I have no idea actually, I don't think so. But could Maxwell and your character Poly attach to Scott's section?

Polyphemus said
Okay, I just want to make sure I understand this- we're in an alternate history where Winston Churchill was assassinated by a German agent?

I must throw my curiosity, and quite a bit of confusion too, into the fray; Is Churchill dead, did they pull a "The Eagle has landed" operation where it was merely a decoy and the real Churchill is alive?

Here's my sheet! It's slightly rushed, so I apologise for any appalling historical inaccuracies if there are any. :P I'm happy to make edits if need be!

Name: Sean Gardiner
Gender: Male
Nationality: British (Northern Irish)
Age: 32
Physical Appearance: Sean stands at a fairly average height of 5’11”, and has a rather stereotypical “Irish” look to him - with dark hair, pale skin, and bright blue eyes. He has a broad, strong (although athletic) build.

His black hair (usually wavy) is cut short in a military style, and contrasts with the much lighter colour of his eyes. He has a serious look to him, and his cheeks are often covered by a layer of stubble.
Rank: Corporal
Weapon and Ammunition: Bren Light Machine Gun MK 2 | .303, Magazine Filled
Brief Background: Sean was born in Newtonards, Northern Ireland, in 1909. Born into a heavily Loyalist area, Sean (and his family) did not possess the resentment that many Irishmen at the time did toward the British occupation of Ireland - in fact, Sean’s mother was from England. His father was a prominent businessman in the area, and so Sean’s childhood was a quiet and uneventful (although privileged) one. When war came in 1914, Sean was not overly affected, as none of his immediate relatives went to the Western Front. However, a great many of the “big kids” as he had known them at the time did not return when the Great Conflict came to a close in 1918.

Sean was 12 whenever ‘Northern Ireland’ was officially created in 1921, and 13 whenever Southern Ireland seceded away from the North of the country in 1922 to create the Irish Free State. Living as he did in the North (and in a Loyalist area), Sean was immune to the turmoil of the events of the Irish Civil War and those that followed. His teen years and young life went along relatively uneventfully, with Sean getting a job in his father’s business while he went through University.

He got married to his high school sweetheart at the age of twenty-one. The pair soon had a child of their own (a beautiful baby boy named James), who was born in mid 1930. A second child - a daughter, named Susan - followed in 1932.

When War was declared in 1939, Sean was filled with a sense of patriotic duty: he was still a young and perfectly able man, and had been too young to serve in the first Great War - now was his chance to do his bit against Germany and fight for King and Country. However, he had a family - and so his sense of responsibility to his wife and child prevented him from rushing to the nearest recruitment office. Over the next year, Sean continued to work for his father, but gradually began putting his affairs in order: and, once he was sure his family would be provided for, announced that he intended to join up and do his bit for King and Country.

His wife was saddened, but she had known she would not be able to keep him from what he felt was his duty forever: and so, in early 1941, he went to the nearest recruitment office and joined up with the 38th Irish Brigade. He went through training well enough, and was promoted to the rank of Corporal both because of his skill and his father’s connections with several men in the War Office.

When the British Expeditionary Corps was sent to Greece to help repel the German Invasion, Sean shipped out with them: and so, he has found himself on Crete, alongside a mish-mash of other Commonwealth Forces.

Sorry for the double post! It posted my CS twice, and I couldn't figure out how to delete the second one (this post).

ONL said
I must throw my curiosity, and quite a bit of confusion too, into the fray; Is Churchill dead, did they pull a "The Eagle has landed" operation where it was merely a decoy and the real Churchill is alive?

I greatly question the reading ability of most people here.

If you'd just go through that "massive" bit of text in the second post...

Dinh AaronMk said
I greatly question the reading ability of most people here.If you'd just go through that "massive" bit of text in the second post...

Having done that, I am still unsure. I am sorry to bother you by asking questions about your post, but I would greatly appreciate an answer, solely for my own edification- is Churchill dead?

Polyphemus said
Having done that, I am still unsure. I am sorry to bother you by asking questions about your post, but I would greatly appreciate an answer, solely for my own edification- is Churchill dead?

Very clearly so.

No way you can really recover from a cocktail of toxins such as which William fed him, and a slow exposure to low-dosaged of dimethylmercury, which is pretty much undetectable and you don't know you were poisoned by it until you show the symptoms; by which point it'd be too late. However in the dinner scenario it was not the dimethymercury that got to them.

Dinh AaronMk said
I greatly question the reading ability of most people here. If you'd just go through that "massive" bit of text in the second post...

For you information I read it twice, and I understood perfectly well that you wrote William killed Churchill, but that isn't the issue. The issue is the fact that William killed Churchill which I say for us all was not expected at all (Say for the Sturmgeschutz of course).

And just to be clear, don't act like we're all morons when we ask a simple question. Thank you.

Gentlemen, gentlemen, please.

Allow me to explain all.

Dinh originally approached me with his idea a few days ago, and I consented on the following grounds:

- Churchill's removal from power would have far reaching consequences around the various theatres of conflict ongoing at the time.

- No Churchill. Greater room for historical fiction.

- The establishment of a time line that will, or rather, would more than likely have spun things in a different direction.

I understand that this may upset some people, but I would urge for restraint. The players are soldiers, individuals in a game much larger than themselves. The only knock on effect of Churchill's untimely demise for them, is that their operational conditions will change. Referencing my post for example, the War Ministry have decided they very much want to keep hold of Crete no matter what, even if it means destroying the airfields so that neither the Germans nor the Commonwealth can use them. Historically, no such order was made, and it was pretty much left up to the commander of CreForce to do what he wanted, which ultimately proved disastrous for the Allied cause.

