Editing Dystopian Wars (section)

=== The Crown ===
Currently ruled by Queen Victoria.

It’s the British Empire chaps! Great Britain brings the might of the Royal Navy supported by her loyal colonies. Long Live the Queen! (Queen Victoria I mean.)

The Dominant global power for a long time now, the techno-boom of recent times will not see this globe-spanning empire crumble under its own weight, especially after major bureaucratic reforms (nothing’s more exciting than major bureaucratic reforms!)
 
The Crown & her dominions don’t rely on the Techno-Gimmicks of other Great Powers, instead they do good old fashioned gun batteries & torpedo barrages as best as they can be done, being the only faction with access to Heavy Torpedo turrets (as opposed to regular torpedo turret/Heavy Torpedo Tubes). Their shield tech is somewhat unique though, instead of a flat debuff against attacks targeting the shielded ship “Guardian” generators contribute dice to a shared pool that lets you pick & choose what attacks to debuff & by what extent.

'''Britain'''

The main faction in the British Empire (obviously). The Brits now skew towards a “Bunker” playstyle, with slow but tough as nails ships, heavy guns & torpedoes still roll the most damage at Closing range (the 2nd range band) but Heavy Torpedo Turrets are still really good at extreme long range. While rushing them/ teleporting into their ranks can work most British ships are fitted with Heavy Rams for just such an eventuality, also the kickass chainsaw submarines are still here thank god. The brits suffer in the objective game a bit, as being the slow but defensive faction isn’t helpful when you’re trying to capture objectives in the middle of the board.

The Royal Airforce doesn’t make use of Blimps & Airships of other nations, instead they field a mix of heavily armoured Rotor Craft (think the [[/co/|SHIELD Heli carrier from the Marvel universe]]) that trade speed for armour & extremely large planes which are so big they get classes as very small airships. Also bring some of the smallest dedicated flagships in the game.

'''Canada'''

The Dominion of Canada are currently the only sub faction of the Crown to have any real models, including the other Smallest dedicated flagships in the game. A touch more aggressive than the Brits Canada is all in on the shooting-bunker, trading the close-range rams for ablative prow armour. The Canuks have some good Submarines, with a Submersible Aircraft carrier being their only Battleship-sized vessel & some very aggressive cruisers. Most minor nations want to be joined by their faction’s major nation in larger games & this is true of the Canadians, getting supported by the British Rotor Ships in the big Imperium v Crown boxset. But an all-Canada army can certainly be fielded on its own.

'''The East India Trading Company'''

The EITC is still around, barely. Only get 1 unique type of ship, a massive Cargo-Dreadnought that has to lead EITC fleets if you want to bring them. The Rest of the faction consists of British ships with the Keywords changed & all the British special rules swapped out for the “East India Privateers” rule which makes them slightly better at everything, but only while you’re winning.

EITC fleets are British Fleets except they play worse from behind, better from the lead & all their lists have to be built around the “Adventurer Class Grand Indiaman” which sacrifices dreadnought level firepower for cruiser level firepower & several powerful support abilities. 

'''Ireland'''

Ireland is also here. Every faction has 3 different static “ocean platform” units for mission types that involve them. One big gun platform, one regular gun platform & one support platform. For some reason these are all being given to a random minor power that only exists in game as the crews of these immobile platforms, & in the Crown this is Ireland’s job. I guess the Brits just ship Irish crews out to the Platforms & Ireland just controls all Crown platforms & that’s it. Is Ireland not integrated into Britain in this setting's era?

'''The Knights Templar of the Round Table (Malta)'''

The Crown’s lore booklet mention King George the 3rd (the mad/mental one who lost America) founding the Knights Templar of the Round Table (or he simply legitimized a much older organisation), granting them Malta as their fortress-headquarters. Rubbish! This secretive order seems to be tasked with the safeguarding of England from the shadows & guiding them through this new age of technology in one piece, even if that means putting the preservation of England before the Preservation of the Empire. Have no models yet & very little lore but hey, the Teutonic Knights have ships in the Imperium so it’s possible that the Templars may get units at some point in the future.

'''The Nautilus'''

You know that rad as hell Chainsaw Submarine? Well, when it was being prototyped this pirate lady stole the Prototype & took it on swashbuckling adventures with her rag-tag crew of Badass misfits. Kind of comes across like a Wild West Exodus warband that got cut thank god. Anyway, some more pragmatic members of the British Admiralty have swallowed their pride & convinced the Nautilus’s captain to fight for the Crown once more, presumably with money. Though she is still set on her crusade against the forces of darkness however & will happily work with other faction’s if they pay up.

The Nautilus is a Prototype Morgan-Class that’s much better than the regular kind (I guess the production version is less resource intensive?) boasting extra Torpedoes, a better engine & an Elite crew. You can only bring one since it’s Unique & since it’s a “Mercenary” battlefleet, any oner faction can field it. The Crown does not get any special bonusses for bringing her, other than they fact that the Crown player probably already has a Submarine that they can convert into the Nautilus. Used to be a weird 1-ship only fleet but now the Nautilus can be accompanied by up to 3 other Crown Submarine units, which at the moment mean 1 more Chainsaw sub squadron, 1 pack of the little Canadian torpedo coffins & that’s it, you can’t bring duplicate units in the Nautilus fleet & the Crown doesn’t have a 3rd type od submarine that isn’t also a flagship.

'''The Others'''

Free & Australia just seem to be one Australia in 3.0, they don’t have models or rules or art yet though. Same for the British Raj & New Zealand & other Crown holdings. Any models for these minor nations will presumably be a long way off.