@Crossfire@Gunther

Doesn't entirely surprise me, you don't want too many officers in the pot, hence why even with Merlin as a Warrant-Officer type, he holds the 2IC position close to JB, yet gets the chance to go a bit mental. I'm really looking forward to playing him, he'll be plenty frightening enough, which I don't really get the chance to really bring out into some of my characters, military or otherwise. The kind of person who yelling sounds like a fucking foghorn.

Seriously, two Polish characters in this RP, and they're not mine. You better do a good job of being Polish, or else I'll smash a bottle of Dabrowka vodka over your head. :D

(I'm a 3rd generation Polish person in the UK and speak it fluent)

We've met sir! ;) We worked on some RPs together years ago, Kingkonrad before the original forum went down.

I used to work with a first generation Pole. He was my Engineer and I was the Conductor on a Freight train. He also served with a LRRP Team in the US 173rd Airborne Brigade in 1968-69 in Vietnam. I used to listen to a lot of his stories. They were awesome. Albeit I struggled to understand him at first, but eventually I caught on. His Polish accent was very thick as he came from a small village about 20Km west of the Belorussian border and grew up speaking both Polish and Russian. On another note, I served with a couple of Polish Airborne Officers in Bosnia-Herzegovina in support of Operation Joint Forge in 2001.

I would've thought the lower ranked guys wouldn't be trusted to do much due to inexperience. Insert "The More You Know star" here I guess!

In today's world, Company Grade Officers and Junior NCOs are the ones doing all the fun stuff. It is the Squad Leaders, Team Leaders and Platoon Leaders who knee deep in the action. The Platoon Leaders, however are the most inexperienced leaders on the battlefield. They often tend to be clueless. The successful ones are those who either served as NCOs before they went to OCS or allow the NCOs to do their jobs. They listen to their NCOs who are more often than not voices of experience. I probably shouldn't call it fun because if you ask any of them who served in combat, fun is usually not the term they would use to describe those experiences.

Captains, Majors and higher tend to serve more in Planning, Coordinating, Support and Oversight positions. They are Information managers. When I was in Bosnia, my title was that of a "Battle Captain". My job was to maintain situational awareness of all significant events in our Division's Area of Responsibility (AOR) and then report these events to the Division Commander, his staff, SFOR headquarters in Sarajevo and 7th Army Headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany. It was very boring, but I knew what was going on in country all the time.

Doesn't entirely surprise me, you don't want too many officers in the pot, hence why even with Merlin as a Warrant-Officer type, he holds the 2IC position close to JB, yet gets the chance to go a bit mental. I'm really looking forward to playing him, he'll be plenty frightening enough, which I don't really get the chance to really bring out into some of my characters, military or otherwise. The kind of person who yelling sounds like a fucking foghorn.

Please do not confuse the American version of a Warrant Officer with the British version of a Warrant Officer. They are two very different roles. American Warrant Officers have no leadership responsibilities, except at the lowest levels and are considered subject matter experts in whatever their field of training is. British Warrant officers are senior Non-Commissioned Officers and are the grizzled veterans who have been everywhere and seen everything. They are the legitimate bad asses of the British Army. Chief Warrant Officer 2 (CWO2) are the Company/Squadron level Senior NCOs. They are the senior NCOs at Company/Squadron level and are advisors to the Company Commander or Squadron Commander who happens to be a Major. Chief Warrant Officer 1 (CWO1) are the Regimental Sergeant Majors (RSMs). These NCOs have served for no fewer than 18 years. They know everything there is about being a soldier for the Queen (or King). Check out this website: army.mod.uk/structure/32321.aspx

But that doesn't mean a senior NCO cannot be a 2IC. They can and they are. Every unit has a Non-Commissioned Officer In Charge (NCOIC).

@Crossfire Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't Task Force Zero a Private Military Corporation? I get that impression since everyone comes from various nations or origin.

@Gunther

My intention there really, to really project Merlin into that. I didn't actually know that far into it, but I would have thought he'd make good for being a relatively high rank at about that pitch, given his age and experiences (an awful fucking lot), to know what he's doing. Stuff like RSMs are very, very specific and not really relating to what Merlin would be doing, so WOs are a nice area to place him in, if he's a 2IC.

I originally had him as an officer, but actually, for this RP, CWO1/2 is a relatively nice position for him, the more I think about it. He's not officer material (you can't see him going pip-pip, chaps) because he'd way prefer to kick some fucker's head in than sit behind a desk, or keep back. Though he could, I think it can be justified by that. As far as the States go, I only know that it's a specialism, but not that, actually.

