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[Adoge]

In terms of a game, I believe that factions are an important part of the setting and story. Especially those that are unique.
Examples include:
ROTR's five factions: USA (Generalist), GLA (Subversive), China (Spammer/Horde), Russia (Powerhouse) and E.C.A (Cannon/Turtler)

The Paradox Mod: Allies (Generalist/Air Force), Soviets (Powerhouse), Empire (More elitist- bit hard to pin down), Confederate Revolutionaries (Subversives- good guy GLA.), Order of the Talon (Elitist/Powerhouse/quality), the Mediterranean syndicate (Cannon/Ranger), the Atomic Kingdom of China (more defensive in approach) and the Electrical Protectorate (Spammer).

I love unique factions and I wanted to create a thread where people could post their own faction designs in any universe they want.

They could be Post Apocalyptic Bandits, Cybernetic Purists, Dinosaurs, Alternate Dimension fascist super-maniacs with super tanks.

This post has been edited by Adoge: 24 Apr 2015, 8:37

[Adoge]

Another idea I had was a battle between a One-World Government- the Directorate and a global resistance

THe Directorate would generally rely more on elite units, and brute force/firepower and armour. They would have a large amount of units designed to crush enemies.
While the Resistance or Remnant focus on stealthy tactics, psychological warfare and sheer numbers.

There would be three subfactions for each:

Directorate (Silvers, grays, blacks, with some slick blue, dark green is house colour):
Armour Command (What it says on the tin)
Ballistics and Advanced Weapons (Combining satellite, atmospheric and powerful weapons)
Black Section (Special Forces, precision operations and chemical weapons.)

Remnant (browns, tans and red is house colour):
Partisans (Strong supply lines, mobile barracks, focused on infantry warfare)
Liberation Army (More defensive- similar to doomsday preppers and Militia's, these guys dig in and then push back)
Chaos Cell (Anarchists and extremists, the chaos cells focus on actions including cyber attacks, hijacking orbital lasers, chemical weapons, suicide bombs.)

The Directorate is not an endorsement of Illuminati, EU, United Nations or military-industrial complex conspiracies. Rather it is a combination of a political movement stemming from a mix between Neoconservatism, Socialism and other ideologies with elements of the Military Industrial Complex, humanitarians, people of position in National and Supranational bodies and others, who, slowly, were building up a military which overthrew national governments. They are brutal and uncompromising, but the world situation has molded them into such a force. They are building up a massive military, industrialising and unleashing austerity upon much of the world, regardless of wealth, class or religion but also expanding medicine and aid to much of the destroyed areas of the world, clamping down on corruption and ensuring the middle class is not destroyed.

The resistance are a combination of a cross-section of various insurgencies, terrorist groups and national movements. The Partisans represent the common man, who has risen up to fight, as such their arsenal is full of makeshift weapons and protest equipment. The Liberation Army is a mix of militias and former national militaries, they bring the big guns and can dig in and hunker down or can choose to go on the offensive, but cannot quickly change between the two. The third, the Chaos Cells, are extremists who indulge in chaos and destruction. They are those who are disenfranchised with the Directorate and society in general, all of their infantry can plant explosives, and many of their vehicles can suicide, their buildings can be rigged to explode.

(Please note: this is in no way intended to cause discrimination or misconstrue the truth, if you believe I have used the wrong words to describe a group let me know, however remember: One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. These groups are also simply inspiration and a real-life reference for those reading this. I do not endorse anything these groups do and simply wanted to provide references to give people an idea of each faction.)
For example:
Partisans- examples of real-life counterparts would be the Eastern European partisans and many of the popular protest groups who overthrew dictators in the late 20th and early 21st century.
Liberation Army- various militia's world wide as well as groups such as the Free Syrian Army, who are army regulars fighting for an insurgency.
Chaos Cells: Various anarchist and anti-establishment groups in the world who seek nothing more than destruction.

Armoured Corps: A conventional Armoured Division+ Artillery and support vehicles- streamlined into a more counter-insurgency tactics.
Experimental weapons: A militarised DARPA basically.
Black Section: CIA Black Ops, various secret police forces, chemical warfare corps.

