Rank: The rank of your character, if he is/was a part of an organisation. Name: Your character's name, anything between a nickname and full Christian nameset Date/Place of birth: Self-explanatory Character history: Your character's short biography before signing up. Updateable as the RP progresses. Appearance: Physical appearance Gear: Clothes, bags, LBE, and other related stuff your character has on them for the excursion. Weapons and equipment: Self-explanatory Role: The role this character fills in his organisation. Miscellaneous: Anything else
Everything can be as much or as little as you like.
Empty sheet for convenience:
Rank: Name: Date/Place of birth: Character history: Appearance: Gear: Weapons and equipment: Role: Miscellaneous:
Humphreys&Henderson Industries was founded in 1974, by Colonel Nigel Humphreys and Curtis Henderson, an American billionaire who provided the cash for the undertaking, to provide sound military advice, instruction, intelligence analysis, and for ready money mercenaries to legitimate governments and rebel movements which it viewed righteous. It has grown into a succesful, if rather anti-communist, undertaking, having been involved with the "Katanga Gendarmerie" since 1977. It has, in close collaboration with PIDE, also provided 80 mercenaries, known as Zulu Company, to fight with the Katanga Gendarmerie in the incoming Shaba Invasion.
Name: Nigel Humphreys Date/Place of birth: April 19th, 1928 in Crowthorne, England
Character history: Born in the middle of the Great Depression, he would've joined the British Army during WWII but it ended when he was 16. Thus, he started training at Sandhurst at 19 in 1947. In 1949, he was commissioned. The young First Lieutenant would see his first action a year later in Korea, where he would return in 1952. He further served in Kenya, 1954 and was posted around many British colonies in cold zones. In 1970, at the age of 42, Colonel Humphreys was honourably discharged. He subsequently became a trader on the London Exchange, something which made him a load of money but bored him to death while he was at it. It was on a Friday Night, after work, when the Colonel decided with some old chums to start Humphreys&Henderson Industries.
Gear: DPM uniform, P58 webbing, and British Army boots
Weapons and Equipment: Sterling SMG
Role: Commanding Officer of Zulu Company.
Miscellaneous: True Lusophile, speaks Portuguese due to that. Also fluent in French.
Rank: Sergeant
Name: MacAleese, Seamus J. C.
Date/Place of birth: May 8th, 1954 in Kielty, Republic of Ireland
Character history: Born in a pissant village in the middle of Ireland, the best way for a young man to broaden his horizons was to join the army. The British Army. However, as a good Catholic, he did not extend his contact and left the British Army in 1976 with the rank of Sergeant, having seen no action outside of sitting in the barracks during the Turkish Invasion of Cyprus. After his honourable discharge he could keep his uniforms and gear, and over time acquired another FN FAL and a BHP. However, working, drinking and fucking himself into an early grave wasn't for him. He wanted to pad his obituary. And in a Dublin pub he met a recruiter who got him to Benguela.
Appearance: 1. 84 Tall, lanky, blonde, and green-eyed. Doesn't shave much, tanned because he's in Africa, and smells like an ashtray.
Gear: DPM uniform, P58 webbing, and British army Boots. He also carries a map bag like a satchel.
Weapons and equipment: L1A1 SLR, Browning Hi-Power, and a hand grenade.
Role: Able Assistant Squad Leader, Zulu Company. Miscellaneous: -
Rank: Adjudant-Chef
Name: François Devereaux
Date/Place of birth: November 22nd 1939, Elisabethville, Belgian Congo
Character history: The son of a colonial administrator, François was born and raised in the Congo until he went to Belgium to join the paratroopers in 1958. As fate would have it, he wouldn't be there for long: He was sent to Elisabethville in July 1960 to evacuate foreign citizens from the Congo, and in 1964 he was part of Operation Dragon Rouge and Operation Dragon Noir. After a succesful peaceful time of service, he was honourably discharged in 1976 - joining the crew two years later.
Appearance: 1.82 tall, he has an olive skin from tanning, short brown hair, a five o'clock shadow, with brown eyes. Gear: Old, somewhat faded Belgian Brushstroke and the knockoff P37 webbing.
Weapons and equipment: FN FAL, a Browning Hi-Power, an entrenchment tool.
Role: Able Squad Leader, Zulu Company Miscellaneous:
Rank: Surgeon-General or 'Doc', depending on who you ask
Name: Mykola 'Nick' Litvinenko
Date/Place of birth: January 9th, 1937 in Yorkton, Sakatchewan, Canada
Character history: Son of Ukrainian immigrants who fled their war-torn country, Nick was always told by his parents that he was blessed to live in such a peaceful country as Canada, and that he should be glad that he could attain such a good education. Of course, one thing leads to the other, and he became a surgeon employed throughout Canada until he got bored of it after eighteen years. In 1976, he went to work in Portuguese Angola, and assist in providing healthcare to the poor African population of the country. He did this for two years before being contacted by Humphreys, who was preparing for a little bit of fun in Zaire. Nick was all too glad to join for handsome pay for operating on soldiers of fortune or civilians caught in the crossfire.
Appearance: A tall man, at 1.93 metres tall, he has a rugged Slavic face with silver grey hair flowing down to his neck and a five o'clock shadow. Nick never wears military clothing, instead wearing button-down shirts with rolled up sleeves showing his brown-red tan, jeans, and cognac-coloured oxford shoes.
Gear: A giant backpack full of stuff and a holster for his pistol.
Weapons and equipment: Walther PP (When in Rome), surgical equipment and some medical supplies.
Role: Friendly neighbourhood surgeon.
Miscellaneous:
Rank: Sargento Primero/Sergeant 1st Class
Name: Santiago Villanueva
Date/Place of birth: Villa María, Córdoba, Argentina
Character history: Changes every time he tells it. The only constants are his place of birth, and being a sniper with the Argentine Marines.
Appearance: Suggests he's not taking all that seriously. Long black hair, designer stubble, tacky floral shirts under a jungle jacket with IMARA insignia, cargo trousers, and combat boots.
Gear: For combat, he has an ALICE pack.
Weapons and equipment: An SSG69 and a Ballester-Molina pistol.
Role: Sharpshooter
Miscellaneous: He is the best barbecue chef of whatever continent he is on. He has a backpack full of contents allowing him to marinate and cook the best ribs to be found nearby. Sauces, racks, a tinderbox, everything not needed in combat.
Date/Place of birth: February 26th 1949 in Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. Character history: Born to a father who served in WWII, first piloting a Lancaster in the RAF, later a Spitfire, and later still P-51s and F-86 Sabres over Korea as part of the South African Air Force, his old man met his mother, a French Jewess, after he was shot down over Northern France. The two near-strangers went on a biking adventure through France and Spain and went back to Britain, where she worked as a liaison with the French Resistance. The two later settled in South Africa, where they married and started a family. Paul is the second son and third child, and taking after his father he served in the South African Air Force from 1968 until 1978, when he was honourably discharged. Looking for life in the civilian world, he stumbled across a job flying cargo around Renegade Africa. (Based in Angola he flew around South Africa, South West Africa, Rhodesia, and Mozambique.) Making a little living for himself, he was eventually approached by Humphreys&Henderson for work in clandestine operations.
Appearance: 1.83 Tall, broad-shouldered, he has brown hair and grey-green eyes, is clean-shaven. He tends to wear jeans, t-shirts, combat boots, and aviator shades.
Gear: A belt with a magazine pouch holding two for his MP5, as well as a small first-aid kit.
Weapons and equipment: H&K MP5
Role: Piloting is his chief job, as Humphreys intends to get some aircraft from the Zairians, but until then he is a mechanic and a rifleman.
