[quote=@Lennon79]
[@AtomicNut], accepted. Post her to the Char tab and post away. The squad is just getting to know a few new recruits after a briefing, so now is a good time for her to approach them.
[@Willy Vereb], I plan to avoid the classes from VC2/3, mainly because that sets a dodgy precedent for magical musicians, men with uberhammers and other frankly weird things that don't quite fit in on a WWII-esque battlefield. That said, I'm not against your character having a sword.
Just prepare for every man and his dog to mock the living shit out of him and for it to be effectively useless anywhere but in (very) close urban combat. He will need to use a gun most of the time, or else he'll probably come up against the same problem that Japanese officers did in real life: charging bare-arsed at a man with a machine gun tends to get you dead. That said, Meulemann made it work to a degree, so I don't mind limited swordplay.

In other news, after 15 hours in hospital I feel a bit better. I'll try to post soon to prepare for the new arrivals, then my new post after that will timeskip us on to the mission.
[/quote]First off, I'm glad you are better.

Second, while some classes are ridiculous and you can bet those are just game mechanics, VC wasn't really a pure WW2 setting to begin with.
If I have to say it crosses anime cliches with alternate WW2. Albeit this is even more obvious for the latter games.

Third, which I could've mentioned with the second. Anime cliches alo mean overized stuff, acrobatics and generally that soldiers in VC can be midly superhuman (or not so mildly, depending on your milleage). Carrying around 20+ kilogram water cooled SMGs is certainly not what we can do. VC1 soldiers already do. Same with certain classes wearing various bulky armors which actually do offer protection.

Yup, given how nobody else is a swordsman in this RP and how weird it is to do that in the age of guns I planned Kyo to be quite an oddball within his squad.
As for how he'd handle gunmen, it's up to his tactics and unique methods. His 60kg sword can effectively bash/slash through walls so there aren't many obstacles to prevent him. And he generally tries to not get shot via positioning and some acrobatics. The sheer fact you are ambushed with some crazy dude wielding a sword nearly as large as you can be often also terrifying enough. He isn't fit to deal with gunners on wide open terrain tough, of course.

On the other hand you sure don't need to worry about me destroying tanks alone. That kind of thing is beyond me.