The Historical RP Group HQ 2

[Liecthenbourg]

"Aloha snackbar"
-TNL, 2015

"Gloria a La Superba! Morte a Venezia!"

- RyRy/Remei/René/Riley/Rimak/Rinqa/Reilly/Holy-Fuck-I-Have-A-Ton-Of-"R"-Names, 2015

"Go home Reatra, China is calling."
- Everyone.

[The New Greek Republic]

"People don't think history be like it is, but it do"
~NAE, 2015

"History do be like it is but do we do like we is"

-NGR, circa. 2015

[Kryskov]

"K."
- General Kryskov Bonaparte, 2035, when asked to retreat from the Battle of Kanerberg Forest.

[Reatra]

"We've got eight hours to defeat the Americans, because I don't feel like missing my concubines AGAIN tonight."

- Impirren Riley Soto, defending San Francisco from American armies during the Californian War for Independence.

[The New Lowlands]

"We've got eight hours to defeat the Americans, because I don't feel like missing my concubines AGAIN tonight."

- Impirren Riley Soto, defending San Francisco from American armies during the Californian War for Independence.

>Californiay
>independence
ahahaha

*nukes everything*

go back to running out of water

[Reatra]

"We've got eight hours to defeat the Americans, because I don't feel like missing my concubines AGAIN tonight."

- Impirren Riley Soto, defending San Francisco from American armies during the Californian War for Independence.

>Californiay
>independence
ahahaha

*nukes everything*

go back to running out of water

#Desalination

[Neo-Assyrian Empire]

>Californiay
>independence
ahahaha

*nukes everything*

go back to running out of water

#Desalination

#Salty

Wait a minute...

[Reatra]

#Desalination

#Salty

Wait a minute...

I like that one.

[Adurnak]

"I'm sorry but what are this and why are you an doing this things?"
-Adurnak upon reading strange messages on his third favourite web page

[Caltarania]

"Anything's a POD if you're brave enough."

-Caltraham Lincoln, 2015

[Finland SSR]

"This manure stinks."

-Nobody

[The Jonathanian States]

"Aloha snackbar"
-TNL, 2015

"Gloria a La Superba! Morte a Venezia!"

- RyRy/Remei/René/Riley/Rimak/Rinqa/Reilly/Holy-Fuck-I-Have-A-Ton-Of-"R"-Names, 2015

Execute this source of heresy, of crimes against logic, of high treason by power of Extraterrestrial Astro-Bats immediately.
-tJS/Jon/John/Jonny/Jonathan, now and always.

"Anything's a POD if you're brave enough."

-Caltraham Lincoln, 2015

Wise words.
*applauds*

"This manure stinks."

-Nobody

Actually, I'd say most victims of Manure Bombings had that thought.

[Kisinger]

Here comes The shitty unfinished map of the day!
http://i.imgur.com/8xoecyB.png

[Alleniana]

La Dernière Guerre

"This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years."

-Ferdinand Foch

Theme

The date is the 2nd of March, 1941.

The Second World War has ended.

The Allies have won.

(Image)

In 1889, John Frederick Charles Fuller made the fateful decision to remain with his parents resident in Switzerland. Interested in military affairs, the Francophone Englishman sought out a career as a member of the French Army, which after some deliberation on his citizenship took him up to be educated at Saint-Cyr, and gained the nickname "Petit Napoleon" for his love of the old French Commander.

Jean Fuller, as he began to style himself, served with some distinction in the First World War, and an early supported of the French implementation of armoured units, especially the influential FT16 light tank. The conclusion of the war left Fuller in correspondence with a young man by the name of Charles de Gaulle. Together, they formulated several theories of armoured and mechanised warfare, and despite heated arguments took it upon themselves to spread their concepts throughout the General Staff.

