I know that someone asked a question about the laufpanzer even though it was more of a joke. But on a serious question is the laufpanzer an actual tank with legs or is it actually a giant power armor suit?
I do not want anything useful or practical. I do not want to planquest out Guangchou into some actually nice place. I want to lean into the memes of being the tinniest of tin pots. I want this place to be memetic North Korea with even less sense. I want to meme our way into the sun.
[X] Projekt Laufpanzer
Come on, we gotta. I don't care that we're a tiny nation that probably won't see much (survivable) conflict, let's make like Orb from Gundam SEED and Gallia from Valkyria Chronicles and punch above our weight class!
If we can build the damn thing. Meanwhile, the mechas are basically tanks on legs so it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to build those when we have a better footing.
If we can build the damn thing. Meanwhile, the mechas are basically tanks on legs so it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to build those when we have a better footing.
Coincidentally, the Laufpanzer requires the most Actions to start production of, while the Untermensch is a-go within a decision, and the Walküre only requires a decision and two turns.
Edit: Well, it's time for me to go to bed! If the top option is tied, consider voting extended by another day. (24 hours)
No, it was a contingency plan by the Wehrmacht to deal with major domestic emergencies, like lage-scale revolts or sudden deaths of the Nazi leadership. It was later co-opted by the 20 July plot as a sort of step two after a successfull assasination of Hitler. I get that you wanted to create some sort of fictional Wunderwaffe project, but you picked a name that was already a real thing.
No, it was a contingency plan by the Wehrmacht to deal with major domestic emergencies, like lage-scale revolts or sudden deaths of the Nazi leadership. It was later co-opted by the 20 July plot as a sort of step two after a successfull assasination of Hitler.
Coincidentally, the Laufpanzer requires the most Actions to start production of, while the Untermensch is a-go within a decision, and the Walküre only requires a decision and two turns.
Huh. You'd think a giant sky fortress would be the most work, but I'm guessing that we aren't even bothering with that and using the associated technologies for other uses.
How do you think humanity will react to you saying:
"Hey y'all! We have a sub-human race here created by nazi's!"
...well?
Edit:
What's a better word than "sub-human" in this context? Cause they would be the german sheperd to wolves in terms of species relation with homo sapiens sapiens.
2nd Edit: Last hour folks! See you tomorrow for the results!
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Welcome, Gundams! It may need a few more decades to find those particles that can fly but I believe in you and the Prophet Kojima is once more correct.
[X] Projekt Laufpanzer
[X] Plan: Ocean Man
-[X] Construct Another Harbor (Helpful) (+1 Reputation)
-[X] Re-Found Your Anemic Navy (The People of Guangchou's Liberation Navy (PGLN)) (+4 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[X] Assemble A Fishing Fleet (+1 People's Opinion)
-[X] Construct A Cannery Factory (+1 People's Opinion)
-[X] Call for the Technocrats to assign a team to begin researching Oceanography, local aquatic wildlife, the value of a fish, health benefits, shipbuilding, and you've heard fish and fish poo works wonders as farming fertilizer, so you want to learn all that can be obtained from the ocean and what you can use to improve your future farming endeavors. (Helpful) (+1 Reputation for 2(two) Turns)
-[X] Wei Jungming - (RP)
--[X] Perhaps you should start searching for a significant other to create your own family with? Guangchou may be more progressive on these matters than the rest of the world, but as the nation's leader, you're still expected to set an example for your people. Staying single your entire life probably isn't an option.
--[X] Spend time going through your father's belongings and files. The man possessed many secrets in life, which might still prove useful. It's also probably wise to make sure he didn't leave any surprises to deal with before they blow up in your face.
--[X] Plan a surprise tour of the harbors and fisheries.
[X] Heavy Industry
-[X] Construct Another Harbor (Helpful) (+1 Reputation)
(4 - Optimal)
Despite what people may think, you can't plop down a harbor anywhere you wish to, and damn the location! There need to be several conditions for these structures to be practical, chief among them easy access to the open seas or ocean. With your island sitting on the borders of the Chinese Sea, that part is not difficult; you merely had to mark the areas where the reefs and sunken Japanese ships were and then work onwards from there. Nearby fisheries and industry factored into the construction, as did access to workers to both construct and then service the new facilities. Though the newly built harbor is anything but a work of art, ships can anchor, offload cargo and crew, be loaded with cargo once more, and leave without any hassle greater than anywhere else. The newly constructed fishing fleet has been permanently assigned docks there, as the cannery has been built nearby to reduce the need for transport from harbor to factory. Coincidentally, the port also allows an expansion to your naval slipways.
