Gig

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I have finished my mechanized infantry descriptions and have almost finished my troll descriptions I'm open to opinions.

Fay Mech infantry

Fay infantry units are some of the most advanced in the world while the state is known to make use of Troll auxiliary and militia to fill in gaps out of necessity. Trolls have numerous short comings that make them less than ideal there low intelligence being a key factor. Economically the loss of troll lives is also detrimental to the states economy trolls are valued labour force fulfilling a niche in society which is almost impossible for there fay countrymen to fulfil.

To solve these issue research and development have begun development on large (by Fay standards a bit bigger than human) mechanized armour or mechs for short these human sized battle machines though still somewhat experimental have proven incredibly successful on the few field tests that they have been deployed.

Mk2 Colossus was the first successfully developed mechanized armour armed with a powerful chain gun and a blast shield the colossus was built with the idea of forming an impenetrable phalanx that would advance upon the enemy laying down superior fire power. This though wasn’t the case the oversized armour the mech was equipped with made the mech horrendously slow on the move. Though this armour made them incredibly resilient to small arms fire an advantage that was enhanced even further by the phalanx there slow speed made heavier calibre weapons such as artillery absolutely devastating against them. Even the large blast shields that had been equipped to the mechs to protect against such weapons proved useless as artillery shells blasted off legs or made the ground too uneven for the colossus to advance threw effectively.

After the partial success of the Colossus research began on the next generation of mech taking what they had learned on the colossus it was decided that weight needed to be reduced to increase the speed of the machine. Reduction in armour along with improvements in power generation technology allowing for a smaller plant to power the mech made this all possible.

The next generation of mech MK3A Titan was born though less heavily armoured and armed than its predecessor the titan proved to be the far superior machine. Though it lacked the near immunity to smaller arms its predecessor the colossus possessed. The titan made up for it with a vast increase in speed and agility an increase estimated to be over 50% by the developers. Despite the decrease in armour the machine was still more than armoured enough to take several solid hits from the standard issue semi automatic riles in use by other nations. Armament on the machine was also changed from its predecessor the chain gun which had been deemed overkill, had been scaled down to a more reasonable 7mm machine gun with under slung grenade launcher and chain blade. The final innovation on the machine had been the development of a primitive clawed hand allowing the titan some ability to pick up objects an ability its predecessor completely lacked.

Now the Fay plan to capitalize on the overwhelming success of the Titan putting what they have learned from its development and go 1 step beyond. Development of the next generation of mechanized armour has already begun. Plans for a new machine code named Gigantes. The goals of the project are ambitious the team plans to again downscale the machine to increase agility while trying to maintain the same degree of protection the mk3a titan possesses. In addition to the above goals there are plans to develop mechanical hands similar to those of a human to allow the machine to make use of standard issue equipment something both predecessors are incapable of. Though the goals of the project seem impossible with present technology the research team feel confident that they can get out workable prototype within the next few years.

Infantry
Name: Colossus Mk2A Infantry combat mecha
Size: 8 feet
weight: 6 ton
armament: 11mm chain gun x1, blast shield x1
power plant: classified
Crew: 50
top speed: 2 - 3mph
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Name: Titan Mk3A Infantry combat mecha
Size: 7 feet
weight: 3 ton
armament: 7mm machine gun, chainsaw bayonet, grenade launcher
power plant: classified
Crew: 32
top speed: 6 - 7mph
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Name: SeaTitan Mk3N Naval support mecha
Size: 7.2 feet
weight: 3.4 ton
armament: 7mm machine gun, chainsaw bayonet, grenade launcher
power plant: classified
Crew: 32
top speed: 4 - 5mph (Land) 9mph (water)
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Name: Gigantes Mk4A (very experimental, pre prototype/production phase plans still being drawn)
Size: 6.2 feet
weight: 2 ton
armament: variable
power plant: classified
Crew: 25
top speed: 12 mph (sprinting still less than half as fast as a human)
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Troll Race

