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AORDO Ground Division One-
500,000 Troops
250,000 Ground Vehicles
200,000 Large Tanks
500 Mobile Missile Platforms

AORDO Ground Division Two-
250,000 Troops
200,000 Ground Vehicles
25,000 Large Tanks
200,000 Small Tanks
500 Mobile Missile Platforms

AORDO Ground Division Three-
200,000 Troops
30,000 Ground Vehicles
25,000 Large Tanks
200,000 Small Tanks

AORDO Ground Division Four-
50,000 Troops
200 Ground Vehicles
100,000 Small Tanks

Tachbe ?
1,000,000 Men
500,000 Ground Vehicles
500,000 Small Tanks
250,000 Large Tanks
1000 Mobile Missile Platforms

now then, although i am the ground defence coordinator for my region this guy's proposal of forces is OBSCENE! i have protested and because he is in 'superior' position(although i could beat his nation into the ground any day) he won't change the numbers. pissing me off beyond belief. now, i just want some agreements so i can show him it is godmodding, and if you think it's realistic, please say so. This force comes from a coalition of about 6 or so nations, i being the biggest, with the rest from 400 mil to around 200 million or so. hope you agree its godmodding.

It does seem a bit too much, even unrealistic. However, having 6 nations in a coalition working together to create such a force might be possible...but that's where the catch is...all the nations would have to be in the billions (in population) to be able to call this a legit force size.

I'm curious though. what are the exact stats on each nation in terms of population, economy, government (dictatorship, democracy, etc), taxes, percentage of national budget put aside for military means...etc)

Also, I think it's necessary to point out that creating a force of that magnitude would in reality take a hell of a long time to call up, even for nations that are capable of fast production of tanks, etc.

i'll get those stats...

I dunno.... they have a total of 1 million men?

I mean... my army alone could be a total 42.9 million men.

Hheheh...

Fielding an army > 500k is a logistical suicide. The needs outweigh the benefits of that size, and supply becomes crippling. Transport is butchered, and even tactics collapse. The army must pillage to survive, and is too cumbersome to engage an enemy.

If you start fielding million man armies, be prepared to be raped by better equiped mobile forces of much smaller size.

Fielding an army > 500k is a logistical suicide. The needs outweigh the benefits of that size, and supply becomes crippling. Transport is butchered, and even tactics collapse. The army must pillage to survive, and is too cumbersome to engage an enemy.

If you start fielding million man armies, be prepared to be raped by better equiped mobile forces of much smaller size.

Hmm...kinda reminds me of Russia in WWII...they had the numbers, but the Germans had the technology... :D

Tachbe:
282 million,
Civil Rights: Average, Economy: Good, Political Freedoms: Some
UN Category: Inoffensive Centrist Democracy

Samonia:
172 million
Civil Rights:Below Average, Economy: Imploded, Political Freedoms: Good
UN Category: Democratic Socialists

Crystilakere:
235 million
Civil Rights: Below Average, Economy: Reasonable, Political Freedoms: Very Good
UN Category: Inoffensive Centrist Democracy

Nedlia:
226 million
Civil Rights: Average, Economy: Good, Political Freedoms: Excellent
UN Category: Democratic Socialists

Salmantic:
517 million
Civil Rights: Good, Economy: All-Consuming, Political Freedoms: Few
UN Category: Compulsory Consumerist State

Vilita:
316 million
Civil Rights: Average, Economy: Strong, Political Freedoms: Good
UN Category: Inoffensive Centrist Democracy

Equilibial:
261 million
Civil Rights: Excellent, Economy: Strong, Political Freedoms: Very Good
UN Category: Inoffensive Centrist Democracy

then theres me...


Also, i was focusing on the armor aspect of the forces.

(i can wield over 70 million men, if i remember correctly... but i stick to a much lower force for actual operations, those other millions of men are more for holding an area... but my importation costs are nearly suicide, but the 100% tax rate evens that out a bit...)

Fielding an army > 500k is a logistical suicide. The needs outweigh the benefits of that size, and supply becomes crippling. Transport is butchered, and even tactics collapse. The army must pillage to survive, and is too cumbersome to engage an enemy.

If you start fielding million man armies, be prepared to be raped by better equiped mobile forces of much smaller size.

Hmm...kinda reminds me of Russia in WWII...they had the numbers, but the Germans had the technology... :D

but they still had millions of men(the germans) with a population of only 75 million.(i think they steadily kept 3 million as an average...)

