The World of The Gunny

Production orders adjusted due to a GM mistake. New Player Sheet posted.



Cheers, Thor

Yes. Mainly to get you into the habit of listing the things that, in your case, are outside the Fallout Shelter, in case of raids or other bad things happening.



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It's a wrong link. Screw propellors should be for Marine Diesel engines, not the steam ones. I will fix it ASAP. Good catch!

Right now with the snow, you can build sleighs and they can haul the gear. But once the snow melts, yes, you will need to cut roads through the forest to anywhere on the island. Oh, I thought I should mention, the pic with the entire island has a scale of 5 miles per inch. So it is still pretty large. That's why it is gonna take your scout 3 months to scout it all.

Speed of construction, cargo cap, maint costs, and chances of bad things happening. Iron Strap railroads had the nasty habit of the iron strap breaking free and curling up, ripping the wheels right off of the train cars. But they are good for getting things moving faster. Sometimes waiting for steel rails is not an option.



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Not only knocking off the wheels, but they'd rip and tear open rail cars as well.

Your island is massive, I wouldn't be surprised if there are at least 3 different communities living there.

Correct, and very good Scragg. Not too many folks today knows what an Iron Strap Railroad is.



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I didn't recognize it by the name, but I do know what they are. I watched a segment of Wild West Tech on the History Channel about the railroads. Absolutely devastating, and you'd hate to be riding on iron strap railways if a strap curled up, ruin your day in a heartbeat since the train can't slow down enough in time.

Yep, they were nasty customers. So if you wish to build an IS RR you best be sure that is what you want.



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Mav, in your current Census your employed men only adds up to 445 out of a possible 525. Did you wish these 80 men to just stand around? Or did you wish to employ them?



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If they are clearing land, or any other job, the GM will need to know about it. They were not listed on your census, so that's why I do not have them listed.

Glad to see I hit the lake level correctly. Took me a LOT of cross referencing contour maps to get the height I was aiming for. BTW, did you read the blurb on Lake Bonneville I posted in the History thread? If so, any comment?

As for food, I figured you would go all out for fishing. Since, as you now know, farming is gonna be a bit hard to pull off. Small Gardens, and a few acres here and there will be about it. Unless you use terrace farming.



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Ugh... Engine destroyed, loss of personel, passengers, railcars, equipment and commodities lost that may not be recovered due to looting or from fires from the engine. Months of labor and materials down the drain. Inefficient inefficient inefficient inefficient!

Once you cut a path to the new shoreline you should have no probs setting up a boatworks. If you use terrace farming it will give me the incentive to do up the costs to convert terrain to terrace farms. I can say one thing though, it is gonna take a LOT of stone to hold a level field.

As for slash & burn, yep, but you living in a mountain area you have to be careful. Since slash and burn will remove a lot of what holds the soil in place. So floods and landslides become a danger. At least with terrace farming you will hold the soil in place.

@Scragg, yep, very innefficient, but sometimes speed is paramount.



Cheers, Thor