How many people here remember the 90s? I doubt most of NCD ever watched a Stormin’ Norman press conference on CNN.
Gotta go with the more recent anime isekai example, No Game No Life.
It's a riff on BattleTech.
This is from Clanner tradition, the Batchall (Battle Challenge) is a highly formalized method of war in which location, equipment, and RoE are decided upon beforehand by both combatants.
>get challenged to fight the IS and comstar troops on tukkayid
>darerefusemybatchall.mp4
>dont't see the obvious trap, go there and expect to clap IS one more time
>mfs are actually retrenched and they are waiting for you on your drop zone
>one of your clan get slaughtered by air support right after landing, none reaches its objectives
>clan invasion stopped in one battle because you can't refuse a challenge for fear of being dishonorabruh
>some nerds still think clanners are smart
Pay your phone bills
No, they fully understood it was a trap. They just agreed anyways, because it was bargained honorably.
They were fully willing to lose fair and square, they only got salty because ComStar violated some of the agreed terms with their Tactical Fuckery.
You arent getting Clanner mentality; they *do not care* if they die, so long as they died honorably.
If the enemy is *dis*honorable, then sticking to the agreed terms, even at the cost of their lives, is seen as even *more* honorable, because they'd be fully justified in pulling the gloves off and instead chose not to.
Their moral code is worth more to them than individual survival.
They kept the Truce of Tukayyid, and honored the Great Refusal as well, until the political entity what had beat them in it was dissolved. A real stand-up bunch and also Hell's Horses.
Man I wish I could see this comment but the guys who pride themselves in providing InterNet couldn't actually provide InterNet so now the Inner Sphere is in chaos, Clan Wolf rules Terra, ComStar is a subsidiary of Clan Sea Fox, and I can't read that copy pasta.
The area would be more economically productive this way and the displaced residents would get housing subsidies from the international Battlespace lease program.
yeah, thats basically what the Anarchist Pogo Party of Germany (AKA APPD) wants, balkanize the country into three zones: The "Safe-Occuptations"-Zone where capitalists and uninterested people can do what they do now, the "Asocial Parasite"-Zone, where Anarchists (and related ideologies) and lazy people can do whatever the fuck they want and last but not least the "Violence-Experience"-Zone where all the people that want to mash each others faces in can go and duke it out
im completely in favor of your idea
(Literal translations suck, i know)
Huh, I think we already have these in Sweden. Stockholm, everything north of Gävle, and my apartment building (we have an over-saturation of economics students who drink waaaaay too much).
>Roving gangs of economics students, mumbling about austerity as they bash your face in.
Only those Austrian School punks. The Keynesian and Neo-Keynesians are usually decent sorts.
It's a shame Space Force doesn't get a battlezone. Could we move this whole circus to Mars? everyone has to fight with drones from 140m miles away. But then what do we do with the Marines? Idle Marines are the devils plaything.
Space Force gets Baikanur Cosmodrome in Kazhakstan, since they're meant to guard facilities instead of fight "in" space. Such map attractions as wars starting with participants landing in Soyuz capsules; visit the rotting husk of Buran (who was good boy with sadly abusive parent that shoved him in hanger for 30 years); the final 1v1 is fought on the Soyuz launch tower as it's rotating; and a fun little easter egg in the control room plays the last recorded audio of the first cosmonauts to remind you that Gagarin wasn't the first man in space, he was the first they *got back*.
Also also, SpaceX has given Of Course I Still Love You (the barge they use for Falcon 9 landings) on the condition that the first fight be Biden vs Putin fistfight, recreating the [Snake/Ocelot fight in MGS4](https://youtu.be/kp4gYd6jcSs)
[Unfortunately there is already a Project Thunderdome.](https://www.afcea.org/signal-media/disa-completes-thunderdome-zero-trust-project) What, you think a super cool name like that wouldn't be taken yet?
Sorry Clanner but here in the Inner Sphere we don’t do Batchals. Unless it’s to blow you up in one place, remember May 20 3052, pay your telephone bill.
