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[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Short Note: The hub thread, not this one, is being utilized as the OOC thread at the current time.  This thread is to contain information known to both sides, the rulesets, and the turns of the game for easy perusal to catch up or for rereading at a later date.

Arms Race Hub Thread
Federation of Malaysia Design Bureau Thread
Republic of New Guinea Design Bureau Thread

It is the end of the fifth year since the end of the Second World War.  The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has recently conducted its first test of an atomic bomb, rapidly followed by successful tests in both Forenia and Tropico of their heavy automatized mecha.  While it is not yet determined how they will reel in the deployed prototypes, both governments assure they are working on the problem.  Furthermore, the Korean War has begun, with both sides deploying numerous amounts of both Forenian and Tropican arms, that diplomats from both nations express apparent amazement at their presence, while commenting on more effective deployments and thanking both sides for resources that are being so generously provided to both islands.

Within Southeast Asia, the governments controlling the region have largely collapsed. After being liberated from Japanese contro, the forces from Forenia attempted to expand their cultural influence within the region.  It had become present in some quantities over their multi-decade war, but these organizations rapidly increased its influence.  Before the zeal could be fully tempered, outside diplomatic pressure by both the United States and USSR caused Forenia to back off their control, leaving the territory it had captured in the hands of various governments they created.

Unfortunately, a majority of the culture that was spread was in line with the wartime Arstotzka and Moskurg thinking, a line of thought based upon holding spite against a certain group.  This line of thought had still been present within Forenia before the Second World War and may have caused the country to collapse, but due to the Second World War, the mindset of the populace changed.  With exception to a few nationalistic organizations, the Arstotzkan and Moskurg peoples had their identities reforged into viewing themselves as a united Forenian people and were unified.  Sure the island had a rivalry with Tropico, but it was more subdued than the Arstotzka and Moskurg aggression.

With this line of thinking uniting the populations, most of the governments collapsed.  The Federation of Malaysia and the Republic of New Guinea managed to survive through directing their populace to focus upon the other nation rather than at each other.  While both nations were separated by a fair distance, it was viewed by both sides as only a minor obstacle to go through to reach the object of their anger.  Design bureaus have been created on either side in order to expedite this goal, and there are some elements of the outside world looking in upon this place, out of fear of another conflict on a scale to Arstotzka and Moskurg, or as a chance to get new weapons for their own gain...

Designs known to both sides

Spoiler: Federation of Malaysia Weapons Design Technology (click to show/hide)

Personal Equipment
MK-47 Assault Rifle: (2 Ore)(Personal, Medium, General) This is a blowback operated rifle using .30 caliber rounds, designed to be an automatic weapon with a similar size and role to the Model 1 Service Rifle. It has a rear pistol grip, a slotted wooden foregrip and a 30 round magazine which mounts on the side. It is based on the Cascade's action, but heavily reinforced to withstand the pressures incurred by full size rifle rounds. The heavy moving bolt significantly affects accuracy when firing automatically, even at medium range. The weapon has a heavy barrel to prevent overheating and help with the recoil, which makes the weapon weigh around 16 pounds, but the recoil from rapidly firing rifle rounds is still a significant issue. Fires 600 rounds per minute. Costs 2 ore.
M3 Sorraia GPMG: (3 Ore)(Personal, Large, Officer) A .30 caliber machine gun fed from a belt. 50-round belts can be strung together for extended fire or stored in a belt box attached to the Sorraia, which for practical purposes is similar to a magazine. Unlike the Brumby, it uses a recoil action, and is configured to fire around 800 rounds per minute, achieved with the help of a muzzle booster (which looks like a flared end on the barrel). It is slightly lighter, at 22 pounds. Comes with an integrated bipod, can be used on a tripod for emplacements. It uses similar heat sinks to the Brumby, which are now shrouded. It has a changeable barrel, which is necessary for emplacement use. It is effective to a greater distance than the Brumby when so mounted, about 800 yards.
UF-P33: ((Personal, Large, General) A parachute based upon the Arstotzkan AS-P32 design.  It is large and round, and has various straps, clips and buckles to allow a soldier to carry a light primary weapon, ammunition, and a grenade, or a large weapon with limited ammo.
UF-M4 Radio: (1 Ore)(Personal, Large, Officer) A 30 pound vacuum tube radio that improves over the Model 3 from not needing to be assembled before use and having an internalized battery. It is both man-portable and can fit into most vehicles without affecting performance.  Range had to be sacrificed to keep the weight low and the battery fairly often runs down on long offenses.
UF-M35 Cobra: (1 Ore, 1 Oil)(Personal, Medium, General) A disc shaped landmine based upon the M34 Viper Landmine.  This design has a greater amount of explosives within the mine, but is also smaller.  The end result is that the mine has the same explosive power at a smaller size and lower cost.
AS-SP30: (1 Ore)(Personal, Small, General/Officer) An old Arstotzka-made 9mm semi-automatic pistol. It has a 10-round magazine and can fire quickly with moderate accuracy, at short range. Moderate stopping power. It is pretty reliable. It has a threaded barrel and can be fitted with a suppressor.

