Hey there folks. I don't post here much, but here I am, this time asking for a bit more personal help on something rather than anything group related. I've been thinking of making a new character lately set in a war period, more specifically either the era of World War II or the Vietnam War. I'm a bit of a history nerd and love both periods for their aspects in the subject, but I can't decide which era to place my new guy in. I do plan on making him Army, simply because I don't understand aircraft enough to write a pilot well, and I don't want a Navy puke as my character (kidding with that "insult" my great grandad is a Navy veteran). If I could get some opinions, that'd be awesome. Thanks everyone.
My Vietnam knowledge is a little rusty so I might not be much help but I was about to say they could be the one character who fought in both those wars although those years might be a bit of a stretch also you might want to be playing that raw recruit sort of character, I guess the alternative for that would be make seperate tabs in his character profile one being for WWII the other for Vietnam covering any differences from those eras.
That’s all I got at the moment hope it helped at least a little
That’s all I got at the moment hope it helped at least a little
well they were fairly different wars so I suppose it depends on what sort of character you want to go for. Nam will influence the guy in a different way to being a vet of ww2. Especially an American as to be fair, America waited quite some time to get involved in that one.
It might help to consider the SORT of soldier you'd like. The stuff that went on in Vietnam was pretty horrendous, it was much more the sort of war that might turn you against warfare rather than ww2 which has a much easier "we're the good guys" narrative.
Also eras, it might be easier to write a character from a more recent war. The attitudes and culture of the 40s is quite different to say the 60s and 70s.
I'd say pick an era, pick a year and run with it. Consider how the culture of the time period you pick and the media coverage etc could also influence a character's views.
Also, which war do you know more about?
It might help to consider the SORT of soldier you'd like. The stuff that went on in Vietnam was pretty horrendous, it was much more the sort of war that might turn you against warfare rather than ww2 which has a much easier "we're the good guys" narrative.
Also eras, it might be easier to write a character from a more recent war. The attitudes and culture of the 40s is quite different to say the 60s and 70s.
I'd say pick an era, pick a year and run with it. Consider how the culture of the time period you pick and the media coverage etc could also influence a character's views.
Also, which war do you know more about?
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