It seems like a combined task force, from the looks of things- lots of countries (NATO, I take it, plus friends) into one task force.

Wait was that IC directed at the currently accepted PCs?

@Gunther yes, its primarily a military operation, authorized by NATO plus other 'allied nations' (which is code for whatever nations people want to rp characters from) but due to the situation (which will be explained once everyone's gathered together) we can say invitations would have been sent out to trustworthy former soldiers who currently operate as PMC's. Apologies for the confusion, this idea kind of came together in a hurry, and in my eagerness, I didn't really explain much

@Banana Yup, that's the call to action for everyone to show up so we can get things rolling.

@kingkonrad I was born in Wroclaw, Poland in '92. I speak it fluently, and have tried a few times to relearn it by myself. Fascinating results to say the least.

Don't worry.

@Grey Rain

Ah, awesome.

Cross, going to move it along? I think we all posted in :) (after Big)

I'm getting there! I'll get a post in here once I finish a post for another RP here shortly.

@BigPapaBelial@kingkonrad

Yeah I'll wait on Big before we move ahead then

Sorry about the wait folks, the weekend's been pretty busy, will have the post up later tonight though!

Okay. I will subscribe to the thread then.

Scwheet! I'm gonna have fun with Merlin. I think with half the team, he's going to be a judgemental arsehole, and the other half, he'll be pretty amicable. By judgemental arsehole, I will advise you ahead, his swearing is gonna be good....Edward on the other hand, I think is kinda gonna be getting on with anyone :P

It took me a minute but I realized this team has a lot of grenadiers.

Edit: There was a lot from my knowledge. Nevermind then.

Damn, I knew I was forgetting something, sorry again everyone, working on the post now

@Crossfire

Hop to it! :D

@Banana

Merlin's kinda a grenadier, but he might not use the UGL on his SCAR a lot- or, for special stuff, he might just take a full-size shotty over his 870, such as an M1014, or AA-12. With a drum. And potentially 12 gauge frags.

Why bother being a grenadier when you can carry an automatic shotgun that fires explosive rounds? :D (although practicality means that it can't be used for 99 percent of things that you'd normally use a shotgun for, eg. closer quarters, and half a dozen reasons that I could start reeling off....)

Merlin's SCAR actually makes him a bit more of a Designated Marksman if he had to be oto, with a close-up effect if he puts a longer barrel and stock adjustment into it, he handles that 7.62mm round rather nicely. For diving stuff, perfect, otherwise, a 7.62mm FN Minimi (I thought about the FN MAG, and other bigger GPMGs, but I thought for Merlin's role as more of an Automatic Rifleman who can move about, yet fire a harder round, the Minimi is a better shot) lights shit the fuck up. Hurrah.

Kinda slap-dashed together but we're good to go!

Cool- mind if I slightly pitch things forward into the armoury with my next post? I can get some sweet-talk going in there, between the various operatives in some quick-fire stuff if needs be, or even collabs :)

I also put in a really cheesy moment that only me and @ONL are gonna understand, it's a bit of a throwback to my first post in a MW RP, very similar to this....six years ago when I was new to RPG.

Also, there might be some unrestricted savage in my post, at least, mentally. Because I think Merlin's good at that. Rise to it how you like :D I do want to play him as a complete cynicism to the team and it'll make him/me look like a complete asshole for a while, but every member of the team will get his respect, one way or another....promise ;P

@Crossfire

11-Member Team for Task Force ZERO
Captain JB Upton, 38, Team Leader
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Merlin Bastion, 38, Team NCOIC, FN Minimi Para 7.62mm or FN SCAR-H
Sergeant First Class Tyus Morse, 36, Special Operator, FN SCAR 17H or MP5/40 SMG
Staff Sergeant Sebastian Dabrowski, 29, Special Operator
Sergeant Adam Delgado, 29, Rifleman
Sergeant Romek Czerepusko, 26, Special Operator, Polish Bor 7.62mm bolt action sniper rifle & FB Mini-Beryl carbine
Master Corporal Tyler Crowstep, 31, Special Operator/Chemical Biological and Radiological NCO, Colt C7A3 or AR-10T or H&K MP7A1 PDW
Corporal Ed Thatcher, 22, DM/Rifleman, Mark 14 Enhanced Battle Rifle or H&K MP7A2
Corporal Erik Mvittfelt, 30, Special Operator, Grenadier
Private First Class Gwenyth Julianna, 21, Grenadier, XM25-CDTE Issue Grenade Launcher & Uzi SMG
Private Taylor Cooperfield, 27 Rifleman