Million man armies are logistically capable of being used...in a defensive role! That is your logistics are going to be much easier on your own ground. And actually you may have huge massive army but not deployed on a single front is a bit ridiculus. So I can see that army being useful in a defensive manner and part of it in an offensive manner.

Million man armies are logistically capable of being used...in a defensive role! That is your logistics are going to be much easier on your own ground. And actually you may have huge massive army but not deployed on a single front is a bit ridiculus. So I can see that army being useful in a defensive manner and part of it in an offensive manner.Also, armies of robots that don't need to be supplied with much anything can be almost unlimited in size, as long as it's tactically feasable to fit them all into one area. :wink:

Fielding an army > 500k is a logistical suicide. The needs outweigh the benefits of that size, and supply becomes crippling. Transport is butchered, and even tactics collapse. The army must pillage to survive, and is too cumbersome to engage an enemy.

If you start fielding million man armies, be prepared to be raped by better equiped mobile forces of much smaller size.

Hmm...kinda reminds me of Russia in WWII...they had the numbers, but the Germans had the technology... :D
The Germans also had a maniac in supreme command, who changed goals once they were about to be achieved, and who scrambled units, refused to allow retreats, demanded that only certain guns be used... etc...

Million man armies are logistically capable of being used...in a defensive role! That is your logistics are going to be much easier on your own ground. And actually you may have huge massive army but not deployed on a single front is a bit ridiculus. So I can see that army being useful in a defensive manner and part of it in an offensive manner.Also, armies of robots that don't need to be supplied with much anything can be almost unlimited in size, as long as it's tactically feasable to fit them all into one area. :wink:

E...M...P...

E...M...P...We've been in the biz long enough to learn the importance of sheilding our robots from that, microwaves, and viruses.

Besides, you know how hard it is to make an EMP?

E...M...P...We've been in the biz long enough to learn the importance of sheilding our robots from that, microwaves, and viruses.

Besides, you know how hard it is to make an EMP?
$500 bucks and I could build one right now, actually. (A simple EMP device.)

$500 bucks and I could build one right now, actually. (A simple EMP device.)*shrugs*
Whatever. The energy required to make an efficent and tactical EMP device as well as its cost is a little through the roof. And it wouldn't work anyway. :wink:

Besides, you know how hard it is to make an EMP?
$500 bucks and I could build one right now, actually. (A simple EMP device.)
Charge a high voltage capacitor. Connect to high capacity copper wire. Wind around homemade explosive in a tube. (Wax dipped black powder will work, but try a more stable reaction.) Before detonation, use capacitor to charge coil. Trigger a sequence detonation from one end of cylinder to the other. The electrical field will "burp" and knock out a small city completely.

Considering that the Klatch lost 250+ million souls (civilian) to your demented little designs Resi, I'd keep my mouth quiet about robot armies unless you want a nation of 25 billion deciding that Melkor should have wipped you out (actually that's a bit of OOC bleeding through there)

...although we did find anti-matter bombs to be quite effective...and robots wave attacking fixed defensive postions with heavy artillery and energy weapons proved to be a poor idea...

*uses a Resi-desgined robot hand as a coster*

Considering that the Klatch lost 250+ million souls (civilian) to your demented little designs Resi, I'd keep my mouth quiet about robot armies unless you want a nation of 25 billion deciding that Melkor should have wipped you out (actually that's a bit of OOC bleeding through there)Did he? When was this? And there are no nations of 25 billion (yes, I know you ment 2.5, but I just wanted to give you a hard time). :wink:
...although we did find anti-matter bombs to be quite effective...and robots wave attacking fixed defensive postions with heavy artillery and energy weapons proved to be a poor idea...Bah, antimatter is effective against everything, like ortillary. As for that last part, that's why we have FARQs (http://members.cox.net/resicorp/farq.htm) and Bionic Power Suits (http://members.cox.net/resicorp/bps.htm).
*uses a Resi-desgined robot hand as a coster**uses a human hand as a coaster*
What? It's clean! :?

$500 bucks and I could build one right now, actually. (A simple EMP device.)*shrugs*
Whatever. The energy required to make an efficent and tactical EMP device as well as its cost is a little through the roof. And it wouldn't work anyway. :wink:
Accepting that you are future-tech, and the rules change, in near-modern tech, robot armies are highly unfeasible. To totally shield from EMP, they would need to be one of the following:

1.)Shielded
2.)Not electrical

And since shielding costs extreme amounts, and wouldn't be that mobile, that leaves option 2 as feasible. However, even with fiber optics and pneumatics (instead of circuits and servos), there are still processors. Maybe a laser-computer, but that needs a power supply still. No robot army will be fielded effectively against EMP for a hundred years.

