Redwall Abbey

So, in this RP series we could have RPs where we make up battle scenarios and have armies battle. I'll pick some generals and maybe an officer or two, and the rest will be soldiers upon the battlefield.

Signup:

Name:
Age (Human based):
Gender:
Race:
Will: (Scale of 1-10)
Strength: (Scale of 1-10)
Speed: (Scale of 1-10)
Skills:
Backstory: (May want to place some reasons for above skills in here, optional)
Weapon:
Armor: (Optional)
Any other tools of warfare and beyond: (Optional)
Alliance: (Currently goodbeast or vermin? usually dictated by race)

 This might be interesting. I think each battle should have a different setting, period, etc.. (One battle could be set with gunpowder and whatnot, while another could have medieval weapons, and so on)

I'll be making a character soon...

Note that if your species is not in the battle, you may make and use another. You may have any number of chars, but only 2 can be used in a single battle.

I really like this concept. I'll join once the first battle is decided. Perhaps you should have people take a vote on location, era, and species with the Poll tool.

Alright! Made a character.

Name: Freidrich Grostt
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Race: Red Fox
Will: 9
Strength: 7
Speed: 3
Skills: He has good swordsmanship. He refuses to give up unless he is sure to lose, and even then will try to find ways to inflict as much damage on the enemy as possible.
Backstory: Coming from a land East of Redwall (based off of Germany and surrounding lands)
Weapon:(assuming we may have more than one weapon) Long Halberd, saber, and flintlock pistol
Armor: A steel helmet, leg guards, and chestplate
Alliance: Vermin

Name: Alonso Backfire
Age (Human based): 32
Gender: Male
Race: Weasel
Will: 10
Strength: 5
Speed: 8
Skills: (Depending on the battle, era, ect.) Dueling with spear, firearm experience, expert in the art of trickery.
Backstory: Born in a foreign land, Alonso became interested in fighting at a young age. Throughout the next few years, he was taught in the ancient arts of trickery, spear fighting, and the use of firearms by his father. After his father's death, Alonso joined the military against the will of his mother. Alonso left his homeland behind in search of glory, killing, and battle.
Weapon: (Again, depending on the battle,) Spear, dual double barrel flintlock pocket pistols, Spanish Rapier.
Armor: Sallet helmet with Spanish armor
Any other tools of warfare and beyond: Tricking his enemy.
Alliance: Currently Vermin

I'll post my char later

Name: Hastigeth Icefur.

Age (Human based): 29

Gender: Male.

Race: Can Lynxes be good?

Will: (Scale of 1-10) 4

Strength: (Scale of 1-10) 7

Speed: (Scale of 1-10) 9

Skills: He is a very skilled archer and spearman. He can fletch and has developed a skill for climbing trees.

Backstory: His parents froze to death on the northern shores when he was about 12; he was an only child
so that left him to fend for himself, he began teaching himself how to fletch and not having sufficient
materials to build shelters, he slept in trees under a sheepskin blanket. He hunted using a bow and if his prey came to close then he would deal with it with his spear.

Weapons: Spear, and longbow.

Armor: (http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/186/2/c/Teutonic_Knight_3_by_chavi_dragon.jpg)
Only with a kite shield that is not curved on top.

Any other tools of warfare and beyond: (Optional)

Alliance: Good.

Hey I'm new to the role play deal so I figured I'd try it out. So here's my character.

Name: Casta Longeye
Age (Human based): 21
Gender: male
Race: Rat
Will: 10
Strength: 3
Speed: 4
Skills: Excellent strategist, never willing to give in without a fight, capable of understanding tactical errors and learning from them, not extremely skill in paw to paw combat.
Backstory: Casta Longeye is a graduate of an all vermin military academy, coming from a wealthy family he was granted every possible resource for his success. using his intelligence to get himself into top military positions he makes up for what he lacks in physically with raw wit and quick thinking.   
Weapon: A fine officers saber.
Armor: light chainmail tunic.
Any other tools of warfare and beyond: several types of poisons. 
Alliance: Vermin.

Hey is there anyway someone could tell me how to find the actual role play deal and how to role play in it.

Welcome to the forums, LT Sandpaw. That's a pretty good character.

The actual roleplay hasn't been made yet, but once the stage is agreed on an most of us our characters I think Blaggut is posting it. Can't really speak for his, though.

Okay that's great can't wait to start.

