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8 days ago
Current Two days ago, Noble Arms is indisputably four years old, spread out across three threads, and the third thread is still ongoing and about to reach the endgame...
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19 days ago
Can't believe that I actually got an RP close to its endgame, btw...
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1 mo ago
Noble Arms is now either four years old, or three years and eleven months. The third thread had lasted for more than one year.
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2 mos ago
New Interest Check, everybody!
2 mos ago
My Roleplay, Noble Arms: The ASEAN War, will reach its 4th year in June or July. It's been a long journey.
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@Andromedai

@Letter Bee I'm fine with another NCR member, though them being Jimmy's direct superior may be a bit of a logistical stretch: Considering he was dispatched from an encampment in Wyoming, it would make sense for his superiors to be located there rather than following their scouts out into uncharted territory.


Thanks for your answer; it works.
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Well, misreading aside I think much of the same or similar logistical challenges would be raised. Though now Muhammad Ali could absolutely send canon down if they wanted to. But at a very early point the siege guns would slow the force down enough they can be engaged in attrition warfare, or the guns are stolen. Or abandoned so the main army could establish some position somewhere and then the guns are stolen. There's a reason Napoleon himself didn't drag his artillery run in the Egyptian and Levantine campaigns, because they're too heavy for (necessarily) under-developed terrain, and he had to move to a position first to exert control and the large guns shipped there on boats for delivery.

But if this is also to be doomed to be a Lions Led By Donkeys ass military expedition then this is and should be expected.


Thanks; maybe this could lead to unintentional consequences which would strengthen Ethiopia in the future...
@Andromedai, wait, is SPECIAL 39, or 40?
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I like the idea but sadly that won't fit into the RP. =(

HOWEVER, you can RP a NCR Sergeant.


1.) Hey, at least you like the idea.

2.) Thanks! Can I still help dig a new well?
@udonoodles, @Andromedai:

Is it okay if I make a Sergeant for the NCR who is also Jimmy's superior and has a small squad of NPCs, including engineers and doctors?

Their job is to build up goodwill for the NCR by helping people around Montana by digging new wells, improving sanitation, and introducing new technologies and farming techniques.
@Letter Bee

Yes it's OK to send 6,000 men to die for nothing because it should be very much expected that this is what Muhammad Ali Pasha does. He responded to a mutiny of his own soldiers by sending them on a suicide mission to Libya to pursue rumors of gold. If they die, so what; if they find gold, great!

Though why the fuck does Egypt have trains they're only just starting out. Let alone why would they send a train to Ethiopia there are no railroads to Ethiopia. Never mind the engineering to strap a fuck off huge gun to a train is a few decades away still


'Siege Train' is a term for supplies and baggage meant specifically for siege equipment; cannons and gunpowder and ammo.

Same also for 'Baggage Train' being used to describe wagons.
@Letter Bee

Saudi grievances aren't really grievances anyone else is willing to address because also the Caliphate is the Ottoman Empire and part of the flex is part of the show of piety. And a class thing everyone from Muhammad Ali to the Sultan to every Emir in Syria and Mesopotamia would believe is their right to show flash and bling. They are the only ones who can afford to make Hajj.

Also you do realize Ethiopians have beaten armies at home with a much wider technology gap and you're going to go stomping off into Ethiopia with muzzle loading muskets, and not even much later European breach loading rifles and expect this to be anything but a punitive expedition on the people doing it? Because really: they're not going to do anything or get anywhere. The Ethiopian highlands are notoriously brutal and for the most parts roads will not exist to allow a massive army to adeptly navigate. Never mind Ethiopian coffee at this stage is notoriously low quality and in some cases lethal, because the primitive way dry processing works anywhere in the 19th century can make a cup of coffee poison. The Dutch have the market cornered on real high quality, modern wet processed coffee from Indonesia way, and theirs absolutely will not kill the drinker because wet processing coffee was a 100 fold safer than dry processing at this time (even if more bitter)


1.) Understood. This means that there will only be some swatting around, then.

2.) Damnit. Should this be voided, or is it okay to send 6000 men and a siege train to die for nothing?
Currently tired out right now, but I might make an NCR Soldier if @udonoodles is okay with that.
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