Soldiers fortune [In progress]

[brunt32]

You will be role-playing a member of a team of 8 Navy Seals, I will set up a operation brief giving you details of a mission and objectives and terrain information and such, I will then appoint one of you to lead the operation. You will then like in most RP'ing threads, roleplay your character going through the operation. I will give an example operation brief so you get a little understanding of what I mean.​

Spoiler: Operation Thunder House

03/05/2013 - 0050 hours. The invasion for Iran has begun Seals, the president has ordered a total of 60,000 US marines onto Iranian soil. The invasion so far has been a redeeming success with minimal casualties inflicted on our troops and the Iranian air force eliminated except for a few small bases and a couple of half broken MIGs. The capital city of Iran, Tehran is still under control of a sadistic leader who is leading a insurgency cell who have seen fit to attempt to take power with the current government falling a part. Sadly for us Seals this son of a ***** has got half the cities support and we can't let this golly-gagger controlling the capital so here's the mission get yourself inside the city and check through a series of known hide-outs and attempt to find this idiot before he does some real damage. When your at it, try to find some intel about this upcoming insurgency faction we're gonna need it. General Burrows out.

Main Objective Check through the 5 compounds based around the city that the CIA believe Al Bawwi is located.

Side Objective Attempt to find any intel about the insurgency cell.

Terrain information Tehran is a gigantic city full of poor slums and skyscrapers.

Support Zero air support will be given due to the possible civilian risk. However we do have a couple of CIA compounds in the area that could be of use if needed.

Advise We advise you enter the city in civilian cars and civilian clothing you don't want to fight your way into the city, there will be to many insurgents to fight off. You will need to embrace the crowd until your ready to strike. Guerilla warfare, strike and hide, strike and hide.

That was a quick example of a type of mission you might get, however I will try to use my imagination and move you round the globe doing lots of different types of missions. If you're interested with the concept then fill out a character sheet and reply to this thread.​

Spoiler: Character Sheet

Full Name:
Nickname:
Age:
Height:
Weight:
Body Type:
Key features:
Personality:
Preferred weapons: (Pick a primary and a secondary. Assault rifle and pistol for example.)
Speciality: (You can have one speciality, a seal can do everything but this will make you an expert at it. Allowing you to excel at this compared to your team. Examples would be explosive expert, ICT expert etc.)

 

[Grim327]

Here is my sheet. This looks really interesting. Although I have one question: Who leads the team? you, or one of the people that join?

Spoiler

Full Name: Chris Gannon
Nickname: "Grim"
Age: 30
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 200lbs
Body Type: Large body, although not as much muscle as many would think. He is agile due to his role as a sniper
Key features: small scar on left hand
Personality: Chris is a man you can count, having honor and integrity high on his priority list. Chris believes that without honor, a man is nothing, however, he believes if the team needs help then honor can be side-lined. It does not matter what team Chris is on, he will make sure they come home safely, even if it means he must stay behind. Chris uses sniper rifles as his preferred weapons and when he uses them, he goes into some kind of zen state, blocking out everything but him and his target, thus, he got the nickname "Grim" due to him putting the sniper rifle in the role of a scythe. In short, Chris will do as you ask, and if you put a sniper rifle in his hands, he will give you results.
Preferred weapons: Mk 11 Mod 0 sniper rifle, M9 pistol
Specialty: ICT expert

 

[brunt32]

Here is my sheet. This looks really interesting. Although I have one question: Who leads the team? you, or one of the people that join?

Spoiler

Full Name: Chris Gannon
Nickname: "Grim"
Age: 30
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 200lbs
Body Type: Large body, although not as much muscle as many would think. He is agile due to his role as a sniper
Key features: small scar on left hand
Personality: Chris is a man you can count, having honor and integrity high on his priority list. Chris believes that without honor, a man is nothing, however, he believes if the team needs help then honor can be side-lined. It does not matter what team Chris is on, he will make sure they come home safely, even if it means he must stay behind. Chris uses sniper rifles as his preferred weapons and when he uses them, he goes into some kind of zen state, blocking out everything but him and his target, thus, he got the nickname "Grim" due to him putting the sniper rifle in the role of a scythe. In short, Chris will do as you ask, and if you put a sniper rifle in his hands, he will give you results.
Preferred weapons: Mk 11 Mod 0 sniper rifle, M9 pistol
Specialty: ICT expert

I will appoint a leader for each operation, so you all get a turn as squad leader. If you mean who will be your operator it will be me, RP'ing as Col. Stevens.

