While BattleTech has been brought up here in /k/, especially when non-BattleMech vehicles are brought up, I only started this thread with Quikscell Company's insignia on the left of pic and one of its products on the right, the Scorpion Light Tank.Now, as you can tell with the thread title, this isn't necessarily BattleTech thread. For my novel series I first mentioned in a thread on Alex Garland's Civil War (https://desuarchive.org/k/thread/60386020/#60390417), which is alternate history Earth where most countries devolved into being nothing more than warzones due to an alien ship crashing into Afghanistan in 1985 and that drones as weapons aren't prevalent like now, I plan on putting in a Quikscell stand-in that provides anything from small arms to mini mecha (like BattleTech, there are mecha in my books but height wise, they go from 2-4 meters) of dubious (at worst) quality and at reasonable prices.Now, as the novel series I mentioned in that aforementioned Civil War thread is alternate history, what real-life vehicles (except aircraft) should be made by this Quikscell stand-in?
>>65235766Ordnance/logistics trucks that are cheap as hell and somewhat unreliable. It seems to be a staple of less developed economies and basically gives you the mule-master dichotomy which can be fun to write about if not used as an outright plot device at times
>>65235766>>>/tg/ go and stay go
>>65235790Good idea. Since I said there's mini mecha in my novels, makes sense to have trucks to carry anything from light utility vehicles to the aforementioned mini mecha.Though what real-life truck should be the one sold by the Quikscell stand-in, the MAN FX (not to be called that because I opted that instead of a partnership formed in the 2000s, Rhinemetall bought out MAN after the 1989-1991 Third World War) or the KZKT-7428 (instead called Begemot because of how after the 1989-1991 world war, the Soviet Union ceased to exist and from its ashes was born the Eurasian Tsardom)? As for the name of this company, I'll call it Global Defense Solutions.
>>65235766A much better way to say this is,>in an alternate history beginning in 1985, with tanks and bipedal manned war machines about the size of tanks, what real-life vehicles would be made by what budget military manufacturing company?well, heading East to West, there's Norinco, Tata, Uralvagonzavod, Otokar, Patria, Rheinmetall, Nexter, BAe, and Oshkoshor did you want more budget manufacturers than these?
>>65235877As I said in >>65235874, there was a World War III from 1989-1991, so I had that such companies wouldn't be so lucky during and after the war because both Western and Eastern Blocs would have inflicted serious damage toward each other that I opted to invent fictional companies that mostly bought out the companies you named (I could bring up Norinco, but I have to be really careful about it due to how sensitive the People's Republic of China is when they're depicted in a work of fiction).
>>65235882>invent fictional companiesso invent thems your bloody job innit?what do you want me to do, worldbuild your world for you?who's the author here?
>>65235766>what real-life vehicles (except aircraft) should be made by this Quikscell stand-in?Well if they can make Light Tanks, than they can probably make APCs, IFVs, HMMWVs, logistic trucks, etc. It all just depends on how large of a company and how many manufacturing plants they have>Though what real-life truck should be the one sold by the Quikscell stand-inJust make up your own, dude. Find what vehicles you think fit best for them and rename them while describing with a generic "5-ton x-by-x wheeled flatbed logistical truck" or something like that >but I have to be really careful about it due to how sensitive the People's Republic of China is when they're depicted in a work of fiction)Do you live in China? Why does this matter. If you're a new author than you more than likely won't be able to break into the Chinese domestic market unless you know people in their government or "know a guy who knows a guy"
>>65235907>Do you live in China?Philippines. Either way, thanks.
Therefore, the non-Walgear vehicles made by Global Defense Solutions are as follows:1. Begemot truck series (secretly licensed from Kurgan Industries, which is the Kurgan Wheel Tractor Plant after it became its own corporation after surviving the Third World War; light Begemot is the real-life KamAZ-4350; medium Begemot is the real-life GAZ-3308 "Sadko", and the heavy Begemot is the real-life KZKT-7428)2. GK-M1 light utility vehicle3. AIFV infantry fighting vehicle/armored personnel carrier (licensed by FMC Corporation)4. T-55 tank (blueprints secretly acquired)
>>65235766Basically what the Turks, Brazil and maybe China are building today.