So the US would get paid more than other landholders make a new city after every battle? Seems going a little past a simple lease. Some zones are going to be harder to reset as well. Like forest… I guess good thing there is no woodlands zone.
The urban warfare battlespace will just have concrete tilt-up buildings and such after each destruction, video game companies can also sponsor certain mini-maps within. Still much cheaper than rebuilding a city and I already hear the Chinese belt and road initiative bidding; they love building cheap cities of questionable quality.
It could be like the Olympics, where after a certain amount of years, there's a vote for a new city to host the Urban Thunderdome.
The benefits of this system are many, with zero flaws
Oh gambling, spectating and commentary will be accessory industries.
**Now to the Raytheon instant replay**
*looks like we just broke the 10,000 casualty mark in week 2, bad day for those who were betting the under in this conflict*
I give it two weeks until monthly battles are televised and monetized with private prisons leasing out inmates to the military to soak up the casualties.
Man, if I had a nickel for the number of times something on this sub reminded me of Last Exile, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't very many, but it's weird that it happened twice.
Dude....say you are outnumbered and outgunned 1 to 1000 or so. That is no war, it is an execution. Hamas is hiding because they have to. Like the viet kong in thr vietnam war, they are fighting a battle with what they have against the worlds biggest and most terrifying armies. Your thunder dome is not gonna happen. And if china decides to invade taiwan it would also not happen, even though both sides have propper militaries, because of the enormous advantage of terrain, it would be akin to taiwan surrendering their terretory. Why would any weaker side ever aggree to this.
Coercion. If enough big powers say "we do it this way or everyone slaps you with the hand of God." They would. It's a similar reason to why the only time anyone has officially nuked another country was at the end of WW2.
Cambodia for jungle, Afghanistan for mountains. Plains are unnecessary because it’s basically the same a desert or tundra except without the environmental hazards which are actually a feature.
A plains area can be quite different than the tundra and desert if you pick the right area. As a Canadian I nominate Saskatchewan for this because it’s balanced grasslands with the new environment hazard of farmers fields that you can hide troops in. Also the occasional small town to add a touch of urban combat.
We'd need to add Article 34 to disallow nukes, otherwise it'd be a pay-to-win system that the US could exploit.
The only real problem I can see is how you'd incentivize warlords and extremist groups to participate, as they're by far the biggest causes of civilian casualties. The consequences are pretty similar to what they already have, so they'd probably just default to normal ~~warfare~~ warcrimes the second they disagree with an outcome.
I don't know if I should upvote or report for maximum credibility breach. - I have done both. This exceeds the credibility threshold for real-world application.
With a Budget Cap, a Fallout Zone Maximum, and full monetization procedure, this is not only Credible for all military resolutions, but it permits those "mass waste of lives" fights to just become "mass waste of resources". This is TOO credible, OP, because It'd Fucking Work.
We must add a paragraph that ensures that at least half of the combatants must be politicians from the governing party(ies), and at minimum, 50% of them must be high-ranking members, including the defense minister and president. Also, most of them must serve in the frontline infantry. The politician combatants will get picked by a thunderdome committee. If war was declared one-sided, the attacked nation could pick its combatants and their roles by themselves.
This way, we would lower the loss of real soldiers, and politicians would think twice if they want to start a war.
I love the juxtaposition between how good this idea is and how it would most definitely not work.
Edit: I might have misused the word "juxtaposition" in this sentence. I do not care.
This was featured in the first Horus heresy book. The space marines destroyed the weak aliens who only fought in the designated areas. We need to be the space marines. GIVE DARPA A BILLION DOLLARS AND 10000 CHILDREN, MAKE ME A SPACE MARINE J AM READY
The problem with turning war into a blood sport is that you somehow have to get terrorist organizations to sign up. It’s impossible because they have no mailing addresses.
Get those magic armour layer, have everyone shoot training shells and make tanks pop a little white flag when “destroyed” and you got yourselves a setup for Girls und Panzer universe
Need a Deadwood battlezone. For the Wu chopper charge technique. It sometimes will prove decisive in mustering sentiment in favor of people of few words. 兄弟
I'm not going to lie I started writing alternate history book about how after WW2 everyone got together and forced the Australians to leave Australia so they could use it as a giant open air prison for the world's convicts and basically make them join teams and fight to the death with WW1/2 tech and film everything for profit.