(ASSUMING HUMANOID DESIGN, NOT LUMBERING ARMORED BEHEMOTHS)

Anywho, must sleep. G'night.

Actually, EMP-sheilding is fairly simple. It consists of non-conductors (recycled tire rubber in our case), and wires leading away from circuitry. Very simple, very easy to make.

1)No, I did mean a nation of 25 Billion...The Federated Klatchian Coast. Which is more of a bad nightmare version of the old Holy Roman Empire but it does have a) constituion, b) a government, c) something of an Rp history...

2)I should point out it is a Resi-design. Or you never should have sold construction right to Tarka because it seems one of their younger generation decided he wanted to rule earth...and used a few million robots copied from your designs to attempt it.

3)Really, considering what the Horn Swaggler's use for commodes I'm not offended.

1)No, I did mean a nation of 25 Billion...The Federated Klatchian Coast. Which is more of a bad nightmare version of the old Holy Roman Empire but it does have a) constituion, b) a government, c) something of an Rp history...That's not a nation, although it may RP as one. Besides, they'd never be able to mobilize more troops than me for reasons clearly stated here. :P
2)I should point out it is a Resi-design. Or you never should have sold construction right to Tarka because it seems one of their younger generation decided he wanted to rule earth...and used a few million robots copied from your designs to attempt it.Really? Seeing as I've never sold production rights to anyone, that's a bit of a stretch. Maybe I sold a few robots, but what my clients do with them is none of my business, nor can I control it.

Yes and no, like Yut and the Trixan Empire they are not a 'nation' in the traditional NS sense. However, we do operate that way...I've started refering to them as Uber Nations, to define that they have some form of upper level government soverignty over their members. And a Resi-Klatchian war would be messy...


B) Actually no one is really blaming you for anything...I'm needling you a bit and trying to point out that a robot army can be slaughterd by a smaller, well placed, well armed and entreched force as Tarka found out.

Yes and no, like Yut and the Trixan Empire they are not a 'nation' in the traditional NS sense. However, we do operate that way...I've started refering to them as Uber Nations, to define that they have some form of upper level government soverignty over their members. And a Resi-Klatchian war would be messy...Messier than you'd think. That's all I have to say about that.
B) Actually no one is really blaming you for anything...I'm needling you a bit and trying to point out that a robot army can be slaughterd by a smaller, well placed, well armed and entreched force as Tarka found out.So can a human army. And it's not my fault if the people who buy 'em don't read the bloody manuels.

1)No, I did mean a nation of 25 Billion...The Federated Klatchian Coast. Which is more of a bad nightmare version of the old Holy Roman Empire but it does have a) constituion, b) a government, c) something of an Rp history...That's not a nation, although it may RP as one. Besides, they'd never be able to mobilize more troops than me for reasons clearly stated here. :P
2)I should point out it is a Resi-design. Or you never should have sold construction right to Tarka because it seems one of their younger generation decided he wanted to rule earth...and used a few million robots copied from your designs to attempt it.Really? Seeing as I've never sold production rights to anyone, that's a bit of a stretch. Maybe I sold a few robots, but what my clients do with them is none of my business, nor can I control it.

OOC:

Ah Resi, you're not a bad dude, but please don't think that millions of robots wouldn't entail a massive logistical tail - future tech or not. Besides, having millions of 'bots (or military personnel or whatever) bunched up in one place is clearly screaming "Hit me! HIT ME!"

Besides, warfare is all about trying to get the edge on your opponent. If you design a good EMP shielding system, count on someone coming up with a way to get around it, and then you designing something to counter that, ad infinitum.

