People's Liberation Army

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*"Are you ready,*

*Soldier brothers,*

*For when that day comes?*

*Don't worry homeland,*

*Don't worry loved ones,*

*In order to win I will bravely march on."*

- *"As the War Approaches"*, a popular song from before the bombs.
The **People's Liberation Army** or **Communist China**, or simply **Red Chinese** is a minor faction in the background of Red Alert 3 Paradox, and will be featured in a single mission during the Campaign. Their vehicles and infantry will be available by a variety of means on certain skirmish maps. They are heavily based on the Chinese in Command and Conquer Generals, given a biopunk spin with a supercomputer made out of a literal giant brain cloned with the greatest and “bioroids”, cloned lobotomised brains attach and grown on mechanical frames to act as bio-organic drones as their own supply of drones and AI dwindled, and genetically rewriting their DNA through the use of unstable stem cells, or Plasmids, to survive the wasteland.

## Gameplay Mechanics

### Resource Mechanic

With their expertise in cloning and genetic manipulation, combined with a tactic of human waves, its no surprise that the PLA has also learnt how to recycle and reuse corpses. Whenever a unit, theirs or the enemy, dies they drop "Stem Cells", an exclusive resoure the PLA uses. Stem Cells can be used to instantly buy a PLA unit, so even if a commander loses their entire army they can instantly rebuild them to continue the attack.

### Build Mechanic

The greatest, and most horrific, breakthrough the PLA had ever made in the darkest hour of the war was turning their military building alive. By cloning a brain and implanting it into the frame of a building with radio instructions, the PLA have managed to grow creatures made of steel and concrete, held together by flesh, that holds thousands of gestation chambers within to "birth" out soldiers of the PLA. All PLA structures are completely mobile, with a simple command having them uproot and walk. Thus once territory is taken the PLA can uproot their entire base to move it closer to the frontlines.

### Fury

What could be said to be the PLA training to fight in a coordinated horde twisted by the madness of the war and the nuclear exchange. Whenever the PLA kills or loses a unit they build up fury, which replace their morale meter. Once this reaches the max the PLA unit instantly heals and gains a massive boost to their speed and damage, cause terror, and makes them immune to morale but drastically lowers their range and armour, spreading this fury to other nearby PLA units for a potential domino effect. Thus the red tide can become a tsunami in large enough numbers, and the PLA always have reserves.

### Reinforcement

A unique mechanic shared by the NRA. In MFDM the PLA creates their reinforcement from a dedicated building instead of calldown, trained instantly in a preset number but has a cooldown. They are also able to take one of 24 support from the People's Net Centre, split between Alliance and Strange Bedfellows. The former provide general upgrades, secondary income, and additional reinforcement options called down the normal way to supplant the main forces. The latter provide even greater, game changing, upgrades that would eventually completely change their gameplay, but they are more expensive, provides no additional reinforcements, and each upgrade comes with a drawback that further force the commander to change their gameplay.

## Mutated Hearts of Fanatics

*"The bombs have done nothing to diminish the Communist fighting spirit! Mao Zedong is still the glorious leader of our great revolution! The Red Army lives on in its people, and its people still live! Reborn out of new flesh and hearts that can survive the new world! Brother and sisters, remember your cause! Rejoin with the forces of Communism, and retake what is now your great nation!"*

-  Looped, and scratchy, recording found broadcasting over an abandoned, and partially demolished, Communist Party propaganda centre.

### Vehicles

Thanks to their abuse of cloning technology that led to genetic manipulation. All PLA vehicles are “alive” and controlled by the crew, equally as modified, who are fused into their vehicles. This has lowered their vehicles durability, since flesh is weaker than metal (even if it’s been genetically modified), but they are much faster, since it’s pretty much a second skin for the crew, and can be healed by medical equipment.

### Structures

Through the use of biotechnology. The PLA has made their structures “alive” and capable of moving. But when on the move they can’t produce units.

### Praetorian Reinforcements

These forces can be called upon during Minor Faction Deathmatch by default. Praetorian are the greatest soldiers of China, whether before or after the war, genetically modified to be the PLA greatest supersoldiers, to defend the new CCP, and being the symbol for CCP evolution. Forming a team of supersoldiers, and volunteers willingly fusing themselves into their vehicle, who acts as a mobile defense brought in to help halt enemy offensives and push back raiders with overwhelming number and their supercharged biology.

### North Korean Reinforcements

These forces can be called upon during Minor Faction Deathmatch if you choose North Korean Support at War Mind Centre to support the Praetorians. The North Koreans give the surviving PLA a properly trained force meant to fill the gaps the remaining Communist forces can't fill by means of surgically precise strike forces that can get into the gaps that the broad front of the PLA cannot. All units come into battle at heroic rank.

## War Mind Centre Protocols

Once a branch is chosen in the War Mind Centre the commander gets three additonal protocols, one at the start, a second at the middle, and a third at the end of the tech tree.

## Behind the Scenes

* People's Liberation Army is based on China from Generals. Though with their lore of cloning has been given a biopunk twist, based on Cruelty Squad, with them making clones of super mutants that can survive the wasteland and technology powered by living batteries, their AI completely replaced by giant, cloned, brains. Made to contrast the NRA (formerly Blue China) own cyborg and mechanical army.
* It was formerly called Red China. But this has been changed because it (hopefully unintentionally) sounded somewhat racist, seeing as the Empire and Soviets are not called Japanese and Russians all the time, and for some reason considers being Chinese is more important than the nations ideology.

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