By the way can I make two characters instead of one?

 I think the poll is kind of stalled. Perhaps we should remove the least liked option on the poll and then vote again on the three left?

(Never mind, accident post.)

I'll join later.

Accident post?


Anyway can't wait to start.

Soooooo, when are we starting.

 We're starting when Blaggut gets off his lazy bum and decides to post  :P

*Wakes up and yawns, looking at watch*

It's 3:47! That's means I missed Tuesday!

*Flips a coin to choose battle*

Is that really how were going to do this,
We ought to do a normal Redwall era fight just to get into the swing of things don'tcha know.

 Well... we can do a normal Redwall fight later. I, for one, am kinda interested to see how a fight between goodbeasts and vermin would go in a Napoleonic setting.

That would be interesting.

I am still a little confused on how it's going to be done.
Are we going to fight each other, or do we have armies we lead?

 We will be part of either the good guys or the bad guys. All the vermin are pretty much bad, and all the woodlanders are pretty much good. A few of us will be officers, and the rest will be soldiers.

 Can we get this thing started?

I'm gonna have ta agree.

Delth is leading an army of squirrels with strong artillery support.

Izeroth leads an army of various vermin into battle.

Note that due too voting this is napoleonic, only one of the few that will be historically based, the rest on special occasions.  ;)

I'm gonna go make the topic and set the scene.

Sooo what do the rest of us do? I assume we just fight in the battle as officers.

I'll post my character sometime... Now that I know the order of battle. It's hard to make a character that spans all the time periods!

 Remember to use guns and swords, no spears or bows. This is Napoleonic, so there will be no armor (musket balls go right through armor)

Name: Wallace Longtail
Age (Human based): 24
Gender: Male
Race: Squirrel
Will: (Scale of 1-10) 5
Strength: (Scale of 1-10) 4
Speed: (Scale of 1-10) 8
Skills: Skilled with a rapier, fast, and very good at finding hiding places.
Backstory: (May want to place some reasons for above skills in here, optional) Raised in a tribe of squirrels who always went for speed over brawn, he was trained with fast weapons such as a rapier. During his tribes few conflicts, he would often act as a spy. Eventually he left his tribe and joined the force of squirrels.
Weapon: Rapier
Armor: (Optional) An outfit similar to Napoleons.
Any other tools of warfare and beyond: (Optional) N/A
Alliance: (Currently goodbeast or vermin? usually dictated by race) Goodbeast/Squirrels.

This has to be my favorite RP yet! So much strategy and storyline!

I think I'll make my character early next time so I get to roleplay.

This was great I like being the an officer, so much death though and I kept thinking I was going to be taken prisoner.
Can't wait for the next one!!!!

Quote from: Delthion on November 22, 2014, 04:26:19 AM
This has to be my favorite RP yet! So much strategy and storyline!

Thanks  :D

Also, changing poll. It will be Redwall, but on special occasions it will, be historical. (Christmas, Thanksgiving, Soldier's Birthdays)

 What? But I like the different themes. Mostly Redwall would be.. Kind of boring.

True. Then I guess we'll do Redwall on special occasions and usually period

 Also, what if there were more than two forces? Like, a group of goodbeasts, a group of vermin, and a group of toads and lizards?

Yeah, I've been planning a multiple sided battle.

 Here's a suggestion: a vermin emperor has been largely defeated by goodbeast forces, and is trapped inside his palace in a Constantinople-esque scenario. Just when it looks like the emperor's never getting out of there, a third army arrives and creates a distraction, giving him a chance to fight his way out of the city.

I might do that

Also, as an announcement for everyone, for Thanksgiving we will be having a Colonials vs Indians game, and the first part of an either 2 part or 3 part game at Lord Onharn's Castle!  ;D

So like Traveling goodbests that run into local vermin. do we make new characters for that?

 How about this.. A group of vermin from the redwall world have landed on the shore of a far-away continent (based on North America) and built a fortress. The native tribes, composed of squirrels, chipmunks, groundhogs, and more, are not happy about this, and lay siege to the fortress.

Basically, but with a camp and not a fortress  ;)

That would be cool,

By the way is there anyway we could do like a World War One era fight that would be amazing.

 With biplanes and the like, that would be interesting.

