NationStates Jolt Archive

Doesn't it seem like all FT is anymore is spaceships blasting eachother with rayguns? The humble infantryman and his armored cavalry brethren don't get any attention, except perhaps in storefronts or factbooks. But even then, they only exist to flesh out the nation and make it seem more real. So we're going to have an FT Ground War for taking a planet. There will be no plot, since the last attempt at this fizzled out when it came time to come up with a plot, only a four-on-four team extravaganza.

What you can bring:
One major character.
2/3 of what would be a standard planetary assault/invasion force for your nation.
Light air support (fighters, dropships, etc)
Mobile command base, with limited repair/construction facilities.

Red Team
-Al-Imvadjah
-Khurgan
-Zatarack
-Hyperspatial Travel

Blue Team
- Corpsac
- Mini Miehem
- Velkya
- Chronosia

The Planet / NPCs
The Planet is a generic planet, with a good mix of desert, tropical, frozen, temperate, and urban settings. The cities were built by a generic humanoid race, which is hostile to all the invaders, but is technologically primitive (early WWII tech).

I'm in, although whether as Otagia or Khurgan remains to be seen. And yes, the plot really did kill it in the end, didn't it. That and I went to college and lost my link. That did it too...

Im in if you'll have me, by the way when you say 2/3 of what would be a standard planetary assault/invasion force for your nation does that mean if someone of my size say uses a 600,000,000 Strong force (support units included) then i would only be able to use 400,000,000 (support included).

Im just asking (im not shore how much of a force i would use to invade a planet i havent even sorted my Millitary numbers yet).

Blue team

Doesn't it seem like all FT is anymore is spaceships blasting eachother with rayguns? The humble infantryman and his armored cavalry brethren don't get any attention, except perhaps in storefronts or factbooks. But even then, they only exist to flesh out the nation and make it seem more real. So we're going to have an FT Ground War for taking a planet. There will be no plot, since the last attempt at this fizzled out when it came time to come up with a plot, only a four-on-four team extravaganza.

What you can bring:
One major character.
2/3 of what would be a standard planetary assault/invasion force for your nation.
Light air support (fighters, dropships, etc)
Mobile command base, with limited repair/construction facilities.

Red Team
-Al-Imvadjah

Blue Team
-Empty-

The Planet / NPCs
The Planet is a generic planet, with a good mix of desert, tropical, frozen, temperate, and urban settings. The cities were built by a generic humanoid race, which is hostile to all the invaders, but is technologically primitive (early WWII tech).

Hook me up, Blue Team please.

Im in if you'll have me, by the way when you say 2/3 of what would be a standard planetary assault/invasion force for your nation does that mean if someone of my size say uses a 600,000,000 Strong force (support units included) then i would only be able to use 400,000,000 (support included).

Im just asking (im not shore how much of a force i would use to invade a planet i havent even sorted my Millitary numbers yet).

Blue team

I mean that you can't have everything. You'll have to rely on your allies for something. It makes for a more interesting RP.

Also, this has no other IC effect on your nation. If your character dies here, or you lose 5 million elite soldiers, it doesn't matter elsewhere in NS roleplay. This is copletely seperate.

Lists updated.

Ok, I'll send Iron Mike O'Neal, an ACS regiment, and a partial planetary assault cluster, that's about 2\3 of my normal attack.

well if you want forces:-

1x Ventrue Class Planetary Assault ship (the mobile Command center)

3x Battle Class Invasion Dropships (Immobile C&C for the 3 armies, 1 to each army)

3x Engineering Corp (builders of the small command post, Defences strutures such as light walls sand bag posts etc, roads and other small things. 300,000 men and machines)
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Poor-light Air Cover:- VTOLs Air support (1,200 VTOL craft)
Strong Ground Force:- Listed below
Poor Naval (Space) Based Support:- None (no true air support or Space based Transport, Orbital bombardment and reinforcements)
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87th Army (Imperial Guard):-
2x Ground Assault divisions (600,000 men, 50,000 Armor/ Artillary units)
1x Kindred Assault Division (300,000 mix clan Vampires, 90,000 Armor/Artillary units)
2x Medical Corps (200,000 Medical personel, 10,000 Engineers, 10,000 Medical Transports)
1x Mech Core (1,000 pilots, 5,000 Mechs Engineers, 250 Light/Recon mechs, 500 Medium/Support mechs, 250 Heavy/Assault Mechs)
12x Support Corps (1,200,000 Support and logistics units)

