Oh hey, this is back in circulation.

A thought occurred to me as I was reading about some of the comments about it being a niche kind of roleplay where every player needs a basic level of understanding the military for it to be fun for everybody/ not a constant fact-checking adventure of turbo realism. If someone were to make a more grounded RP about conscripts (oh hey Stalingrad-based RP I want to do sometime!), it would definitely be something where the average player would know about as much as the average conscript for how military operations work. You'd need GMs who are familiar with the subject matter to act as the veterans/ officers to act kind of as guidepost characters for the larger player base, and you could definitely keep it pretty simple and streamlined. Don't need to know a lot of tactics, equipment, and lingo when you're basically a peasant who got rounded up one day, thrown in the back of the truck in a uniform, and had a rifle that was produced the week before shoved in your hands as you're told to go kill the enemy. I personally think it would be fun taking an RP with a bunch of players over the course of a battle (or god forbid, the war) and watch as they develop from green conscripts to specialized veterans who are much more competent fighters and are steeled to the horrors of war.