Realistic or Modern Missdrop (Military RP)

[Moldie]

I want to create an RP where a group of newly trained soldiers experience the horrors of warfare as they're miss dropped (Jumping from airplanes)and have to travel on foot across a war torn landscape in order to reach their destination. They'll stumble upon many other soldiers like them, not all on their side though.


 

No real war really fits the bill off what I have in mind, the closest one that comes to mind would be WW2. Our squad enters old colonial grounds of their home nation (Which is undetermined since I think this might take place in an alternate world) that has come under attack by bordering nation. The Colonial grounds mostly consists out of bitter cold muddy swamp land, there are a few major cities (All 1940's inspired) but mostly small farms and coal miner villages.


 

This is just an idea that of course subject to change, if you have any questions feel free to ask.


 

 

[Lucya Kunzenov]

Interested.

 

[DrCompton]

I would also be interested

 

[AkuTheWolfOkami]

interested in the concept, but not the constraints nor WW2. But it's a dope plot (coming from a Marine Vet) 

 

[Tori Bradley]

Interested

 

[Moldie]

interested in the concept, but not the constraints nor WW2. But it's a dope plot (coming from a Marine Vet) 

What constraints exactly? And in what way would you like it to deviate?

 

[Lucya Kunzenov]

What about a bunch of draftees in Vietnam, instead of World War II? That's a possibility.

 

[Moldie]

What about a bunch of draftees in Vietnam, instead of World War II? That's a possibility.

Works for me.

 

[AkuTheWolfOkami]

@Tahana   The constraints of the time period, becomes less military rp and more 'we're cold and have to keep pushing forward' . 


If we're focusing on war post WW1, I'm more of a contemporary war kinda guy for rps. I was a fighter pilot, so i've always romanticized the infantry I saw, and even flirted with becoming an operator on the ground. So my heart always tends to lead to what I saw, and wish I could do. 

 

[Crispy Fries]

@Tahana


I'd definitely be interested

 

[DrCompton]

I was hoping this RP were be more geared towards World War 2 feel. I feel like that world be way more open than a Vietnam Era RP

 

[Moldie]

I was hoping this RP were be more geared towards World War 2 feel. I feel like that world be way more open than a Vietnam Era RP

I think I like the WW2 era more too.

 

[4Tank1Dog]

Well this is very promising.


Maybe it'll all be anonymous, with none-existent nations and armies? I feel like that could actually make a more accurate portrayal of the horrors of war since the historical wars are not "grey"-there's almost always a defined "bad" side, making it harder to sympathize with people of that faction. We should definitely base the RP's technological level off a time period though.

 

[DrCompton]

i agree with the WW2 tech and era, but with different nations idea

 

[Lucya Kunzenov]

Agreed. 

 

[NorthOfOrdinary]

I'm potentially interested if it's set in a 'WW2- like' era.

 

[Daniel Carmichael]

Count me in! 

 

[The Omen of Death]

I am in, sounds good.

 

[RIPSaidCone]

Interested!


Although only if its with characters that could actually be soldiers and not a bunch of 16 year old angsty teens if you guys get what I'm meaning xD


Also if it's WW2 era/esque then there wouldn't be any female soldiers either.

 

[DrCompton]

Well it being an alternate world, we could have female soldiers. Even if you wanted to go with no female soldiers, we could have female resistance fighters.

 

[Axel The Englishman]

I'll be the posh Britishy bastard.

 

[(sic)]

Bump, interested.

 

[NorthOfOrdinary]

Interested!


Although only if its with characters that could actually be soldiers and not a bunch of 16 year old angsty teens if you guys get what I'm meaning xD


Also if it's WW2 era/esque then there wouldn't be any female soldiers either.

You're forgetting WW2 was also fought by partisans and resistance fighters in the occupied territories, some being female. Not to mention, women were allowed to serve in combat positions in the Red Army. There were distinguished female Russian snipers and fighter pilots among others.  

 

[RIPSaidCone]

You're forgetting WW2 was also fought by partisans and resistance fighters in the occupied territories, some being female. Not to mention, women were allowed to serve in combat positions in the Red Army. There were distinguished female Russian snipers and fighter pilots among others.  

No, I'm not forgeting that.


We're very clearly not RPing as partisans, and I said there'd be no female soldiers in this presumpably Allied faction, not resistance members or partisans.


Those roles in the Red Army were limited however, and the only entire-women battalion in the Red Army was mostly for propaganda reasons however they did fight once or twice. I'm going on the assumption that we're RPing as a fictional version of an Allied country due to the fact that we're paratroopers and the Soviet Union rarely used them in comparison to the Allies.

 

[NorthOfOrdinary]

No, I'm not forgeting that.


We're very clearly not RPing as partisans, and I said there'd be no female soldiers in this presumpably Allied faction, not resistance members or partisans.


Those roles in the Red Army were limited however, and the only entire-women battalion in the Red Army was mostly for propaganda reasons however they did fight once or twice. I'm going on the assumption that we're RPing as a fictional version of an Allied country due to the fact that we're paratroopers and the Soviet Union rarely used them in comparison to the Allies.

I'm sorry, I missed the part where Tahana put you in charge.


This is an alternative universe not set in any specific allied nation of our history, so it's fair to say the OP could make any changes to history he wants. 


Also, the French and Dutch resistance was very active alongside allied troops, even the Paratroopers throughout the war. Allied soldiers needed intelligence. Local 'spies' were often the best means of gaining that as well as translating. Most spies, interesting enough, were female because the Nazis were less suspicious of women. 


In regards to the Red Army, you are right that they were preferred by the government to serve in all- women battalions, but like I said, Tahana can make any changes he wants. You're wrong that they only fought 'once or twice'. Lyudimla Pavlychenko was credited with 309 kills, making her one of the top snipers of all time. She was a part of the 25th rifle division, an all-male, otherwise normal unit. She joined before the 'women battalions' were created and like many other women, was accepted  to serve alongside men because the Soviet Union needed every soldier it could get to push back the advancing Wehrmacht. A notable woman who served in a 'women battalion' would be Lidya Litvak. Her and one of her comrades became the first women to earn the title 'fighter ace' having downed more Luftwaffe aircraft than most pilots on the western front. 


Is it really too much of a stretch that this imaginary nation fighting an imaginary world-war-twoesquse battle could accept a woman into its paratroopers, whether because they're running out of soldiers or they need the propaganda for morale purposes or even because they're 'not' sexist like our forefathers in history? If so, is it really too much of a stretch to allow a female resistance character performing the duties that were there, recorded in history, around the dropping of liberating soldiers onto their village? 


I mean goodness, just Google 'Women in WW2' and click into the first link you see. It's never truly been just a man's world. Everyone fought the Nazis. 


Interesting character plot: My female character serves and your male one doubts her every step of the way until he sees that men aren't the only ones who can bare baptism under fire.