As far as the Klatch goes regarding Dozle and all, maybe some kind of RP could be worked out? Something to file away for later if you're interested. Kind of wondering if on of the SOATs we salvage would have a "Made in Resi Corp" sticker. :)

Ah Resi, you're not a bad dude, but please don't think that millions of robots wouldn't entail a massive logistical tail - future tech or not. Besides, having millions of 'bots (or military personnel or whatever) bunched up in one place is clearly screaming "Hit me! HIT ME!"Eh, I know all that, I'm just saying it's more feasable with robots than with humans.
Besides, warfare is all about trying to get the edge on your opponent. If you design a good EMP shielding system, count on someone coming up with a way to get around it, and then you designing something to counter that, ad infinitum.EMP is EMP, and my sheilding is my sheilding. If someone creates an EMP that defies the conventions of an EMP and can get around my sheilds, they better have the research.
As far as the Klatch goes regarding Dozle and all, maybe some kind of RP could be worked out? Something to file away for later if you're interested. Kind of wondering if on of the SOATs we salvage would have a "Made in Resi Corp" sticker. :)Maybe. I haven't delt much with any of the nations, so they'd probably just get some low-level PR rep and a speach about liability. And, forgive my ignorance, but what are SOATs?

Eh, I know all that, I'm just saying it's more feasable with robots than with humans.

Depends on the tech level I suppose. Still, logistics should always be a concern no matter what the tech level. At my current tech level, fielding a massive robot army would be cost prohibitive and quite frankly, very difficult.

EMP is EMP, and my sheilding is my sheilding. If someone creates an EMP that defies the conventions of an EMP and can get around my sheilds, they better have the research.

Anything is possible. :)

Maybe. I haven't delt much with any of the nations, so they'd probably just get some low-level PR rep and a speach about liability. And, forgive my ignorance, but what are SOATs?

Right here. It's not a bad little read actually.

http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=115980&highlight=

OOC: Ah the OOC thread has been deleted...which says that the STOAT design was yours....

pictures of a STOAT can be found here
http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=112790&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=20

Depends on the tech level I suppose. Still, logistics should always be a concern no matter what the tech level. At my current tech level, fielding a massive robot army would be cost prohibitive and quite frankly, very difficult.Not sure about the cost-prohibitive thing, just as long as they repair themselves and salvage parts off of dead robots they should be fine. Very difficult, maybe, maybe not. Battlefeild A.I.'s can handle something of that size. But for me as a human OOCly, yeah it'd be difficult. The only real problem with all of that is having to leave robots behind to defend areas as they move along, but isn't that a problem with every army?Anything is possible. :) Not making your own element, and many more people have tried that than have tried to make a special EMP.

Not sure about the cost-prohibitive thing, just as long as they repair themselves and salvage parts off of dead robots they should be fine. Very difficult, maybe, maybe not. Battlefeild A.I.'s can handle something of that size. But for me as a human OOCly, yeah it'd be difficult. The only real problem with all of that is having to leave robots behind to defend areas as they move along, but isn't that a problem with every army?

Well, what I mean is that it does cost money to field troops, robot or human. Even a pure robot army has to spend materials (which entails money) on maintenance, fuel, etc... Relying on battlefield salvage is very unreliable. Better to have a stocked spare parts depot near the front lines - but not too close. I'm thinking the robot equivalent of a M*A*S*H unit.

Not making your own element, and many more people have tried that than have tried to make a special EMP.

Well, yes. What I mean here is something that is acceptable to both players.

And Alcona, I'll have to take a look on my home comp but I'm pretty sure I saved that OOC thread on my hard disk. When I have time, I can show it.

Actually, EMP-sheilding is fairly simple. It consists of non-conductors (recycled tire rubber in our case), and wires leading away from circuitry. Very simple, very easy to make.
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EMP is EMP, and my sheilding is my sheilding. If someone creates an EMP that defies the conventions of an EMP and can get around my sheilds, they better have the research.
OOC:
Actually, since EMP is based on EM energy, the main deal with using non-conductors or non-metallic/non-conducting materials is that those objects are then not going to collect the energy...but anything that retains metallic components of any significant length (even parts within a microchip) will collect the energy. The non-conducting shielding is used as a buffer between the area that is discharging to the shell and the shell itself...but the truth is that faraday-cage based EMP shielding (apparently what you're describing) is only effective against very weak EMPs.

Faraday cages were designed for a very specific purpose: to ensure the survival of computer systems after nearby nuclear blasts (think of a nuclear device exploding several miles away, which generates a massive EMP signature...facilities that will survive the blast forces well will then be able to continue operations). The issue is that the high-energy levels of locally-generated EMPs (as would be felt closer to the blast, for nuclear-generated EMPs) are NOT protected against by Faraday cages. Faraday cages are still not nearly 100% effective within their designed operational range (low level EMPs) and as the energy level (and so the collecting charge density) rises the faraday discharge system rapidly fails. Almost any normal EMP device will easily knock out a faraday-cage protected system. By setting off multiple EMPs in an area (as WA has done before) you can create an interference pattern that will ensure that a wide area is heavily filled with EM energy...enough to knock out most simply-protected systems as well as any better-protected systems in the area.