Vehicles
T2 Breaker: (5 Ore, 2 Oil)(Vehicle, Medium, Specialized) A tank built from new Rolled Homogenous Armor, like tanks should be made of. It is medium armored throughout, with a slanted front but mostly square. The turret is specially cast as a rounded dome and rotates with electrical motors. Includes a new 1.6 inch rifled Breaker cannon, with a long barrel, suspension and muzzle brake. The Breaker cannon can fire about 24 times a minute, it is single loaded by hand. It also has a coaxially mounted Sorraia. The exit hatch in towards the mach of the tank and includes a pintle-mounted Sorraia. The tank is a heavy, it sits on wide cowled treads and is powered by a big 12-cylinder diesel engine, and can get up to about 23 mph. Crewed by a driver, loader, gunner, and commander. It is reinforced with extra slat armor and has been standardized with a radio.
UF-L2 Bengal: (3 Ore, 2 Oil) (Vehicle, Medium, General) A truck based upon the L-1 Tiger. The primary difference is within the base of the truck being reinforced and its rear wheels being doubled up.  This costs it speed, but renders it more resistant to sabotage.

Artillery/Anti-Air
Bumblebee AT/AA: (Costs 2 ore)(Vehicle, Medium, Specialized) A 3.6 inch gun. It can be aimed down close to the ground, or up the sky, and most of the new technology it includes is for this second purpose. It is aimed by a gunner who sits in a seat which inclines and declines with the gun itself, and has an iron sight which consists of two rings, the front of which has a "spiderweb" design. The gun is aimed with two traversal wheels. The gun is designed to fire new fuzed flak rounds, which have an adjustable timer set by a dial on the gun itself. There is also a mechanical targeting calculator, which is a box around the size of the Model 3 Radio that has a dial for target range, and rate of change of range, which can set the fuze time for shells accurately as the target moves. Additionally given an altitude and angle, the sight will automatically offset so that the gunner need merely keep the crosshair over the target. It is pretty effective, and also cheap and reliable. However, adjusting targeting calculator takes too long to aim at dive bombers and close, low-altitude planes. Fires about 15 times a minute.

Aircraft
Model 4 Yellowjacket: (3 ore, 3 oil)(Vehicle, Medium, Specialized)A fighter aircraft, built fully of aluminum. It has flat low wings on a relatively long, narrow fuselage which holds its V12 motor. The motor is fuel injected, and cooled by a water radiator. It has six exhaust pipes poking out under the wing on each side, and a canopy-covered pilot seat close to the tail. It is relatively sturdy and maneuverable, it is fast and makes tight maneuvers but is "temperamental", prone to going into out-of-control rolls and requiring a tight grip on the joystick. The canopy includes a tubular gun sight. The six Sorraia guns in the wings provide ample firepower, but the six guns and their ammo are somewhat heavy. Moves faster and maneuvers better than the Wasp, as well as having a higher altitude ceiling.
UF-1939 (5 Ore, 5 Oil)(Vehicle, Large, Specialized) A six-engine aircraft based upon the AS-1931-HAFB to transport the initial assault force to take a major port upon the island to allow UF-CV39s to have a place to land.  Much of its armaments had to be sadly removed in this revision in order to hold more soldiers.

Navy
UF-CV35: (6 Ore, 3 Oil) (Ship, Medium) A diesel-powered troop transport designed to carry further units onto an island for an invasion.  It mounts an UF-19 on the bow for air defense, a M3 Sorraia GPMG on top of the con tower.

Spoiler: Republic of New Guinea Weapons Design Technology (click to show/hide)

Personal Equipment
AS-AR34: (2 Ore)(Personal, Medium, General) The AR34 is an assault rifle chambered for 7.62L ammunition, an intermediate powered cartridge. It is fed at the bottom from a wide 24-round magazine, or a 40-round drum, and ejects cartridges to the right side. It has a tactical rail an adjustable iron sights on top. It is select-fire, having a knob on the side which the user slides forward and back to set the gun either to be single-shot or automatic. The knob is very stiff and requires soldiers to take their left hand off the weapon and force it. Most of its furniture is made from aluminum, and it has a vertical pistol grip and foregrip. It weighs under 6kg. It has good stopping power and accuracy out to medium range, and is relatively easy for users to control even on automatic fire (which is still far less accurate than shooting singly). It's about as long as the AS-F14, which means it is usable in close quarters but not perfect.
AS-1924: (3 Ore)(Personal, Large, Officer) A light machine gun using 7.62mm rifle rounds. It is gas-operated, with a box magazine, a bottom-fed 25 round rectangular mag or 60 round drum. It includes an aluminium stock, magazines and fixtures, which are lighter than wood fixtures used on previous guns, though the barrel, action etc are steel. It is easily man portable at 8 kilos, allowing one man to carry the gun and a decent amount of ammo, though AS-1924 gunners are still often accompanied by a man to spot and carry additional ammo. It can be fired while standing or kneeling, with its pistol grip and overhead foregrip, but is most accurate when used with a bipod. Sustained fire (through multiple magazines) can cause overheating. Shoots around 500 rounds a minute. Costs 3 ore.
UF-P33: ((Personal, Large, General) A parachute based upon the Arstotzkan AS-P32 design.  It is large and round, and has various straps, clips and buckles to allow a soldier to carry a light primary weapon, ammunition, and a grenade, or a large weapon with limited ammo.
UF-M4 Radio: (1 Ore)(Personal, Large, Officer) A 30 pound vacuum tube radio that improves over the Model 3 from not needing to be assembled before use and having an internalized battery. It is both man-portable and can fit into most vehicles without affecting performance.  Range had to be sacrificed to keep the weight low and the battery fairly often runs down on long offenses.
UF-M35 Cobra: (1 Ore, 1 Oil)(Personal, Medium, General) A disc shaped landmine based upon the M34 Viper Landmine.  This design has a greater amount of explosives within the mine, but is also smaller.  The end result is that the mine has the same explosive power at a smaller size and lower cost.
AS-SP30: (1 Ore)(Personal, Small, General/Officer) An old Arstotzka-made 9mm semi-automatic pistol. It has a 10-round magazine and can fire quickly with moderate accuracy, at short range. Moderate stopping power. It is pretty reliable. It has a threaded barrel and can be fitted with a suppressor.

