The Nelaga Territories

Minister,

Since we're going for realism in our country (at least as far as an economy is concerned), It occured to me that I need a starting budget to build the Armed Forces of Nelaga, as well as a yearly budget to maintain them.


If we're not going for THAT much realism, then i'll kindly bugger off. Cheers.


-Greg Russell
Commander in Chief

Good sir, we're on a series of flying islands kept up by antigravity motors that are over three thousand years old; the secret of which was designed by a magical race which sweats hypon and sealed in a concept box that we raced around all of Micras to find, and eventually located in a three thousand year old Ocean Palace built in a lake in the middle of their enemies lands. When did realism enter it?


But I would be happy to give you a bounty style payment for good work on the armed forces. As well as merit, when we finally get that voted through.

You know you've been in micronations too long when none of what you just said was out of the ordinary...

Correction: you've been in the right sort of micronations for too long. There are sadly still some who would think that well out of the ordinary.

Like the kind who force me to design a conventional military force?

Yeah. I'm happy for you to design whatever story-exciting military force you want.

With walkers... lots of walkers...

Walkers, cool as they may be, are completely useless in a real combat scenario. Too slow they are, and they proly require alot of maintanence that would be dispraportional to the work it would perform. They are vulnerable to airstrike, like conventional tanks are, and proly vulnerable to IED's as well...

Not the ones that roll up into balls...

...didn't see that coming.

Nah, Walker designs are pretty good when you go for the long, curved body and 8 legs (triple jointed).

Maybe, but I just don't really like walkers that much!

In theory, if you could get the center of gravity systems to be able to respond properly with pressure on the legs so the darn thing would be stable and not just fall over, a walker could literally be an unstoppable all-terrain vehicle in the ways that tire and treaded vehicles could never be. But apparently that's very difficult. I researched some robotics a while ago and they seemed to indicate that it was just too much of a hassle for what it was worth.

We have an organisation called JASO. They have had ten years to do crazy secret projects and put in the effort to make things work.

Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

Right! Standard JASO procedure is to steal the best-looking graphic we can from the internets, redraw it poorly ourselves, and go from there.

I say we use the concept boxes and then bullsht.

Sounds like a plan. Fides, can you whip up some graphics?

Oui, just tell me what you want in small word and I'll whip it up!

How 'bout that?

Something low to the ground, to keep the center of gravity easier to manage. Then something with smallish legs, and many of them, so we don't have as many single points of failure. Hurray redundancy! Then we need to come up with a prototype, then we need to come up with variants for different needs.


For instance:

Nelagan Walker 1A-Prototype


Then...

-NEWA 1A-standard (Tank)
-NEWA 1B/troop variant
-NEWA 1C/artillery variant
-NEWA 1D/command variant



Get it? Then as we improve on the design in the near future, the next generation of NEWA's will be labed NEWA 2A-standard (tank), etc etc

Okay, I made this design before GMan posted. I only saw that on the upload.



I wanted to call this design the AAaardvark, but it's not very AA capable... Damn...

As you can see, it is pretty low to the ground.I'd like this one to be NEWA 1S - Siege variant. I'll do up some other variants by changing the main weapon from an autocanon to an AA battery or an artillery launcher.

But now the bell tolls midnight, and sleep awaits. Au revoir!

It's like a war centipede! Hah, that's pretty cool. Might actually work in reality like that.

Fides, you have a pretty fun talent here with being able the design interesting vehicles and things in pretty short order. I'm amazed other countries haven't picked up on this yet. This is like FNORD award-worthy stuff here.

Ok, that works well. Good job Fides.

Should I make a google sketchup recommendation to some sort of international body?

Oh, and writeup wise...

For the Crawler, I was thinking the back section is shield gen. It can deploy into an artillery turret by dropping from the legs (which then serve as arcs for the shield) and raising the canon.

That's about it...