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It is 1946, a year after the end of the Second World War and the little country of New Alsace, based on the eastern coast of Asia is bitterly divided. The country had once been a French Colony, taken during the 1800’s rush for Empire and prestige in the Pacific. It had remained a part of the French Colonial Empire for over a hundred years, even sending troops to help on the Western Front during the Great War, until the 1940’s when the crumbling French Empire gave way to a more revolutionary and ruthless Counterpart. The Japanese Empire.

New Alsace was just one of a dozen countries and colonies that fell during Japan’s ruthless push in 1941 and the French Forces there were no match for the Japanese. New Alsace was conquered and remained occupied until the end of 1945 when it was liberated by a joint Soviet/American Force, the Soviets came from the North while the Americans swept in from the south and the east. The war was nearly by now and the country was quickly liberated from the few remaining Japanese. By the end of the Second World War, relations between the two superpowers had cooled and two new countries were created along the border of occupation.

The Americans in the south set up the foundations for a Democratic, Capitalist state. Under the leadership of Premier Jon Kwang-Ik the state of Lelvar began to improve, neglecting the military to focus on road building and the improvement of general conditions. He and his advisors, all trained in London or Washington with the specific aim of bringing democracy and capitalism to New Alsace. Their half of the rather large country contained some of the main military bases used first by the French Fleet, then the Japanese and also some of the major airfields used by the Japanese against the Soviet Union and by the Americans against Japan. They were on the way to recovery.

However, the northern regime followed Stalin’s blueprint for all Soviet liberated countries and soon the Communist State of Vahir was founded, complete with her own Moscow trained Dictator, Nam Song-Chol and his advisors. He came to Vahir with a dream to reunite the country into one again, with himself as ruler and to do this, he focused much of his energy on the military while the people struggled on as they had done under French and Japanese rule.

It was in August 16th 1946, when the world’s attention was focused on the rebuilding of Germany and their own countries, that the Vahiran Army crossed the border and invaded Lelvar, with the intention of creating ‘a united country with a united purpose towards a united goal’. The cash-starved Lelvari Armed forces, with their mixture of French, American, British and Japanese weapons and aircraft were no match for the ruthlessly trained Vahiran Army, with it’s Soviet weapons and limited combat experience from service for the Red Army against the Japanese and it soon became clear than unless something was done quickly, the Vahirans would just walk through the unification process.

The Premier, Jon Kwang-Ik sent out a call for International Volunteers, men willing to fight for the freedom of Lelvar and a lucrative contract. The International Brigades began to fill with men and women from all over the world.


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So this is basically a character RP taking place in this fictional Asian country just after World War 2. The basic is to RP a character fighting for the Lelvar against the invasion either as a pilot or as a common soldier. The basic template is below:

Name:
Nationality:
Age:
Height:
Weight:
Previous rank (if any):
Biography
Personal Weapons


As in a normal war, there will be equipment issued in the country itself rather than people bringing their own. Small weapons, such as pistols and daggers are permitted but things such as rifles and aircraft will be given to characters upon arrival in Lelvar.

Enjoy ^^

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Currant Characters
Lee Kun ~ Xiscapia
Howard Watson ~ Greal
Marcus Dragonborn ~ Greywatch
Andy Tran ~ Vietnam Empire
Leopold Benno ~ The New Aryan State
Matthew Quiggles ~ Catawaba
Unknown Advisor and Pilot ~ Kulikovia

I will put up a template soon, and I do have a question:

Does the nationality of our character have to be from a real life nation? Or a NS nation?

