Capto Iugulum Background Thread

[EQandcivfanatic]

@J.K. Stockholme: It's actually quite a simple formula I have no problem with sharing.

Heavy Tank: Firepower + Armor > Engines
Medium Tank: Firepower + Armor = Engines (Or within 2 points)
Light Tank: Firepower + Armor < Engines

 

[Circuit]

@J.K. Stockholme: It's actually quite a simple formula I have no problem with sharing.

Heavy Tank: Firepower + Armor > Engines
Medium Tank: Firepower + Armor = Engines (Or within 2 points)
Light Tank: Firepower + Armor < Engines

Those formulations don't seem quite right. My biggest problem is with the definition of a heavy tank being Firepower + Armor > Engines. A tank destroyer, for example, would probably have high firepower but paper armor, and it wouldn't quite qualify as a heavy tank, though I could imagine that under that classification system it would be categorized as a heavy tank.

 

[EQandcivfanatic]

@Circuit: Those formulas are only for tanks, which is what I was asked about. Overall I view all armored brigades as tanks, whether they were designed in that manner or not. Things like tank destroyers I'm not exactly keen on implementing as separate units or types.

 

[Justo]

FYI I've just started to build the Wiki page for the UPRA.

http://captoiugulum.wikispot.org/United_Proletarist_Republics_of_America

Most of the numbers are fudged since I don't really know what they should be and I've largely just quickly run through most of the bits I've got now so they probably don't make much sense. If anyone has any formatting changes or knows of a heading that needs to be added let me know and I can add it in.

I've also got a copy of it in case any filthy capitalists choose to sabotage it.

 

[ChiefDesigner]

UPRA cities with population greater than 100,000, 1930 census:
Nueva Barcelona (1,100,000) (including suburbs)

The UPRA's primate city -- its largest port, transport hub, industrial and financial center, and headquarters of the SPUPRA. Hosts the government-in-exile of the Floridian democratic opposition.


[South] Pittsburgh (300,000)

Still a coal and steel center, the major port and economic center of Appalachia. Home to the Allegheny Institute of Technology, the UPRA's second largest research university.

Memphis (150,000)


Ciudad Marquez (150,000) (formerly Nashville)

Renamed to honor Carlos Marquez, author of El capital and Manifest Comunista, Marquez is the center of the UPRA's new industrial heartland, following the completion of the Bureau of Reclamation hydroelectric project.


Chattanooga (125,000)


St. Augustine (100,000) (amalgamated with Cowford)

The UPRA's major Atlantic port, and center of the European trade, especially with Scandinavia.

 

[Luckymoose]

Brunswick, Georgia would be a better Atlantic port than St. Augustine.

 

[ChiefDesigner]

Brunswick, Georgia would be a better Atlantic port than St. Augustine.

I was looking at that. Why Brunswick, btw?

 

[Luckymoose]

I was looking at that. Why Brunswick, btw?

Better port capabilities. But beyond that, Jacksonville would be good too. I'm thinking that Brunswick would be superior for now, though, based on location relative to the heartland of the UPRA. Rail can go north of the Okefenokee swamp, too. You could use the swamp for titanium mining too, assuming proles don't care about swamps.

 

[EQandcivfanatic]

It had been mentioned previously, but St. Augustine here does in fact expand into the area around OTL Jacksonville aka Cowford. I suspect that we'd be looking at a Great St. Augustine area, as well as a historical district near the OTL town, but with most of the metropolis existing in the southern Jacksonville area.

 

[ChiefDesigner]

Better port capabilities. But beyond that, Jacksonville would be good too. I'm thinking that Brunswick would be superior for now, though, based on location relative to the heartland of the UPRA. Rail can go north of the Okefenokee swamp, too. You could use the swamp for titanium mining too, assuming proles don't care about swamps.

Hmm, makes sense. Brunswick is closer to the border, but given the cold peace between the USA and the UPRA, that's less of a issue than it might be.

It had been mentioned previously, but St. Augustine here does in fact expand into the area around OTL Jacksonville aka Cowford. I suspect that we'd be looking at a Great St. Augustine area, as well as a historical district near the OTL town, but with most of the metropolis existing in the southern Jacksonville area.

That's pretty much exactly what I was thinking.

Hmmm, that might make a fairly entertaining Simcity map...

 

[Grandkhan]

Added 1851 to the Wiki. Let me know if I did something wrong, I wasn't sure if I absolutely needed to hyperlink all the country names to their non-existant pages, is there a way to do it automatically?

 

[Quisani]

I'm slowly making my way through 1905. The most interesting years are the hardest to copy over.

I'm mostly done with 1905. If someone wants to add the pictures, I'd be appreciative.

 

[Circuit]

1852 has been added.

 

[Quisani]

1952?

 

[EQandcivfanatic]

While stalling in order to give more people a chance to get full orders in, I've done a bit of changes onto the wiki. All updates now have an appropriate table of contents, and you can directly select the tabs which contain current updates now. Kudos to Justo for the first nation page, and I look forward to further additions for nations. I'm refraining from adding the stubs we have on this thread just yet, as I'm still looking to wait until 1940 to create new stubs and so forth once we reach that marker. Anyone who wants to contribute a nation page though, go for it, as we do desperately need some to be filled up.

I've also added a tab which will link to current stats and whatnot, after I complete the current update.

 

[Luckymoose]

I'll work on the Brazil page once I'm not so under the weather.

 

[Quisani]

Thanks Billsif for adding the 1905 pictures.

Only 27 more updates left, and the rest aren't too bad.

 

[Luckymoose]

I've taken my old province map from 1900 and updated it for 1933. I have not, and probably won't anytime soon, named everything. Noticeable shifts from the original, for those that remember it, would be that coastal provinces have either expanded or merged, then split, and that interior provinces have pushed deeper into the Amazon as mechanized farming reclaims more and more land. This is a rough look at the Brazilian internal boundaries.

Spoiler :

The Brazilian population has doubled through immigration and population growth alone in the past 30 years. I'm not sure what EQ figures, but it has to be high double digit or around a hundred million by now. It is around the same as uber-Germany, only we have far less growth for some reason. I still don't understand the whole +manpower a turn. Some have way higher than 1% and others, like Brazil, have below 1%.

 

[EQandcivfanatic]

Remember, manpower is people entering the eligible grouping for military service, minus those exiting the grouping. Therefore it is quite plausible that it will be different percentages for different nations.

 

[Luckymoose]

Remember, manpower is people entering the eligible grouping for military service, minus those exiting the grouping. Therefore it is quite plausible that it will be different percentages for different nations.

That would still be a good indicator of population growth. I'm also curious to know how the deadly fighting in the Great War, and subsequent land wars that Brazil has no take part in, has changed the population situation in Europe. Also, what is up with immigration these days? We used to have immigrant numbers every five updates.