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East Africa 1930: An ORBAT Quest

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I remain ambivalent about bote. It contains multitudes. Friends. Enemies. Love. Hate. To reduce it to one or the other is an exercise in foolishness.
 
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Turn 7 Vote - July 1931
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    • Turn 7 Vote - July 1931

    Project Development

    Ongoing Projects

    [X] Establish the Ordnance Office - Developing an arms industry from scratch will take time and effort. An Ordnance Office will allow us to delegate some of that work to specialists. (Constant Investment.)
    [X] Establish the Carabinieri Oversight Office - No one really keeps an eye on the paramilitary police force that keeps watch over the nation. If the force is to be reformed and re-established in a new role, then oversight is needed at the very least. (Constant Investment.)
    [X] Establish a Veterinary Oversight Office - Bringing hundreds of horses into Reewiin and establishing breeding programs will require extensive oversight, administrative effort, and coordination. (Constant Investment.)
    [X] Production Licensing: Rifle - Build a factory to produce a licensed version of a currently available rifle design. Write in the weapon of choice. (3 Months Remain) ☑☑☑◻
    [X] Doctrinal Reform: Army Drill - Dispatch the Army Training Detachment to spend time with each Carabinieri force, improving and formalising aspects of their training methods. These troops will be better suited as a wartime reserve and as partisans. (3 Months Remain) ☑☑◻
    [X] Enlarge the NCO Cadre - Reewiin lacks an effective base of experienced sergeants and corporals. Improving this will improve the Army overall. Choose one:
    [X] Increase Recruitment (9 Months remain) ☑◻◻◻

    [X] Write-in: Promote promising, experienced enlisted soldiers, especially those overlooked due to not being Somali.​

    Kismayo-Turkana Line:
    Progress, Kismayo-Marsabit: 68% (Est. completion June 1932)
    Progress, Marsabit-Turkana: 25% (Est. completion October 1933)

    Arisaka Rifles, Orders, and Production:
    Progress, Rifle Deliveries: 30% (Est. completion June 1932)
    Progress, Rifle Factory: None

    Completed Projects

    [X] Production Licencing: Ammunition - Buy the tooling for one calibre of ammunition currently in service or soon to be in service. (Completed!) ☑☑
    [X] Equine Acquisition: Requisition Locally - Requisition local Borana horses from the cavalry and agriculture for breeding stock. (Completed!)☑

    Reports

    Locally Produced Ammunition
    The lights have been switched on over the new ammunition lines, and new Type 38 rounds have begun entering circulation in Reewiin. So far, the tested quality has been decent, and few rounds have been removed from production due to issues.

    Locally Sourced Horses
    The first studding season with a veterinary office in place is here. Several stallions and mares have been taken from the cavalry, and the finest stock has been brought in from the villages nearest Bur Gaabo to establish a breeding ranch.

    There are concerns about the impacts of African Horse Sickness on the breeding population, but the veterinary office hopes to control this with proper care and culling.

    Issues

    What is the Defence Councils' opinion on the Chikuma?
    [ ] This is an excellent chance to purchase a ship for almost nothing.
    [ ] This is a distraction from more important things.
    [ ] Maybe we can find a use for it…

    Result of Financial Crisis
    [X] Reduce Investment Points available to the Defence Council by one.

    Defence Council Investment - July 1931

    The Defence Council currently has 1 investment point available to be spent on Breeding and Working. Unavailable votes are struck through, but still visible.

    Industry and Logistics

    Armaments
    [ ] Modernise The .43 Egyptian - Reewiin's single ammunition factory is dedicated to producing .43 Egyptian for the Carabinieri's Remington rifles. Expanding production and modernising the round to use smokeless powder will offer immediate dividends at a low cost. (3-Month Investment. Initial production will be low-rate, and improve over time.)

    [ ] Weapon Testing: Machine Guns - The Ordnance Office will buy a handful of machine guns from around the world and test them until they break. Afterwards, they will make recommendations to the Defence Council on the topic of machine gun licensing. (6-Month Investment. Recommendations will be made at the end of this process.)

    [ ] Production Licensing: Machine Guns - Attempt to buy the rights to produce a machine gun design. Include a weapon available in 1931 as a Write-In. Some will be easily acquired, others will be immediately refused. (12-Month Investment. Initial production will be low-rate, and improve over time.)

