SDNWorld Redux - Casting Call & Planning MK II

[The Duchess of Zeon]

Motherfucking YES! MOTHERFUCKING YES! *crazed grin* Someone has actually put the Yankee Sidecar into use. Thank you, Skimmer. Now we need someone to add some Yankee Notches to their fleet and my life will be complete. Ahh, how I love thee, Soviet Union, which cannot ever, ever throw anything away.

[Shroom Man 777]

Ah! So that's the "???" island?

Awright. Who else is on the map, then?

'Coz if I'm done adding everybody, then it's just a question of doing a blowup of the Border States and we're basically done.

Will you be moving Zoria and Serenity, the two sore-thumbs, into the location I suggested? Or is that not kosher with Marina?

[PeZook]

Ah! So that's the "???" island?

Awright. Who else is on the map, then?

'Coz if I'm done adding everybody, then it's just a question of doing a blowup of the Border States and we're basically done.

Will you be moving Zoria and Serenity, the two sore-thumbs, into the location I suggested? Or is that not kosher with Marina?

I don't know. Marina?

[Lonestar]

I am totally going to try Al-Fakim in absentia.

[PeZook]

Well, to tell you the truth, if that Derringer was undetectable by metal detectors, he could've just carried it inside his pocket. We didn't pat down diplomats on their way in, they just had to pass through metal detectors.

[Shroom Man 777]

Gentlemen, I need your thoughts.

I have updated my OOB:

Navy (508 pts)
3x CVN – Nimitz-class aircraft carriers SSS Flattop Ferrik, Murderous von Schrom, and Welsh MacMillan
4x LHD -
10x CGN – Ticonderoga-class missile cruisers SSS Ronald von Reagan, Horatio Shroomson, Winston Church Shroom, Shroomaximus Decimus Meridius, Shroom Royal, Nikoshroom Tesla, etc.
35x DDG – Arleigh Burke-class destroyers SSS Invincible III, Insurmountable IV Indefatigable XII, Intolerable II, Imperious V, etc.
10x FFG -
15x SSN – 13x Virginia-class submarines, the SSS Blowhole, Avenging Narwhal, Dicky Moe, Sing Song Shamoo, Corporal Keiko, Freed Willy, Hunchbacked Whale, Elephant Seal, Pingu, Fin Fungus, Major Manatee, Dietrich Dugong, and Mermang + 2x Seawolf-class submarines, the SSS Extreme Deep Invader and Brown Thunder
4x AOE
1x legacy battleship – Iowa-class SSS Iron Shroom

1x SSGN - Yer Mom-class SSS Yer Mom
6x SSGN under construction – Yer Mom-class SSSs Yer Face, Yer Foot and Yer Nose (names pending for remaining 3 vessels)

Air Force (616.8 pts)
15x 5th gen fighter – F-22A Raptors
420x 4th gen fighter – F-14 Tomcats, F-15 Eagles, F-16 Falcons, F-18 Super Hornets, etc. (various, mixed)
46x strategic bomber – B-1B Lancers
100x tactical bomber – A-10 Thunderbolt IIs, F-16 Fighting Falcons.
30x tanker - KC-135 Stratotanker
10x heavy AWACS
11x light AWACS
120x trainer
40x strategic transport
84x tactical transport
40x heavy maritime patrol
4x light maritime patrol

Army (374 pts)
900x 3rd gen MBT – Challenger 2 MBTs
1800x 3rd gen AFV – Warrior IFVs
144x heavy SP arty - PzH_2000
400x med SP arty -
240x heavy ADA -
320x medium ADA -
320 x light ADA -
150x heavy lift helo - Chinooks
450x utility helo
240x attack helo – Hinds
240x light attack helo -
10.000x professional infantry -
14.400x marines – Mushroom Marines
9.000x paratroopers -
600x elite specforces – various: Mushroom Marine Force Recon, Shroomanian Air Service, etc.



[DISCLAIMER: This list is incomplete and I find it extremely hard to judge which number and which proportion I should give to my - say - minesweeper ships, or engineering corps, or recon planes, or stuff. So... please bear with me.]

[PeZook]

The Yer Mom and the Yer Face are Seawolf-class?

Also, you misnamed "Ticonderoga-class Missile Cruiser" to "Ticodera-class aircraft carrier"

[Fingolfin_Noldor]

Shroom, you sure you don't want to deploy some corvettes. minesweepers? If someone lays mines in your territory, you'd want to deal with that.

[Shroom Man 777]

The Yer Mom and the Yer Face are Seawolf-class?

Also, you misnamed "Ticonderoga-class Missile Cruiser" to "Ticodera-class aircraft carrier"

FUCK!

Motherfucking typoids!

Shroom, you sure you don't want to deploy some corvettes. minesweepers? If someone lays mines in your territory, you'd want to deal with that.

What do corvettes do?

The points system really doesn't allow me to get those without cutting down some other important stuff. Can I just add a bit of them, despite the point system limitations?

I kind of see the point system as a guideline, rather than a stone-set law. Is that okay?