Society

Troll society is simple traditionally Trolls lived in tribes of various sizes which would normally consist of several closely related individuals numbering from 3 – 40 lead by an alpha who is the largest individual in the tribe which will normally be the eldest male, although it isn't unheard of for an exceptionally large female to assume the role. Unlike The Fay the other natives of the isles which trolls call home they weren’t so lucky when the waves of settlers first arrived. While the Fay managed to avoid enslavement or persecution due to the settlers ignorance. The Trolls where not so lucky there intelligence despite being inferior to that of both the Fay and the settlers was easily noticeable

Within the Kingdom of Setra trolls possess a role similar to those of the lower classes in human society generally doing hard physical work and other such tasks that are beyond the ability of there Fay countrymen.
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Biology:
Trolls are one of if not the last remaining Therapsid species (mammal like reptile) on the planet while most Therapsids evolved into modern mammals. The Trolls ancestor took a different path of evolution eventually resulting in the modern troll. Troll as Therapsids have rough scaly skin like most reptilian species and lay solid eggs, there similarities with reptiles end there. Like mammals Trolls possesses a warm blooded metabolisms which allows them to remain active threw out the entire day. In addition trolls also have a mammary gland which they use to rear there infant young. Trolls are a carnivorous species before the arrival of foreign settlers to the Setra isles they where the dominant apex predators upon the island. Physically trolls are stronger than most other species being roughly 1.5x as strong as the average human. Trolls are naturally sluggish creatures, slow to react but are incredibly patient being willing to sit and do nothing for hours sometimes even days.

Language:
Trolls within the Kingdom of Setra normally speak trollish a North Germanic style language, though recently the language has begun to decline in favour of Elvish the most common verbal language among The Fay, many trolls and even some of the more nationalistic Fay have begun to campaign for trollish to be made the official verbal state language due to worries that the language will eventually go extinct as Elvish grows in popularity.

Naming:
Trogg
Throgg
Trogzhor
Trollog

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You can buy my tanks they would require some internal refitting but they do have multiple turrets lol. If you where a regular customer we could possibly even just supply the hulls and turrets letting you do the rest.

I like the alternate earth map if we go for that I want the 2 islands in south america just above where Brazil would be in real life.

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@caliban22

You should find some pictures to represent them, a standard chassis for each weight class is how I went for it kind of like how the Rhino in 40k is the basis for the majority of space marine vehicles. For variant vehicles I just describe the differences from the standard issue one like main turret replaced by flak cannons for aa,

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This is what the claims map appears to be so far some aren't accurate since they didn't choose a colour or mark down a specific location they just mentioned an area they wanted.

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@GigI can accept this, the trolls seem logical and balanced. Good job :goldclap

@ClocktowerEchos

Awesome I'll work on a solid draft for them.

I'm assuming that trolls make up the infantry/artillery corps in the army and the rest are handled by tons of fairies zipping around in their mobile bases tanks and aircraft as well as provide heavy strength and human-esque production capabilities in the civilian sector?

@ClocktowerEchos

I was originally going to use human sized mechs kind of like big daddies just nowhere near that durable or powerful as my infantry, but I plan to keep those as more elite/experimental units.

Yeah trolls will make up the majority of my infantry/artillery corps, I was originally going to use automated cranes to load my artillery but it does give trolls another roll which is good.

Yeah trolls primarily do most of the physically challenging work such as heavy industry, menial labour tasks that are unsuited for the Fay.

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I really like your idea (you honestly don't know how much I like that sort of "it looks like a reguarly sized tank but its actually a mobile base and factory" thing) but I think the major issue is the fact they're so small. In a sci-fi RP I was in, there was a person with a race of basically alien fairies but she didn't make it too far due to reasons I will explain in this post.

With such a small race, you have something of a very unique if not slightly overpowered ability. You can basically spy on people and we'd never be able to see you or effectively catch you with luck or specialized equipment.