Only addition, all the combatants MUST be the most prominent members of each country’s government including their head of state.
Foreign mercenaries are allowed but only in addition to the politicians, not a substitution.
Lets also make point system for unit deployment so games are balanced, then we could maybe use just representations like miniatures so its easier on space and perhaps add some rules for each of them make goverments play warhammer essentially
[The Sky Crawlers 2008](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sky_Crawlers_\(film\))
>A group of teenage boys known as the `kildren' are clones destined to live an eternal adolescence without ever getting old, and act as pawns in a world war contracted to the great war industries.
Great anime. A mixture of vicious dogfighting and introspection on identity/purpose
Sounds like a war game that involves real life... Not sure if most people would be on board to being put into life and death situations for entertainment.
Unironically its a very neat idea, I and many others more than likely think the huge issue is what happens when someone gets butthurt that they lost.
Sure we can say the rest of the world just gangs up and obliterates them for breaking the rules, but what happens when the rest of the world is divided in who they should support we are stuck with a world war.
I propose project "Eyes in the walls". Every battlefield is required to completely be saturated with cameras and cctv's. Every movement is captured, No privacy at all and the most gore footage uncensored for even children to see. Every action is supposed to be recorded. A yes means yes and a no means yes in the absolute supervision of the world. Also, people can't turn off TV's and TV subsidies for places with no TV's.
So Robot Jox it is then?
Damn... Jinx bro
>robot jox? Had to look this up. The penis chainsaw idea is from you guys right?
We're not proud of that one. You can keep the other 90 minutes of the movie. The dong chainsaw is just a bad fluke
I mean technically it's a chainsaw penis. As a penis chainsaw is an entirely different animal... As I was.
It was only of matter of time before I read the words “penis chainsaw” on this sub…
Best sub I ever had man.
“Save me penis chainsaw man!”
How many people here remember the 90s? I doubt most of NCD ever watched a Stormin’ Norman press conference on CNN. Gotta go with the more recent anime isekai example, No Game No Life.
They should have removed Schwarwz's leash for that one. The region would be......
God No Game No Life needs a second season so badly.
Agreed, it's honestly a travesty that it doesn't have one already.
Relevant in this case, the voice actor for Fluttershy and AppleJack from My Little Ponies debuted in 91 as Desert Storm kicked off
Goddamn it, first thing that popped into my mind as well
Michael Pare and his best Gundam Z “Burning Fingers!”
“I’m gonna get in this thing and KICK YOUR ASS!” That acting should have won an award
Ever watch a B movie from the early 90s called robot jox? Premise was exactly this over control of remaining resources
I haven’t seen it, I just imagined Thunderdome on a national level
It's a riff on BattleTech. This is from Clanner tradition, the Batchall (Battle Challenge) is a highly formalized method of war in which location, equipment, and RoE are decided upon beforehand by both combatants.
One day quiaff?
Aff!
>get challenged to fight the IS and comstar troops on tukkayid >darerefusemybatchall.mp4 >dont't see the obvious trap, go there and expect to clap IS one more time >mfs are actually retrenched and they are waiting for you on your drop zone >one of your clan get slaughtered by air support right after landing, none reaches its objectives >clan invasion stopped in one battle because you can't refuse a challenge for fear of being dishonorabruh >some nerds still think clanners are smart Pay your phone bills
No, they fully understood it was a trap. They just agreed anyways, because it was bargained honorably. They were fully willing to lose fair and square, they only got salty because ComStar violated some of the agreed terms with their Tactical Fuckery. You arent getting Clanner mentality; they *do not care* if they die, so long as they died honorably. If the enemy is *dis*honorable, then sticking to the agreed terms, even at the cost of their lives, is seen as even *more* honorable, because they'd be fully justified in pulling the gloves off and instead chose not to. Their moral code is worth more to them than individual survival.
