Ok, how about we do the following research:
We don't need to research better armor. We're going to get it free once we repair the industrial platform.
It says it enables superior armor, but we currently don't have any designs for superior armor.
We could try and design artisanal workshops with automation and trained assistants for labor multiplication.
Set up artisonal trade schools throughout Calavar? Increase the number of Artisans, so to say. Make it very Darwinian with the very top being able to admitted to the Admech and the rest get to officially tend their trade and such.
8-ish Manufacturing, which honestly is what I should have had the Farstrikes cost.
I'm going to go with yes on this one.
Essentially.
That description was a ship with an Armor rating of 3 and Battery 3 turrets slapping your trio of straight unarmored ships with Battery 2 installed. Or... Maybe 1, it's been a while.
Torpedoes are burst damage, not DPS, though they do typically have a longer range.
Artisan is solely the Mechanicus, though things can have their A cost reduced. Representing superior machining being introduced through whatever method... For that specific process.
That was our MkI macrocannons (battery 2) against the Carmine Glory, which only had 2 armor, according to the NavInt post.
Hm. Good point. Still, essentially the same reasoning, and the the Carmine was also more experienced then your ships.
They are focusing on carriers converted from civilian hulls, as replacing strike craft is easier for ships and familiarity with your ships isn't the same as having the tooling or blueprints to make them.
I must protest!The bulk haulers produced by Calavar, widely known as Calavan Tortoises, are not the most cost-efficient freighters, but they are generally considered "broadly adequate", and form a key part of the war effort. The arched central hull above the cargo cylinders provides ample space for crew and machinery, although in many cases it is simply fitted out to haul more cargo.
Heavily modified for military purposes, but still readily recognizable, the Scorn-class assault carrier carries Calavan troops and strikecraft into battle in large numbers. Its rounded civilian prow, among other features, betrays its civilian origins. Among enlisted men, it is universally known as the "Angry Turtle".
We don't need to put all spare resources into Gehault repair. 60M should allow at least a couple of Gehault Imperial Navy ships to get back to full capacity or at least almost full capacity. Which will do nicely to point out to the Gehault captains and other lower ranking personnel that being friends with Calavar has quite a bit of benefits.
I mean obviously we aren't going to spend all 270M this turn, but I was thinking more like a third to a half of the total. Don't forget, these are five-year turns.
If the subsidied dockyard research works, it would be worth taking a few turns to set those up so that we can have them do all the escort replacing if we can for example.
I doubt we'll have to directly worry about which shipyards are building which ships, but yes, it would be a lot more manageable with more industry. And, if it turns out we don't get direct control over the subsidiary shipyards, "build escorts" is pretty much what we'll want them on. (That would suck, though.)
Fair. Eh, we'll see how much we can shove into the Gehault repairs once we know how much we've got in terms of M (we should have more since we are seeing less pirate attacks and Homna as well as Lativa has been cleared).
Because DaLintyGuy said that missile batteries can be fired in 'shoot people on the ground' mode as a sort of ICBM type thing, allowing them to bring bottled sunlight to landed enemy armies that slack off on their anti-air defense if needed back when I was getting them built. And given that for the purposes of 'bullying invader transports so they have to land elsewhere' the missiles were still fine, I took the additional anti-land capacity given that it was a hassle to get people to go for even a single ground battery given our admittedly not-minor needs to spend on shipping. If we add more batteries to a planet they probably should have Macrocannons, but it's good to have some missile silos around you know?
I'd support spending at least 90M on it, which is literally a third. We don't want them to be feeling short changed or that we're slacking off and not repairing them after all.
Fair enough. Now that we've finished the shipyard upgrades, we should have at least 420 Manufacturing available, so 90 M towards Gehault repairs should be within our means even with starting the light cruiser and building some more escort class ships.
Should I add in Macrocannon terrestrial defenses to the tentative plan? They'd still cost 6 M IIRC since MkI macrocannons cost 2M.
I'd 100% support more ground or orbital defenses in general. Or minefields, for that matter.