Even the minimally-effective faraday cages, a massive support system (definitely immoble) is required to ground the charges. A robot with spikes in its feet might be able to discharge a good portion of the energy collected from an EMP generation event but the remaining energy would still probably be significant enough to fry its circuits to high heaven...since the transfer rate is limited by the area of the robot's contact and the type of material.

Robots are hardly EMP protectable...especially anything of a significantly large or complicated nature. To defeat normal EMP defense systems based on faraday cages is anything but "defiant" of the conventions of EMPs...to create a system that is immune to EMPs, however, certainly "defies the conventions of an EMP." There was a huge EMP thread on this a bit back though it's probably been compressed and stored somewhere out of our reach by now.

...my 2cents and knowledge.

The post made by Dozle in the Adamite OOC war thread:


Dozle
Diplomat


Founded: 08 Jan 2004
Posts: 57

Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 11:21 pm Post subject:

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The SOAT-bot, or Special Operation, All Terrain Robot, is produced by Paladin Arms, a joint Resi Corp/Takian Arms company project. Only 200,000 of the units were created, because at nearly three million bullets *six million USD* a unit, they were deamed too expencive. . . however Adam obtained the plans, and with his control over a mechanized legion of worker drones, started mass producing them for his army. Nearly half a billion of the SOATs escaped from the palace as Adam, in the body of the Prince Dozle, made his exit.

http://www.colinmackenzie.net/robots/amee/standing.jpg

http://www.hbrobotics.org/images/AMEE.jpg

Statistics

Weaponry
2 clawblades on the arms
1 automatic coilgun for engaging soft targets
1 Lascannon for engaging armored targets

Armor

Neotitanium plates over vital areas, with a titanium polymer skeleton makes the bots all but impervious to small arms fire, though the eye slot, shoulders, and under arm areas are unarmored to allow mobility, it would take a sniper with a high caliber weapon to hope to deal enough damage to put a bot down with a single shot. The best course of action is to drown the bot in a stream of constant fire, literaly ripping it into peices, because short of complelty dismanteling the bot, they will continue single mindedly on thier mission.

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As Alcona said, the forum purge beast must have killed the original link.

edit: did a quick check. Try this link:

http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=118836&highlight=

You know Tachbe... When He gets an idea into his head....... watch out :)

OOC:
Actually, since EMP is based on EM energy, the main deal with using non-conductors or non-metallic/non-conducting materials is that those objects are then not going to collect the energy...but anything that retains metallic components of any significant length (even parts within a microchip) will collect the energy. The non-conducting shielding is used as a buffer between the area that is discharging to the shell and the shell itself...but the truth is that faraday-cage based EMP shielding (apparently what you're describing) is only effective against very weak EMPs.

Faraday cages were designed for a very specific purpose: to ensure the survival of computer systems after nearby nuclear blasts (think of a nuclear device exploding several miles away, which generates a massive EMP signature...facilities that will survive the blast forces well will then be able to continue operations). The issue is that the high-energy levels of locally-generated EMPs (as would be felt closer to the blast, for nuclear-generated EMPs) are NOT protected against by Faraday cages. Faraday cages are still not nearly 100% effective within their designed operational range (low level EMPs) and as the energy level (and so the collecting charge density) rises the faraday discharge system rapidly fails. Almost any normal EMP device will easily knock out a faraday-cage protected system. By setting off multiple EMPs in an area (as WA has done before) you can create an interference pattern that will ensure that a wide area is heavily filled with EM energy...enough to knock out most simply-protected systems as well as any better-protected systems in the area.

Even the minimally-effective faraday cages, a massive support system (definitely immoble) is required to ground the charges. A robot with spikes in its feet might be able to discharge a good portion of the energy collected from an EMP generation event but the remaining energy would still probably be significant enough to fry its circuits to high heaven...since the transfer rate is limited by the area of the robot's contact and the type of material.

Robots are hardly EMP protectable...especially anything of a significantly large or complicated nature. To defeat normal EMP defense systems based on faraday cages is anything but "defiant" of the conventions of EMPs...to create a system that is immune to EMPs, however, certainly "defies the conventions of an EMP." There was a huge EMP thread on this a bit back though it's probably been compressed and stored somewhere out of our reach by now.

