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The World is my Layout [Worm AU/Alt Power]
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You are most welcome. Will Squealer be joining Taylor? I am extremely curious as to how the PRT/Protectorate and the other gangs will respond to the removal of the Merchants?
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Danny bought out his gift for Taylor. He had a train model set called 'Amerika' from a hobby shop in empire territory, and a Sumida M.2593 with its working rail wheels. And also a model of Armoured draisine Tatra T 18. Given that she was already attacked by the merchants twice, it was likely that she would next have to face either the Empire or ABB. He liked the fact that these gave Taylor a very mobile and considerable firepower, and face it he would very much like to see Kaisers expression as he was being shot by multiple 20 mm quad mount autocanon from Hitlers train. And in a perverse homage of Lung's rumored dual ethnic heritage of Chinese and Japanese, this Sumida should remind him of Japan's brutal invasion of china. Definitely not PC but he was not going to care for the feeling of these scums in general, and especially if they attack her. He spent the rest of his days snickering to himself.
p.s He had also kept one model in reserve. this Karl-Gerät.
Give that Dispatcher a Schwerer Gustav, Dispatchers love Schwerer Gustavs
eh, likely not too worried, going off the Railway Series, the locos can't really do anything without a crew. James was left helpless in Old Iron for example.
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Taylor's projections use energy bullets with stun effects. He ain't dead.
If they can keep Skidmark in custody long enough for Squealer to come off drugs I suppose she might defect for the trains. Tinkertech trains could be fun.
I don't think that's likely, though. I think Taylor prefers her trains in original condition.
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with tinker BS, one could have a 2-10-10-10-10-10-2 and actually have it work.
Dragonmaster150
Firstborn of Dragonkind
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Nice chapter, I enjoyed reading that. For some reason though, I felt like I was watching one of those old time crime dramas where Skidmark was playing the role of Al Capone.
Who says the merchants are gone? just because Skidmark and Squealer got arrested doesn't mean the gang will be disbanded, in fact of the three gangs the Merchants are the least likely BB gang to collapse because they lost their parahumans. They might be a bunch or druggies, but as long as there are people looking for drugs the merchants will exist in some form or other.
Now if there's a gang that's going to collapse because they're being held together by the parahumans it's probably the ABB. from what I can tell Lung and One Lee are the primary driving force for them. Though that's not to say it would disappear entirely, they would probably stick around, but without Lung's influence they would probably be quickly overrun by Nazi's, or their own people who are tired of them being overlords. Maybe, I'm not an expert on the subject, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.
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Good news is that there is a PRT/Protectorate Interlude planning in the works that will cover initial reactions to Dispatcher. Reactions to the midnight attack will be in a proper chapter.
As for Squealer, I will refrain from spoiling anything.
Give that Dispatcher a Schwerer Gustav, Dispatchers love Schwerer Gustavs
eh, likely not too worried, going off the Railway Series, the locos can't really do anything without a crew. James was left helpless in Old Iron for example.
Gustav is a bit too large for Operations on the Boston and Maine's trackage, but it is fun to imagine.
I will tell you a secret. I have been struggling over the idea of including non-faceless locomotives. Haven't actually decided yet, but it could go one way or the other.
Tinkertech trains will eventually appear, but who's to say which tinker will be the first to make one? As for Skidmark, he will find it a hard time to break out if he has no outside help.
*Shudders* I... I don't think that would work very well if at all. If every one of those 10s is 5 pairs of drive wheels, each set would have to be articulated. If that's a steam engine, the firebox and boiler setup would be a nightmare. It would be 3-4 times the length of a Big Boy, which would make it very hard to turn or switch into a yard of any kind. It would require very wide radius curves or run on a line with no curves at all. That's not even getting into switching requirements.
Thanks for the kind words. I wasn't going for Al Capone, but I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Some good analysis there, but with no organization from Skidmark and his top crew members, any remaining Merchants will have a hard time keeping themselves from being absorbed or driven out of business by the other gangs. Once Taylor expands operations into the Graveyard and the Docks, she'll root out any survivors and hand them over to the cops. The Merchant's heyday is over, that's for sure.
Aw wonderful. I am looking forward to reading the interlude and the chapter.
Keep up the good work.