Either, I don't really mind, although combat experience always helps :D

Name: Lee Kun
Nationality: New Alsacen (Vahir)
Age: 23
Height: 5,3
Weight: 125 pounds
Previous rank (if any): N/A
Biography: His grandfather remembering the occupation by the French, his father resisting against and himself experiencing the occupation of the Japanese, Lee's final straw was the Soviet occupation of his town and part of the country. Frustrated by the lack of resistance to the enemy and weak will of most of those around him and angry at the French, Japanese and Russians, Lee sought to fight the occupiers. While Lee possesses little formal military training, his late brother Yeon taught Lee the skills he would need to fight whoever the next occupiers would be, and Lee taught himself with great determination which translated into huge success. Lee has since stolen Soviet weapons and escaped across the border to the democratic side in hopes of hiring out his services for glory, revenge, and of course, money.
Personal Weapons:
SVT-40 (stolen)
Degtyaryov machine gun (stolen)
M1911 pistol

Name: Howard Watson
Nationality: United States of America
Age: 30
Height: 6'0
Weight: 160 pounds
Previous rank (if any): Sergeant
Biography: Howard served in the Pacific War during WWII. He has seen combat in Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and the Philippines.
Personal Weapons: Two M1911 pistols, two Army Knives.

Both Accepted.

Name: Hwang Jin-Hyok
Nationality: New Alsace (Lelvar)
Age: 28
Height: 5'8
Weight: 130
Previous rank: Major
Biography: Born into a Army family, Hwang Jin-Hyok fought with the French first against the Japanese initally and then for the Americans in various conflicts across the Pacific before his country was liberated. He accepted a promotion to Major following the creation of the Lelvari Army. He now fights for the protection of his country and to save it from a fresh occupation.
Personal Weapons: Colt M1911 Pistol

OOC: I'll put an Ursavian in this soon.

Cool :D

Name: Ri Jun-Il
Nationality: New Alsace (Lelvar)
Age: 38
Height: 5'9
Weight: 127
Previous rank: Colonel
Biography: Born into one of New Alsace's finest fighting families, Ri Jun-Il arrived to the world in a French Colonial Barracks while his father suppressed Bandits and Rebels to the south and the west of the country. This was to be a continious thing for Ri rarely saw his father until his death fighting yet more Bandits. The obvious thing was for Ri himself to join the French Colonial Forces, where he fought in the north and west of the country against Insurgents and Guerillas who were determined to gain independance. When the Japanese invaded New Alsace in 1941, Ri was one of the lucky ones evacuated by British Gunships before the country's final fall. He participated in numerous battles for the British in the Far East before being attached to the forces liberating his country. Ri accepted a promotion into the new Lelvari Army and, as such, is now reponsible for intergrating any new Airmen and Soldiers into the Lelvari Military
Personal Weapons: Colt M1911 Pistol

I am interested.

Name: Marcus Dragonborn
Nationality: Greywatcher
Age: 27
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 150
Previous rank (if any): N/A
Biography: Born to a middle class family, Marcus completed school but dropped out of college to find some adventure. He now works for the Greywatch mercenary group known as The Council of Dragons. He is trained to adapt to just about any situation and knows how to keep his cool. He usually has a very cheery attitude and loves explosives, though he can use just about any weapon he gets his hands on.
Personal Weapons: Dragoncry Pistol

OOC: I smell a North/South Korea Parody, but interesting nonetheless. Will keep an eye on how this develops.

Approved and yes, it is very much a North/South Korean parody but with more tanks and less UN ^^

TG me with questions if need be.

Is there a possibility of me supporting the north?

Possibly, although the point of the RP is that the South needs experienced Pilots and Soldiers while the north doesn't, what form would this support take?

Kulikovian military advisors, as the Soviets did for North Korea. Some direct involvement as well.

And involvement would include? Soldiers?

Advisors sound fine though.

Pilots and advisors. Like how the Soviet Union sent pilots to assist the North Korean Air Force

That'll do. Kulikovian Pilots and Advisors, though you know you'll be using Northern Aircraft? (Don't worry, they're modern for 1946)

No problem

I can provide a list of equipment being used by both sides if one requires it.
Kulikovia, can you have a bio up of your advisor and pilot?

