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Total Members Voted: 6

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Stats:
HP: 4 -
Will: 5
Str: 2 +
Dex: 4 +
Move: 10
Sight:6

Just noticed this.  You have one unused increase due to that decrease.

Also, poll is up.

[adwarf]

Spoiler: Organisation (click to show/hide)

Organization Name: The Imperial Guard
Flag Design: A Golden Eagle striking down a Strix, on a red background.
Motto: We die standing.
Country Founded Within: The Roman Empire. Founded as the bodyguards of an ancient Emperor, when he was murdered by a Strix, the Guard mostly disbanded, reduced to a few scattered diehards, passing traditions of vengeance against the unnatural along to their descendants. But now, the creatures return, more dangerous than ever, and the Guard has found support, new recruits, and a rallying cause. Mostly concentrated in the surviving Empire, though there could be more descendants scattered elsewhere...

Equipment Distribution (5 points, more in a category means more of that equipment type.  Only 3 categories can have points in them):
0 Mobility (Horses and Light Armor)
2 Defense (Portable Palisades and Heavy Armor)
0 Short Range (Shorter Swords and Axes)
2 Medium Range (Longer Swords and Spears)
1 Long Range (Bows and Throwing Spears)

Spoiler: Character (click to show/hide)

Name: Iliana Baridsdottir
Gender: Female
Geographic Area of Origin: Constantinople
Appearance:
Backstory: Daughter of a Varangian and a local minor noble's unwanted bastard, her mother died in childbirth giving birth to her younger sister, last of three children, and her father paid a crippled comrade to raise her older brother and her (the younger sister did not survive), giving them both some limited training in combat. When she was 15, her brother was attacked by a centaur, and in saving him her father was maimed, nearly dying of the wounds. Furious, and not thinking he would survive, she swore an oath to bring bloody ruin to the monsters that attack humanity, and after he recovered, she left to fulfill her vow.

Stats:
HP: (Health) (Base:4)
Will: (Resistance to Panic) (Base:5 <rolled against a d10>.) ++
Str: (Power to strike) (Base:2) --
Dex: (Dodging ability) (Base:4 <rolled against a d10>.)
Move: (Number of moves per turn) (Base:10  Weapons have different movement costs.)
Sight: (# of tiles that are observed by a unit) (Base:6) ++

+1

[Samarkand]

Stats:
HP: 4 -
Will: 5
Str: 2 +
Dex: 4 +
Move: 10
Sight:6

Just noticed this.  You have one unused increase due to that decrease.

Also, poll is up.

I'll go edit that. Thanks for noticing!

[Mephansteras]

Name: Siggurd Olafsson
Gender: Male
Geographic Area of Origin: Orkney Isles
Appearance: A tall, thin man with extraordinarily bushy eyebrows. His blond hair is long and braided, beard included.
Backstory: A viking warrior from the Orkney Isles, he has heard tales of many disturbing things happening around the world and feels that it is his duty to the gods to destroy such monsters. He came looking for this organization after hearing rumors of it and its goals.

His primary combat function is a scout/archer.

HP: 4
Will: 5+
Str: 2 
Dex: 4
Move: 10
Sight: 6+

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

+1

You make your own character and vote in the poll for the organization.  We're not following one character.  As I said in the OP, the suggestion part is the Geoscape where the Player Characters debate for various actions, and you control your character on the tactical level.

[Hawk132]

Finally finished my character sheet. I blame the backstory for making this take 2 hours. And it isn't even that long.

Spoiler: Character (click to show/hide)

Name: Charles the Bastard
Gender: Male
Geographic Area of Origin: West Francia
Appearance: A tall man with unkempt long, black hair and a goatee. He has a few scars.
Backstory: A bastard son of a noble, he joined a mercenary band at a young age to earn his living. After a decade or so, he became a seasoned mercenary, well-versed in the art of war. He began to enjoy fighting, but as his skill increased, he no longer found worthy opponents among humans. As such, when he heard news of the creatures, he decided to join the newly founded organization.

Stats:
HP: 4
Will: 5 +
Str: 2 +
Dex: 4 ++
Move: 10 -
Sight: 6 -

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

I find it interesting that, for a short time, Attila's Auxiliary and The Imperial Guard were tied in votes.