EDIT:

I EDITED MY OOB.

[Fingolfin_Noldor]

What do corvettes do?

The points system really doesn't allow me to get those without cutting down some other important stuff. Can I just add a bit of them, despite the point system limitations?

I kind of see the point system as a guideline, rather than a stone-set law. Is that okay?

EDIT:

I EDITED MY OOB.

Actually, judging from Setzer put in, you could add a few more ships.

Corvettes are mostly for shore patrol, dealing with light attack craft, minesweeping.

I'm also using the point system as a guideline, so unless anyone protests, I'm leaving my OOB as it is. Some work needs to be contracted to my shipyard anyhow.

[Shroom Man 777]

I added a disclaimer to my OOB in the Building Your Country thread.

[DISCLAIMER: This list is incomplete and I find it extremely hard to judge which number and which proportion I should give to my - say - minesweeper ships, or engineering corps, or recon planes, or stuff. So... please bear with me.]

I mean, those things are rather inconsequential... and I didn't even know some of those stuff exist! I had to learn, like, ten new acronyms just for this.

I'm just assuming that we've got military forces that are on par with real-life nations with equivalent economies and sizes.

Also, I just discovered that the British Royal Navy has not had a single cruiser ever since 1980. Mang.



Now, for aeroplanes!

[PeZook]

Dude, you forgot to name three Yer Mom-class SSGNs...

AGAIN

[Shroom Man 777]

I ran out of names! I'll think of something when they get built... next game-year!

(I need suggestions. Yer Goat? Yer Butt? Yer Dick?)

[Coyote]

Corvettes also make handy green-water ships for "enemy" coastlines that are already largely secured. They're small ships with a variety of light weapons for air-defense, maybe some sub- and mine-hunting, and usually a medium cannon of sorts.


EDIT: I have an excellent corvette for littoral patrol and operations. Maybe Shroomania and Canissia should make a deal?

[Fingolfin_Noldor]

Corvettes also make handy green-water ships for "enemy" coastlines that are already largely secured. They're small ships with a variety of light weapons for air-defense, maybe some sub- and mine-hunting, and usually a medium cannon of sorts.


EDIT: I have an excellent corvette for littoral patrol and operations. Maybe Shroomania and Canissia should make a deal?

Hey, I have those small Visbys which were meant for the Baltic waters which are pretty tight. Small handy craft.

Actually, those light corvettes of yours might actually come in handy. Hmm...

[RogueIce]

Shroom, you thinking of using those LHDs to transport a MEU or something around? You might want to get some LSDs, LPDs, and/or LSTs then. The LHD won't haul a full MEU (well, assuming you make it more-or-less USMC standard) on it's own.

Of course if it's a smaller formation they're fine.

[RogueIce]

On an additional note, I updated my OOB. On paper it's all largely set in stone. I'm basically trying to find a good means to put it in the OOB post without it looking like total ass. Alas when I did it I had the various elements spread across many different files so for the moment I'm trying to consolidate the lists.

Also on the Air Force, I have 80 "strategic transports" and 200 "tactical transports" which at some point I'll divide up.

Marina, if you want I can give you the "hard numbers" of my equipment while I'm futzing about organizing them if I'm not done whenever the deadline passes.

[DarthShady]

Stas, I would like to place an order for the following:

-10 Tu-22M3 strategic supersonic bomber (MESS reporting name Backfire)

-4 Tu-95MS-16 (MESS reporting name Bear-H)

And let me know what else you are selling?

[K. A. Pital]

USSR as a fellow socialist nation gets those for free. As a credit line, heh - with the payment date being negotiable with the leader of said nation. And also to bolster our common defense network.

[DarthShady]

USSR as a fellow socialist nation gets those for free. As a credit line, heh - with the payment date being negotiable with the leader of said nation. And also to bolster our common defense network.

Thank you glorious comrade.

[Coyote]

Less chitter-chatter! More content, or... I KILL YOU NOW!

[RogueIce]

And just because I personally suspect that the "coincidence" or some mine that just so happened to hit one of my ships that just so happened to be near the approachs to one of my bases so shortly after Shep has been such a massive dick lately is no coincidence at all doesn't mean I'm leaping to war or anything, FYI.

As I said in the game thread, I'll probably never be able to prove it. But this simply reinforces the notion that Shep is apparently set on a repeat of the last Nova Terra, at least in my own mind.

Whether that's Shep's true intentions I really don't know. But if it isn't he's doing a hell of a job trying to make us think otherwise.

[Coyote]

Sorry, folks, but I saw that rediculous M-16 picture and instantly thought "Shroom!" so I had to share it.

[Norseman]

PeZookia does not consider diplomatic immunity valid in the case of attempted murder. He was lucky he wasn't shot, anyway.

EDIT: An yes, I know it's illegal under the Vienna Convention. Probably because the people who wrote it didn't actually expect diplomats trying to stab each other

And this is why I am rethinking my diplomatic relations... I mean seriously Astaria is all that it is, but THIS!

[MKSheppard]

So who wants to sell me subsonic light attack planes/trainers?