1. Home
  2. Casual Roleplay

[OOC] Foreign Legion - First Contact Through Bad Faith Contracting [Military Sci-Fi] Page 5

Join Status: Full
Hidden 10 yrs ago → 10 yrs ago Post by HeySeuss
Raw —
GM
Avatar of HeySeuss

HeySeuss DJ Hot Carl

Member Seen 2 mos ago
> In desert terrain, I would expect tracked vehicles or hover craft, if that's your pleasure. But in either case, when attempting to establish contact with the enemy, an army would do so with the smallest element possible; a squad. More than likely, there are several squads several kilometers apart spread out over a very broad front. Behind them would be the rest of their platoon, probably two squads and some support weapons, plus their PL and PSG. Behind them would be their Company; another two platoons and the company level support weapons. Also, whatever indirect fire weapon systems are available to them, they would be available to make an impact on any known or suspected enemy (us) locations. > > This could get exponentially larger, but hopefully, Park's platoon leader and/or company commander were listening in on the call for fire and are preparing the rest of the company to move to some sort of a defensive position, ready to accept a Salvesh attack. In this case, they used the underground high speed rail system to get around, or at least their transit tunnels and whatever native transport was available. I figured they have access points on various parts of the surface owing to the Pilavian tendency to burrow in and those access points would be near places where they have sensors set up. Anyway, since there is a contact with the squad, yeah, there's a larger situation brewing.
Hidden 10 yrs ago Post by Foster
Raw —
Avatar of Foster

Foster

Member Seen 16 hrs ago
There are 5 character sheets and only 3 posts, 2 people are going to get wounded at this rate.
Hidden 10 yrs ago Post by HeySeuss
Raw —
GM
Avatar of HeySeuss

HeySeuss DJ Hot Carl

Member Seen 2 mos ago
Pretty much. I'm gonna start the next post and oh well. :)
Hidden 10 yrs ago Post by Gunther
Raw —
Avatar of Gunther

Gunther Captain, Infantry (Retired)

Member Seen 39 min ago
We're going to get a world of hurt coming down on us soon, I hope, I hope.
Hidden 10 yrs ago Post by Foster
Raw —
Avatar of Foster

Foster

Member Seen 16 hrs ago
[*sigh*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9QytJ7WoGs) So, what about close air support? But then I remembered we had a high-speed rail, and thought, [*armored fecking trains*](http://z4.invisionfree.com/NSDraftroom/ar/t10736.htm).
Hidden 10 yrs ago Post by Gunther
Raw —
Avatar of Gunther

Gunther Captain, Infantry (Retired)

Member Seen 39 min ago
I always feel comfortable having a pair of A10s loitering in the rear waiting for a call from the FAC. That would be great. :D
Hidden 10 yrs ago Post by HeySeuss
Raw —
GM
Avatar of HeySeuss

HeySeuss DJ Hot Carl

Member Seen 2 mos ago
> I always feel comfortable having a pair of A10s loitering in the rear waiting for a call from the FAC. That would be great. :D Something similar to an A-10. That'd probably be the aforementioned drones doing air support. The Grathik have advanced drones, but they need input to function...so they rewired them for human input. Also, I'm taking off tomorrow so I'm going to get a post up here. Any suggestions as to the scenario?
Hidden 10 yrs ago → 10 yrs ago Post by Foster
Raw —
Avatar of Foster

Foster

Member Seen 16 hrs ago
> I always feel comfortable having a pair of A10s loitering in the rear waiting for a call from the FAC. That would be great. :D [Support Inbound.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZIgMP28RXE) -BTW, those planes have already been decommissioned, theoretically for sale. (Main reason is that the gun never really fired a proper HE shell for strafing soft targets, just stupidly-fast [and expensive] tungsten and DU slugs that were barely effective tank-killers back in the '80s [the new protections against top-attack munitions as well as improved MANPADS has made the exploitive-nature of aircraft-guns against tanks an inefficient specialization of resources) Although I was thinking [helicopter-gunships](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdJZsD-LCwU) for some reason. -I'm also still fond of the idea of using an armored train as a forward mobile fire-support base for our operations. [despite issues](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOvJbSOEtZM).
Hidden 10 yrs ago Post by Gunther
Raw —
Avatar of Gunther

Gunther Captain, Infantry (Retired)

Member Seen 39 min ago
I only wrote that because when I was with the 3rd Armor Division in the mid 1980s, we always had a pair of A10s loitering over head every time we went to the field. The mother of all storms is bearing down on New England today. We anticipate more than 3 feet of snow before this thing is over Wednesday morning.
Hidden 10 yrs ago Post by HeySeuss
Raw —
GM
Avatar of HeySeuss

HeySeuss DJ Hot Carl

Member Seen 2 mos ago
Alright. I'm just trying to figure out the scenario. I figure if they lost contact suddenly and encountered signs of some sort of enemy activity, the Salvesh would send a couple packs to check it out. I've never really considered what sort of armored support they might have, honestly, but I need to think that one through. Or if Gunther has ideas. It's an alien race with a radically different organizational method.
Hidden 10 yrs ago Post by Foster
Raw —
Avatar of Foster

