China

## China (Faction)

A large country in Asia and an often overlooked allied nation of the war.

In War of Tactics, China is a mixed faction of Nationalists prewar forces, Communists early war forces and collaboration forces with a combined general allied force for the majority of the war.

China as a playable faction has had many different incarnations over the years of development.

Starting out as an independent faction which suffered a shortage of domestic equipment as China suffered the decline of the empire and the warlord era of the 1930's.

Then China was adopted as a secondary nation before this unified faction from across the world was split in 3.

After secondary nations were divided up into an Allied, Axis and Neutral element, China was noted as an Axis Secondary Nations due to their association with prewar Germany and the, national tendencies of some of the ruling warlords and the collaboration element.

China then reemerging as an independent faction but with a mixed arsenal of mostly Warlord-era.

As of now, China has been rewriten as a force with Soviet, American, prewar German and Japanese equipment available.

The playable faction of China is a unified force reflecting the ceasefire between Communist and Nationalist forces in China, which served to unify them against a common enemy, threatening their territories. This also includes the collaboration element despite the conflicting politics.

## Infantry

Chinese infantry consist of 3 main elements.

* Communist militia infantry supplied with soviet equipment and deployable in large numbers.
* National Professional infantry supplied with modern US equipment as well as prewar german equipment.
* Collaboration army which is light infantry with the bare minimum of supplied weapons, as well as some confiscated ones.

On top of those, China also have more specialized units available like X/Y forces and suicide bomb infantry. They lack paratroopers however.

### Pros & Advantages

* A wide selection of weapons and infantry available.
* No penalties from the conflicting politics.

## Armour

"International Ambassador" is a suitable description of Chinese armoured units. Hardly anything was domestic produced and instead Chinese armour consisted of supplied elements, Bought or confiscated equipment such as british armoured cars, italien tankettes, german light tanks, french cavalry tanks, soviet infantry tanks, japanese trucks as well as american medium tanks and support vehicles.

This mixing of units does lead to an open doctrine where chinese units can effectivly cover any role on the battlefield almost on equal terms with the original nationality of the vehicles in question. The flexibility of the a vehicle is however often lost, no AP-MG ammo is available, MGs on top of turrets are often missing and various minor changes which justifies an upgrade are simply not included.

### Pros & Advantages

* Wide selection of vehicles from many different nations.
* Solid and balanced armoured elements, open for most doctrins.

### Cons

* Missed out on many upgrades and perks, only available to the original owners.

## Artillery

The chinese guns are again borrowed, bought or confiscated from other nations, however unlike the armoured units, China does on occassion posses their own variants of common guns, such as modified german howbitzers.

### Pros & Advantages

* Wide selection of guns from many different nations.
* Occassional modifications to common guns.

### Cons

* Somewhat lacking modern guns, specially purpose build AT-guns.

## Air force

The chinese airforce does have a wide selection of aircraft for the same reason as the other branches - Foreign import.

It is considered the weaker of the branches however. This is for a couple of reasons, such as the majorities of the aircraft being old or outright outdated, as they're supplied from other nations or bought by individual warlords.

This doesn't mean China cannot take the skies, it has supplies from both the USSR and the USA, both of which have potent aircraft available and the chinese air force doesn't suffer downgrades on the aircraft available. China even does have a prototype list available, one of the few domestic aircraft designs which aren't copies of foreign designs.

### Pros & Advantages

* Wide selection of guns from many different nations.

### Cons

* The majorities of aircraft are of older designs.

## Railroad war

China would have improvised armoured trains as the fighting against japanese invaders happened along railroads. However research on this point is of the time of writing, lacking and will be filled out later.