This is a collection of all military equipment of Khertland, including all branches of its armed forces. There is a collection for each branch specifically if you are only interested in a specific domain. For civilian stuff, check the parent collection, "State of Khertland." The goal here is to try and make the most comprehensive faction/nation in the game. Most of these builds are designed to fulfill a specific purpose and role in both the game and/or in the lore. Most vehicles are designed to be effective in game, capable of beating campaign crafts with a equal or lower budget. Despite this, some vehicles are highly specialized for certain roles and require them to work together to perform within its cost bracket. As a result some vehicles may struggle without working in conjunction with other vehicles here, or perhaps fighting something it was not designed to face. Meanwhile other vehicles are purely for decorative purpose or for lore reasons, but those are usually non-combat vehicles to begin with. Currently, I am finishing up my army and beginning to transition to work on my navy.

The goal is to make vehicles aesthetically appealing, realistic, and effective. Both aviation and ground forces are based on modern and near future military technology while the navy is based on late world war II period but I am considering modernizing it to 1970s standards. As such I have limited the type of technology available to mostly APS, missiles and maybe LAMS but no repair bots or PACs. Repair tentacles and resource gatherers are currently limited to 1 per specialized vehicle and not allowed on combat vehicles.
Creativity need some rules and aesthetics should tell a story. So as a rule, I will avoid using mesh hiders so whatever I build appear representative to its actual physical dimensions. The only exceptions will be for infantry. I do not otherwise believe I should hide the original vehicle to decorate it. Design choices had to be made, and trade offs were done to make the vehicle perform as desired. As such the aesthetics should represent that and tell the story of a vehicle's design. Form follows function.

Can I use your builds, ideas, or components?
Yes, they are on the workshop for a reason. You can use parts of my builds for your own, use it in a youtube video, use it in the campaign, whatever you want. How you use it is up to you, and I can't stop you anyways. If I didn't want that to happen, I wouldn't make it public. In fact, it makes me happy to see people use my stuff, be it the components or the vehicle as a whole.

Is everything up to date?
All vehicles here will be continuously updated and maintained for functionality purposes unless otherwise stated. Will mark defunct vehicles in the title, otherwise please check date of latest update.

What world does Khertland reside in?
A different planet from Earth created by Thunderpanzer, Haapz, and I. The other members of this project have their own factions, GPYF and Coldhaven respectively. There are other "NPC" factions with only a few vehicles built so far. Haapz haven't played the game in awhile, so that aspect of the world is in a bit of stasis unless he returns. If not, we'll just slowly develop the world between ourselves including potentially Coldhaven's future.

Are fan builds accepted?
Fan builds are welcomed (prompted after Mctech made one) and I will add it to the collection if I see one. Although keep in mind the design philosophy of different people are going to be different and they are not subject to the above rules and so are also not canon. Updating will also not be within my control.

Khertland during its late monarchy era maintained a relatively small military. This remained true even after the civil war as the conflict were fought primarily with light infantry and the occasional air raids. The development of the atomic bomb signified the end of the war. A new leadership was put in place and turned Khertland into a military dictatorship which naturally had a very militaristic attitude and a major armament program was started. The new military dictatorship was primarily lead by naval officers resulting in a national priority on expanding the navy which slowly turned Khertland into a major naval power. This did have some merit as the country was primarily a island nation. Nonetheless, the civil war was fought primarily on land which helped modernize the Khertland army although it remained a small force. With this army, Khertland would help GPYF fight for independence.
Eventually reforms reduced some of the government's most despotic tendencies which also in turn helped promote foreign investments, entrepreneurs, and innovation. As domestic development progressed, so did the country's financing allowing a ever larger navy. Older ships were modernized, and brought back into service. The navy was reluctant to decommission ships leading to continual upgrades for old ships in addition to new ones. However, rapid growth meant exploitation and corruption as the legal system was too slow to adapt. The navy was implicated in smuggling various illegal goods such as drugs and weapons. Policy makers overlooked this and instead continued to pass favorable bills for the navy leadership. Most people knew this was due to a revolving door scheme of the military dictatorship. This all came tumbling down with the financial crisis starting in the fossil fuel, rubber, and tires industry. A severe depression struck the continent leading to even more corruption, rise in crime, drug addiction, homelessness, and more.

The presiding administration over the government was criticized for inaction and after a long internal political power struggle; a new reformist group took charge. The new administration began a series of reforms and introduced a large number of new policies including injection of funds in the form of stimulus packages, infrastructure projects, and military modernization. The deficit spending helped re-vitalize the economy by balancing the surplus in the private sector. Certain reforms such as universal suffrage was resisted by the military establishment and the fight for it continues to the modern day.
The military modernization however focused more on the army than the navy. This was due to new swathes of land connected to the main continent purchased from GPYF at a bargain price due to Khertland helping them fight for their independence. Significant development was pumped into this region which was seen as vital for Khertland to gain food independence, along with access to vast resources previously unavailable. Defending this land mass from a now plausible land invasion was deemed vital. At least that was the public reasoning. Behind closed doors, the army leadership was seen as a way to balance and counter the political influence of the navy. The navy in turn had to slowly mothball its aging fleet, although it has plans for a modernization too, it has progressed at a snail's pace as a result of the aforementioned policy. Meanwhile the air force was left underfunded throughout most of its history despite being the country's primary means of nuclear deterrence. Even that deterrence has been slowly eroded with the divestment from its strategic bomber force. This combined with the secret mothballing of the navy's ballistic missile submarines places Khertland's nuclear capability at a tenuous position. Publicly, both the strategic bombers and submarines are still in active service but the senior leadership are all aware of the critical situation. Despite this, the army has grown to a record size. So large in fact, there has been attempts to shrink the force. Thus the country is not particularly worried about being invaded, such is the state of the country's current military.