    [ ] Restructure the Ordnance Office - Reduce staffing in the Ordnance Office to retain oversight of programs in progress and free up capital for investment elsewhere. This does not cost an investment point and can be done at any time. (3-Month Investment.)


    Breeding and Working
    [ ] Equine Acquisition: Purchase Arabians - Buy Arabian horses for service en masse from Egypt. They will be monogender, and we will not be able to maintain the line if they're used for breeding stock. They also may not be resistant to AHS/ASS. (3-Month Investment. Sufficient mass of horses should be available in as little as one year.)

    [ ] Equine Acquisition: Donkeys & Mules - Buy partially resistant donkeys and mules for service en masse from South Africa. This sturdy stock will immediately enable us to improve our logistical and supply services while being somewhat resistant to AHS/ASS. (3-Month Investment. Sufficient mass of donkeys and mules should be available in as little as one year.)

    [ ] Equine Acquisition: Stud Farms - Buy a small number of Arabian studs from the United States. These will make good breeding stock for future programmes. (3-Month Investment. A breeding programme can begin within the year.)

    [ ] Government Action: Push for Equine Conscription - While pastoralism is not exactly a major industry in Reewiin, there are a large number of animals that could be put to wartime use, were they assessed in a proper census. (6-Month Investment. Implementation will occur at the government's pace.)

    [ ] Restructure the Veterinary Office - Reduce staffing in the Veterinary Office to retain oversight of programs in progress and free up capital for investment elsewhere. This does not cost an investment point and can be done at any time. (3-Month Investment.)

    Lanes, Trains, and Automobiles
    [ ] Road Expansion: Somali Coast - Build some metalled roads connecting major towns and cities. (6-Month Investment. Construction will begin during this time.)

    [ ] Road Expansion: Inland Networks - Improve the unimproved road network to be more extensive and less vulnerable to flooding in the wet season. (6-Month Investment. Construction will begin during this time.)

    Doctrine and Organisation

    DCIRRO
    [ ] Establish the Information Review Team - This group will be tasked with drafting reports on various arms of the internal structure of Reewiin. (12-Month Investment. Will enable additional work in this specific area, including write-in Information Review requests.)

    [ ] Information Review: Government - Determine what the civilian government wants out of their armed forces. (3-Month Investment.)

    [ ] Analysis: Ethiopia - Long-term analysis of the optimal army to defend Reewiin against our eternal enemy, Ethiopia. (6-Month Investment.)

    [ ] Analysis: Britain - Long-term analysis of the optimal army to defend Reewiin against our eternal enemy, Britain. (6-Month Investment.)

    [ ] Analysis: Italy - Long-term analysis of the optimal army to defend Reewiin against our eternal enemy, Italy. (6-Month Investment.)

    [ ] Analysis: The Foreigners Have Some Good Ideas - Send observation teams overseas to take the best ideas from foreign nations. (6-Month Investment.)

    Reforming the Carabinieri
    [ ] Organisational Reform: Police Force - While the Carabinieri is responsible for internal security, its position as a military force can compromise that. Each Region should have a specialist policing force subsidiary to its larger military formation. (9-Month Investment.)

    [ ] Organisational Reform: Wilderness Rangers - The Carabinieri is responsible for massive tracts of rural land. A specialist ranger unit trained in long-distance patrol and survival would be useful to the force as a whole. (9-Month Investment.)

    [ ] Reinforce the Somali Border - Diverting funds to the North-Eastern border will better protect against any future Italian aggression. (12-Month Investment.)

    [ ] Reinforce the Ethiopian Border - Diverting funds to the North-Western border will better protect against any future Ethiopian aggression. (12-Month Investment.)

    [ ] Reinforce the Kenyan Border - Diverting funds to the Southern border will better protect against any future British aggression. (12-Month Investment.)

    [ ] Restructure the Carabinieri Office - Reduce staffing in the Carabinieri Office to retain oversight of programs in progress and free up capital for investment elsewhere. This does not cost an investment point and can be done at any time. (3-Month Investment.)