Vehicles
AS-T25: (5 Ore, 2 Oil)(Vehicle, Medium, Specialized) A medium tank, built to fit under medium thickness RHA. The armor is sloped shallow in the front, and this slope goes about halfway down the tank's length. The turret and crew hatch are on the flat part of the top of the tank, in the back, leading to a design that looks like a bit of a wedge. It is powered by a 12 cylinder, fuel injected diesel motor. The original turbo injection has been removed to save on fuel. It can get up to 40 kph. The gun, a AS-DT25, fires 50mm rounds, and has a screw breech. The original turret has been modified with an electric motor. It can fire about 20 times a minute and includes AP rounds. The treads are on hydropneumatic suspension, which improves accuracy while the tank is moving. Includes a coaxial AS-1924 and one on the exit hatch with a pintle mount.
UF-L2 Bengal: (3 Ore, 2 Oil) (Vehicle, Medium, General) A truck based upon the L-1 Tiger. The primary difference is within the base of the truck being reinforced and its rear wheels being doubled up.  This costs it speed, but renders it more resistant to sabotage.

Artillery/Anti-Air
Bumblebee AT/AA: (Costs 2 ore)(Vehicle, Medium, Specialized) A 3.6 inch gun. It can be aimed down close to the ground, or up the sky, and most of the new technology it includes is for this second purpose. It is aimed by a gunner who sits in a seat which inclines and declines with the gun itself, and has an iron sight which consists of two rings, the front of which has a "spiderweb" design. The gun is aimed with two traversal wheels. The gun is designed to fire new fuzed flak rounds, which have an adjustable timer set by a dial on the gun itself. There is also a mechanical targeting calculator, which is a box around the size of the Model 3 Radio that has a dial for target range, and rate of change of range, which can set the fuze time for shells accurately as the target moves. Additionally given an altitude and angle, the sight will automatically offset so that the gunner need merely keep the crosshair over the target. It is pretty effective, and also cheap and reliable. However, adjusting targeting calculator takes too long to aim at dive bombers and close, low-altitude planes. Fires about 15 times a minute.

Aircraft
AS-HF-32: (3 ore, 3 oil)(Vehicle, Medium, Specialized) An aluminum built fighter with a mid wing. It has a long narrow fuselage with a water cooled, turbo charged and fuel injected V10 motor. It has a square-ish closed canopy and fixed landing gear. It is armed with 2 AC-18s in the wings and 2 AS-1924s in the nose, on an interrupter gear. It is faster and can climb higher than the AS-DB or AS-1931 by a good margin, and despite some turbulence from the landing gear it has better maneuverability at high speeds. Not often, but sometimes, the landing gear breaks off in an extreme maneuver, forcing pilots to land the craft on its belly. The bomb mounts and portions of the required reinforcing were removed to save on resources.
UF-1939 (5 Ore, 5 Oil)(Vehicle, Large, Specialized) A six-engine aircraft based upon the AS-1931-HAFB to transport the initial assault force to take a major port upon the island to allow UF-CV39s to have a place to land.  Much of its armaments had to be sadly removed in this revision in order to hold more soldiers.

Navy
UF-CV35: (6 Ore, 3 Oil) (Ship, Medium) A diesel-powered troop transport designed to carry further units onto an island for an invasion.  It mounts an UF-19 on the bow for air defense, a AS-1924 on top of the con tower.

Army Distributions

(Equipment distributions limited to that country's design threads.)

Federation of Malaysia
11 Infantry
3 Armor
3 Aircraft
4 Ships

Republic of New Guinea
11 Infantry
3 Armor
3 Aircraft
4 Ships

Obsolete Designs

Spoiler: Federation of Malaysia (click to show/hide)

Array

Spoiler: Republic of New Guinea (click to show/hide)

Array

Current Map

Key:
Light Gray denotes conquerable land under neither nation's control.
Dark Gray denotes territory that belongs to other nations not within the conflict and cannot be conquered.
Green denotes land of the Federation of Malaysia
Red denotes land of the Republic of New Guinea

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Ruleset Utilized

Phases
The phase count has been reduced to the original two phases for the sake of increasing the amount of updates created within a short period of time.  Both are the standard design and revision phases, with only a singular change made to the latter.  Within the revision phase, there is a second revision that can be done on anything but the other revision performed on the same turn.

