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If I were elected director of the russian bureau of ordnance (Byuro Boyepripasov, perhaps), the thread might receive regular telegrams similar to the following:pre:***BYURO BOYEPRIPASOV PRIORITY ORDERS 3 MARCH 1900 ST PETERSBURG*** BY ORDER VASHE IMPERATORSKOYE VELICHESTVO NICHOLAS II STOP HEREBY INFORM MASTER OF NAVY NEW REQUIREMENTS STOP FOR GLORY OF RUSSIA FLAGSHIP PERVENETS PROHIBITED FROM MOTHBALLING STOP TSAR FOND OF TORPEDOES INSISTS RESEARCH IMPROVED TORPEDOES MAXIMUM PRIORITY STOP TSAR REQUIRES CONSTRUCTION COMPLETE OF LONG-RANGE LIGHT CRUISER NO LATER MARCH 1903 STOP DUE TO TUNGSTEN SHORTAGE BUORD ORDERS PRESERVE LIGHTBULB FILAMENTS: ONLY GASLIGHT PERMITTED FOR NIGHT OPS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE STOP DO SVIDANIYA
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I already voted, but if I hadn't that would have secured my vote. Luckily if already voted for you.
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May 21, 2019 18:28
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habeasdorkus posted:I already voted, but if I hadn't that would have secured my vote. Luckily if already voted for you. Seconded. Plus 'Leperflesh' just sounds like a Russian naval name.
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May 21, 2019 19:02
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Propose doctrinal changes at earliest available opportunity: Switching all ammo to 20% AP 80% HE Target B/BB/BC HE/HE/HE 4-6 (SEC) HE/HE/HE 4-6 (PRI) AP/HE/HE 7-10 AP/HE/HE >11 Target CA HE/HE/HE 4-6 (SEC) AP/HE/HE 4-6 (PRI) AP/HE/HE 7-10 AP/HE/HE >11 Target CL AP/HE/HE 4-6 (SEC) AP/HE/HE 4-6 (PRI) AP/AP/HE 7-10 HE/AP/HE >11 Initial studies have shown all of our currently equipped guns cannot reliably penetrate armor greater than 7" at 5000 yards; logic would presume enemy B's, and CA's have similar or greater levels of armor protection as our own. Instead of firing ineffective armor piercing round, we should fire High Explosive rounds, that will disable their secondary and tertiary batteries, start fires, and send shrapnel through the lightly armored decks of our opponents and into their machinery, crippling them and leaving them vulnerable to our torpedoes. This change in doctrine will remain in effect until primary armament of newest class of B/BB/BC is capable of reliably penetrating 10"@10k yards or Jan 1, 1908. Infidelicious fucked around with this message at 22:16 on May 21, 2019 |
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May 21, 2019 22:07
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Propose doctrinal changes at earliest available opportunity: Switch all hulls to Novgorod and Vitse-admiral Popov class hulls. This change in doctrine will remain in effect until Russian naval supremacy is ensured.
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May 22, 2019 02:36
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I like that the world map is just the current map with old timey flags on it. Borders are on land, they don't matter
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May 22, 2019 03:42
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Volmarias posted:Why is there no option in research for Zeppelins? What ship can withstand a shell fired from directly above? What ship can elevate its guns to hope to hit?
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May 22, 2019 03:47
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PittTheElder posted:I like that the world map is just the current map with old timey flags on it. It's important to remember that the entire game was programmed by an old Swedish guy in his free time. Things tend to be pretty low production value
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May 22, 2019 03:47
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PittTheElder posted:I like that the world map is just the current map with old timey flags on it. They bought the rights to the 3d style globe map from some company and it would be too much effort to fix the borders. Mapping stuff on a 3d plane is 
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May 22, 2019 04:01
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uPen posted:They bought the rights to the 3d style globe map from some company and it would be too much effort to fix the borders. Mapping stuff on a 3d plane is Yes, but even the 2d world map you see in the strategic layer has modern borders.
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May 22, 2019 04:13
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You can't have your maps not match, that would just be gross.
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May 22, 2019 04:17
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uPen posted:You can't have your maps not match, that would just be gross. Messy borders... ugh.
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May 22, 2019 04:30
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There is a deadlock between Leperflesh and Saros. has anyone not voted yet who can break it?
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May 22, 2019 05:20
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The game goes until 1975 so they're just planning ahead for decolonization.
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May 22, 2019 05:20
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May 22, 2019 05:23
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Sorry Leperflesh, you've been a pal in the Combat Mission games, but I've got to go with Saros on this one
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May 22, 2019 05:31
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Just voted and.. Well, I guess the tie possibly goes on
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May 22, 2019 05:32
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I propose a doctrine change away from the battleship and instead towards a fleet of fast, nimble small ships armed to the teeth with torpedoes, the smaller the better (If R&D can invent surfboards with torpedoes and outboard motors I would award them a medal) . If there is one thing that glorious mother Russia has, it is a large population of patriots ready to do their part for their Tsar and countrymen.Grey Hunter posted:<an update>
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May 22, 2019 05:40
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As had to be pointed out to me, it just takes time for YouTube to make the higher resolutions available
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May 22, 2019 06:02
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The voes have been counted. All ships shall remain under construction.  No new ships shall be built until our tech improves.  The research budget shall be set to 12%.  We shall run low levels of intelligence on all nations.  The Navy will remain in a state of readiness.  In the most hotly contested contest, Leperflesh will be running our Bureau of Ordinance.  You main job now is to set the priorities for research - remember, if everything is high, nothing is high. Sate setting I’ll run the turn tomorrow, but for now, I need to have an idea of how I should be playing. For those who do not play, the game throws event at you pretty much every turn, and how you react changes things in the world - I can’t save the game with the events up, so I need some guidelines. The first questions are simple - how should I deal with the other countries. If an event comes up involving that country I need to know how to react. The next two are for what we are aiming for with the events, the main events are Budget up/down (more or less money) Prestige up/down (the games scoring system) Tension up/down (sometimes general, sometimes against a specific country) Tension will, to some extent, be guided by the national settings, but there are some more general events. This will be a priority system, so do I focus on increasing the budget above all else, or try and keep tensions down while doing it? These will only be guidelines, and we’ll see how they go. I’ll run the first turn tomorrow now. click here to vote!