49th Army (The Venture Guard):-
4x Goul Divisions (1,200,000 Gouls, 100,000 Armor/ Artillary units)
1x Medical Corps (100,000 Medical personel, 5,000 Engineers, 5,000 Medical Transports)
3x Venture Hunter Packs (4,800 Clan Venture Vampires)
4x Support Corps (400,000 Support and logistics units)

112th Army (The Brujah Guard):-
4x Goul Divisions (1,200,000 Gouls, 100,000 Armor/ Artillary units)
1x Medical Corps (100,000 Medical personel, 5,000 Engineers, 5,000 Medical Transports)
3x Brujah Hunter Packs (4,800 Clan Brujah Vampires)
4x Support Corps (400,000 Support and logistics units)

87th Planetary Dropship Core (The 17 Seconds):-
1,200x L-43 Support Dropship/Transport
1,800x Me-12 Mecha Dropships/Transport
700x M-87 Medium Dropship/Transport
200x A-47 Attack Dropship/Transport
100x H-4 Heavy Dropship/Transport
120,000 Personel

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One major character:- Jack, Venture vampire. Tall well built, paile, powerful Vampire. An Elder.

Sub Characters:-
Sasha:- Jacks hunting buddy, Sired by Jack, young Vampire, strong and vary good looking
Prince Bart:- powerful Vampire, Brujah self proclaimed prince of the taken lands.
The Sheriff Rachel:- Gangrel Vampire, Enforcer of the Camarilla Laws amung Kindred.
Alex:- Jacks Goul, Strong person and good ranged fighter.
Josh:- Member of the 87th Army, Human Assault Trooper.
Army Marshal Anderson:- Commander of the 87th
Army Marshal Drack:- Goul commander of the 49th Army
Elder Vatacus:- Commander of the 112th Army, Brujah Vampire.
And others.

If the numbers seem to low tell me.

I'll join the Red Team. What do you mean by a major character?

I'll take Blue Team.

-Space/Air Forces

1 Independence Fighter Carrier (Antifighter Weapons Only, Flagship)
2 Mech Carriers (Antifighter Weapons Only)
10 Marine Combat Deployment Ships (Unarmed Transport)
1 OAP platform (4 MAC gun platform designed for orbital bombardment and C&C).

200 Valkyrie Fighters
100 Wolf Bombers
400 Pelican Dropships
100 Lodestar Transports
200 SAL (Space, Air, Land) Mechs
50 Guardian Fighters

10,000 Sailors and pilots.

-Land Forces-

200,000 Combat Marines
50,000 Logisitcs
20,000 Warthogs (Transport, AAA, AT configurations)
2,000 Scorpian Tanks
2,000 APCs
100 MAPs
300 VTOL Attack Aircraft

-Main Characters-

2nd Lt. Leon Barzard

A Guardian Pilot, Leon is a veteran of the Coreidan Campagin and a experianced fighter pilot.

Sgt. John Knowles

Also a vet of the Coredien Campaign, he helped succesfully defend the CoreWorlds Turbolasers from enemy ground attack and was promoted from PFC to Sgt.

Rear Admiral Jarred Bowes

Commander of the LV-212 Task Force, he gives the final word on any operation.

Major character= somebody with a character sheild. IE somebody that by virtue of having a name is harder to kill and does amazing action-movie-hero things.

This could be a spy, a general, an uber-commando, etc.

Major character= somebody with a character sheild. IE somebody that by virtue of having a name is harder to kill and does amazing action-movie-hero things.

This could be a spy, a general, an uber-commando, etc.

Major Character: Sergant Fredrin.

The rest: Later, when I have time.