 

[Diablo1099_v1legacy]

Spoiler: David West

Full Name: David West
Nickname: Diablo
Age: 29
Height: 6'2
Weight: 234lb
Body Type: Slim ,but Muscular, about half way from Bodybuilder to Sprinter
Key features: Dark Red hair, Dyed and Spiked back, an Irish Army Ranger Wing Shoulder Flash
Personality: As a member of Sciathán Fiannóglach an Airm ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Army_Rangers ), he has been involved in several international units (SAS, U.S. Rangers, Delta Force) He see's himself on a higher plane that others, but doesn't be a prick about it.
He dislikes war and does wish for less combat focused missions.
That being said, He will follow orders so long as they have low casuality counts.
Aside from that, he is a joker most of the time.
Preferred weapons: A Custom M500 Revolver as a side arm, Steyr AUG Assault Rifle ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steyr_AUG ) as a Main.
Speciality: As a non American, He is less likely to draw attention from locals.
(If that doesn't fly): Recon

A Irish Special Ops on loan to the unit, possibly?
have him in to keep an eye on the US SEAL's for NATO or whomever, make sure their on the up and up.
Also, what level of realism we talking about?
on a scale of 10, 1 being Modern Warfare and 10 being Real Combat
Any Issues Buzz me

EDIT: Changed Personality.

 

[brunt32]

Spoiler: David West

Full Name: David West
Nickname: Diablo
Age: 29
Height: 6'2
Weight: 234lb
Body Type: Slim ,but Muscular, about half way from Bodybuilder to Sprinter
Key features: Dark Red hair, Dyed and Spiked back, an Irish Army Ranger Wing Shoulder Flash
Personality: As a member of Sciathán Fiannóglach an Airm ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Army_Rangers ), he has been involved in several international units (SAS, U.S. Rangers, Delta Force) He see's himself on a higher plane that others, but doesn't be a prick about it.
He dislikes war and does wish for less combat focused missions.
That being said, He will follow orders so long as they have low casuality counts.
Preferred weapons: A Custom M500 Revolver as a side arm, Steyr AUG Assault Rifle ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steyr_AUG ) as a Main.
Speciality: As a non American, He is less likely to draw attention from locals.
(If that doesn't fly): Recon

A Irish Special Ops on loan to the unit, possibly?
have him in to keep an eye on the US SEAL's for NATO or whomever, make sure their on the up and up.
Also, what level of realism we talking about?
on a scale of 10, 1 being Modern Warfare and 10 being Real Combat
Any Issues Buzz me

Probably about a 5. The operations might get a little blown out of proportion and some of the fighting scenes might, however I don't want it getting stupid. We won't have you taking on a 100 people at once for example.

 

[Malyc]

I'm not sure if you will allow another sniper, but just in case, here's my character sheet.

Spoiler

Full Name: Tom Striker
Nickname: Viper
Age: 24
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 175
Body Type: Lean and athletic.
Key features: Tattoo of the SEALS logo across his back
Personality: Tom is a stoic warrior who doesn't talk much. He will stop at nothing to make sure his mission is completed and will do everything he can to make sure everyone goes home alive at the end of the day. He does what he is ordered to without complaining, but does not blindly charge into dangerous situations. Before joining the Navy, he was an outdoorsman who spent every free moment he had in the woods. This allowed him to be able to know just where and how to place his feet to minimize noise, a valuable skill in his line of work. He completed SEAL training, and then went straight into jump school and sniper training. He got his nickname for catching and eating snakes on a desert training survival course.
Preferred weapons: Primary: Either the MacMillan Mk-15 (Tac 50) sniper rifle for open battlefields or the MK 14 EBR for urban environments, and the Barrett REC7 w/ red dot and silencer for pretty much anything else.
Secondary: Kimber 1911 w/ silencer
Speciality: Sniper/Spotter

 

[IceStar100]

Spoiler

Full Name: Alex (No last name
Nickname: Ice or Iceey
Age: 20
Height: 5'10
Weight: 130
Body Type: Slim but mostly muscle
Key features: heterochromia Eyes right it blue left is green and hair dark brown with golden blonde spots
Personality: Surprisingly friendly but unstable. He was a child solider and gained Citizen ship by agreeing to survive the longest military term allowed. He's unstable in the fact things like killing is just something you do like breathing. He tends to talk about things that make others uncomfortable.
Preferred weapons: (Pick a primary and a secondary. Assault rifle and pistol for example.)
Primary:A high tension crossbow with sight.
Secondary:Two .50 caliber revolvers and an assortment of knives.
Speciality: He had trained himself over the years to load one handgun while firing the other. He works well providing cover and keeping a blanket of lead on the field. He also loves to get up close and kill with a blade. He excels at sneaking around. He highly believes in travel light travel; fast find what you need on the field.

Edit a primary weapon in.

