Pepperm1nts said
It was having some problems a day or two ago, but it's back again.

That can't be right, I tried again last night. Just get a white page and a little message from Mahz saying he's doing work on it. Been the same for a few days now. Maybe he's blocked IPs outside of the U.S temporarily? I'll do some digging when I get in. Can't do jack with my phone, I'm afraid.

LancerDancer said
That can't be right, I tried again last night. Just get a white page and a little message from Mahz saying he's doing work on it. Been the same for a few days now. Maybe he's blocked IPs outside of the U.S temporarily? I'll do some digging when I get in. Can't do jack with my phone, I'm afraid.

I'm getting that too. I just wait a minute or two and refresh the page, then it works.

Katabasis said
Gah, sorry for my prolonged absence, I just got back from travelling for Thanksgiving and I really should have given you guys a warning before I disappeared. I understand if this RP has progressed without me, though I must say that that'd be rather disappointing. Anyway, I'll kick myself into action and try to get my General Sheet out ASAP. I have some family coming over today, but with any luck I'll still be able to finish the sheet by tonight.I'm really sorry for my absence, it was rude of me not to inform you guys beforehand.

No problem. Nothing has progressed too far for your entry, and indeed, the Republic needs some more men.

Darcs said
That may have just been a lack of communication as for the bridge, my orders seemed to imply it was still being heavily overseen if not directly controlled by the township

My bad for not specifying. I meant that the Township was watching the bridge from its side of the river, and that you'd have to get past the guards/scouts/emplacements/whatever on their end before proceeding to New Dalles. Looks like everything worked out though. :D

TheEvanCat said
So I might just come in with Pepper on this thing. I'm thinking about having an air corps of sorts. At this point it'd only be on paper (no planes, no Vertibirds yet assuming Vertibird guy is gone from this) and acting as a scavenge and repair force to recover oldworld tech and planes before eventually starting it up in the future after some hard work, kind of like the Boomers.

I'd see no issues with this.

Darcs said
I wholeheartedly support the interaction between the generals for this specific reason. We'll greater outline differences between characters like Aesir and Hathaway-- one is actually trained and experienced as a soldier and a general, maybe even knows some NCR strategy. The other is just a sneaky wastelander mutie with a following and a mostly aesthetic title.

After the Unification War winds down (the fall of Sunnyside, and destruction of the 7th Freedom Brigade), and the Township Proxy War meets its conclusion (your next mission), then everyone will be getting together with the President to decide Yakima's foreign policy on a number of issues. More domestic matters will also be brought to the players' attention, and the direction in which the YR grows will then be mostly down to them.

I'm a bit confused with the latest update.

Is the airfield under Yakima control? I said it was in the outcome of my post (and assumed its occupation happened "off-screen" because writing a post about the occupation itself would be boring). If so, are we still supposed to hold it? I'm not sure how happy Hathaway would be if he were ordered to completely abandon the airfield after having lost so much to take it. Not to mention it'd be unwise to leave it undefended. So, is it okay if we assume that (for my next post) Hathaway is leaving a good chunk of his force behind to defend it?

Another thing - Goldendale was taken in my first post. I don't think I specified it in the outcome, but I've pretty much been assuming that Hathaway left a few dudes there to defend it. Probably not much - maybe two dozen lightly armed guys. So.. I'll assume I can pretend there are some guys there and maybe make a post about them holding off an assault.

Either way, this is going to be awkward. This is actually kinda troubling ;P I've been playing Hathaway as a guy who would do his best not to harm NCR soldiers, and ideally I'd want him to avoid getting pinned against them. But obviously he's not in control of that. His own men are against fighting NCR troops, too. This is going to make him pull his hair out. Good for story though. I just have to figure out how to have him worm his way out of this one.

LordZell, am I correct in my interpretation of your post that the 1st Republic Hunters Battalion has fled from Sunnyside Municipal Airport? It was my understanding that there was a large stockpile of supplies in the airport that the 7th Freedom Brigade intended to use to retake Sunnyside. Do they now have access to that stockpile?

Pepperm1nts said
I'm a bit confused with the latest update.Is the airfield under Yakima control? I said it was in the outcome of my post (and assumed its occupation happened "off-screen" because writing a post about the occupation itself would be boring). If so, are we still supposed to hold it? I'm not sure how happy Hathaway would be if he were ordered to completely abandon the airfield after having lost so much to take it. Not to mention it'd be unwise to leave it undefended. So, is it okay if we assume that (for my next post) Hathaway is leaving a good chunk of his force behind to defend it?Another thing - Goldendale was taken in my first post. I don't think I specified it in the outcome, but I've pretty much been assuming that Hathaway left a few dudes there to defend it. Probably not much - maybe two dozen lightly armed guys. So.. I'll assume I can pretend there are some guys there and maybe make a post about them holding off an assault.Either way, this is going to be awkward. This is actually kinda troubling ;P I've been playing Hathaway as a guy who would do his best not to harm NCR soldiers, and ideally I'd want him to avoid getting pinned against them. But obviously he's not in control of that. His own men are against fighting NCR troops, too. This is going to make him pull his hair out. Good for story though. I just have to figure out how to have him worm his way out of this one.

The whole "but I love my former countrymen" tune really struck a sympathetic rhythm with me, so naturally I created a situation where Hathaway is either force to yield the bridge to the NCR, or engage them. There is no right or wrong outcome in any situation, within this RP.

