I want the game to be realistic. When I said "Jagged Alliance-esque", I meant more that the missions would be more on the order of dismantling corrupt dictatorships and drug cartels and such than, say, Shadowrun.

I don't want to play James Bond or Die Hard 4 or Hot Fuzz. I want to play Black Hawk Down.

PERFECT!

When do we start?

I'll start promoting it seriously after FtC. I'd like to have four or five players at least.

What system are you guys voting for? I know WoD isn't too popular around here, but I've got the "Dogs of War" book for that, which has tons of military-grade weaponry and information about real-world militia groups and stuff.

That would be fine with me. I have the core rules and Dogs of War, too, though it has been ages since I read either one of those books. If you want to go much more simulationist, I also have all the resources that you could ever want to do this via GURPS, third edition. (Core books, high-tech, modern firepower, cops, SWAT, covert ops, special ops, etc.)

WoD is hardly rules light, but I know the system already. I'd be interested in learning GURPs, but I don't own any of the books (and no one around here sells them). Of the two, I'd prefer to run WoD.

WoD is probably better for PbP anyway, actually. While GURPS is a great system for simulation, it is also (because of that) crunchy in the extreme. That could definitely hamper the flow of a PbP with anything but the most experienced of GURPS players.

I have only been in one other PBP and it just withered on the vine so I'd like to take a shot at another one.


I have no clue about the setting or about playing a paramilitary character, save for what I've learned from Schwarzenegger films and Resident Evil games.

This may very well disqualify me, but I thought I'd at least express interest.

Some source material to get you started:
Jagged Alliance 2 and its associated TV Tropes Page
Black Hawk Down Wikipedia and TV Tropes

Some other movies I'd recommend:
Body of Lies
The Kingdom
The Expendables

Other:
The Wikipedia article on PMCs
GURPS Covert Ops

NB, we'd love to have you of course. I think you'll do fine.

Yeah, seconded. I had meant to put something to that effect in the original post above, but I apparently got a bit preoccupied tracking down the rest of the stuff for it.


Sorry. I'm an idiot.