Red team. Of course, my nation invades with 500-foot tall bio-monsters, and leaves nothing alive, which is more cost-effective than tanks and the like. Hard to control, but tremendously amusing, and it earns my government lots of money from pay-TV. (Oh, and their riders. Which are 100 foot-tall bio-monsters. Which, in turn, are ridden by 20-foot tall biomonsters. Which are ridden by humans)

Thank god for MAC guns and thier house-sized shells.

Blue Team; I think I'll have Remiel as my Main Character, and I'll post forces later; a nice mix of Guardsmen, Space Marines, the odd Inquisitor and probably some notable leaders among those; that ok?

That settles it. Khurgan is in instead of Otagia.

Blue Team; I think I'll have Remiel as my Main Character, and I'll post forces later; a nice mix of Guardsmen, Space Marines, the odd Inquisitor and probably some notable leaders among those; that ok?


Wow, we're fighting side by side on a planet this time. If i remember right last time i was trying to take one of your worlds when your empire was changeing into chaos (that was fun).

Gadgetcorp, unfortunately, you were too late in signing up. Your name will be remembered for the next FT Ground War I set up, or you can start your own.

Everybody else, feel free to provide a troops list at your leisure.

1st Invasion Army
Air Assets
30 SF-12 Heron Squadrens (360 planes)
20 SF-13 Petrel Squadrens (240 planes)
9500 DS-6 Icefang
1000 Ds-4 Titan
1000 DS-3 Goliath
16,000 pilots and support personell

Special Forces
John Grelt- Honor Legion
120 Airborne Recon Troopers
20 DS-3 Goliath
50 M-23 Camel
20 M-10 CC-APC

1st Shocktrooper Airborne
15,000 Shocktroopers
1500 DS-3 Goliath
100 DS-4 Titan
200 M-23 Camel

2nd Shocktrooper Airborne
15,000 Shocktroopers
1500 DS-3 Goliath
100 DS-4 Titan
200 M-23 Camel

3rd Shocktroopers Mechanized
15,000 Shocktroopers
8000 M-23 Camel
100 M-10 CC-APC
100 M-4 Saber
50 M-6 Archer
60 M-7
15 M-22
30 DS-4 Titan
20 DS-3 Goliath
18,000 support personell & drivers

1st Mechanized Infantry
100,000 Infantry
20,000 M-23 Camel
5000 M-10 CC-APC
350 M-22
40 DS-4 Titan
500 M-4 Sabre
350 M-6 Archer
400 M-7
20,000 support personell & drivers

2nd Mechanized Infantry
100,000 Infantry
20,000 M-23 Camel
5000 M-10 CC-APC
350 M-22
40 DS-4 Titan
500 M-4 Sabre
75 M-1 Panther
350 M-6 Archer
400 M-7
20,000 support personell & drivers

1st Air Cavalry
50,000 Infantry
5200 DS-3 Goliath
100 DS-4 Titan
20 M-4 Sabre
5 M-6 Archer
10 M-7

2nd Air cavalry
50,000 Infantry
5200 DS-3 Goliath
100 DS-4 Titan
20 M-4 Sabre
5 M-6 Archer
10 M-7

3rd Air cavalry
50,000 Infantry
5200 DS-3 Goliath
100 DS-4 Titan
20 M-4 Sabre
5 M-6 Archer
10 M-7

1st Armored Cavalry
5000 M-5 LT(drone)
4000 M-3 Hornet(drone)
2000 M-3 Hornet
150 M-2 Hellcat
400 M-1 Panther
200 M-4 Sabre
500 M-6 Archer
750 M-7
2000 M-10 CC-APC
50 M-22
10,000 Infantry
50,000 support personell & drivers

2nd Armored Cavalry
5000 M-5 LT(drone)
4000 M-3 Hornet(drone)
2000 M-3 Hornet
150 M-2 Hellcat
400 M-1 Panther
200 M-4 Sabre
500 M-6 Archer
750 M-7
2000 M-10 CC-APC
50 M-22
10,000 Infantry
50,000 support personell & drivers

