Warfare and the GM System

Let's face it. There comes a point in your life where the other guy has something shiny and you want it. You could always ask, but you want to beat him to a bloody pulp first, steal everything else that he owns and then dance on the corpse. That's what warfare is for.

Every military unit that your nation has costs MP, or Military Points. The MP cost for each unit is detailed far below in the list of units.

Paying For Them
Of course, you also have to pay money for these units.
When your units are at home, and not fighting, they cost 0.25MK per MP to maintain. If you can't pay, you'll have to fire some of them!
When they are fighting or are outside your lands, they cost 0.5MK per MP to maintain, because they're actually doing something and need more equipment and supplies.

The amount you pay in maintenance can be changed by your national focus, so be sure to check out the National Focus Thread!

There's an exception to this, though. If you want to station your units in a friendly country, you can build military bases there. Each military base will allow 20MP worth of units to stay there as if it were home territory and will cost half maintenance when not fighting.

Making More of Them
Each unit costs 2PP per MP to produce. In peacetime, you can build as many as you want at once. However, in war, your production slows down and you can only produce one unit at a time (this is because we don't want giant armies popping up in the middle of battles).
As well as costing 2PP, every single unit takes 2000 from your population cap and your total population.

In effect, every unit is made up of 2000 people in all (engineers, soldiers, logistics) who don't pay tax or contribute to your PP.

Military Units:

A nation can start with a military up as big as it wants for free (though you still have to pay maintenance on that), and any additional or replacement units are produced using the PP system. For production purposes, 2PP=1MP.

When battles occur, both sides send the units that they're using to the Gamemaster presiding over the war, along with their plans.
They will do a write-up of what happens based on the guidelines shown for each unit in its list. This battle report will generally leave you with a good bit if your units remaining so that you may plan for a secondary attack (unless you get utterly crushed). It's a good idea to leave some of your units in reserve

Going to War
You go to war by declaring war openly or secretly, and then sending a PM to the relevant War Mod in the following format:
Title of the PM: Nation, Target, Goal (War/Spy)

Nation:
Nation Being Attacked:
Allies:
Reason:
GM Forces:
Plan:
Summary:

One war report per war per week. Thus, you shall send in your plans 2 days after the report is posted, so it can be modded on time.

Custom units requested using the format in the PP Projects thread must be displayed in your army thread to be used in battle,
as it may be possible the moderator handling the report in question overlooks the issue if it is not clearly stated!

ADDITION: Units created by a defending nation during a war must be first deployed before being used in combat. This is in order to make things fair.

New Plan Format. You dont obey? I ignore it

Title of PM:
Name of nation, nation targeted, what type of plan
Example: Dogonland, Cobbland; War or MPLand, Lizardstan; Spying

Plan format:
Nation:
Nation Being Attacked:
Allies:
Reason:
GM Forces:
Plan:
Summary:

I got an idea for new GM units that will make naval combat a bit more interesting. It is a way for smaller nations to get more ships and bring some more realism to the game. It is also a way for people who really neglect their navy and only plonks down like two destroyers for to protect their coastlines, to get more ships but for a cheaper price. This way for example, let's take new arova. Submarineland launches 3 smaller recon submarines to scout out imperiallands naval ship deployment there. Today New Arova only got one destroyer, which will totally fail with containing the subs. But if for the same price New Arova would have 5 corvettes, they could be spread throughout the territorial waters and bring down more submarines. However in a straight up naval engagement vs other larger ships, these corvettes would be roflstomped. It adds a way for us to make more realistic brown water navies.

New Unit: Corvette Squadron.
Cost: 1 MP
Total Ships: 5
Description: A small and manouverable ship, works great in territorial waters to escort frigates and sometimes destroyers. While it won't stand a chance against your conventional heavy cruiser, this corvette is designed mainly for anti-air and anti-submarine warfare capabilities in territorial waters. With their fast speed, they can often outflank heavier ships and it their weak points with their guns. The ships usually displace 2000-3000 tonnes each. Can be used as escort sometimes for merchant marines.

Reason: I think smaller nations such as New Arova and Terripana would benefit from this. No sensible nation only has one ship in their navy if they are coastal, but rather smaller corvettes for anti-submarine warfare and anti-air duties. These would maybe work better than the destroyer as a ASW unit if it is in territorial waters, but at open seas the destroyer could excell?

New Unit: Frigate Squadron
Cost: 1 MP
Total Ships: 2
Description: While smaller than a destroyer, it is larger than a corvette. It is mainly designed as escorts for smaller amphibious task forces and merchant navies, and carries a ASW payload and Surface to Air Missile capabilities. While not as effective in the open seas in ASW or AA as a destroyer and not as manouverable as a corvette, its cheap price makes up for it and makes it the ideal escort unit. It also displace more firepower than a corvette. Its speed also makes it capable to along with corvettes outflank larger ships and hit their weak points. Just don't expect to survive a toe to toe fight with any larger ships.

Reason: This way we don't have to assign various destroyers for trivial tasks to defend our convoys or supplylines from submarines. It is also a way for smaller nations to get more ships and firepower.

Military corporations can only build 1 MP building per hosting nation

Thats kinda dunb. It should be at least 10MP.

That is 20 000 kerbs. Which is insane for a private military coorporation. 1-2 MP per nation is fairly realistic.

Not really. If you think about special regiments and tanks.. Thats only lime 500 people. And they cost more MP.

Well my point is that it is easily exploitable by making tonnes of inf regiments. Also tanks is not something PMCs would get easily, thus being a much much larger PMC than your average one by branching across the world, it would eventually lead to tanks.

I'm switching to IFV's.  Also how much does making a unit into a helicopter cost?

The Cobbler wrote:Military corporations can only build 1 MP building per hosting nation

That's absolutely ridiculous. How many active nations are there in the RP? 11? That's ridiculous.

Well, military contractors can hardly expect to become comparable to your average nation in unit size. 11 MP seems like a balanced and reallistic number to me.

I'd say we make it maybe 3 or 4 MP per nation, just to allow IFVs and stuff. It doesn't have to be quite realistic..

Well it can be abused. 4 MP per nation makes 44 MP in total. That means that for example raxira can effectivly buy countless of troops to his war if someone decides to not go for IFVs. And also, PMCs having IFVs and Tanks is just beyond ridicolus. Any PMC that we have currently have troops who buy their own gear in many cases, has no uniform, and drives around in basic jeeps. Their only real use are to guard objectives or escort important personel through warzones.

So? It doesn't need to be realistic. It needs to be fun. It'd be fun to see how much a person is willing to pay to turn the tide of the war, or seal it.

EDIT: And let's face it, only a couple, maybe 4, will allow hosting within their country due to foreign relations.

Well guys, theres other ways as well. You should honestly be happy you can even build anything to increase MP: this is more for secret organisations.

If you want a huge private army, get a country to give you a share of their MP, and youre done.

One war report per war per week. Thus, you shall send in your plans 2 days after the report is posted, so it can be modded on time.

War format reposted in relevant section

Changed all this since the time limit on this expired days ago.