Just James
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"The Government made clear in 1974 that those who were killed on 'Bloody Sunday' should be regarded as innocent of any allegation that they were shot whilst handling firearms or explosives"
-Sir John Major, Former Prime Minister.
-Sir John Major, Former Prime Minister.


Setting: Set in Derry, Northern Ireland a week after the Bloody Sunday massacre, the city would be divided by religion and the occasional firefight. From 1969 to 2007, Northern Ireland was consumed by civil unrest and near urban warfare due to an event called 'The Troubles.' This saw the Protestant British northern Ireland being pitted against Irish Catholic minorities within their territory, and it quickly became violent. Derry had some of the worst of the entire conflict, and it only became worse with the Bloody Sunday massacre that left fourteen civilians dead, and over a dozen wounded.
Ideally, players could go with one (or more, depending on character amount) of four factions. These factions would be the civilians, British Armed Forces, Provisional Irish Republican Army (Irish Catholic Militants), or the Ulster Volunteer Force (British Protestant Militants). More factions could be introduced by the Derry police force or any other militant group.
Gameplay would introduce an interesting element to the RP, being that of an insurgency, counterinsurgency, and civil law. Historically, the British Army would cooperate with the U.V.F. to help in the fight against the P.I.R.A, and in the middle, would be the civilians. Irish and British civilians attempting to worship in peace and scrape through life with the civil unrest constantly at their doorstep, and the high tensions of the British military with revenge attacks prompted by Bloody Sunday on the horizon. It would be a scenario where truly it can go from coffee at an Irish cafe to witnessing the I.R.A attempting to storm a British checkpoint, and fluid events would be ideal for such a setting.
Duration: Set on February 6, 1972, and going forward, it leaves quite a large area for the RR to continue or end, and it would almost entirely be admin discretion.
Resources: I do believe that a few uniforms can be reused from the current TRP/ZRP along with the other outfits for insurgents. In the end, a uniform with a face mask or balaclava would be nearly essential for the militant groups.
Militants would use Soviet-era gear and American civilian weaponry (AK-47s, AR-15s/M16s) as their standard weaponry if need be.
British Armed Forces would use the L1A1 (Model would be the FAL rifle.)
Not sure what map would be suitable.