gorky despite the plant's inexperience with medical production. While they underperform compared to what is needed, the first production batch of the drug is quickly made. After a short period of chemical testing to determine its purity and efficacy. The drug is shipped off to many high priority hospitals, ensuring that those who need critical care can receive it in small quantities. So far, production is in the small-batch phase, but hundreds of lives have already been saved by the factory, with more saved every day. Common infections can finally be fought with something effective against them, securing a great victory for the proletariat.
Agriculture
New Socialist Towns(Stage 4): The construction of new models of socialist towns is needed to accommodate the steady flood of peasants that are abandoning their previous homes in favor of transferring to new agriculture. While the peasants will happily go to either system, they are far more enthusiastic about the town model. While such a setup would inherently have lower production efficiency, it allows more workers to stay on the land and considerably modernize the small-town life without massive alterations. Thus, allowing a minimally interventionist hand in the lives of the newly made rural proletariat. (5 Party Influence upon completion) (Think Moshav with more propaganda) (Will have a Stage 6 if VCC stage 4 is not done) (10 Resources per dice (243/300)) (-5 Resources per Turn, General Agricultural)
Construction of the next series of towns manages to speed up considerably in the months around the summer. With the massive quantities of displaced people from the changes in grain price, there is almost no shortage of land to set up facilities on. However, there is a persistent problem, with the massive number of peasants leaving the countryside, a good number of the fields are going fallow as there is no point for them to farm them. Such an issue has not caused a food crisis yet, with the intensification of agriculture across the state systems managing to feed the state. Still, the problem can become far worse if the situation is not stabilized with the construction of more mechanized farming installations. There is a small surplus for now, but the next year's harvest can cause a considerable problem and possibly a famine if nothing is done.
A new system of records and basic forecasting is set up in the Union to ensure that farmers will get basic information on the weather. While so far, the forecasts have not been that accurate, experience and statistical data are being collected to ensure that future predictions are far better. However, these predictions have managed to save multiple harvests by predicting rains in time for farmers to harvest their crops, allowing them to be stored far more easily.
Services
Expansion of the Schooling Programs(Stage 3): The current youth of the Union need further expansions in schools so that illiteracy may finally be defeated. This step of schools will be built down to the smallest town that can require one and create a unified classification system of students' performance. Overall, such an effort would allow a consistent and trackable improvement to the nation's education for little cost. However, this effort would further exacerbate the shortage of trained personnel for some time and not pay off in anything close to the near term. It would, however, ensure a steady pipeline of well-educated adults joining the labor force. (5 Resources per dice (271/300))
Small but steady progress continues to be made on the schools, with another multitude of small local schools being constructed. The teachers may be young and inexperienced, but slowly the uneducated are being rotated out of the school system. As newer graduates are coming out of the universities in mass, they allow a steady improvement in both test scores and the quality of education. So far, though, a full replacement to the teachers already instructing students will take the better part of a decade to ensure a minimum four-year degree.
Military
Production Line-Shift to SVT-34: With the new rifle's greenlighting, it is time to shift production over to it on all levels. While the bulk of current rifles are made all over the nation with a far older mechanism, such an effort will be the example by which other modernization programs with similar goals occur. With the tooling transfer, this effort will change up a considerable number of rifle factories to the new rifle, creating a small period of vulnerability as production ramps up. (-10 Party Influence) (214/200) (Completed) (Military Dice:7) (-50 ABM Reserve)
While the facilities for the rifle production are rapidly constructed and updated, they have a large number of issues. The barrels still create production problems, and the changeover to the old basic component plants has not worked with the old equipment for making bolts for the Mosin just too old to be modernized. Instead, the new basic manufacturing effort is used to make up the shortcoming, with barrel production and mechanism production diverted to the modernized plants. While this does cause a minor general stoppage in the production of rifles, it does allow the rapid mass production of the SVT-34 from plants all over the Union.