1st Engineer
1000 Shocktroopers
5000 Infantry
2,000,000 Chassis Bot
18,000 Sentry Bot
750 M-22
500 M-5 Lt(drone)
150 M-3 Hornet(drone)
50 M-6 Archer
60 M-7
1000 M-10 CC-APC
200 DS-4 Titan
40 DS-3 Goliath
50,000 support & drivers

2nd Engineer
1000 Shocktroopers
15,000 Infantry
15 M-22
200 M-23 Camel
100 M-10 CC-APC
100 DS-4 Titan
100 DS-3 Goliath

1st Logistics
15,000 Infantry
100 M-4 Saber
600 M-23 Camel
1500 M-22
2500 M-10 CC-APC
150 DS-4 Titan
150 DS-3 Goliath
50,000 support & drivers

2nd Invasion Army
Air Assets
30 SF-12 Heron Squadrens (360 planes)
20 SF-13 Petrel Squadrens (240 planes)
9500 DS-6 Icefang
1000 Ds-4 Titan
1000 DS-3 Goliath
16,000 pilots and support personell

3rd Shocktrooper Airborne
15,000 Shocktroopers
1500 DS-3 Goliath
100 DS-4 Titan
200 M-23 Camel

4th Shocktrooper Airborne
15,000 Shocktroopers
1500 DS-3 Goliath
100 DS-4 Titan
200 M-23 Camel

6th Shocktroopers Mechanized
15,000 Shocktroopers
8000 M-23 Camel
100 M-10 CC-APC
100 M-4 Saber
50 M-6 Archer
60 M-7
15 M-22
30 DS-4 Titan
20 DS-3 Goliath
18,000 support personell & drivers

3rd Mechanized Infantry
100,000 Infantry
20,000 M-23 Camel
5000 M-10 CC-APC
350 M-22
40 DS-4 Titan
500 M-4 Sabre
350 M-6 Archer
400 M-7
20,000 support personell & drivers

4th Mechanized Infantry
100,000 Infantry
20,000 M-23 Camel
5000 M-10 CC-APC
350 M-22
40 DS-4 Titan
500 M-4 Sabre
75 M-1 Panther
350 M-6 Archer
400 M-7
20,000 support personell & drivers

4th Air Cavalry
50,000 Infantry
5200 DS-3 Goliath
100 DS-4 Titan
20 M-4 Sabre
5 M-6 Archer
10 M-7

5th Air cavalry
50,000 Infantry
5200 DS-3 Goliath
100 DS-4 Titan
20 M-4 Sabre
5 M-6 Archer
10 M-7

6th Air cavalry
50,000 Infantry
5200 DS-3 Goliath
100 DS-4 Titan
20 M-4 Sabre
5 M-6 Archer
10 M-7

3rd Armored Cavalry
5000 M-5 LT(drone)
4000 M-3 Hornet(drone)
2000 M-3 Hornet
150 M-2 Hellcat
400 M-1 Panther
200 M-4 Sabre
500 M-6 Archer
750 M-7
2000 M-10 CC-APC
50 M-22
10,000 Infantry
50,000 support personell & drivers

4th Armored Cavalry
5000 M-5 LT(drone)
4000 M-3 Hornet(drone)
2000 M-3 Hornet
150 M-2 Hellcat
400 M-1 Panther
200 M-4 Sabre
500 M-6 Archer
750 M-7
2000 M-10 CC-APC
50 M-22
10,000 Infantry
50,000 support personell & drivers

3rd Engineer
1000 Shocktroopers
5000 Infantry
2,000,000 Chassis Bot
18,000 Sentry Bot
750 M-22
500 M-5 Lt(drone)
150 M-3 Hornet(drone)
50 M-6 Archer
60 M-7
1000 M-10 CC-APC
200 DS-4 Titan
40 DS-3 Goliath
50,000 support & drivers

4th Engineer
1000 Shocktroopers
15,000 Infantry
15 M-22
200 M-23 Camel
100 M-10 CC-APC
100 DS-4 Titan
100 DS-3 Goliath

2nd Logistics
15,000 Infantry
100 M-4 Saber
600 M-23 Camel
1500 M-22
2500 M-10 CC-APC
150 DS-4 Titan
150 DS-3 Goliath
50,000 support & drivers

Totals:
~1,470,000 humans
~2,036,000 robots
~142,000 transports
~44,200 dropships
~57,000 tanks

ao how long till this starts?