Of course you are. Because that is precisely how every author handles epic secrets.
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Ah, a fellow Tanzig fan, I see.
Tinker BS. That's where it comes in. Tinkers can produce enough BS that the loco could likely somehow negotiate a sharp corner that what be too sharp for an 0-6-0. It'd also mean that it'd have enough steam, unlike the poor Triplexes.
Heck, a tinker could likely make a working 4-14-4, they're that much BS
Long-time lurker here, first time poster- yes, this fiction got me to actually register an account here, congrats- you don't actually need to be a Tinker to hot rod a steam locomotive beyond all recognition performance-wise. After all, when you have design projects for Second Generation steam where they make a locomotive in the pattern of the Black Five and make it as good as it can be, well- it was slated to make nearly double the power of the old version. Gas producer fireboxes, ultra-high superheat, better sealing in the valves/cooling the valve liners, lempor blastpipes, and water treatment that is best described as chemical witchcraft can get you hilarious results. For example, with the rebuilt locomotive resulting in the Red Devil, it made up time by going over track speed climbing grades, while other, less powerful sister engines had to speed on the downhill to make up time. Having enough steam to spin the drivers at 50km/h on dry rail is also pretty hilarious, as well. None of this requires Tinker Shenanigans.
To be fair, jet trains have worked multiple times- once with a converted RDC car with some steel plating added to the nose, and onto the radiator bulge, along with a removed motor and removed driveshafts and support structure added, along with the jet pod of a B36 bomber- the Black Beetle- but that was strictly experimental, and mostly a stunt. Still set a nice speed record, however. You also had the jet train of the USSR, though I have less information on that.
The truly successful jet trains actually used them to power the wheels- from the three generations of gas turbine locomotives of the UP, to the turbine powered passenger trains of VIA and Amtrak, as well as quite a few from the French (Including one version of the TGV powered by jets) it is actually a rather well trodden path.
The truly successful jet trains actually used them to power the wheels- from the three generations of gas turbine locomotives of the UP, to the turbine powered passenger trains of VIA and Amtrak, as well as quite a few from the French (Including one version of the TGV powered by jets) it is actually a rather well trodden path.
She could always just create new trains using blueprints QA could force her shard to give her/make subtly
Well one off the top of my head. Electric or gas powered boilers. Each 5 axle pair is its own self contained system only needing water and either gas or power feed to it. With the whole thing being digital no need for linkages and levers, just data cables to hook everything up.
Yes the maintenance on the valves and solenoids is going to be a nightmare, but not any worst than the maintenance on some older steam locos. Having each module be articulated and find a way to get its CoG as low as possible and it shouldn't be much of a problem.
But at that point that train is no longer a lock and would look just plain strange. And not to mention the amount of water and gas you'd need to haul behind in a tender. And a place to store it when not in use. And then making sure all the drive linkages are balanced and don't cause hammer blows to the track at speed. Be'd better off with a smaller and more cost effective loco.
Edit: Spelling, typing on a tablet does not a good speller make.
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Just so you all are aware, I will be on Vacation the next four days but will still be writing and available to talk and read the thread. Planned for this week is a Wednesday Interlude and of course, the regular Saturday chapter.
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clonezero
Is it a bad thing if my t read list keeps growing?
Very interesting take on worm fanfic! Don't know much about trains but I do want Taylor to get armored trains as well as the big german rail gun but I fail to find a fitting use for it. It may work at delaying Behemoth a bit but that's it and it'd be too much work for too little pay off. Maybe fielding a bunch of them to bombard Ellisburg?
Now the funny thing about Taylor using a Thomas the tank engine is that if it works, that opens the way for other fictional trains. Anime and Sentai robot trains, the time travelling train from Back to the Future 3, Sci Fi train forts, etc. Limits is all up to QA and the author. Admittedly things may go out of hand if things go down this route and not exactly inline with what's happening in the story. Omakes maybe?
Now the funny thing about Taylor using a Thomas the tank engine is that if it works, that opens the way for other fictional trains. Anime and Sentai robot trains, the time travelling train from Back to the Future 3, Sci Fi train forts, etc. Limits is all up to QA and the author. Admittedly things may go out of hand if things go down this route and not exactly inline with what's happening in the story. Omakes maybe?