[]Alternative Basic Manufacturing: With the necessity to more than double basic first-tier parts manufacturing, the Union must rise to the challenge. Multiple new factories will be constructed in the Urals to allow for ease of supplying other military production with parts and the proximity to the bulk of the steel production. Such an effort will also cause cost reductions due to supporting infrastructure being built and expanded in advance, allowing some later cost savings. (459/250) (Completed) (Military Dice:38)
The effort towards constructing a new series of parts and tools in the Urals goes amazingly well, with a massive expansion in the facilities well past the initially planned point. A near dozen large-scale parts factories are created to strategically supply the bulk of the industry as the upgrades occur, with almost no interruption in production. The new supply network was set up by the end of the season and can now deliver a continuous stream of parts and mechanical components to factories all over the Union. With the upgrades to the old plants, the production of parts has never been higher, creating a large amount of capacity for cheaper future expansion of factories. (ABM points are a thing that most factory actions will cost while you have them, but while you have them, all will be around ¼ cheaper. Currently, you will have 400 after the end of this turn.)
Construct Officer academies (Stage 4): With the massive recruitment of more personnel that is planned yet more officer training is needed. With the current reserve of officers already starting to thin with the need for instructors, some commanders will be transferred over to teach the next generation how to lead correctly. The effort will involve constructing an additional twenty universities to educate officer candidates into competent individuals capable of managing the army's complexity. (15 Resources per dice (158/300))
The construction of academies has hit a minor snag as a multitude of officers have decided to conduct large scale exercises instead of focusing on building educational facilities. The exercises have greatly demonstrated the new upcoming candidates' value but have caused a construction delay. Now, some additional effort is needed to make up the shortfall and ensure that a steady stream of officers can be trained.
Bureaucracy
Attempt Trade Agreements(France): With the French agreement and general diplomatic support, it would be prudent to sound them out for a more bilateral trade agreement. They may not like us excessively, but out of the capitalists, they are the most friendly. With Germany's current hostile state, trading them cheap coal in exchange for other far more useful goods and their currency can be of considerable benefit. It may even be possible to angle their nationalism towards the opening up to Soviet medical exports as currently, the field is otherwise a German monopoly. (-5 Party Support) (DC 80/169) (Completed) (30 Resources)
A simple treaty is made to the French to export a small amount of medication, with the proposal angling on assuaging their anti-German nationalism. Meanwhile, little actual progress is made on a long-term treaty of any sort. Only some minor defensive concessions are offered to weaken the already useless defense treaty as the Soviet compromise is getting the trade concessions passed. A good quantity of resources has been yielded from the deal. Still, tragically with the new election and the collapse of the current French government, the new government will almost certainly cut off the deal.
Current Economic Issues:
Rail: Meeting Demand
Coal: Major Surplus
Aluminum: Massive Surplus (You aren't using much)
Steel: Minor Surplus
Energy: Minor Local Surpluses
Food: Meeting Demand
Labor: Moderate Surplus
Resources per turn 580+10+30-5+ULAG with 0+30 in storage.
Party Support 60-10=50
Current Status of ULAG:
Population: 452,000 (I'll round to the nearest 100k)
Attitude: Stable
Food State: Hearty Meals, -37.5 Resources Per Turn
Guard State: Intensive Monitoring, -12.5 Resources Per Turn
Resource Income: Construction focused, 75 Resources Per Turn
Infrastructure
Ural Rail Lines: With the industrial buildup in the mountains, it would be highly prudent to increase the number of linking tracks in the region. While such a buildup would see more of the older steam locomotives brought out of storage, it would considerably reduce congestion in the region and offer travelers new routes. These lines will also be built with the new prefabricated concrete ties to ensure that they last for generations, and can in time take even faster trains running on them. (320/300) (Nat 1) (Completed)
The rail lines' construction starts with a massive shock effort by almost ten divisions of NKPS divisions. The new rail lines are issued out from the new factory and shipped over to the region to accelerate construction. However, the effort has multiple massive issues as the rails that are delivered have defects, and the prefabricated concrete ties prove to be slightly heavier than can easily be handled. While the improvements are sent back to the factory, there is a considerable number of delays causing the effort to extend into the winter, causing minor losses in personnel.