Whenever one of us types up the first post. I can do it tonight, but if somebody would like to start it, just remember to post a link here.

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=9614973#post9614973

Linky linky- the war has begun.

WAIT!!!

can i join??

Swarm: Ravager

One of the new biologically engineered fleets, created as the swansong for the Zegenthian scientists and engineers, this entirely organic army is generally uncontrollable, but both cheap, and easily renewable. However, the IFF system built into their neural networks is all that stops them attacking allied forces.

Command Unit

12 Lat'Rion Mobile Neural Control Networks; These units control the monsters, without these heavily shielded, armoured, and cloaked buildings, it would be nigh-impossible to control the Ravager Swarm. They also serve as frigate-class ships, when the neural pacifiers are disabled.

170 Rahalid Neural Broadcasters; These amplify the signals sent from the Lat'rion units, and make the monsters more controllable.

2,200 Hive Orbs The mammoth Hive Orbs, as big as a city, at least, contain the DNA required to fleshform the creatures. These, in essence, 'carry' the creatures, or grow them, and spit them out when they are created. Hive Orbs are vulnerable to most weaponry, and dissolve in a matter of days, once they create the last of the creatures inside them.

275 Arrogance air superiority fighters - In essence, a space fighter adapted to gravity, these powerful craft have shields, cloaking devices, excellent generators, and FTLTele drives, in essence, a short-range teleporter. They are used solely for defending Rahalid and Lat'rion units, but are generally superior to any enemy craft, although lacking sorely in numbers.

Flying Bio-Units

Yattok Pterans; The Yattok flying beasts are much like dinosaurs, although smaller. They are merely 64cm in length, but have claws fashioned of Ylltak, a powerful, light metal, which has the ability to incisor its way through armour, and can spit a poisonious substance, which infects via absorption, and creates deadly hallucinations, as well as eating away at the muscle tissue.
Numbers: 750,000
Breed: No
Sentient: No

Freeish Iiilyiad; Freeish are huge, pacific flying beasts, used as transports, as their 25 metre-long bodies let them look like dragons, and the weaponry mounted on them makes them even more so. The few humans in this operation generally used turrets mounted on Freeish, as well as carrying Rahalid broadcasters, to keep up the ferocity and unity of the troops. Freeish have tough underbellies, and huge, vulnerable wings, although their twelve wings will generally keep them up no matter what, as they are hard to hit, with the plate of Plasteel underneath, to prevent the wings being hit. They can carry immense weights, and are not averse to anyone riding them, so it may be better to capture rather than kill these gentle beasts.

Numbers: 12,000
Breed: No
Sentient: Yes, Benelovent

Ground Bio-Units

Igno Furicious; Igno-saurs are velociraptors, with a few vital differences. Firstly, they have a strange type of tissue, which generates heat, and acid, which allows them to stream fiery acid out through twin sprayers, underneath the mouth. This generally does not burn through armour, very well, but is exceedingly deadly to any nearby organic components, such as flesh, other bio-units, and flesh-made things. Igno breeds at a voracious rate, with a single female being able to bring forth two young a week, and young maturing in little over a month. In this way, a single Igno male and female can easily bring back their entire race, left unchecked. However, they do not breed unless unrestrained.

Numbers: 13,000
Breed:Yes
Sentient: No

Sharvon Iccarus: The third of the five bio-types, Sharvon Iccarus is a one-hundred and fifty-metre tall monstrosity, with over five hundred arms, six gaping maws, and can run at over a hundred metres a second, this creature is dangerous, although short-lived. It has a huge base, and consumes much, not to mention the 65 cm-85cm thick armour, and resistance to energy-based weaponry. Sharvon can breed quickly, and are sentient, although the sentience is restrained by the Command Unit, as is their breeding. A mere six hundred Sharvon have been brought, as their corrosive breath easily affects allies and enemies alike, and the ichor that pours out of their claws likewise, and a IFF system is worthless to these creatures, as they are so huge. They have a weak point near the base of their skull, where only 5cm of armour lies

They are generally used as siege units, and nothing more, as only their myriad tentacles on the 'arms' can be used against smaller troops. They are also used as anti-tank, and anti-air units, as they have a huge reach, and unwary pilots may find themselves snatched out of the sky.

