Hi Captain Joe Henry,
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RFC came down on posters thinking the war was going to devolve into a WWI trench warfare scenario, when we're looking at real continental warfare, Haven being over 2000 miles north to south minimum [Bay of Bess] versus the ~400 of the western front, before getting into any east-west additions; while the forces involved, even the MHoG are far fewer than WW I's many millions, too few to hold such long lines, when they can easily be marched around.
So RFC didn't think there would be that much need for barbed wire etc.
NTM a few thousand miles of the stuff would cut into production desperately needed elsewhere.
Canned rations are a bit further away until the production bottlenecks are resolved.
Will copper and iron ore suddenly appear once its known the EoC will pay handsomely for it?
We haven't seen Katusha's [long discussed here] etc yet because they haven't been needed, ie they're being saved for the MHoG etc.
While we've had hints of smoke and other types of ammunition, again smoke hasn't been needed much when gunpowder is already an excellent battlefield obscurrant.
Real howitzers can be expected to be in action this spring or summer, when their faster rate of fire will be another unpleasant shock to the CoGA armies.
Machine guns aren't needed to win this war, though we may see Lt Zhwaigair come up with a crude revolver or Gatling/Hotchkiss type, that doesn't initially require brass cases.
Increasing the number of 3" mortars is the quickest way to increasing alliance firepower, though I'm all in favor of a comparable 120 mm big brother; at around 4.75" it could be called the 'quarter to five' mortar
, firing twice as far with over 3 times the shell weight NTM the HE filing being several times as powerful so if every regiment had at least a dozen...
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captinjoehenry wrote:So I was thinking now that Charis has a huge amount of steel production there are all sorts of weapons of war that they could make that aren't weapons. The first thing that I think they should develop should be some barbed wire which should come I very handy once the Mighty Host shows up as barbed wire is pretty effective at preventing people from getting close like in WWI.
Is there any other inevtions like barbed wire Charis should peruse because they now have access to a large amount of steel production?
Another idea I feel would have merit for them because they have effective armor plate would be something like a flak jacket from the Vietnam war. Or now that they are able to produce a large amount of steel thistle they could start issuing bullpen proof vests made of multiple layers of steel thistle as steel thistle is stronger than silk and a best made of multiple layers of silk was shown to be bullet proof.
Another idea would be that they start issueing canned rations as they appear to have the ability to produce a large number of cans because they can produce a large number of metal rounds.
Now I am not sure how useful this would be but they could start deploying smoke rounds to their artillery but I am not sure if that would help Charis or the Church more.
They could also devlope rocket artillery as they already have rockets bit once again I am not sure how much if an advantage that would be.
Now I just suspect this is more of the fact that there has been no location in the books to mention this but here it is: Charis already has breach loading naval artillery and a hydropunamic recoil system so I suspect that very very soon we will be seeing some honest to god howitzers pretty soon and that will dramatically increase Charis's ability to throw rapid fire artillery shells at long range and with much higher accuracy.