History Roleplay / PlanesAndMercs

* RareVehicles - Stewart "Bonnie" Connolly flew a J35J Draken. The Musketeers were also gifted a vintage CF-101B Voodoo. Also, considering how the US military is scrapping the F-14 Tomcat to prevent Iran for getting spare parts, Swart Katte's F-14A Tomcat can also be considered rare in the context of the game world.

* HarsherInHindsight - The entire Georgian campaign, involving a FalseFlagOperation to give a casus belli for Russia to invade.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters - Currently there are 25 living pilots and 2 dead ones. As well as a couple of journalists and commanding officers running around.

* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene - Look up at the first sentence on this page. There's MULTIPLE Obligatory War Crime Scenes.

Planes and Mercs is the title bestowed by members of /tg/ since GM MagnificentBastard Steve has yet to print up his own rule set. Originally set in Africa, with operations mostly taking place in Liberia, it then expanded to covert ops in Georgia, and some CrazyAwesome shenanigans with the [[LegionOfLostSouls French Foreign Legion]].

* AnyoneCanDie - In the very first mission two pilots died; Canadian Ross "Suit" Cameron , flight lead for the Musketeers, was killed when a MiG-21 blew apart his Falcon with 23mm cannon fire over the Red Sea. Fellow American Musketeer Henry "Guv" Dravot was seriously wounded when he crashed his damaged F-5 Tiger II into the runway. Patrick "Creek" Dawson of Swart Katte flight was injured while attempting a gun run on an armoured convoy. He managed to make it back to base but crashed on the surface and ejected straight into the asphalt.

* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece - The most advanced fighter in any player's arsenal is the F-16C. Most pilots can only afford Vietnam era jets such as the F-4 Phantoms, Mig 21s and Mirage [=IIIs=].

* CaptainCrash - Norwegian Haakon "Hammer" Gustavson, attempted a Split S manoeuvre at low altitude while chasing a Mig. Needless to say, the plane crashed into the desert floor. Luckily for Hammer, he ejected safely and was rescued by a passing reccondo team in the area.

* ComingInHot - This is seen a few times as the various mercenaries bring their planes in varied states of integrity. Patrick "Creek" Dawson was a perfect and fatal extreme example of this. Henry "Guv" Dravot found the middle ground when he crashed his plane and survived, though with a decent amount of personal injury. On the "safer" side, Stewart "Bonnie" Connolly recently put his Saab Draken [=J35J=] down with no damage other than the maintenance and corrosion damage that comes from foaming the runway, only to have it catastrophically damaged in mid-air by an enemy missle later on and having to glide the now half-dead hulk (Engines, electrics and everything else except for the radio and hydraulics are gone) back to the airport with more Mig-21s chasing after him.

* DoomedUpgrade - The Musketeers, starting with the biggest bank balance, opted to start the game with the most advanced fighter of any flight: two F-16Cs. It didn't help them when their flight lead was shot down by a Mig-21's cannon fire to become the first fatality of the campaign.

* EliteMooks - The Swart Kattes were the first flight to encounter something other than ageing Soviet equipment, in the form of a pair of F-14s. Sophie "Kermit" Duprac, flying a Mig-21bis didn't give a fuck and shot both of them down.

* ICallItVera - Stewart "Bonnie" Connolly of Swarte Katte flight loves his J35J Draken a little too much. He hasn't named it yet but talks to it as though it were a woman, explaining why he didn't simply eject when the plane was written off mid-flight by a Iranian MiG. [=McCleach=] loved his destroyed Tornado but in a father-son sort of way rather than romantically.

* MoodWhiplash - Swarte Kattes second mission: "Oh Crap! TWO F-14s are here?" *a few minutes later* "HOLY SHIT! Did Kermit just shoot down TWO F-14s in a MiG 21?!"

* ContemplateOurNavels - Esteban "Buns" [=LaCroix=] goes on these for quite some time. When he comes out of them, he has crazy ideas like strapping jet engines on old WW2 aircraft. As long as it keeps him from "tinkering" with their airplanes, his flight mates don't mind if he spends his time doing this.

Originally began in early 2010, when the man soon known as ''op-again'' asked ImageBoard /tg/ for some fighter plane advice for a homebrew air combat RPG his GM was running. Within 2 months, he had posted several briefings and after-action reports from his games, and earned himself and his fellow players much respect from other fligh/tg/uys, and is likely responsible for a number of similar games being designed and re-designed, including an Area 88 version and Firestorm (detailed below)

** One pilot in Brawler Flight has a P-80 Shooting Star!

Planes and Mercs is the title bestowed by members of /tg/ since GM MagnificentBastard Steve has yet to print up his own rule set. Originally set in Africa, with operations mostly taking place in Liberia, it then expanded to covert ops in Georgia, and some CrazyAwesome shenanigans with the FrenchForeignLegion.