[X] Military
-[X] Re-Found Your Anemic Navy (The People of Guangchou's Liberation Navy (PGLN)) (+4 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
(8 - Optimal)
Your people had always found pride within your navy, the one area where none could hope to hold a candle to your blazing bonfire, be it in quality, courage, or genius. Slightly exaggerated maybe, but none can deny that your navy had covered itself in glory from its earliest days to the last years under Admiral Azure "Iron Dragon" Ju, a man whose story and legend is told to this day. The Gunners of Nine, Xa Li's Gambit, the Scorched Trail, and countless other stories about sacrifice and perseverance in the face of overwhelming odds are constant reminders of the pride you once held within your navy. However, none other remind you of such as the Battle for the Iron Reef created by Admiral Azure. He was the one that played with the Imperial Japanese Navy like an adult with a child, handed them defeat after defeat, slipped their grasp, and turned traps onto them every time they tried to kill him and cow you into becoming yet another colony to their Emperor. The story of his last sally is practically a mandatory topic within your schools, one demanding no less than two weeks of attention from all involved. After all, it was when the Iron Dragon sallied forth to face the entire might of the IJN in one last suicidal hurrah and prevail, beating them back at the cost of his life. For two days did the guns thunder across the waves, for two days did your people die to Japanese guns and airplanes, yet they held, crossing the waves with speed and grace unmatched. Even as ships sank beneath the waves, they refused to die. Their crews sent shell after shell into the Japanese until their guns were submerged fully, and some not even then when they had intentionally breached themselves unto a reef. When your weapons finally ran dry, Admiral Azure ordered his flagship to accelerate to ramming speed, crashing into the carrier Zuikaku, where he would find his end detonating internal munitions, taking the ship with him to the grave. Mauled and their ammunition depleted, the Japanese decided that losing 21 ships to your nation was too much and retreated, deciding to kill you from the air. The only reason why you had such little industry as the Japanese destroyed everything above ground from their bombers for nearly six years.
A legacy you hope the new navy will prove capable of upholding.
[X]Agri-, And Aquaculture
-[X] Assemble A Fishing Fleet (+1 People's Opinion)
(7+1=8 - Optimal)
What is there to say besides you now bringing in more fish? Building boats is easy for your people, and when those same are intended to ship in more food for their bellies, the workers of Ghangchou do so with a passion. Laying down the keel before rapidly constructing the rest, they reinforce the large holds from any harm to keep their precious cargo of fish safe until they can be disgorged back home.
-[X] Construct A Cannery Factory (+1 People's Opinion)
(9+1=10 - Boosted)
A few words here, some insinuation to Zhao Chin, a bit of oversight, and the newest factory in Ghangchou now stands proudly next to the harbor, filled with the best machinery you could obtain within. And within a single day of operation, the first cans of tuna leave, soon filling stores and the workers' bellies. Of course, you are a bit proud of what you managed to create in such little time and how you improved the food situation, though your Minister of Nature and Nutrition quickly brings you down with the revelation that ~49% of the people still lack two meals a day. A further ~20% can only eat one full meal per two days together, and ~4% are on active starvation rations.
[X]Wei Jungming
-[X] Call for the Technocrats to assign a team to begin researching Oceanography, local aquatic wildlife, the value of a fish, health benefits, shipbuilding, and you've heard fish and fish poo works wonders as farming fertilizer, so you want to learn all that can be obtained from the ocean and what you can use to improve your future farming endeavors. (Helpful) (+1 Reputation for 2(two) Turns)
(8 - Optimal)
Having called upon your contacts among the Technocrats, you had a small favor to ask of them: bring me what you know about using fish and the ocean. They went at it with abandon, and you soon found yourself swarmed by translated texts from Europe, America, and China, though none of them are sorted. You will probably have to wait for your staff to get through the massive amount of scientific materials obtained before you can apply anything.
--[X] Perhaps you should start searching for a significant other to create your own family with? Guangchou may be more progressive on these matters than the rest of the world, but as the nation's leader, you're still expected to set an example for your people. So staying single your entire life probably isn't an option.
(Nat 1)
With the recent madness stemming from discovering your father's secret project, you had zero chance to commit to, or even search for, any romantic entanglements. But such is life.
--[X] Spend time going through your father's belongings and files. The man possessed many secrets in life, which might still prove helpful. It's also probably wise to make sure he didn't leave any surprises to deal with before they blow up in your face.
(Nat 100)
Laufpanzer.
Walking. Tanks.