Resources
Resources have been expanded to account for five separate types of resources.  These are the standard Ore and Oil, with the addition of Uranium, Chemicals, and Exotic.  Ore is to be utilized to account for usage of steel, aluminum, copper, and similar resources that are utilized enmass for the construction of various components.  Oil is utilized both to power machines based upon gasoline engines and also for items that utilize large amounts of plastics.  Uranium is utilized within fission reactors, nuclear weapons, and within ammunition and armor that is composed of it.  Chemicals are utilized for both weapons that utilize poison gases, rocket fuel, and in the production of machines that are highly electronic.  Exotic is a catch-all for utilization of items that do not fall into the other categories, such as rare earth metals and similar items.

Expense Levels
There are six expense levels to be utilized within the game, Inexpensive, Expensive, Very Expensive, Excessively Expensive, Major Effort, and Theoretical.  The final of these levels marks that it is impossible to create such a device with the current situation of the nation with its current technology or resources.

If a technology has been produced for less than 5 turns, then it increases the cost of the items it is utilized in by 1 expense level.  Another way for the expense level to increase is being short resouces.  Consult the following chart for how much being short on resouces increases the expense levels.

Resources Short	Expense level increased
Not Short/Surplus	No change
1-3	+1 Expense Levels
4-6	+2 Expense Levels
7-9	+3 Expense Levels
10-12	+4 Expense Levels
13+	+5 Expense Levels

General Form for Designs/Revisions
Name: (Name of Design/Revision)
Type: (Personal Equipment (Small, Medium, Large), Vehicle (Very Small, Small, Medium, Large, Very Large), Ship (Very Small, Small, Medium, Large, Very Large))
Designation: (For Personal Equipment, this is filled with either Officer or General Infantry.  For Vehicles, this is filled with General Infantry or Specialized Unit.  Ships skip this.)
Description: (Description of Design/Revision
Projected Cost: (X Ore, Y Oil, Z Uranium, A Chemicals, B Exotic)

Espionage
Due to being removed from the hands of the player, Espiionage now works base upon a d100 roll.  See the chart below for how the results would go.

00-09	Spy Captured (Loss of Espionage Action for next turn)
10-79	Unrelated to Bureaus
80-83	Sabotage Design
84-85	Sabotage Revision 1
86-87	Sabotage Revision 2
88-89	Sabotage Production of Item for 1 Turn (+1 Expense Level)
90-99	Steal Design

Results
The following chart is a simple list of what different rolls would provide as a result with the rolls.  Sabotage causes a -1 to the roll.

0	+3 Resource Cost, +3 Problems
1	+2 Resource Cost, +2 Problems
2	+1 Resource Cost, +2 Problems
3	+2 Resource Cost, +1 Problems
4	+1 Resource Cost, +1 Problems
5	+1 Resource Cost
6	Just as Planned

Battles
Battles are determined via two separate d100 rolls that are modified based upon the tech of involved units and the number of units.  Depending upon the difference between the rolls, there are different results.

0-24	Stalemate
25-49	Victory, Territory Gained
50-74	Victory, Territory Gained, 1 Tech Captured
75+	Victory, 2 Territory Gained, 1 Tech Captured

The Unit System
I am not going to be abstracting the Army.  Rather, I am going to display how the various units of the nations you are in control of are equipped.  This is mostly going to be an abstract thing you do not have to care too much about, but there is one factor about this that at least a couple individuals may wish to keep in mind.  Below is a list of the Production rates for each category of design which indicate how many units can be equipped with the design per turn of a given expense level.  You don't have to be too concerned about it, but one thing I wish to note is the dual numbers within Personal Equipment and Vehicles.

The former of these denote how much would be produced if something is for use by the General Infantry, and the latter is if it was designated for Officers (Personal Equipment) or a Specialized Unit (Vehicles).  Take note that the latter category is generally able to be produced in greater numbers than the former, though also keep in mind the former has to be equipped as well.  Do note that just because an amount can be produced, does not mean it will (only really true in the case of Specialized Units for Vehicles, as you do need General Infantry units.)  If, upon seeing the result of your roll, you would like it to be changed to the other designation, you may do so if the other engineers agree.

One final thing to note in the case of ships.  The Medium, Large, and Very Large categories all require a deep water port in order to land.  The Small and Very Small categories are able to make amphibious assaults.

Key: Objects in parenthesis denote that it takes that many turns to produce 1 of the item at that expense level and designation.

Personal Equipment

	Small	Medium	Large
Inexpensive	5   7	4   6	3   5
Expensive	4   6	3   5	2   4
Very Expensive	3   5	2   5	1   3
Excessively Expensive	2   4	1   3	(2)  2
Major Effort	1   3	(2)  2	(3)  1

Vehicles

	Very Small	Small	Medium	Large	Very Large
Inexpensive	5   8	4   7	3   6	2   5	1   4
Expensive	4   7	3   6	2   5	1   4	(2)  3
Very Expensive	3  6	2   5	1   4	(2)  3	(3)  2
Excessively Expensive	2   5	1   4	(2)  3	(3)  2	(4)  1
Major Effort	1   4	(2)  3	(3)  2	(4)  1	(5)  (2)

Ships

	Very Small	Small	Medium	Large	Very Large
Inexpensive	7	6	5	4	3
Expensive	6	5	4	3	2
Very Expensive	5	4	3	2	1
Excessively Expensive	4	3	2	1	(2)
Major Effort	3	2	1	(2)	(3)

