Recruiting for Blood and Guts: Modern Military PbP (done recruiting for now)

[uraniumdragon]

Ranks are as follows (knew I forgot something):

Uranium Dragon/OD Green: Spc (E-4)

Darn. 6 ranks in Profession and all's I got was E-4.

Oh well. Let's game!

 

[Ranger Rick]

I would like to hear from Vigilance before I post more.

FYI I will be offline from dinner time till Monday. Unless I can get a moment on Saturday night.

 

[The Shaman]

Vigilance, a couple of questions -

• Do you have a map you could upload showing our position?
• Do we have any intelligence on Iranian and Iraqi positions or insurgent activity relative to our location?
• Are we at a listening post, or traveling between listening posts? If we're between posts, how far are we from the next LP?
• Were we sleeping or active at the time the dogfight began?

Thanks!

 

[uraniumdragon]

How about some ground rules on dice rolls? Who makes the rolls - player or GM? Does this site have dice roll capability?

Personally, I'd rather ask the GM to make the rolls. He has our sheets and should be honest enough in rolling.

 

[Bobitron]

I prefer DM rolling as well. If we can post the relevant checks in each post, it will be a big help.

 

[Vigilance]

Questions before I start.

Reading about the dogfights and bombs, I would like to know are we at war with Iran? Next, running an electronic LP we would need generators to supply power not the batteries of the M2. Therefore the Bradley would not idle for ever.

Military generators are also loud, loud enough to help drown out the noise of jets overhead.

As a driver I would like to know if I filled the fuel tank last night. This way I could talk about vehicle status.

I didnt realize there were people waiting to post. You can ask these questions in the actual game thread, Ive sort of been looking for them there and Id rather not look in two places.

So, if anyone has a question about my game event posts, ask them in the game thread, anything between characters, Id rather keep it here.

To answer the questions:

1. No one is at war with Iran on paper as of Wednesday morning.

2. I have no idea what the questions about generators are for enlighten me.

3. RE noise: you heard them, Bradley engines and generators notwithstanding.

This game isn't going to be hyper-realistic to the point of me determining how loud engine noises are as compared to overhead jets.

It was more dramatic for the characters to hear and witness a little of the firefight, as opposed to seeing it the next morning on CNN and going "wow we were right there!"

Having you see and hear it also gives you the option to be involved, if you wish.

4. RE: Fueling- you refueled before you left base. Assume you have enough fuel for another couple of days.

 

[Vigilance]

Darn. 6 ranks in Profession and all's I got was E-4.

Oh well. Let's game!

As I understand it, those who are not combat arms (which was you and Shaman) are Specialists, unless they become Warrant Officers.

So the rank of those two characters went to Specialist and stopped.

If I'm mistaken in that, someone show me something. I remember what the actual ranks I rolled were.

 

[Vigilance]

Vigilance, a couple of questions -

• Do you have a map you could upload showing our position?
• Do we have any intelligence on Iranian and Iraqi positions or insurgent activity relative to our location?
• Are we at a listening post, or traveling between listening posts? If we're between posts, how far are we from the next LP?
• Were we sleeping or active at the time the dogfight began?

Thanks!

Other than the map I linked to earlier, what specifically do you need to know? In terms of "game stuff" you're near the Iranian border (less than an hour).

Iraqi insurgency has been ongoing and sporadic. Not the constant insurgency we see today, but still not all that great.

You were at a listening post in need of repair when the attack started, the repair was going to begin as soon as you had enough light.

The group was active, basically waiting for sunrise.

 

[Vigilance]

Oh sure... punish me with rank! *lol*

For clarification, it appears we were out on mission doing maintenance (the tank moving between monitoring stations) and the air battle took place. We operate pre-dawn because A) it's cooler and B) it's slightly more co-vert (right?). So at a guess 0300 hours would be about 2-4 hours before we'd be done for the day.

Rick, if this is true, then we probably aren't crashing out just yet (might edit???)

Vig, how far from home base are we? Do we trundle out and back in the same night? or do we stay out for a few days at a time? Are we in radio range?

Your normal day on this detail is to leave at night, move to several posts throughout the day as needed, then head back after dark.

You were just beginning your day, having hurried to your first post on the electronic frontier, you had proceeded to begin waiting for sunrise.

Does anyone have any questions about impending war and downed Israeli pilots? Or are we just going to discuss fuel situations and fixing the electronic frontiers?

 

[The Shaman]

Other than the map I linked to earlier....

Linked map? Can someone help me out here?