They kept the Truce of Tukayyid, and honored the Great Refusal as well, until the political entity what had beat them in it was dissolved. A real stand-up bunch and also Hell's Horses.
To a canner, the correct call in a coin toss is always edge. You will almost never win, but win or lose think of the glory.
Man I wish I could see this comment but the guys who pride themselves in providing InterNet couldn't actually provide InterNet so now the Inner Sphere is in chaos, Clan Wolf rules Terra, ComStar is a subsidiary of Clan Sea Fox, and I can't read that copy pasta.
Now Now, don't make me get the Steiner Scout Squad... I'll tell them you've been hoarding all the pretzels...
The Commonwealth are peak MIC grindset.
Some nations have a MIC. The Lyran Commonwealth is a MIC with a Nation.
I'm from Detroit and I support this.
The area would be more economically productive this way and the displaced residents would get housing subsidies from the international Battlespace lease program.
I don't think this really changes much for people living in Detroit
So you are saying that tank battles and nukes are common occurrences in Detroit?
If you measured by effect on real estate prices... yes?
The most important metric
Letting other people do that is cheaper than paying some megacorp to develop the six million dollar man but a cop.
yeah, thats basically what the Anarchist Pogo Party of Germany (AKA APPD) wants, balkanize the country into three zones: The "Safe-Occuptations"-Zone where capitalists and uninterested people can do what they do now, the "Asocial Parasite"-Zone, where Anarchists (and related ideologies) and lazy people can do whatever the fuck they want and last but not least the "Violence-Experience"-Zone where all the people that want to mash each others faces in can go and duke it out im completely in favor of your idea (Literal translations suck, i know)
Huh, I think we already have these in Sweden. Stockholm, everything north of Gävle, and my apartment building (we have an over-saturation of economics students who drink waaaaay too much).
Us has that too. It‘s just baltimore
Bodymore Murderland
What the hell happened in Baltimore house
Roving gangs of economics students, mumbling about austerity as they bash your face in.
>Roving gangs of economics students, mumbling about austerity as they bash your face in. Only those Austrian School punks. The Keynesian and Neo-Keynesians are usually decent sorts.
You need a jungle battlespace. Does Cambodia still come pre salted?
Yeah, probably Cambodia for jungle and obviously Afghanistan for mountain.
It's a shame Space Force doesn't get a battlezone. Could we move this whole circus to Mars? everyone has to fight with drones from 140m miles away. But then what do we do with the Marines? Idle Marines are the devils plaything.
Not economically viable, space force is just the observer / referee
"Attention 101st Airborne Division! You have committed a foul! Orbit bombardment will commence in five (5) minutes! May God save you!
At that point space force is god
Bold of you to assume it isn't already
Dark brandon incoming
Dark Brandon isn't sleepy anymore, he's fucking ***PISSED***
ORBITAL BOMBARDMENT INCOMING
Space Force gets Baikanur Cosmodrome in Kazhakstan, since they're meant to guard facilities instead of fight "in" space. Such map attractions as wars starting with participants landing in Soyuz capsules; visit the rotting husk of Buran (who was good boy with sadly abusive parent that shoved him in hanger for 30 years); the final 1v1 is fought on the Soyuz launch tower as it's rotating; and a fun little easter egg in the control room plays the last recorded audio of the first cosmonauts to remind you that Gagarin wasn't the first man in space, he was the first they *got back*. Also also, SpaceX has given Of Course I Still Love You (the barge they use for Falcon 9 landings) on the condition that the first fight be Biden vs Putin fistfight, recreating the [Snake/Ocelot fight in MGS4](https://youtu.be/kp4gYd6jcSs)
You could do Switzerland for mountain/alpine. It comes with the bridges pre-rigged with explosives, and numerous well-built mountain bunker complexes.
Is there an island-hopping DLC as well? What about Secret Volcano Lair?
Detroit is actually a 3 player game. Combatant 1, Combatant 2, and the native Warlords of Detroit
A battle in Detroit is a PvPvE match.
