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<blockquote data-quote="The Shaman" data-source="post: 2215921" data-attributes="member: 26473"><p><em>Wing and Sword</em> is a d20 <em>Modern</em> play-by-post military mini-campaign of counter-insurgency actions during the Algerian War of the 1950s.</p><p></p><p>The player characters are <em>légionnaires</em> of the 1<em>er Regiment Étranger de Parachutistes</em> (REP), the First Foreign Parachute Regiment of the French Army, assigned to suppress the insurrection lead by the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN). FLN insurgents have been striking at civilian and military targets in the hinterland since 1954, but terrorist attacks in the large cities of Algiers, Oran, and Constantine are on the rise and the <em>gendarmerie</em> and sector troops assigned to the country are proving insufficient to stem the bloodshed. The French government begins a massive troop build-up in Algeria in 1956, but knows that conscripts alone will not be enough – the toughest assignments will fall to the men wearing a silver badge on their berets, of a sword clutched in a winged fist: <em>Les Paras</em>.</p><p></p><p>Because <em>Wing and Sword</em> is a play-by-post game, the story of the adventurers is already available to anyone who wants to read it – to duplicate it here would be redundant and add little to the campaign for the four players. With that in mind, I decided on a <em>Rashômon</em>-like attempt at re-telling the adventure narrative from the perspective of different NPCs: an ALN commander, a <em>pied-noir</em> farmer, an OAS terrorist, a Foreign Legionnaire, and so on. My goal is to provide some background on and insight into the ‘game-world’ of <em>Wing and Sword</em> for the benefit of the players and those following along with the game-threads.</p><p></p><p>Details about the game and the characters and links to the game-threads can be found in the <a href="http://www.enworld.org/editpost.php?do=editpost&p=1966000" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue">The Divine Records of Exalted Deeds and Vile Darkness</span></a>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Shaman, post: 2215921, member: 26473"] [i]Wing and Sword[/i] is a d20 [i]Modern[/i] play-by-post military mini-campaign of counter-insurgency actions during the Algerian War of the 1950s. The player characters are [i]légionnaires[/i] of the 1[i]er Regiment Étranger de Parachutistes[/i] (REP), the First Foreign Parachute Regiment of the French Army, assigned to suppress the insurrection lead by the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN). FLN insurgents have been striking at civilian and military targets in the hinterland since 1954, but terrorist attacks in the large cities of Algiers, Oran, and Constantine are on the rise and the [i]gendarmerie[/i] and sector troops assigned to the country are proving insufficient to stem the bloodshed. The French government begins a massive troop build-up in Algeria in 1956, but knows that conscripts alone will not be enough – the toughest assignments will fall to the men wearing a silver badge on their berets, of a sword clutched in a winged fist: [i]Les Paras[/i]. Because [i]Wing and Sword[/i] is a play-by-post game, the story of the adventurers is already available to anyone who wants to read it – to duplicate it here would be redundant and add little to the campaign for the four players. With that in mind, I decided on a [i]Rashômon[/i]-like attempt at re-telling the adventure narrative from the perspective of different NPCs: an ALN commander, a [i]pied-noir[/i] farmer, an OAS terrorist, a Foreign Legionnaire, and so on. My goal is to provide some background on and insight into the ‘game-world’ of [i]Wing and Sword[/i] for the benefit of the players and those following along with the game-threads. Details about the game and the characters and links to the game-threads can be found in the [url= http://www.enworld.org/editpost.php?do=editpost&p=1966000][color=blue]The Divine Records of Exalted Deeds and Vile Darkness[/color][/url]. [/QUOTE]
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