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With the (let's face it) dying Red Orchestra realism community the 11. Panzerdivision has been batting some ideas back and forth of how to bolster growth not only in our unit, but the community as a whole. We came up with the idea of forming an Axis Kampfgruppe (Battlegroup) between our unit and those of our comrades.
First, I will explain the benefits of joining together. As we all know it's a horrible pain to form units now-days. What with the 4 or 5 active members a fresh unit is bound to have it's virtually impossible to get matches or to have decent drill practices. By banding together units within the KG would have a larger manpool to draw upon (including 11. PzD's 14 active members). Members of these units would be able to participate in more matches and practices would be infinitely more interesting due to the larger amount of participation.
Additionally, all units in the Kampfgruppe would share one Ventrilo. With our unit alone the Vent server is extremely active and there are always people on. 17.SS is extremely active during the day (because they're Europeans
) and 11.PzD is very active in the evenings. This way there will always be a large number of people on Vent and the realism community can be much more active in RO.
The Kampfgruppe will also share a server (though it will be an RO server as 17.SS controls the Darkest Hour server) and the more units that join, the more slots we will purchase on the server.
Small monthly contributions will obviously be required (based on the size of your unit) to help pay for the additional slots on the Ventrilo and the server but it will save a ton of money in the long run (consider how many realism servers are populated and how much people pay to keep unpopulated servers running).
Such contributions have not yet been decided so the earlier you get in the more minuscule they will be, lol.
The requirements for joining are fairly simple:
1) Must be an Axis realism unit (obviously)
-Ranks must be realistic (no f-ing Field Marshals please)
-Organization must be realistic (If you're an Infantry Division please don't sport Tigers)
2) Must visit the 11. PzD's forums and submit an application under Ersatz Abteilung with the format stickied therein
Pretty simple gents, don't waste time! I'm especially eager to see Strauss's little SS Division and 16 FJR.
Current members include 11. Panzerdivision and 17. SS, two of the largest Axis realism units currently operating within the RO realism community.
With the (let's face it) dying Red Orchestra realism community the 11. Panzerdivision has been batting some ideas back and forth of how to bolster growth not only in our unit, but the community as a whole. We came up with the idea of forming an Axis Kampfgruppe (Battlegroup) between our unit and those of our comrades.
First, I will explain the benefits of joining together. As we all know it's a horrible pain to form units now-days. What with the 4 or 5 active members a fresh unit is bound to have it's virtually impossible to get matches or to have decent drill practices. By banding together units within the KG would have a larger manpool to draw upon (including 11. PzD's 14 active members). Members of these units would be able to participate in more matches and practices would be infinitely more interesting due to the larger amount of participation.
Additionally, all units in the Kampfgruppe would share one Ventrilo. With our unit alone the Vent server is extremely active and there are always people on. 17.SS is extremely active during the day (because they're Europeans
) and 11.PzD is very active in the evenings. This way there will always be a large number of people on Vent and the realism community can be much more active in RO.The Kampfgruppe will also share a server (though it will be an RO server as 17.SS controls the Darkest Hour server) and the more units that join, the more slots we will purchase on the server.
Small monthly contributions will obviously be required (based on the size of your unit) to help pay for the additional slots on the Ventrilo and the server but it will save a ton of money in the long run (consider how many realism servers are populated and how much people pay to keep unpopulated servers running).
Such contributions have not yet been decided so the earlier you get in the more minuscule they will be, lol.
The requirements for joining are fairly simple:
1) Must be an Axis realism unit (obviously)
-Ranks must be realistic (no f-ing Field Marshals please)
-Organization must be realistic (If you're an Infantry Division please don't sport Tigers
)2) Must visit the 11. PzD's forums and submit an application under Ersatz Abteilung with the format stickied therein
Pretty simple gents, don't waste time! I'm especially eager to see Strauss's little SS Division and 16 FJR
. Current members include 11. Panzerdivision and 17. SS, two of the largest Axis realism units currently operating within the RO realism community.