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Helping Lima Beens not get glassed (teaching thread, OOC)

09-10-2003, 01:21
before I start I ask that none but lima beens post please if you want to give me critism or point out any errors (other than spelling please), giv eme ideas on what to teach him about send me a Telegram.

Zenmensonsou

ok I'm jsut gunna get start with this now , here's the basic rules of any sorta of good RP(game/forum/whatever).

1) "it's gotta be believable": that means that say you got a gun with 2 bullets in it, your not gunna be able to take on a fully armed and armored army of battled harden veterns, you'd be able to take out 1 or 2 (possible 3 if you hit a guy with the handle in the throat)

2) "have a story": how did you come to get in whatever mess or situation your in?

3) you gotta have a character: now in NS you have a nation but it's usually a good idea to have a character that runs that nation, for me example, my leader of Zenmensonsou is James Blue he's a dictator he likes to do things himself, so that usually means he's gunna attend international meetings himself.

4) "like all things they grow from something small": your nation is small when it begins chances are they've not gunna be well off military wise and they might how have a good ecomony either but if you take your time spend wisely you can turn that nation into a superpower, or even let it evolve so it eventually leaves earth and explores the stars, chances are your not gunna be able to afford the equipment to equip an entire army hell probably not even half,

5)"look before you leap": as the name implies don't just go into a thread adn start posting left right and center. if you think you have something important to say think it out and post it, if your jsut trying to raise the number % of post per day just don't post.

6) "use less thread, save the rainforest!": don't post something that could go into another one of your topics it uses less of max berry's bandwidth = happyness for the whole family.

7)your not invincable: as the title suggests, you cna't go around saying you got a super-duper ray gun of major bad guy smiting +1 and expect to be taken seriously...or not to be glassed by 10 different nations.

8 ) your not gunna have a huge army: at teh most it's advisable to have at most 3%, if you do more than 5% your country is gunna go bankrupt.

9) remember realism!: yes you can have a country of elves half cat half human people (or neko's/etc. ) or whatever you like, but their aren't drones ('cept in some countries cases) they aren't gunna just gunna get plugged in then 5 minutes later end up saying "I know kung-fu" and actually know it, they can say they know it but chances are they're lying there asses off. remember Realism!.

thats all I can think of for the basics, it's a little longer than I hoped for but oh well.
09-10-2003, 01:35
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09-10-2003, 22:41
War and Ettique

I had a nice long post with all the juicy stuff for this next lesson but guess what invalid session -.- anyways I’ll see if I can remember some of it.

your nation

congratulations you have a small but steadily growing population, but there are a few questions you have like how many people should I have in my military?

well my new friend there is a simple way to find out what percentage of your population should be in your military, generally all nations have between 1-5% of their population in the armed services (most RL nations aswell) a easy way to figure it that I found myself was to use google simply type in the “percentage you want between 1-5%” then “of” then “your population” hit enter, then look at the number it gives you.

IE.

3% of 36 million = 1 080 000

buy equipment for your army

ok your figured out your basic military numbers, good, now it’s time to start buy some basic equipment, first off your not gunna be able to buy all the stuff you need in one day if you could you’d be outta cash so fast your break the worlds land speed record, you’ll probably be able to buy a lot of assault rifles a tank or two maybe a few fighters probably not a destroyer or other sea craft unless you decided not you buy those tanks and fighter.

And anyways you gotta look after your people, you can’t just spend every last dime on military you gotta fund everything, education, and other such things like it. You can’t have a working and effective army if your population is starving to death now can you?

Tactics

More doesn’t equal absolute victory

congratulations, you’ve got an army of say 60 thousand and are invade my country that has an army of 30 thousand, you outnumber me 2 to 1 but that doesn’t mean squat, my guys might be trained for guerilla warfare and their fighting in their turff they know this land like that back of their hand and your just another cowboy wanting his piece of the pie. You could be blitz’ing any cities you want while a few thousand of my troops are moving around you and hitting your medical and resupply outpost effectively and royally screwing you over. I’m sorry you just lost the war and a large sum of your population, have a nice day.

Tactics will beat a blitz any day
weather you like it or not it’s true all it takes is some well placed explosives, mines, and machine gun nests to turn your attacking force into swish cheese in 5 minutes.

