Greetings,
do I recognize that correct? Is there currently no player cooperation for the Bundschuh?
It`s the only "pirate"(if one can call them that) faction I am really interested to join. if there is any Bundschuh player out there, can you please explain me how you currently play them?
I for example would play it in only pirating Daumann and Krueger industrials (also only with alot political RP) and otherwise try to harase the police and millitary of Rheinland. I think, if I lanepirate I would let all civilian and other industrials than Krueger and Daumann let pass without a bill.
Is just an idea, so please respond, any Bundschuh.
The Volksfront is the current official Bundschuh player faction, assuming you meant faction or player group by "player corp."
The role play of the Bundschuh in general is more words and propaganda than pirating or shooting anyone, since they are supposed to be the (sole) Rheinland revolutionary faction representing the political arm.
I do not wish to tell you how to RP your character though, as a member of the Volksfront I can freely state that our current role play is diverse, each character we have has different preferences and political beliefs, though each is close to the nationalistic/socialistic ideas holding the faction together (note: don't mix it with national socialism, the Bundschuh are striving for a democratic republic).
I can give you an example: My character, Malcolm Arison is more a follower of peaceful nationalism than socialism, though he opposes the existence of megacorporations, he does not deem Rheinland to be a House that needs to expand over others' expense, nor is there a need for a strong, centralized government. He does not prefer to commence open hostilities with neither the Rheinwehr nor the corporates, unless there are lives of allies at stake (that being captive pilots or allies engaged in combat). When it comes to taxing (which Bundschuh rarely do), he prefers to tax Liberty shippers the most, as he believes they're covert supporters of the Chancellor's hypocrisy (Bonn, Baden Baden, Stuttgart, the list goes on), Daumann, Kruger and Republican traders being second. Bretonian and Kusarian traders are usually ignored.
You could also ask Vrabcek on how he rolls, he's the other "more experienced" Bundschuh still around, though the faction RP is pretty diverse and leaves a lot of opportunities for character development.
Ah okay, thanks for the infos!
Seems, Bundschuh/Volksfront is a more millitaristic organisation than I thought. Anyways, I can give you infos, how I would imagine my bundschuh character, you can tell me if it mix with you or not.
First I want to make clear, how I see Bunschuh in it`s role.
From what I have read about Bundschuh, they are seperatist that once were an officially party of the rheinland government. During the 80 years war they were declared outlaws by the new millitary regime. And they now fight for:
-getting back their status as official party in rheinland (medium left wing as contra to the right wing millitary)
-enstatus the millitary regime to get back to a social-democratic government in Rheinland
-fight versus the poverty of the underclasses in Rheinland
-new objective also is to fight das Wilde
That thing about fighting Liberty aswell is new and strange to me , but anyways.
The information you gave me showed that they are much more organized than I believed, though outnumbered.
Well, now to how I originally planned to play my bundschuh role.
As I am German myself, I saw some wonderful parallels to original German history, back from the 68`years to the late 80s. Bundschuh reminds me of the student movement back in the late 60s to 70s (the political aspect) which also made radical movements grow like the RAF (if you aren`t familiar with that, google "Rote Armee Fraktion" on wikipedia)
I would like to add my character in a pretty similar way for Bundschuh if possible. Hopeless idealistic guy about the Bundschuh idea turning into a ragemachine of political motivited terror. Like hijacking Daumannfreighters ,trying to press the millitary with this and documenting it as propaganda for the press...
Hit and run attacks on Rheinland Millitary stations (RP sabotage). and some other ideas come into my mind.
Funny also would be lanehacking not to get ransom but to RP propaganda to the "victims".
Maybe my ideas are not mixing or I missunderstood the Bundschuh idea. I please you to forgive me in that case, as I am pretty new to discovery.
Okay, awaiting reply and criticism :D
First of all, you are right, the Volksfront is more militaristic organisation, becouse Volksfront was created as the "armed forces of the bundschuh".
But our greatest weapon is the propaganda. The volksfront/bundschuh are trying to get the trust of the population=volk of rheinland, that also explains your doubts why we are fighting the libertonians. We are saying that we are protecting the volk, protect them from its enemies-liberty, kanzler, wilde etc...
With the pirating as Major already said, we are not trying to do it so "visible" like the hessians do. Mostly we RP nicely with the traders and it happens often that they give us money themselfs without any threats.
You pretty much understood the bundschuh roleplay and i dont have nothing specific to add. I hope we will see you in space and we could actually RP together and maybe you would like to join the official faction after that.
My character's despise of Liberty is pretty much a personal thing, since he joined the movement as a young activist when the war was already going. Seeing that they (as in Rheinlanders in general) were shot at by Libertonians as much as the "oppressing regime", he grew a despise for Liberty as much as the Kanzler.
Even though most Bundschuh and RRA members in general believe the war is the Kanzler's fault, the life of Rheinland citizens is still at stake, so if the Libertonians invade, they have to repulse them alongside the Rheinwehr, though most think (including Malcolm) that the war must cease. The influence of Liberty is also troublesome due to their presence on Stuttgart (which made the LWB formulate), gives the Rheinland citizens a preview of what would be happening with a Liberty victory (though, Liberty is officially not in for territory conquest, they simply want to "free" the border worlds, unbeknown to most Rheinlanders due to the immerse propaganda machine).
So in a nutshell, Libertonians are despised by Bundschuh in general, but the goal is peace, not victory as opposed to the Rheinwehr.
As for the rest, I interestingly enough heard another player comparing it to the RAF lately, which is a comparison I deemed accurate, though with a more social-democratic alignment.
And yes, most of the activities you listed are pretty much done already, though the Bundschuh don't attack installations, as they are mostly inhabited by civilians. It's not really Bundschuh style to harm innocents at all, though I guess this is again, personality-dependent. Propaganda, preaching about the abuse of corporates as well as preaching to the "underpaid and abused freight captains" is a good idea, often done by the Volksfront too, instead of making a cash demand. Most of them eventually chose to donate anyway, even if they're not asked, assuming you don't catch another "loltrader" as they say.
Also, if you're German, don't get offended by being hit by insults like "fascist", "communist", "terrorist", whatever. Even if the Rheinwehr see you merely talking to traders, most of them will not take kindly to you spreading propaganda. Not that I wish to go against my own faction, it's just that RM RP is operated by a bit stricter guidelines than that of the Bundschuh.
Aye, sounds good so far.
with attacking installations I meant millitary installations only, like forts or stationary battleships. Maybe unmanned storagedepots of the millitary or remote depots of Daumann and Krueger (those satelites on the map)
And no worry, national socialism is not part of the ingameworld, and Oorp never hat troubble with players like "Haha you german Nazi!" Even if, more than facepalming about the ingnorance clichee I won`t do.
So far i think the way of RPing german english language mix with german zhe accent is pretty amusing, always let`s me smile when I read it:rolleyes:
Should be fun to aswell write some "Blödsinn" like this when RPing hehe, you will see.
Right now have bit much to do in RL so not really time to care about a new char.
Once that changes I`ll make the Bundschuh char and as soon as possible applicate to Volksfront.
But as told, might take a while. so hopefully see you soon!
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