Again, the whole "I lost my boys taking this darn-tooting airfield" struck a similar note. Hathaway now has an option to become disillusioned with President Clearwater's cavalry-charging mentality, whereby he seems prepared to chuck clumps of his soldiers at any crisis, without thinking twice. Perhaps Hathaway says "screw this, I'm not pitting my boys against that!", or "why don't I just take New Dalles anyways, and flank around the NCR? Maybe that'll scare 'em off"

I'll make the point here and now, that people do not need to follow their orders to the word, or at all, really. There will be IC repercussions for certain behaviour, or for totally going against the President's wishes, but I'm not going to boot anyone out of the RP for getting creative with the given subject-matter.

And yes, that's fine for Goldendale. I purposely left details of the village's state to one's imagination, to give you guys maximum creative freedom.

@Darcs, your mission will begin mid-battle, in case it wasn't clear. You've cut the NCR's attack in half, with some of them (100) to the north of you, heading towards Goldendale, and the rest to the south, preparing to surge through you. (600)

Again, you do have the option to say "fuck this!", especially if Hathaway makes a likewise decision.

The Nexerus said
LordZell, am I correct in my interpretation of your post that the 1st Republic Hunters Battalion has fled from Sunnyside Municipal Airport? It was my understanding that there was a large stockpile of supplies in the airport that the 7th Freedom Brigade intended to use to retake Sunnyside. Do they now have access to that stockpile?

Shhhh don't tell him what he's done wrong, I was going to make it a surprise.

Actually, you pretty much outlined what I was going to do. Almost word by word. That being "Fuck Clearwater, I'm going to cross this bridge and do my own thing." I wasn't planning on following Clearwater's orders. It's part of Hathaway's personality to not follow orders, after all. It's what got him kicked from the NCR.

But yeah, I know. I like that Hathaway is being challenged.

EDIT: I had him do something else entirely.

The Nexerus said
LordZell, am I correct in my interpretation of your post that the 1st Republic Hunters Battalion has fled from Sunnyside Municipal Airport? It was my understanding that there was a large stockpile of supplies in the airport that the 7th Freedom Brigade intended to use to retake Sunnyside. Do they now have access to that stockpile?

No as I said we were gonna make it look like we retreated. We took a lot of the supplies and are waiting outside the airport when the freedom fighters come in We'll come in an surprise them while they are ransacking everything we left which was basically dead bodies that are now rotting and any empty cans.

Noted though next time at the end I'll summarize what I did.

WELP.

Hathaway gonna Hathaway.

EDIT: Let's look at the bright side - the NCR isn't going to be holding the bridges either. And I do believe the mission failure points specified it would be a failure if the bridges fell to the NCR. They aren't falling to the NCR - they are falling to a couple of artillery shells, into the river. Hathaway may have had his own, disloyal reasons for his actions, but he may have just stopped a full-blown NCR invasion. At least for a while.

Quick aesthetic question before I post, what is the approximate time all this is going down?

Treachery afoot.

So is there an airfield that I can base at? I see mentions of a newly captured one, but I presume there are already posts established in the area.

McChord and Fairchild are too far out.

Darcs said
Quick aesthetic question before I post, what is the approximate time all this is going down?

I didn't really specify. The post itself took place the morning after the airfield was taken, but the orders issued can take place anywhere between that evening, to maybe somewhere around morning the next day.

TheEvanCat said
So is there an airfield that I can base at? I see mentions of a newly captured one, but I presume there are already posts established in the area.McChord and Fairchild are too far out.

You can make one up, probably.

So?

LordZell said
So?

Yah, I think the guild's period of intense instability has caused a lot of trouble for some players. At this point I'm unsure of what to do, so I guess we'll have a roll call?

Shout out if you're still with us. I'll reorganise the missions to accommodate for missing players.

TheEvanCat said
So is there an airfield that I can base at? I see mentions of a newly captured one, but I presume there are already posts established in the area.McChord and Fairchild are too far out.

Maybe I could assign you a mission to capture one?

I'm still around.

EDIT: Dracs - everything is fine, but Thorne was supposed to pretty much get your people north towards Goldendale. More or less an evacuation northward since there is no way 600 NCR troopers can be held back at the bridge. I don't know if it makes as much sense for them to wait for you at Goldendale, since that's where they were going to drop you off. Just a heads up. You can fix it by just saying Thorne is waiting nearby, not just south of Goldendale. Or don't, I don't care. I'm just making sure we're on the same page.

Goldendale is also not yet lost. There are a few 1st Mechanized guys there still, who Thorne was charged with picking up once he got there.

I'm still around.

I'll give peeps til tomorrow to let me know they're still in, and after that, looks like I've got some serious re-deployment issues to deal with.

At the moment, with Nexerus and Zell the last guys on the eastern front, it's possible the Commonwealth will push us out of Sunnyside. Unless Boerd reaffirms his presence and prevents the whole thing from collapsing, given that his men are the only ones really capable of smashing the 7th Freedom Brigade in offensive operations. If he doesn't, then I think the rangers will be left to hold the borders against a Commonwealth counter offensive, whilst Zell's raiders are redeployed to the southern front.

With the NCR assault from the south threatening to overwhelm a shrunken YR military, the President will likely convene a crisis meeting between the republic's highest officials. If we find ourselves lacking in players, then I'll likely increase troop allowances and budget investments more so than I had planned to cover the short fall. But we'll deal with all that tomorrow, once I know where we stand.

Just something to keep in mind.

Had I foreseen the guild's issues, and related absences, I would have left the NCR's sudden arrival for a while. Ah well, that's war right? Nothing ever goes to plan.

With the bridges down, it's possible the NCR decides to call it off for a while. You don't have to have them commit more forces. Things have not gone to plan for either side. Both the Yakima Republic and NCR are in need of reconsideration and a change of plans. Hathaway fucked the Yakima Republic over as much as he did the NCR when he took down the bridges. I'm looking forward to see how that bit of treachery is handled. Though I am worried I'll end up regretting it ;P