Foster

Member Seen 16 hrs ago
Dump some of the alien-tech from the Bolo series on them, that or borrow from the more "serious" animes (the ones where they at least bother to explain a hand-waved technology). In that way, one could use somewhat-familiar terms and explain the resemblances to the fact that the Grathnik have influenced popular culture "just in case" so the could on occasion crash-land at some fangirl's house with some prospect of getting native-assistance.
Hidden 10 yrs ago Post by Gunther
Raw —
Avatar of Gunther

Gunther Captain, Infantry (Retired)

Member Seen 39 min ago
We never discussed Mechanized Infantry vehicles in the prep to this. You didn't tell me you were intending on using a desert terrain. If you had, I would have strongly urged Mech and armor. Light infantry, which is what we are now, are best deployed in wooded terrain, Mountainous terrain and Built up city areas (MOUT - Military Operations in Urban Terrain). The original iteration of this RP was set in a Serengeti; clear open grassy plains with copses of trees dotting the landscape. That terrain is best for Mech and Armor, just like a desert, but this is also good for a Light/Heavy mix. You can deploy light infantry in the wooded and built up terrain with armor and mech in the open country.
Hidden 10 yrs ago Post by HeySeuss
Raw —
GM
Avatar of HeySeuss

HeySeuss DJ Hot Carl

Member Seen 2 mos ago
I could always change that first post to reflect that they're in hillier terrain/wadis and so forth. Valleys and gorges, crystal formations and other things to impede vehicle movement.
Hidden 10 yrs ago → 10 yrs ago Post by Foster
Raw —
Avatar of Foster

Foster

Member Seen 16 hrs ago
Well, we are just a recon-patrol to get an accurate fix on the enemy and their strength, adding a few Puma IFVs to our immediate rear and an armored train for a mobile fire support base at the nearest subway-entrance/tunnel should be plenty of ground-based support on our side. As for the enemy, I'm sure they've got at least a pair of IFVs (mostly for SPAAG duties) and a troop-transporter or even a tank behind the next rise. So I'm not sure volunteering for the 'glory' of checking their dead is going to be such a great idea if it's a omni-way killzone (basin/valley). Best let the german squad do that. Making the crystal-formations more expansive (or building an abandoned surface-settlement out of it) could be a plausible excuse, and use of long-range plunging artillery-fire would make sense (heck, hitting a crystal with a 155mm shell... ridiculous amount of non-magnetic splinters).
Hidden 10 yrs ago Post by HeySeuss
Raw —
GM
Avatar of HeySeuss

HeySeuss DJ Hot Carl

Member Seen 2 mos ago
Rewrite will happen today/tomorrow. I have a long overtime shift today, and then I'm off for two days in a row (glory be!) so I'll be revising then. I apologize for the necessity of changing things around, but yeah, I'll rewrite it to create a more infantry-friendly location.
Hidden 10 yrs ago → 10 yrs ago Post by HeySeuss
Raw —
GM
Avatar of HeySeuss

HeySeuss DJ Hot Carl

Member Seen 2 mos ago
As indicated yesterday, I'm rewriting the opening post for terrain changes. I worked a fifteen hour shift, crashed around 11 and was up at 5am. Even on a day off, I can't shake my internal clock, it seems. ;) Edit: Rewrite done. Now in a rocky hill-and-valley sort of terrain. Kept it so that Park's response is consistent -- hit 'em with the artillery.
Hidden 10 yrs ago → 10 yrs ago Post by Foster
Raw —
Avatar of Foster

Foster

Member Seen 16 hrs ago
Summary of changes: 1. Salvesh patrol replaced with a remote outpost or picket, stationary targets in open. 2. Open steppes replaced with a lightly built-up formation of geography complete with valleys and irrigation-ditchwork. Still waiting for others to post. Seuss may want to get something pointy and jab our delinquents.
Hidden 10 yrs ago Post by Gunther
Raw —
Avatar of Gunther

Gunther Captain, Infantry (Retired)

Member Seen 39 min ago
The clock appears to be askew. O_o EDIT: It says I posted this^ one month ago, when in fact it was more like 3 seconds ago.
Hidden 10 yrs ago Post by Foster
Raw —
Avatar of Foster

Foster

Member Seen 16 hrs ago
The clock appears to be askew. O_o EDIT: It says I posted this^ one month ago, when in fact it was more like 3 seconds ago.
That would be the thread start-date. -I'm seeing 13 hrs ago.
Hidden 10 yrs ago Post by Gunther
Raw —
Avatar of Gunther

Gunther Captain, Infantry (Retired)

Member Seen 39 min ago
Not seeing that at all. It tells me you made that post 1 month ago and the last time you were on was 1 month ago.
↑ Top
© 2007-2024
BBCode Cheatsheet