When Nations Collide - For all your battling needs!

[Willy Vereb]

Welcome fellow nationgamers!
Did you ever spend hours on getting all the details on your military only to never get to use them?
Do you wish to vent some steam after a tense round of fictional politics?
Well, you are looking for the right place because that's what this game is about!

When Nations Collide is a battle-centered RP where you can use your favorite nation from the NRP section to fight against someone else. The premise is simple yet fun. You post links to your NS and other relevant information here and then wait for a worthy challenger to appear. You make a new thread in either the Arena or the Casual section where you can discuss the details (time, place, reason to fight, unit numbers, etc). If the two factions don't exactly match you can ask for conditions and handicaps to make it fair. If this looks simple for you then it means I did my job right! The point is to have a forum for organizing these matches and allow players to get some fun. If successful then perhaps I can even host an entire tournament for this. For the time being you can only use factions you already made in a previous NRP but perhaps if the interest grows we I can allow players who made their NS for the game right on the spot.

What are you waiting for?
Let's fight!

[ClocktowerEchos]

What are you waiting for?
Let's fight!

@Willy Vereb

[Willy Vereb]

Oh right, I haven't posted you an example yet. Well, let's remedy it, shall we?

Dwarven City States of Zwölberge challenges you!

Nation Profile:
roleplayerguild.com/posts/2659295
Other Information:
None

Summary:
Zwölfberge is a late medieval fantasy nation composed of 12 dwarven city states. They are well-equipped and knowledgable in siege but save for a few like their mercenaries they lack in skill and experience. Zwölfberge can both be invader or defender and it's up for discussion.

[Monkeypants]

Willy... Willy this is a pretty fun idea. I may join in the shenanigans.

[Willy Vereb]

Willy... Willy this is a pretty fun idea. I may join in the shenanigans.

@Monkeypants

Just post whichever faction/nation you want to play with and you're in. For the record the above faction I posted was merely an example. Don't mind if people "challenge" me with them but don't feel pressured if you have nothing that fits against them.
Just post your nation here if you're interested and the rest is handled by this simple yet amazingly effective system.

[EveryMemeAKing]

Interested.

[Willy Vereb]

@MetalLoverBecause it kinda rather belongs to the Arena and Casual threads I don't know if I should make an OOC thread for it in the NRP section. So instead I just use this thread to organize the games. Maybe it'd change in the future but until then feel free to post whichever faction you wish to try. Given the interest I think you can find a match soon.

[EveryMemeAKing]

@MetalLoverBecause it kinda rather belongs to the Arena and Casual threads I don't know if I should make an OOC thread for it in the NRP section. So instead I just use this thread to organize the games. Maybe it'd change in the future but until then feel free to post whichever faction you wish to try. Given the interest I think you can find a match soon.

@Willy Vereb

I remember that like 8 or 7 months back someone ran something similar to this and put it in the NRP section.

[Willy Vereb]

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I remember that like 8 or 7 months back someone ran something similar to this and put it in the NRP section.

@MetalLover

Interesting. I only remember ClockworkEchos' idea which ran an interest thread in the general section.
I volunteered and we made a thread for the fight between Yamatai and Yllendthyr in the Arena section. I am kinda aiming for something similar but more organized.

Mind you giving me a link for that similar thread, though?

[EveryMemeAKing]

<Snipped quote by MetalLover>Interesting. I only remember ClockworkEchos' idea which ran an interest thread in the general section.
I volunteered and we made a thread for the fight between Yamatai and Yllendthyr in the Arena section. I am kinda aiming for something similar but more organized.

Mind you giving me a link for that similar thread, though?

@Willy Vereb

Here it Is

[Willy Vereb]

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Here it Is

@MetalLover

Nah, the two are nothing alike. This game is closer to a straight battle.
You put up your profile and somebody challenges you. Then you make a thread for this match just like we did with Echos:
roleplayerguild.com/topics/87051-when-..
Granted, we got busy but it shows what kind of game I am talking about.

[Inkdrop]

is this still possibly going to happen?

[Willy Vereb]

This game is always open.
Just post which factions you wish to play with and you're in.

[Inkdrop]

@Willy VerebI might use a nation I made for a late Renaissance era RP, just before the invention of steam power with primitive firearms like flintlocks and wheel-locks.

My Hider

The Kingdom of Stoludi

Flag:

A mysterious and young kingdom that was founded hundreds of years ago after a group of pilgrims set sail in longboats, deciding to go drifting for a few months and seeing where they ended up. A month later, they landed on the shores of what would soon be Stoludi. Though it was, at first, just a handful of isolated tribes, the number of people ballooned and grew, until one Queen united them all. Queen Volkim brought the tribes together... some by force, some by bribery, others by simple talk. For over two hundred years, the dynasty Volkim started reigned peacefully. However, one day, a boat landed in the fledgling harbor of Katiraka. The strange man who disembarked promised wonderful things to the people of Stoludi... arms and armor, furniture, pumps, sewage systems, irrigation systems... he wormed his way in until Queen Ginholm V let him land dozens of fat, pot-bellied trade ships in the harbor of Haltien. Thousands of well-armed mercenaries swarmed out and overwhelmed the complacent Queen's Guards, then slaughtered Ginholm as she was getting dressed by her serving girls.

For the next forty years, King Tinnham ruled with an iron fist. The Kingdom withered and nearly died under his rule. Then a rebellion occurred. The proud people had enough of it, and overthrew Tinnham. He was slaughtered and fed to the sharks off the coast of Buxiang. The people cheered and danced and sang, heralding their new Queen as the harbinger of a new age. So she was. Over the thirty years of Queen Pictsun's rule, the country withdrew into isolation. Ships were turned back in the harbors or simply set upon by newly-constructed sea forts and warships. Travelers faced the same fate. The country went quiet for over a hundred years, refusing nearly all trade, ambassadors, and foreign travelers.

