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Critical Buildings
These are buildings that act as vital military or civilian locations, at the start of the game both factions have two. Their side's dimensional machine, and one unique airbase variant. Should this building be lost, you will also temporarily lose air cover.
The mulians have an aircraft carrier that is also able to provide AA cover and fire support to areas near where it is deployed (it can be redeployed)
While the MHM have a more heavily fortified military airbase, able to provide military support and act as an evacuation local. It also provides heavier AA and fire support.
This turn there will be a phase where both teams get a number of actions to make these that is greater than or equal to the number of players on that team. (Both teams get the same number of actions in the end, don't worry)
These buildings also help define the map of the city by creating districts and regions within it, or sub regions within existing ones. In other words, by making these you are making the map.

Breach tech
Both sides have a separate division that handles breach tech, technology using inter dimensional physics, so don't worry about making that stuff and focus on the military side of things. They will occasionally provide new critical buildings and new pieces of tech.

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Man-machine neural interface: Provides feedback and decent control, free on all mechs.

Is this a typo? Seems more the other faction. just making sure. I thought BattleTech was all manual pragmatic control schemes, anime tends to do stuff like this. I understand if you just wanted to add your own flare though.

ehhh, I needed to give you guys something extra, so I gave you this.

Given that we're a full faction, it's probably better to represent that in the name. As for the options in the OP, we pick one option per category we can pick stuff from, and we don't get the others.

he is correct. In most things

It all started simply enough, two countries, separated by unknowable distances both investigating a way to link worlds, drawing power and knowledge from the other side. Unbeknownst to them, the other was doing the same. Two machines, searching the multiverse, then, the two cross paths, linking, strengthening, a tear, a breach, forming between the two. In a flash two worlds swap parts, a piece of an island slung up onto a mountain, the outskirts of a mountain city picked up and flung into an island, flooding. Across both worlds, a cataclysm, felt the world over. Then, after 24 hours, it ended, 1 year has passed, both sides pieced together what happened, their machines were interfering with each other. In order for them to stop this, one machine needed to shut down, but once on, the only way to shut it down was to destroy it. And these machines were backed by massive countries from both sides, they were not having their own device get shut down, so, both sides were sent advanced weapons, experimental mechs, capable of damaging and shutting down the enemy array. Now, both sides await the reopening of the gateway, armed and ready. Welcome to, interdimensional mecha arms race…

Both sides get the following starting resources:
10 Industrial capacity
20 funds
6 manpower
More mechanics will be added as I stat them out.
Faction A use evangelion style mechs, think Pacific rim+ anime if you don’t know what evangelion is. They also get magic, sorta.
Faction B use battletech style mechs. And giant guns, lots of giant guns.
Discord for this arms race
General arms race Discord

Core thread
This faction inhabits a vast mountain range.
Military hardware mecha starting equipment
MHM unique mechanic: Overload, reactors fail hot instead of safe, giving a Meltdown Mode with boosted power output before your reactor finishes cooking you into slag.
MHM mechs are significantly less expensive. As such prices are for a production run of 4 mechs

Frame choice of:
Stealth frame: Detect this! Has a decent capacity rating and built in information warfare equipment, including adaptive camo, ECM, and anti radar systems. Midrange in terms of weight and speed, costly. 8 funding, 2 industrial capacity

Legs/mobility choice of:
Digitigrade legs: backwards bending legs, boosted leaping ability, lower to the ground. 2 funding 1 industrial.


Starting weapon(s): Harken launcher array: High powered grappling wire anchors, utilizes railgun tech to fire incredibly heavy grappling anchors at speeds high enough to kill tanks. 1 funds 1 industrial capacity
HMG: exactly what it sounds like, a heavy machine gun. Good against light vehicles and infantry, along with aircraft. 1 funding 1 industrial capacity
Missile pod: A missile pod stripped from a heli, limited ammo, but capable of targeting both armored land targets and flying foes with equal ease. 1 funding

Tether: rather than having its own power source this mech uses a cable hooked up to the city’s power grid. Cheap, but has all the downsides. Free


Micro fission reactor: a very small nuclear reactor, overloading it will be incredibly dangerous, but it can run for prolonged periods of time and provides a lot of power. 3 funding 4 industrial capacity


Man-machine neural interface: Provides feedback and decent control, free on all mechs.

Support units
Missile militia: Surface to anywhere missile launchers and AK 36s given to a group of poorly trained militia, what could possibly go wrong? May or may not rout as soon as they are confronted with enemy forces. 1 manpower 1 funds

Howitzer battery: high powered long range artillery, struggles against smaller targets. Immobile, but relatively cheap for the amount of firepower it has. 1 per battery 1 industrial capacity, 1 funds

Ultraheavy plane: Lots of bombs, lots of paratroopers. Massive and hella expensive, also slow, both in flight and at rearming/refueling. 3 industrial capacity 10 funding

Heavy tank: High firepower, low mobility, can take a ton of punishment before dying. Equipped with two heavy miniguns and an anti tank gun. Hella slow, exceptionally vulnerable to air strikes. 2 industrial capacity 5 funding

Fighter plane: Exactly what it sounds like, a fighter jet, effective against enemy air units, less so against ground targets. Has some problems with the engine giving out in humid conditions. 1 industrial capacity 2 funds

Heli: a heavily armed helicopter, effective against most targets with its missiles and machine guns. Modular, can be re equipped to suit a wide variety of situations, don’t try to run its engines in humid areas. Current loadouts, standard, Recon: no guns but has a sensor suite +1 funds, Light transport: Capable of carrying a single squad -1 funds.  (cheaper)
Base cost for standard loadout: 2 industrial capacity 3 funding.

Test fire the harpoon and check the harpoon for any issues. preferably firing at the captain

Name: Harry
Gender: Male?
Backstory: No one knows, he just showed up one day out of the blue. He does seem rather intelligent though.

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