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War. War never changes.™

We all know that part in every NS guide for every NRP ever basically. That part where we spend hours looking up cool pictures for and coming up with cool names and how to ensure that our tank can fuck up everyone else's day. Only to never use it. Its almost sad sometimes.

Thus, instead of making yet another NRP about making nations and having them play the long game, let us make nations just to make cool battles and shit with!. Inspired by the Fires of Anuria series of NRPs on the site, this NRP will be focused exclusively on the military aspect of a nation/empire as they battle it out. This NRP will basically be an exercise in story and combat writing for those of you who want your fix 

Three important points I am going to stress however:

1) You cannot win. There is no end to the war, there is no victory to be had, just bloodshed and carnage. This is just war writing for fun.

2) Things will be dark, not edgy. The main difference between the two is that dark writing always has hope in it some how, as grimdark and crapsac as this NRP will be, characters and soldiers will still be caring some form of hope and not just be self loathing edgy bitches. This doesn't mean you can't have badass moments though.

3) Rule of Cool is definitely in affect here but I will still be looking for some semblance of reason and balance. I'm not going to allow every single one of your soldiers to carry a Holy Flaming Bastard Sword of Brutal Skullfucking +99 or your tanks to fire out nuclear munitions at 1200 RPM. To sort of "control" this, I will be using a sort of Heroes and Tier system kind of close to that use in Total War as well as just being a hardass GM on NS.

Now for settings:

- High Fantasy Medieval/Renaissance
- World Wars-esque setting (say which you have preferance too)
- World Wars with steampunk/dieselpunk
- SciFi on a single planet and limited space engagements
- Post Apoc styled

This will be high fantasy a la Warhammer Fantasy-style

Thanks for reading! ^^
Any questions I will see to answer as fast as possible.

Unofficial NS Guide (expect edits and changes)
Nation Name

Overview

Your nation in brief, what are you all about? Where do you take inspiration from?

Geography

Draw your borders on the map to lay your claim. Describe the environment and geography as you wish within reasonable limits. Some important notes is that we're all somewhat in the northern hemisphere of the planet barring the southern regions so take that as you will. The west is largely cut off from us due to the World's End Mountains.

If you play a nation with multiple smaller administrative zones (ie Fiefs, Baronies, Chiefdoms, Kingdoms, etc), you might want to list them here as well as any other important zones like major cities, fortifications and of course, your capital, if you have one.

History

Self explanatory, what are some major events/figures in your history? Any historical rivalries or encounters between you and other nations/races? What about alliances and stuff?

Government

Simple run down of how you're nation runs, does it have cities and settlements or is it a horde? Reminder that your "king"-like character will be one of your Lord characters (aka one of the badasses who can lead armies and kick ass in their own right).

Race Description

Explain a bit about your race and any natural leanings they may have. If they're just humans than feel free to skip this part.

Culture

How does your people act most of the time/stereotypically? We're most focused on military culture and things like it but feel free to expand on it as much as you'd wish with holidays, customs, habits, etc if you want.

Economy/Industry

How does your nation make money and the stuff they need? Anything unique tech wise that you've come up with? Do they just raid for everything and use slaves and such? Again, try to make it simple but if you really feel the need, go ahead and fill it out to you're heart's desire.

Magic

What kind of magics does your race use if at all? If they don't use magic, do they have some other method of using something close? You can just copy the "lores" of magic from any generic fantasy universe (ie Lore of Flames, Lore of Night, etc); if you an other player both use the same lores or one of the same lores, then please do talk to them about this. I'd prefer that everyone using Lore of Flames knows exactly what a fireball does rather than having to deal with 4 different types of them.

[b]Name:[/b] What is the spell called?
[b]Lore:[/b] What Lore (type) of magic is it? Fire, Storm, Beast, etc. Feel free to make up your own lore if you feel inclined.
[b]Type:[/b] (Offensive, Support, AOE, Single Target, Debuff, Buff, etc)
[b]Short Description:[/b] Tell us a little about your spell, enough to wrap our heads around it.

Military

Tell us about your army, namely the units. Feel free to add as much other fluff as you wish so long so first do your roster.

[b]Name:[/b] Whats the Unit called?
[b]Type:[/b] What kind of unit are they?
[b]Short Description:[/b] One or a few lines about what they are, what weapons they carry, Total War style if that makes any sense

[b]Name:[/b] Whats is their name/titles?
[b]Position:[/b] What spot do they occupy in your faction?
[b]Powers:[/b] Do they have anything of note about them or use any spells or carry any unique weapons?
[b]Short Bio/Personality:[/b] A few short lines on why/how they came to power and how are they generally perceived.

Special note: If you have a unit that can use two different types of weapons, they you must list them as two different units in the roster. IE if I have warriors that can use swords or axes with swords as their "default", I would have to put them down as "Warriors" and "Warriors (Axes)".

Now we get into the interesting meat and bones of the NS. This is going to get a bit complicated, warning you now. Your units can be divided the following categories:
Light
Medium
Heavy
Large

These should be fair self explanatory to anyone whose played strategy games before. Light, Medium, and Heavy all refer to the armor and weaponry of the unit, a group of archers with bows and daggers might be light infantry while full plate armored soldiers with great weapons would be Heavy. That said, relying solely on a single type of unit has obvious tactical drawbacks. Large refer to things larger than the average soldier, things such as Minotaurs, Giants, and Chaos Spawn would all count. Large units also tend to be Monsters units aka anything that's not a normal human/zombie/dwarf/elf/etc; all Monstrous units count as Large but not all Large units have to be Monsters.

Tiers
Basic separation of units by their quality, also should be familiar to many people who play strategy games. I will not be putting any hard limits and will hope that everyone can make good decisions on this and make stuff somewhat balanced out. That said, if there is something truly ridiculous, I will be stepping in.
Tier 1 - Units of this tier should be something like the weakest of your army or otherwise the least impressive. Things such as militia, conscripts, peasants, and slaves should be in this level.
Tier 2 - This is where your professional army starts to come in and its also the lowest a cavalry unit and artillery can go.
Tier 3 - Special/Elite units should occupy this slot. Something like knights or an elite version of one of your Tier 2 (or even 1) units should go here.
Tier 4 - The cream of the crop, this slot boasts the finest soldiers and warriors your nation/race can produce. Wether they be the most brutal, the most technological, the most experienced, these troops should understandably be few in number but legendary fighters.

Heroes and Lords
Lords are people who rule you race or nation and are asskickers in of themselves. Try to only have 1 or 2 at max. If you've already explained one in your government section and don't want to do another, you can skip over the lord section. Lords cannot be killed, only wounded unless you really want to kill them off. Heroes on the other hand are like Lord in beta-testing. They can be great warriors, powerful officers/leaders or mystical spell casters. They act similar to Lord albeit less powerful. Like Lords, they too can be wounded but they do tend to have slightly higher death rates.

Pros and Cons
Just a simple little thing to let everyone else get an overall feel for your army in a more direct way. I do expect some semblance of balance here, probably more so. I don't want to see anyone be extremely good at everything and then only have one downside. Pros and Cons should be something visible or RPable that you will do. If you say you lack archers or ranged then I shouldn't see much range in your unit roster. If you say that troops have poor moral, then I should see them be much more panicky and rout more often in-game compared to other soldiers.

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