One hundred and ten years later, the heir to the kingdom, sixteen year old Annetan IX, began to repeal the laws and rules that caused the isolation of the kingdom. Slowly, the borders were open, and the flow of trade and people resumed. It's going to take a while for the people of Stoludi to acclimate, however. Annetan IX has reassured them that all is well, but they are still weary and distrustful, proud and anchored to traditions. They are a hard, roughly carved people, with pale skin and hard faces. They speak an odd tongue of warped symbols and pictograms, and have a singsong accent that utilizes the throat to accentuate letters (think of Norwegian accent tinted with Japanese). They rely mostly on the seas and the woods for food, hunting most of it, but also getting some from the more fertile Southern regions.

The technology of the Stoludian people is rather outdated, since progress stagnated during the century of isolation. It is catching up, but it is taking some time, so for now their cities remain huddles of wooden huts and other buildings, with log palisades being the main form of protection. This has slowed the population growth, and right now Stoludi has a population of around seventy million.

The people are proud and devoted, rooted in tradition and believing in the King. As a result of the isolation, the Government is still an inherited monarchy, with the Matriarch taking absolute power.

The Military

The Stoludian Army is small and poorly armed, but fiercely devoted, to a suicidal level. Your typical Stoludian infantryman will be wearing a green and brown uniform, thick and insulated to protect him from the harsh Stoludian cold. They are armed with flintlock smoothbore muzzle-loading long guns, and carry sharpened daggers at their sides as melee weapons. These flintlocks have awful accuracy due to their smooth barrels, and their outdated reloading system makes them very sluggish to fire. They are experts at melee combat, however. The Stoludian Army has about 100,000 regular soldiers.

The Stoludian Navy is much like the Army. Poorly armed, but fierce and proud. The Stoludian Navy has fallen far behind in ship building. They have no large sail ships. The largest ships they have might be considered small frigates in other countries...

[Willy Vereb]

@InkdropIronically they seem to be somewhat ahead of Zwölfberge.
Late medieval by some unique tech vs the age of discoveries.

Quoting my previous post here:

Oh right, I haven't posted you an example yet. Well, let's remedy it, shall we?

Dwarven City States of Zwölberge challenges you!

Nation Profile:
roleplayerguild.com/posts/2659295
Other Information:
None

Summary:
Zwölfberge is a late medieval fantasy nation composed of 12 dwarven city states. They are well-equipped and knowledgable in siege but save for a few like their mercenaries they lack in skill and experience. Zwölfberge can both be invader or defender and it's up for discussion.

@Willy Vereb

Though some of their equipment would be surprisingly effective, depending on a bunch of factors. For example their ships use wheels and pedals spinning an Archimedes screw to propel ships made of steel. Against carronade fire and some earlier naval cannons this could prove to be somewhat effective.

Alternatively you can attempt to challenge my alternate history 17th century Hungary-Poland here:
roleplayerguild.com/posts/2841489

[Inkdrop]

@Willy VerebI don't think it would be as one-sided as you believe. Early firearms were incredibly inaccurate, and against troops solely trained to fight melee, it could be pretty disastrous if the dwarves got in close. In addition, as you said, early naval cannons did not do well against heavy armor.

[Willy Vereb]

@Willy VerebI don't think it would be as one-sided as you believe. Early firearms were incredibly inaccurate, and against troops solely trained to fight melee, it could be pretty disastrous if the dwarves got in close. In addition, as you said, early naval cannons did not do well against heavy armor.

@Inkdrop

Well, volley fire overtly dominated in the past so the inaccuracy of early guns is actually kind of a myth. Fact is a musket can reliably hit its target from 50-100 meters and beyond that only the most skilled archers and crossbowmen could achieve a hit. Make it 18th century smoothbores and the result is even better due to the consistent quality of the guns and black powder (as well as better training). You can also have "snipers" who use more higher standard guns with tigher fitting bullets which can reliably shoot at people from considerably longer distance.

Anyways, as of my dwarves (suppose you picked them here) I didn't argue they would be better or worse. I said that their fantasy/clockpunk tech can allow them to catch up with you. I can tell it in more detail during the IC/OOC. Anyways, it's long time for the test drive. Hope you don't mind:
roleplayerguild.com/topics/93165-when-..

[ImportantNobody]

I don't have any nation ready but I could be interested in the future.

[Willy Vereb]

@ImportantNobodyWell, if you absolutely don't have any I suppose you can create one here from scratch.
Just a bit of note, you don't need to be on par with the other profiles posted here. This is more like a challenge thread where somebody posts their "character" and other picks up the match.
Fantasy, sci-fi, medieval or modern... all bets are off.
Your opponent is preferably at similar level as you but that doesn't mean you need to fit it to the other two profiles posted here.
If it comes to it then perhaps I can even be your opponent after I post a profile (I have a bunch of NRPs as you can guess).

[ImportantNobody]

@Willy Vereb

Maybe some scifi nations, as I have some of them figured out for my sci fi setting. If I do something here I don't want to get into minor specifics, being more like brief descriptions and common sense such as general descriptions of range and damage and the rest can be inferred until it becomes important later on and we want to get extra detail for the fun of it. For example, I could say, "they have high powered sniper rifles with medium range for snipers" and we can leave it at that. I glanced over some sheets and it appears like we don't need insane details so that should be fine.

My sci-fi setting is more like star wars and rule of cool stuff rather than engaging the enemy millions of miles away in completely realistic craft. No, I like it where we still need to get up close and personal. Anti-aircraft weaponry can stop aerial bombardments well enough so it doesn't just turn to who has air/space superiority. I like me some land battles.