Fuller and De Gaulle failed to instil the same spirit of élan and adventure in their comrades as they felt in themselves, but nonetheless their publications grew to be rather successful, cause for debate within France and abroad among those who could be bothered to translate the rare texts. One particularly influential reader was one Herr Hitler, the leader of the late Third Reich, who adopted Fuller's ideas with gusto. Behind the safety of the Maginot line, however, efforts were made to prepare France for a different war, one that had not been seen before, with a mix of strike and holding units to defend and attack simultaneously.

The War came, in a manner that was largely expected. The vast destructive powers of Nazi Germany spilled into Poland, aided from the East by the armies of the gargantuan Soviet Union, in an Axis of Evil that would surely come to control most of the world. The unattended Siegfried line stood no chance.

Into the Rhineland thousands of French soldiers poured, volunteers all, brave fools willing to die for their country. German conscripts hid in bunkers that were torn apart by well-placed artillery barrages, along a defensive perimeter that was as insecure as it was unfinished. The Wehrmacht was helpless; caught in the East, it swung West only to face an offensive that had already reached Frankfurt. Low on supplies and munitions, it only took a few more months of fighting before exhausted and unable to fight, Germany surrendered in shame.

The utter routing of the German army had a few effects on the political scene. Poland, freed from German occupation, cried liberty at the Russian oppressor while the Allies quietly secured a peace that ensured the country's independence. These days, every week, thousands flow from what used to be Poland into their new country, a greatly-expanded patch of land holding defiantly steady between the bear and the broken steamroller. Belgium, Poland, Czechoslovakia, the Netherlands, and France, all former belligerents against the Nazi cause have all insisted on vast demilitarised territories, the new defensive positions of the modern age. Italy, defeated even with so little fighting, finds itself increasingly unsure in a world thoroughly opposed to her self-strengthening. A tenuous peace has slipped across Europe, and it is a desperate question to ask whether it will hold.

This is cool. A few map oddities though; e.g. why is Vienna Czechoslovak?

Welcome to the Anglospheric Hegemony.

English, English above all.

To be honest, most of my AHs have been subtly designed to allow Latin to remain as world lingua franca, rather than English or French

For the world building competition, was there ever a formal thread introduced for it?

No, there won't be until a few days before submission. Which, by the way, is the 1st of August.

The First Historical Roleplay Group Worldbuilding Competition

Welcome one and all to the inaugural Historical RP Group Worldbuilding Competition! Anybody may enter this contest, to create the best universe they can. It will be judged by me, Alleniana, and approximately the best third of entries will be ranked and presented (though lower ranked entries will also be given scores and feedback). There will be no prizes other than bragging rights. There will be clear criteria judged upon, and certain rules, presented below:

Criteria
The entry will be judged in three major categories:
Concept, Detail, Presentation

The concept is the overall idea; the basis, the theme, the principles on which the world is functioning. It is to do with how imaginative and interesting the world is, as a whole. In a way, it also relates to how cohesive considering the overall feel and ideas that it has been constructed with, and how well-devised they are. It may also relate to general realism.

Detail is just that; the detail. It is generally to do more with the effort put in, and the development of the main ideas into actuality. The broader and better explained the world is, the higher it will score on this. Most likely, the more you do (i.e. the more expansive the world), the more thought you put into it, and the better aspects work with each other, the higher the detail score.

Presentation is to do with the way that the work is presented and shown. It relates to how easy it is to access the information, how easy it is to understand it, and how well the concept and detail are conveyed. Aesthetics play a great role in this category. Images, such as flags or maps, that engage with the audience or are of good quality, and formatting/structure will help raise this, in particular.

Rules & Guidelines
1. Do your own work; while you can resubmit work that you have done in the past, that is not preferable, and if that work was a collaboration or uses someone else's format (i.e. a wiki template), it is really toeing the line, and may not be accepted.
2. Try not to reveal or release too much before the fact. It helps prevent copying (after all, no claims of plagiarism can be made if a person never had access to the alleged copied material!), and makes the "grand reveal" grander.
3. You may work in a group with others, but please keep these groups reasonable, like, try not to recruit the whole of /pol/ or something.
4. Only one entry per person/group is allowed. If you have submitted, or are part of a group that has submitted an official entry, you may not submit another. If you require clarification on this (i.e. helping without recognition, what constitutes helping, order of submission), TG me.
5. Submission will be on the 1st of August; I will allow submissions a few days before and after (in fact, don't worry about being too early at all), so it's not a hard-set date, but most certainly, you won't be accepted with a submission weeks after that date.

