The Great War Rises
The date is the 27th of June, 1914. Tensions between Austria-Hungary and Serbia are at an all time high and rumors have it that Serbian nationalist have plans to assassinate Archduke Franz-Ferdinand. The world seems to be on a path to war, a war to end all wars.
New Technology, New Tactics, More Death
Sorry for the short description but this should be obvious, this RP starts a day before Archduke Franz-Ferdinand is assassinated OTL (Our Timeline). This RP, like most rps that involve actual historical events, does not involve you creating an app, it just involves you claiming a nation.
Nation claiming works like this, you, the person who wants to play, says the nation that they want to claim, and if it is unclaimed then it shall be yours. If by some odd chance you claim something that someone else picked, I will ask you to claim another nation. If you pick Serbia or Austria-Hungary you do not have to have an assassination of Franz-Ferdinand happen, World War 1 in some way probably still happens.
Regarding claiming Colonies, you are allowed to claim Colonial Regions. Examples of these regions include British Raj and Company Rhodesia. If you want to claim a region but don't know if it makes sense for the setting of this NRP, simply ask me.
That is about it for now, you can start claiming nations. I claim the United States of America.
Rules
My Word Is Final, but in most situations I will allow you to resolve it yourselves.
Respect others involved in this RP. Do not start an argument in the OOC, and if a debate gets to large, move it to PMs.
Please, give an alert if you are going to be gone for over a week. If you are gone for over one week your nation will be an NPC, but if you return you shall get it back. This is unless you stay gone for two weeks, in which your claim on your nation will be revoked.
If you are warned two times, you shall be banned from this RP and your claim shall be revoked.
Do Not make your nation seem completely overpowered. In a situation where two nations that are around equal footing, make it seem that way. In a situation where one nation is much stronger than the other (Example: Germany vs Belgium) make it seem that way.
Some rules are not written as they are common sense, I give myself the ability to warn you for defying common sense.
Lastly, Have fun. It's a Nation RP, not Brain Surgery.
How The IC will work
IC posts will be from the perspective of the character. You do not have to have a specific character for each IC post, you could have it from the perspective of a front line soldier in one post, and the leader of the nation in the other.
Even if posts are from the perspective of the character I do want you to provide information on what you construct. Instead of involving turns, I will allow you to just have IC posts from your countries leaders perspective with him/her just stating what moves he wants to make.Making posts go from the perspective of the character means you have to be realistic, you can't just have the German Empire conquer the UK in 1 post.
Since this RP will take place right before a war that only escalated because of a bunch of random alliances, there needs to be a way to form them, and there are. One way is to send a "telegram" in the IC (Just put a hider for to the nation(s) you are talking to) and what the specific terms the alliance will have. (Example: If you want the alliance to only be for defensive situations or for all armed conflicts) The other way to form alliances is to do it in PMs. These alliances will remain unknown to the other players until the are actually needed in conflict. In a situation where a nation is allied to two nations on opposite sides in a conflict, it is up to them to pick a side. The alliance they have with the person on the side they did not join will be declared null and will no longer exist.
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