...you would call anyone that would have tried to sell the idea to you a madman, and yet you cannot help but stare at the fifty Laufpanzer within a secret base underneath our island sporting nazi-decals! It is insane; it is madness, the very definition of the Nazi Wunderwaffe! Something completely useless with no practical application!
That is if the Laufpanzer would be useless. It is anything but, cheaper than any tank by nearly half and capable of wielding an equivalent in firepower. Their armor is shockingly advanced, capable of resisting modern tank fire with moderate difficulty despite its amateurish application across the machine. The hydraulics and internal machinery are so incredibly rugged you were shocked to see one half-rusted Laufpanzer function with nearly no loss in mobility despite half of its internals nothing more than rust. To say nothing of the electronics within that can hold up to modern equivalents with ease but beat those by miles in durability.
And you have all the notes and blueprints to make more of them. To make better versions. To make your versions.
You only need a name.
[] Laufpanzer is fitting.
[] (Write-In Name.)
--[X] Plan a surprise tour of the harbors and fisheries.
(92)
It was refreshing to be among the people, away from the stress and intrigue of the upper echelons. To see them be unaware that you were their leader and be treated as yet another worker amongst workers. (You had long since learned how to disguise yourself properly.) The people appreciate your attempts to better their lot, and there is cautious talk about how you seem a better man than your father. You also uncovered a corrupt official that tried to inflate prices and deflate wages of the workers alongside a drug smuggler while you tried to juggle three fish and an octopus.
[+5 People's Opinion]
Reputation - (25/100 Reputation, +1 for 4(Four) Turns, +1 for 1(One) Turn - Beware the Opportunists) People's Opinion - (36/100 Reputation, +1 for 4(Four) Turns - Ours is to do and die, but at least we can complain. Quietly.) Chinese Opinion - (8/10 - I like your witty words.) History Page - (A name, three dates. Birth, reign, death.)
Light Industry - Meh Heavy Industry - Adequate Military Industry - Adequate Agriculture - Abyssal - (Improving)
[] Light Industry
-[] Improve Roads (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Create New Housing (Helpful) (+2 People's Opinion)
-[] Design New Housing Concept (Design)
-[] Improve Medical Infrastructure (Helpful) (+4 People's Opinion) (-1 Reputation)
-[] Build New Police Stations (Helpful) (+1 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Increase Electrification (Helpful) (+2 People's Opinion)
-[] Construct Consumer Goods Factory (What) (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion) (-1 Reputation)
-[] (WRITE-IN)
[] Heavy Industry
-[] Construct A Tractor Factory (+1 People's Opinion) (-2 Reputation)
-[] Construct Another Steel Foundry (Harmful) (+1 Reputation)
-[] Construct A Power Plant (Helpful)
-[] Construct A Metallurgical Institute (+2 Reputation)
-[] Expand Your Mines (Harmful)
-[] Construct Another Harbor (Helpful) (+1 Reputation)
-[] Design A Civilian Vehicle (Describe) (-1 Reputation)
-[] Design A Civilian Aircraft (Describe)
-[] (WRITE-IN)
[] Military
-[] Design A Native Tank (Describe) (+3 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Design A Native Plane (Describe) (+4 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Design A Native Vehicle (Describe) (+3 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Design A Native Ship (Describe) (+4 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Design A Native Artillery Piece (Describe) (+2 Reputation)
-[] Design A Native Sidearm (Describe) (+1 Reputation
-[] Design A Native Main Personal Weapon (Describe) (+2 Reputation)
-[] Design Native Equipment (Describe) (+1 Reputation)
-[] Import (What) (-1 Reputation)
-[] Construct A Dedicated Naval Slipway (Ship) (+1 Reputation)
-[] Construct Coastal Defences (+3 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Construct Interior Defences (+2 Reputation) (+2 People's Opinion)
-[] Construct An Airfield (+1 Reputation)
-[] Construct Military Building/Factory (What) (Harmful) (+1 Reputation) (-1 People's Opinion)
-[] Expand The Military Academy (+3 Reputation) (-2 People's Opinion)
-[] Raise A New Military Formation (What) (Harmful) (+2 Reputation) (-2 People's Opinion)
-[] Intimidate Taiwan (+5 Reputation)
-[] Commit Exercises (+3 Reputation)
-[] Secure Trade Routes (+1 Reputation)
-[] Raid International Shipping (What Goods) (Helpful/Harmful) (Roll above five, and you won't be caught.)
