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Ace Combat: The Global War

Mage, I shall now call you Sergeant Puns.

VTOL is quite the fuel eater though...

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The Royal Navy (as far as I know) can only use V/STOL aircraft on their current carriers due to their size (the Harrier, for example). It's the main reason they decided to go for the VTOL F-35 (lol) instead of the dedicated carrier model, I think.

EDIT: And if you look on the wiki, the Royal Navy is indeed the main customer of the Magnificent Lightning (export model).

Ace Combat: The Global War

IF it becomes available. I'm still trying to figure out how it could fit into the Strangereal world, especially since it's basically just a real-world, less fancy version of the X-02.

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Sounds good to me.

Mage, Angelika is accepted.

Ace Combat: The Global War

Lost Cause said
I thought the war took place entirely within 1995?

Yeah, reading over my sheet, I realized that I made at least two big mistakes (regarding genes and the date).

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Here's part one of my one-two punch of characters. Next character will come tomorrow, along with the polo mechanic I'm implementing (hehehe...).

Charles "Border Boy" Kreulich

Name: Charles "Charlie" Kreulich
Age: 31
Gender: Male
Height: 1m79
Weight: 76 kg
Hair Color: Dark brown
Eye Color: Blue
Blood Type: AB- (genes AB and --, for ABO and Rh respectively)
Date of Birth: December 31st 1989
Nationality: Belkan
Affiliation: General Resources Defense Force, formerly Belkan Air Force.
Assignment: Joint Air Unit "Anemi"
Allegiance: None, mercenary.
Rank: Captain
Call Sign: Anemi-One
TAC Name: Border Boy
Starter Aircraft: F-4E Phantom II
While an outdated, un-aerodynamic design (it is affectionately called the flying brick by some), the Phantom has it redeeming features in its large and versatile payload, long range, good speed and reliability.
Weapons:
-20mm M61 Vulcan Cannon (internal) (700 rounds)
-30 missiles total
SP Weapons:
-x4 NPB (BLU-32)
-x8 UGB (Mk-82 500 lb.)
-x4 UGBM (Mk-83 1,000 lb.)
-x2 UGBL (Mk-84 2000 lb.)
-x2 SAAM (AIM-7F Sparrow)
-x2 QAAM (Vympel R-73/AA-11 Archer)
-x2 GPD (SUU-23/A 20mm cannon pod)
In Depth Physical Description: Starting from the top, Charlie usually keeps his hair short, like a sort of somewhat long Ivy League cut. His eyes are of a light blue color and an average shape. He has somewhat thick eyebrows. His nose is quite straight but not long, a typically Belkan feature. His mouth is straight, somewhat pursed and is almost always wearing a stern expression, smiles being a rarity from the seasoned pilot. He has a bit of stubble along his face that can somewhat get a bit unruly during times when he is forced to go without a shave.
He is somewhat muscular, but he is of a leaner shape, his body strengthened by semi-regular exercise and g-forces endured during flight. While on the ground, he usually wears the jacket given to him as a boy by a certain ace pilot during colder months and in hotter seasons he wears a t-shirt emblazoned with the General Resources logo, or other plain t-shirts. For pants, he either wears uniform pants or infantry fatigues and boots. He never wears sunglasses or other shades, instead preferring to let his eyes adjust on their own, despite possible vision problems.
Personality: Charles is a quiet man, out of preference rather than shyness. Pensive, he thinks before doing any and all actions, verifying a strategy is correct before moving to act, even in a dogfight. This does not mean he is slow though, quite the opposite, as his reflexes are top notch. He is quite severe and serious with those around him, putting duty and mission before being friendly.
Regarding war, he deems it a natural event in the world, a necessary one, but he doesn't especially like it either. He does find however that the battlefield is the place where he feels he belongs.
History: Charles was born on New Years in 1989 in the Belkan capital of Dinsmark, a good five years before the beginning of the Belkan War. His father was an engineer, charged with working on the Avalon Dam missile facility, so him, Charles' mother and Charles himself were moved to a small town only a few kilometers from the Dam when he was about two. Due to living in what was primarily a residential town for engineers, soldiers and officials, Charles couldn't make many friends and thus spent most of his time with his father when ever the latter was home.
On the dawn of the Belkan War in late 1994, Charles' father was forced to indefinitely reside inside Avalon, leaving Charles and his mother almost alone in the town, with most of the soldiers and officials either being deployed, moving or being transferred to Avalon. Without much to do, Charles starting watching the news very often, taking immediate interest in the enemy mercenary pilot, Lawrence 'Solo Wing Pixy' Foulke. Soon enough, Charles had begun to idolize the man; convinced he was the greatest pilot ever to take to the skies.
Eventually, the day came when Charles would finally meet his hero, if only indirectly. On his birthday, December 31st in 1995, the Allied forces assaulted the nearby Avalon Dam, and Charles arrived at a place where he could view the battle just in time to witness the epic duel between his hero and the infamous Demon Lord of the Round Table. The skies were streaked and clouded by tactical laser beams and missile explosions, which Charles watched with bated breath, right up until the final 'joust' between the two kings of the skies. In the wake of Foulke's defeat and "death", Charles vowed to one day avenge him, aspiring to become a pilot no matter the cost.