Revision 3

[Reatra]

La Dernière Guerre

"This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years."

-Ferdinand Foch

Theme

The date is the 2nd of March, 1941.

The Second World War has ended.

The Allies have won.

(Image)

In 1889, John Frederick Charles Fuller made the fateful decision to remain with his parents resident in Switzerland. Interested in military affairs, the Francophone Englishman sought out a career as a member of the French Army, which after some deliberation on his citizenship took him up to be educated at Saint-Cyr, and gained the nickname "Petit Napoleon" for his love of the old French Commander.

Jean Fuller, as he began to style himself, served with some distinction in the First World War, and an early supported of the French implementation of armoured units, especially the influential FT16 light tank. The conclusion of the war left Fuller in correspondence with a young man by the name of Charles de Gaulle. Together, they formulated several theories of armoured and mechanised warfare, and despite heated arguments took it upon themselves to spread their concepts throughout the General Staff.

Fuller and De Gaulle failed to instil the same spirit of élan and adventure in their comrades as they felt in themselves, but nonetheless their publications grew to be rather successful, cause for debate within France and abroad among those who could be bothered to translate the rare texts. One particularly influential reader was one Herr Hitler, the leader of the late Third Reich, who adopted Fuller's ideas with gusto. Behind the safety of the Maginot line, however, efforts were made to prepare France for a different war, one that had not been seen before, with a mix of strike and holding units to defend and attack simultaneously.

The War came, in a manner that was largely expected. The vast destructive powers of Nazi Germany spilled into Poland, aided from the East by the armies of the gargantuan Soviet Union, in an Axis of Evil that would surely come to control most of the world. The unattended Siegfried line stood no chance.

Into the Rhineland thousands of French soldiers poured, volunteers all, brave fools willing to die for their country. German conscripts hid in bunkers that were torn apart by well-placed artillery barrages, along a defensive perimeter that was as insecure as it was unfinished. The Wehrmacht was helpless; caught in the East, it swung West only to face an offensive that had already reached Frankfurt. Low on supplies and munitions, it only took a few more months of fighting before exhausted and unable to fight, Germany surrendered in shame.

The utter routing of the German army had a few effects on the political scene. Poland, freed from German occupation, cried liberty at the Russian oppressor while the Allies quietly secured a peace that ensured the country's independence. These days, every week, thousands flow from what used to be Poland into their new country, a greatly-expanded patch of land holding defiantly steady between the bear and the broken steamroller. Belgium, Poland, Czechoslovakia, the Netherlands, and France, all former belligerents against the Nazi cause have all insisted on vast demilitarised territories, the new defensive positions of the modern age. Italy, defeated even with so little fighting, finds itself increasingly unsure in a world thoroughly opposed to her self-strengthening. A tenuous peace has slipped across Europe, and it is a desperate question to ask whether it will hold.

This is cool. A few map oddities though; e.g. why is Vienna Czechoslovak?

English, English above all.

To be honest, most of my AHs have been subtly designed to allow Latin to remain as world lingua franca, rather than English or French

For the world building competition, was there ever a formal thread introduced for it?

No, there won't be until a few days before submission. Which, by the way, is the 1st of August.

The First Historical Roleplay Group Worldbuilding Competition

Welcome one and all to the inaugural Historical RP Group Worldbuilding Competition! Anybody may enter this contest, to create the best universe they can. It will be judged by me, Alleniana, and approximately the best third of entries will be ranked and presented (though lower ranked entries will also be given scores and feedback). There will be no prizes other than bragging rights. There will be clear criteria judged upon, and certain rules, presented below:

Criteria
The entry will be judged in three major categories:
Concept, Detail, Presentation

The concept is the overall idea; the basis, the theme, the principles on which the world is functioning. It is to do with how imaginative and interesting the world is, as a whole. In a way, it also relates to how cohesive considering the overall feel and ideas that it has been constructed with, and how well-devised they are. It may also relate to general realism.