@ClocktowerEchos

The spying is a huge advantage I had already thought about but I figured that people would accept it as a natural positive, I mean it isn't like other races aren't going to have effective spies. It being difficult to spy on me is true basically impossible for humans. But allot of real spies are discontent citizens who have been persuaded to betray there country I am susceptible to this just like everyone else. Some good potential spies being Princesses who are unhappy they are being overlooked as the next queen persuaded due to promises that the nation in question will support her ascension with military action. Corrupt politicians dissatisfied with the current regime who desire a change.

Same goes for war since the fairies are so small, only a direct hit from a bullet or some AoE/flame thrower would hope to hit any of them while your faeries can just dash across the field or through some tiny tunnel and just kill troops via death by a thousand cuts, by passing any need of tanks or ships since they can just either run, swim, fly or use tiny boats and it'd be much harder to hit.

@ClocktowerEchos

The weapons a 4cm fairy can carry wouldn't be a threat to a human soldier in any kind of armour because they would lake the penetration power needed to get threw it they would have to specifically target eyes. Even then if we go in character no sane fairy would agree to attack a human armed with a fairy sized weapon. It be like trying to persuade human armed with rifles to attack Godzilla I'm quite certain most people would refuse.

I don't plan to power game the race by having them all get equipped with suicide bombs and fly at human soldiers with no regard for there own lives. There not fanatics willing to throw away there lives as living smart bombs. They are individuals they will throw down there lives for there country like any soldier would but ultimately they still want to survive and have aspirations they wish to achieve before dying.

Economically, you're also isolated since we haven't gotten to the point where very very delicate machinery is need for things like computers. But at the same time, what ever you can produce, we can't use since it would either be too small or you'd take too much time building each thing to the size we'd be able to use it due to your race's size.

Even if you had a bumper crop harvest, what ever you'd sell would be literally a plate's worth to everyone else.

@ClocktowerEchos

We don't sell the completed items we mass produce the parts which other civilizations use in the production of there own machines, such as the small pistons used in engines, circuitry, used in televisions or radios, making computers also isn't out of the question the united states had primitive computers in the late 1930s. Which they used on submarines to calculate trajectory of torpedoes surely such things would be of value.

As for the food industry it is a massive industry in real life, why is it unbelievable for it to be profitable for my species we don't require as much food as humans so it stands to reason selling it is a good idea. Just like how selling renting out territorial waters makes sense since my species doesn't make use of fish as a resource.

I decided to go for this small island instead (if me being in the game doesn't cause people to leave) I think it is remote enough and is relatively small

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Well now I feel guilty about it, but thanks. Have you thought about doing something similar with WoW inspired gnomes or something?

@Cyclone

There is no need to feel guilty I possibly went a bit overboard I wanted to make a race that would struggle with the modern warfare. It is my own fault I probably made them too small perhaps if I make them larger ?

I think the main problem I took inspiration for there scale from 24mm scale war game models, I envisioned the tiny people manning regular sized machinery like tanks which appear similar to those used other races but are internally more like battleship. If you opened up a Fariy tank I had imagined it to look somewhat like battleship models where the builder has taken the time to build everything each level each room for maximum detail. The command structure on a tank would have operated on the same principles as the navy ship each tank would have a captain and under the captain there would have officers each in charge of a key system of the tank.

This was one of the reasons I decided to go for vehicles with multiple turrets both on the tanks and aircraft since the species view them similarly to how we view large warships.

Internals of a cannon

I went with fairies since they are one of the more unique fantasy species. Gnome are functionally small humans like Hobbits, I wanted to make a truly alien race that has a hard time relating to other species who in turn have trouble relating to mine. This is why I came up with the idea that there language is based on displaying various combinations of colour. Since that is how they evolved it is strange for us to communicate in such away but to them it is perfectly natural.

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I'll drop out so you guys can stay it is ok.

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Speaking of sheet, post it here. And as for your size, I'd really appreciate it if you would decrease the size of your nation, maybe make space for Faerie NPC nations?

@Voltus_Ventus

How about this ? If this is still too large I am happy for you to suggest how large I should be.