 

[PleasantKenobi]

I am expressing interest. However, two questions; firstly, how realistic is this going to be? I mean, the character above can reload one handgun while firing another, like some kind of anime character. And two, will there be politics/ethical questions asked of what is happening, or is this essentially a run and gun macho-man show, in text based form?

 

[Lil_Rimmy]

I am thinking of joining, but I just want to know, are we going to also be dealing with the politics etc. side of things?

Anyway, here's my sheet.

Full Name: Keal Rim
Nickname: Wombat (Only by his close friends, prefers Keal)
Age: 23
Height: 5'9
Weight: 80 kilos (sorry, I'm Australian. No idea of lbs Would it be like, 170? 175?)
Body Type: Skinny
Key features: Green eyes, brown hair, pale skin that has been sunburnt a lot (from the Australian sun)
Personality: Likes to talk a lot and be cheerful, because, as he says, why the hell not?
Preferred weapons: A assault rifle, preferably with under-slung grenade launcher and either his welding kit, some kind of heavy machine gun or any other heavy weapons (i.e. mortars, weapons that require setting up, cannons etc.) Basically anything that he can defend an area with, or in the case of his welding kit, repair an area with. His skill is defence after all.
Speciality: Defence, digging in, repair, basically, anything related to defending a position.
A bit about him: He was with the Australian army before moving to this Seal team and in the army he was "famous" for his defence skills, regularly holding positions with great skill and ease that others couldn't manage. He learnt best how to shore up cover, and how to set up a good defence line. He moved to the Seals team when they started asking for people to join this crack team, so Keal thought he could put his skills to good use.

EDIT: Whoops, forgot weapons. Fixing now.

EDIT2: Done.

 

[Mr.Ivebeenframed]

Hope you like my sheet! This looks very interesting as the others have said.

Spoiler: Character Sheet

Full Name: Harlan Brennan
Nickname: Spooky
Age: 36
Height: 5'11
Weight: 195lbs
Body Type: Stocky

Key Features: Cleft lip and a visible scar, Blue Eyes, Shaved Head, Goatee, Tattoo of the All Seeing Eye (On the American Dollar Bill) on the back of his neck, Tribal Tattoos wrapping around his wrists.

Personality: Harlan is strictly boots to the ground. He does not joke around to when it comes to combat and always focuses on getting the job done no matter the cost. This is a stark reflection to his manner out of combat where he is kind, lenient, and extremely good-hearted. He is even described as a push-over in discussion but that is out of combat.

Preferred Weapons: Assault Rifles and Shotguns.

Main Armaments: HK416- Trijicon ACOG sight, AN/PEQ-5, Vertical Foregrip, Silencer if needed.

Secondary: Benelli M4 Super 90- EOtech 552 Holosight, SureFire M6 Guardian

Specialty: Assault and Asymmetrical Warfare Specialist.

Other: Harlan was in the Rangers then he was transferred to the AWG(Asymmetrical Warfare Group) which specializes in the use of guerrilla tactics and otherwise unconventional warfare. That experience helped him throughout his SEAL training and missions. A few years in the AWG has allowed him to come into contact with a wide variety of weapons and therefore allowed him to adapt but not to master.

 

[IceStar100]

I am expressing interest. However, two questions; firstly, how realistic is this going to be? I mean, the character above can reload one handgun while firing another, like some kind of anime character. And two, will there be politics/ethical questions asked of what is happening, or is this essentially a run and gun macho-man show, in text based form?

It's not unrealistic it's a trained skill. To load a revolver you first let the gun hand from your Middle finger. Then use the Thumb and index on the quick loader. With an automatic it's even easier. Most of Alex's skills come down to multitasking.

 

[Diablo1099_v1legacy]

Hate to tell you this but it's not unrealistic it's a trained skill. To load a revolver you first let the gun hand from your Middle finger. Then use the Thumb and index on the quick loader. With an automatic it's even easier. Most of Alex's skills come down to multitasking.

For REAL?!

 

[PleasantKenobi]

*snip*

Well I have searched it on google adn youtube and seen some vids of people placing empty handguns in the back of their knee when crouching and pulling a clip from a pocket or holster and loading it that way. Is that what you meant? Because otherwise, I still don't see how loading a magazine loaded hand gun is possible if your other hand is taken up, and you are firing?

 

[IceStar100]

*snip*

Well I have searched it on google adn youtube and seen some vids of people placing empty handguns in the back of their knee when crouching and pulling a clip from a pocket or holster and loading it that way. Is that what you meant? Because otherwise, I still don't see how loading a magazine loaded hand gun is possible if your other hand is taken up, and you are firing?