We thought it would be a summer job with good housing, but all dreams never last. The supply of the rails was slow, everything was too fucking heavy, and the engineer kept wanting everything re-done. Still, my group at least got out when the going was good after we finished early. Those poor bastards that stayed when the snow came, god bless them.
-Fedot Nikitin, Journal
-Fedot Nikitin, Journal
Heavy Industry
Zlatoust Planned City(Stage 4): While the initial stages of the Zlatoust industrial city have been fully completed, there is still a considerable amount of progress that can be done. For this step of the plan, an additional mass of infrastructure needs to be constructed, but nothing needs to be rebuilt due to good planning. With these large industrial expansions, a considerably greater amount of new alloys can be transferred to multiple industries. The most notable of these will be the production and processing of Tungsten, as the metal is critical for a large quantity of industrial machinery, and more is always in need. (10 Party Influence upon completion, 15 Resources per dice (139/700))
The planned city's construction goes slowly with multiple new houses constructed for the thousands of workers that the expanded complex will need. Simultaneously, a few additional mines are dug into the earth to ensure that a steady supply of material can reach the city when the eventual expansion occurs. While a far greater effort is needed to increase production, the current effort has at least opened a trickle of material from the mines.
Kuznetsk Basin Mine Expansion(Stage 2): Further expansion of the coal basin is needed for future metallurgical and power projects through the Urals. The expansion would feature additional mineshafts and deeper digging of mine shafts to extract more coal yet. This expansion would take a good quantity of additional labor but would secure a good amount of coal for the Union. (384/300) (Stage 2 Completed) (84/400 Stage 3) (+10 Resources per Turn)
The coal mine expansions proceed at a good pace with multiple new massive pits dug into the earth to secure truly massive quantities of coal. The effort recruits thousands of workers, and hundreds of new mechanisms are rapidly shipped to the site to ensure the optimal extraction of coal. The current steps are spread all over the basin, with coal extraction from the site more than tripling. While the work is heavy, there is now a local supply of coal from the Urals, allowing the Ukrainian coal basin and considerable logistics capacity to be freed up from supplying the Ural industrial complexes.
When farming life just stopped making sense, what could I do but look for work? I got posted to a new mine built in the north. The weather is shit, but at least the pay is good. The old miners transferred over from Donetsk look a good bit worse for wear, but my instructor says that's due to lack of machinery. Hopefully, once I finish a four-year rotation up here, I can come back down and be with you.
-Inna Mikhailov, Letter
-Inna Mikhailov, Letter
Stalingrad Metallurgical Plant: The production of aluminum from alumina represents an incredibly energy-intense and challenging process that all developed nations are currently undertaking. Where would the Union be if such plans are not undertaken for the domestic production of this new material? The region has the power, and it is time for it to be utilized to produce new materials with new exciting properties. This would be a good location for the plant, reasonably effective, with a current severe need for more aluminum. (5 Party Influence) (249/200) (Completed) (+30 Resources per Turn)
The new massive aluminum plant is constructed to utilize the bulk of the hydroelectric station's massive available power capacity. Another dozen new electrolyzing machinery sets are set up to ensure the steady production of the metal. While production capacity is insufficient for all of the dreams everyone has about the metal, this initial effort has set up a truly massive production quantity. Currently, there is little use of the material, allowing it to be exported for cheap while using power made from free-flowing water.
Light and Chemical Industry
Pharmaceutical Plants(Sulfa): With the newly published paper in Germany about the wonder drug capable of easily fighting Bacteria, mass production must be rapidly initiated. Prospects for it would allow the bulk of the people in the Union to fight off infection far more easily, a considerable improvement to military capabilities, and yield improvements in factory farms. The necessity to get production of these wondrous new classes of medications cannot be overstated as they shall revolutionize medicine. (40 Resources per dice (46/100))
The initial reaction vessels and plumbing are rapidly ordered and shipped in from Gorky despite the plant's inexperience with medical production. While they underperform compared to what is needed, the first production batch of the drug is quickly made. After a short period of chemical testing to determine its purity and efficacy. The drug is shipped off to many high priority hospitals, ensuring that those who need critical care can receive it in small quantities. So far, production is in the small-batch phase, but hundreds of lives have already been saved by the factory, with more saved every day. Common infections can finally be fought with something effective against them, securing a great victory for the proletariat.
