Yeah, you can buy ballistae from them. (Coilguns or Bright-Lances would cost more than you currently have, and be 40-80 in maintenance alone.) Just write what you want from the weapon and I'll give you a cost estimate.
Are coilguns and bright-lances the weapons that the Warships have? If not, what type of guns are they (I assume we understand them at least somewhat due to being able to jury rig them).
What about appropiately sized machine guns? The biggest threats an airship is going to have for now are heavy weapons (which we can't do much about) and flying gribbles, so getting some anti-air might be a good choice.
Rail/Coil-guns, Bright Lances, Plasma Batteries and Rocket Pods (depleted).
If you mean automatic crossbows (guns dont exist currently), then we are looking at 105 Materials (+7 maintenance) per crossbow. About 8 of them would cover all angles of any ship above a cutter, allowing you to float them out quickly. Not doing so risks being attacked by something seeking a good human-sized meal and having no weapons to defend yourself with.
I mean, technically that happened the moment we got the prototype in the air.
If you give them enough Suspendium for a few years of operation? Fuckers would build a District on their purse.
Would they be willing to enter into semi-speculative deals? Help now in exchange for hulls later? I would not mind at all committing to restoring and selling some of the airships in the future for the assistance we need to get Suspendium now.
Yes, any Forge-Clan would be more than happy to speculate on that deal. Though getting even one ship into the air will require years of study to understand how they utilize suspendium and what parts do what to propel it. Then you will look at another few years to gather enough suspendium and repairs to stop said ship from falling apart, then repeat the whole thing.
It is
Its currently in the Interlude, and will be added to the next Turn proper.
Looking back I missed this. Why did the initial quota drop to 4 turns? I thought that was locked in at 1 medium in 8 turns (now 7) before the deal.
Yes, and once the path is done we can get one 1 large by sending an expedition. So we can meet the quota by locking archeology actions for a bit.
Because I am an idiot and numbers are the bane of my existence. Fixed it.
I want to see if we can manage to get 1 large shard to sit on in case of a failed expedition. The cost of failure to deliver is our main character's life. I want to, if at all possible, have a buffer in case of bad rolls. I believe to get this we will have to spend some of our flexible actions on shard expeditions. Still, I will rest much easier if we are sitting on 2 large shards in 11 turns.
As long as we use Martyris personal action it should be pretty hard to fail an expedition. So it should be easier to get a buffer.
You are, in fact, using/digging tunnels for parts of the way to the CG. The problem with what you are suggesting is that such heavy machinery would be noticable via seismic means, attracting Mutants and Machines to it.
Uh oh we missed this invi-text.
Yeah, we totally got caught. I expect our "spys" to be feeding us controlled information from here on out.
