[OOC] Armia Krajowa - WW2 Polish Resistance RP

[DancingEagle]

The New Yorker said
I'm ready. I'll think of the other character as we go.

The first IC-post will be published when this post will be 7 hours old.
You may still submit character sheets, and also for a short while after the RP begins.

[HeySeuss]

I am going to change my character's wound to a head wound, to make it a little different from Gunther's character with a leg wound. The head wound will have neurological effects, like intermittent blurry vision, migraines and behavioral effects/psychological damage. Deafness in one ear, trouble sleeping. I figure he got blown up by a shell.

[Gunther]

HeySeuss said
I am going to change my character's wound to a head wound, to make it a little different from Gunther's character with a leg wound. The head wound will have neurological effects, like intermittent blurry vision, migraines and behavioral effects/psychological damage. Deafness in one ear, trouble sleeping. I figure he got blown up by a shell.

Should I change mine? I never even read about your character's wound. It would be common for two people to suffer similar wounds. it does happen. You really don't have to change just to be "different".

[HeySeuss]

Nah, I'm fine with the idea. ;)

Head wounds don't get enough play in RP's anyway. It becomes an interesting challenge.

[The New Yorker]

What's Poland's infrastructure like right now? After the bombings and all, how well preserved is the city at this point? Also, are the streets just flooded with Nazi's?

[DancingEagle]

The New Yorker said
What's Poland's infrastructure like right now? After the bombings and all, how well preserved is the city at this point? Also, are the streets just flooded with Nazi's?

Some Nazis are walking around the streets, especially after they'll start building the ghettos, but the streets are mainly filled with war refugees trying to rebuild the city.
Again, as part of the Nazi ideology, they didn't have much reason to provide the Poles with basic needs, let alone rebuild their infrastructure. Buildings are still ruined and some are still on fire, as the water works are completely busted.

A good estimation of the situation in Warsaw is depicted in this footage.

[FourtyTwo]

It's an invasion. Bombing was significant, yes, and I mean, Warsaw suffered. But it was mostly intact, you have to understand. Tanks and infantry are rolling in, the aftermath of invasion brings hell, but the Germans keep the systems running in Warsaw initially, because they're there to run things. The trams run, the Jews are rounded up within a year, and things are organized- they leave the water on for themselves. Later, that changes of course- people starving to death and the like says it all, then everything, everything that stands is bombed. The Soviets in the East (that is something many forget), and the Germans in the West split Poland into two, and flooded the place. What happens next is big. They create the General Government (area around Warsaw, and where they initially want to move all the Poles to) and then create the Gaus of Posen and Danzig-West Prussia, which they start moving Poles out of (Source? My mother's side of the family, down to my great-grandparents, they returned to a blitzed and ruined farm that wasn't torched by the Nazis, but by the invading Soviets, as they spoke German....it's more complicated than that). Warsaw isn't that packed before the war- afterwards, it's stuffed full of not just Jews in the Ghettos (from all over Poland) to being filled with refugees from northern Poland, and German soldiers who are basically setting up in the capital- as a extension of a German rule, and there's quite a few. In 1939, military forces, over time, reserve battalions and reserve police, mostly German, and 1944, the Germans are in full force, even the SS I believe. They had an iron grip- this is the very aftermath, barely days after the surrender of Poland, and whilst there are refugees, a lot of which ran from the Soviets who believe it or not, many were scared of (this is my father's side of the family who were unlucky enough to go to Gulags), and I do believe that even into 1944, the Germans did keep a pretty fuck off appearance to any resistance effort. This is why the Uprising is so big- because it was so large-scale an effort, it meant that the citizens of Warsaw were basically involved on a mass scale to bring about liberation for their city, hopefully to be reinforced by the impending doom that the Red Army spells on Nazi Germany.

That penultimate last bit about reinforcing of course, didn't happen in this direct order.

Also, there is one thing to note. The Soviets aren't all the good guys either. I really hate media for portraying that. Once you study Stalin, and view it in particular from Poland's point of view, the AK isn't just a liberation front. It's a terrorist organization to Stalin, and the aftermath of the Uprising is just as significant as the events before it, for the AK at least. I really hope this is something maintained- the end of this RP for many of our characters, for being merely affiliated with the AK in the aftermath (if they survive) is probably death.

[Gunther]

Awesome, Kingkonrad. Thank you, sir.

[DancingEagle]

kingkonrad, I've just noticed you've put "divisions" on your characters. I added them into the "Current Crew" section.

[Templar Knight]

Name: Stanley "Stosh" Kilbowich
Age: 30
Country of Origin: Poland
Religion: Catholic
Division: Comms. ( Also Head Informant of the Clandestine Presses in Warsaw, for his access to information in and beyond Poland)
Appearance:
Personality: Gregarious, but reserved, Stosh is open to his friends and countrymen, ambivalent to most others, and knows better than to openly insult his enemies. He has little experience with combat, he never enlisted in a military unit before the SZP, but he felt compelled to apply his skills to the movement in whatever way he could rather than just sit by and do nothing as the Nazis advanced. He has an adaptable personality, to suit who he's addressing or that the situation requires.
Flaw: Restlessness, and micromanagement. He literally cannot tolerate being idle if there is something of momentousness happening, nor can he get sleep or turn his attention elsewhere if he knows something more interesting is going on or if he hasn't done the job himself. Such a trait makes him a good news hound, but at the cost of him taking a toll on his body from constantly doing things himself without a break, and it makes him hesitant to trust anyone else with his jobs.

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[The New Yorker]

Those (?) are supposed to be in the CS thread, Templar. There's a link in the OP.

[DancingEagle]

The New Yorker said
Those (?) are supposed to be in the CS thread, Templar. There's a link in the OP.

It's fine. I'm more concerned about the triple-post (probably because the site's been in and out of downtime lately). Templar, you're accepted.
I believe we have a big enough roster to begin IC play.

[Templar Knight]

Srry about that, the server was lagging and it must have registered my three posts

[The New Yorker]

I'm just a little lost on what to write really. I'll think of something, I'm sure.

[Peik]

Would it be possible to make a pilot who fought during the initial defense, but got inevitably grounded because of the Surrender?

[DancingEagle]

Peik said
Would it be possible to make a pilot who fought during the initial defense, but got inevitably grounded because of the Surrender?

Historically speaking, yes, Poland did have a relatively small air force during the invasion (despite being obsolete), due to the fact Poland had just started mechanizing its army just a few years earlier, at around '36. Their first all-metal aircraft was manufactured in '33.

P.S. ...Who's going to start RPing?
P.S. 2: Please place your CS in the appropriate thread.

[Gunther]

My apologies. I must withdraw from this Role Play. HeySeuss invited me because he knows I enjoy a good Military History Role Play. But it just doesn't seem to be in the cards for me this time. I do appreciate the invitation, HeySeuss.

Karol Zabek is taken prisoner by the Wehrmacht and will reside in a Stalag for the duration of the war.

[The New Yorker]

I would suggest you elaborate on your post Eagle. I don't want to speak for anyone else but it seems like the OP is a little thin, I don't feel invested in the world right now at all. And I'm having trouble with where to begin. This could all be on me, but I'm having some doubts.