Ok this is just, at present, a bit of light RP fun. I suppose if anything, it's a sort of hybrid military/trading faction with RP possibilities. The Taureau transport allows for the movement of a fair cargo size. You can ship marines from Ille de france to the edingburgh system and make a tidy profit, and then ship gold back. As stated in the post, the LE are often assigned this kind of role due to the nature of their transports. They're well suited to being armored bullion carriers. Just be sure you have some marine guards and crew on board.
The other thing that appealed to me was the possibilities for RP when it comes to combat. What restricts those opportunities is the inability to land on a hostile base or station. Lets just say for now that it was possible, then you have a whole different kind of engagement. The central theme would be the delivery of troops to a target and the enemy attempting to prevent them from landing. After all, capturing a station is preferable to destroying it and denying yourself it's use. It would require coordination, communication and planning to achieve either aim. It would give battles something that is more often than not sadly missing, an objective. I have an image of 2 or 3 LE transports weaving through a fleet engagement, fighting off fighters with their turrets as friendly fighters do their best to keep them safe. At present though, this sort of attack would have to be RP's in a way that works around the hostile docking restriction.
Anyway, back to the recruitment. As stated, this is just for a bit of fun for now. I am prepared to accept anyone who expresses an interest. Just PM me and I will give you a unit assignment and a posting. What you do from there is entirely up to you. Yes, you are restricted to one ship type, but thats because you are infantry, not a fighter squadron. I just ask that you keep it all within the bounds of RP. Don't go smuggling, trading in house space etc. Restrict yourself to actions that fit with the role. I will not supply ships to new pilots, theyre expensive and I refuse to pay out money for someones alt who may only be online once. Also dont forget you will need credits for bribes to get your GRN rep. It's a pain but it is doable without doing any missions and will cost no more than 2 mill if i recall.
Kind of annoying when these official factions manage to latch on to just about every aspect even remotely associated with them. Like the BAF with their merchant navy, auxiliary fleet, privateers etc etc. Even more annoying when the 'sub' factions are barely in evidence or active. GRN should be GRN, the foreign legion really has nothing to do with the Navy so I fail to see why they should be allowed to claim it as a subdivision. Still, never mind. I'll just have to do it better won't I?
Obviously that's just a personal opinion so anyone feeling like flaming me for it may as well not bother, as i won't respond
As far as I know, the Foreign Legion would be a part of the Royal Navy, just not actually Gallic themselves. It's used by them to allow people to bring in different types of characters, so far I think it has been one Kusari pilot.
Your idea is good, and would take the place of the "Merchant Navy" which doesn't actually exist as far as I know. I simply meant that the name itself was taken, you can still have Gauls and outsiders (possibly RPed as from the GRN's Foreign Legion) join the Taureau Brigade under a less confusing name.
Well the foreign legion is actually an army unit, not a navy unit, they have marines for that. Hence why I am somewhat miffed as to why the GRN are using it.
The GRN is hardly what I would call an active faction, I have seen 2 members in as many weeks. And their so called foreign legion is obviously even more low key. So basically, I cant use the name because an inactive faction has claimed the rights to it as an inactive subdivision of that faction? Seems to me that official factions have a bit too much leeway in this regards. I would personally like to see some kind of limits placed on what they can do in this respect. It's bad enough when they can't even maintain an online presence with the main faction, it seems silly to then also allow them to just create dubiously related sub factions when the rest of us have to work hard to create a faction people take seriously. I mean where do you draw the line? Can they just go on creating sub faction after sub faction?
I shall sum it up with.....Meh!
Allright Summer sayed something. We GRN have legione. And we are active but we are from different time zones. And when we need reinforcements, we call them... And yes we have legionair from Kusari. I will wait for HQ response.
(01-15-2013, 06:54 PM)Core_One Wrote: Allright Summer sayed something. We GRN have legione. And we are active but we are from different time zones. And when we need reinforcements, we call them... And yes we have legionair from Kusari.
Lets look at it this way. The GRN having a unit called the foreign legion is the same as the BAF having a unit called the 95th rifles. Secondly, your legion has 2 active members, that's not a legion, that's a double act. if it was an official faction it would have been disbanded by now, but as you created it as a sub-faction then it isn't subject to those rules, which is unfortunate when somebody else is willing to put far more effort into it. Personally I feel you should admit that it hasn't been a success and disband it and let somebody else use the name. The GRN should have more than enough to occupy their time without it.
This is a case of official factions being given too much freedom when it comes to sub-structure. You are meant to be a NAVAL faction, the word legion has no place in your RP in my opinion. Calling a Naval unit a legion makes about as much sense as calling an infantry unit a flotilla. This is why it was my intent to rp the legion as an infantry unit
Still, nothing will change of course. I'm not sure on the official ruling here. The Legion name is not actually an official faction name. So whether I can use it or not is unclear.
I didn't know we couldn't have a Spaceborn Foreign Legion.
When was that decided?
When was that decreed?
Seriously. Stop trying to say the GRN| can't have a Foreign Legion of their own. That's like telling the Navy to not have their own Naval Intelligence.
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