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May 22, 2019 08:48
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Grey Hunter posted:
Curse you single voter who ruined my dreams  That said we really need to be reserving and mothballing ships. If we don't we have no money to save to build anything new.
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May 22, 2019 09:34
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I think I speak for everyone when I say gently caress France
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May 22, 2019 10:03
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We’re really only hurting ourselves by leaving all our ships in active status. The maintenance costs of our battleships are pretty high.
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May 22, 2019 11:04
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Pirate Radar posted:We’re really only hurting ourselves by leaving all our ships in active status. The maintenance costs of our battleships are pretty high. It's only 1900, we're not supposed to start ignoring the democratic sentiment of the thread's population until 1905, right? 
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May 22, 2019 12:05
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Mukaikubo posted:It's only 1900, we're not supposed to start ignoring the democratic sentiment of the thread's population until 1905, right? If we're going for realism we should make Grey simulate the fatheaded idiocy of the late-Romanov dynasty by staying up all night drinking cheap vodka and scribbling out shipbuilding strategy while dealing with a crackling hangover.
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May 22, 2019 12:33
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Zeroisanumber posted:If we're going for realism we should make Grey simulate the fatheaded idiocy of the late-Romanov dynasty by staying up all night drinking cheap vodka and scribbling out shipbuilding strategy while dealing with a crackling hangover. I have a three year old, will that create the same effect? Also! I released I never shared the spreadsheet for ship names- because we're going to need them! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ipI4IazqKbGGAB7Ejd0DJZinF7Qh62MpiwhumIa8mZY/edit?usp=sharing I'll randomize this a bit after a few days. Grey Hunter fucked around with this message at 12:40 on May 22, 2019 |
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May 22, 2019 12:35
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Grey Hunter posted:I have a three year old, will that create the same effect? Depends, do they suffer from hemophilia?
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May 22, 2019 12:40
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Mukaikubo posted:It's only 1900, we're not supposed to start ignoring the democratic sentiment of the thread's population until 1905, right? If anything, we shouldn't be voting at all until 1905, and even then our votes should be completely meaningless except for one thread member who gets arbitrarily appointed to represent the nobility.
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May 22, 2019 12:40
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Zeroisanumber posted:If we're going for realism we should make Grey simulate the fatheaded idiocy of the late-Romanov dynasty by staying up all night drinking cheap vodka and scribbling out shipbuilding strategy while dealing with a crackling hangover.
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May 22, 2019 12:43
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We can put the ships in Reserve status rather than mothball them. The crew quality penalty is much less, and if you're not anticipating a war immediately there's really very little reason to keep the entire fleet on active duty. If you want, you can keep a few ships that you want to be your elite force on active duty to build up their crew quality, but generally the extra money from putting the ships in reserve is worth more than the crew quality from keeping them active.
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May 22, 2019 13:48
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Hm. These submarine creatures seem good, allegedly they can sail under the ice. We should focus on them!
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May 22, 2019 13:53
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Gamerofthegame posted:Hm. These submarine creatures seem good, allegedly they can sail under the ice. We should focus on them! I agree! We wouldn’t be Russians without submarines—and I’d argue to prioritize torpedo tech as well then. That would give us some additional benefits for any future cruisers or the like with torpedo launchers as well as eventual benefits for torpedo bombers.
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May 22, 2019 14:35
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Pretty sure air dropped torps are a Heavier-than-air tech and none of the torpedo techs actually effect aerial torpedoes. Maybe the improved warhead techs but they are few and far between. Most 'Torpedo' techs is just stuff like "what if we stuck two tubes together"  or "what if we put above water tubes on cruisers" 
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May 22, 2019 15:02
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Now now, let BUORD make his own mind up - if I wanted a group consensus, I would allow voting on it. BUORD exists to add a third party to part of the game. and to hopefully make me cry.
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May 22, 2019 15:25
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I voted not to mothball any ships but only because I couldn't vote to put ships on reserve, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. I think we should avoid starting poo poo with the bigger nations like the US and UK but otherwise we should focus on prestige even if it raises tensions with less terrifying nations
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May 22, 2019 17:05
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Splode posted:I voted not to mothball any ships but only because I couldn't vote to put ships on reserve, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. This.
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May 22, 2019 17:25
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Splode posted:I voted not to mothball any ships but only because I couldn't vote to put ships on reserve, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Thirded.
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May 22, 2019 17:59
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okay, added a question about the reserve fleet.
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May 22, 2019 18:13
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I voted vaguely for reserve, as I'm not qualified to judge how much of the fleet should be kept active. I'd assume more than 2/3 can be put in reserve without significantly impacting our nation's readiness, especially as we can pull stuff out of reserve if and when tension increases. Game owners, is there any reason we can't/shouldn't reserve the entire fleet? There must be, right?
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Grey Hunter posted:I have a three year old, will that create the same effect? I'm plumping for different types of ship to have naming themes. Two things Russia has a lot of in their history are great writers and great composers. So the BB list now has names like Tchiakovsky and Mussorgsky and the CV list has names like Tolstoi and Chekov. I'm considering also making all the DDs the nicknames of characters from War and Peace, so stop me before all our destroyers are named Kolya, Kolenka, Nikolenka... (and that's just for Nikolai Rostov!)
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