Detail is just that; the detail. It is generally to do more with the effort put in, and the development of the main ideas into actuality. The broader and better explained the world is, the higher it will score on this. Most likely, the more you do (i.e. the more expansive the world), the more thought you put into it, and the better aspects work with each other, the higher the detail score.

Presentation is to do with the way that the work is presented and shown. It relates to how easy it is to access the information, how easy it is to understand it, and how well the concept and detail are conveyed. Aesthetics play a great role in this category. Images, such as flags or maps, that engage with the audience or are of good quality, and formatting/structure will help raise this, in particular.

Rules & Guidelines
1. Do your own work; while you can resubmit work that you have done in the past, that is not preferable, and if that work was a collaboration or uses someone else's format (i.e. a wiki template), it is really toeing the line, and may not be accepted.
2. Try not to reveal or release too much before the fact. It helps prevent copying (after all, no claims of plagiarism can be made if a person never had access to the alleged copied material!), and makes the "grand reveal" grander.
3. You may work in a group with others, but please keep these groups reasonable, like, try not to recruit the whole of /pol/ or something.
4. Only one entry per person/group is allowed. If you have submitted, or are part of a group that has submitted an official entry, you may not submit another. If you require clarification on this (i.e. helping without recognition, what constitutes helping, order of submission), TG me.
5. Submission will be on the 1st of August; I will allow submissions a few days before and after (in fact, don't worry about being too early at all), so it's not a hard-set date, but most certainly, you won't be accepted with a submission weeks after that date.

Revision 3

OH SHIT FUCK THAT REMINDS ME I NEED TO DO THAT

[Reatra]

Hey Allen, since I don't feel like italicizing everything can I type my stuff on a google docs and make it public and showcase THAT?

[Emilio Aguinaldo]

Oi! Who eantd to join me in making an entry in the comtest?

[The New Lowlands]

Oi! Who eantd to join me in making an entry in the comtest?

what's your idea?

broad question, but maybe we can do something.

e: RE: nuclear war AHRP scenarios

[Reatra]

Oi! Who eantd to join me in making an entry in the comtest?

what's your idea?

broad question, but maybe we can do something.

e: RE: nuclear war AHRP scenarios

JAJAJAJAJA


But in Europe or something. Like Germany, and East and West men and women have to make friends until their respective militaries come (or don't)

[Emilio Aguinaldo]

Oi! Who eantd to join me in making an entry in the comtest?

what's your idea?

broad question, but maybe we can do something.

e: RE: nuclear war AHRP scenarios

Diadochi...

[The New Lowlands]

what's your idea?

broad question, but maybe we can do something.

e: RE: nuclear war AHRP scenarios

Diadochi...

>denbts

no thx lol

e: very mild hint for my worldbuilding idea

[Reatra]

Diadochi...

>denbts

no thx lol

e: very mild hint for my worldbuilding idea

I don't really know what it is


But I think a space race that keeps going.

[Alleniana]

Hey Allen, since I don't feel like italicizing everything can I type my stuff on a google docs and make it public and showcase THAT?

Sure. Any format is ok; Google Doc, Microsoft Word on Dropbox or some file sharer, NS post, etc. so long as it's accessible.

Anyway, it's... what, a week and a bit from submission now? Get ready everybody

[The Holy Dominion of Inesea]

Oi! Who eantd to join me in making an entry in the comtest?

what's your idea?

broad question, but maybe we can do something.

e: RE: nuclear war AHRP scenarios

Question 21 August 2089
Glory to the Motherland is in the wrong declension.

[Altito Asmoro]

"Stop acting like self-important philosophers."
- UnStellar

"We are important, unfortunately. Important among the best important people at this group, including you. We all are important."

-Altito Asmoro