[quote=@Dynamo Frokane]
[@LetMeDoStuff] Will our characters be able to be dodgy and eccentric? I'm all for new recruits of an army, but can we make it some specialized offshoot rather than just copy/paste grunts? The character I'm writing has a criminal background and unsavory motivations, which I think works well with the environment they are in.
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Sure, that should work! As long as they were freed bfore they joined. As it was mentioned, almost every available/unemployed, as well as single, childless and volunteers, person was sent for training. People with some sort of criminal background would be likely to come across. As long as everyone wasn't some sort of criminal. The innocent, weak and fearful mix well with the bold and grungey.

Also, as everyone would have the rank of a Private, as Military ranks and stuff are still in use, especially with the 'Base' the survivours are held up in are a last branch of the British Forces. Myself, however, will be the only one who's been within the Military for longer than the others. It'd not be much longer, and doesn't mean the apocalypse would be a confident subject they could tackle, and would also only contain the first NCO rank of Lance Corporal. So...yeah...