SELTSAME INSEL
Here we go again, boys.
((I return from deployment. That sucked, but now, thanks to a new book I read during said deployment, I have a much better understanding and familiarity with D-Day. It gave me a lot of ideas of tweaks I could make for the next iteration of this timeless classic that everyone will remember definitely isn't a ripoff of Grunts. There will still be some historical inaccuracies, mostly in the ships and possibly the air, but I care little for what ships sunk when. Anywho, enjoy the bloodbath that may or may not ensue. I will be starting this tomorrow after I process any and all submissions and in any case, no later than 1000 (in a little under 9 hours at time of writing this up.
Don't get attached to your first character. Or any character in the opening bunch. As they will most likely die, some I hope before even turn 1, like the first time I ran this.))
The Year is 1947. The Nazis and supporting members of German High Command have evacuated from Germany in the spring of 1943. Their new residence, the island of Seltsame Insel is a heavily fortified island that exists just off the coast of South America. American, British, Russian, and now German forces have been collaborating to perform an invasion of the island to neutralize the evil that is the Nazi party of Seltsame Insel.
The field Marshalls in charge of the invasion are Marshalls Eisenhower, Zhukov, and Rommel (who was left behind during the evacuation due to being in Africa, not that he minded much). They began bombing areas inland of the potential landing spots across the island, taking trains and bridges down with relative ease and destroying above ground factories. A massive effort of making ships for the landing was being undergone by the American, German, and Russian forces due to their extreme industrial might.
The landing location was chosen because of its distance from all the invader countries. The southern side of the island was at a shallow slope, with cliffs and bluffs at the far side, making it undesirable for mechanized units. In the direct middle is a rocky outcropping nicknamed "Point of Despair", which had pill boxes and other strongpoints overlooking both sides of the beaches. At the extreme ends of the beaches on either side, the bluffs give way to rolling dunes and hills, but the beaches further down are extremely undesirable for the landing crafts. The beachhead is reinforced with belgian gates, hedgehogs, and giant wooden stakes for spearing the bottoms of ships. Spread throughout the beaches are teller mines, some of which are strapped to the obstacles. Up on the cliffs are several artillery emplacements in casemates that are several feet thick housing the naval defense cannons and the 155mm howitzers that would be used to shell the beaches. In several places were the dreaded Pak 37s. Dotting the cliffs were pillboxes, tobruks (smaller pillboxes that were designed to have a machine gun/mortar/tank turret placed upon the top for use in field suppression (google them, they're pretty cool)), and nests.
The landings are to be conducted today, June 6th, 1947 at approximately 0700, following a several hour aerial bombardment and a two hour shelling by the battleships USS Texas, USS New Mexico, KMS Bismarck, KMS Tirpitz, HMS Duke of York, HMS King George V, with complements from various destroyers, cruisers, and lighter ships, and a 30 minute rocket strike from shipboard rocket launchers aboard some of the lighter transport ships.
It is now D-Day minus 5 minutes. Aboard every single landing craft, unit leaders give pep talks to their units whilst their men pray, shiver, vomit, mutter, look around nervously or just stare ahead waiting for their doom. One message was unanimous; Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was the overall orchestrator of the operation told the men at the last practice "Look at the man on your left. Now, your right. After this operation you will never see them again." some would take this as a sign that this would be the hardest fought battle of history, while others thought nothing of it, and still more though to themselves
Poor, unlucky, dead bastards. Now, you hope that you are the one of the three of you from practice who will survive.
The engines start. The battle... starts... NOW!
PRE-TURN 0
AKA: Character Generation
Name:
State Enlisted From: (US States, British Homeland/Colonies, Area of the Soviet Union, German Province)
Background: (Optional)
Inventory: (You may have up to 1 primary, 1 secondary (that being a sidearm or smaller/special primary (ex. Bazooka or M1 Carbine))), 1 gernade type (smoke, incendiary, frag), knife, helmet/hat, and special equipment (please specify for the special equipment. If you want something, ask me and we'll figure out what it does.)
I'm treating bolt actions will have their TTR being their ammo capactiy, semi auto weapons as having their stock ammo capacity divided by 2 (Rounded down) in turns to reload. Fully automatic weapons have arbitrary numbers attached, for balance's sake. After you shoot all bullets from your weapon, you must spend the next turn or more reloading. Larger and more complex guns require more time.
