The Historical RP Group HQ 2

[Emilio Aguinaldo]

I have learned something new today. When a Paki whistles during a fight it's time for you to run the fuck away.

Wait what why.

Because 5 more dudes show up after hearing that guy whistle.

[Kryskov]

Exciting news in America as a Republican is filibustering renewing the Patriot Act. When it was passed, only one Republican senator voted against it and was labeled as a hater of America.

[G-Tech Corporation]

Exciting news in America as a Republican is filibustering renewing the Patriot Act. When it was passed, only one Republican senator voted against it and was labeled as a hater of America.

Those politicians, my friend, are blowing in the wind.

[The Kingdom of Glitter]

Exciting news in America as a Republican is filibustering renewing the Patriot Act. When it was passed, only one Republican senator voted against it and was labeled as a hater of America.

Might I ask who it is?

I assume it is Rand Paul. I mean I could Google it but conversation.

[Terminus Alpha]

Any ideas anyone wants to throw around?

[Senkaku]

Just read some stuff I'd missed


So this thread is basically General now isn't it

[G-Tech Corporation]

Just read some stuff I'd missed


So this thread is basically General now isn't it

The differences are really quite marginal, truthfully.

[Kryskov]

Exciting news in America as a Republican is filibustering renewing the Patriot Act. When it was passed, only one Republican senator voted against it and was labeled as a hater of America.

Those politicians, my friend, are blowing in the wind.

True, this is more of a "fuck Obama" move than a "do what is good" move, though in this case those both overlap, IMO.

Might I ask who it is?

I assume it is Rand Paul. I mean I could Google it but conversation.

Yep, been going 8 hours. Might start reading children's books soon.

[G-Tech Corporation]

Did I hear something about a Bronze Age RP?

[Kryskov]

From the back of my head (and a few minutes of checking up names and details of the like) I believe the quickest and probably easiest way is for Scheidemann to not overhear plans for declaring a socialist republic of Germany during lunch in Parliament. That means he doesn't declare it "between soup and dessert" and the USPD and Spartacists take the initiative. If they do it properly, and using things like the Soldier's councils as arguments, they should be able to convince Von Baden's fresh regiments to join them, and then you have a Socialist Republic in control of Berlin as well as other parts of Germany. From there it should be quite easy to roll, but I could delve deeper into it with some time and if you're interested.

Interesting. Would there be a civil war? What would German Communism look like if placed in power?

Also, I've split up that Turkish province to separate Constantinople, given Tunisia to France, and have separated Estonia from Lithuania-Latvia (or whatever I'll call it). Czechoslovakia has been returned to its IRL borders. All muh historiz is screwed uhp

[Terminus Alpha]

Did I hear something about a Bronze Age RP?

Ya, Emilio was talking about ARR, but I'd like to do something focused on the Diadochi. (I know that's not Bronze Age, but still.)

[G-Tech Corporation]

Did I hear something about a Bronze Age RP?

Ya, Emilio was talking about ARR, but I'd like to do something focused on the Diadochi. (I know that's not Bronze Age, but still.)

Diadochi are crazy cool. I'd be down.

[Reatra]

Any ideas anyone wants to throw around?

Start in 8000 BCE

tribes

Go to copper age

villages

Go to bronze age

towns

etc.

[Terminus Alpha]

Ya, Emilio was talking about ARR, but I'd like to do something focused on the Diadochi. (I know that's not Bronze Age, but still.)

Diadochi are crazy cool. I'd be down.

Well, I think you could get something up pretty quick. All that needs explaining is the positions of the Diadochi and their strengths/weaknesses, in addition to those other civilizations that are rising in the period like Rome and Carthage.

Hilarity ensues as Ptolemy marries his son to his daughter, the Antigonids try to go Alexander, the Selucids try to figure out how to rule Persia, and the mainland Greeks complain about being under the Macedonian yoke but do nothing.

[Reatra]

Diadochi are crazy cool. I'd be down.

Well, I think you could get something up pretty quick. All that needs explaining is the positions of the Diadochi and their strengths/weaknesses, in addition to those other civilizations that are rising in the period like Rome and Carthage.

Hilarity ensues as Ptolemy marries his son to his daughter, the Antigonids try to go Alexander, the Selucids try to figure out how to rule Persia, and the mainland Greeks complain about being under the Macedonian yoke but do nothing.

I wanna be a Ligurian tribe that dominates and basically becomes Celto-Greek mix


yey

[Emilio Aguinaldo]

Ya, Emilio was talking about ARR, but I'd like to do something focused on the Diadochi. (I know that's not Bronze Age, but still.)

Diadochi are crazy cool. I'd be down.

ARR: The Diadochi Wars. Great! Copy paste the shitty OP we've been using for three years!

[Caltarania]

Just read some stuff I'd missed


So this thread is basically General now isn't it

Yes, though this is more for us amazing VIPs, duh.

[Altito Asmoro]

Any ideas anyone wants to throw around?

Three Kingdoms RP? I really want to make it, but well...eh...I need free time first.

[The Jonathanian States]

Diadochi are crazy cool. I'd be down.

Well, I think you could get something up pretty quick. All that needs explaining is the positions of the Diadochi and their strengths/weaknesses, in addition to those other civilizations that are rising in the period like Rome and Carthage.