Agriculture
New Socialist Towns(Stage 4): The construction of new models of socialist towns is needed to accommodate the steady flood of peasants that are abandoning their previous homes in favor of transferring to new agriculture. While the peasants will happily go to either system, they are far more enthusiastic about the town model. While such a setup would inherently have lower production efficiency, it allows more workers to stay on the land and considerably modernize the small-town life without massive alterations. Thus, allowing a minimally interventionist hand in the lives of the newly made rural proletariat. (5 Party Influence upon completion) (Think Moshav with more propaganda) (Will have a Stage 6 if VCC stage 4 is not done) (10 Resources per dice (243/300)) (-5 Resources per Turn, General Agricultural)
Construction of the next series of towns manages to speed up considerably in the months around the summer. With the massive quantities of displaced people from the changes in grain price, there is almost no shortage of land to set up facilities on. However, there is a persistent problem, with the massive number of peasants leaving the countryside, a good number of the fields are going fallow as there is no point for them to farm them. Such an issue has not caused a food crisis yet, with the intensification of agriculture across the state systems managing to feed the state. Still, the problem can become far worse if the situation is not stabilized with the construction of more mechanized farming installations. There is a small surplus for now, but the next year's harvest can cause a considerable problem and possibly a famine if nothing is done.
Going into the Industrial cities and rapidly moving all over Siberia, there was a great human horde. With so many giving up on farming as their harvests could barely pay for some beer, where else was there to go but to the cities? With the broad-scale disappointment in small scale agriculture, thousands also just left their crops in their fields, with multiple families instead abandoning their livelihoods while some savings were still left.
-History Textbook
Set up a Weather Bureau: Due to the great importance that weather plays in optimum farming and land utilization, it would be prudent to create an organization to predict it. Due to lacking forecasts, a portion of the farmers' crops is lost every year in an entirely avoidable fashion. With a good few personnel and scientific instruments assigned to a new department, most of these losses can be prevented. The department itself will be fairly inexperienced, but with time it can manage to make considerable improvements to agriculture. (149/150) (Close Enough, Completed)-History Textbook
A new system of records and basic forecasting is set up in the Union to ensure that farmers will get basic information on the weather. While so far, the forecasts have not been that accurate, experience and statistical data are being collected to ensure that future predictions are far better. However, these predictions have managed to save multiple harvests by predicting rains in time for farmers to harvest their crops, allowing them to be stored far more easily.
Services
Expansion of the Schooling Programs(Stage 3): The current youth of the Union need further expansions in schools so that illiteracy may finally be defeated. This step of schools will be built down to the smallest town that can require one and create a unified classification system of students' performance. Overall, such an effort would allow a consistent and trackable improvement to the nation's education for little cost. However, this effort would further exacerbate the shortage of trained personnel for some time and not pay off in anything close to the near term. It would, however, ensure a steady pipeline of well-educated adults joining the labor force. (5 Resources per dice (271/300))
Small but steady progress continues to be made on the schools, with another multitude of small local schools being constructed. The teachers may be young and inexperienced, but slowly the uneducated are being rotated out of the school system. As newer graduates are coming out of the universities in mass, they allow a steady improvement in both test scores and the quality of education. So far, though, a full replacement to the teachers already instructing students will take the better part of a decade to ensure a minimum four-year degree.
Military
Production Line-Shift to SVT-34: With the new rifle's greenlighting, it is time to shift production over to it on all levels. While the bulk of current rifles are made all over the nation with a far older mechanism, such an effort will be the example by which other modernization programs with similar goals occur. With the tooling transfer, this effort will change up a considerable number of rifle factories to the new rifle, creating a small period of vulnerability as production ramps up. (-10 Party Influence) (214/200) (Completed) (Military Dice:7) (-50 ABM Reserve)
While the facilities for the rifle production are rapidly constructed and updated, they have a large number of issues. The barrels still create production problems, and the changeover to the old basic component plants has not worked with the old equipment for making bolts for the Mosin just too old to be modernized. Instead, the new basic manufacturing effort is used to make up the shortcoming, with barrel production and mechanism production diverted to the modernized plants. While this does cause a minor general stoppage in the production of rifles, it does allow the rapid mass production of the SVT-34 from plants all over the Union.