That would be amazing with the planes! I would want to command the Air division or whatever it would be called.  ;D

 There would probably be a network of trenches, armed with machine guns and artillery. There might be some tanks, but tanks would be fairly rare. The battle would mainly be done by trench to trench charges. (Air power might play a part, but the planes -frail and weak- would not be a major force.)

World War One would be really fun to write about at some point.

Hey guys, I'm sick really bad right now, and my stomach and throat hurt too much too really type, so the battle wont be starting for an extra day or two.  :( Sorry!

 2014 is the hundredth anniversary of ww1, interestingly.

We should do a WWI RP! If Blaggut says that's alright.

 I suggest that we make new characters every few rps, to make things fresh and un-repetitive.

I'm going to go make the Thanksgiving RP. Feeling better now.  ;D

 After the Thanksgiving battle, let's do a month-long ww1 battle. I had a few ideas for such a battle:

Nations:

-Derain(Germany) A northern country composed mostly of foxes, but with other types of vermin as well.
-Southsward(France and other nearby countries) A country made up of good rodents. Squirrels in the forested regions, and other rodents everywhere else.
-Igrogio(Italy) Made up of mostly mustelids, this southern kingdom has joined the side of Derain.
-Sytha(Scotland) Mostly otters, this ancient kingdom has joined the side of Southsward.
-Salamandastron(Britain) The foot soldiers and lower officers of this kingdom are hares, while the high officers and Lord are badgers. This kingdom is allied with Southsward, and currently controls all of Mossflower.

This is so far in the future that Redwall no longer exists. Redwall is nothing more than a legend, its foundation having been consumed by the forest long ago. Derain and Salamandastron are the two most important empires, but there a number of smaller nations. (This is a world war, after all) In keeping with how ww1 went, most of the battles will be fought in Southsward and the nearby lands.

We'll have a poll for it. Sounds cool!

Generals:(Choosed at random through an eini-minie-menie-mo process)

Conrad: Colonial General.

Izeroth: Indian General

Delth: Colonial Officer

Sandpaw: Indian Officer

 Ok, then. I'll be some sort of tribal shaman.

Edit: Also, I think all the tribal characters should make new characters. With tribal names, outfits, etc.

Quote from: HanNorwood on November 20, 2014, 02:12:23 PM
Name: Wallace Longtail
Age (Human based): 24
Gender: Male
Race: Squirrel
Will: (Scale of 1-10) 5
Strength: (Scale of 1-10) 4
Speed: (Scale of 1-10) 8
Skills: Skilled with a rapier, fast, and very good at finding hiding places.
Backstory: (May want to place some reasons for above skills in here, optional) Raised in a tribe of squirrels who always went for speed over brawn, he was trained with fast weapons such as a rapier. During his tribes few conflicts, he would often act as a spy. Eventually he left his tribe and joined the force of squirrels.
Weapon: Rapier
Armor: (Optional) An outfit similar to Napoleons.
Any other tools of warfare and beyond: (Optional) N/A
Alliance: (Currently goodbeast or vermin? usually dictated by race) Goodbeast/Squirrels.

Could this guy work for the Thanksgiving RP?

Do we make a totally new character for each RP???

 You can recycle characters if they work for the situation you're in. You couldn't, for instance, recycle a civilized beast as a tribal one.

Let's just use some basic characters for each RP. Not overpowered but still possibly skilled in different facets. With personality, but not too deep character development, I guess?

 I was thinking on maybe special character for each type of battle, for instance a German or Austrian-like character would be good for our ww1 battle. A German or Austrian-like character would make little sense for a corsair battle, however.

I don't think I'm doing the Thanksgiving RP, but I'm all-for the WWI RP!!!!

 I was thinking we might do a couple ww1-themed battles this month. The war was too large to really define in just one battle.

Yea, that makes more sense. With that kind of war though, there's still a lot of things to consider. Will we be able to use poison gasses such as Mustard Gas or other? Thousands of horses were also used during the war, what would be a good replacement, unless, we don't use them?

 I think we shouldn't use horses. We don't need a replacement, because by the end of the war, most soldiers didn't fight on horseback anyway. We could have soldiers pull the wagons and artillery and stuff.

Mustard gas make sense, as well as fire bombs. Machineguns would certainly be there as well, but you wouldn't be able to carry them, and they'd probably be placed on the trenches.

As for aircraft and tanks, both would play a part, but wouldn't be major forces. Tanks would be there of course, but not in large numbers. Planes would be mainly used to attack other planes and to get information about enemy movements. Both two-seat and one-seat models could be used, with the two-seater having a machinegun in the back.

