Our current military, if mass-disbanded, would give us the following numbers of shields:
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# name shields total
10 Workers 2 20
57 Infantry 22 1254
18 Mech Infantry 27 486
07 Transport 25 175
04 Marines 25 100
12 Cruiser 40 480
01 AL-Battani
05 Artillery 20 100
31 Tanks 25 775
For a total of 3390 shields returned.
The spaceship has four parts that cost 160 shields each, four parts that cost 320 shields each, and two parts that cost 640 shields each. This gives us a grand total of 3200 shields needed to build the suckers.
CBob, we're strong enough to build the entire spaceship in one turn *right now*, assuming we had all of our units in the proper locations.
To mass-rush everything in landlocked cities, we'd need 80 Tanks and 40 TOW Infantry (or equivalent-costing units) standing by to be disbanded. See below for the math.
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Target: 160 shields returned.
Split this into 80 shields, then split the 80 into 50+30.
We can get 25 shields from units like Tanks, Marines, Transports, etc.
We can get 30 shields from units like TOW Infantry or Modern Armor.
So two Tanks and one TOW Infantry give us 80 shields; four Tanks and two TOWs will give us 160 shields. Use two stacks for the 320-shield parts and four stacks each for the 640-shield parts.
It's a little more sloppy if we use Mech Inf for this; they cost 110 and return 27 shields, so we'd waste two shields if we used 6 Mech Inf on a 160-shield SS part (6 * 27 = 162).