[X] Side with the environmental lobby. Save the trees and deathopotamusaurus too! One time -1% GDP penalty, prevents future events related to deforestation.
[X] Express through informal back channels that makers of a non-vital luxury good cannot demand that the Crown make expensive commitments of vital military forces for the sole purpose of bolstering their profits. Such a demand crosses the line of enriching themselves at the expense of the public, and is unacceptable.
[X] Side with the environmental lobby. Save the trees and deathopotamusaurus too! One time -1% GDP penalty, prevents future events related to deforestation.
[X] Express through informal back channels that makers of a non-vital luxury good cannot demand that the Crown make expensive commitments of vital military forces for the sole purpose of bolstering their profits. Such a demand crosses the line of enriching themselves at the expense of the public, and is unacceptable.
[X] Side with the environmental lobby. Save the trees and deathopotamusaurus too! One time -1% GDP penalty, prevents future events related to deforestation.
[X] Express through informal back channels that makers of a non-vital luxury good cannot demand that the Crown make expensive commitments of vital military forces for the sole purpose of bolstering their profits. Such a demand crosses the line of enriching themselves at the expense of the public, and is unacceptable.
[X] Side with the environmental lobby. Save the trees and deathopotamusaurus too! One time -1% GDP penalty, prevents future events related to deforestation.
We can spare 1% GDP, especially if we go all out this turn on income (add coast guard and Capricorn colony sites to action list); and I believe in preventing bad events.
[X] Side with the environmental lobby. Save the trees and deathopotamusaurus too! One time -1% GDP penalty, prevents future events related to deforestation.
[X] Express through informal back channels that makers of a non-vital luxury good cannot demand that the Crown make expensive commitments of vital military forces for the sole purpose of bolstering their profits. Such a demand crosses the line of enriching themselves at the expense of the public, and is unacceptable.
[X] Side with the environmental lobby. Save the trees and deathopotamusaurus too! One time -1% GDP penalty, prevents future events related to deforestation.
[X] Express through informal back channels that makers of a non-vital luxury good cannot demand that the Crown make expensive commitments of vital military forces for the sole purpose of bolstering their profits. Such a demand crosses the line of enriching themselves at the expense of the public, and is unacceptable.
[X] Side with the environmental lobby. Save the trees and deathopotamusaurus too! One time -1% GDP penalty, prevents future events related to deforestation.
[X] Express through informal back channels that makers of a non-vital luxury good cannot demand that the Crown make expensive commitments of vital military forces for the sole purpose of bolstering their profits. Such a demand crosses the line of enriching themselves at the expense of the public, and is unacceptable.
You share a look with Sekhmet as you listen to the competing proposals, the one from the Commons causing your hackles to rise. Commit soldiers to ensure the profits of a luxury good? Clear cut forests simply to boost somebody’s profit margins without regard to the long term effects? Sekhmet rumbles slightly, silencing the overdressed Member of Parliament extolling the potential profits and benefits of the scheme.
“The Crown is not a tool for your personal profit, Mr. Simms.” you say rather coldly. “Nor a tool simply to boost the bottom lines of your backers. Your backers chose to begin lumbering operations away from existing defensive installations and now you want the taxpayers, not to mention the Crown, to socialize your risks while you privatize your own profits.”
He is sweating rather profusely at this point as he opens his mouth to respond.
“No, Mr Simms. The Crown will not play by your rules in this regard. The regulations are already in place regarding lumbering, those rules will be enforced and you will obey them, no matter how much your backers wish otherwise.”
You pause one moment. “Unless you have anything further of relevance to say, Mr Simms, I do believe that this meeting is over. Good day.”
For a moment it looks like the popinjay is going to protest further, he stands to lose quite a lot of campaign cash if he fails to deliver this program, but a rumbled growl from Sekhmet sends him scurrying away with minimal courtesies.
No doubt he will be less likely to support your other programs in Parliament after this, but you are the Queen, not a puppet dancing to the tunes of others.
You stand up and look out the windows onto the gardens outside, lips quirking into a smile as you see your sons and daughters playing with some of their school friends and Bastet. The once cute and cuddly kitten is now easily the size of an old earth tiger, yet still has the proportions of a cub rather than an adult.
The office had been designed with Sekhmet in mind, with soaring ceilings and plenty of open space, and the massive grifftiger settles beside you, watching the scene herself. You reach over and give her a scratch along the jawline, getting a rumbling contented purr in response.
