Jan 8, 2024 7:27 am
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Jan 8, 2024 7:34 am
Huzzah!
Sorry, I find it easier to organize thoughts in this old school format.
What are y'all playing in terms of personalities and such? Are we all the same rank, with the same ship classes?
Sorry, I find it easier to organize thoughts in this old school format.
What are y'all playing in terms of personalities and such? Are we all the same rank, with the same ship classes?
Jan 8, 2024 9:13 pm
No worries at all, Harri! I suffer from out-of-sight/out-of-mind, hence my tendency to chat things up in Discord, but threads on the forum are more than fine.
I'll let Argo and Sam weight in with their specifics, but I believe Argo was interested in somebody calm, cool, and collected while Sam was thinking somebody a little bit rougher around the edges.
You will all be of the Commander rank (the minimum rank given command of a battlegroup in the Union military hierarchy). You guys are not except to be commanding the same ship classes -- you, the players, will build the battlegroups you want to run. Presumably, in the fiction, these are the battlegroups which have been assigned to you by admirals high high above you.
I'll let Argo and Sam weight in with their specifics, but I believe Argo was interested in somebody calm, cool, and collected while Sam was thinking somebody a little bit rougher around the edges.
You will all be of the Commander rank (the minimum rank given command of a battlegroup in the Union military hierarchy). You guys are not except to be commanding the same ship classes -- you, the players, will build the battlegroups you want to run. Presumably, in the fiction, these are the battlegroups which have been assigned to you by admirals high high above you.
Jan 8, 2024 9:53 pm
So there will be a fleet commander NPC of sorts?
Love that we can build our own fleets…
Love that we can build our own fleets…
Jan 9, 2024 4:46 am
So, the book doesn't go too wildly deeply into the nuances of ranks and responsibilities in the Union Naval Department, but we do know that the highest ranking Union officer in the Dawnline Shore is a Vice Admiral Noe Estienne (and that she is sick of Harrison and Karrakis' bullshit).
Otherwise, as far as I can tell, it does seem that Line Commander and then Fleet Commander are ranks of, like, recognition and competence rather than a change in duties, if that makes sense. They don't seem to involve getting "promoted out of the job," unlike an Admiralty, for example.
The book talks about Commander being the minimum to lead a battlegroup, and multiple battlegroups form an ad hoc fleet, and the entirety of battlegroups in a specific theater are a formally designated fleet, and that fleet is under the command of an admiral. It doesn't seem, as far as I can find, that Line or Fleet Commanders have unique or exclusive duties -- it seems like they are still responsible for their own specific battlegroup, because there aren't any other layers between that and fleet from what I can tell.
Most likely, Line and Fleet Commanders are responsible when their ad hoc fleet contains a mix of Commander ranks, I would assume! And I could see a Commander receiving, like, "the provisional rank of Line Commander" for the duration of a deployment if a chain of command needed to be established.
This is all a very long way of saying that, yeah, there is probably a Line or Fleet Commander somewhere in the Dawnline Shore with y'all!
Also, honestly, it probably means it's fine if you guys want to imagine your PC has a promotion or two under their belt.
Otherwise, as far as I can tell, it does seem that Line Commander and then Fleet Commander are ranks of, like, recognition and competence rather than a change in duties, if that makes sense. They don't seem to involve getting "promoted out of the job," unlike an Admiralty, for example.
The book talks about Commander being the minimum to lead a battlegroup, and multiple battlegroups form an ad hoc fleet, and the entirety of battlegroups in a specific theater are a formally designated fleet, and that fleet is under the command of an admiral. It doesn't seem, as far as I can find, that Line or Fleet Commanders have unique or exclusive duties -- it seems like they are still responsible for their own specific battlegroup, because there aren't any other layers between that and fleet from what I can tell.
Most likely, Line and Fleet Commanders are responsible when their ad hoc fleet contains a mix of Commander ranks, I would assume! And I could see a Commander receiving, like, "the provisional rank of Line Commander" for the duration of a deployment if a chain of command needed to be established.
This is all a very long way of saying that, yeah, there is probably a Line or Fleet Commander somewhere in the Dawnline Shore with y'all!
Also, honestly, it probably means it's fine if you guys want to imagine your PC has a promotion or two under their belt.
Jan 9, 2024 6:17 am
Appreciate the deep dive! All I was really wondering was whether someone was at the overall helm of the task force, or if we need to all work together to plan our moves collaboratively.