That one way. The way I saw it done was but a man who had lost use of his left arm. He would turn the gun upside down. Then pull a clip from it holster with his his thumb and index. Next he would just slide the clip into place and let gravity pull it down then slam it into place aginst his hip bone. I already explaind how he did his revolver.

Anyway no more about that I don't want to Derail the thread. I mainly wanted to show it was something from the real world. If you want me to talk more about it send me a privet message.

 

[megasamus1]

I haven't played a modern-age or military rpg in a long while, but I'd like to try it out.

Let me know if I should change any character info, like equipment, items, or weapons, if you think it won't work well with your setting.

Character sheet:

Full Name: Joshua Spencer
Nickname: "Kodak"
Age: 22
Height: 5' 9''
Weight: 179
Body Type: Thin, fit.
Key features: Dark brown short-cut hair. clean-cut Goatee. Digital wiring styled tattoos on hands, arms. Grey sharp-cut glasses [Electronic HUD projected on lens], Constantly wears a bluetooth earbud [connected to HUD on glasses].
Personality: A wisecrack and trickster, but serious in a firefight. A bit scatterbrained when not on-task, but when set to work; the best techie you could have on-hand. Recent recruit: brought in to the unit for his knowledge in electronics and sabotage. Was always the guy messing around with the base network in basic training to spy on and mess with his superiors. Always tried to set Wednesday meal schedules on base to "Pepperoni pizza". [And sometimes Mac n' cheese.] Transferred to the SEALS recently for his electronics skill.
Preferred weapons: Submachine gun with a holographic sight; Machine pistol with an extended magazine. Both with silencers.
Speciality: Tech and electronics expert. [Disabling/hijacking electronics, subverting network protocols to access systems, improvised wiretapping, etc.]

Equipment: If possible, my character would carry: mountable wireless cameras, which he could use for surveillance; a few thumbdrives for intel storage and system hacking; claymores; and a portable uav-esqe hover mount for a camera. [would hold one at a time.]

Other: The HUD on his glasses would display gps coordinates, picture-in-picture camera views, and allow for real-time intel to be relayed to him easily from the squad. Micro-computer attachment attached to belt for data storage [video capture from glasses/cameras, general data, audio recording] up to 250 GBs.

 

[Redryhno]

Namer. Jonah Crown
Nick: nothing in particular, prefers Jonah, but allows himself to be called whatever is needed at the time
Age: 31
Height:5'10"
Weight:168 lbs.
Body Type:lean, nothing really abnormal about him

Key Features: has a Caduceus tattooed in red ink along the length of his left arm, with the head of the staff and snakes ending on the top of his hand. normally has two unlit cigarettes attached to his head in some way, normally under a headband or the sort. only smokes when the job is done, even though he's been trying to quit for years.

Personality: gruff, though happy in a fight or when done patching someone up, refuses to kill unless absolutely necessary, prefers to incapacitate them in some way, normally by his somewhat self-designed poisons and tasers. He does better distracting in a firefight then actually shooting, though key targets he has no problem flanking and engaging. Copes with his small aversion to blood and the like by scolding his patients for letting themselves being shot,stabbed,etc. Enjoys making fun of the guys that stand and shoot as long as they aren't expecting him to clean them up afterwards, in which case he feels the need to remove them from the genepool.Has a master's in Organic Chemistry and his M.D. He conforms to his own interpretation of the Hypocratic oath, specifically "do no harm" is "kill as few as possible"

Preferred weapons:M1 Biodart, fletchette gun with blowfish poison, a .357 magnum revolver with laser sights(the laser sight is actually one of the high-powered versions of a laser pointer, the kind that reaches up to a few miles up in the air, which is used to blind the enemy more often than it is fired), and a kukiri, though carries an AA-22 shotgun for the odd time he needs more firepower.

Specialty:first-aid and medicine in general(both harmful and beneficial)

Equipment: always carries a standard issue med-pack with extra supplies and a few field surgery odds and ends. also carries at least five reloads for both his revolver and fletchettes, both normal flettchettes and poisoned ones.

EDIT: changed weapons loadout
EDIT2: reread OP's comment and added weapon.

 

[Lil_Rimmy]

Finally. I am so calling you Doc. Doc.

Doc Doc Doc Doc Doc Doc Doc.



...DOC.

 

[Diablo1099_v1legacy]

Doctor, Doctor, I think I hear a meme coming on...

 

[SamuelT]

I'd like to express some concern that this might be a subject matter that needs to be handled with the utmost care.

Nevertheless, good luck.

 

[Malyc]

DOCTOR DOCTOR, JUST GIMME THE NEWS!
I GOT A BAD CASE OF LOVIN YOU!!!
Sorry... Couldn't resist...