Summary
Full Name: The Blazing Gear Platoon [BGP]
Play Style: PvE, WvW, RP
Theme: Military, Gritty, “Steampunk-ish”, Firearms, Demolition and Siege Engineering
Race & Gender: Any
Profession: Limited, mainly Engineer, Warrior and Thief. See details on “Who can join?” below.
Current Goal: Recruiting the first batch of troops.
Background
The Blazing Gear was founded by the marksman mercenary Erithan Benthennes from Lion’s Arch, with the concept that there are too few major military organizations, besides perhaps the Vigil, which hold expertise in siege and combat engineering. Being a multiracial paramilitary coalition, its goal is to unite potential bodies and minds for the engineering and firearms aspects of warfare against the enemies of Tyria, whether they’re being the forces of the Elder Dragons or the “World Invaders”. Not being directly affiliated to any major faction, one could presume the platoon is working like a mercenary band. However, the platoon does not fight for the favour of gold and fortune. In fact, it’s financial management is similar to the Major Orders of Tyria, being instead contributed by sympathizers, investors and other volunteering sources.
Organization and Hierarchy:
The platoon is led by Benthennes himself as the commanding captain. All recruited troops would need to have experience in firearms combat and siege engineering. However, realized it would be crippled without some sense of flexibility, the platoon is also being split into Squads with specialized roles in each, which in turn are led by a sergeant each:
The Gear Squad: Sapper, Siege Deployment, Demolition
The Plate Squad: Heavy Support
The Scope Squad: Stealth & Reconnaissance
Not being the full scale of a battalion, the troops must rely on their comrade’s competence and loyalty in the battlefield to overcome the overwhelming risky odds, which is encouraged during training and also in the field. Discipline and Duty are also vital points for the platoon, of course. Any rebelling, inappropriate or disobedient behaviour will be dealt with accordingly just like in anyother military organization.
Events:
Currently, the guild is on the early stage of recruitment. But once enough active members are gathered and viable, the Platoon will hold RP events which mostly consist of on-duty contents. The major ones are planned to be held in the World vs World maps and some areas outside the Captial Cities. If enough by numbers, the Platoon will intend to establish foothold in key points of the WvW maps. More details will come when the guild progresses on.
Who can join?
I will explain the “Limited” part of the profession first. Due to the slightly constrained difference of each profession’s weapon skills and the combat style they represent, along with the theme this guild is aiming for, not every profession is suitable here. To clarify further, your character needs to be able to wield firearms, turrets, bombs and such, whereas magic contradicts this. Therefore, the most favoured professions to join this guild are Warriors, Engineers and Thieves for the moment.
HOWEVER;
Even if the slots of professions are limited, it doesn’t mean it’s definate. If you can convince your character, for example being a elementalist, still has a style that could somehow fit in with the aforementioned theme the guild represents then the chances might becomes slightly higher to join. This will require a very thoughtful explanation however. This is NOT to pick down potential members just because they picked “the wrong profession”, the enthusiasm itself to even apply is well appreciated. The main reason is to upkeep the theme of the guild’s RP as intact as possible. In short: Nothing personal, mate.
The Guild OOC-wise
Besides the RP aspects, the guild aims of course to be as friendly-going and as enjoyable as possible, to be played as it should be in Guild Wars 2, fun. Therefore, it’s crucial that each member is personally responsible to keep it like that. Any internal conflicts/flaming/negative drama and so forth should then be addressed to the officer(s) as soon as possible, to solve properly before it escalates.
How to Apply
There are several ways to apply for The Blazing Gear Platoon;
Out of Character, you whisper to Erithan Benthennes in-game, send a PM here or an in-game mail.
If you wish to approach In Character, either search for him personally or send a dossier via mail.
Hint: For best first impression, it would be best to address him as Captain. :P
For further questions or feedback, feel free to post in this thread. Looking forward to your responses!