Your reverie is interrupted when one of your aids coughs to get your attention, holding a datapad and looking a bit grim-faced.
“Yes, Alan?” you say, turning from the window.
“There’s been a new bill submitted in the Commons with the Lords joining in, Your Majesty.” he says, crossing to you and holding out the datapad. “They jointly wish to divert a portion of the yearly budget to the discretionary use of Parliament.”
You frown slightly, looking the proposal over along with the marginalia showing that while it enjoys majority support in both chambers, it is a bare majority. If this is to become law you would have to approve of it.
In essence, Parliament wants the authority to finance projects without your approval ‘for the good of the State’, of course.
[] Accept (-2 Crown Influence, 10,000 a year diverted to fund projects of Parliament, +10 support in the Commons and Lords, +2 Influence to Commons and Lords)
[] Veto (-10 support in Commons and Lords, -1 Influence to Commons and Lords)
A few days later there’s a minor crisis at the school you send your kids to. Well, crisis isn’t the right word. More a minor incident.
The first you hear about it is when Janet comes into your office with a shit-eating grin and flips on the news. On screen, you see a well-dressed man being forced into a police car by grinning officers, while Bastet is in the back of shot looking smug. Looking closer, you can see that the man’s expensive clothing is utterly ruined, although it is not obvious at first glance.
You turn up the volume… “and to repeat, it looks like we can add ‘pervert detection’ to the list of known abilities of Grifftigers. According to police, Mr Richard Lamb of Griffsport was caught by Bastet, one of the Royal Grifftigers, in the act of taking photographs of elementary age schoolgirls in their swimsuits during swimming class…”
You look over to Janet. “Yup, she caught him, knocked him down, kept him from deleting the footage on his camera, and the police have already served a search warrant on his residence. That’s one less predator on the streets, that’s for sure.” Janet says, sounding very satisfied.
Sekhmet simply looks smug, extremely smug, as only a cat can manage.
You don’t blame her.
That weekend your oldest is back out racing in the Pee Wee League, and once again you are watching with your heart in your throat. He comes in third in his initial heat, wins the quarter-finals race, comes in second in the semi-finals, then brings home the trophy from this meet in the finals.
You scream yourself hoarse in excitement.
You meet with your advisors throughout the next week.
General Wolf comes in, looking even older than before. “First things first, Your Majesty. Next year I’ll be retiring. I’ll have a list of candidates for your consideration by the end of the year.” he says, wincing slightly at your expression.
“Regardless, there are several projects that the military would strongly request that you consider. First of all. We have a good interceptor, we have a good attacker, we need a top tier dogfighter. The Royal Aerospace Factory has proposed the Eagle aerospace supremacy fighter. Looking over the specs, it appears to be a solid dogfighter able to fill in the gaps between the Falcon and the Roc. Secondly, I’d like to place an order for SH-1 Velite scout helicopters and jump infantry, a full battalion in strength, to be assigned as the scout battalion of 1st Armored Division. This would require the purchase of nine SH-1 platoons and 9 companies of jump infantry.”
Tyler also looks old, but he makes no mention of retirement. Instead showing up a bit rumpled after taking the time to play with your kids for a bit. “I heard from Frederick what he was going to propose, and I agree on the Eagles, our ministry is a bit slammed at the moment with projects but getting the production lines up and running is something I’d recommend doing. Next year there are a few things that I feel will be good ideas to get started, but I have a feeling that we’ll need those birds sooner rather than later.”
Dr Young sends you a memo about what her office is up to. “We’re finalizing the advertising for the racing league, but we’ve got nothing else on the front burner at this time.”
Professor Chapman also sends you a memo, reminding you of her previous advice to meet with the opposition party that has formed in Parliament. “They may on principle oppose you, but they aren’t your enemy.” she points out in the memo. “Better to have them inside your tent pissing out than outside it pissing in.”
Dr Palmer looks excited when she comes in to meet with you. “I have a full slate of proposals for you to consider, Your Majesty.” she says as she sits down, having given Sekhmet the obligatory scratch. “It’ll be expensive, but so worth it. First of all, with the general improvements across the board we can now readily expand the labs, giving us more room to work and allowing more projects to be active at the same time. In addition, there are two projects that I think we should prioritize. First, it’s time that we start working on full up dropships. Second, I’d really like to see further improvements to the education infrastructure, the more we build that up the better for all of us.”