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Events of 1951

Spoiler: Federation of Malaysia Weapons Technology (click to show/hide)

Jet Engine (4 Turns Remaining)
3 Round Burst (4 Turns Remaining)
Landmines
Radio
Parachutes
Semiautomatic Fire
Automatic Fire
Single-shot Fire
Rolled Homogenous Armor
Belt-fed
Magazines
Diesel Engines
Turbo-charged Engines
Water-cooled Engines
Interrupter Gear

Ammunition
.225 Caliber
.30 Caliber
.50 Caliber
9 mm
250 lb. Bombs

Personal Equipment
MK-47 Assault Rifle: (2 Ore)(Personal, Medium, General) This is a blowback operated rifle using .30 caliber rounds, designed to be an automatic weapon with a similar size and role to the Model 1 Service Rifle. It has a rear pistol grip, a slotted wooden foregrip and a 30 round magazine which mounts on the side. It is based on the Cascade's action, but heavily reinforced to withstand the pressures incurred by full size rifle rounds. The heavy moving bolt significantly affects accuracy when firing automatically, even at medium range. The weapon has a heavy barrel to prevent overheating and help with the recoil, which makes the weapon weigh around 16 pounds, but the recoil from rapidly firing rifle rounds is still a significant issue. Fires 600 rounds per minute. Costs 2 ore.
M3 Sorraia GPMG: (3 Ore)(Personal, Large, Officer) A .30 caliber machine gun fed from a belt. 50-round belts can be strung together for extended fire or stored in a belt box attached to the Sorraia, which for practical purposes is similar to a magazine. Unlike the Brumby, it uses a recoil action, and is configured to fire around 800 rounds per minute, achieved with the help of a muzzle booster (which looks like a flared end on the barrel). It is slightly lighter, at 22 pounds. Comes with an integrated bipod, can be used on a tripod for emplacements. It uses similar heat sinks to the Brumby, which are now shrouded. It has a changeable barrel, which is necessary for emplacement use. It is effective to a greater distance than the Brumby when so mounted, about 800 yards.
UF-P33: ((Personal, Large, General) A parachute based upon the Arstotzkan AS-P32 design.  It is large and round, and has various straps, clips and buckles to allow a soldier to carry a light primary weapon, ammunition, and a grenade, or a large weapon with limited ammo.
UF-M4 Radio: (1 Ore)(Personal, Large, Officer) A 30 pound vacuum tube radio that improves over the Model 3 from not needing to be assembled before use and having an internalized battery. It is both man-portable and can fit into most vehicles without affecting performance.  Range had to be sacrificed to keep the weight low and the battery fairly often runs down on long offenses.
UF-M35 Cobra: (1 Ore, 1 Oil)(Personal, Medium, General) A disc shaped landmine based upon the M34 Viper Landmine.  This design has a greater amount of explosives within the mine, but is also smaller.  The end result is that the mine has the same explosive power at a smaller size and lower cost.
AS-SP30: (1 Ore)(Personal, Small, General/Officer) An old Arstotzka-made 9mm semi-automatic pistol. It has a 10-round magazine and can fire quickly with moderate accuracy, at short range. Moderate stopping power. It is pretty reliable. It has a threaded barrel and can be fitted with a suppressor.
MAR-51 (1 Ore)(Personal, Medium, General)(+1 Tech Expense Level) A scaled down version of MK-47 chambered for a new .225 caliber  round that is also 25% shorter than original MK-47 bullets. Much of the furniture has been replaced with wood, reducing weight from the MK-47, and the magazine is upon bottom of the rifle to reduce the weapon's profile. A cam mechanism has been installed to limit the weapon to one or three rounds per trigger pull, but can be disengaged to allow for fully automatic fire.

Vehicles
T2 Breaker: (5 Ore, 2 Oil)(Vehicle, Medium, Specialized) A tank built from new Rolled Homogenous Armor, like tanks should be made of. It is medium armored throughout, with a slanted front but mostly square. The turret is specially cast as a rounded dome and rotates with electrical motors. Includes a new 1.6 inch rifled Breaker cannon, with a long barrel, suspension and muzzle brake. The Breaker cannon can fire about 24 times a minute, it is single loaded by hand. It also has a coaxially mounted Sorraia. The exit hatch in towards the mach of the tank and includes a pintle-mounted Sorraia. The tank is a heavy, it sits on wide cowled treads and is powered by a big 12-cylinder diesel engine, and can get up to about 23 mph. Crewed by a driver, loader, gunner, and commander. It is reinforced with extra slat armor and has been standardized with a radio.
UF-L2 Bengal: (3 Ore, 2 Oil) (Vehicle, Medium, General) A truck based upon the L-1 Tiger. The primary difference is within the base of the truck being reinforced and its rear wheels being doubled up.  This costs it speed, but renders it more resistant to sabotage.