I'll get to that

I'd like to put up a Western pilot. I hope you don't mind me reusing a character from another 1940s RP thread. I like reoccuring characters, gives them history and substance like a saga. Anyways, Kulikovia and I could have fun with each other sorta like two rival aces meeting again to shake their fists at each other, and perhaps they'll finally get the other.

Name: Matthew Quiggles
Nationality: Togovian (Catawaban-born)
Age: 27
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 179 lbs
Previous rank (if any): Squadron Commander
Biography: Born on a sugar plantation in the Togovian colonial island of Catawaba, Matthew Quiggles was attracted to the mystique of flight at an early age. With influence and monetary persuasion from his father, Matthew gained a commission in the Togovian Colonial Air Corps. Participating in defense of his island home and several counter-revolutionary actions in other Togovian colonies, Quiggles was promoted to Flight Leftenant.

It was however his participation in the brushfire war in Imperial Fungi where he met his greatest challenge and gained most of his combat expierence. His performance during that conflict gained him a promotion to Squadron Commander once he'd returned home to Catawaba, during its brief and thwarted invasion by the Japanese.

With peace largely restored to the the tropical East, Quiggles found himself relegated to the once again 'gentleman's club' that was the peace time Togovian Colonial Air Corps, however now he was required to keep tabs on the wild young gentlemen instead of being one himself.

When the opportunity for excape and service in the Lelvari International Brigades presented itself, Quiggles again resigned his commission and left Catawaba.

Personal Weapons:Webley Mk VI Revolver, chambered in .455 Webley

Accepted.

Am I correct in assuming that you'll be supplying any major weapon system, ie tanks, aircraft, artillery, for our characters to use?

Of course :D

All firearms (Save sidearms), tanks and aircraft will be supplied upon arrival

Capital!

Same as any war :D

Name: Andy Tran
Nationality: Vietnamese
Age: 28
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 170 lbs
Previous rank (if any): Corporal
Biography: Andy Tran has a long history of family military background. Corporal of the Vietnam Empire Army; skilled in Armored Attack Vehicles and weaponry. He was quickly ranked as Corporal for his fast reloading and aiming skills even before he graduated at the VE Army

He was last deployed at some nation which was at some civil war, but never experienced fighting. He has the ability to hijack another vehicles, even an fighter aircraft.


Personal Weapons: Colt M1911A1, 19 inch long Machete.

Name: Leopold Benno
Nationality: German
Age: 32
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 162lb
Previous Rank: Hauptscharführer
Biography: Born in Bremen on July 8th 1914, Leo Benno grew up in the hard and unforgiving environment of post-war Germany. After a succession of dead-end, subsistence-wage careers, Leo joined 3.SS Panzergrenadier-Regiment in 1938. The regiment was merged into 2.SS-Panzer-Division 'Das Reich' during the 1939 invasion of Poland. Leo served on all fronts during the following six years of combat, including the invasion of France, Operation Barbarossa, Kursk, Operation Overlord and the Wacht am Rhein. Leo was promoted to the rank of Hauptscharführer during the last stages of the war, which had seen the unit badly mauled by American forces. He promptly deserted.

With the world collapsing around him, Leo crossed the border into Switzerland in search of a new life. With skill at arms his only trade, and escape from the shattered remains of Europe a tempting offer, he quickly enlisted in the Lelvari International Brigades.

Leo can speak English, French, some Russian, and his native German. He is trained in German and American infantry tactics, as well as use of all standard German, French, British, Russian and American small arms. He is qualified to drive unarmoured vehicles up to five tonnes in weight, as well as most armoured fighting vehicles.

Personal Weapons:
Walther P38
SS Boot Knife

Vietnam Empire: Accepted

The New Aryan State: Accepted, although you know that no one would have allowed someone to fly with something as obvious as a rifle. Hence why the rest of the Volunteers are to be armed in the country itself. Other than this, fine.