Juanita shows up for her scheduled meeting looking positively antediluvian. “I know General Wolf has already informed you of his pending retirement. I’m afraid I’m in the same boat. My doctor’s tell me I need to slow down and take it easy. I’ll also have a slate of replacement candidates available for you by the end of the year.” she smiles slightly at your expression. “We get old, Your Majesty, and I’d like to spend some time with my own family before I can no longer enjoy it.”
Other than that she doesn’t really have anything for you other than a recommendation to keep up the counter-intel surveillance just in case.
Janet is a welcome distraction from all the retirements, being her usual perky self. “We all good in Justice Land!” she proclaims, sliding a giant coffee cup full of steaming aromatic goodness to you. “Still working on that Royal Police Force… hey, Sekhmet, you know any of your fellow big bad kitties who’d look good in a badge and enjoy donuts?” she grins insouciantly at the grifftiger. Sekhmet whuffs, and bestows a lick upon the exuberant Justice Minister.
I had to look insouciantly up because I didn't recognize the word. I can't even pronounce that word. And I thought it was a made up word when I saw it.
[X] Veto (-10 support in Commons and Lords, -1 Influence to Commons and Lords)
[X]Plan: Age of Exploration
-[X]Military
--[X]Establish Forward Research Base
--[X]Purchase Velite OH-2
-[X]Interior
--[X]Scout the Titanium w/ Penguin Fighting Grip
-[X]Diplomatic
--[X]Advertise for Colonists to Wow Resources Area
-[X]Political
--[X]Meet with Opposition Party
--[X]Extend Government Administration Area to Castor
-[X]Research
--[X]Improved Education Lvl 3
--[X]Rocket Launchers
--[X]Power Generation Lvl 2
-[X]Justice
--[X]Set up Judicial System in New Settlement Area
[X] Veto (-10 support in Commons and Lords, -1 Influence to Commons and Lords)
We can't afford this
[X] Plan: Economic Recovery
-[X] Military 4
--[X] Wulfen Heavy IFV*
--[X] Recruit complex entry team*
--[X] Establish Blue-Water Coast Guard
(GDP bonus)
--[X] Recruit 9 Jump Infantry and 9 SH-1 Scout VTOL for 1st Armored, 2x100 Laser Defense Sats
(Request + orbital defenses)
-[X]Interior 4
--[X] Strengthen Central Bank*
--[X] Comprehensive Survey of the twin continents of Castor/Pollux*
--[X] Construct Space Station*
--[X] Open up new colony sites on Capricorn
(GDP boost, only 1 turn)
-[X] Diplomatic 3
--[X] Increased funding for the arts
--[X] Promote Hovercraft Racing League as being more exciting than any drug*
-[X] Political 3
--[X] Meet with Opposition Party
(Cheap+request)
-[X] Research 3
--[X] Fortifications lvl 2
(Defenses for possible future event)
--[X] Rocket Launchers
(Cheap previous request, good for designs)
--[X] Improved Education lvl 3
(Decreased research failure chance)
Expand labs is awesome, but not quite price reasonable yet. If we wait 1 turn for dropships, we get -$1000 from space station, so we can wait there.