    Reforming the Army
    [ ] Manoeuvre Training - The Army Review has determined that Reewiin's standing military is not currently fit for the task. Field manoeuvres will begin to improve this. (Unavailable: the Army Training Corps is busy.)
    [ ] Optional: Request Japanese support for this program, improving impacts and benefiting from IJN institutional knowledge.
    [ ] Optional: Request Japanese support for this program, improving impacts and benefiting from IJA institutional knowledge.​

    [ ] Rifle Training - With an average of twenty rounds per man per year, marksmanship is of very poor quality. Regular range training will begin to improve this. (Unavailable: the Army Training Corps is busy.)
    [ ] Optional: Request Japanese support for this program, improving impacts and benefiting from IJN institutional knowledge.
    [ ] Optional: Request Japanese support for this program, improving impacts and benefiting from IJA institutional knowledge.​

    [ ] Cavalry Training - The Cavalry are loath to conduct operations en-masse, leaving them poorly equipped for the field. Deployments into central Reewiin will begin to improve this. (Unavailable: the Army Training Corps is busy.)
    [ ] Optional: Request Japanese support for this program, improving impacts and benefiting from IJA institutional knowledge.​

    [ ] Enlarge the Officers Corps - The Army of Reewiin lacks for many things and an identified issue is with the small officers numbers. While at the high level this is not a significant issue it leaves the junior officers seriously overworked. Beginning a major drive to recruit and train new officers will shift this issue towards the positive. (12-Month Investment.)

    [ ] Enlarge the NCO Cadre - Reewiin lacks an effective base of experienced sergeants and corporals. Improving this will improve the Army overall. Choose one:
    [ ] Increase Retention (6-Month Investment.)

    [ ] Write-in: How?​

    [ ] New Uniform Standard - The current issued uniform barely qualifies and is only truly standardised amongst the officers and the cavalry. Order new, standardised uniforms and web gear for the whole army. (6-Month Investment)
    [ ] Write-in: What do you order?​

    [ ] Confine Idle Soldiers to Barracks - We can't have the Army tarnishing its image by gambling and causing trouble on the streets! Confining the soldiers to their barracks when they don't have leave will keep them from being a nuisance. (3-Month Investment).

    [ ] Give Council Position to Army Liaison - By letting an Army liaison vote on Council matters, we can reassure the Army that their concerns are given due weight. (3-Month Investment).


    You are more than welcome to ask questions about what is acceptable as a write-in vote.

    There will be a 6-hour moratorium on voting to encourage discussion. The vote will close in three days.
     
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    • I say we accept the ship worse case we use it as a floating barrack and strip the guns of for use elsewhere.
    I say get the donkeys this turn and reduce the Veterinary Office next turn unless there are more actions needed to start using our new horses, mules and donkeys
     
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    Well, not a lot of options. We accept the ship (free stuff is nice!), grab the donkeys, and wait three months.

    Longer term I'm not sure if we can justify keeping the vet office going at full strength. Unless someone has a good idea for a write-in or they need to tackle AHS, it seems like they might be eating a slot with nothing to show for it after donkeys and mules finishes up?
     
    The ability to keep the current programs overseen makes me somewhat less ahhhh about immediately turning off the veterinary office right after we get it, but I'm not entirely sold on it, especially since we'll want to get it back as soon as the next round of projects in the area unlocks.

    My original desire was to fill any hole between starting our breeding programs and the implementation projects with a write-in research project to study the logistics of using horses in the interior - investigating people's concerns about feeding and moving them around and hopefully defraying some of the implementation costs of later rounds. We already have horses and other animals, the vets can go do exploratory work with them.

    For now, bote and donkeys and mules are desirable.
     
    Yes to the ship and maybe now is the time to start looking at getting standardized emergency rations and standard rations.
     
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    [X] Maybe we can find a use for it…

    [X] Plan: Ass Acquisition
    -[X] Equine Acquisition: Donkeys & Mules - Buy partially resistant donkeys and mules for service en masse from South Africa. This sturdy stock will immediately enable us to improve our logistical and supply services while being somewhat resistant to AHS/ASS. (3-Month Investment. Sufficient mass of donkeys and mules should be available in as little as one year.)

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    Thanks for pointing that out
     
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    [X] Maybe we can find a use for it…

    [X] Plan: Ass Acquisition
    -[X] Equine Acquisition: Donkeys & Mules - Buy partially resistant donkeys and mules for service en masse from South Africa. This sturdy stock will immediately enable us to improve our logistical and supply services while being somewhat resistant to AHS/ASS. (3-Month Investment. Sufficient mass of donkeys and mules should be available in as little as one year.)
     