...my 2cents and knowledge.Argh, forgot to mention the Carbon-60 energy sinks inbedded in the rubber, to which the superconductor diversion wires lead. Just so you know, Carbon-60 is essentially a super-diamond that's highly energy-absorbant due to its crystal latus structure.

OOC:
Actually, since EMP is based on EM energy, the main deal with using non-conductors or non-metallic/non-conducting materials is that those objects are then not going to collect the energy...but anything that retains metallic components of any significant length (even parts within a microchip) will collect the energy. The non-conducting shielding is used as a buffer between the area that is discharging to the shell and the shell itself...but the truth is that faraday-cage based EMP shielding (apparently what you're describing) is only effective against very weak EMPs.

Faraday cages were designed for a very specific purpose: to ensure the survival of computer systems after nearby nuclear blasts (think of a nuclear device exploding several miles away, which generates a massive EMP signature...facilities that will survive the blast forces well will then be able to continue operations). The issue is that the high-energy levels of locally-generated EMPs (as would be felt closer to the blast, for nuclear-generated EMPs) are NOT protected against by Faraday cages. Faraday cages are still not nearly 100% effective within their designed operational range (low level EMPs) and as the energy level (and so the collecting charge density) rises the faraday discharge system rapidly fails. Almost any normal EMP device will easily knock out a faraday-cage protected system. By setting off multiple EMPs in an area (as WA has done before) you can create an interference pattern that will ensure that a wide area is heavily filled with EM energy...enough to knock out most simply-protected systems as well as any better-protected systems in the area.

Even the minimally-effective faraday cages, a massive support system (definitely immoble) is required to ground the charges. A robot with spikes in its feet might be able to discharge a good portion of the energy collected from an EMP generation event but the remaining energy would still probably be significant enough to fry its circuits to high heaven...since the transfer rate is limited by the area of the robot's contact and the type of material.

Robots are hardly EMP protectable...especially anything of a significantly large or complicated nature. To defeat normal EMP defense systems based on faraday cages is anything but "defiant" of the conventions of EMPs...to create a system that is immune to EMPs, however, certainly "defies the conventions of an EMP." There was a huge EMP thread on this a bit back though it's probably been compressed and stored somewhere out of our reach by now.

...my 2cents and knowledge.Argh, forgot to mention the Carbon-60 energy sinks inbedded in the rubber, to which the superconductor diversion wires lead. Just so you know, Carbon-60 is essentially a super-diamond that's highly energy-absorbant due to its crystal latus structure.

Do you mean buckyballs or something of that sort (highly complex carbon-based geometric forms, incl. "Buckyballs" and "nanotubes", with Buckminsterfullerine forms being the most commonly called Carbon60) by "Carbon-60"? As it is, you'd still need to find somewhere to put all of those electrons...because they will be forced to move by the EM energy...and Buckyballs can only handle the passing of a single electron at a time (and whose components normally have no unpaired electrons, with only about 1 in 100 spots in C60 polymers ever being 'open' for electrons). Their crystaline structure means that you'd have a hard time packing more electrons in there...and as too much energy will evaporate your buckyballs then I can't understand how this is supposed to help matters.

Buckyballs are not diamonds, and diamonds don't do well with electricity (tending to evaporate). You're going to have to have some way of massively emitting the energy (probably as heat and light, as emitting it as EM energy will just be a waste...although it could theoretically deal with lower-level exposures by wasting most of the energy away) without melting key components...but again an overflow of energy at close ranges makes even the best of such theoretical shielding only useful at more removed ranges as closer-in would mean a difference between energy transmission to the circuits and the energy dissipation that would probably still fry your circuits nice and toasty like.

There have been some experiments relating to superstructures consisting of spheres of buckyballs, but those involved the formation of superstructures (rhombohedral C60 polymers) by techniques similar to those used for artificial diamonds and their main result was some evidence of ferromagnetic behavior (in spite of the obvious lack of Fe components). You probably mean to describe 'doped' C60 molecules within larger polymer crystal lattice frameworks (An C60 structures, with A= Na, K, Rb, Sr, Ba, Cs, or Ca as the molecules injected into the larger lattice frame to increase electron capacities significantly).

I am assuming that you meant to describe such 'doped' C60 polymers rather than the pure C60 polymer forms.

Check out: http://buckminster.physics.sunysb.edu/papers/c60review/rp1502.pdf
http://www.mercorp.com/mercorp/fullerenes/fullc60.html
http://www.physicstoday.com/pt/vol-54/iss-12/p18.html