If you said these people were reliable, what on earth were all these bizarre contraptions they came up with?
But if you said they were unreliable, every one of these weapons actually worked.
Leaving aside everything else, Tata had indeed used Castel's limited technical reserves to create a train-mounted cannon of tremendous power, even if it did not have a barrel.
Richard had also indeed developed a self-propelled artillery piece, though its "self-propelled" part was bicycle-level.
Gaia... Gaia...
Uh, compared to the two legendary designers, Richard and Tata, Gaia, who had produced grenades and grenade launchers, seemed exceptionally reliable—
"Immediately begin mass-producing the grenades and grenade launchers. The production lines should already be in place, right? Expand capacity as quickly as possible. Tata, build a few of your train cannons first and send them to the Faithguard Army for feedback. Richard... sigh, mass-produce your self-propelled artillery as well."
Richard's artillery's greatest problem was that it was too heavy and difficult to transport to the battlefield. But purely in terms of weapon performance, it was reliable.
And under the current circumstances, that human-powered self-propulsion might actually have been the optimal solution.
"Gaia, I remember you applied for a mortar project before. How is that coming along?"
Mortars might not be able to deal with the Empire's battle fortresses, but they would certainly cause the Steam Tanks no small amount of trouble.
Even light mortars could greatly improve combat effectiveness. The tripod-mounted form of Gaia's grenade launcher was already extremely close to a mortar and could basically serve as a seamless replacement.
"Mortars... are a bit troublesome." Gaia looked somewhat hesitant.
"There shouldn't be any technical bottleneck left, right? Your grenade launcher, once mounted on a tripod, isn't all that different from a mortar."
The concept of mortars had naturally been proposed