...no one would have allowed someone to fly with something as obvious as a rifle. Hence why the rest of the Volunteers are to be armed in the country itself. Other than this, fine.

Sensible. Edited.

Sensible. Edited.

Sensible Nazi accepted :p

Name: Catherine ‘Cat’ Hardcastle. (http://www.atddm.com/Kat.jpg)
Nationality: Tanaaran
Age: 30 ( as of 1946 )
Height: 5' 7"
Weight: 130 #
Character Rank: Captain, 'retired' 1st Nike Wing
Weapons : Walther PP .32 / 2 Victorinox Swiss Army Knife multi tool knives
Preferred Aircraft: Tanaaran Valkyria / Valkyria Night Fighter

Short Bio: Mother died when she was three, father raised her into a classic tomboy – she can out do men in many a ‘manly art’ and doesn’t give a damn what they think. She’ll take them on and beat them at their own game. Though her grandmothers made sure she knew how to act like a lady ( though she is one only when she wants to be ) Degree in Medicine from the Tanaaran Hanford Rhodes University.

Her father is a noted ( with in the region ) aircraft designer, and this new night fighter jet is his current passion. He has worked with Jack Northrop and Lawrence Bell in the US before returning to Tanaara with many ideas to bring to life. Cat is his preferred test pilot, and is the only one with the reflexes to make the evil little ship behave.

Now 30, unmarried, Has twenty missions and ten recorded kills in the brief Tanaaran – Outer Heaven war that had ended four years ago.
Alversia is letting me bring in my Tanaaran built Night Fighter ( it is close kin to a deHavilland Vampire and it's varients and is available at this -1946 - time - but it is experimental and tempermental )

Tanaaran Valkyria X A5 Night Fighter (http://www.atddm.com/Valknf.jpg)

all-metal, twin boom, tricycle undercarriage, 45° swept wing, automatic leading-edge Handley Page Slats, turbo jet aircraft.
General characteristics
• Crew: 1
• Length: 38 ft 2 in (11.63 m)
• Wingspan: 45 ft 6 in (13.87 m)
• Height: 12 ft 4 in (3.76 m)
• Wing area: 386 ft² (35.9 m²)
• Empty weight: 8,250 lb (3,750 kg)
• Max Takeoff Weight: 13,500 lb (5,760 kg)
• Powerplant: 1× Tanaaran Hexx Aeroespatial Engineering CentX 10 ( equivllent to a de Havilland Ghost 103 ) turbojet rated at 4,850 lbf (21.6 kN)
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• Performance
• Maximum Speed: 650 MPH ( 1,050 KPH).
• Range: 1,320 miles (1,960 km)
• Service Ceiling: 44,000 Ft (12,200 m)
• Rate of Climb: 4,250 ft/min at sea level
• Internal Fuel Capacity: 399 gal ( 1,500 liters ) – metal self sealing
• External Tanks: 242 gal ( 909 liters)
Radar: AN/APS-6,display 2 inches (5 cm) diameter, & serves as a radar gunsight.
Wavelength : 3 cm
Power: 1kW
Range : 5 nautical miles (9 km) on aircraft
15 nautical miles (30km) submarine
30 nautical miles (55km) on merchant ship
75 nautical miles (140km) coastline
Accuracy: 3 degrees

• and rear ward array with a range of 180 m.

Armament

• 2 x 37 mm cannon (200 rounds each )
• 4 x .50 cal (12.7 mm) machine guns ( 250 rounds each )
• They are aimed by a reflector-type gunsight. There is a gun camera in the nose.
• 8 7.62 centimeter (3 inch) rocket projectiles stacked in pairs on four attachments inboard of the external hard tank booms.

Canopy :single-piece "teardrop" unit

Armor plate is fitted to the back and bottom of the seat and an armor panel is fitted in front of the dashboard. Avionics consists of an identification friend or foe (IFF) unit and a four-channel radio with radio compass capability. Cockpit is pressurized.

