
So, I hear this is one of them "gacha games".
Yep.
Got hot/cute raifus?
Yes.
Gonna post the horny stuff?
No.
Then why LP this game?
Because it's pretty fun to play, has a surprisingly good story for a game in the mobile gacha market, and I probably get to be the first idiot who attempts to LP a gacha game.
So what is Girls' Frontline/Shàonǚ Qiánxiàn/Shoujo Zensen?
Girls' Frontline/Shàonǚ Qiánxiàn/Shoujo Zensen is a Chinese mobage made by Mica and released in China in 2016. It has since been released in Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, and the English speaking world, the EN version only coming out in May last year. It's a moe anthroporphisation game in the vein of KanColle, Azur Lane or countless other games out there. They just happen to be androids with guns this time around. The game itself revolves around assembling squads of these gungirls to fight enemies whilst capturing important points on a strategic map. It's more fun and active than I make it sound.
What's the backstory? Why gungirls?
The year is 2062. WW3 is over and a significant proportion of humanity has been converted into pseudo-zombies thanks to some weird alien goop. To make up for the shortfall in manpower, cute androids were created to pick up the slack. Private military companies consisting of these androids (known as Tactical Dolls) also become big thanks to countries being unable to field actual militaries in the hellworld of 2062, although oops, one manufacturer's AI control goes haywire and starts taking over the world. You're a recently-hired commander at Griffin & Kruyger, a PMC that has very much not been taken over by an AI. Go out there with your T-Doll collection and do PMC stuff. Y'know. If you want more backstory and a bit of a head start, check out the official manga. It's pretty good.
Isn't this a currently running game? How will you deal with the temporary story events and chapters that haven't been released in EN yet?
We'll cross that bridge when we come to it, but I have the feeling it will include transcripts, lots of diagrams and me recounting my war stories of sending my squads into horrific event-specific battlefields.
How will this LP be structured?
Once past the tutorial, I'm going to be using my main account, because fuck regrinding stuff for later chapters. To keep things challenging, I'm going to let you, the audience, choose the squads I bring into battle (with some restrictions). Hopefully this should provide enough challenge and strategic thinking to make good commentary.
Regular text will be in-game dialogue and stage directions.
Italics will be purely my commentary and character writing.
*Regular text within asterisks will be me describing battlefield movement that doesn't deserve its own screenshot.*
Couple of rules:
1) No spoilers please. None. Especially those ones. You know the ones, players.
2) It's a game with girls and guns, both topics that can get weird on SA. Please keep discussion rational. IRL gun chat is ok as long as it's not excessive. If you really need to argue the finer points of the CZ75 vs the NZ75, take it to TFR.

Now, let's head to the frontlines.
Chapter 0: Prologue

Part 1
Part 2
Emergency - Part 1
Emergency - Part 2

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Emergency - Part 1: In Memoriam
Emergency - Part 2: My Sister
Emergency - Part 3: A T-Doll's Guide To Grief
Emergency - Part 4: My Sister and Me

Part 0: A Brief Interlude...
Part 1: Lee and Mosin's Drunken Adventure
Part 2: The Gang Discover What Sex Is
Part 3: Hangover Cure
Emergency - Part 0: Bitter Oranges
Emergency - Part 1: Walk With Me
Emergency - Part 2: Talk With Me

Part 1: M590 and the End of Days
Part 2: M590 and the Edge of the World
Part 3: M590 and the Inland Empire
Part 4: M590 and the Ghosts of Lost Data
Part 5: M590 and the Flame in the Dark
Part 6: M590 and the Mountain
Part 7: Miranda and the Rolling Hills
Part 8: Miranda and the Three Kings
Part 9: Miranda and Lola
Part 10: Miranda and M590

Part 0: On History
Part 1: Galatea
Mechanics talk
Echelon formation
Resources and the Gacha & Meet the Team: Super SASS
Logistics and Auto-Battle
Stats and Skills
Doll Enhancement, Dummy-Linking, Retirement and Cores
Equipment
Point events
Bingo events
LPer note: will be converting SA forum links to LP tester links when I have more free time.