It is now the Pre-Game Battle Phase
WAR! is the headline of both nations newspapers. A naval incident on which a Wehls Cruiser fired on an innocent Sordish naval vessel patrolling international waters has caused what was once a simmering hatred to boil over into war. Currently both sides are forming their battalions and generals are hunched over map tables to plan their first strike against their foe.
The generals of your nation have asked you where best to deploy the small unit of Walkers that has currently been built in the month leading up to the war, while soon there will be enough mechs to cover all the fronts currently they're in such a few number they can only be used for a single decisive strike. They present you will three options.
Option 1 The Northern Hill Lands: Located on the North Coast in the center of the island this area is pocketed with light woodland, rolling hills rocky hills and the jagged cliffs of the Keskusta Mountain overlooking the entire Hill Lands providing the perfect advantage position.
Option 2 The Keskusta Mountain: Located in the center of the island the Keskusta Mountain reaches high into the sky split by a large jagged valley that cuts through the center of it and covered in hundreds of footpaths painstakingly carved into it's cliffs while a tough nut to crack it is pivotal to hold to gain control over the island.
Option 3 The Citystate of Andgrez: Located on a small peninsula on the Southern Coast of the island Andgrez is controlled by a Chancellor who is elected for life, since the dawn of both the Grand Duchy and the Sordish Republic the current Chancellor has worked tirelessly to keep Andgrez at the cutting edge of military and production technology, including using his personal fortune to import high quality manufacturing tools from the Anteri Empire to construct their own Soul Engines. Any attack through this neutral zone by Sordland will come as a surprise to the Grand Duchy, this would without a doubt invoke the ire of the Chancellor and potentially pull Andgrez into the war as a third combatant in the conflict. But the chance at total surprise is quite temping....is it not?
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Vote for which of the three options you are going to take and then the game will start proper.
Sordland Armory:
Hankerfield Crank Cannon: A 37mm 6 barreled crank cannon fed from a hopper, its capable of holding 12 shells ready in the hopper and has to be fed by hand and point of fire adjusted by hand with crank wheels. Capable of firing both solid shot and experimental high explosive shells it is quite reliable and jams are easy to clear by continuing to turn the crank. It is Cheap to produce
Basic Scrap Soul Engine: A simple Soul Engine capable of using Scrap souls for power. It is currently Cheap to produce
Shoddy Medium Quality Animal Soul Engine which is more powerful than the Scrap Engine but breaks down occasionally and is currently Expensive to produce.
The Decent Quality Animal Soul Engine: Thanks to a nationwide vocational training regiment and many threats of bodily harm the quality of parts and runes for their Medium Engines has risen. While not more than marginally powerful than the former engine it is much more reliable. It is currently Expensive+ to produce
Basic Infantry: Basic Line Infantry with single shot cartridge rifles and brightly colored uniforms. Crucial for holding the ground the mechs take.
Basic Artillery: Basic muzzle and breech loading artillery capable of firing high explosive shells. A lucky hit will knock out a weaker mech.
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The Buttercup-Class Gun Vessel: The Buttercup is a 4 legged 'spider pattern' walker with a casemated crank cannon surrounded on 3 sides by an unroofed iron box measuring 1.5 inch thickness on the front and 1 inch thickness on the sides. It has a crew of 4: 2 gunner operators, 1 officer and 1 driver. It is unmatched in speed on the battlefield except by horses by being capable of sprinting at a blistering 12 MPH, though in practice this max speed is better reserved for emergency situations and joining the infantry in bayonet charges. The Crew also has carbines for self defense. It is Expensive+ to produce on account for the quality parts needed to keep the legs moving at such a blistering speed.