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[dgr11897]

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

Spoiler: Phases (click to show/hide)

There are 4 phases
Design phase, where you make new tech
Revision phase, where you upgrade tech and fix bugs
Deployment phase, where you buy troops, equip mechs, and choose where stuff goes.
And finally, Combat phase, where both sides fight and try to shut down the other’s Dimensional tear machine/

Spoiler: Resources (click to show/hide)

Funding is used to buy the raw materials and components needed to make vehicles and equip people, manpower represents a cost that takes a significant chunk of personnel from your pool, typically used as part of a price on stuff that either needs lots of people for a high risk job, or needs highly trained personnel/people with specific characteristics, Industrial capacity represents your ability to put stuff together so to speak, its used mostly in vehicles, and may or may not dictate income,
You use funding to get the materials, Industrial capacity to put stuff together, and manpower to get people, either in large numbers or with better training/rare and specific characteristics
Manpower acts like supply when concerning pilots and highly trained personnel, dictating the max.

Spoiler: Stats (click to show/hide)

Power is used to denote the amount of energy a given system provides or consumes, capacity is used to dictate the amount of stuff a mech can carry. Both of these numbers will be assigned in a bit.

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

[Taricus]

Joining the BattleTech Faction

[Rockeater]

Joining the BattleTech Faction

Of course you would
I will decide on a side later

[The_Saladman]

Might as well join another Arms Race (the game of intellectuals). Faction B for me.

[RoseHeart]

Faction B.

[Twinwolf]

Well, let's give this a go. Faction A.

[Rockeater]

Well, A then

[dgr11897]

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.

[RoseHeart]

((do I get a new set of paint for starting interdimensional mecha arms race, which you joined?))

We'll see how you do. Just make sure faction A gets -2 to all their rolls and subtly incite chaos in their core thread by picking favorites and ignoring others.

[dgr11897]

((do I get a new set of paint for starting interdimensional mecha arms race, which you joined?))

We'll see how you do. Just make sure faction A gets -2 to all their rolls and subtly incite chaos in their core thread by picking favorites and ignoring others.

Nope. It may be the other way around though...

[Failbird105]

As much as I like the style of big pseudo-realistic robots, there can be no stopping me from picking the least realistic (seeming) faction when given two choices.

[DaLintyGuy]

Declaring for Team Real Robots.

[TricMagic]

Faction A I suppose, mostly cause it has 1 page.

[IchBinButter]

Declaring for Mulians.

[dgr11897]

something I think I should make clear about critical buildings, they are basically just techs/designs that are vulnerable to enemy attack by virtue of being tied to a building that produces/embodies/creates whatever, from abstract perks and buffs, to improving the area of the city as a whole, to providing cash or even providing new types (or a once per turn income) of support units for recruitment, they can obviously also serve as fortifications, or the center of a network of defenses, and I suspect a large number will be, serving as innumerable layers of defense around your device