Andreyich

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So, 2nd Battalion, Sokol Group?

@Gunther

I reminded myself of when Dutchbag and I were talking about this in PM. I started with a Regimental organization and strength of three battalions and then reduced it to one battalion.

@Gunther

I'll chime in by pointing out we all have roughly a battalion sized unit, with some manner of supporting elements. Gunther's bat is a consolidation of the remains of his brigade's three battalion into one, mine is a bottom-up gathering of militias. If you want to have two battalions, I'm not going to stop you, but in order not to overextend I'd suggest having Sokol group around the strength of a (reinforced) battalion, with nine to twelve infantry platoons.

@Dutchbag

2nd & 3rd Battalions, Sokol Group.

The thing is that Berkut battallions are traditionally much smaller than actual military ones, so there has to be more than one to achieve something like numeric parity with the other applications in this game.

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I need to resume writing the Brigade Operations Order. @Andreyich Do you have a designation for your unit?

Dutchbag: II./34th Motorized Rifle Regiment (MRR)
Gunther: I./34th MRR
Landain: I./37th Tank Regiment
Andreyich:

@Gunther

Sokol group, working name of the united force of Berkut 2nd & 3rd Battalions.

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At the moment my composition is men mostly on acquired cars and trucks including civilian yes, along with seized heavy weaponry. Not the armour of IFV/APC/MBTs but much more liquidity of assets. Like former Berkut troops did around 2014-present they also make use of their aluminum riot armour for light but effective frag suits. They are very well trained but not prepared for this sort of fighting.

Discord vs OOC

Discord is an instant message it doesnt replace large static forum posts all that well

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I was finishing up something but then I realized I should have asked this before: traditional foot infantry is not allowed I take it, but what about motorized?

Of Petty States: A Warhammer NRP

The Osseus Hollow

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To the the underworld of the Bonelord arrived a figure that he could see as a blessing, as a curse, or perhaps simply a nuisance. It was a fellow Skaven who was larger than the typical clanrat - almost the size of a Stormvermin - yet lacking the upright posture of Stormvermin and much of the Skaven intellectual castes (though the full extent of his proportions was hidden by the grand cloak upon him).

He was a strange fellow, with a particulalry long snouth and jaw to much peering out from the length of his hood. His fur was rather well maintained despite having apparently travelled this treacherous distance on a stormfiend, but just as interesting were the two very long and transparent warpstone cylinders likewise peering out from the hood and resting upon the snout of the giant rat; some more learned folk would be able to watch and see how light twisted around the lengths of green, and after witnessing the two brown orbs projected out the flat but smooth tips of the cylinders they would be able to deduce that these were very, very large spectacles made out of warpstone.

He would speak to the skaven he came upon and ask to see the Bonelord, claiming to have a very important duty. Though many might call this claim to be dwarf-thing-shit, he announced himself to be an Inspector from the Council of Thirteen.

What Are You Listening To?

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Do you need help putting a unit together?

@Gunther

I'm still somewhat undecided on which two options I am leaning more towards, what time frame to start are we looking at?

Tips for writing POC, LGBT+, and other minority characters in RP

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That’s an interesting point, and I definitely don’t doubt it. However I also have a couple Latinx friends who do use “Spanglish” in their daily life, so I wonder if there’s some variation across people from different cultures? Living in the southwestern region of America, we have a lot of people from Mexico in my county, and it seems to vary even person to person whether they weave Spanish into their speech or not.

@Dagger

That is a matter of dialect vs not knowing the language. "Spanglish" is from my experience spoken by people with a fine grasp of the English language but have learned their own specific variants of it.

Of Latin American countries I have only been to Cuba and Mexico (and admittedly much more the former), but when off a resort or airport I promptly found the behaviour I described wherein attempts to speak English did not include Spanish elements. When I switched to French with a few of them it occasionally happened that they threw in a Spanish word or two, but that is a product of the two languages being very similar, and while not completely accurate a good comparison would be someone from the British Isles using "rubbish" in the Americas when they should have said trash. Moreover, diasporas and people from the "old country" tend to develop very distinct cultures.

As a comparable example is here in my native Belarus the vast majority of people speak a transitional language known as Trasianka that is a mixture of Russian and Belarusian. The exact proportion of the mixture depends how far East you live, but this isn't because they don't know either of the languages poorly, its simply because this is what they gained fluency in.

So, back to my original point. People who have not gained complete fluency in English will not throw in words from our first languages. They're not idiots, they're well aware that 9/10 times this will make the person they are speaking to only more confused. Indeed, as an English speaker who tried (and admittedly failed) to master German, when I was in Germany I did not insert English words into my German speech save for the rare exceptions I came upon a person I knew for a fact had some measure of English proficiency (mostly Munich airport staff).

Of Petty States: A Warhammer NRP

Lodi

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With winter's end many men would know that a harvest season would soon begin. But elsewhere the changing of seasons meant something entirely different. Some time ago and far away the Asrai held their court, until Orion eventually awoke to do the bidding of Kurnous, revered of the Wood Elves. The Wild Hunt began, and now it reached lands of the Empire. How they passed so many lands to reach this point without being intercepted was a mystery, but a far greater one was why then, if they can move as such, did they now have to ask the Lord of Lodi for permission to cross his lands?

For indeed, some villagers would speak of a great column of foreigners riding stags quietly going through the night, until one such pointy-eared rider would arrive at the Castle of the Lord hoping for a quick audience, his request simple; that the men of the Empire not interfere with the Asrai as they passed through.

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The Realm of Azzsar

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The realm of Azzsar had only now begun to stir with their Lord's recent awakening. But there were those who sensed these things, even if inelegantly. Whispers went through the darkness of the mountains, whispers that reached a great many ears that all made use of their new knowledge in oh so different ways.

But the most immediate result Azzsar himself would notice - perhaps informed by his most sapient of serfs - was the lingering of giant spiders at the edges of his realm, of red eyes glowing in the dark that could not be accounted for by anyone under the Dark Lord's command.

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The Duchy of Gisoreux

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To the lands of the Duke would appear a wandering wizard. He was not the typical practitioner of magics of Brettonnia, but he was rather a more Imperial looking man. The more cosmopolitan people who had seen him would be divided in describing him as a wizard of Shadows or of Beasts, but they would certainly agree he had the look of a college boy, what with the beard not to his knees and still not quite grey. Some would say small miracles would come follow him, but he was not here to spread these wonders.

He would state to any he passed that he had a most important business to attend to, that he had to speak to the Lord of Gisoreux with a very important matter.