Quest Deep Periphery Quest (Battletech Sandbox Empire Builder)
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Winter_Wind45
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[X] Project Oregon
[X] Project Oregon
[X] Project Oregon
Thors_Alumni
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[X] Project McKenna II
we need more offensive power than we need an All arounder type.
we need more offensive power than we need an All arounder type.
I was thinking the same thing at first.
Then I looked at the numbers a bit more:
-Have about the same offensive power at Long Range (25-33% better for McKenna II at Extreme, but it's also a LOT harder to hit at that range)
-Oregon has a 20% increase in HP/Structure so it is definitely a less vulnerable unit
-About the same in fundamental active defenses
It's the survivability rating that truly matters to me since we are going to be making so relatively few of these monsters.
I'd be more likely to take a vessel with less survivability if it were a massive missile ship. Since you can lob those at ranges longer than extreme.
AlphaOmega
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[X] Project Oregon
That's what I call a Siege Cruiser, but a certain QM keeps rejecting all my concepts for those while locking me up in a TOG.
Turn 136 - The Arbiter
Turn 136 - The Arbiter
The news from Nowy Śląsk almost made you miss the fact that the Steingarten system had achieved Core status, which is very welcome news indeed for the Empire.
In other news, a new Sapphire March has been organized, currently with only the three latest colonies in it. This effectively replaces the Ruby March as the ‘expansion region’, as it has been determined that colonization efforts to the west are too risky thanks to the Black Steel.
Raiding continues with some losses, mostly among light cruisers, parasites and ASFs. A large number of destroyers have been damaged but survived to limp home for repairs.
You are also given reason to question the sanity of some of your cousins. One of the new events in the Olympics is in the ‘motorsports’ area, namely a 24 hour endurance race with multiple divisions racing at the same time on the same track. The most prestigious division is the ‘Unlimited’ class, with the only limits being that the race car must have wheels and a rather stringent list of safety equipment.
Your cousins evidently took this as a challenge. Their new entry technically meets those requirements. It has four wheels and all of the safety equipment. It is also powered by the same fusion drive used in the Sparrowhawk ASF, with supplemental reaction control systems effectively gluing it to the track and assisting with turns despite the absolutely ridiculous speeds it is capable of. Thanks to being ‘driven’ by SARAH, remotely, g-force limits are utterly meaningless, as it easily pulls thirty plus g’s in the corners.
The organizers are rather rapidly rewriting the rules, because having a racer that can hit supersonic speeds in the corners and nearly hypersonic speeds on the straights is just a bit too dangerous for everybody ELSE on the race track. Your cousins are quite smug about it being technically correct which they happily remind everybody is the best kind of correct.
Speaking for yourself, they are being utterly ridiculous.
Because they then proceed to utterly ruin the next iteration of the rules by building an articulated ‘race car’ that is almost as wide as the track itself, thus preventing anybody from passing it, which is once again technically legal, and thus requiring yet another rewrite of the rules. You decide to leave them to it, since your cousins insist that they are ‘channeling the greats’ in their total and utter torture of the rulebook.
You do receive some memos from the Navy regarding some new ship designs that they intend to put into production this year.
First is a replacement for the venerable Hosho-class light carrier. You can almost see Admiral Fisher smirking as he wrote the memo, especially when you get to the specifications and capabilities section for the Centaur-class light carrier. Like most recent designs it has tonnage and space reserved for a future upgrade to lithium-fusion batteries. It has the same ASF wing and parasite collar count as the older design, and the same layout of 35cm naval lasers. However you are certain that many of his critics are wondering if they are in Bizarro-Land because the Admiral approved mounting seven Kraken-T missile launchers in the bow of the new carrier.
The new design does appear to have less munitions stowage for the ASF wing, but according to the memo which includes long-term usage statistics for the Hosho-class the older ships tended not to make use of most of that stowage in practice, since the carried ASFs were generally used for anti-swarm defense rather than offensive strikes.
The next is a replacement for the equally venerable Giuseppe Garibaldi-class anti-ASF light cruisers. The new Atlanta-class actually mounts the same armament as the older class, although in more modern mounts with the latest upgrades in fire-control built in from the start rather than retrofitted. It also sports an improved armor scheme, drops the integrated ASF wing and associated crew requirements, and like other designs is designed for but not with a lithium-fusion battery system. The resulting ship is more survivable, has marginally better anti-ASF and anti-missile capacity, and is significantly improved in terms of crew comfort for long duration deployments.
Admiral Fisher indicates that he intends to fully replace the Hosho and Garibaldis with the new designs, shifting the older ships to training formations to replace even older equipment which is becoming increasingly worn out. He also intends for the Atlanta to provisionally replace the Worcester-class in production, at least in the short term. The Worcester is the superior escort for the battle fleet, but right now the focus is on building up your raiding forces and for that purpose the Atlanta is superior.
| Name | Cost | HP | A/D | Specials |
| Centaur-class CVL | $2,185,783,000.00 | 1837 | 1227 |
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| Atlanta-class CLAA | $1,630,123,200.00 | 2526 | 1576 |
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Parliament is in session once more.
They sometimes are helpful!
The big debate this year is a proposal to increase the base budgets for the various March governing bodies as well as the various ministries. The proponents note that the last major increase in budget allocations for these purposes was decades ago, with the Marches’ still functioning on their original baseline budgets from when the March system was first instituted.
| [] | Action | Arguments | Results |
| [] | Support the Budget Act of 3066 | While it is admirable that we have been able to run much of the government on a figurative shoestring for so long, at this point the budgetary outlay for the civil service is greater than the combined outlays for all other government services… combined. This is beginning to have significant effects related to issues such as licensing, inspections, land management, and other base operational requirements. Individual system governments have been taking up the slack to a degree, but that slack has just about run out. The March system was instituted in order to improve overall system efficiency by ensuring that major governing issues are handled as close to the people as possible, rather than by an all-powerful central authority. But for that to work those handling the issues need the means to do so. With the explosive growth of the Empire, March and system authorities are increasingly overwhelmed by the sheer volume of required work. Even with the great dedication and efficiency of the system there comes a point where you simply need more resources in order to accomplish the job, and those resources have been limited for too long. Another major issue is that the general civil service pool has become somewhat of a tail wagging the dog, resulting in specific ministry functions being neglected unless they are brought directly to the Crown’s attention. This level of micromanagement may have worked when we were a single-planet kingdom, but is no longer tenable. |
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| [] | Veto the Budget Act of 3066 | Everything is working great, there’s nothing wrong with the current system and all is well. Those promoting this are simply jumping at shadows. So what if people are having to wait weeks for vehicle operator licenses to process and months for birth, death, and marriage certificates. Patience is a virtue and we shouldn’t spend money on trivial things like ‘convenience’ for the hoi polloi. |
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Winter_Wind45
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[X] Support the Budget Act of 3066
darkcloudt2
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[X] Support the Budget Act of 3066