Nice. Can't wait till it happens. ;D

 I'd say it's about time for our ww1 rp. I know we were going to do the fields at lake Hogspine, but 2014 is the hundredth anniversary of ww1, so I think we should do it before the month is out.

Good point, but what's hear what the others have to say.

WW1 lets go trench's and trench coats and trench warfare and trench charging and trench clearing and were going to need a lot of soldiers because one machine gun is going to tear everyone up.   

 Yeah... Machine guns are good at doing that. Fortunately, there are tanks.

Yeah, but not too many tanks.

Hey guys, been really busy, sorry I haven't been posting. Been delivering a ton of popcorn I sold, but I'll be finished soon.  ;D Once it's morning and my brain isnt muddled I'll post the WWI RP(s). Till' then, any requests of where and what circumstances it should be in? Also, as for a second WWI battle, there will be that. (It will be a WWI dogfight with no clear leaders, I thinks)

 What about a WW1-style battle set near the beginning of the war? Trenches haven't been dug yet, at least not in length, and the main Vermin forces are fast advancing south, with some allies who are heading north. Hares, otters and the Militia of Mossflower wood come east from Salamandastron to assist the Southsward soldiers, and all the forces meet on some farmland/plains/forest about 150 miles from the Southsward castle.

I thought I would change the list of factions, to make it less real life-ish and more Redwall-ish. There are countless other factions, and I'm sure you could just make another faction if you don't fall in any of these.

Badbeasts:

- The kingdom of Kedrin: (Based it off of Riftgard) Composed of all kinds of vermin, but ruled by Ferrets. This kingdom was once great, but has seen a big loss of power over the years. Its ruler, the viceroy Fraul, hopes to regain some of the prestige Kedrin once enjoyed.
- The Dirich empire: (Unified Germany) Under the leadership of Chancellor Kridt and Emperor Volfhin unified the scattered city-states of the central-east and Northeast unified, forming a powerful new empire.
- The Kingdom of Volesia: (Mediterranean theme) An ancient kingdom in the south, made up mostly of mustelids, but with a few other species. 

Goodbeasts:

- Salamandastron: (England, perhaps) The largest goodbeast faction by far, made up almost entirely of hares.
- Militia of Mossflower country: This group is composed of all the goodbeasts who inhabit Mossflower country.
- Royal Guard of Green Isle: The only real military force Green Isle has, these warriors combine old and new weaponry with expertise.

I think I want to be a good guy for once, so that's what faction I'll be joining.

I think I'll join Kedrin.

Ok, I posted it.  ;D

Generals:

Dirich General: LT Sandpaw

Dirichn Officer: Delthion

Militia General: Conrad

Militia Officer: Izeroth

Also, when the reinforcements arrive, if a player has died, they will lead the reinforcements. If no one has, Delthion will. I will post when they will arrive.  ;)

 I'll make a good character and re-use Friedrich as the bad one:

Name: Sergeant Dwillo Leafrudder
Faction: The Mossflower Militia
Age: 23 seasons
Species: Otter
Appearance: Has brown fur. Wears an old khaki vest and pants, and has the classic British/American ww1 helmet.
Weapons: A slightly rusted standard-issue rifle, and attached bayonet.

Soooo I'm a bad guy, right

 Yep, you're evil. I'm pretty sure the evil are all vermin, and the good are all goodbeasts.

Looks like the last RP died...

Shall we start the WWII dogfight, or the medieval battle at Lake Hogspine?

Also, would y'all be fine with doing a real battle or two? The massive battle of Culleden could be fun... But I'll have too research it.

Finally, since there appears too be only 3 people now, I'll join the battles, if you'll are ok with that and still up for RPing.

I'm Still up for it, turns out that World War one really wasn't as good, BTW if we could do a Medieval Battle that would be great.

 What about a traditional Redwall battle?

Yeah, that's what I've been voting for for the last two rounds.

 We should clear the current voting round and start anew. We could use actual locations from the books, like Castle Floret and Salamandastron. Actually, come to think of it, a Salamandastron battle would be a good idea.

Well, since everyone seems too want it, it sounds fun, and Delthion has been voting for months without getting one, I shall start a poll! *Floats off on his Magical Flying Underground House, holding his gnome.