NationStates Jolt Archive

This is your Czar Speaking on Kahtan News Channel. I am announcing the construction of a wall bordering along the southern and western border of Kahta between West Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware, to prevent the attacks on the southern flank. This line of fortifications will be 20 miles deep and have 5 sets of symetrical wall sections, each section being set up on the same pattern. The first wall will be on a 75 degree angle, and the top will 150 feet from the ground. It will be constructed of steel and concrete, with passageways and secret openings. It will be constructed like pyramids, each peace will have a specific location, and it will interlock. The next part of defenses, will be a 400 foot wide, 90 foot deep trench. The third part will be another wall, this one, 100 feet high and 50 feet thick, the fourth part, will be another trench, this one 600 feet wife, and 150 feet deep. Finnaly, the last segment, before starting over with the first one, will be 3 miles of mixed anti-personel, anti-vehicle, and anti-tank mines, mixed in for added effect, will be trenches covered by some boards, designed to collapse if any significant amount weight goes on them. This 3 mile wide area will be sand and ground up stone. The cost will be $25 billion per mile, and the total length will be around 700 miles, for a total cost of $17.5 trillion dollars. It is expected to be completed within one year. Construction will start in the west, and move east.

OOC: 20 miles deep and you expect it be done in a year? Pffft

How much money would you have to put in ,for maintaining this massive defense network?

A neo-Berlin wall. You do know that mortars and other artillary pieces as well as aircraft can and will make the wall useless. Hell, a dozen or so bunker busters in a specified area can make holes. Your defense wall will be a waste of resources as well as manpower.

OOC: Pfft. Let's see that wall of yours survive several hundred thousand pounds of Octo-Nitro-Cubane.

Well, we'll find out soon enough, won't we? After all, my armies are preparing to march on Kahta on holy crusade...

How much money would you have to put in ,for maintaining this massive defense network?


After its completed, about 500 billion a year.

A complete waste of money and time, I think. And, like Communist Louisiana said, it could easily be bypassed. Also, secret passages are not such a good idea when you want to keep people out. A complete waste of time and money. What a nation yours must be, to be willing to throw away almost everything for a bit of protection that is useless. And how little funding the education of the people in your nation must get, for them not to know better.

-The Goverment of The Scythe.

OOC: Pfft. Let's see that wall of yours survive several hundred thousand pounds of Octo-Nitro-Cubane.

Well, we'll find out soon enough, won't we? After all, my armies are preparing to march on Kahta on holy crusade...


OOC: Its not just a wall. Read everything...

Also, I'm going to pause everything we have going until Sevaris comes back, ok?

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OOC: Its not just a wall. Read everything...

Also, I'm going to pause everything we have going until Sevaris comes back, ok?
OOC: You realise that this wont be in any useful condition when Tyrandis arrives unless you somehow delay his naval forces for years, right?

OOC: You realise that this wont be in any useful condition when Tyrandis arrives unless you somehow delay his naval forces for years, right?


We're digging the trenches first, robotic technology is being used whenever possible.

OOC: Meh. You could dig trenches in that time, yes, and fortify them pretty well too... but that's not really what you're describing. Robots would most likely slow you down. They need maintainance and all that dirt getting into the electronics... best just to pay some unemployed people almost nothing to do it by hand.

OOC: Meh. You could dig trenches in that time, yes, and fortify them pretty well too... but that's not really what you're describing. Robots would most likely slow you down. They need maintainance and all that dirt getting into the electronics... best just to pay some unemployed people almost nothing to do it by hand.

I don't mean robots, I mean mechanization, you know how coal mines are drilled horizontally? We're using machines like that to break away the dirt and rocks, and behind the dirt and rocks are conveyor belts to move it away. I tried an image search on google, but I can't find anything.

We're saving the dirt and the rocks for future uses, like trying to make dust storms with it. The rocks we are saving, for uses such as a terror weapon. The suitable materials we can find are being set aside for making cement with.

http://www.bamburicement.com/images/cement_proccess.gif

You are quite the intellectual, Kahta

OOC: Such a massive fortification, even if it did somehow manage to hold against a determined enemy, would seriously hinder your ability to strike offensively. Unless you intend to defeat your enemies via air strikes.

You are quite the intellectual, Kahta

Thanks.

OOC: Such a massive fortification, even if it did somehow manage to hold against a determined enemy, would seriously hinder your ability to strike offensively. Unless you intend to defeat your enemies via air strikes.

It would take a very long time to break through the 20 miles of defenses, simply because they are physically so difficult to break thorugh, giving me plenty of time to prepare for a counterattack whereever they break through.

It is now 20% complete.

It is now 20% complete.

Why waste your money? Your little plan has "MAGINOT LINE" written all over it.

-Kaiserine Yuna Mannerheim

Why waste your money? Your little plan has "MAGINOT LINE" written all over it.

-Kaiserine Yuna Mannerheim


The Maginot line failed because it was not a constant line. Can you tell me how to cross these trences?

Czar Sam Fabus

Fixed defense fortifications are not the total failure people make them out to be....while atleast in NS. Provided that this Line isnt used as the primary point of defense, Kahta stands a good chance with it.