British Union of Anti-Communists

**Dev. Status** | Conceptual

*"You always hurt the one you love,*

*The one you shouldn't hurt at all.*

*You always take the sweetest rose,*

*And crush it till the petals fall."*

- "You Always Hurt the One You Love", by The Mills Brothers
The **British Union of Anti-Communists**, universally known as **BUAC**, is an international organization of two halves, with the well known front of the group being the alliance system of various far-right conservative nationalist sects that seek to free their nations from both Allied and Communist control, mercenaries who have been placed on a protracted contract to work for the BUAC, and ex-military types from across Europe and America who have expressed anger and disappointment in how their nations are developing, although these different groups anger, skill, equipment and manpower are being re-directed by a more nefarious force. Controlling these armies of nationalists militias and paramilitary forces is the secretive and hidden High Council, a coalition of extreme right entities inspired by the dying ideology of fascism, that has merged in order to see their plans and goals carried through to fruition. While their true plans are currently unknown to those who have dealt with the Council and lived, their current agenda seems to be attempting to build political power, driving to more extremes than the Unionists in their methods, and stoking the fires of discontent and rampant nationalism in a weakening Allied structure.

From the USA, to China, to the heart of Africa, it is possible to find agents of the BUAC working against the local governments, playing a tricky long game that has been in development since before the Second World War. So now, with technology that seems a little too advanced for what they claim to be, and with a lack of care for the those who do not fit their dogma of humanity that would have the Syndicate raise its eyebrows in surprise, the BUAC now waits and observes, moving into position with the more extreme members of ALBION, a puppeteer controlling puppet strings that won't be seen, until it's too late to act.

## At a Glance

 **Visual Themes** | 1960's England for the Council. Flags with the Crosshair on them everywhere. 60's update to old 40's vehicle ideas. Random tubes everywhere. Inspiration also drawn from pre and post Second World War nationalist groups across the globe. Vehicles tend to look shabbier the cheaper they are. For the Council, things are sleek, shiny, as much a symbol of who they are as they are weapons of war. All units and structures bear a light red and cream checkered pattern.

## Unique Faction Mechanics *(Pending Ideas)*

### Designated Council Units

Certain advanced vehicles, aircraft and ships of the BUAC can only be trained once a Regional Council Headquarters is built. These new units are trained from the standard facilities that the other vehicles are constructed, and they are always some of the most powerful, dangerous and destructive weapons that the BUAC could possibly field. They are also more expensive, and only a finite amount of them can be built.

### Came Prepared

All BUAC Council infantry are issued with gas masks as standard, making them immune from their own HCN weaponry, and also any equivalent airborne chemical weaponry that other factions may attempt to use against them. The same can’t be said for the more disposable Nationalists.

### Defence Mechanics

The BUAC has no base defences outside of walls and gate, instead some infantry, vehicles, and protocols create field defences directly on the battlefield. Some infantry/vehicle EVEN transform to field defences themselves.

Due to this, and all defense being manned on the field, all of the BUAC defenses, like the Atomic Kingdom, gains veterancy (including heroic upgrade), and doesn’t use power, but anti-infantry and anti-garrison weapons in turn will wipe out the gunners, leaving the structure essentially powerless until a new crew comes in.

## International Attack Force Hosea

*"'As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see 'the River Tiber foaming with much blood'. That tragic and intractable phenomenon which we watch with horror on the other side of the Atlantic but which there is interwoven with the history and existence of the States itself, is coming upon us here by our own volition and our own neglect. Indeed, it has all but come. In numerical terms, it will be of American proportions long before the end of the century. Only resolute and urgent action will avert it even now. Whether there will be the public will to demand and obtain that action, I do not know. All I know is that to see, and not to speak, would be the great betrayal."*

-  Enoch Powell, a BUAC supporter, giving a speech on the 'dangers' of the immigration caused by Allied policies, 1968. His views are seen to be on the more liberal side of what the Council of the BUAC preaches in its manifestos.

## Behind the Scenes

* The current (and hopefully final revision) BUAC is inspired by many things, with a lot of the base Nationalist units being drawn directly from real-life extreme right wing groups, such as the BUF, Klan and OAS, with some being based on other organizations that have been reworked through a different approach, as seen with the Neo-Paneuropean Union, which is a more violent take on the real-life Paneuropean Union organization, which continues to exist to this day. Meanwhile, the Council draws inspiration from fascist governments of the early twentieth century, most notably from the British Union of Fascists and Italian Fascism. Fictional inspiration for the Council also draws itself from the multitude of fictions that deal with a German victory in WW2, with the likes of Wolfenstein: The New Order, Man in the High Castle, Fatherland, and perhaps most importantly, the 1964 movie *It Happened Here* and the 1978 book *SS-GB*, although all these examples should be acknowledged and applied to a Fascist United Kingdom, rather than a Nazi Germany. Note however, that the BUAC is **not** advocating for most of the atrocities committed by Germany during the Second World War, although policies such as racial segregation similar to Jim Crow, nationalism based around a chose race (An Anglo-Celtic Race, for the BUAC), horrific measures taken against Communism and its sympathizers, and general racism against non-Celtic, bar the ones aiding them with similar ideas, are rampant and definately issues regarding them, and will be explored from an objective standpoint. As their creator (Paranoid American), I must also stress that I do **not** support or condone any of the political beliefs that the BUAC advocates for, although I will be exploring a few of the benefits of Fascism with this faction, such as its effects on the economy, and the enhanced security and national unity that such a political ideology advocates.
* Previous versions of the BUAC, for reference, have been a mixed bag of political ideologies, especially for the Council. In order, they have been an Authoritarian faction with corrupt streaks and Minarchist undertones, and this faction was made incompetent to a quite unfunny degree, partly due to my worry of the faction not being as accepted if such an ideology was portrayed as anything but, and the Council and Nationalists being one and the same in terms of units, before the Minarchist front was drawn on more in the second revision. In this version, the line between the Council and the Nationalists were drawn, with the Council being portrayed as good people with terrible execution of these ideas, and the nationalists were, while slightly less bumbling, universally acknowledged by the Council as being terrible people and just a means to an end. This version suffered, however, from my attempts to portray it as a black and white good Council and Evil Nationalists, which, in retrospect, is trying to have things both ways with a terrible compromise, and I feel that it made that version of the BUAC one dimensional, with no nuance. Version three, the one before this one, is where the Minarchism was dropped in favour for a similar ideology - Anarcho Capitalism. The majority of the current version, in terms of units, does draw from this version, although they are slightly edited to fit a bit better. This was an attempt to add moral greyness to the faction, although, again in retrospect, Anarcho-Capitalism was a poor choice, as it tread on the territory of the likes of the Syndicate, without adding anything new, and the idea of a mercenary shtick was also used by the Syndicate, Darkwater Industries, and International Inc., reducing the need for the faction even more. And then, we have the current version, which focusses more on the Fascist and Nationalistic ideas of them.
* Also, it is best to approach this new revision of the BUAC from an objective standpoint, and not rail against it, for the Fascism and political beliefs. Bias against them is to be expected, although it would be completely unfair to discredit them simply for the ideology.