Excalibur Squadron OOC - Too Tough To Die? (CLOSED)

[Len Hyet]

Will post tomorrow for Deutsch hijinks

[Morrdh]

I'm about, illness and little one bouncing back and forth to hospital.

Work messed up my wages recently and I've lost hours for the reasons above, will go into more details via TGs.

[Grenartia]

I've been mentioning ES a lot at the Symposium lately.

[Tiltjuice]

I've been mentioning ES a lot at the Symposium lately.

Near took me 'ead off, 'e did.

I just wanted to swim! And catch some fish.

[The Tiger Kingdom]

Hey Tigger...

http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-art ... waves.html

Some pretty cool stuff, there. I've had an affinity for the Z Specials ever since looking at the casualty lists for Operation Jaywick and discovering a "Robert Page" on there a few years ago.

If it were up to me, I'd say we should follow the timeline. But also think we ought to leave certain bits out. Like, we shouldn't be bombing any Ruhr valley dams or mining any German battleships in fjords.

Yeah, we're not just doing Dambusters, that's for sure.

I'm about, illness and little one bouncing back and forth to hospital.

Work messed up my wages recently and I've lost hours for the reasons above, will go into more details via TGs.

Aw man, hope things get better soon!

I've been mentioning ES a lot at the Symposium lately.

I actually got a request from Swith to do an interview, which I'll work on later tonight

[The Two Jerseys]

Since Talbot's still waiting for Smythe and his driver to GET OUT OF THE WAY!, here's a WIP app for my newest Associated Knockabout:

Name: Gerald Saunders

Date of Birth: 3 July 1906 (age 33)

Rank: Senior Intelligence Officer, Secret Intelligence Service; Major, 3rd Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) (mobilized 3 Sept. 1939)

Physical Description:

6'3" tall, powerful build; blue eyes; auburn hair, typically slicked back to reveal a receding hairline; bulbous nose, prominent chin; deep, smooth voice. Well-dressed, typically uses a cigarette holder.

Place of Origin: Berlin, German Empire (British subject born overseas)

Flight/Flight Combat Experience:

• Imperial Airways to Hong Kong
• British Airways to the Continent

Ground Combat Experience:

• Officer Cadet, Royal Military College, Sandhurst, 1926
• Second Lieutenant, 1st Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey), garrison duty, Shanghai, 1927
• Second Lieutenant, 1st Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey), garrison duty, Hong Kong, 1928
• Second Lieutenant, 1st Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey), garrison duty, Malta, 1929
• Lieutenant, 1st Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey), garrison duty, Tientsin, 1930-32

Intelligence Experience:

• "Passport Control Officer, Diplomatic Service", Moscow, 1933
• "Passport Control Officer, Diplomatic Service", Tokyo, 1934-35
• "Passport Control Officer, Diplomatic Service", Berlin, 1936-39
• Senior Intelligence Officer, Secret Intelligence Service, Section D, Sept. 1939-present

Specialties:

• Fluent in English, German, French, and Russian; working knowledge of Japanese and Mandarin
• Numerous contacts in Whitehall, the Continent, and the Orient
• Getting people to do work for him
• Avoiding doing work himself; whatever work he can't manage to avoid is done diligently
• Instigating
• Good swimmer and boxer; average pistol shot
• Massive quantities of charm, wit, and narcissism
• Good singing voice

Weapons of Choice (in descending order):

• Other people
• Charm
• Sharp insults
• Webley Mk VI in .455 Webley; his old service revolver, now mostly retired except for when in uniform and the occasional range day
• FN Model 1922 in .32 ACP; for concealed carry on intelligence ops
• Fists (when all else fails...)

RP Experience: I wrote a song about an octopus!

Personal History/Bio: The second of three children and youngest son of a British diplomat, Gerald Saunders was born in Berlin during his father's posting there and spent his childhood following his father to various Continental diplomatic postings: Berlin, Paris, St. Petersburg. When various revolutions eventually made being in St. Petersburg a bad idea, the elder Saunders and his family were recalled home, where young Gerald was promptly enrolled in (and almost equally promptly expelled from) a series of public schools before finally maintaining a steady enrollment at Brighton College. After graduating from Brighton, he (surprisingly) obtained an appointment to Sandhurst; though not an outstanding cadet, he (equally surprisingly) managed to avoid being court-martialed or expelled, and after passing out was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 1st Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey).

Most of his military career was spent with his battalion in the Far East, where his experience consisted of, in his own words, "drilling troops, drinking liquor, swatting flies, haggling with merchants, exploiting laborers, punching sailors, viewing Japanese troops with suspicion, and occasionally visiting opium dens...".

After his commission was transferred to the Supplementary Reserve list, Saunders was approached by the Secret Intelligent Service, who sought to recruit him based on his knowledge of various cultures and languages, the numerous foreign contacts he had, and his renowned ability to charm everyone who crossed his path. Saunders accepted their offer, and spent the remainder of the interwar years as "Passport Control Officer" at the British Embassies in Moscow, Tokyo, and Berlin; during these assignments, he demonstrated an excellent ability in assembling and operating rings of informants.

At the outbreak of the war, Saunders was recalled to London and mobilized; however, the 3rd Queen's Royal Regiment was a battalion that existed solely on a sheet of paper in the War Office, so the Army simply decided to maintain the status quo and assigned him the SIS as a liaison officer. With his rings of informants mostly cut off from contact and his Army superiors remembering his penchant for making trouble, Saunders was soon transferred to Section D, where he was tasked with helping to assemble a military unit to carry out covert operations against the Germans.