Artillery/Anti-Air
Bumblebee AT/AA: (Costs 2 ore)(Vehicle, Medium, Specialized) A 3.6 inch gun. It can be aimed down close to the ground, or up the sky, and most of the new technology it includes is for this second purpose. It is aimed by a gunner who sits in a seat which inclines and declines with the gun itself, and has an iron sight which consists of two rings, the front of which has a "spiderweb" design. The gun is aimed with two traversal wheels. The gun is designed to fire new fuzed flak rounds, which have an adjustable timer set by a dial on the gun itself. There is also a mechanical targeting calculator, which is a box around the size of the Model 3 Radio that has a dial for target range, and rate of change of range, which can set the fuze time for shells accurately as the target moves. Additionally given an altitude and angle, the sight will automatically offset so that the gunner need merely keep the crosshair over the target. It is pretty effective, and also cheap and reliable. However, adjusting targeting calculator takes too long to aim at dive bombers and close, low-altitude planes. Fires about 15 times a minute.

Aircraft
Model 4 Yellowjacket: (3 ore, 3 oil)(Vehicle, Medium, Specialized)A fighter aircraft, built fully of aluminum. It has flat low wings on a relatively long, narrow fuselage which holds its V12 motor. The motor is fuel injected, and cooled by a water radiator. It has six exhaust pipes poking out under the wing on each side, and a canopy-covered pilot seat close to the tail. It is relatively sturdy and maneuverable, it is fast and makes tight maneuvers but is "temperamental", prone to going into out-of-control rolls and requiring a tight grip on the joystick. The canopy includes a tubular gun sight. The six Sorraia guns in the wings provide ample firepower, but the six guns and their ammo are somewhat heavy. Moves faster and maneuvers better than the Wasp, as well as having a higher altitude ceiling.
UF-1939 (5 Ore, 5 Oil)(Vehicle, Large, Specialized) A six-engine aircraft based upon the AS-1931-HAFB to transport the initial assault force to take a major port upon the island to allow UF-CV39s to have a place to land.  Much of its armaments had to be sadly removed in this revision in order to hold more soldiers.
Bolt (2 ore, 3 oil, 1 chemicals, 2 exotic)(Vehicle, Small, Specialized)(+1 Tech Expense Level) A small, light jet bomber design that uses a large number of imported materials and technologies. It is capable to carry only one small (250 lb.) bomb. To save space, weight and improve aerodynamics it has no machineguns. The aircraft has poor manoeuverability, but the craft has a cruise speed around 500 miles per hour and a maximum speed of over 600 miles per hour, beating out the AS-HF-32 and Model 4 Yellowjacket by a little over 200 miles per hour in each category.  While it can reach a similar altitude to the other two aircraft, the reduction in the amount of fuel it could carry combined with the fuel guzzling jet engine reduces the Bolt's range to one-third that of the AS-HF-32 and the Model 4, even with the speed it has.
Yellowjacket II (4 Ore, 3 Oil)(Vehicle, Medium, Specialized) Yellowjacket II is built with an engine fuel-efficient for its power that increases its range and lifting weight to 150% that of the AS-HF-32 and the original Yellowjacket.  It is armed with four 0.50 machine guns that were purpose designed for aircraft use, that jam with long bursts of continuous fire.  Its main intended role is long range patrolling and attacking enemy ships or transports planes.

Navy
UF-CV35: (6 Ore, 3 Oil) (Ship, Medium) A diesel-powered troop transport designed to carry further units onto an island for an invasion.  It mounts a Bumblebee on the bow for air defense.

Spoiler: Republic of New Guinea Weapons Design Technology (click to show/hide)

Tech
Waterproof Drop Ramps (4 Turns)
Wedge-Clamp Sleds (4 Turns)
In-built Suppressors (5 Turns)
Three-Round Burst Fire (5 Turns)
Improved Iron Sights (5 Turns)
Replaceable Stocks (5 Turns)
Rolled Homogenous Armor
Landmines
Radio
Parachutes
Semiautomatic Fire
Automatic Fire
Single-shot Fire
Tactical Rail
Belt-fed
Magazines
Diesel Engines
Turbo-charged Engines
Water-cooled Engines
Interrupter Gear

