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Post by Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb on Jun 16, 2019 14:04:56 GMT
I wouldn't mind joining the next RP |
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Post by Dr. Hendrei Gromsinger on Jun 16, 2019 16:01:59 GMT
Good to see you being active again, Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb . Okay, I'm just wondering if everybody who has been online lately but not actively participating in a RP atm... (will tag the names) DO you guys want to join the Indochina RP as secondary players or preferably something else different (can be like a Dippy game, Alt-Hist, or honestly a 3rd option being whatever different format you wish to participate in) Tagging Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb , Dr. Hendrei Gromsinger , Chancellor Otto von Bismarck , Christ Pantocrator , Transfermium , Europyrealm If you do want a different game, you guys could always run it at the same time during the Indochina RP btw. This forum is for having fun doing games and RPs, after all. I'm abroad until Jul. 11 (PM for details), and other online RP obligations mean no time for TSR RPing. Not that I have the time to fully commit to a proper RP here even when I am stateside (the other one can get quite busy, esp. with junior moderator duties there). So, you'll excuse me for politely saying no. Thanks for the thought, but I have to pass. |
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Post by Chancellor Otto von Bismarck on Jun 20, 2019 8:15:58 GMT
I’m not sure, it depends on what it is. I graduated on the 15th, but I’ve been feeling down and really lacked the drive to do anything since then. |
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Post by Frederick the Great on Jun 20, 2019 9:44:47 GMT
I’m not sure, it depends on what it is. I graduated on the 15th, but I’ve been feeling down and really lacked the drive to do anything since then. maybe join us in the Vietnam RP, that might give you some motivation? You can play as the NLF/Viet Cong I guess provided the GM tpc agrees, I'm playing as South Vietnam in it, and the other players are North Vietnam AKA Santa Anna, America AKA Tolbethessar, China AKA Carlos III and the Soviets AKA Victor Katz. |
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Post by Tolbethessar on Jun 20, 2019 17:50:05 GMT
I’m not sure, it depends on what it is. I graduated on the 15th, but I’ve been feeling down and really lacked the drive to do anything since then. maybe join us in the Vietnam RP, that might give you some motivation? You can play as the NLF/Viet Cong I guess provided the GM tpc agrees, I'm playing as South Vietnam in it, and the other players are North Vietnam AKA Santa Anna, America AKA Tolbethessar, China AKA Carlos III and the Soviets AKA Victor Katz. Uh... it would make more sense to have him play as ANZAC in this case while Viet Cong is basically semi-OPs for North Vietnam. |
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Post by Dr. Hendrei Gromsinger on Jun 20, 2019 18:32:46 GMT
maybe join us in the Vietnam RP, that might give you some motivation? You can play as the NLF/Viet Cong I guess provided the GM tpc agrees, I'm playing as South Vietnam in it, and the other players are North Vietnam AKA Santa Anna , America AKA Tolbethessar , China AKA Carlos III and the Soviets AKA Victor Katz . Uh... it would make more sense to have him play as ANZAC in this case while Viet Cong is basically semi-OPs for North Vietnam. Just in terms of counting, that would be prudent. 3 players are currently on the Commie side, adding him in as ANZAC would put the democracies (and South Vietnam, which, IIRC, wasn't all that democratic) even to that, while making him VC would give an ugly 4-2 disparity |
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Post by Frederick the Great on Jun 20, 2019 18:49:34 GMT
Uh... it would make more sense to have him play as ANZAC in this case while Viet Cong is basically semi-OPs for North Vietnam. Just in terms of counting, that would be prudent. 3 players are currently on the Commie side, adding him in as ANZAC would put the democracies (and South Vietnam, which, IIRC, wasn't all that democratic) even to that, while making him VC would give an ugly 4-2 disparity Tagging Tolbethessar as well The reason why I had suggested the VC was because they had a historically a bigger role than say, the ANZAC, also the ANZAC were a really small force in numbers as well, but also really effective, gotta give them that. It's up to Chancellor Otto von Bismarck and tpc though. |
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Post by Tolbethessar on Jun 20, 2019 21:22:01 GMT
Let just see if he wants to play in this RP or not, because if he doesn't, then this discussion is moot. I personally still think a 3 vs 3 setup is better than 4 vs 2, but we might still be at 3 vs 2 anyway. Dr. Hendrei Gromsinger and Frederick the Great
I just noticed I accidentally overlooked your implied question, Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. To answer that question simply put: What would you feel interested to play in here? And then, assuming if others are also interested, this thing ____ would be that RP/game. I'm flexible, bro. |
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Post by Dr. Hendrei Gromsinger on Jun 21, 2019 17:34:27 GMT
I have now visited my 3rd Vanilla dip SC in two weeks. Hooray!