-[X] Intelligence 3
--[X] Counterintelligence Surveillance
(Lets make sure the choice to free them was safe)
-[X] Justice 2
--[X] Establish National Police Force*
Note: for anyone unfamiliar with my plans, I mark any ongoing projects from previous turns with a * at the end of the action
Economic Roll - 7 degrees of success
Health Roll - 9 degrees of success
Stability Change roll - 0 degrees of success
Stability Rolls
-Political - +10 to difficulty targets this turn
-Research - No event
-Economic - +3% GDP
Meta Event Roll - 4 - +10% GDP growth AND windfall of 3000
Dynasty Luck Roll - 68 - No event
Crown Influence Roll - 7 - CRITICAL SUCCESS (up to 2 failed actions succeed this turn)
Lords Influence Roll - 6 - no roll
Commons Influence Roll - 10 - no roll
[X] Veto (-10 support in Commons and Lords, -1 Influence to Commons and Lords)
Wulfen Heavy IFV*
Automatic Success
Recruit complex entry team*
Target - 80
Roll - 17
Result - SUCCESS
Establish Blue-Water Coast Guard
Target - 70
Roll - 44
Result - SUCCESS (banked until next turn)
Recruit 9 Jump Infantry and 9 SH-1 Scout VTOL for 1st Armored, 2x100 Laser Defense Sats
(Jump Infantry + SH-1)
Target - 70
Roll - 71
Result - Bare failure, automatic success next turn
Converted to SUCCESS due to critical success on Crown Influence Roll
(Laser Defense Sats)
Target - 70
Roll - 86
Result - FAIL
Converted to SUCCESS due to critical success on Crown Influence Roll
Construct Space Station*
Target - 75
Roll - 4
Result - SUCCESS
Open up new colony sites on Capricorn
Target - 85
Roll - 53
Result - SUCCESS
Promote Hovercraft Racing League as being more exciting than any drug*
Automatically succeeds
Meet with Opposition Party
Target - 95
Roll - 43
Result - SUCCESS
Fortifications lvl 2
Target - 110
Roll - 59
Result - Success
Rocket Launchers
Target - 70
Roll - 67
Result - SUCCESS
Improved Education lvl 3
Target - 80
Roll - 31
Result - SUCCESS
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You still sincerely dislike, in some ways, watching your eldest racing around in a tiny little electric-powered hovercraft at what are, to you watching, ludicrously dangerous speeds for any little boy to be traveling.
On the other hand, he is quite good at it. And you can’t help but cheer him on.
Next year your twins will be old enough to compete, and you have already knelt to the inevitable and agreed with your loving husband that they’ll be allowed. Indeed, Willis has already purchased a pair of Pee Wee rules-compliant racers for the twins to be given to them on their birthday.
Your daughters, thankfully, so far show no inclination to follow in their brothers footsteps. Thanh is very happy with her dolls and plays at tea parties, and little Sarah is still toddling around and playing with brightly colored blocks.
You are extremely proud of Jeremy, however, as he takes the time to play with his little sisters even if as a boy his age he must feel like it’s ‘boring’ and the rest. He’s a good kid, the best older brother he can be, and you couldn’t be prouder of him.
The twins seem to take after their big brother as well, and you’ve seen the results of some of Thanh’s hair styling experiments being sported by the boys.
You are proud of all of your little men. Even when they are driving you to drink with their antics and your eldest, at least, is causing you to go grey everytime he gets in his racer.
And he’s in yet another race, the finale for the season. Thanks to winning a tournament he is now entered into the championship as one of the youngest in the Pee Wee League. Most of the racers are 10 year olds in their last year in the Pee Wee League before moving up to the Junior League.
Your boy may be lighter and thus able to get more speed out of his hovercraft, but the older boys have more experience with the courses and the tricks of hovercraft handling.
In his first heat he manages to place second, which has you screaming like a banshee in excitement as he finishes just a hair behind the winner.
That seems to set the pattern, he never places higher than second in any of the races, but he never places lower than third either.
It’s the final race, the field has been winnowed down. Since he doesn’t have any actual wins, just a ton of points from his high finishes, your son is starting near the back of the grid.
It’s only a ten lap race, there’s very little time to move up… but by the penultimate lap Jeremy is in contention for the lead, right behind the boy who’d won the championship last year.
On the final lap, the final turn, your heart is in your mouth and you are screaming so loud you are amazed that Sekhmet hasn’t run for the hills, but she seems just as excited as you judging by the mighty sweeps of her tail.
And Jeremy slides by in the inside groove, cutting the corner perfectly and guns his drive fan.
It’s a photo finish.
Neck and neck.
You are actually biting your knuckles with nerves as the officials huddle.
And Jeremy is declared the winner! By .001 seconds, crossing the plane of the finish line only an inch or so ahead of second place.
You go NUTS. You are jumping up and down so hard that you feel like you could soar into orbit.
Down on the track Jeremy is being mobbed by the rest of the racers, even as he shakes hands with the boy he beat to win. That kid shows some definite good sportsmanship there, visible even from where you are standing, when he helps haul Jeremy up onto the collective shoulders of the competitors to carry him to the medal area while the crowd roars its approval.
The actual trophy for the championship is a bit… underwhelming. It’s good enough for a kids sport, but this is a *global* kids sport championship, and you think it should be much nicer. Something to think about.