[]Alternative Basic Manufacturing: With the necessity to more than double basic first-tier parts manufacturing, the Union must rise to the challenge. Multiple new factories will be constructed in the Urals to allow for ease of supplying other military production with parts and the proximity to the bulk of the steel production. Such an effort will also cause cost reductions due to supporting infrastructure being built and expanded in advance, allowing some later cost savings. (459/250) (Completed) (Military Dice:38)
The effort towards constructing a new series of parts and tools in the Urals goes amazingly well, with a massive expansion in the facilities well past the initially planned point. A near dozen large-scale parts factories are created to strategically supply the bulk of the industry as the upgrades occur, with almost no interruption in production. The new supply network was set up by the end of the season and can now deliver a continuous stream of parts and mechanical components to factories all over the Union. With the upgrades to the old plants, the production of parts has never been higher, creating a large amount of capacity for cheaper future expansion of factories. (ABM points are a thing that most factory actions will cost while you have them, but while you have them, all will be around ¼ cheaper. Currently, you will have 400 after the end of this turn.)
Construct Officer academies (Stage 4): With the massive recruitment of more personnel that is planned yet more officer training is needed. With the current reserve of officers already starting to thin with the need for instructors, some commanders will be transferred over to teach the next generation how to lead correctly. The effort will involve constructing an additional twenty universities to educate officer candidates into competent individuals capable of managing the army's complexity. (15 Resources per dice (158/300))
The construction of academies has hit a minor snag as a multitude of officers have decided to conduct large scale exercises instead of focusing on building educational facilities. The exercises have greatly demonstrated the new upcoming candidates' value but have caused a construction delay. Now, some additional effort is needed to make up the shortfall and ensure that a steady stream of officers can be trained.
Bureaucracy
Attempt Trade Agreements(France): With the French agreement and general diplomatic support, it would be prudent to sound them out for a more bilateral trade agreement. They may not like us excessively, but out of the capitalists, they are the most friendly. With Germany's current hostile state, trading them cheap coal in exchange for other far more useful goods and their currency can be of considerable benefit. It may even be possible to angle their nationalism towards the opening up to Soviet medical exports as currently, the field is otherwise a German monopoly. (-5 Party Support) (DC 80/169) (Completed) (30 Resources)
A simple treaty is made to the French to export a small amount of medication, with the proposal angling on assuaging their anti-German nationalism. Meanwhile, little actual progress is made on a long-term treaty of any sort. Only some minor defensive concessions are offered to weaken the already useless defense treaty as the Soviet compromise is getting the trade concessions passed. A good quantity of resources has been yielded from the deal. Still, tragically with the new election and the collapse of the current French government, the new government will almost certainly cut off the deal.
Current Economic Issues:
Rail: Meeting Demand
Coal: Major Surplus
Aluminum: Massive Surplus (You aren't using much)
Steel: Minor Surplus
Energy: Minor Local Surpluses
Food: Meeting Demand
Labor: Moderate Surplus
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Well, I know what's getting all our free dice next turn
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Can someone guide me through on how the fuck the food situation has gotten this bad? This were going okay last turn.
We slashed the grain prices to drive smallholding peasants out of business, and then instead of building the new-model mechanized farms for them to move to we did other things so when all the peasants were driven out of business they started packing up and moving to the cities. In hindsight, probably should have seen this coming, but at least we got enough warning to head off a famine and spend like 12 dice on building farms next turn.
Also, hey, the manpower shortage is solved for a while! Silver linings.
Also, hey, the manpower shortage is solved for a while! Silver linings.
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Food reserve is sold and the farmers are just abandoning their fields due to price increases. If you went for quotas you would be in a minor famine right now.
10ebbor10
DON'T PANIC
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We lowered the buying price of grain to the point where life as an ordinary peasant became financially unviable.
Hence, peasant based agriculture collapsed.
Gorky. Let them eat cogs.
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