Greetings fellow gamers,

My name is John and I live near Ft. Bragg, NC where I work as a cultural role player, Opposing force agressor, and at times I help out with Robin Sage (SF Operators final evolution durring he Q course here in "Pine Land"). I am currently working on a mission that I think will be enjoyable if done correctly and played out correctly with players on here who are looking for something new. I am sure there are plenty of missions on here where you SF team must go in, and destroy a target, kill bad guys, ect...well thats all fine and dandy but that is not the Primary mission of a SF Team or ODA (Operational Detachment Alpha). The mission of an ODA is to work with the locals to assist them in training, experience, and to collaborate with local military officals on missions. Their mission is to work with, train, and go out on limited missions with the locals to help them locate, close with and destroy the enemy, gain intel, capture prisoners, and basic Civil Affairs type missions of helping the local people rise above their opressors, hence their motto "Liberate the Oppressed"

The mission(s) I am working on will require everyone to play roles, from ODA members, to Local Soldiers being trained by the ODAs, Village cheifs, Opposing Forces, and most imporant the Civillians. Depending on how the leader of the ODA works with the people will determine if people are friendly to the ODA, hostile to the ODA, or just distant from the "Foreigners". The mission of the detachment commander will be to gain the respect of the "freedom fighters" and to aide them on various missions that the ODA will have to complete, such as seek and destroy, gather intel, give out MREs...ect.


There will be different roles for each mission I make, and people will be given a script to use over the text or voice control...so the ODA commander is actually speaking to a real human, who has the ability to make his own decisions. It will basically be run like a military excerise, only in a setting of a real world situation. It will require gamers to be open to the idea of not running and gunning, but actually doing the mission real green berets do everyday.

So far, I have not started the mission editing process, for fear that I Will not get the response I hope for in working on the mission...IE finding people who will play out the role. I think this type of mission would be great for the sunday games, and it will give players a uniqe opportunity to do something different!

The Roles for the ODA will be limited to 6 Slots, the rest will be freedom fighters, civillians, opfor, and maybe some slots for pilots should the mission require air suppot. There will be NO AI, sans maybe a few civillians to add to the confusion...and people will be given "roles" they must stick to.

Example of what a role might be:

(civillian role)Al Sayed- 21 years old, born in Pakistan durring the Soviet-Afghan war. Came to afghanistan (were your parents are from) to join the Norhern Alliance. You are unsure how you feel about the presence of Americans in your country, and you have not joined the Northern Alliance yet. You have the ability to go between the lines and work with whomever you like. You can offer to help the Americans by showing them where weapons are hidden or were the Taliban cheif is, or aid the Taliban by walking the Americans and their Afghan Cohorts into a deadly ambush.

(Something to keep in mind, every man in afghanistan is armed, with a minium of an AK-47, which means the ODA and Northern Alliance will have the same difficult mission of their real world counter-parts in figuring out exactly who the bad guys are...mess up and call an Air Strike on a bunch of Civillians...they might turn into Taliban. Also there may be tribal disputes where both sides are wrong and both sides want justice...and the ODA will have to make a judgement call.)


This will of course require an open mind, a little play acting, a lot of role playing, and patience. Missions could take extended peroids of time to play depnding on the scenario.


The hardest roles will be that of the ODA, they have to tell who is bad, who is lying, who is telling the truth, who is friendly, where IEDs might be, all while leading a band of Afghan fighters to their fates.


What I need:

Mission Makers (to help me out)
Role Players
Dedicated Players
Help and Support
Agressors
Team Speak Server


Those who wish to be ODA will have to pass a screening by way of a test and the 1st 6 who pass will be placed on probation as the ODA and will be required to work together on a few missions to get cohesive. This is not going to be a simple mission...this will be quite complex and very involved.


Agressors will fight like the Taliban and will only do what is scripted for them to do...is is imporant they do what they are told via myself.

I will be playing the role of the Village Elder/Cheif and I will hop from various channels on team speak.

I have most of the logstics worked out, like how people will communicate with each other...and ect. It will take some time to iron out, some wargaming, and testing so please be patient. I hope I get the support I feel like I will on this undertaking.


So I now open the floor for everyone to cuss and discuss my proposal and tell m what you guys think. I woud like to seek formal help from the Tactical Gamer team on this idea because it will need quite a bit of support and effort on a lot of peoples parts.