Subfactions:

Directorate: (Dark Green is house colour. Many units have sleek blue visors, their armour is a mix of chrome, silver and dark grey. With some obsidian/shiny black)
Armour Command- I envisioned these guys to be more focused on Armour in all forms. Early on they would have advanced APCs, support vehicles, a strong but slow MBT and an IFV. As they teched up they would be able to access heavy and superheavy vehicles. One of which would be a huge anti-tank/building plasma tank. THeir focus would be on having large, self-sufficient armour convoys out in the field with support from artillery. However their aircraft are limited to a transport helicopter, a long range bomber, and a siege gunship. Infantry function more in support of the mechanised units.

Advanced weapons- Advanced Weapons is more of a focus on cannon units supported by powerful off-map strikes and aircraft that can travel through the atmosphere. They operate quick a few 'offensive' defences (in other words ones that have offensive capabilities). They would mainly utilise units that operate from out of range of their opponents. Their combat units would be able to outrange their enemies. Their aircraft would mainly focus on a hypersonic fighter/bomber and several helicopter variants.

Black Section- These guys are the off-the-record section. They make lots of use of precision weapons and they have no subfaction specific area of effect equipment. Their artillery is a sniper tank that can fire through multiple infantry and do heavy damage to vehicles and buildings but requires line of sight. Their infantry can be stealthed with nano cloaks. They also have an excellent anti-vehicle unit armed with a laser cannon. The final piece in the Black Section arsenal is the chemical weapons they have. They can deploy neutron and gas weapons to wipe out Remnant enemies.

Remnant: (Red is the house colour. Their units have various shades of brown and tan, blakc clothes sometimes, most Partisan infantry wear civilian clothing)
Partisan- These guys I wanted to make really reliant on fluid supply lines, like many resistance movements. While all three resistance subfactions have a mother truck that resources are dropped off at, Remnant workers are on ATVs, allowing them to quickly move around and for players to fluidly change tactics. they focus a lot on infantry and lack any aircraft. However, Partisan units can cover the Air really well, through hidden anti-air trucks that can creep around the map (like Urals). Partisan infantry are extremely specialised, with demolition, engineers (Physics and Engineering graduates), protesters (similar to an angry mob) and many other support units. THey also benefit from protest vans, which buff their firepower. THey are supported by makeshift vehicles such as battle-buses and armoured cars.

Liberation Army- The subfaction that either digs in or goes on the offence, but can't do both. The Liberation Army can choose one of two strategies: Breakthrough or Entrenchment, however neither one can be utilised at the same time. In Breakthrough, vehicles have a speed boast and more aggressive tactics are rewarded, as well as this a group of breakthrough-style units are unlocked. Contrarily.. Entrenchment allows infantry to build foxholes, unlocks more defences and restricts a large number of more mobile units such as the BTR. The Grizzly (A mix between the T-82 and T-90) can also dig in.

Chaos Cell- The crazy ass motherfuckers... these guys have an arsenal of stolen and destructive weapons. The central idea of this faction is that they are lawless, while the Partisans aim to reduce the amount of civilian casualties and the Liberation Army makes use of conventional weapons, the Chaos cells care little. They can wire their and neutral buildings with explosives, meaning Directorate special forces could meet an untimately end. They lay IEDs out and use sniping tactics. Many of their units are designed for one time use or for niche tactics. The end game is that they have cyber warfare that can cripple Directorate capabilities. In a final act the Cell can call in a hijacked Directorate Sat Strike, deploy chemical weapons trucks and unleash a dirty nuke in the enemies base.

the Directorate controls:
- Western Europe
- Australia and New Zealand
- USA and Canada
- China+Korea and Japan
- Most of India and Pakistan
- Holy land
- South Africa and its surrounding countries
- Chile and Argentina
- Egypt
- Iceland and Greenland

the Remnant-
- Indonesia+Burma+Thailand (Chaos Cell)
- Most of central asia (partisans + Liberation Army)
- Iran/Iraq (Chaos Cell + Partisans)
- Mexico (contested- Partisans control the countryside while the Directorate controls the cities)
- Eastern Europe (Liberation Army + Chaos Cell + Partisans)
- South America (Brazil Chaos Cell rest of SA Partisans+ Liberation Army

Note: The Partisans are active in many Directorate-controlled areas

This post has been edited by Adoge: 25 Apr 2015, 13:24