Alversia - I'm still trying to think of a way to have it 'in country' before Cat arrives -without letting it get into any one elses hands

A jet is going to make the air battles very one sided :(

Not extremely, Al. One would have to read up on how Allied pilots combatted jets like the Me 262. There are actually good tactics against them in mid-air combat.

As to one sided air battles, we wouldn't have even turning dogfights like you'd see between German and Western Allied aircraft. The Western Allies and German built aircraft nearly matched, so your normal turning dogfights were a common place event.

The Russians built light, fast nasty things with heavy guns like the Japanese, though I think they had self-sealing fuel tanks. Russian aircraft like the Yak could probably out turn most Western Allied aircraft, so one of the only reliable ways to fight them without a jet's speed to climb faster and higher and out run a Yak, would be to use anti-Japanese tactics.

Without long drawn out tactics to combat Russkie planes, the air battle would be onesided.

Ah, thank you for that :D

As for ways to get the aircraft into the country...any suggestions?

Ah, thank you for that :D

As for ways to get the aircraft into the country...any suggestions?

On a... boat?

Dismantle the aircraft, ship it by train and reconstruct it?

Dismantle the aircraft, ship it by train and reconstruct it?

Dismantle it to the extent only of removing the wings and tail, so that the reconstruction isn't too long. It might be able to fit in a shipping container or two.

Or it could already be in the country? captured by the Japanese?

We can blow it up with some form of C4 already planted near the fuel tank.

Oh it's going to have to be dismantled alright, and the Germans delivered such craft by submarines it's been noted.

Also Al nothing in the way of real plane to plane missiles existed back then - this is no modern, sit off 40 miles and what the pretty fire ball, my radar for plane to plane is a maximum of a mere 5 miles ( this is a Night fighter / all weather fighter if you want a more familiar terminology )

This is going to be a cranky evil minx of a plane, with all the problems of early jets ( though by this time some have been solved. Now if this were five years later - yes the gin would be sooo evil )

Alversia, there will be a TG headed your way shortly.

Dead on, I knew about the jet but I was more thinking a Me262 vs P-51 style battle again rather than what you had in mind :D

Then it could have been shipped at the end of the war to the Japanese?

Just an announcement that the IC thread will be up early tomorrow night.

I was about to ask.... :D

My Final two characters :D

Name: Patrick Harper
Nationality: Irish
Age: 30
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 147
Character Rank: Captain
Bio:
Paddy Harper has been a soldier all his life, fighting with the British Army across all of World War 2, from the beaches of Dunkirk, to the deserts of Africa and back to the Beaches of Normandy, Patrick Harper has seen it all and done it all. However, despite reaching Captain, he is bored by the life of the peacetime Army in Germany and now seeks adventure in Asia.
Weapons: Colt M1911

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Name: Ju Kwang-Min
Nationality: New Alsace (Vahiran)
Age: 35
Height: 5'11''
Weight: 132
Character Rank: General
Bio:
Ju fought with the French Colonial Forces against the Japanses before escaping north to fight with the Soviets. His division fought across all of eastern europe before being transferred to liberate his country. He and his countrymen joined and helped to form the Vahiran People's Army. He fights passionately for Communism and has a reputation for his abilities in attack and weaknesses in defence born from his experience in the Red Army

Weapons: Nagant M1895

The rifle you're looking for is the Mosin-Nagant M91/30.

And Patrick Harper? He should be 6'4" at least :D

The M1895 was a Soviet Pistol not a rifle...

I know he should be, he should also have a senior officer somewhere called Sharpe :D

The M1895 was a Soviet Pistol not a rifle...

Crud. I didn't know Nagant made a pistol.

You're sure he wouldn't have a Tokarev? I'd have thought they'd be more widespread.

True but the Nagent looks better :D

Plus it's better for assassinations :p

I tged you Alversia

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=13946532#post13946532

IC Thread is here

My post doesn't look like much, but I'll expand the posts slowly as the RP goes on.

