CYOE IV: Poll Now Open

[Zeinbrad]

Ragon soldiers. In case you can't see, the orange lines on their armor show their rank.

One-Hastati First Class.

Two-Hastati Leader (Corporal)

Three-Principes (Sergeant, Squad leader)

Triarii are the platoon leaders, but I need to decide if they get anything special for their armor.

Oh, and the things on the right part of their chestplates (left for the Hastati) is their legion number.

[Zeinbrad]

I decided to modify the combat engineer for pilots, I have two ideas

One of the colors will be used by non-elite pilots (Which one?)

Or these colors dedicate the pilots/squadrons role.

[Gear 1]

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Ragon soldiers. In case you can't see, the orange lines on their armor show their rank.
Triarii are the platoon leaders, but I need to decide if they get anything special for their armor.

Here's a thought. Officers get a bit more stylized armor such as shoulder plates that stick out a bit more. Other ranks can recognize their platoon leader directly but an enemy may not, so hard for a sniper to take out the OIC. Plus, tell your troops not to salute their officers in the field.

If you're familiar, check out Robotech, Armies of the Southern Cross to see examples of diff. ranks using diff. armor styles. I think in countries other than the US, the Japanese cartoon was called Super Dimensional Cavalry Southern Cross. I may be able to find something on the web, but I only have this stuff in print from my Palladium Books Robotech RPG.

[Yukonastan]

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Ragon soldiers. In case you can't see, the orange lines on their armor show their rank.
Triarii are the platoon leaders, but I need to decide if they get anything special for their armor.

Here's a thought. Officers get a bit more stylized armor such as shoulder plates that stick out a bit more. Other ranks can recognize their platoon leader directly but an enemy may not, so hard for a sniper to take out the OIC. Plus, tell your troops not to salute their officers in the field.

If you're familiar, check out Robotech, Armies of the Southern Cross to see examples of diff. ranks using diff. armor styles. I think in countries other than the US, the Japanese cartoon was called Super Dimensional Cavalry Southern Cross. I may be able to find something on the web, but I only have this stuff in print from my Palladium Books Robotech RPG.

No no on no NOOOOOOOOOOO NO!

Do you want your important people to become sniper bait?

[EsToVnIa]

Here's a thought. Officers get a bit more stylized armor such as shoulder plates that stick out a bit more. Other ranks can recognize their platoon leader directly but an enemy may not, so hard for a sniper to take out the OIC. Plus, tell your troops not to salute their officers in the field.

If you're familiar, check out Robotech, Armies of the Southern Cross to see examples of diff. ranks using diff. armor styles. I think in countries other than the US, the Japanese cartoon was called Super Dimensional Cavalry Southern Cross. I may be able to find something on the web, but I only have this stuff in print from my Palladium Books Robotech RPG.

No no on no NOOOOOOOOOOO NO!

Do you want your important people to become sniper bait?

Not every army has a Carlos Hatchcock

[Yukonastan]

No no on no NOOOOOOOOOOO NO!

Do you want your important people to become sniper bait?

Not every army has a Carlos Hatchcock

Most armies do have competent snipers.
There's no saluting in the field precisely to make it hard to identify people of rank, people who are important.
If you give them flashy armor, then they become sniper bait. They become hunted.

[Zeinbrad]

Here's a thought. Officers get a bit more stylized armor such as shoulder plates that stick out a bit more. Other ranks can recognize their platoon leader directly but an enemy may not, so hard for a sniper to take out the OIC. Plus, tell your troops not to salute their officers in the field.

If you're familiar, check out Robotech, Armies of the Southern Cross to see examples of diff. ranks using diff. armor styles. I think in countries other than the US, the Japanese cartoon was called Super Dimensional Cavalry Southern Cross. I may be able to find something on the web, but I only have this stuff in print from my Palladium Books Robotech RPG.

No no on no NOOOOOOOOOOO NO!

Do you want your important people to become sniper bait?

As you can see the Ragon wear white into battle, with the elite legions adding their legion colors to their armor.

And Lord-Generals wear stylish power armor with family heraldry on it.

And some Lord-Generals are seven feet tall or more.

[Purpelia]

People, people. This is CYOE. The place realism goes to die. Don't critique peoples realism and intelligence here. That's what the realism threads are fore. Here, we only cover artistic quality.

[Padnak]

People, people. This is CYOE. The place realism goes to die. Don't critique peoples realism and intelligence here. That's what the realism threads are fore. Here, we only cover artistic quality.

The the Hylcon-class bagger shall forever live on as a testament to what ns can achieve

[Gear 1]

Yes I know Padme is the name of a Star Wars character, no I did not call it Padme because of her.

She's not bad looking though, if you're into the young elected Naboo queen type. It's said Helen of Troy had a face that launched a thousand ships.

[Gear 1]

And Lord-Generals wear stylish power armor with family heraldry on it.

And some Lord-Generals are seven feet tall or more.

Note to self: Ice the Lord-Generals first.

And to be on topic, the drawings are very good. Not unlike Stormtroopers of a different flavor and using distinguishing marks and colors makes sense.

Now, dress all your political prisoners up as Lord-Generals and get the enemy to kill them for you!

[Torrocca]

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HERE YOU GO IMER

imer did you see this

[Korva]

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HERE YOU GO IMER

imer did you see this

[Zeinbrad]

And Lord-Generals wear stylish power armor with family heraldry on it.

And some Lord-Generals are seven feet tall or more.

Note to self: Ice the Lord-Generals first.

And to be on topic, the drawings are very good. Not unlike Stormtroopers of a different flavor and using distinguishing marks and colors makes sense.

Now, dress all your political prisoners up as Lord-Generals and get the enemy to kill them for you!