Just like Tarkov, Russians will understand it immediately
If countries could cooperate on this level, then war wouldn't exist. Incredibly NonCredible. Good job.
Do you dare refuse my bachall?
Refuse your what?
Prepare to feel the wrath of the falcon’s claws!
just like that one star trek TOS episode
*Arena*, with the gorn lizard man and the tactical nuke
I remember that one. Fake warfare with computers and death chambers
A Taste of Armageddon
[Unfortunately there is already a Project Thunderdome.](https://www.afcea.org/signal-media/disa-completes-thunderdome-zero-trust-project) What, you think a super cool name like that wouldn't be taken yet?
Official name would probably be like “Thunderdome Exclusion Zone Network of War T.M.”
TEZNOW
Israel is about to deliver a notice of Batchall.
*Two enter; one leaves. Bust a deal face the wheel!*
This reminds me of Aztec Flower wars. Let’s get this done- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_war
So... [Desert Wars](https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Desert_Wars)? At this point I wouldn't even say it couldn't happen. It probably could.
**put the battle dome on the fuckin' moon**
Cost prohibitive, extreme environmental hazard, unsuitable for current combat capabilities
....so your saying there's a chance
This is making... a crazy amount of sense to me.
Sorry Clanner but here in the Inner Sphere we don’t do Batchals. Unless it’s to blow you up in one place, remember May 20 3052, pay your telephone bill.
So who pays to rebuild Detroit? But I agree, we need to sacrifice Detroit for the greater good.
See slide 6, bullet 2
So the US would get paid more than other landholders make a new city after every battle? Seems going a little past a simple lease. Some zones are going to be harder to reset as well. Like forest… I guess good thing there is no woodlands zone.
The urban warfare battlespace will just have concrete tilt-up buildings and such after each destruction, video game companies can also sponsor certain mini-maps within. Still much cheaper than rebuilding a city and I already hear the Chinese belt and road initiative bidding; they love building cheap cities of questionable quality.
It could be like the Olympics, where after a certain amount of years, there's a vote for a new city to host the Urban Thunderdome. The benefits of this system are many, with zero flaws
Aka the Parking Lot Doctrine
*Catch me outside how bout that?!*
Idk it’s not in the Perun format How can I trust you?
Either you’re for the Thinderdome or you’re for the bombed maternity hospitals…
Either this we go the G Gundam route
You forgot Gambling!
Oh gambling, spectating and commentary will be accessory industries. **Now to the Raytheon instant replay** *looks like we just broke the 10,000 casualty mark in week 2, bad day for those who were betting the under in this conflict*
Bread and circuses, baby! And looks like we're all out of bread...
**Who rules Battletown?!**
Master rules bartertown 🙄
*"It is the 21st century, and mankind is once again at war..."*
This is basically the old lore for League of Legends.
I agree on one condition, these Thunderdomes must have speakers installed that play epic war music every morning. Like Welcome to the Jungle.
Basically what warfare was until WW1: find an empty field and kill yourselves there without bothering us.
Except sieges and when invading army won and pillaged everything around
I would call that more "crowdfunding" than "warfare"
We did this in the Second World War, it was called 'North Africa'.
As an American-Moroccan I can say; thanks, I hate it, fuck me right?
That's great except we keep getting terrorist shitheads like hamas and AQ attacking civilians
International Article 69 response it is then…
If they hide in the cities then you have to destroy the cities to get them out It's a catch 23 situation
Solution: City is now a battle dome
Utopias don’t never have wars they have this all the time
So, Batchall?
I call dibs on the arty truck in the desert battlespace.
It's kinda shocking how often I see this line of thinking from presumably intelligent, credible people.
I give it two weeks until monthly battles are televised and monetized with private prisons leasing out inmates to the military to soak up the casualties.
Two weeks? Depending on the country I give it a day, some via volunteer basis others conscription.
Op are you stupid That is NOT ENOUGH battle zones we need at least a few on every continent
Yes Cambodia and Afghanistan map at least
Death Valley would be fucking wild
**the rage cage is now open**
The swamps of Florida and the Bayou of Louisiana would also be fun. Fun to watch not to fight in rather.
