Yllendthyr is kinda the combination of Spain, British Empire and a bit of German. While being Elves seemingly out of Lord of the Rings.
My nation has great pilots, shooters and engineers. It's thanks to their enhanced senses and natural gyroscope-like organs.
Mithril is another reason and in a way that's an engineer's dream, its strength to weight ratio is great even if volume-wise it's inferior to steel.
Which means my vehicles are lightweight. On the other hand I also have less armor and my guns have lesser pressure tolerance, meaning weaker guns. Well, technically. They compensate with larger bore diameters and the fact mithril is lighter. My guns in general have massive velocity but comparatively less mass. Delivering explosive shells is preferable for me but my AP shells are relatively decent too, even if more expensive.
One weakness which I can't really get around is armor. I have decently protected light armors but both my nation's policy and my mithril is less fit for heavily armored units. My light tank are extremely agile, moving almost like a modern car. I do have a heavy tank which is decently mobile, well-armed and well-protected but it's on premium price and unlikely to go down anytime soon.
As for aircraft I plan to use jets. Early jets which consume tons of fuel and need more frequent overhauls. Speed-wise they have an advantage over others like the tanks do and mithril is a bit better than plywood but overall it only gives me a certain advantage than anything OP. I also lack dedicated bombers because Yllendthyr found them unneccessary and only have relatively light bombs deployed by dive bombers. Instead I am experimenting on aircraft artillery, rockets and nowadays developed a VF-1 style flying bomb. The latter carries 1000lbs of explosive and can be deployed up to from a hundred kilometers so the airships are safe. Downsides are the cost (10 times that of a normal bomb), reliance on radio guidance and the fact these can be technically intercepted on flight.
Overall Yllendthyr has decent military, sufficient enough to justify their constant bragging but if somebody inspects the details they'd find that the Elven Warmachine is fragile. There are several factors which would make Yllendthyr less happy for waging a prolonged war than others.
My nation has great pilots, shooters and engineers. It's thanks to their enhanced senses and natural gyroscope-like organs.
Mithril is another reason and in a way that's an engineer's dream, its strength to weight ratio is great even if volume-wise it's inferior to steel.
Which means my vehicles are lightweight. On the other hand I also have less armor and my guns have lesser pressure tolerance, meaning weaker guns. Well, technically. They compensate with larger bore diameters and the fact mithril is lighter. My guns in general have massive velocity but comparatively less mass. Delivering explosive shells is preferable for me but my AP shells are relatively decent too, even if more expensive.
One weakness which I can't really get around is armor. I have decently protected light armors but both my nation's policy and my mithril is less fit for heavily armored units. My light tank are extremely agile, moving almost like a modern car. I do have a heavy tank which is decently mobile, well-armed and well-protected but it's on premium price and unlikely to go down anytime soon.
As for aircraft I plan to use jets. Early jets which consume tons of fuel and need more frequent overhauls. Speed-wise they have an advantage over others like the tanks do and mithril is a bit better than plywood but overall it only gives me a certain advantage than anything OP. I also lack dedicated bombers because Yllendthyr found them unneccessary and only have relatively light bombs deployed by dive bombers. Instead I am experimenting on aircraft artillery, rockets and nowadays developed a VF-1 style flying bomb. The latter carries 1000lbs of explosive and can be deployed up to from a hundred kilometers so the airships are safe. Downsides are the cost (10 times that of a normal bomb), reliance on radio guidance and the fact these can be technically intercepted on flight.
Overall Yllendthyr has decent military, sufficient enough to justify their constant bragging but if somebody inspects the details they'd find that the Elven Warmachine is fragile. There are several factors which would make Yllendthyr less happy for waging a prolonged war than others.