A spy is nice, but a spy and a assassin is better

Lets face it wars are slowly turning away from trench warfare towards getting your men in the enemy ranks, with a spy you can learn what their going to do and when their going to do it, and a assassin is in conjunction with a spy in enemies ranks almost means victory, while your spy learns valuable date your assassin can kill off a general causing chaos among the ranks slowing things down to a near halt.


Ettique

here are some things I think are just common sense but some people lack these things

1) you might want to keep your plans secret but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t post them just add the “secret IC” to the end and if the say they knew you did such and such they either got a spy in there (in they posted say they had one) or they goddmoded.

2) let the other person total up the damages you did on them

I’ll post more as I can remember them.
10-10-2003, 00:21
thanks
10-10-2003, 01:26
np prob there be more tho :twisted:
Roania
10-10-2003, 01:28
Can I still glass him for a stupid name? :wink:

And can I glass you for an unpronouncable name?
10-10-2003, 01:32
lol....no

and no you can't glass me either

I think it's pronounced Zen"Men"Son"Sou but don't hold me to it thats how I pronounce it anyways
Roania
10-10-2003, 01:33
lol....no

and no you can't glass me either

I think it's pronounced Zen"Men"Son"Sou but don't hold me to it thats how I pronounce it anyways

Right...

Pity. Have to find someone else for the bonfire. :twisted:
10-10-2003, 01:36
why not try the nation down the street (*cough* melkor unchained*cough*)?

heard he burns good....>_>'
Roania
10-10-2003, 01:38
why not try the nation down the street (*cough* melkor unchained*cough*)?

heard he burns good....>_>'

I said bonfire, and I don't want to be in it. :shock:
10-10-2003, 01:40
lol good point anyways this thread is sorta getting sidetracked, I want it to be noobie friendly
10-10-2003, 01:44
This is a very good point and doesn't just apply to Lima, it applies to all newbies.
10-10-2003, 01:45
thats exactly how I wanted to make it, right now I'm making Lesson 3! Interactions with other nations!

hehe it's like an evil little manual :twisted:
10-10-2003, 02:08
grr stupid invalid session...
11-10-2003, 00:06
OOC: I did this because alot of the war threads I read are the same I would like to see some unquieness to them hopefully this will help.

I decided to skip the actually lesson three and go to this one since i didn't really have much info to make it worth reading.

Lesson Three: basic Gurriella Warfare tactics

http://groups.msn.com/Zenmensonsou/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=3
http://groups.msn.com/Zenmensonsou/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=3

the following two scenerios will give you an idea (hopefully)on hwo to use gurreilla warfare to combat large numbers.

"explosives are your best friend, as long as your the one using them"

http://groups.msn.com/Zenmensonsou/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=4
http://groups.msn.com/Zenmensonsou/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=4

in this scenerio a large number of enemy troops are passing through, you set up 6 explosives hidden under weak foiliage, in middle area of the road, you have 20 standard grunts with you, you can do :
A) as they pass through set off the explosions and while they in the midst of confusion and choas, your 20 troops move in adn open fire.
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B) as they pass through open fire on them then set off the explosives
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C) assault them as they leave entrace A from behind pushing them into the kill zone, then set off the explosives then have the rest of your troops move in.

using the surrounding area and air support in conjunction

http://groups.msn.com/Zenmensonsou/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=2
http://groups.msn.com/Zenmensonsou/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=2

In this scenerio a tank sqaud is passing through with a tree that had fallen over due to the night before's storm (or otehr means), having recieved early warning, you equip for troops with single use anti-tank disposable rocket launchers(SATDRL), you also were given permission to use 4 msall anti-tank bombers filled with anti-tank bombs. you can:
A) let the bombers bomb the tanks then move in with the SATDRL (single use anti-tank dispoable rocket launchers) and pick off the remaining tanks and survivors.
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B) have a couple troops distract the tanks for a second while the bombers do their bombing run then have the troops fall back when teh bombs begin to fall, then after the bombs hit have your troops move in adn pick of the survivors

there are many many more strategies to use but you have to think of them yourselves, and remember think outside the box! ;)
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Taka
11-10-2003, 00:41
((tag as my main nation, this thing should be linked to the big newbie post up top))
11-10-2003, 00:42
((tag as my main nation, this thing should be linked to the big newbie post up top))

thanks for the support :)
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