Ammunition
7.62mm
7.62L
9mm
Subsonic 7.62L
3.6 inch
50mm
50mm AP

Personal Equipment
AS-AR34: (2 Ore)(Personal, Medium, General) The AR34 is an assault rifle chambered for 7.62L ammunition, an intermediate powered cartridge. It is fed at the bottom from a wide 24-round magazine, or a 40-round drum, and ejects cartridges to the right side. It has a tactical rail an adjustable iron sights on top. It is select-fire, having a knob on the side which the user slides forward and back to set the gun either to be single-shot or automatic. The knob is very stiff and requires soldiers to take their left hand off the weapon and force it. Most of its furniture is made from aluminum, and it has a vertical pistol grip and foregrip. It weighs under 6kg. It has good stopping power and accuracy out to medium range, and is relatively easy for users to control even on automatic fire (which is still far less accurate than shooting singly). It's about as long as the AS-F14, which means it is usable in close quarters but not perfect.
AS-1924: (3 Ore)(Personal, Large, Officer) A light machine gun using 7.62mm rifle rounds. It is gas-operated, with a box magazine, a bottom-fed 25 round rectangular mag or 60 round drum. It includes an aluminium stock, magazines and fixtures, which are lighter than wood fixtures used on previous guns, though the barrel, action etc are steel. It is easily man portable at 8 kilos, allowing one man to carry the gun and a decent amount of ammo, though AS-1924 gunners are still often accompanied by a man to spot and carry additional ammo. It can be fired while standing or kneeling, with its pistol grip and overhead foregrip, but is most accurate when used with a bipod. Sustained fire (through multiple magazines) can cause overheating. Shoots around 500 rounds a minute. Costs 3 ore.
UF-P33: ((Personal, Large, General) A parachute based upon the Arstotzkan AS-P32 design.  It is large and round, and has various straps, clips and buckles to allow a soldier to carry a light primary weapon, ammunition, and a grenade, or a large weapon with limited ammo.
UF-M4 Radio: (1 Ore)(Personal, Large, Officer) A 30 pound vacuum tube radio that improves over the Model 3 from not needing to be assembled before use and having an internalized battery. It is both man-portable and can fit into most vehicles without affecting performance.  Range had to be sacrificed to keep the weight low and the battery fairly often runs down on long offenses.
UF-M35 Cobra: (1 Ore, 1 Oil)(Personal, Medium, General) A disc shaped landmine based upon the M34 Viper Landmine.  This design has a greater amount of explosives within the mine, but is also smaller.  The end result is that the mine has the same explosive power at a smaller size and lower cost.
AS-SP30: (1 Ore)(Personal, Small, General/Officer) An old Arstotzka-made 9mm semi-automatic pistol. It has a 10-round magazine and can fire quickly with moderate accuracy, at short range. Moderate stopping power. It is pretty reliable. It has a threaded barrel and can be fitted with a suppressor.
AS-AR34 Mod A (Theoretical) (3 Ore)(+4 Expense) An upgrade to the original AS-AR34 designed by New Guinean engineers.  The fire selection lever is less likely to stick than the version upon the original rifle and has access to a three-round burst mode in addition to the single shot and full auto modes.  However, the adjustments to reduce the stick within the fire selection has made it too loose and firing the weapon can cause it to jump to another setting suddenly.  Tactical rails have been added to the rifle along the bottom and side of the handguard.  An inbuilt suppressor and subsonic munitions are added to the rifle.  While the sheer zeal by which this was done has made the rifle virtually silent, the stopping power of it has plummeted.  The stock is able to be replaced with a collapsable or a adjustable variant.

Vehicles
AS-T25: (5 Ore, 2 Oil)(Vehicle, Medium, Specialized) A medium tank, built to fit under medium thickness RHA. The armor is sloped shallow in the front, and this slope goes about halfway down the tank's length. The turret and crew hatch are on the flat part of the top of the tank, in the back, leading to a design that looks like a bit of a wedge. It is powered by a 12 cylinder, fuel injected diesel motor. The original turbo injection has been removed to save on fuel. It can get up to 40 kph. The gun, a AS-DT25, fires 50mm rounds, and has a screw breech. The original turret has been modified with an electric motor. It can fire about 20 times a minute and includes AP rounds. The treads are on hydropneumatic suspension, which improves accuracy while the tank is moving. Includes a coaxial AS-1924 and one on the exit hatch with a pintle mount.
UF-L2 Bengal: (3 Ore, 2 Oil) (Vehicle, Medium, General) A truck based upon the L-1 Tiger. The primary difference is within the base of the truck being reinforced and its rear wheels being doubled up.  This costs it speed, but renders it more resistant to sabotage.

Artillery/Anti-Air
Bumblebee AT/AA: (Costs 2 ore)(Vehicle, Medium, Specialized) A 3.6 inch gun. It can be aimed down close to the ground, or up the sky, and most of the new technology it includes is for this second purpose. It is aimed by a gunner who sits in a seat which inclines and declines with the gun itself, and has an iron sight which consists of two rings, the front of which has a "spiderweb" design. The gun is aimed with two traversal wheels. The gun is designed to fire new fuzed flak rounds, which have an adjustable timer set by a dial on the gun itself. There is also a mechanical targeting calculator, which is a box around the size of the Model 3 Radio that has a dial for target range, and rate of change of range, which can set the fuze time for shells accurately as the target moves. Additionally given an altitude and angle, the sight will automatically offset so that the gunner need merely keep the crosshair over the target. It is pretty effective, and also cheap and reliable. However, adjusting targeting calculator takes too long to aim at dive bombers and close, low-altitude planes. Fires about 15 times a minute.

Aircraft
AS-HF-32: (3 ore, 3 oil)(Vehicle, Medium, Specialized) An aluminum built fighter with a mid wing. It has a long narrow fuselage with a water cooled, turbo charged and fuel injected V10 motor. It has a square-ish closed canopy and fixed landing gear. It is armed with 2 AC-18s in the wings and 2 AS-1924s in the nose, on an interrupter gear. It is faster and can climb higher than the AS-DB or AS-1931 by a good margin, and despite some turbulence from the landing gear it has better maneuverability at high speeds. Not often, but sometimes, the landing gear breaks off in an extreme maneuver, forcing pilots to land the craft on its belly. The bomb mounts and portions of the required reinforcing were removed to save on resources.
UF-1939 (5 Ore, 5 Oil)(Vehicle, Large, Specialized) A six-engine aircraft based upon the AS-1931-HAFB to transport the initial assault force to take a major port upon the island to allow UF-CV39s to have a place to land.  Much of its armaments had to be sadly removed in this revision in order to hold more soldiers.

