We need to build a port on the northen sea and have the minerals shipped trough whater, get around the yaks is simple enough the problem is asside of the mines storm is as attractive to colonization as Antarctica, and mining wise only Oricalcrum is really worty the hassle to the empire the Yaks may be intrested in other metals but they have fewer logistical problems.
I have literally already provided an actual plan multiple times for this whole thing. It's not my fault you guys continuously disregard anything older than a week or the last chapter, whichever is newer.
So Just take over them and make logistic lines to them since even our people are not likey to what to live there so it's likely just going to look like any oil town in Alaska?
Yeah, I think I remember your plan. It was something along the lines of bomb them from airships but that doesn't change the fact that we'll need soldiers on the ground to actually control the territory and lots of them because Storm Country is huge. What I don't understand is why so many are averse to getting the Yaks involved. They're right next door and will likely accept because they'll benefit from the removal of a slaver state right next to them.
Frankly speaking the best way to treat it is to just find (or make) a friendly faction of locals and trade industrial goods for The Stuff we want. All the benefits of taking the region with none of the personnel costs.
We dont know if theres a friendly faction there trough, The empire have some verry hard lines between "we gladly will uplift you" and "fuck you and your faction" shit like slavery is specialy a deal breaker, and storm is not realy kind to its pepole.
Hence why "make one" is an option. Through intrigue, assassination, or general deal making.
I mean its a couple of "ifs" to many to me right nown.
No? That was MrRobot's plan, and that was said literally two days ago. Kinda reinforces my whole thing about you guys disregarding anything else said if you can't even be bothered to remember something from two days ago (which by the way was an argument for your side of the disagreement, not mine). "Bomb them" also isn't a plan and I wouldn't refer to something I wrote as a plan if it was just 1-2 sentences.
Uh could you please detail it again or link it?
Sorry about the mix-up. There's been a lot of discussion on that topic and this is not the first time it's been brought up in the last few days so I'm having a bit of trouble remembering who said what.
Probably cristal poney magic by nature but a lot of cantebery doctrine due merlin.
Cheaper in field logistics, I guess, as metal can be beaten into crude heads for locally sourced shafts whereas gunpowder can't be found on site in the same way. Their increased size and complexity does limit their usefulness as an AA piece though, even when firing clusters of crossbow bolts rather than a single large projectile.
Ironically, from what I remember hearing somewhere, it may not exactly be the case. Considering gun ammo was apperantly historically cheaper than arrows because ironically, arrows require more skilled labor to make, needing a cadre of highly skilled fletchers to make...
My apologies, I must not have been clear: ballista CAN replenish ammunition in the field while cannons can NOT do so. Plus with how our nation is set up a large number of our skirmishers are hunters and the like who make their own ammunition.
Technically. They'd discourage and break up formations, which is mostly what you want, but as they are now (without an equivalent to grapeshot) they wouldn't be good at it.
No, trurn speed is low and the projectyle have a lot of drag, its a sige wapeon. We have swrill canons right now but we need more gun to efective AA.
I think he means we need better gun tech before we can begin making AAs
