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[Sosoku234]

   The year is 1941. It's the night before D-day. All around are festivities for a battle against little resistance.
   The plan was to roll up on the beaches en mass and storm the poorly equipped and understaffed Wehrmacht on the cliffs. And with bombing of their positions happening in a few hours, followed by a long shelling, the germans would undoubtedly prove no match for the might of America (and Britain and its Commonwealth).
   Meanwhile, the airforce is having troubles finding their targets due to an unexpected cloud cover. Their bombs are way off target, unbeknownst to them and the infantry.
   The shelling begins, but is largely ineffective.
   The first wave begins its trek to the beach.

   Will you survive?


Hello. Back again, as there is a lull in work. This is gonna be a Grunts styled, Saving Private Ryan (the opening scene) themed, WW2 game. I'm expecting extremely high mortality.

If I feel this is well received, I'll put more in than just the beach assault, but that's what I want for now. I'll start when I have at least 6 people ready to face certain death.

Anywho, enjoy the action.

Spoiler: Explanation of Terms (click to show/hide)

MOS: Method of service; The specific job in the army/marines that a soldier has (I.e. 11c Indirect fire infantryman)
Rate: your rank for Enlisted is E1-E7 (I.e. Sergeant, Gunnery Sergeant, Petty Officer, etc.)
Rank: Your rank for Commissioned or otherwise serving Officers is O1-O6 (I.e. Lieutenant, Major, Captain, Commander, etc.)
Rating: Yoir job in the Navy. Usually denoted by two letters. (I.e. Machinists Mate (MM), Master at Arms (MA), Cook (CS), etc.

Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Self Explanatory
Branch: (Army, USMC, Navy, Army-Air Force) Unrealistic to have us Navy boys there, but who am I to judge?
Rate: Paygrade (O-1 - O-4/E-1 - E-8. Has no bearing on anything except maybe dialogue)
Rating/MOS: (Your job. If you use MOS, then bear with my lack of knowledge on MOS. I know ratings far better.)

Backstory: Go wild(ish)
Appearance: Be a Biped with the ability to grasp and fire a gun. All races/species (within reason) are welcome.

Status: Fine

Inv: Uniform, Canteen, Gun (Put your specific one in your sheet. Does not affect anything but the way I describe you killing people, but be reasonable(No MG42s for the Allies).)

[Glass]

Eh, we’re doing this again!
Well, not exactly, it’s not Seltsame Insel completely, but oh well.
Could I get some explanations for some of the stuff in the character sheet? Specifically things like the rating/MOS and some gun examples.

[WyrdByrd]

Could I get some explanations for some of the stuff in the character sheet? Specifically things like the rating/MOS and some gun examples.

Your character's rating would pertain to their position in the armed forces: Private, Sergeant, etc.
Since it's Grunt themed, you'll probably want to stick to enlisted ranks.

[sprinkled chariot]

Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: 
Bob Bobson.   
Branch: (USMC)
Rate:  0311
Rating/MOS: (Gunnery sergeant.)

Backstory: Bob Bobson was absolutely ordinary farm boy from Texas, but enlisting into army made him, well, absolutely ordinary marine, but quite marinish enough still.
Appearance: such typical appearance of man from Texas, that even eyes scream YEAHAAAAA.

Status: Fine

Inv: Standart olive green ww 2 uniform, shiny canteen, standart assortment of mres and general stuff troops carry around, m 1911, whatever this marine combat knife is called, one red flare,  wallet with 5 dollars and 25 cents

[Sosoku234]

Could I get some explanations for some of the stuff in the character sheet? Specifically things like the rating/MOS and some gun examples.

Your character's rating would pertain to their position in the armed forces: Private, Sergeant, etc.
Since it's Grunt themed, you'll probably want to stick to enlisted ranks.

Wrong. That's rate. Your rating/MOS is what your job is for Navy/Army, Marines, and Army-Air Force respectively. You give me your MOS code, I'll look it up, give me a rate and except for specific rates, i should know what your job is.
If you choose to be something like YN (Yeoman(Paper pushing admin type)), then i would describe you like that guy from Saving Private Ryan who had a very similar job.

Eh, we’re doing this again!
Well, not exactly, it’s not Seltsame Insel completely, but oh well.
Could I get some explanations for some of the stuff in the character sheet? Specifically things like the rating/MOS and some gun examples.

So, I plan on making this a lot more simple, so that way I can not lose the motivation like I did with Seltsame Insel. Twice.
Gun examples would be anything from the 1911, to the Browning 1919. Unlike the previous times, you can hip/shoulder fire medium/heavy machine guns. I also will not be making stats for each.

Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: 
Bob Bobson.    Self Explanatory
Branch: (USMC) Unrealistic to have us Navy boys there, but who am I to judge?
Rate: Paygrade ( E-8. Has no bearing on anything except maybe dialogue)
Rating/MOS: (Gunnery sergeant.)

Backstory: Bob Bobson was absolutely ordinary farm boy from Texas, but enlisting into army made him, well, absolutely ordinary marine, but quite marinish enough still.
Appearance: such typical appearance of man from Texas, that even eyes scream YEAHAAAAA.

Status: Fine

Inv: Standart olive green ww 2 stuff, Canteen( my english-russian dictionary tells me, that it means coffee shop?), m 1911, (Put your specific one in your sheet. Does not affect anything but the way I describe you killing people, but be reasonable(No MG42s for the Allies).)

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I like your enthusiasm. Canteen is a water bottle used by our troops.
If you could clean it up a bit by removung the random text I put, that would be great.
Also, for your MOS, I need you to pick an MOS code. If you have trouble with that, tell me what you want your guy to do for the Marines and i can get that for you.

[sprinkled chariot]

Edited sheet. Don't know about mos codes, what is usmc mos code for ordinary servicemen?

[Sosoku234]

Edited sheet. Don't know about mos codes, what is usmc mos code for ordinary servicemen?

Uh. So General infantry? 0311 (Rifleman) Fix that and you're good to go.

[King Zultan]

Spoiler: sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Herold Goldstine
Branch: USMC
Rate: O-1
Rating/MOS: 0311

Backstory: Wasn't anyone important so he got drafted.
Appearance: He looks like the most generic man ever, but he's secretly a lizard man sent by the government to spy on the military.

Status: Fine

Inv: Uniform, Canteen, M1 Garand, military knife

[Glass]

If I wanted to pretty much recreate my Seltsame Insel character (paratrooper radio guy), what would I put for rate and rating?

Additionally, given that character sheet appearance just says “be humanoid at least”: what is your opinion on aarakocra? (I literally just though of this just so we’re clear)

EDIT: alternately, a sharpshooter maybe. For the rate/rating thing, not appearance and species.

EDIT2: By the way, I think I may have told you this before, but I’ve got a Discord for Bay12 forum games and RTDs. Do you want a link?

[Sosoku234]

Spoiler: sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Herold Goldstine
Branch: USMC
Rate: O-1
Rating/MOS: 0311

Backstory: Wasn't anyone important so he got drafted.
Appearance: He looks like the most generic man ever, but he's secretly a lizard man sent by the government to spy on the military.

Status: Fine

Inv: Uniform, Canteen, M1 Garand, military knife

I love it.

If I wanted to pretty much recreate my Seltsame Insel character (paratrooper radio guy), what would I put for rate and rating?

Additionally, given that character sheet appearance just says “be humanoid at least”: what is your opinion on aarakocra? (I literally just though of this just so we’re clear)

EDIT: alternately, a sharpshooter maybe. For the rate/rating thing, not appearance and species.

EDIT2: By the way, I think I may have told you this before, but I’ve got a Discord for Bay12 forum games and RTDs. Do you want a link?

For the races/species you can be, go wild, as I care not. You could be anywhere between a four foot tall raccoon to a 12 foot giant/ogre.
So, for a combat radioman, is 0621 for Marines, 25C for Army, or RM or IT for Navy (Both would be Greenside, so I'm not sure if there would be a better rate.)
For a sharpshooter, 0317 for Marines, (I couldn't find a specific one) 11b/c for Army, or UCT (Seal), MA (Master at Arms), or HM (Corpsman(Greenside)) (Best fits) for Navy.
And shoot me that link, though I might not join it, as I'm not sure how long it will be before I'm aboard my new ship and I'd rather not be that dude who joins and never does anything.

[Glass]

Here's the Discord link. And don't worry about being inactive, there's several people like that there. It's really not an issue.

I will set up a sheet soon.

[King Zultan]

For the races/species you can be, go wild, as I care not. You could be anywhere between a four foot tall raccoon to a 12 foot giant/ogre.

Ooh that means I can be a secret lizard man.

[Sosoku234]

For the races/species you can be, go wild, as I care not. You could be anywhere between a four foot tall raccoon to a 12 foot giant/ogre.

Ooh that means I can be a secret lizard man.

You can be a lizard man with no disguise if you so choose.

[King Zultan]

I'll probably stay a secret lizard for a bit, then reveal my lizardness later, if I live long enough.

[Sosoku234]

I'll probably stay a secret lizard for a bit, then reveal my lizardness later, if I live long enough.

Very well. If this game lasts long enough for you to reveal, then I look forward to it.