Talk:Humanity's Course Eternal: A Map Game/@comment-32023146-20200424170622

Addressing my turn

1. I officially announced the construction of two destroyers 5 years ago, and announced the development of said destroyers even before that.

2. I am not claiming to poop out ships at a rate of dozens a year. I have stated that the upcoming LCSs will be produced over the course of 8 years. I will reduce the 8 more to 4 more.

3. The Gatineau-class will be produced over 8 years. Admittedly I stretched the plausibility here. Perhaps 80 boats over the next 20 years. Bear in mind this, the Gatineau-class is modelled after the Chinese Type-22 missile boat which costs only between $15M and $50M. The rate at which I plan on producing them is perfectly reasonable. Also bear in mind my military budget now at 2.1% GDP is just north of $42B a year. It can definitely afford what it is doing, particularly since I'm not engaged in any real conflict. Most resources can be devoted to development and construction.

4. Retconning the Jasper-class is completely unreasonable given their price tag and the fact that the technology necessary for that class is already available OTL. Bear in mind that ships similar to the Jasper-class (except not autonomous) already exist around the world and in fact form the backbone of Navies of precisely the kind of country Canada is - not particularly rich. Iran already operates over a hundred, though of a variety of classes. Also note that my proposed Jasper-class would be even simpler and smaller and cheaper than Iran's ships as the ''Jasper-class' would be little more than armed speedboats. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/List_of_current_ships_of_the_Islamic_Republic_of_Iran_Navy#/PBF

Refer specifically to the PBF classes and the Peykaap-class, the latter of which is substantially larger than what I have planned and they operate 72.

Also, the price tag of the Jasper-class post-development is perfectly reasonable. The whole point of a swarm-based navy over a capital ship navy is how cheap it is for poorer nations.

5. How about a compromise for the Arctic trade routes: Trade to Europe generally prefers to go through Canada, but not trade to other regions such as the East Coast of South or Central America as well as the West Coast of Africa.

This is from a piece by the BBC: "Instead it did the journey from Quebec to China in 26 days, more than two weeks less than the 41-day return via the Panama Canal."

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45527531

This is a piece by the World Economic Forum. Note in particular (in both articles) the Northwest Passage:

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/02/ice-melting-arctic-transport-route-industry/

Edits: spelling, removing points that I misunderstood, and adding information.