You'll never guess in a million years who I based him off of...

[Morrdh]

Hey Tigger...

http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-art ... waves.html

Some pretty cool stuff, there. I've had an affinity for the Z Specials ever since looking at the casualty lists for Operation Jaywick and discovering a "Robert Page" on there a few years ago.

Bet Operation Creek is right up your street?

[The Two Jerseys]

Sounds like something we'd do...

[Grenartia]

Hey Tigger...

http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-art ... waves.html

Some pretty cool stuff, there. I've had an affinity for the Z Specials ever since looking at the casualty lists for Operation Jaywick and discovering a "Robert Page" on there a few years ago.

If it were up to me, I'd say we should follow the timeline. But also think we ought to leave certain bits out. Like, we shouldn't be bombing any Ruhr valley dams or mining any German battleships in fjords.

Yeah, we're not just doing Dambusters, that's for sure.

I'm about, illness and little one bouncing back and forth to hospital.

Work messed up my wages recently and I've lost hours for the reasons above, will go into more details via TGs.

Aw man, hope things get better soon!

I've been mentioning ES a lot at the Symposium lately.

I actually got a request from Swith to do an interview, which I'll work on later tonight

Cool.

Also, I'm going to be getting drinkeded at the Midnight Madness panel tonight. So, if anyone here has ever wanted to see a drunken Gren, this is your chance.

[Len Hyet]

"Black Flight"

Well that's not ominous.

[The Two Jerseys]

"Black Flight"

Well that's not ominous.

Raymond Collishaw beat us to it by 22 years though...

Speaking of, any chance of stealing a page from Naval 10 Squadron and giving themed names to the aircraft in each flight?

[Goram]

Update update. Internet still down, weather still terrible. Still here, but slowly going mad with boredom.

Come to New Zealand they said. It'll be fun, they said...

[Gibberan]

Update update. Internet still down, weather still terrible. Still here, but slowly going mad with boredom.

Come to New Zealand they said. It'll be fun, they said...

Who exactly said that? Because you know you can't trust anything Peter Jackson says...

"Black Flight"

Well that's not ominous.

Raymond Collishaw beat us to it by 22 years though...

Speaking of, any chance of stealing a page from Naval 10 Squadron and giving themed names to the aircraft in each flight?

Sounds neat.

[The Tiger Kingdom]

Just got back from a business trip to Eastern Washington. I don't think I want to be in a car anymore, at least not for a good long while...

"Black Flight"

Well that's not ominous.

Raymond Collishaw beat us to it by 22 years though...

Speaking of, any chance of stealing a page from Naval 10 Squadron and giving themed names to the aircraft in each flight?

You guys could do it. I have a massive repository of potential plane names I've come up with over the months anyways; so maybe some of them could be repurposed.

[Grenartia]

Just got back from a business trip to Eastern Washington. I don't think I want to be in a car anymore, at least not for a good long while...

Raymond Collishaw beat us to it by 22 years though...

Speaking of, any chance of stealing a page from Naval 10 Squadron and giving themed names to the aircraft in each flight?

You guys could do it. I have a massive repository of potential plane names I've come up with over the months anyways; so maybe some of them could be repurposed.

For the love of God, Tigger, don't hold back, lets see that list!

[Monfrox]

Okay, I'm going to do my best to get a post up tomorrow. It would sure be great if the IC link was in the first post.

[The Tiger Kingdom]

Just got back from a business trip to Eastern Washington. I don't think I want to be in a car anymore, at least not for a good long while...


You guys could do it. I have a massive repository of potential plane names I've come up with over the months anyways; so maybe some of them could be repurposed.

For the love of God, Tigger, don't hold back, lets see that list!

I'll show you some of my favorites.

Overnight Sensation
Glasgow Taxi (probably best as a tank name)
Apex Predator
British Edge/Allied Edge
Twist of Fate

[Kouralia]

Threw in a second post quickly to respond as appropriate to Howard, given that I'll be spending the next three days driving across Europe on my way to a holiday and might not be able to respond in so timely a fashion as I might like.

[The Tiger Kingdom]

Okay, I'm going to do my best to get a post up tomorrow. It would sure be great if the IC link was in the first post.

Done and added. I'll start working on my next IC post tonight.

Threw in a second post quickly to respond as appropriate to Howard, given that I'll be spending the next three days driving across Europe on my way to a holiday and might not be able to respond in so timely a fashion as I might like.

Noted.

[Grenartia]

Working on my IC post as well.

[Monfrox]

That's about as much as I can get for now. More to come.

[Gibberan]

Gren, I'm going to assume that Jimmy declined to shake Cliff's hand and that their relationship has got off to a rocky start...

[Grenartia]

Gren, I'm going to assume that Jimmy declined to shake Cliff's hand and that their relationship has got off to a rocky start...

Nah. I just forgot to address that part. I can edit it later on after I get back from running errands. I was fighting back sleep when I posted.

[Grenartia]

Gren, I'm going to assume that Jimmy declined to shake Cliff's hand and that their relationship has got off to a rocky start...

Nah. I just forgot to address that part. I can edit it later on after I get back from running errands. I was fighting back sleep when I posted.

And, edited.

[Morrdh]

Working on post, will be finished tomorrow.