[Samarkand]

I'm surprised. Especially in a game where mobility will matter. I thought going Hun was a good strategy, but everyone else thinks carrying walls with us sounds smart.

[Culise]

Honestly, it's the fluff that stopped me.  It's 900 AD: if we're going to go to other countries in Christian Europe and convince them to let us help them with their manticore infestations and what have you, it'll help to not be a bunch of horse-riding pagan tribal barbarians fresh off the steppes eagerly singing the praises of someone who sacked the heart of their civilization and made the name of his very people a byword for generalized and indiscriminate brutality, especially when our particular band of horse-riding pagan tribal barbarians has either just brutally invaded and crushed is about to invade and crush all of its neighbors (the Carpathian Basin in 895, the Balaton by 900, Great Moravia by 907).  It is a bit limiting on character options if you aren't already Hungarian. 

Besides, we can have wagenburgs, fancy shining armor, and broadswords.   Yes, even though plate armor is still quite expensive, to say the least, and will remain so until the High Middle Ages. ^_^

[Samarkand]

Honestly, it's the fluff that stopped me.  It's 900 AD: if we're going to go to other countries in Christian Europe and convince them to let us help them with their manticore infestations and what have you, it'll help to not be a bunch of horse-riding pagan tribal barbarians fresh off the steppes eagerly singing the praises of someone who sacked the heart of their civilization and made the name of his very people a byword for generalized and indiscriminate brutality, especially when our particular band of horse-riding pagan tribal barbarians has either just brutally invaded and crushed is about to invade and crush all of its neighbors (the Carpathian Basin in 895, the Balaton by 900, Great Moravia by 907).  It is a bit limiting on character options if you aren't already Hungarian. 

Besides, we can have wagenburgs, fancy shining armor, and broadswords.   Yes, even though plate armor is still quite expensive, to say the least, and will remain so until the High Middle Ages. ^_^

Fine, the fluff might have been a little limiting. But mobile armies with competent bowmen won more battles than longswords hiding behind mobile palisades. That's just a terrible strategy...

[MonkeyHead]

All irrelevant when we don't actually know what we will be fighting.

[Culise]

Honestly, it's the fluff that stopped me.  It's 900 AD: if we're going to go to other countries in Christian Europe and convince them to let us help them with their manticore infestations and what have you, it'll help to not be a bunch of horse-riding pagan tribal barbarians fresh off the steppes eagerly singing the praises of someone who sacked the heart of their civilization and made the name of his very people a byword for generalized and indiscriminate brutality, especially when our particular band of horse-riding pagan tribal barbarians has either just brutally invaded and crushed is about to invade and crush all of its neighbors (the Carpathian Basin in 895, the Balaton by 900, Great Moravia by 907).  It is a bit limiting on character options if you aren't already Hungarian. 

Besides, we can have wagenburgs, fancy shining armor, and broadswords.   Yes, even though plate armor is still quite expensive, to say the least, and will remain so until the High Middle Ages. ^_^

Fine, the fluff might have been a little limiting. But mobile armies with competent bowmen won more battles than longswords hiding behind mobile palisades. That's just a terrible strategy...

I wouldn't say it's terrible, per se, not given the performance of the tabor (and its eastern cousin the Wu Gang) and much later, the streltsy, but it is more suited to anti-cavalry tactics than the sort of battle we may face.  Still, your comment does make me realize that I did kinda botch my submission - I wanted that knight/holy order feel, but Mobility/Defense/Medium Range would have suited that better than Defense/Medium/Long, not to mention making it something that's not an accidental clone of the Imperial Guard.  Ah, well, a bit late for that now. ^_^

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Reset poll after removing 2 with the lowest totals.  This time, could everyone please use both votes?  Many used only a single vote.

[Samarkand]

Reset poll after removing 2 with the lowest totals.  This time, could everyone please use both votes?  Many used only a single vote.

But, the only other two I was considering got dropped... I don't want no mobility advantage

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

But, the only other two I was considering got dropped... I don't want no mobility advantage

In that case, vote for the one that could be easiest to utilize horses with.  The values are only for the starting equipment, not what you can get.