Format is [Gun name] | [TTR (Turns to reload)] | [Reload Speed in Turns] | Comments
M1 Garand | 4 | 1 | *PING*
M1 Carbine | 7 | 1 | *Distinct lack of PING*
Thompson M1A1 | 4 | 1 | "Hand me that Choppa."
Browning 1918 | 3 | 1 | Full auto fun
Browning 1919 | 15 | 3 | Locked and Loaded
Browning M2 | 25 | 5 | *BOMBOMBOMBOM*
Springfield 1903 | 5 | 1 | "I can see my house from here!"
M3 Grease Gun | 5 | 1 | Just a Ripoff of the MP-40
Winchester M1897 | 5+1 | 2 |
https://img.ifunny.co/images/8b8e6c14ce5f267082e96f5b5f693969b353a630983429ea9e45f13ee0d85ccb_1.jpg I'm sorry for giving you cancer with that Ifunny link
M5A2 Folsom | 5 | 1 | Fully Automatic Carbine from Sony's Resistance franchise
Bazooka | 1 | 3 | *fwish* *BOOM*
Boys Antitank Rifle | 5 | 1 | For that madlad who wants to shoot a tank with a shoulder fired gun
Browning 1919 Stinger | 7 | 2 | For
THAT madlad who wants to use an aircraft MG as a man portable death machine
Jorgensen Revolver Rifle | 6 | 2 | Prototype revolving action rifle for the long range gunslinger in us all
Colt 1911 | 999 | 0 | *pew pew*
M1 Pineapple Grenade | What do you think | No, seriously | "FRAG OUT!"
Lee Enfield No.4 Mk 1 | 10 | 2 | *Crick**Crack**Pew*
Sten Mk 2 | 3 | 1 | *dadadadadadadadadadada*
Lewis Gun | 5 | 2 | "I do say!"
Bren | 4 | 1 | "How about we stop for a spot of tea and crumpets."
Vickers Heavy | 25 | 5 | Good for making tea.
Owen Gun | 4 | 1 | Made by some Aussie madlad in his garage
Martini Henry | 1 | 1 | "Filthy savages!"
Webley Revolver | 999 | 0 | *pew pew, but with tea*
Mills Bomb | 0 | 0 | More favored over the american pineapple grenade
Mosin Nagant | 5 | 1 | "Comrade!"
SVT-40| 5 | 1 | "Comrade!" "Comrade!"
AVS-36 | 3 | 1 | "Comrade!""Comrade!""Comrade!""Comrade!""Comrade!""Comrade!""Comrade!""Comrade!""Comrade!""Comrade!""Comrade!"
Fedorov Avtomat | 12 | 1 | The OG Assault Rifle
DP-28 | 5 | 2 | "Stupid brits and their tall pans."
DSHK | 25 | 5 | *BOMBOMBOMBOMBOM*
PTRS | 5 | 2 | For the madlad that wants to remove their eye with that scope
PTRD | 1 | 2 | For that madlad who wants to use a rifle against a tank
PPSH-41 | 6 | 2 | *PSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHT*
Makarov | 999 | 0 | *pew pew, but in russian*
Kar 98k | 5 | 1 | Glorious
MP-40 | 5 | 1 | The Grease gun before it was cool
MG-15 | 15 | 3 | Aircraft MG
MG-34 | 15 | 5 | "Excuse me while I *BRRRRT*"
MG-42 | 20 | 5 | *Unzips*
MG-08 | 25 | 5 | The OG MG
Sturmgewehr 44 | 5 | 1 | The other AK-47
Panzerschreck | 1 | 2 | It has a shield
Panzerfaust | 1 | 0 | Fists tanks, idk, i didn't read the wiki
Luger P08 | 999 | 0 | *pew pew, but in german*
Current Enlisted Personnel:
Deceased Personnel:
Name: Burt Goldstine
State Enlisted From: Kansas
Cause of Death: Artillery Shell
Name: Jason Cards
Enlisted From: Australia
Background: Nah.
Inventory:
-Martini Henry
-Owen Gun (folding stock)
-Smoke grenade
-Combat knife
-Entrenching tool
-Helmet
-Radio
Name: Jaques Tremblay
State Enlisted From: Quebec, Canada
Background: Humble farmer
Inventory: Lee-Enfield no.4 Mk1, Webley revolver, Mills bomb, Pattern 1907 bayonet, Brodie helmet, Lacrosse stick
Personnel on Leave:
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