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    [X] Maybe we can find a use for it…

    [X] Ass Acquisition
    -[X] Equine Acquisition: Donkeys & Mules - Buy partially resistant donkeys and mules for service en masse from South Africa. This sturdy stock will immediately enable us to improve our logistical and supply services while being somewhat resistant to AHS/ASS. (3-Month Investment. Sufficient mass of donkeys and mules should be available in as little as one year.)
     
    [X] Maybe we can find a use for it…
    [X] Ass Acquisition
    -[X] Equine Acquisition: Donkeys & Mules - Buy partially resistant donkeys and mules for service en masse from South Africa. This sturdy stock will immediately enable us to improve our logistical and supply services while being somewhat resistant to AHS/ASS. (3-Month Investment. Sufficient mass of donkeys and mules should be available in as little as one year.)
     
    [X] This is an excellent chance to purchase a ship for almost nothing.

    Ass Acquisition won't tally correctly unless you write it as Plan: Ass Acquisition.

    [X] Equine Acquisition: Donkeys & Mules - Buy partially resistant donkeys and mules for service en masse from South Africa. This sturdy stock will immediately enable us to improve our logistical and supply services while being somewhat resistant to AHS/ASS. (3-Month Investment. Sufficient mass of donkeys and mules should be available in as little as one year.)
     
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    [X] This is an excellent chance to purchase a ship for almost nothing.

    [X] Equine Acquisition: Donkeys & Mules - Buy partially resistant donkeys and mules for service en masse from South Africa. This sturdy stock will immediately enable us to improve our logistical and supply services while being somewhat resistant to AHS/ASS. (3-Month Investment. Sufficient mass of donkeys and mules should be available in as little as one year.)
     
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    [X] This is an excellent chance to purchase a ship for almost nothing.

    [X] Equine Acquisition: Donkeys & Mules - Buy partially resistant donkeys and mules for service en masse from South Africa. This sturdy stock will immediately enable us to improve our logistical and supply services while being somewhat resistant to AHS/ASS. (3-Month Investment. Sufficient mass of donkeys and mules should be available in as little as one year.)
     
    Silversun17 said:
    Did some googling for my idea: pemmican is generally 575 calories per 100 grams And can be made with any meat as long as you have fat to use to bind it.
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    You know if you put that together with some cocoa you would more or less have the British Emergency Ration Field Service or in other much simpler words their emergency ration of the Boer War.
     
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    Wilgus04 said:
    You know if you put that together with some cocoa you would more or less have the British Emergency Ration Field Service or in other much simpler words the emergency ration of the Boer War.
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    I was thinking we could be more aggressive with adding berries if we canned it. That would be meat, fat, fruit and coco powder. Not the most pleasant but it will feed the troops and keep them going for long durations.


    Edit: crazy thought: what if the factory hydrolicly compacted the pemmican before canning. Would that make it closer in texture to spam?
     
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    [X] This is an excellent chance to purchase a ship for almost nothing.

    [X] Equine Acquisition: Donkeys & Mules - Buy partially resistant donkeys and mules for service en masse from South Africa. This sturdy stock will immediately enable us to improve our logistical and supply services while being somewhat resistant to AHS/ASS. (3-Month Investment. Sufficient mass of donkeys and mules should be available in as little as one year.)
     
    [X] This is an excellent chance to purchase a ship for almost nothing.

    [X] Equine Acquisition: Donkeys & Mules - Buy partially resistant donkeys and mules for service en masse from South Africa. This sturdy stock will immediately enable us to improve our logistical and supply services while being somewhat resistant to AHS/ASS. (3-Month Investment. Sufficient mass of donkeys and mules should be available in as little as one year.)
     
    [X] This is an excellent chance to purchase a ship for almost nothing.
    [X] Equine Acquisition: Donkeys & Mules - Buy partially resistant donkeys and mules for service en masse from South Africa. This sturdy stock will immediately enable us to improve our logistical and supply services while being somewhat resistant to AHS/ASS. (3-Month Investment. Sufficient mass of donkeys and mules should be available in as little as one year.)
     
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