Name: Jerry O'Keef

Nationality: Irish

Age: 25

Height: 5' 10''

Weight: 128

Previous rank: Mercenary Tank Crewman

Biography: None Provided. Doesn't anyone go for mysterious stranger characters anymore?

Personal Weapons: Luger

Accepted.
Mystery is so difficult to keep up I find :p

Name: Raymond Pirece Kingston
Nationality: Australian
Age: 25
Height: 6 foot 3
Weight: 60kg
Previous rank (if any): sargenet
Biography: Raymond Kingston was one of the first to sign up in the Australian Forces during World War 2. He would serve as a Rat of Tobruk then onto PNG at Milne Bay before finishing off the war in PNG as a sargenet and was awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery and gallentry. He perfer's the Bern to anything else.
Personal Weapons: Pistol and bayonet.

Accepted

Moraine Saulnier MS.406s? You are an evil, evil man...

If he brings out Somua S-35's I'm going to cry.

No, I'm not gonna be that bad...

...They're using Renault R35's :D

If the enemy has anything better than T-26's, we're going to get slaughtered.

I'm currently formulating appropriate swearwords for my character upon meeting our armour support.

lol T-34/76's and IS-2's vs. Shermans and R-35s :D

*The author puts his head in hands*

May I see your Communist Party membership please, Al?

Hey All I'm back - and Alversia you have a TG

I am back as well

Hey, Al, I wanted to know should I call my damage on Veharian targets as long as I keep it in reason?

sure, don't claim a hundred planes or something like that ^^

If I may ask, how is this related to NationStates?

Well, it has Nationstates countries in it. The country under contest is an NS nation. It's a Hybrid ^^

But created after WWII? Come on, at least be more creative than that.

I like WW2

Plus I don't really RP in NS MT. I thought I could get away with a generic era

There's a great "Non-NS Purge" going through NS, killing off all threads that are not at least vaguely related to NS. A better generic era could have been the Victorian era...that was a mighty fine era...1890...

True, still, this does have connections to NS, it's not like we're fighting in Korea or anything.

What connections? As far as I can tell, you're sending people into a nation broken from the Soviet Union, which is a non-NS entity.

I never said strong connections, just faint connections. You have to look but it is there.
Ah well, if they want to delete this thread then so be it. I'll have learnt my lesson.

There are multiple characters from various NS nations, and we are playing in a fictional nation that has no real relationship to RL nations at all - as far as I can tell and I am one of the players involved.

Stoklomolvi,

As Alversia pointed out, this country is apparently an RP'd country of his. Most of us are using characters from our countries. I actually welcome threads like this, it allows me to work on the living history of my country by exploring it from recollections of my character. I'll admit that we have two RL citizens, but I've never thought that NS lives in a vacuum from the real world. There should be some overlap and I welcome that.

There is a heavy Korean War/Chinese Civil War influence to the thread, but in the same thread of thought that I wrote about a vacuum from the real world, it's not impossible that communism and captialism would have another of their shadow wars in this land as well as Korea and China. You yourself can't deny that you have to assign some allusion and anchor to the Cold War and the height of Soviet power in your nation. Well, we work in that era.

As to the purpose of the thread, I said I use this to expand the history of Catawaba and a prominent family. Tanaara's doing the same with her Hardcastle. There's also a side bit that can be used to pull our countries in without a full scale invasion. Our countries will assimilate these mercenaries again after the conflict if they survive. The mercs will be a valuable commodity in experience that could be used to show a development of our future MT or PMT nations, a foundation that we build upon over history.

Hey, Al, just looking through my subscribed threads. I suppose this one's dead?

'fraid so

I have an odd character that I would love to RP. Thing is, she doesn't do anything. She just kinda' watches and acts mysterious. Would that be an acceptable character? lol

sorry mate, too little too late. Thread is dead