Oh, Torrocca drew them, I just add marks and colors to them.

The armor is actually based off Phase One Clone Trooper armor, the coolest of the phases.

Oh, political prisoners are...well, let's say used for experiments. That's what you get when the founder of your empire was a warrior who is also a mad scientist with an guard of giant apes following him around.

[Novicius Imperium Romanum]

imer did you see this

ffs korv tg me the request again and i'll get right on it

[Gear 1]

People, people. This is CYOE. The place realism goes to die. Don't critique peoples realism and intelligence here. That's what the realism threads are fore. Here, we only cover artistic quality.

The the Hylcon-class bagger shall forever live on as a testament to what ns can achieve

The bagger is evil incarnate. Bwahahahaha.

[Gear 1]

Oh, political prisoners are...well, let's say used for experiments. That's what you get when the founder of your empire was a warrior who is also a mad scientist with an guard of giant apes following him around.

To paraphrase a now 40+ year old movie: "You blew it up! You damn dirty apes! Damn you all to hell!"

[Zeinbrad]

Oh, political prisoners are...well, let's say used for experiments. That's what you get when the founder of your empire was a warrior who is also a mad scientist with an guard of giant apes following him around.

To paraphrase a now 40+ year old movie: "You blew it up! You damn dirty apes! Damn you all to hell!"

Anyways, making the second elite legion-The 12th.

Thinking of them specializing in aerial assault.

Also need to think of Gaian and Ragon nicknames for the legions *rambling*

[San-Silvacian]

No their all rifled 120mm RT-88s, which are semi-automatic, breech loaded mortars based off the RT-61.

They get like, 12 rounds a minute safely, however crews will be able to push it to like 18-20 rounds if need be. It carries a bunch of ammo in the vehicle itself, plus they tow-behind trailers of supplies and ammunition. Gets range on par with the RT-61 as well.

Sounds similar to the Dragon Fire II EFSS (see here: http://defense-update.com/products/d/dragon-fire.htm)

Rifled mortars are okay, putting spin on the mortar round increases effective range. Dragon Fire II has a mechanism that hoists the round and loads it into the barrel, as opposed to in the breech, but as a digitized system, it can almost position and fire itself without crew around it. The crew just keeps the reload tray fed and operates the firing controls.

I did some more looking into and found something fairly ironic about this:

I'll be using this instead, it fits it better.

It was built into the Dragon Fire I from what it seems.

[Celritannia]

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Made something for Cel in my boredom. Franscale version of one of his
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Uniforms.

While I admire this a little more, I decided to put together the ribbons and medals of Grand Marshal Sir Marcus Kranshald.



Artarius Cross for Valour, Vanguardian Cross for Gallantry, Imperial Order of Merit (Grand Knight Commander), Distinguished Military Service Medal, Commissariat Service Star, Army Service Star, Naval Service Star, Distinguished Conduct Medal, Distinguished Flying Medal, General Service Medal (5 bars), Exceptional Service Medal (2 bars), and the Good Conduct & Long Service Medal (3 bars).

[Zeinbrad]

The 12th is done. The guys with the antenna's and the red box are the Triarii.

Since I feel like it, I will give the composition of the legions, but first, how Ragon units work.

Known unit designations.
The designation of a Ragon company comes from the system the company comes from. For example, soldiers of the Kaia system will be called the 54th Kaian armored. The companies role (armored, mechanized, infantry) is decided before the units creation, depending on the need at the time. Companies are then integrated into regiments with other companies of a different system.

Here are the designations.
Kaian.
Kau.
Bellum (Considered elite, are from the home system of the Ragon)
Ada.
Bua.
Mia.
Dda.

As for helper units, they don’t get their own companies unless there is something special about them such as the Togu Commandos, who are called something like “2nd Togu Commando”, Fevor’s and Mygrian’s are integrated with a Ragon unit, normally a command platoon. Fevor are also put in sniper units for their affinity to marksmanship.

Now for the composition of the elite legions.

3rd Legion-100% Bellumian, with two squads of Mygria and a company of the elite of the elite of the Charons (Supersoldiers) The Sons of Illgoth. They also have a Togu Commando unit known as "Death Commandos" that serve the Imperator of the Ragon military, who commands all military operations.

4th-Mostly Kauinas and Adaians, with three squads of Mygria and a company. Lead by Cyborg Kastro, a former Ragon Lord.

302nd-Ddians and Mians with two squads of Mygrians and a platoon of Togu Commandos. Lead by "The Fox" Jueas.

12th-Kaian and Buans, no Mygrian squads due to their style of operation-Aerial assaults through they do have two companies of Togu Commandos. Lead by Lord-General Koban.

[Gear 1]

Anyways, making the second elite legion-The 12th. "Whispering Death"
Thinking of them specializing in aerial assault.
*

There, how's that?

[Gear 1]

I did some more looking into and found something fairly ironic about this:

I'll be using this instead, it fits it better.

It was built into the Dragon Fire I from what it seems.

I'm with it all the way. I believe in the 120mm for battalion self propelled mortar support and having dragon fire II reduces manpower requirements. I don't agree with the new American doctrine of operating 120mm vehicles and 81mm dismounted battalion mortars operated by the same crew. That idea mucks up the works and means you carry two sets of ammo.

[Zeinbrad]

Anyways, making the second elite legion-The 12th. "Whispering Death"
Thinking of them specializing in aerial assault.
*

There, how's that?

Maybe.

Also, an Imperial Commando, the second level of Special Forces (Juskar)



Using Tor's sniper.

[EsToVnIa]

(BMP-2 by Inquilabstan, RPG-7/22 by sandserb)