Navy
UF-CV35: (6 Ore, 3 Oil) (Ship, Medium) A diesel-powered troop transport designed to carry further units onto an island for an invasion.  It mounts an Bumblebee on the bow for air defense.
NG-IB51c "Cockle" (2 Ore, 2 Oil) (Ship, Very Small) (2 Expense) This small diesel-powered transport is sized to carry a single T-25, two dozen infantry, and week of supplies.  A Bumblebee turret is mounted atop the engine room and the walls are low enough that a T-25 tank can fire over them from within. Various tests display the collapsing ramps at the front for a medium tank and at the sides for infantry frequently seal poorly, letting water into the ship, or refuse to drop, preventing a swift exit for the infantry or the ability to exit at all in the case of the tank.  In front of each of the side-ramps is pair of semi-spherical compartment prepared against low caliber rounds.  Each mounts a single open-turret with a forward-facing shield and a pair of AS-1924 guns converted to be belt-fed and utilize a modified interrupter gear to alternate the fire of the two guns.  Underneath the craft are a half-dozen under-side sleds with a series of wedge-clamps that a second sled with matching grooves and a serrated wooden track underneath designed to go forwards easily but resist sliding backwards. The clamps are locked in place by a single locking-beam that is held in place by a pin accessible from the cabin. If the pin is released while the boat is under pressure to move backwards, then all the clamps will release and the upper-sled will slip free from the lower and allow the boat to slide into the water, leaving the lower sled behind. When not beached, the clamps can be applied, the beam reset, and the lower sleds thus reattached.  The locking-beam is quite weak and frequently breaks from the stress of when both the Bumblebee and the onboard tank fire off their weapons simultaneously, as well as when the tank attempts to exit the craft.
NG-IB51c* "Cockle" (3 Ore, 2 Oil)(Ship, Very Small)(+2 Expense)
A slight modification to the original NG-IB51c that had managed to fix the problems with locking beam through a few resource-intensive methods and the drop ramps do not stick or let in water anymore.  However, the modifications to the locking beam frequently cause the craft to beach a distance great enough from the shore the tanks cannot be deployed without a fairly high failure rate if not waterproofed themselves.

As for Southeast Asia, the first of the designs of both weapons bureaus come into the picture.  For the Republic, it is in the form of two landing craft, the NG-IB51c and NG-IB51c*, and a design for an assault weapon they are unable to produce at the current time, but could prove to be a valuable rifle, the AS-AR34 Mod A.  For the Federation, it comes in the form of their Bolt jet bomber, the MAR-51 paratrooper rifle, and Yellowjacket II.  As for recruitment, only limited numbers are attracted into the armed forces.  The numbers would be enough to provide for three new units on either side, but it is far below what the governments desired...

Soldiers of the Federation of Malaysia make an attempt to seize territory upon the island of Java.  The initial strikes by the Bolt Jet Fighters largely eliminate the AA capabilities held by the Hegemony of Jakarta, leaving them only able to field a force of around three thousand infantry to fend off the assault by the Federation, as most soldiers were upon their front against the Yogyakartan forces to the east.  They do not give ground easily, but the outnumbered two thousand paratroopers of Malaysia manage to capture and hold the ports within Jakarta thanks to the increased amount of ammunition they could carry with the MAR-51.  The Hegemony's air force attempts to make a strike against the landing of Malaysian UF-CV35s, but the Yellowjacket II escorts manage to provide enough of a shield for the 1st Armored and the 4th, 5th, and 9th Infantry to land within the harbor.  By the end of the year, large portions of the Hegemony's territory has been taken and Malaysian forces begin to clash with the Yogyakarta Military Junta and clearing out the guerilla forces composed of the fallen Hegemony's remaining military...

Within the East, the Republic of New Guinea launches an amphibious assault upon the island of Seram, capital island of the Maluku Confederacy, utilizing both versions of their NG-IB51c landing craft.  While it has a few major problems, the original does prove to be slightly more reliable in landing AT-25 tanks.  The slightly under two and a half thousand soldiers, backed by tanks, either landed or parachuting in battle with the three thousand soldiers of the island capital, and after a battle that has the New Guineans conquer a relatively major port, the influx of forces effectively annihilates the island's garrison.  However, the New Guineans are unable to move past the island due to numerous pockets of guerilla resistance cropping up across the islands that capitulated after the fall of the capital.  Dealing with these takes so long, a new government formed from the escaped portions of the Maluku Confederacy forms in Halmahera and some of the islands defect to the control of the Empire of Timor...

During this time, the world's attention is mostly away from Southeast asia, as the war in Korea rages.  The Forenian and Tropican arms led to the conflict to not get very far with either nation, until something happens.  During one of the many battles along the front, twin nuclear weapons are detonated, decimating both sides.  It is not entirely clear which specific side of the conflict detonated the warhead, but international powers looking in on the situation leap in and force the two nations to a treaty out of both fear and curiosity.  While America had developed the fission bomb near the end of the second World War, actions by Forenia and Tropico resulted in a Japanese surrender slightly before that of the Germans and it was never deployed near a populated zone.  The detonation of the warhead here provided the world an opportunity to study the sideeffects.  With the treaty, the borders are redrawn along the front lines in most places, except where the bomb was detonated.  After much debate, both North and South Korean borders are drawn so each nation contains one of the blast sites...

As the next year begins, a message comes down from both governments.  Due to the lackluster income of soldiers during the year, both have decided to launch a competition within their ranks to attempt to bring in more soldiers in the coming few years...

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