Numbers: 600
Breed: Yes, 6 weeks of incubation, 12 weeks to maturity.
Sentient: Yes, Benevolent

Underground Bio-Units

Breeder - Breeders create new units, based on battle situations, and fleshform them, and release them onto the battlefield. They are generally situation far underground, or underwater, depending on what they are breeding. This is what the remains of 10 Hive Orbs become, as the remaining DNA joins togethor to form a breeder. In this way, the troops become adaptable, and battle is sure to be won.

Initial:
Air Support:
6 Mexelian Fire-class fighter squadrons
3 Quesan bomber squadron
8 Triling Fighter Squadrons
Dropships

Vanguard:
Mechanical:
10 Heavy Weapons Platforms.
10 QA Mechs
5 PBA units

Robot:
20 Gearskull units
10 Mekrans

Armored:
30 Viger Tanks Squads
10 Hive Artillery Squads
5 Pounder Squads
8 Verigo AAir/AArmor Squads

Infantry:
30 Units

I'm in...on the next one...unless you'll let me be in this one...

Since it is too late for us to participate as fighters, may we be observers instead?

USSEA Defense Minister Paul David Nettleton

No, you can't. You're not even allowed to look at the thread. If you do, your eyes will burn with evil, nasty fire! Fire straight from the hearts of kittens! The evillest type of dragon these is!

Blue Team; I think I'll have Remiel as my Main Character, and I'll post forces later; a nice mix of Guardsmen, Space Marines, the odd Inquisitor and probably some notable leaders among those; that ok?

What are you doing on my team Imperium scum? :p

We're supposed to be mortal enemies, and the Darchon is not gonna like working with Remiel at all...

Haven't yet decided the numbers in which I'm fielding units, but at least I can tell you a few types.

Legionnaire of Change
The equivalent to an Imperial Guardsman. Armed with a lasgun and flak armor

Tzaangard
The Khurganate's answer to Space Marines, the Tzaangard are especially gifted by the Lord of Change. Standing head and shoulders above a mere mortal, the Tzaangard wear power armor, covered with runes of devotion. They are armed with bolters or storm bolters and chainswords. Loaded with Inferno rounds, the bolt-weapons tear burning holes in the enemy ranks.

Rubric Guard
Not content with his servants passing beyond the mortal realm after their death, Helion devised a spell that would capture the souls of his Tzaangard in their armor upon their deaths. Risen from the dead, these haunted suits of armor must be hacked apart before they will start fighting.


More to come, as well as exact numbers.

Haven't yet decided the numbers in which I'm fielding units, but at least I can tell you a few types.

Legionnaire of Change
The equivalent to an Imperial Guardsman. Armed with a lasgun and flak armor

Tzaangard
The Khurganate's answer to Space Marines, the Tzaangard are especially gifted by the Lord of Change. Standing head and shoulders above a mere mortal, the Tzaangard wear power armor, covered with runes of devotion. They are armed with bolters or storm bolters and chainswords. Loaded with Inferno rounds, the bolt-weapons tear burning holes in the enemy ranks.

Rubric Guard
Not content with his servants passing beyond the mortal realm after their death, Helion devised a spell that would capture the souls of his Tzaangard in their armor upon their deaths. Risen from the dead, these haunted suits of armor must be hacked apart before they will start fighting.

More to come, as well as exact numbers.

Does hitting them with large quantities of Anti-matter(or quivalent explosivce) work just as well?

Is Red Team aware of Blue team now?

If its within your technological capabilities to detect orbiting troops transports and landing craft, then its up to you. I certainly know about them.

I'd certainly know about it. Oh, and yes, large explosions can kill Rubric Guard.