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Post by tpc on Jun 22, 2019 1:07:02 GMT
ANZAC would not be a good choice.
USSR and China both support North Vietnam, but they do so due to very different reasons. There are also conditions in both countries that might strain their cooperatove bond like in actual history.
A fair addition would be a democratic power that supports SV, but has certain interests that are against the US and is not afraid of going against them.
France, I think, would make sense. De Gaulle historically opposed the US in some occassions and it is easy to write in their motivation as recolonizing Vietnam, putting them at odds with US decolonization.
ANZAC is too close and too dependable to be fun. I didn't make it something like USSR and Poland, after all. I want a high-risk high-reward dynamic on both the democracies and the communists: cooperating well is hard, but it will bring great benefits.
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Post by Dr. Hendrei Gromsinger on Jun 22, 2019 6:55:50 GMT
ANZAC would not be a good choice. USSR and China both support North Vietnam, but they do so due to very different reasons. There are also conditions in both countries that might strain their cooperatove bond like in actual history. A fair addition would be a democratic power that supports SV, but has certain interests that are against the US and is not afraid of going against them. France, I think, would make sense. De Gaulle historically opposed the US in some occassions and it is easy to write in their motivation as recolonizing Vietnam, putting them at odds with US decolonization. ANZAC is too close and too dependable to be fun. I didn't make it something like USSR and Poland, after all. I want a high-risk high-reward dynamic on both the democracies and the communists: cooperating well is hard, but it will bring great benefits. France would actually be fascinating. De Gaulle's motivations (I'm not sure if the game has reached him yet) were overwhelmingly to show that France can still into relevant. More often than not, that meant sticking it to the US of A. Could be a fascinating dynamic, the French ego and the US ego (because in Vietnam, US had a lot of ego going on - see: The Pentagon Papers or the charming Spielberg/Streep/Hanks movie I re-watched on my flight about publishing said papers) |
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Post by Frederick the Great on Jun 22, 2019 10:28:43 GMT
I'm unsure though as to how could we re-integrate France into the Indochinese political scene again. I mean the whole reason why Vietnam got divided was because the Communists kicked everyone's butt really damn bad. French troops wouldn't make much sense either because the North despises them and the South is staunchly Anti-French .
Maybe, if we get two players more including old boy Bismarck, we can create the Laotian Royal Government (the Government that ruled from '54 to '75) and the Pathet Lao (the Laotian NV-and-USSR-backed Communists). They can be useful for some reasons that I'll list here
1) The Ho Chi Minh Trail as far as we know is just starting it's construction, the Pathet Lao would support it and would drift towards North Vietnam easily to support it's creation because good ol'. World Communism.
2) The Royalists would oppose the Ho Chi Minh Trail by all means because the nascent Laotian Monarchy is newly-independent much like Vietnam and Cambodia's monarchies (Vietnam technically is a Monarchy in the game) and would drift towards South Vietnam and America easily.
3) The Americans can have another reliable ally in the region, thus supporting the Domino Theory.
4) South Vietnam would support training the Laotians in any case, militarily and financially, because SV clearly doesn't want it's next-door neighbor to get steamrolled.
5) During the larger "Vietnam War" Laos was more or less incompetent because it's Army was inexperienced and tiny and the Communists always held the upper hand, for this purpose it can rely on its neighbor Vietnam that has had already enough of an experience with the Communists.
It'll make the game unbalanced, as it'll be a 4v3, (NV+USSR+PRC+Pathet Laos vs Royalist Laos+SV+US) but we're already going with a 3v2 anyway so it won't be much of a difference. Besides, at present in the game the Pathet Laos isn't getting any support from NV anyway.
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Post by Tolbethessar on Jun 24, 2019 23:15:28 GMT
You know... now that this new turn came up with a whole bunch of headaches in form of events... I'm glad we don't have France right now. I would've loved the idea of putting De Gaulle in front of a firing squad if he wanted to added one more headache on the pile of headaches lol.  Eisenhower to De Gaulle "We saved your butt in WW2, rebuilt your country, and even gave you nuclear power, and you want to spit in my face?" *French screeching sounds* Eisenhower: "Shut it, or God help me, I'll put you in front of a firing squad!" |
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Post by Frederick the Great on Jun 25, 2019 4:49:24 GMT
And then an incompetent nation like Taiwan shows up screaming that they control the Islands...
Dude you even claim Kashmir! But do you own it? Claiming isn't the same thing as owning. Taiwan can keep swimming as an irrelevant island for all I care
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Post by Frederick the Great on Jun 26, 2019 10:26:19 GMT
Any of y'all boys play PUBG here by any chance?
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