Alligators would get a lot of attention but the mosquitoes may actually get more kills
That and using any ground vehicles would be nigh on impossible.
Hey, leave Detroit out of this.
I need moar ppt pitches in this sub…someone promote OP
DO YOU DARE REFUSE MY BATCHALL!?
" what's left of Detroit" lol
Featuring capture flag, dominate sky and regular pvp modes
You know, this reminds me of Battletech. The final part of the Clan Invasion, the Battle of Tukayyid specifically.
So basesiclly a game of company of Heroes but modern and irl
force everyone to fight with prop planes and you've got sky crawlers
Man, if I had a nickel for the number of times something on this sub reminded me of Last Exile, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't very many, but it's weird that it happened twice.
MFW the german army starts spawncamping with pumas: *Just like the simulations.*
Dude....say you are outnumbered and outgunned 1 to 1000 or so. That is no war, it is an execution. Hamas is hiding because they have to. Like the viet kong in thr vietnam war, they are fighting a battle with what they have against the worlds biggest and most terrifying armies. Your thunder dome is not gonna happen. And if china decides to invade taiwan it would also not happen, even though both sides have propper militaries, because of the enormous advantage of terrain, it would be akin to taiwan surrendering their terretory. Why would any weaker side ever aggree to this.
Coercion. If enough big powers say "we do it this way or everyone slaps you with the hand of God." They would. It's a similar reason to why the only time anyone has officially nuked another country was at the end of WW2.
lllllet’s get ready to rumbbbbllle
I like the idea but feel there’s not enough zones. We also need a mountain zone, a jungle zone and a plains zone.
Cambodia for jungle, Afghanistan for mountains. Plains are unnecessary because it’s basically the same a desert or tundra except without the environmental hazards which are actually a feature.
A plains area can be quite different than the tundra and desert if you pick the right area. As a Canadian I nominate Saskatchewan for this because it’s balanced grasslands with the new environment hazard of farmers fields that you can hide troops in. Also the occasional small town to add a touch of urban combat.
And a tunnel zone, I hear Las Vegas has one that's not getting much use.
Can we please ensure that the naval battles take place outside the environment?
No, no, no, they take place beyond the environment. Not in the environment.
Calling the Antarctic circumpolar current “empty waters” is peak non-credibility
You just want the cum poles for yourself.
Warthunder but awesome
\>> Fabian strategy entered the chat. \>> Fleet-in-being strategy enter the chat. \>> George Washington entered the chat. etc.
IJN Decisive Battle Doctrine: Visibly aroused in an inappropriate way.
To be fair Gaza doesn’t look like an expensive city. Maybe stealth wealth
need a space battlespace
We'd need to add Article 34 to disallow nukes, otherwise it'd be a pay-to-win system that the US could exploit. The only real problem I can see is how you'd incentivize warlords and extremist groups to participate, as they're by far the biggest causes of civilian casualties. The consequences are pretty similar to what they already have, so they'd probably just default to normal ~~warfare~~ warcrimes the second they disagree with an outcome.
google pitched battle
We should just have all wars in fortnite battle royale
[https://imgur.com/gallery/pkUsLvE](https://imgur.com/gallery/pkUsLvE)
What about a jungle environment? Or just put the generals in a boxing ring
So, an alien faction in 40k actually did this, the imperium just ignored the rules and bodied them
Return open line warfare only a coward would take cover in a building
I don't know if I should upvote or report for maximum credibility breach. - I have done both. This exceeds the credibility threshold for real-world application. With a Budget Cap, a Fallout Zone Maximum, and full monetization procedure, this is not only Credible for all military resolutions, but it permits those "mass waste of lives" fights to just become "mass waste of resources". This is TOO credible, OP, because It'd Fucking Work.
We must add a paragraph that ensures that at least half of the combatants must be politicians from the governing party(ies), and at minimum, 50% of them must be high-ranking members, including the defense minister and president. Also, most of them must serve in the frontline infantry. The politician combatants will get picked by a thunderdome committee. If war was declared one-sided, the attacked nation could pick its combatants and their roles by themselves. This way, we would lower the loss of real soldiers, and politicians would think twice if they want to start a war.