Bottom line, this is still very much a World War Two RP, just with greater creative freedom. And we all love creative freedom, don't we?

Now be nice to each other or I'll blitzkrieg your inboxes with pictures of my man tits.

Squrmy said
Sean Gardiner

Accepted!

Awesome! If I understood the posts that have been made so far in the IC correctly, we're all to be in your character's platoon, Sturmgeschutz? Which Sergeant would Sean most likely have been put under?

Or, if you'd like, I could have him be under the command of Lieutenant Bailey. It could make for some more.. interesting interactions between the soldiers, perhaps?

Squrmy said
Awesome! If I understood the posts that have been made so far in the IC correctly, we're all to be in your character's platoon, Sturmgeschutz? Which Sergeant would Sean most likely have been put under? Or, if you'd like, I could have him be under the command of Lieutenant Bailey. It could make for some more.. interesting interactions between the soldiers, perhaps?

Bailey is an NPC boogeyman. Don't concern yourself with him, it's not safe.

Yes, all players are in my platoon. With the exception of Dihn, who will be doing the fine job of narrating the Germans' movements in his area of operations. This'll take some of the monotony out of fighting an enemy whose moves we've already dictated in our minds prior to posting.

Myles is an incompetent officer more interested in the contents of his whiskey flask. He couldn't care less who goes with who, so long as he doesn't get shot - and that it doesn't look bad on him. You can go with either. Both sergeants have a section, which typically consists of 9 men. So that's three sections to choose from, one in the south, one in the centre and one to the north. I don't think it'll matter with who you go with, though if you stick around Myles, be prepared to be his whiskey runner and/or improvised bullet proof vest.

Well, I wanted to play my Corporal as one of the Platoon's Machine Gunners (which is why he's armed with a standard issue LMG for the British Army). I was going to say that he had two NPC Privates with him who were also from his home Regiment in Ireland (if that was okay), who had survived the British failings on mainland Greece, and acted as his MG team ('cause from my experiences on Company of Heroes, there are two extra fellows along with any machine gunner, although I'm not sure if that's historically accurate).

I could stick them under the Kewi's command, perhaps, if that's alright?

Squrmy said
Well, I wanted to play my Corporal as one of the Platoon's Machine Gunners (which is why he's armed with a standard issue LMG for the British Army). I was going to say that he had two NPC Privates with him who were also from his home Regiment in Ireland (if that was okay), who had survived the British failings on mainland Greece, and acted as his MG team ('cause from my experiences on Company of Heroes, there are two extra fellows along with any machine gunner, although I'm not sure if that's historically accurate). I could stick them under the Kewi's command, perhaps, if that's alright?

Depends on the kind of machine gun I suppose. I think a two man team was the standard, thinking of the American 30.cal and the German MG42/34.

A Bren would operate fine with just a single user, but you could also have a "loader" who'd be in charge of keeping the thing going (changing the mags etc) whilst your character could be the guy doing all the pointing and clicking. The loader would also be the eyes and ears, and would be yelling out targets to your character.

So yeah, in summary, you'd have an extra guy with you who'd change the mags and watch the flanks.

Sturmgeschutz said
A Bren would operate fine with just a single user, but you could also have a "loader" who'd be in charge of keeping the thing going (changing the mags etc) whilst your character could be the guy doing all the pointing and clicking. The loader would also be the eyes and ears, and would be yelling out targets to your character.

So yeah, in summary, you'd have an extra guy with you who'd change the mags and watch the flanks.

Alrighty, I'll start writing up a post for Sean, then. He'll have a pair of young Irish fellows along with him, both of whom are semi trained in how to be his "reloading guy", but one who'll just act as a regular ol' rifleman until the other one gets shot. They'll both be expendable, so I'm sure we can easily do away with them and have another player help him out if that's the way things end up going.

I'll start working on an introductory post in a moment, and contact kingkonrad to see if he wants to work on a collab post. =)

Squrmy said
Alrighty, I'll start writing up a post for Sean, then. He'll have a pair of young Irish fellows along with him, both of whom are semi trained in how to be his "reloading guy", but one who'll just act as a regular ol' rifleman until the other one gets shot. They'll both be expendable, so I'm sure we can easily do away with them and have another player help him out if that's the way things end up going. I'll start working on an introductory post in a moment, and contact kingkonrad to see if he wants to work on a collab post. =)

Sounds good to me buddy, welcome aboard.

Thanks! :D

And do we need to have any other Platoon/other character positions filled? I'll get round to writing up a second sheet at some point, and I'm happy to shape my character around a role we need filled.

Squrmy said
Thanks! :DAnd do we need to have any other Platoon/other character positions filled? I'll get round to writing up a second sheet at some point, and I'm happy to shape my character around a role we need filled.

The platoon has around 30-40 troops in it. That's to say the players + background NPCs. So there's space for secondary characters.

Alternatively, If things get stuffy, I could open a "second front" over at the other German landing zone. But let's just stick with our little small scenario for now, and branch out from there.

Seen as more people are having second characters, would you advise me to cook up a new one too?

ONL said
Seen as more people are having second characters, would you advise me to cook up a new one too?

It's a preference. Some people like having more than one character, some don't. As it stands, we still have room for second characters.