When you get back to the office you find a stack of proposals from a few manufacturers offering self-propelled artillery pieces to the government. Whichever one you select, the cost for a full battery of them will be paid immediately and the vehicle will be available in early January.
Your options are as follows.
[]
Name
Cost
Upkeep
HP
Attack
Defense
Special
[]
Abbott II SPG
511
51.10
16
4
4
Artillery 1
[]
Thumper SPG 86 kph
474
47.40
20
5
5
Artillery 1
[]
*Thumper SPG
330
33
16
4
4
Artillery 1, Amphibious
[]
Howitzer Motor Carriage M2
332
33.2
16
4
4
Artillery 1
You have several options as to how much to invest in the initial production run.
The unit will be assigned to the 1st Armored Division. Regardless of which design wins, the army indicates that it will be assigned the name Paladin SPG in service.
QM NOTE - The winner of the design contest will receive the option of one automatic success at an action or one reroll of a negative dynasty luck/meta event roll.
You send a terse note to Parliament stating quite clearly that you are a ruling monarch, not a mere figurehead for the politicians in Parliament. The protestations of not having meant anything of the sort fly fast and heavy, but nobody believes it for a moment considering the characters of those involved.
Interestingly enough, the head of the declared Opposition party was not in any way party to this power grab and had, in fact, not only voted against it in the Commons but had given an extremely eloquent speech reminding her colleagues precisely why the crown of Griffin’s Roost was paramount and not sidelined.
You don’t need to talk to Professor Chapman to see exactly why. Give the opposition her due, she truly meant what she said when she had announced that she was in opposition solely because of the principle that different perspectives must be heard.
Plus, you think, it plays extremely well with those who support you. Nice.
You look over the mass of reports on your desk while your staff deals with the fallout from the veto decision. You’ll need to make a public statement of some sort soon, but that will wait until after you deal with the paperwork.
You have the initial test reports for the Wulfen Heavy IFV and they look promising, the vehicle performs according to stated specifications with no significant flaws to report. There is a note that jump infantry would be far more suitable for pairing with the vehicle than conventional mechanized infantry. The Wulfen uses multiple relatively small hatches on the sides as the rear of the vehicle is taken up with the drive fans. Conventional mechanized infantry would be slightly bottlenecked and would take a relatively excessive amount of time to disembark at a complete stop, however the design is absolutely ideal for jump infantry as they would be able to disembark while the IFV is moving at near full speed.
After all the drama of last year, this year the recruitment of the complex entrance team was completed with no problems whatsoever.
You have a memo from General Wolf that the work to establish the blue-water Coast Guard is moving well ahead of schedule. The physical construction work is not yet complete, but initial recruiting is looking promising and he forwards a list of names for consideration as the CO of the unit.
[] Svetlana Dietrich - A young woman with extensive experience in blue-water sailing. If selected as CO would give all ships +5 Offense and Defense
[] Gene Crouch - A grizzled old salt who’s spent the last several years working directly for the various major shipping lines. If selected as CO would reduce upkeep by 25%
[] Rebecca Stinnett - A dedicated SAR VTOL expert with experience in disaster relief operations. If selected as CO the units MASH and Logistics specials will extend to all units in theater.
[] Michael Fincher - A blueblood who loves to get his hands covered in grease. If selected as CO all ships would receive +50 Health.
The procurement office, unfortunately, is having a very bad year. The head of the office had to be sacked after being discovered in flagrante delicto with three of his subordinates, their wives, and several registered prostitutes… in the procurement office conference room… with the prostitutes not having any sort of security clearance.
The normal process to replace him would have taken months, months you didn’t have, so bless his perverted soul Tyler stepped in and short-circuited the ordinary process through shameless use of his own contacts. With your blessing a replacement procurement manager had been transferred in.
As a consequence, rather than being completely delayed by over a year, both the scout battalion and the new laser defense satellites are deployed and ready. The scout battalion is still painfully green, but they show definite promise.
It was still a minor miracle that the laser defense satellites were able to be placed into the desired orbit, all three of the subordinates to the old procurement head (who had also been sacked) had been directly in charge of that mission. But Tyler’s man had worked a miracle of organization, and the last of the satellite batches had been put in place and tested just yesterday.
In far more impressive news, the final segments of the core of the new space station were brought online to great fanfare. Objectively speaking it isn’t much, being primarily an experimental installation, however by design the station has massive tanks of reaction mass for ASFs and small craft, to enable extended operations in orbit, along with mounting extensive sensor arrays that give you your first true deep space warning array, at least of the nadir and zenith points of the system.