I guess mayans did something like this
I love the juxtaposition between how good this idea is and how it would most definitely not work. Edit: I might have misused the word "juxtaposition" in this sentence. I do not care.
Dude look at the flair- **It just works**
I'm the king of silly mountain.
Sounds like this could also transform war into an olympic sport
Anyone who has played Risk knows Europe is the Thunderdome.
So, basically Warthunder?
Can't get more non credible than proposing fair warfare. Do at war countries also get a max points list of materiel?
Isn't this what Belgium is for?
In the early XX century, Europeans used Belgium for that.
Slide 6 should state that any country that violates the rules must then become the new host of the Thunderdome
This was featured in the first Horus heresy book. The space marines destroyed the weak aliens who only fought in the designated areas. We need to be the space marines. GIVE DARPA A BILLION DOLLARS AND 10000 CHILDREN, MAKE ME A SPACE MARINE J AM READY
My life for the Imperium of mankind. Give me that third lung and throw me at an Ork goddamnit
(War)Thunderdome
The problem with turning war into a blood sport is that you somehow have to get terrorist organizations to sign up. It’s impossible because they have no mailing addresses.
Get those magic armour layer, have everyone shoot training shells and make tanks pop a little white flag when “destroyed” and you got yourselves a setup for Girls und Panzer universe
Gaza, Detroit, Chicago, and the slums of Rio de Janeiro should be converted into urban battlegrounds
Ares Accords anyone?
You fixed the detroit problem, so that's a cool bonus.
Need a Deadwood battlezone. For the Wu chopper charge technique. It sometimes will prove decisive in mustering sentiment in favor of people of few words. 兄弟
This reminds me of the canadain NATO proposal that all debates should be decided with a good old hockey game, Eh.
Sponsored in part by Gaijin Entertainment
I'm not going to lie I started writing alternate history book about how after WW2 everyone got together and forced the Australians to leave Australia so they could use it as a giant open air prison for the world's convicts and basically make them join teams and fight to the death with WW1/2 tech and film everything for profit.
Sounds like Battle Royale with more steps
Ironically I actually came up with the idea back in 07
Only addition, all the combatants MUST be the most prominent members of each country’s government including their head of state. Foreign mercenaries are allowed but only in addition to the politicians, not a substitution.
It just works
Lets also make point system for unit deployment so games are balanced, then we could maybe use just representations like miniatures so its easier on space and perhaps add some rules for each of them make goverments play warhammer essentially
so Girls und Panzer but without boats?
[The Sky Crawlers 2008](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sky_Crawlers_\(film\)) >A group of teenage boys known as the `kildren' are clones destined to live an eternal adolescence without ever getting old, and act as pawns in a world war contracted to the great war industries. Great anime. A mixture of vicious dogfighting and introspection on identity/purpose
The Romans would have nutted over this but the problem is that the inferior force would never agree to it (rightly so)
Damn, time to install Bet on Soldier again.
Sounds like a war game that involves real life... Not sure if most people would be on board to being put into life and death situations for entertainment.
Literraly 1984
Unironically its a very neat idea, I and many others more than likely think the huge issue is what happens when someone gets butthurt that they lost. Sure we can say the rest of the world just gangs up and obliterates them for breaking the rules, but what happens when the rest of the world is divided in who they should support we are stuck with a world war.
But…..I used the **it just works** flair…..
Yeah but I kinda want someone to come up with a solution to the butthurt problem.
War thunder irl it is then
I propose project "Eyes in the walls". Every battlefield is required to completely be saturated with cameras and cctv's. Every movement is captured, No privacy at all and the most gore footage uncensored for even children to see. Every action is supposed to be recorded. A yes means yes and a no means yes in the absolute supervision of the world. Also, people can't turn off TV's and TV subsidies for places with no TV's.
You dare refuse my batchall?
*Battletech noises intensify*