Magoose
SV's Questing Fanatic
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- California USA
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- He
But we are a professional army. They will get paid.
now remaining supplied on the other hand... well that is an entirely different proposition.
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La Chanson de la Victoire (The Song of Victory): La Petite Arpenteuse (Non, SV, you are a General of France in the Napoleonic War!)
- Thread starter Plausbius
- Start date
- Mature Alt. History
now remaining supplied on the other hand... well that is an entirely different proposition.
- Location
- Somewhere
Not on the scale Napoleon did. I mean, sure Jourdan looted Germany to keep himself and his army from starving but Napoleon was much more thorough than he was.
Magoose
SV's Questing Fanatic
- Location
- California USA
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- He
Again nappy b is rich, well supplied and holding entire cites to ransom if they don't surrender.
Better in some ways because the countryside isn't destroyed because Brian is trying to prevent unnecessary destruction.
But he's gotten even... worse in some ways.
Looting of valuable cultural artifacts is the name of the day.
Edit: so really nothing has changed except he's a lot richer and a lot less of a burner and stealer of Harvests.
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Nicholas Brooks
Redeemer and Destroyer
- Location
- United States
Will he at least put them in museums instead of tossing them into vaults and forgetting about them?
Magoose
SV's Questing Fanatic
- Location
- California USA
- Pronouns
- He
Napoleon no.
Brian? If he could steal them away from his boss... Yes.
if he dosent decide to make a private collection/ his own museum because the museums of France don't meet his standards.
- Location
- leiden (NL)
Again, nothing new in history (and not something first started by Napoleon OTL). See the St-Marco Horses in Venice....or the ancient Mesopotamia practice to take the Statues of gods of defeated cities as prisoners in the temples of the victors' god.
Magoose
SV's Questing Fanatic
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- California USA
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- He
But again: Everyone Blames everyone else for doing it.
when we all know the British did worse.
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- Location
- Florida
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X]Plan Armée d'Orient
Yeah, I'm pretty happy with this plan, gets the leaders I want and does a better job army organizing than I ever would numbers wise.
Yeah, I'm pretty happy with this plan, gets the leaders I want and does a better job army organizing than I ever would numbers wise.
- Location
- Somewhere
If I remember the quote correctly, Eric Hobsbawm said something to the effect that the average French soldier was more interested in having silver spoons in his knapsack than a marshal's baton.
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Magoose
SV's Questing Fanatic
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- California USA
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- He
Yes but that is the average soldier. Not a potential future Marshal like us.
cause we are an officer, not a grunt.
Magoose
SV's Questing Fanatic
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- California USA
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- He
So I lied. Here is Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie
A Damn fine general.
A Damn fine general.
Opinion: You are my superior officer. I pray you are better than the last three I had.
Name: Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie
Titles: Générale de Division
Age: 32
Height: 6'0/182 cm
Hometown:Jérémie, Saint-Domingue
Birthday:25 March 1762
Nicknames: The Black Devil
Honors and Decorations:
Beliefs: Revolutionary Republican
Republican Sentiments: 10 "When Libery is decreed for all men, of all races, than I will believe in the Republic. Not before."
Monarchist Sentiments: -5 "I had served many years in the King's Army, and saw first hand the power that one man wielded, overall men, not just men like me. I shudder what will happen if another returns, and places me into bondage"
Allies: Brian Auclair, Adam Serre, Louis-Alexandre Berthier, Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges
Enemies: Napoleon (Political Enemy)
Offices Held:
Past Offices held: Lieutenant Colonel in the Armee de Vendee, Commander in Chief of the Army of the Western Pyrenees, Générale de Division of the Army of the Alps.
Battles Fought: Champ de Mars massacre, Battle at Little Saint Bernard Pass
Battles Commanded: Battle at Little Saint Bernard Pass
Battles Won: Champ de Mars massacre, Battle at Little Saint Bernard Pass
Battles Lost: None
Campaigns Led: None
STATS
Military: 13 "The Various ways command's thinking is something I find very troubling. But I must attempt it anyway to understand it."
Charisma: 14 "I was quite the man in my youth."
Decorum: 14 "A Sharp uniform may not protect you from bullets, but it does catch the eye of several maidens… and that is more protection than you need."
Stewardship: 10 "Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master."
Intelligence: 16 "Never doubt my intelligence… most whites have, and I have never seen a man think any less of me when I prove to be smarter than them."
Education: 20 "I have been educated like a nobleman… and I ensure you, I am no simple general."
Subterfuge: 12 "I can maintain a veneer of secrecy. After all, give me a uniform that has no stripes, and I can just be another servant."
SKILLS
Combat: 23 "I needed some real danger and some mortal risk to run, to tranquilize me"
Oratory: 11 "There is nothing I fear more than a poor speech"
Command: 13 "I have become well accustomed to command, if in numbers I am still not accustomed to."
Cavalry Command: 19 "A good cavalryman hopes for three things in life. A fine horse, good stirrups, and a saddle to ride it."
Infantry Command: 15 "I can command the infantry, just as well as other commanders."
Artillery Command: 7 "Yet for the life of me, I cannot command cannon."
Grand Strategy: 10 "Give me an order, and I will see it done."
Engineering: 10 "I am not the best at this… detail oriented skill."
Logistics: 9 "I can maintain supplies but not as well as your other generals."
Manual Labor: 7 "I am a nobleman… my skin color does not make me a slave, or a laborer."
Law: 14 "I am versed in French law. It's why I'm in the army, rather than my fathers Chateau."
Administration: 10 "I am capable of acting as a secretary. But not a good one."
Traits
Gens de couleur libres: I was born a slave but through my father's efforts, and his kindness, I was freed. I will fight until my last breath to see Slavery Extinguished from this world.
