Вы - Советская Ядерная Кавалерия: Ход первый
Your heart filled with tears from leaving your comrade, and your mouth full of bile from the ensuing Vodka-fuelled celebration, you make your way to a small field behind your positions. There, some officers are waiting for you next to a large, red-painted, lead-lined truck. As the leading officer address you (it's hard to count the stripes through the alcoholic haze, but he seems to have
tons of them), the heavy truck rocks back and forth as whatever is inside kick against the sides.
"Comrades! On behalf of the Comrade Stalin, I want to thank you for your courageous sacrifice to the Motherland. Behind me, in this truck is the Secret Weapons that will destroy the Nazi War Machine and make the world Peaceful and Free of fascism and imperialism forever. Five of you have been personally handpicked by the Great Leader for this mission. The other will be sent to the Waitlistinyev gulag camp to protect the secret of the glorious Soviet Nuclear Cavalry.
Oleg Vasiliev (Helgoland), your interpretation of Grigori Panteleevich Melekhov in Dzerzhinsky "And Quiet Flows the Don" was masterful. Comrade Stalin himself decreed that you were more cosssacky that the Cossacks themselves, and as such you have been chosen to lead this squadron.
Grigori Ursine (BFEL), you fought bravely as part of the Soviet Bear Cavalry, proving to the world that the Glorious Soviet Union is free of the pesky racism and speciism that plague the capitalist regimes. To prove this point, you have been appointed Commissar of the Soviet Nuclear Cavalry. However, STAVKA request that you stop eating your comrades-in-arms.
Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz (SaberToothTiger), the Great Leader learned with sorrow that your seven brothers where all murdered by the fascists at Katyn. He appointed you to this suicide mission to finish the job He hopes you'll be able to avenge them as part of the Soviet Nuclear Cavalry.
Nikifor Sokoloff (USEC_OFFICER), while the Comrade Stalin was most certainly right to appoint a ballet dancer as unit leader and anyone suggesting otherwise if a petit-bourgeois capitalist traitor who just won a one-way ticket to Siberia, the military leadership feels that a more seasoned officer would be of great help to the Comrade Oleg Vassiliev as liaison between him and the military high command. And between him and his men. And between him and his horse if possible. This will be your task.
Tavish Finnegan DeGroot (smurfingtonthethrid), your are the living embodiment of the worldwide proletarian spirit fighting the Nazi beast. Your task will be crucial: our spies in America have discovered that the presence of a black man in a platoon significantly increase the lifespan of the rest of the platoon, or are least that what they learned in a secret government research center called "O-Li-Wood". Sadly, our glorious Motherland is white as the summer snow, so a Scotman will have to do.
Now men, this is the moment you have waited for so long: you'll get to meet and name your glorious steeds!Horse #1
Breed: Soviet Draft Horse
HP:20/20
Horse #2
Breed:Arabian
HP:8/8
+1 to charisma
Horse #3
Breed:Warhorse
HP:12/12
+2 to damage rolls
-1 to riding rolls
Horse #4
Breed:Thoroughbred
HP:10/10
+1 to speed
Horse #5
Race:Mule
HP:14/14
Can carry up to a lot of equipment
In addition to their bonus, every horse got special nuclear power
I haven't made up yet you'll have to unlock.
Commander:Captain Oleg Vasiliev
Age:29
Nationality:Russian
HP:8/8
Skills:Ballet Dancer +1 to esquive rolls.
Noticed By Stalin +1 to bragging rolls.
Commissar:Grigori Ursine
Age:15
Nationality:Bear
HP:12/12
Skills:Paws of the People +1 to close quarter combat rolls
Bear Cavalry +1 to riding rolls
It's a fucking bear! +4 max HP
Specieist weapons manufacturer cannot use equipment designed for human hands.
Military Liaison: Lieutnant Nikifor Sokoloff
Age:21
Nationality:Russian
HP:8/8
Skills:Career Soldier +1 to relations with military
Not a Ballet Dancer +1 to shooting stuff
Private First Class Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz
Age:23
Nationality:Polish
HP:8/8
Skills:Partisan +1 to sneaking and hiding
It's Brzęczyszczykiewicz with 5 'z' +1 against bureaucrats
Private First Class Tavish Finnegan DeGroot
Age: RAND(18,55)
Nationality:Scottish
HP:8/8
Skills:You call THAT vodka? +1 to drinking
Tsar Bomber +1 to explosive
In addition to you horse, you can each choose any weapon in the Soviet arsenal (choose a IRL historical weapon, I'll make up some stats.)
BTW, I didn't include a gender field in the sign-up sheet because a) I wasn't sure what the tone would be, and a realistic tone is best served with male (although there were women in the Red Army which leads me to the real reasons:) b) I forgot. If any of you want to change his gender, please do so.
Sorry for those that got stuck in the Waitlistnyev IPL. BFEL got in because he's a bear, Helgoland is just an alt of mine I route through a proxy in Bonn and SaberToothTiger was too eager to be left out. For the remaining two, I rolled a dice. Be sure that
as soon as when one of them die, you'll get in. Or maybe sooner if I feel confident running more players.
P.S. Warning: before writing this post I drank a beer. Belgian beer. On a empty stomach. Which made me drunk enough that I was one keypress from sexting my internship supervisor rather than the girl I'm seeing at the moment. So please excuse incoherence, typo, rambling and general mess.
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