* DoomedUpgrade - The Musketeers, starting with the biggest bank balance, opted to start the game with the most advanced fighter of any flight: two F-16Cs. It didn't help them when their flight lead was shot down by a Mig-21's cannon fire to become the first fatality of the campaign.

** One pilot in Brawler Flighter has a P-80 Shooting Star!

* TheDitz: Victoria Nguyen of the Marauders. Her original callsign was Spoony, but after accidentally sinking an oil tanker, it is likely to change.

At the end of 2010, creator and moderator of the PAM forums ''sukhoi'' posted she had written a homebrew version of AirWar C21, and needed players for testing. This resulted in the Firestorm campaign, set in 2015 after an economic collapse caused widespread budget cuts for many armed forces across the globe, and at the same time opening a large market for private contractors to fill the gaps. The campaign opened with the first overt action in the Red Sea, operating out of Djibouti. Additional campaigns are currently in the planning stages, with one confirmed for Columbia.

* AnyoneCanDie - In the very first mission two pilots died; Canadian Ross "Suit" Cameron , flight lead for the Musketeers, was killed when a Mig 21 blew apart his Falcon with 23mm cannon fire over the Red Sea. Fellow American Musketeer Henry "Guv" Dravot was seriously wounded when he crashed his damaged F-5 Tiger II into the runway. Patrick "Creek" Dawson of Swart Katte flight was injured while attempting a gun run on an armoured convoy. He managed to make it back to base but crashed on the surface and ejected straight into the asphalt.

* BarBrawl - Sophie "Kermit" Duprac insitagetes this on her first day on the job by smashing a beer bottle all over Julienne "Witch" Nikarova's face.

Often referred to as {{Area 88}}, the RPG.

* IncrediblyLamePun - The whole reason for [[SWATKats Swart Kattes]] existence.

* CaptainSmoothAndSergeantRough - Swarte Kattes' two XOs are the mild mannered USAF veteran Paul "Caddy" Vosser and the foul mouthed ex-RAF veteran McLeach who can't make it through a sentence without swearing or an hour without a drink.

* ComingInHot - This is seen a few times as the various mercenaries bring their planes in varied states of integrity. Patrick "Creek" Dawson was a perfect and fatal extreme example of this. Henry "Guv" Dravot found the middle ground when he crashed his plane and survived, though with a decent amount of personal injury. On the "safer" side, Stewart "Bonnie" Connolly recently put his Saab Draken J35J down with no damage other than the maintenance and corrosion damage that comes from foaming the runway, only to have it catastrophically damaged in mid-air by an enemy missle later on and having to glide the now half-dead hulk (Engines, electrics and everything else except for the radio and hydraulics are gone) back to the airport with more Mig-21s chasing after him.
* ContemplateOurNavels - Esteban "Buns" LaCroix goes on these for quite some time. When he comes out of them, he has crazy ideas like strapping jet engines on old WW2 aircraft. As long as it keeps him from "tinkering" with their airplanes, his flight mates don't mind if he spends his time doing this.

* DefeatMeansFriendship - Averted. Jamail's hatred of the Iranians after the Iran-Iraq War only increased. McCleach's hatred of the Black Aces after they shot down his Tornado only drives him to drink more.

* ICallItVera - Stewart "Bonnie" Connolly of Swarte Katte flight loves his J35J Draken a little too much. He hasn't named it yet but talks to it as though it were a woman, explaining why he didn't simply eject when the plane was written off mid-flight by a Iranian MiG. McCleach loved his destroyed Tornado but in a father-son sort of way rather than romantically.

* LargeHam - McCleach. Oh god McCleach.

* PrivateMilitaryContractors - There are several PMCs in the game contracting work and all the flights belong to PMCs of varying legitimacy.

* TheEngineer - Esteban "Buns" LaCroix. Though his flight mates would hesitate to call his brand of "percussive" maintenance "Engineering"
* TheMafiya - No one knows where the two Russian PMCs, Red Star Solutions and OKB-276, get their money from.

* WorldWarIII - It's what the players are participating in. Except not a huge nuclear war, rather dozens of small brushfire wars fought by PMCs that are secretly funded by national governments. A Cold War 2.0 if you will.

* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece - The most advanced fighter in any player's arsenal is the F-16C. Most pilots can only afford Vietnam era jets such as the F-4 Phantoms, Mig 21s and Mirage IIIs.