A number of fishing and minor trade ports have been established along the coasts of Capricorn, extending settlement and alleviating population pressures in Griffsport itself. Each settlement is carefully placed for defensive purposes, with the fortification system already in place extended to cover all of them. A surge in trade and fishing brings a significant boost to the economy as the settlements establish themselves. After the bad year you had last year this is a true bright spot.
The advertising campaign for the hovercraft racing league is finally underway, and the popularity of the sport is soaring. Attendance to races and meets is massively up, lucrative television and radio deals are all in place, but it is too soon to tell if it will meet the primary goal of reducing the attractiveness of drugs for thrill-seeking youth. Certainly the surge in interest in the junior and lower tier levels of the sport is promising in this regard, but you’ll have to monitor the situation.
Your meeting with the ‘official’ opposition party leader is interesting in several ways.
Dominique Forsyth, the leader of the opposition, reminds you irresistibly of yourself and Janet back in your college days. Idealistic, enthusiastic, certain of herself and bold as brass. When Tyler displays full Tylerness, she promptly and quite primly informs him that he is a filthy old lecher who needs to take his dirty mind out of the gutter and that if he continued to leer at her she would take steps.
You shake your head, she’d just painted a target on herself for Tyler to start matchmaking her with some of his grandkids or, considering her age, the oldest of his great-grandkids. You say a silent prayer for her soul as the meeting continues.
The meeting overall goes quite well, allowing you to get a firm handle on Ms Forsyth. You come away with a firm conviction that she means precisely what she says, that her sole purpose in being in opposition isn’t because of a desire to oppose the crown, but because she firmly believes it is vital for a different viewpoint to be strongly advocated for in order to ensure better decisions are made.
You can work with that.
The results from the labs are quite impressive.
The initial rocket launchers produced by the Universities engineering labs are quite promising, although their complete lack of anything resembling combat endurance limits them to specialized roles on the battlefield. The first fruits of the program are disposable 10 shot rocket pods that can be carried by your ASFs to give a lethal initial punch in any combat during the merge.
The structural engineers present plans for significantly upgraded fortification systems that would further boost the defenses of the planet. The new systems include stronger bunkers and upgrading the artillery emplacements to support Sniper artillery pieces.
Finally the education system has been significantly improved, with new classroom technologies rolling out planet wide. Effects are already evident in the increased capability of young learners to, well, learn, and the University is seeing a surge in students.
General Wolf presents to you a short list of replacements.
[]
Name
Defense Actions
Misc Actions
Specials & Short Bio
[]
Keith Potter
4
0
Currently General Wolf’s second in command.
+5 offense and defense rolls
[]
Janet Perkins
3
1 Interior
Current head of the test & evaluation department. Increases range of positive quirks to 1-20 from 1-10
[]
Jack Hogan
4
0
Current superintendent of the Aerie. Increases training targets by 5
[]
Melinda Shaw
4
0
Current Chief of Staff to General Wolf. Reduces defense upkeep by 200
Juanita Bailey also presents you with her short list of replacements.
[]
Name
Intel Actions
Misc Actions
Specials & Short Bio
[]
Harry Owens
3
0
Juanitas current deputy.
[]
Julie Reese
2
1 Military
Current head of the Department of Military Intelligence.
[]
Brent Ross
2
1 Justice
Current liaison between the Intelligence and Justice ministries
[]
Miranda Perez
3
0
Chief Interrogator, increases interrogation targets by +5
[X] Plan Sensible choices.
-[X] *Thumper SPG
--[X] 1 Company (cost*3)
-[X] Rebecca Stinnett
-[X] Melinda Shaw
-[X] Keith Potter
-[X] Julie Reese
Do NOT take the Battalion option for the Artillery pieces, we can always build more later on if need be, but right now we dont need a Battalion of Artillery pieces.
[X] Plan Sensible choices.
-[X] *Thumper SPG
--[X] 1 Company (cost*3)
-[X] Rebecca Stinnett
-[X] Melinda Shaw
-[X] Keith Potter
-[X] Julie Reese
Do NOT take the Battalion option for the Artillery pieces, we can always build more later on if need be, but right now we dont need a Battalion of Artillery pieces.
