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Just a regular university student, majoring in hospitality and tourism. Also a history and trivial knowledge nerd, aircraft aficionado, occasional trekker and a D&D player.

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Near his hometown of Bielefeld were the mountains known as the Alpernes, tall and rocky mountains with snowy mountain tops. During the winter months, the mountains were a perilous place, and during the summer, quite tolerable place to go trekking. Kovacs remembered seeing companies of young Jägers marching through Bielefeld and going to the Alpernes for training, returning a few weeks later.

Kovacs had spent a few weeks with his Vater, and had learned the basics of camping, mountain climbing and trekking in his teenage. He had learned more during the military training, and he had learned one more thing in the Guard: waiting was and is a pain. Especially when there isn't much to do.

And then there were the Lancers. Fancy, arrogant, polished and they smelled like ripe cheese. Literally, as Kovacs had often seen them enjoying plates of some blue or white cheese. Kovacs had had some contact with them during the weeks of transport. He'd played cards with some of them, to pass the time, though the Lancers had the air of superiority on them. They thought the Uzanian regiment as complete Dummkopfs.

Some of the lower ranked Lancers were tolerable, though. Kovacs had met a young officer, who had risen from a merchant family, and even him was looked down upon by the "proper" Lancer officers raised from that and that aristocratic family. If you have the talents and the guts, Kovacs thought to himself, one should rise above his station.

Kovacs was reading in the barracks. He'd been issued a couple new manuals on explosives before they had started the voyage. He had also a couple pulpy adventure books from home with him. He liked to read in his spare time.
I'd be interested too. I was just having an itch for a fantastical RP.
"You cannot be creative enough with explosives. They vary from world to world and front to front. Most of the time simple is good enough, as like complex machinery, explosives can be spoiled by over-planning and over-engineering the demolitions.

For months, Erwyn Kovacs had been in the demolitions school, learning about the demolitions of the Guard. They'd spent eight months in total in training, and he was getting an itch for real action. Kovacs had been raised to the rank of corporal just a weeks ago as a "reward" for completing the demolitions course. "Finally", Kovacs grunted below his breath, as he took his equipment and followed the lieutenant. Kovacs came from the city of Bielefeld, from a family of workers. He didn't have much respect for aristocrats, but Hasenkamp seemed good enough leader. Kovacs hadn't talked to hi much, but there probably be many chances ahead to know him better.

Alongside the standard Imperial Guard equipment, Kovacs had been allotted a demolition kit, which included items like wire cutters, a lot of matches, fuses and a tinderbox, and a couple demolition charges. He was a ginger, one of the few in the company.
Name: Erwyn Kovacs
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Former Profession: Welder and construction worker
Rank: Corporal
Specialization: Demolitions, infantryman
Welcome back, son, the Emperor loves a trier.


The Emperor protects!
@Jbcool I'd like to re-enlist back to the Guard.
@mattmanganon Most foreign volunteers would come from other Nordic countries, and Finland wasn't aligned with the Axis at the time, so no Axis expeditionary force. The Germans would arrive by 1941, before operation Barbarossa and the Continuation War would commence in Europe.
A soldier in the infantry, would be in what type unit in the Finnish language? Would the terms Sissi and Jäger be used to identify a type of unit?


Most Finnish infantry would be trained as Jägers. I'm not an expert on the military organisation during the wars. I'd recommend taking a look at the life of Lauri Törni, as he served in Finnish, German and American armies.
@Gunther Sotamies would be correct, as jääkäri is a branch specific rank. The rank jääkäri was adopted from the German Jäger, as Finnish volunteers were given soldier training in Germany during the First World War. And sissi is a term for a soldier, who uses guerrilla-like tactics, like ambushes, infiltration and such things. There's also a slang term "sissijäynä" (sissi prank) for booby traps.

I'll write more thoroughly, when I get home, as I have only a phone at the moment.
@Mitzi421 If you or anyone else needs help with correct terms, ranks or the Defence Forces slang, I'd be glad to help. I am not an expert on every matter, but I'd have experience on basic infantry tactics.
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