La Legion Etrangere Gauloise

[Scrapper]

I am not speaking on anyone's behalf but my own. I floated the beginnings of a proposal for a Foreign Legion, and had this proposal pointed out to me by Mao as "much better". Riiiight. I never thought it was. In fact, it is hard to read, top heavy, and too grandiose for the Foreign Legion. In my opinion. Nevertheless, as this proposal was done first, I withdrew and stopped work on mine. If you look at mine though, it is simpler, bottom heavy, and way more in keeping with Legione Etrangere.

It was not my intention to lift the Legion wholecloth out of history and into Gallia. I did, however want to keeps it's traditions intact, as the Legion is a very tradition oriented group. For example Camerone day is a week away, on the 30th. They celebrate a battle in Mexico where 65 Legionaires held off a couple of thousand enemies, and then conducted a bayonet charge rather than surrender the French flag. Find me 65 Royal Gallians who would do the same. Good luck.

So this is an idea that won't fly here? Fine. I am not calling Exile a control freak. I have just never encountered players as totally remote PC's who get to say yes or no as to what goes on in a House. Usually an Admin decides these things with player input. To let any player have that much control is just not in keeping with my ideology vis a vis FL gaming. It reeks of meta to me, but hey, I am an old man with different ideas about what's fair and what's not.

If that's the way it works here, that's fine too. I will play around it. Expecting me to like it may be asking a little much.

At any rate I have already SO dropped flying a Royal Gallian on this server. The idea just lost all it's appeal to me.