I'm not above a little nerd play, Ech, but sadly I haven't the time right now.  Good luck getting a group together, though! 

I'm game as long as I can kill people.

But reloading a musket is most of the fun. Who wouldn't want to post the SAME thing a hundred times over?

Maybe we're all the crew of a ship or men in a unit, or perhaps we have our own ships.

Maybe something in the time of the Medieval era, each player a lord of a castle

The whole thing sounds great, count me in!

P.S. This goes for Velous too.

Great. We've got five maybe six.

I won't be able to start this group until I'm done with the ESC and my Ship Captain training, but sounds awesome.

Before we start, though, we need to decide on what era to do first. We aren't limited to one. We can do as many stories as we want, each with a different setting.

My vote is for 19th Century, but hey, I'm relaxed about this kind of stuff. It is really up to you guys.

I'm in favor of all of those. The English Civil War also sounds really cool (matchlock muskets and all).

Also:

1) We could do character based writing where we write from the point of view of a character or as multiple characters.

2) If we do, say, a Roman time period, we each control a unit/army/country/tribe/etc.

3) Somewhere in between. We control individual units and all, but we also write from the point of view of characters.

I'll also spit some more things out:

World War One
Crimean War
Revolutionary War
War of 1812
French and Indian War
World War Two
Crusades
Romans vs Celts
Greeks vs Persians
Battle of Hastings
ETC

OR, OR, OR we take a time period and we smash it in with Star Wars! Not sure how that would work...maybe we're limited to one planet, say Corellia, but we have matchlock muskets?

Watching the latest three musketeers movie. How about something in the 17th century? Musketeers and all

Alright, we have to decide on our first story! If it isn't the era you want, we can do that in another story.

My vote goes to the Civil War. I Civil War reenact, and I have relatives who fought, so my vote would naturally go to there.

Alright, so it is decided. Civil War.

So, how are we going to do this? We've both on the same side? We're on different sides? Do we do a series of posts for each battle, and do a bunch of battles?

How about this! Instead of doing real battles, it is an entire separate history! So we'll give basic outlines of the sides troop movements and such. Each person has their own army too! For example, in real life there was the Army of Northern Virginia, the Army of Tennessee, and the Army of Mississippi.

Alright, so it is right after the Battle of Fort Sumter where confederate artillery destroyed a Union fortress in South Carolina after they refused to leave. President Lincoln calls forth a volunteer army to invade the south. Appalled at such actions, the northern southern states (Tennessee, Virginia) leave the union, and the new capital of the confederacy is placed in Richmond, Virginia. You (assuming you Yankee devil, Crest) control the new volunteer army. What do you do?

Something like that. I placing myself on the confederate side. So, say Crest moves his troops to Richmond (as they did in real life) and my Army intercepts them near Mannassas, then we would fight the battle as they did in real life (The First Battle of Bull Run to the north, and the First Battle of Mannassas to the south. The Union named armies and battles after bodies of water, hence the Army of the Potomac, the Battle of Antietam [creek]. The South named them after places. Mannassas was a city, the Army of Northern Virginia).

Something like that maybe?

Perhaps the confederacy finally does pressure Britain and France into aiding them. After all, with the Union blockade, Europe isn't getting any cotton. But yeah, it could happen.

Okay. So we've got three so far. Velius might do it, Hammer might do it, and Dusk is on leave.

Heliwer, would you like to role play the British side alone? Then Crest would do the Union side, and I would do the confederate side.

Awesome! But remember, you don't start off fighting. Perhaps in the early years of the war, you could help Crest. Then when Britain's reasons to attack have grown, you strike!

If it's just the three of us, would it probably not be better to take detachments, and not full-sized armies in our 'campaign'? I'm thinking somewhere around 5000 fighting men (ignoring, of course, supply people and all).The backstory is that each detachment is there to wipe out opposition and hold a small area that we're fighting over.

Once we decide on the lay of the land and all, we could then decide on movements and how the three armies will react. We'll decide on the outcome of the campaign later.

And just remember, we're here for the fun of roleplaying this time period. We're not here to make sure our side wins all the time. Keep it civil and good-natured.