>(also known as Dolls' Frontline in Japan, for some reason)

MICA and Yostar (company that is responsible for Azur Lane and Arknights) at one time had joint plans for opening up a Japanese server for the game, including introducing Type 100 as an exclusive for the region. But while the plans fell through, Yostar kept the rights to the name in Japan, forcing MICA to eventually open up its own server under the Dolls name.

Aren't copyright laws fascinating? /sarcasm

>I've been reading a bit or two here and there about this game, having
>run across a fan comic on Danbooru crossing it over with Kancolle. It
>looks interesting, but some of the casting choices strike me as a
>little odd. For instance, one of the available T-dolls is
>Welrod Mk II.
>
>I say this seems odd, because I gather, based on what I've read, that
>the game plays kind of like old-school X-COM, with a base
>management part and a tactical combat part, and I'm reasonably sure
>that no Welrod was ever used in a squad combat situation. It was a
>manually cycled, integrally suppressed .32-caliber assassination
>pistol made for the British SOE in World War II—not a gun I
>would have thought modern-day Chinese game devs would ever have even
>heard of, come to that. Maybe they're
>Forgotten Weapons >subscribers>. :)
>
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The short version of the storyline goes like this: In the future, the world suffered an international crisis when a substance known as "Collapse Fluid" contaminated a major portion of the globe, leading to fighting over the remaining habitable land that turned into WWIII. The population crisis caused by those two events led to rapid development of AI and the creation of androids as a new labor force while humanity recovered. At the same time, PMCs largely replaced standing armies, drawing most of their manpower from a single major manufacturer: Sangvis Ferri (trans: "Iron Blood"). Of course, the standard tropes take effect: AI becomes self-aware, runs the numbers, and decides humans need to go.

Since all the purpose-built tactical dolls have turned on humanity, PMCs have been forced to fall back on converting civilian dolls, which really just means they swapped the internal hardware and gave them whatever guns they could dig up. This is why prototypes like the G11 and XM8, as well as antiques like the Nagant M1895 and Colt SAA 1873, are out there fighting against machines who are packing lasers and rail guns.