Yep you can just jump in.
Character Sheet:
Name: Gent Ostrich
Bio: Stole a liberal arts degree and impersonated a recruit in an elaborate get rich quick scheme. Is now an actual recruit due to the anomalous recruiter enroaching on the territory of the local lemonade stand.
Health: Light Wound 1 - Fractured Ribs.
Status: All-Good
Kills:
Warrior Bugs: 1
Related Deaths: (We'll consider all new characters to be relatives of the previous one and you get a merit point for each death)
Medals and Commendations:
Total Merit Points:
Rank: Private
Billet: Infantryman
Inventory:
Morita Mk1 Rifle, 30/60 Rounds, 600 rounds in Magazines
2 M-901 HE Grenades
Combat Rig with Combat Armor Rated at Level 3
Databox
Canteen
Rationbar
You rush forward and crest a small hill. You see a huge "plasma bug" in a valley below. It's like a giant ladybug that seems to be discharging plasma artillery from its butt. A dozen or so warrior bugs are scurrying about, providing security for it.
[5]
You sight the nearest warrior a few hundred meters away and fire several short controlled bursts at its nerve stem. It goes down shrieking. The rest of the warriors charge at you.
Name: Marius “Jäger” Streicher
Bio: Pretty tall, let’s say the 6’6” range and of deep German descent with a hybrid of accents collage that barely allows you to hear the English words, rather than that a standard average BMI mesomorph.
Health: No scars yet.
Status: That’s will be answered in the next update.
Kills:
Related Deaths:
Merits:
Trigger Happy: 1 point
Total Merit Points:
Rank: Private
Billet: Infantryman
Inventory:
Morita Mk1 Rifle, 0/60 Rounds, 600 rounds in Magazines
2 M-901 HE Grenades
Combat Rig with Combat Armor Rated at Level 3
Databox
Canteen
Rationbar
Command other infantry men to start suppressing fire so that the bugs don’t rush us, while I advance and perform accurate but slow bursts of fire
You crest that hill with Gent and start directing nearby infantrymen to fire at the advancing bugs.
[2]
You are overriden when a more enthusiastic NCO shouts over you and orders the nearby units to hold at the ridge.
It is a good attempt and you would have gained merit points for a command attempt if you succeeded.
[3]
You have been ordered to hold position and hold your fire. But you enthusiastically support Gent with covering fire. You empty an entire clip, grazing a few bugs over the long distance, and generally enraging them more. The enemy makes more noise and calls more warriors to converge on your position.
Said NCO angrily bellows at you to "hold fire goddammit!". You gain 1 merit point for trigger happiness.
"Ayyy whassa bug gonna haaah guys" *muffled potato sounds*
Hurl explody bois at the computer errors.
Name: Jane Doe
Bio: Probably.
Health: healthful
Status: ahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Kills: nil
Related Deaths: nah
Medals and Commendations:
Total Merit Points:
Rank: Private
Billet: Infantryman
Inventory:
Shooty Boi, 60/60 Rounds, 600 rounds in Magazines
1 Explody Bois
Cardboard armor
Databox
Canteen
Rationbar
You advance with the rest of your platoon...
[1] You make a poor decision to lob a grenade at the advancing enemy several hundred meters away.
[5] You throw in a way that would make any football player proud. Your grenade soars 50 meters or so and explodes safely away from your team mates.
The Sergeant stares at you as if you have a mental illness, then decides he has bigger problems to worry about as the group of bugs advances towards your position.
Bravely charge towards cover while shouting insults at the bugs, and maybe also at the allied soldiers.
Name: Actual President Donald J. Trump
Bio: Very handsome, just the best, a tremendous man with tremendous hands. He's great, amazing, a real tough guy who's going to win this war. And he will win, Trump always wins, he's a winner, and he's fighting just the worst people, I mean if you just look at them they're just the worst, it's horrible, they're unbelivable. Trump is much stronger, and smarter, and just better in every way, there's no way he can't win, believe me.
Health: Healthy
Status: All-Good
Kills:
Related Deaths: Probably a lot.
Medals and Commendations:
Total Merit Points:
Rank: Private
Billet: Infantryman
Inventory:
Morita Mk1 Rifle, 60/60 Rounds, 600 rounds in Magazines
2 M-901 HE Grenades
Combat Rig with Combat Armor Rated at Level 3
Databox
Canteen
Rationbar
[4] You advance with your platoon. Then you point at the giant plasma bug and loudly declare it to be as ugly as the bad hombres back home. The United Citizen Federation embraces all peoples from all walks of life. Several soldiers give you annoyed looks, and you succeed in momentarily distracting them from their front sights. A latino soldier or two mutter vague threats towards your person if they survive this godforsaken bug planet.
(You can just jump in, right?)
Name: Faust von Hiptenburg
Bio: Eldest son of the wealthy von Hiptenburgs, has enormous pressure on his young shoulders to advance rapidly through the ranks. Unfortunately, he's a total idiot when it comes to self preservation. Happily follows even the most suicidal orders.
Health: Healthy
Status: All-Good
Kills:
Related Deaths: 0
Medals and Commendations:
Inspirational: 1 point
Total Merit Points: 1
Rank: Private
Billet: Infantryman
Inventory:
Morita Mk1 Rifle, 45/60 Rounds, 600 rounds in Magazines
2 M-901 HE Grenades
Combat Rig with Combat Armor Rated at Level 3
Databox
Canteen
Rationbar
Run past Jäger, shouting SCHNELLER! and spraying bullets in front of him.
You too deploy with the rest of the platoon.
[5] You heroically run forward, your german war cry is so inspiring that a couple of impressionable young men leap from cover to run with you. You gain 1 merit point for being inspirational.
Platoon Actions:
The Sergeant yells at everyone to get the fuck in cover. He arms a missile launcher with a tactical oxygen nuclear warhead. He sighs in resignation at the brave men running ahead... They should survive a pewee kiloton nuke at this range anyway.
[6]
He sights the big plasma bug and fires. The plasma bug is obliterated by a miniature sun that now engulfs where it should be. The nearby warrior bugs are also incinerated by the blast.
Gent and Faust roll to survive the shockwave.
[2], [5]
Gent Ostrich goes flying in the air!
[3] He lands on a pile of rocks and fractures some ribs, while his armor absorbs most of the impact. He earns a light wound.
Faust finds a convenient defilade to duck in and the nuclear blast rolls over him harmlessly.
The nuclear blast also collapses most of the valley floor, revealing a massive sink hole below... that is crawling with... vaporized bugs.
"Form a line! Follow me!" The platoon sergeant leaps from cover and advances onwards into the cratered valley. You hear the chittering of more bug swarms from a distance both in front and below you.
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Topic: Starship Troopers, Minimalist RTD (Read 17686 times)