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[Aseaheru]

Welcome to An Unconventional Arms Race!

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(Please respect eachother and yourselves by not going into the other thread. Thank you.)
Side A(Nation State)
Side B(Unconventional Forces)
A Discord for general discord. Request role on entry.
General Discord Sir.

 While you might have seen more-or-less conventional Arms Race games on these here forums, few are focusing on unconventional warfare. Here is one that plans on doing so.

 The General Gist General Gist Sir...
 There are, as is normal, two sides. One side is, as normal, a more-or-less conventional third-world(i.e., unaligned) nation-state which has the option of purchasing equipment or designing(and manufacturing) its own. However, the other side is an initially unknown force, which could be anything from rebels, revolutionaries and cartels to aliens, megacorporations, magic users, or whatever else can be thought up prior to actually starting. Note that in the case of truley absurd foes there will also be outside help(XCOM-alike for aliens, neutral megacorporations, a different group of magic users, that sorta thing). Setting timewise is extremely near future.

 The game with start with five turns of shenanigan preparation: Side A has five turns to purchase, design, and produce equipment while Side B has one turn of voting to choose what manner of threat they consist of and four turns to purchase, design, and produce equipment of its own.

 The game ends if and when Side A takes out Side B's leadership and defeats it militarily OR when Side B successfully destabilizes Side A's government and takes control itself.

 HOWEVER
 Before the game gets started even unto that point, I have a task for all of you: Determining the playing field and choosing sides. Please use the following form for comments.

Side: (Nonbinding, used to get a general feel for interest)
-Nation State, Unknown Forces
Nation State Format: (UF need not use this line)
-State-owned Arsenals(standard Arms Race format), Private Companies(each player is its own company)
Landscape Determination: Choose a number between 1 and 10, where 1 is low and 10 is high. The top two for each category(save for neighbors) will be used to make the map.
-Average Temperature |
-Ambient Liquid |
-Elevation Variation |
-Level of Large Vegetation |
-Amount of Coastline |
-Nearby Neighbors | (Only the most voted for value will be chosen, representing number and vicinity of neighbors)

 Further information will be provided in threads for the sides. And yes, I am rushing this before I have regrets.

 By the way, if you have an Unconventional Force you wish to see included in the votes for it, please PM me here. I reserve the right to refuse suggestions if I cannot think of mechanics for them or if its something distasteful.

[Aseaheru]

Reserved for Things & Stuff.

[RoseHeart]

kaiju

[Aseaheru]

 Ill add Kaiju and the like to the list Side B votes from when we start getting going.

[FallacyofUrist]

Side: Unknown Forces
Nation State Format:
-Private Companies
Landscape Determination: Choose a number between 1 and 10, where 1 is low and 10 is high. The top two for each category will be used to make the map.
-Average Temperature | 2
-Ambient Liquid | 8
-Elevation Variation | 5
-Level of Large Vegetation | 5
-Amount of Coastline | 4
-Nearby Neighbors | 2

[m1895]

Side: Unknown Forces
Nation State Format: (UF need not use this line)
-State-owned Arsenals(standard Arms Race format)
Landscape Determination:
-Average Temperature |5
-Ambient Liquid |4
-Elevation Variation |9
-Level of Large Vegetation |6
-Amount of Coastline |4
-Nearby Neighbors | 4

is this how your supposed to do the form?

[TheFantasticMsFox]

Side: Conventional Force
Nation State Format:
-Private Companies
Landscape Determination:
-Average Temperature |5
-Ambient Liquid |6
-Elevation Variation |9
-Level of Large Vegetation |8
-Amount of Coastline | 3
-Nearby Neighbors | 10

[TricMagic]

Side: Unknown Forces
Nation State Format: (UF need not use this line)
-Private Companies
Landscape Determination:
-Average Temperature |1
-Ambient Liquid |10
-Elevation Variation |10
-Level of Large Vegetation |10
-Amount of Coastline |4
-Nearby Neighbors | 1

[Aseaheru]

is this how your supposed to do the form?

Yes it is, thank you.

By the way, if you have an Unconventional Force you wish to see included in the votes for it, please PM me here. I reserve the right to refuse suggestions if I cannot think of mechanics for them or if its something distasteful.

[Man of Paper]

So for neighbors are we instalocked at 10 just because fox posted first and it's the highest possible amount? That's kinda...shitty? Not on Fox, but mechanicswise you might as well not have even included the option. Now if there was a vote in each team's thread for the submissions in this one, then I could see it making sense. I could also be misinterpreting the OP, been getting little sleep and burning out my brain doing computery worky(?) things. Anyway, putting in my preferences, I think correctly.

Side: Nation State
Nation State Format: Private Companies
Landscape Determination: Choose a number between 1 and 10, where 1 is low and 10 is high. The top two for each category will be used to make the map.
-Average Temperature | 2
-Ambient Liquid | 8
-Elevation Variation | 6
-Level of Large Vegetation | 3
-Amount of Coastline | 9
-Nearby Neighbors | 1

Edit: Or are PCs and State owned going to be separate entities? I'm kind of confused about most of this.

[Aseaheru]

 As the landscape determination is a vote, the only way for there to be many close neighboring nations is if the majority of people vote for a high level of it. Unlike the preceding options only the most-voted for amount will be used for it.

[Man of Paper]

Ah, so highest amount means the number agreed upon most, not the value of the actual number? That makes more sense if that's the case, but ya might want to clarify in the OP in case someone else dumb like me comes along.

[RoseHeart]

Ill add Kaiju and the like to the list Side B votes from when we start getting going.

Like alien bioengineering Kaiju

[Aseaheru]

Ah, so highest amount means the number agreed upon most, not the value of the actual number? That makes more sense if that's the case, but ya might want to clarify in the OP in case someone else dumb like me comes along.

Right, thought I got it clear, but my head is a strange and nonsensical locale. Ill go work on the OP then.

Like alien bioengineering Kaiju

Ayuh, them be the Kaiju I was thinking of.

[Man of Paper]

I do that all the time in IWAR, just ask, uh, everyone. It's easy to see what you're saying when it's already in your brains.