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Boots on the Ground - A Sci Fi Military RP

That actually would work great thethe officer commanding the tankers can be killed in the initial attack.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Worth the trip already

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Is there anyone out there?

Boots on the Ground - A Sci Fi Military RP

Do you guys have a notion of what your ranks will be? Obviously with me as a noncom you are likely to be senior. There is a captain in overall command of the taskforce but he can be an npc if necessary

Boots on the Ground - A Sci Fi Military RP

Tasha Cole

Rank: Platoon Sargent

Position: Currently commanding 3rd Platoon I company (Combat Cars) – awaiting a replacement Lt.
Origin: New Friesland (the Slammers take recruits from everywhere but there is a substantial core of Frisians)

Age: 26

Appearance: A very fit woman with tightly cropped brown hair. Her face might be described as handsome but few would go so far as to call her beautiful. She is of medium height but is well muscled for her size.

Service History – Sgt Cole is entering her fourth year with the Slammers. She has seen heavy fighting on Prosperity, New Calen and Plattner’s world and has risen through the ranks based on natural ability and being fortunate enough to survive. She joined the slammers as a combat medic before being pushed into combat cars due to crew shortages.

Perception: As a senior noncom Sgt Cole is a combat veteran. She is no nonsense and is widely considered to be a solid and competent soldier. She has been in the field a long time and is starting to show some of the early signs of combat stress. If it wasn’t for the fact that this assignment was supposed to be a cake walk, she might have been reassigned to a desk in the rear for a few months.

3rd Platoon, I Company.
Item 3 consists of six combat cars out of a usual strength of nine. It is the only element of Item that has been attached to the ad hoc Taskforce Tambre. At the opening of the operation it is fully crewed with 24 crew including gunners and drivers.

Boots on the Ground - A Sci Fi Military RP

We can each create a platoon or smaller detachment. The story will begin with a pretty devastating ambush however and out numbers will be substantially thinned out. I plan on creating an already under strength platoon of combat cars and its going to lose even more in the opening moments of the story.

Boots on the Ground - A Sci Fi Military RP

I've seen infantry referred to as riding small one man skimmers with gun jeeps that carry heavier weapons such as mortars. Combat cars seem to be deployed in separate units. There don't appear to be dedicated APCs.

Boots on the Ground - A Sci Fi Military RP

We are taking the role of a detachment of the regiment only. I think platoon sized elements will be more than sufficient, at least in the opening stages.

David Drake - Hammer's Slammers

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Alright guys I have the topic created I look forward to seeing character ideas!

Boots on the Ground - A Sci Fi Military RP

Welcome everyone! This will be a sci-fi military role play set in the universe of David Drake's Hammers Slammers, an armored mercenary regiment. This is going to be more free form than many rp's and I encourage you to improvise elements of the plot at will. If something is too out there I will reign it in.

This is a military themed RP and it will be correspondingly graphic, you have been warned.

The World of Trabzon

Trabzon is a relatively prosperous world. It was settled in the early diaspora by a majority Muslim Turkish stock. For decades it eked out an existence based on cultivation of wheat, high protein fungus and light manufacturing. With the increased galactic warfare of the last thirty years however, Trabzon has found a new lease on life. Increasingly sophisticated electronics have been coming into use throughout the galaxy from first tier worlds like Calth and New Friesland. As these worlds move to more and more high tech and expensive, components, space has opened up for producers of cheap but serviceable electronics for poorer worlds. Thanks to wise economic leadership in the past, Trabzon


Unfortunately this new found prosperity has bought with it social strife. Former agricultural magnates, who once ruled vast fiefdoms, are losing power to their prosperous merchant rivals. These conservative oligarchs are known collectively as the Wheat Barons. They have organised themselves into a loose alliance to attempt to quash their urban rivals and ensure they stay in power. The Wheat Barons have near total control of the rural areas and are powerfully connected to the Islamic faith. They have routinely used this connection to stir up religious strife, inciting the ‘pious’ rural people rise up against their more prosperous/decadent urban brethren.



With the death of the last president and a contested election, the violence has begun to intensify. Urban magnates see it as the moment to break the power of the old feudal families and the rural elite see it as the last chance to put down the upstarts from the cities. After a wave of bombings and violence by local militia groups, President Jamal Khalid took the drastic step of hiring Hammer’s Slammers with the goal of preventing the violence from degenerating into civil war.



For the past three months the Slammers have kept a lid on the violence, with only minor actions of riot suppression and counterinsurgency. Unbeknownst to anyone, in the Slammers or the Government, the Wheat Barons have hired mercenaries of their own and are now moving to ambush the would be peace keepers and destroy them before they can adjust to the new strategic situation.



Allied Forces:

Hammer’s Slammers – A large mercenary armored force consisting of tanks, combat cars (effectively open topped gun carriers), artillery and mounted infantry. All Slammers vehicles are air cushioned hover craft.

Indig(enous) Forces – A rag tag, undisciplined and under equipped local army, corrupt and not particularly willing to fight. It is also very factional with more loyalty to local commanders and paymasters than the national government. Some elements have gone over to the enemy.



Enemy Forces:

Rural Militia- About what you would expect. Untrained but adept at ambushes and IED style attacks.

Enemy Mercenaries

The opposition has hired several smaller units rather than a single large one. These include specialist commando elements that are responsible for the initial strike against the slammers. I encourage you to invent mercenary units. They will contain infantry, armored and artillery elements, although these may not all arrive during the first phase.



Tactical Picture

At the beginning of the story Hammer’s Slammers fall victim to a massive surprise attack which has been carefully coordinated by off planet mercenaries who specialize in these tactics. Several fire bases are decimated by bombings and the deliberate crashing of space craft. Outlying units like Task Force Tambre (the group to which players are currently assigned) are subject to ambush attacks with the goal of destroying them wholesale. At the same time, all Slammers communication satellites are taken out by the locals, resulting in a partial communications blackout and a loss of all satellite recon capabilities. The slammers will respond by taking out enemy satellites but the resulting intelligence black out will give the enemy a chance to begin landing regular forces at various points on Trabzon.