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Whats your opinion on Penal Legions

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Do you use penal Legions?

Yes
5
28%
No
13
72%
 
Total votes : 18

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New Zepuha
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Founded: Dec 31, 2009
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Whats your opinion on Penal Legions

Postby New Zepuha » Sun Jan 17, 2010 12:02 pm

It has come to my attetion its hard to find recruits. SO what is your opinion on Penal Legions. I use them as more bodies to throw at the enemy. They help in terms of needing more men now. So i want to know how you feel.
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Daviis
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Founded: Oct 21, 2009
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Postby Daviis » Sun Jan 17, 2010 3:35 pm

New Zepuha wrote:It has come to my attetion its hard to find recruits. SO what is your opinion on Penal Legions. I use them as more bodies to throw at the enemy. They help in terms of needing more men now. So i want to know how you feel.


Penal Legions are a Great Idea.

Whenever there is a war Daviis's Prisons are emptied and the resultant scum are used for suicide missions, missions were casualties are estimated to be high, logistics personnel and as human minefield clearers.

So yes, theyre a good idea :)

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Conserative Morality
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Postby Conserative Morality » Sun Jan 17, 2010 3:38 pm

Penal Legions. Gather dangerous and disloyal men, arm them, and release them onto a battlefield. As a former Moralite Commander, I can tell you that such a plan is more disastrous than even the worst proverbial second Lieutenant with his map and compass.

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Fatatatutti
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Postby Fatatatutti » Sun Jan 17, 2010 3:52 pm

New Zepuha wrote:It has come to my attetion its hard to find recruits.

We have no trouble whatsoever finding recruits. We have to turn them away. We expect that a lot of your penal recruits would want to come over to our side but we require volunteers to be of good character.

-- Gen. Castro-Stalina, Fatatatutti Foreign Legion
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Anthro Peoples
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Founded: Jan 15, 2010
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Postby Anthro Peoples » Sun Jan 17, 2010 3:52 pm

I regard convict-soldiers as more dangerous than even the most unwilling, surly conscript. Some of these people were arrested in the first place because they did something illegal using a firearm, and now you propose to arm them again?

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Founded: Sep 15, 2007
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Postby Senestrum » Sun Jan 17, 2010 3:59 pm

There are governments that don't trust convicts to live in society, but trust them enough to give them a gun and send them out to fight?
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New Olwe
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Founded: Aug 16, 2009
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Postby New Olwe » Sun Jan 17, 2010 4:19 pm

Kidnapping for reasons other than ransom money is the only crime punishable by imprisonment in New Olwe, so you could see how this is not a viable recruitment option for us.
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Maurepas
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Postby Maurepas » Sun Jan 17, 2010 4:40 pm

No, we dont trust Prisoners with guns...We do, however, use them for cheap labour...

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Third Spanish States
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Founded: Oct 09, 2007
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Postby Third Spanish States » Sun Jan 17, 2010 5:51 pm

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Postby The Anglo-Saxon Empire » Sun Jan 17, 2010 6:05 pm

Conserative Morality wrote:Penal Legions. Gather dangerous and disloyal men, arm them, and release them onto a battlefield. As a former Moralite Commander, I can tell you that such a plan is more disastrous than even the worst proverbial second Lieutenant with his map and compass.

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A good way to get them to be loyal is to not send them on suicide missions, and to offer them freedom after the conflict, or to shorten their sentence. Either way, we do not use penal legions, we get enough volunteers, in order to become a citizen here you must serve in the military for at least 4 years.
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