Hilarity ensues as Ptolemy marries his son to his daughter, the Antigonids try to go Alexander, the Selucids try to figure out how to rule Persia, and the mainland Greeks complain about being under the Macedonian yoke but do nothing.

What year would it be?
If it is after 166 BC I'd really like to be the Seleucids.

From the back of my head (and a few minutes of checking up names and details of the like) I believe the quickest and probably easiest way is for Scheidemann to not overhear plans for declaring a socialist republic of Germany during lunch in Parliament. That means he doesn't declare it "between soup and dessert" and the USPD and Spartacists take the initiative. If they do it properly, and using things like the Soldier's councils as arguments, they should be able to convince Von Baden's fresh regiments to join them, and then you have a Socialist Republic in control of Berlin as well as other parts of Germany. From there it should be quite easy to roll, but I could delve deeper into it with some time and if you're interested.

Interesting.

Indeed.

Would there be a civil war?

There would definitely be some early unrest, especially from the right. But I believe that with enough momentum the majority of the populace and soldiers could be reeled in, while the SPD (moderate socialists then, social-democrats these days) could probably be convinced by either having the state retain at least partial democracy and/or adding them to the government.
If the Soldier's councils then decide to indeed follow the leftist parties and gain enough locations/troops to either assimilate the rest or dissuade them from starting a civil war (similar to how loyalist troops refused to shoot rebels in Kiel) they should be able to prevent any actual civil war and quell the unrest.

What would German Communism look like if placed in power?

That I honestly don't quite know. You or I could try to look at it some, at Spartacism and the ideology of the USPD with maybe a slight touch of SPD if it fits in the history.

Also, I've split up that Turkish province to separate Constantinople, given Tunisia to France, and have separated Estonia from Lithuania-Latvia (or whatever I'll call it). Czechoslovakia has been returned to its IRL borders.

Yay!

All muh historiz is screwed uhp

That's a shame.

Just read some stuff I'd missed


So this thread is basically General now isn't it

Yes.

Might I ask who it is?

I assume it is Rand Paul. I mean I could Google it but conversation.

Yep, been going 8 hours. Might start reading children's books soon.

I remember having seen a video of a Tea Partyist reading Green Eggs and Ham in a filibuster. Quite amusing, I have to admit.
EDIT:

Any ideas anyone wants to throw around?

I'd like to see a reboot of the Divided States rp. Kingdom of Columbia FTW!
EDIT2: /EDIT
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[Terminus Alpha]

Well, I think you could get something up pretty quick. All that needs explaining is the positions of the Diadochi and their strengths/weaknesses, in addition to those other civilizations that are rising in the period like Rome and Carthage.

Hilarity ensues as Ptolemy marries his son to his daughter, the Antigonids try to go Alexander, the Selucids try to figure out how to rule Persia, and the mainland Greeks complain about being under the Macedonian yoke but do nothing.

What year would it be?
If it is after 166 BC I'd really like to be the Seleucids.

I'm fine with any date as long as we get sweet Phalanx-on-Phalanx action.

[G-Tech Corporation]

Sadness, I was gunning for Seleuces. Man is a living legend.

[The Jonathanian States]

Sadness, I was gunning for Seleuces. Man is a living legend.

TBH I kinda assumed we'll start with the Diadochian states already Dynastic. But I will read up on Seleuces.
Also, I'll be honest, a large part of what made me want to play the Seleucids is newly-refreshed memory of those, rooted old RTW days.
But I guess if we're before that date I'll gladly hand Seleucia over to you, and if we're after it, I could still pass.

What year would it be?
If it is after 166 BC I'd really like to be the Seleucids.

I'm fine with any date as long as we get sweet Phalanx-on-Phalanx action.

To be fair, that date is the one at which the Seleucids probably trained multiple :notLegions: which I really like.

[G-Tech Corporation]

To be fair, that date is the one at which the Seleucids probably trained multiple :notLegions: which I really like.

Silver Shields were rather fantastic. I'd prefer to start just at the start of the Wars of the Diadochi, about the time of Seleuces. You see a lot of fluidity all over the Med, even in Italy and Carthage, so it would be a very interesting divergence point to RP from.

[The Jonathanian States]

To be fair, that date is the one at which the Seleucids probably trained multiple :notLegions: which I really like.

Silver Shields were rather fantastic.from.

I know, I know. Which is why having the Silver-shields and Legionaries both is quite awesome. Also, Elephants. Balanced? Who needs that.

I'd prefer to start just at the start of the Wars of the Diadochi, about the time of Seleuces.

mhm.... I did say when and why I'd like to start.

You see a lot of fluidity all over the Med, even in Italy and Carthage, so it would be a very interesting divergence point to RP

166 would be before at least the last of the Carthaginian wars and definitely before the incorporation of Greece and the lands beyond into Rome, so I do believe that applies some time later as well.
EDIT: But it is after the second Carthaginian war so I do have to admit that the amount of divergence possible in that region is definitely and significantly smaller than at the start of the wars of the Diadochi. /EDIT

[Emilio Aguinaldo]

How about a few years before the second punic war? Also weren't the agyraspides a bunch of 60 year old dudes.