Maxxorlord said
Right. Cercumstances have led to a whole day of dedimacation to only five hours of dedimacation. No matter, I shall press on, in the name of all that is Preciprick.

Godspeed, gentle Preciprick.

Maxxorlord said
Right. Cercumstances have led to a whole day of dedimacation to only five hours of dedimacation. No matter, I shall press on, in the name of all that is Preciprick.

Press on Holy Soldier.

Maxxorlord said
Right. Cercumstances have led to a whole day of dedimacation to only five hours of dedimacation. No matter, I shall press on, in the name of all that is Preciprick.

Press on Holy Soldier.

I shall try.

On another note, question. What's the size of the average navy 'round these parts? I don't want an unrealistically low number, since most of Australia's military funding would go to the navy, based on geography alone. But I also don't want to throw out a number so large that Australia could kick Spain's backend back to the stone age. Which..Yeah. No.

Well, the general rule I've enforced when it comes to the relation of military to civilians is ten percent, though this largely adheres to wartime situations.

If you want to use a base to look at for reference then there's no harm I see in at the least looking into the current state of the Royal Australian Navy and gauging what can be changed to make it more probable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Australian_Navy#Current_ships

At a quick look most of their own fleet is basically built pretty light. You wouldn't expect them to even survive an actual naval engagement and the bulk of what I suspect they could do is anti-piracy measures against the run of the mill Indonesian pirates. But when it comes to challenging the Chinese or Japanese fleets - as both being dominate regional powers - they really couldn't hold up. At the best maybe the Australian Navy could mount a landing if you use similar numbers, but prolonged naval engagement wouldn't be possible.

Historically I imagine this boils down to them being a part of the British Empire and the Brits themselves would have been the ones to own, operate, fuel, equip, and man the many larger flag-ship and main battleships of the Empire or Commonwealth's navy. So most Aussie craft would act in a support role in any event.

So a bunch of small and lighter class ships, or logistical things. A reconsolidation or collapse of the British military would leave Australia very much vulnerable potentially.

Consideration given to the pre-divergence structuring of the Australian navy would be most useful. From the same Wiki page (because quick reference material):

"The Commonwealth Naval Forces were established on 1 March 1901, two months after the federation of Australia, when the naval forces of the separate Australian colonies were amalgamated. A period of uncertainty followed as the policy makers sought to determine the newly established force's requirements and purpose, with the debate focusing upon whether Australia's naval force would be structured mainly for local defense or whether it would be designed to serve as a fleet unit within a larger imperial force, controlled centrally by the British Admiralty.[1] In 1908–09, the decision was made to pursue a compromise solution and Australia agreed to establish a force that would be used for local defense but which would be capable of forming a fleet unit within the imperial naval strategy, albeit without central control. As a result, the navy's force structure was set at "one battlecruiser, three light cruisers, six destroyers and three submarines"."

Thanks for the information, cap'n.

No problem.

Other situations that might be taken into consideration is the economic impact of the prolonged Great War and likely economic depression that could have followed (though not at all explored, so I guess we may need to make a consensus and agree if there was a massive international or European depression post-war) that could have impacted the Australian fleet. There could end up no possible need to maintain a modern fleet designed for defense from an invasion and it shifts to trade protection, as it did during the RL Great Depression. This could probably sit and linger and stagnate Australian capabilities given no support from the UK given it's political destabilization in the 50's; or however Feo decides/decided.

Probably redundant, but oh well.

* Posting responsibilities. *

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* MRW *

TheEvanCat said
* Posting responsibilities. ** Staring at blank word processor. ** Don't have any ideas. ** Looks down. ** MRW *

>Dudes heading for Batumi
>Nothing to post
>mfwtfwyfw

It's funny that you'd post a Gary Busey gif because he unexpectedly won Celebrity Big Brother UK recently.

I had to call in council about your last post Max since it raised a lot of probable red-flags with me. But in the end a lot of it we decided could be simply ignored out of the over-all ambiguity of the post. Just keep in mind when it comes to things like radios that downsizing of electronics hasn't become a big thing in this world, so those headsets might as well come packaged with a big metal back pack with the power source and electronics needed to operate. And probably no tuning unless you want to take it off, because all of that is in a place where another guy can get to.



But in all it was decided the ultimate ambiguity of the post means that I can just as well re-imagine the tech use as being more appropriate.

And I ignore the mid-post time-skip given you were MIA for so long.

Yeah, I was imagining the big ole WWII packs when I was writing that. And..sorry about that. I just wanted to wrap that whole situation up.

Goddamn blacks, ruining Armenia.

Goddamn Jews, ruining Armenia.

Chapatrap said
>Dudes heading for Batumi>Nothing to post>mfwtfwyfwIt's funny that you'd post a Gary Busey gif because he unexpectedly won Celebrity Big Brother UK recently.

Fun fact, they got to stop off at Poti to brief about Batumi first. So there's that. Basically explaining that their assassination of the Chechen warlord shook up the foreign contingents in southeast Georgia and oh, by the way, they mentioned a pro-Armenian group in Batumi that we're going to look into.

Feo and Chapa should get together so Chapa can teach Feo some British lingo.

^ Probably very, very true.

Dinh AaronMk said
Feo and Chapa should get together so Chapa can teach Feo some British lingo.

'Orrite, m8, 'ow you doin'? Free a' clock in thah mornin', 'e woke me wife up at! Cheeky bastard!'

Chapatrap said
'Orrite, m8, 'ow you doin'? Free a' clock in thah mornin', 'e woke me wife up at! Cheeky bastard!'

OI M8 WOT U SAY? I'LL FOCK Y'OP, I SWEAR ON ME MUM.

'oi lyk to fuck burds.

TheEvanCat said
OI M8 WOT U SAY? I'LL FOCK Y'OP, I SWEAR ON ME MUM.

les go den, pal, square go liek. i'll send yuo to t'hospital, u wee hok o' shite.