-[] (WRITE-IN)
[] Agri-, And Aquaculture (+1 to Dice for 4(Four) Turns - Plan)
-[] Create An Agriculture Institute (Name, Focus) (+1 People's Opinion) (-3 Reputation)
-[] Create An Aquaculture Institute (Name, Focus) (+1 People's Opinion) (-3 Reputation)
-[] Construct A Fertilizer Factory (Helpful) (-2 Reputation)
-[] Clear Jungles For Farming (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion) (-1 Reputation)
-[] Increase Farming Space (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion) (-2 Reputation)
-[] Assemble A Fishing Fleet (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Construct A Cannery Factory (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] (WRITE-IN)
[] Social (+4 to One(1) Roll - Omake)
-[] Arrest Dissidents (Harmful) (+1 Reputation) (-3 People's Opinion)
-[] Increase Surveillance (Harmful) (-3 People's Opinion)
-[] Purge Undesirable Citizens (Who) (Harmful) (+2 Reputation) (-4 People's Opinion)
-[] Search And Destroy Rebels (Harmful) (-4 People's Opinion) (+3 Reputation)
-[] Increase Social Control (How) (Helpful) (Harmful) (-2 People's Opinion) (+2 Reputation)
-[] Propagandize An Achievement (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Reduce Surveillance (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion) (-2 Reputation)
-[] Praise Workers From (Industry) (Helpful/Harmful) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Boost (Social Statistic, example: Birthrates) (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Propagandize Workers Conditions (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion)
-[] Implement A Social Policy (Write-In) (Helpful/Harmful) (+2 People's Opinion) (-1 Reputation)
-[] Reduce Social Control (How) (Helpful) (+3 People's Opinion) (-5 Reputation)
-[] (WRITE-IN) [] Political
-[] (WRITE-IN) [] Secret Projects
-[] Laufpanzer (Rename Pending) Armor Foundry (1/3 to produce Laufpanzer (Rename Pending))
-[] Laufpanzer (Rename Pending) Electronics Manufacturing (1/3 to produce Laufpanzer (Rename Pending))
-[] Laufpanzer (Rename Pending) Assembly (1/3 to produce Laufpanzer (Rename Pending))
-[] Laufpanzer (Rename Pending) Research Group (Allows Modifications) [] Wei Jungming - (RP)
-[] (Write-In three things he does within the next six months.)
A Tank On Legs
You are just a soldier among many, yet the Great Leader chose you to test these machines. Now the scientists ask you to voice your opinion. What needs to be improved, what is working, and how can they be used?
(+2 to first native Laufpanzer design)
Plus, google translate always butchers titles and names so anything we go with using it would sound hella cringe to a native speaker. Like Engrish attack names in anime.
Man, when we unveil these things, our boss is going to want some for sure but I wait to see the look on NATO's collective faces as a small pacific island whose only real claim to fame is resisting the IJN somehow pumps out some of the most advanced military technology on the planet.
~49% of the people still lack two meals a day. A further ~20% can only eat one full meal per two days together, and ~4% are on active starvation rations.
We should definitely keep working to fix this btw.
[] Plan: Feeding The People
-[] Design A Native Plane (Describe) (+4 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
--[] A small fertilizer plane or helicopter. Something that works well in a small area. Guangzhou isn't a very large island so you don't need anything fast.
-[] Construct A Fertilizer Factory (Helpful) (-2 Reputation)
-[] Clear Jungles For Farming (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion) (-1 Reputation)
-[] Increase Farming Space (Helpful) (+1 People's Opinion) (-2 Reputation)
-[] Laufpanzer (Rename Pending) Armor Foundry (1/3 to produce Laufpanzer (Rename Pending))
-[] Wei Jungming - (RP)
--[] Keep trying to find a significant other. You might have better luck this year.
--[] Plan a surprise tour of the new factories.
Not sure what we should do for the third rp action.
My idea for the next turn:
[] Powering The Revolution
-[] Increase Electrification (Helpful) (+2 People's Opinion)
-[] Construct A Power Plant (Helpful)
-[] Construct A Tractor Factory (+1 People's Opinion) (-2 Reputation)
-[] Construct A Fertilizer Factory (Helpful) (-2 Reputation)
-[] Design A Native Tank (+3 Reputation) (+1 People's Opinion)
--[] An Amphibious light tank fuel efficient enough to make the journey to Taiwan and still raise hell on arrival.
Electricity is going to be vital to continuing. As an island, space is a premium so there's a limit on how much we can devote to agriculture,meaning we need to make the best use of what we have.
While we may already have a Gundum to play around with, being able to move armored forces around without transport has advantages. Also seems like it'd be fun to pair with intimidate Taiwan If only for the Godsmacked looks on everyone's faces.