-This man will stand against slavery, no matter its form, and fight for its end.
- (-20) to diplomacy rolls when dealing with people who own slaves. He may automatically start duels if the person is revealed to be a slaver or a political ally to Slavery.
Name: Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie
Titles: Générale de Division
Age: 32
Height: 6'0/182 cm
Hometown:Jérémie, Saint-Domingue
Birthday:25 March 1762
Nicknames: The Black Devil
Honors and Decorations:
Beliefs: Revolutionary Republican
Republican Sentiments: 10 "When Libery is decreed for all men, of all races, than I will believe in the Republic. Not before."
Monarchist Sentiments: -5 "I had served many years in the King's Army, and saw first hand the power that one man wielded, overall men, not just men like me. I shudder what will happen if another returns, and places me into bondage"
Allies: Brian Auclair, Adam Serre, Louis-Alexandre Berthier, Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges
Enemies: Napoleon (Political Enemy)
Offices Held:
Past Offices held: Lieutenant Colonel in the Armee de Vendee, Commander in Chief of the Army of the Western Pyrenees, Générale de Division of the Army of the Alps.
Battles Fought: Champ de Mars massacre, Battle at Little Saint Bernard Pass
Battles Commanded: Battle at Little Saint Bernard Pass
Battles Won: Champ de Mars massacre, Battle at Little Saint Bernard Pass
Battles Lost: None
Campaigns Led: None
STATS
Military: 13 "The Various ways command's thinking is something I find very troubling. But I must attempt it anyway to understand it."
Charisma: 14 "I was quite the man in my youth."
Decorum: 14 "A Sharp uniform may not protect you from bullets, but it does catch the eye of several maidens… and that is more protection than you need."
Stewardship: 10 "Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master."
Intelligence: 16 "Never doubt my intelligence… most whites have, and I have never seen a man think any less of me when I prove to be smarter than them."
Education: 20 "I have been educated like a nobleman… and I ensure you, I am no simple general."
Subterfuge: 12 "I can maintain a veneer of secrecy. After all, give me a uniform that has no stripes, and I can just be another servant."
SKILLS
Combat: 23 "I needed some real danger and some mortal risk to run, to tranquilize me"
Oratory: 11 "There is nothing I fear more than a poor speech"
Command: 13 "I have become well accustomed to command, if in numbers I am still not accustomed to."
Cavalry Command: 19 "A good cavalryman hopes for three things in life. A fine horse, good stirrups, and a saddle to ride it."
Infantry Command: 15 "I can command the infantry, just as well as other commanders."
Artillery Command: 7 "Yet for the life of me, I cannot command cannon."
Grand Strategy: 10 "Give me an order, and I will see it done."
Engineering: 10 "I am not the best at this… detail oriented skill."
Logistics: 9 "I can maintain supplies but not as well as your other generals."
Manual Labor: 7 "I am a nobleman… my skin color does not make me a slave, or a laborer."
Law: 14 "I am versed in French law. It's why I'm in the army, rather than my fathers Chateau."
Administration: 10 "I am capable of acting as a secretary. But not a good one."
Traits
Gens de couleur libres: I was born a slave but through my father's efforts, and his kindness, I was freed. I will fight until my last breath to see Slavery Extinguished from this world.
-This man will stand against slavery, no matter its form, and fight for its end.
- (-20) to diplomacy rolls when dealing with people who own slaves. He may automatically start duels if the person is revealed to be a slaver or a political ally to Slavery.
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NoxOfUmbra
Shadow of the night
- Location
- Colombia, South América
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
... ok, this could be really good or really bad, idk which one.
Magoose
SV's Questing Fanatic
- Location
- California USA
- Pronouns
- He
The thing is, he's competent at his job. Not like Lannes, or a few others, I can think of... but he can be counted on to do his job and do it well.
Also I have so little to go off him in terms of large battle engagements since the most he ever commanded was a division, and never in any large scale battle.
Magoose
SV's Questing Fanatic
- Location
- California USA
- Pronouns
- He
With or without Napoleon?
- Location
- Somewhere
With the way people here talk so casually of performing a coup d'etat on the government, having plans to conquer foreign lands and other things, I have some suspicions this quest is doing something to people's heads.
To be fair, it is a Napoleonic Era General quest. Something would be amiss if coups and foreign lands weren't being mentioned given the state of things in the era.
ThatGuyWithIdeas
Treize died for our sins
- Location
- Romania
Unless Robespierre coups the government, we have no reason to march on Paris.
- Location
- Somewhere
That's what a whole lot of people thought after Thermidor, but about 3-4 coups later, it turns out stable government is a lot harder than people thought.
- Location
- leiden (NL)
Or if Invaders are besieging Paris, or if the Royalists are enacting Terreur Blanche or....
Magoose
SV's Questing Fanatic
- Location
- California USA
- Pronouns
- He
And considering there have been two changes of government in 5 years, two coups and a Revolution, what makes you think this is anything but stable.
Robe isn't the one you should be worrying about.
And there are more where that came from!
If Kellerman fucked up that badly we'd have more pressing matters to worry about.
Like trying to Keep Louis alive when everyone wants to kill him.
Or make him king... both options are equally terrible.
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- Location
- The Colored Room
- Pronouns
- TheOne
I've been very clear since the early days. If Napoleon reaches for a crown, I'm pushing for a countercoup.
And honestly, I'd consider it even if he was just an uncrowned executive. I don't like him, I don't like what he stands for, and the infatuation this thread has with him rubs the wrong way on a lot of levels.
But I let it be, because this is supposed to be fun. And it's not really that serious. We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
Magoose
SV's Questing Fanatic
- Location
- California USA
- Pronouns
- He
But What if he's elected? That would be a twist!
We don't play the long game! Hell we don't even play the game at all!
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