After the war, the Kreulich family moved to Delarus to escape the wave of economic instability in the aftermath of the Belkan War. They managed to make a good life, both his parents gaining stable work and the trio managed to have a good life, right up until the impact of 1994XF04 Ulysses' fragments on the earth. Their country was nearly destroyed, throwing the area into chaos, sparking tensions with the nearby Federal Republic of Erusea. In 2003, soldiers from Erusea marched into the country, and Charles' parents were hauled off to internment camps, never to be seen again. Charlie managed to escape, wandering alone throughout the country until 2005, at the end of the war, he met a man who had once changed his life.
Near the border to Erusea, his life was saved by a man who had a name of Lawrence Foulke, the 'Solo Wing Pixy' that Charles had worshiped as a child. Charles, now a teenager, stayed with Foulke for a period of time, making a close bond before parting ways when Charles had his 19th birthday, when he was given a jacket by the man before Charles left for his homeland of Belka, to join the Belkan Air Force, where he remained until 2015, when he left to join the newly created General Resources Defense Force after receiving an offer from a representative of the company.

We come now to the present day, six years after he joined the GRDF, Charles has been chosen as one of the representatives of the GRDF in the International Peace Games, though under a condition that would not please him...
Extra Information:
-Charles enjoys reading journals, news and military magazines, military thrillers and dramas in his free time.

I'll also fix the formatting of the rules then, if I can remember to do so.

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I haven't even decided IF I'm going to put the CFA-44 in at some point. I'm still figuring out how to put the mighty Shinden II into the Strangereal universe. It's a cool looking fighter, could make for an interesting ace squadron plane.

I meant the A-10 as an example of an attack plane using a 30mm, perhaps my admittedly messy formatting confused you? I'll fix it if it's a problem.

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It's your normal missiles, basically.

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Alright, here's the final rule regarding payloads:

16: On a completely different subject, but still highly important; ammunition counts. For guns, I follow a strict system of 700 rounds for a 20-23mm cannon, 600 for a 25mm and 500 (attack aircraft such as the A-10) or 300 (fighters and multiroles, such as the MiG-29's and Su-27's) for 30mm's.
Regarding missiles, you can have 25 normal's on fighters, 30 on multiroles and 30 on attackers (all trainers carry 20). For special weapons, you can carry how ever many your plane can actually hold (realistically speaking).

On this subject, we have a wonderful explanation given by the famous Professor Silverwind Blade;

During the Aurelia-Leasath war, many new technologies found their way onto the battlefield. As one of many continuous conflicts across the globe that had seen an increasing focus on airpower during a conflict, and the fielding of increasing numbers of aircraft, along with a rapid rise in advanced electronic and propulsion technologies, the very real need for aircraft to carry an increased amount of firepower was felt.
As a result of this, a crash-program was commenced to develop a new type of missile that would be physically smaller and weigh considerably less, but pack the same - or at least, a comparable - amount of destructive power into a smaller physical shell, and also be capable against both surface and aerial targets.
The program was named akin to the Small Diameter Bomb, and took the name SDM - Small Diameter Missile.
Using components from the Stinger AAM, Javelin ATGM and the Hydra series of rockets kept development costs low, and allowed for rapid mass-production of the technology. The technology was quickly adapted for export, and the self-contained tracking-and-guidance systems meant that the SDM could be integrated readily with a wide variety of aircraft for little cost and time.
Taking over as the primary missile system on most aircraft in a short time, the SDM complements rather than replaces existing systems, relegating 'traditional' missiles to more 'special weapon' roles. Most aircraft can carry up five or more 5-tube 'packs' of SDMs, with some able to carry even more.

Questions?

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Yeah, that's what I do most of the time. Turns out the first time in a long while that I do it out of a word processor, everything goes to the dogs.