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Personally, I think armoured trains are a) massive overkill for the vast majority of what she's up against even in New England's answer to Bludhaven and b) a lot less useful than an armoured vehicle that's not limited to rails. Unimog make road-rail versions of their most famous truck for track maintenance vehicles, it would be pretty easy to kitbash a suitable railroad police SWAT truck that way. If Dispatcher was actually limited to rail vehiclers in the first place, which it seems she's not.
And rolling around with anything heavier than an armoured truck would make the city authorities extremely nervous. Even the Americans are probably a bit uncomfortable with private security personnel rolling around in literal tanks.
And rolling around with anything heavier than an armoured truck would make the city authorities extremely nervous. Even the Americans are probably a bit uncomfortable with private security personnel rolling around in literal tanks.
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That German Railgun on an EB?
EB: Was that a mosquito?
Ellisburg? if that would work, the US would have bombed them with aircraft. Unless Cauldron is interfering, it's no good. Plus, getting them there would be a logisitical headache. They're too big to go by rail without disassembly, any tunnels or over hanging wires, bridges, or other structures will block their path. Also, on curves, they'll likely hit things if they don't have enough room. And turning them around, forget about it.
Might be useful for a mid-ramped up Lung, but once he's gotten to wreck the whole BB Protectorate levels, it's useless. Best use is on the nazis, have them running from the world's largest rail gun that's now USA instead of Nazi Germany. Wouldn't kill them, most likely, if the Railroad Police guns are stun only, so would be the rail guns.
Borrowing a bit from Drummer Girl, Trainwreck could be a good employee if Taylor gets him before Coil. He seems to like trains by his name and at his strength and size, he could move rail cars around in the yard on his own (which is what the Dockworkers hired him for in Drummer Girl)
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Worm: Drummer Girl
Alt-power Taylor in the Worm verse with butterflies in play before the canon locker scene. Things are changed beforehand and echoed through the dotted lines of the stations, but not tied to them. Like a winding river, it may flow past familiar shores or cut its own path through solid rock. Is it...
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clonezero
Is it a bad thing if my t read list keeps growing?
Yeah a stun barrage would be useful in a lot of scenarios though a Schwerer Gustav would still be overkill which is a shame.
I wonder if the projection ammo can cause other status effects? While sleep seems a bit redundant, silence would be very useful against the likes of Shatterbird and Valefor. Bit of a reach but it'd be great if the ammo can be some sort of power nullifying blast/gas.
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Valefor, that'd help, but his power is based on eye contact. And it's him seeing you, if I recall right. You'd still get mastered, but he'd be unable to command you to do anything.
Shatterbird, the issue is getting her before she screams. The SH9 tend to rely on ambushes.
As for other options, take a coach and load it with railroad police.
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Well, you Could do it by having seperate boilers on each half, with the middle set of drive wheels being a seperate section, articulated to each side, and basically functioning as a large coal tender. Assuming it's possible to use hoses to duct the steam from the boilers to the tender's drive wheels. End result is cliser to two bigboys semi-fused to each other at the tender than anything, I think... Plus shenanigans to make it work right.
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Even then, you might need two crews, defeating the purpose of a bigger engine. You want to do as much as possible with a single engine and crew when it comes to steam locos.
Thinking on that, I wonder if the B&M ever got on that German hydraulic loco craze the SP, UP, and other railroads got into.
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*does some quick research*
The only Diesel-Hydraulics that B&M ever owned, (that I can find) were a bunch of the RDC line that Budd manufactured. They bought enough to eventually run 90% of the company's passenger services.
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well, if Taylor gets any of those and runs them... She'll have the only running American Hydraulic mainline Diesel. SP 9010 would still be under restoration in 2011.
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More like one and a half. Mechanisms for the driver to operate a steam engine from another part of the train have been done before, after all.
So have machines mechanisms for moving coal from tender to firebox, come to think of it.
Heck, use oil or gas instead of coal and it becomes even more doable. It's not like you can repair a breakdown on one of these things without bringing out a whole crew and heavy equipment anyway.
Look at that, one man crew.
Edit: not that any of this solves the actual problem: you'd get much better results for less money using electric engines. Plus or minus the cost and effects of setting up the electrical Infrastructure.
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