Martial Arts in the Project Jade Serenity Supers/Technothriller Campaign

[Icelander]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

I remember reading about it in the mid-to-late 80s with the usual bullshido fluff.

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

You need a defector. Someone played by a large bald character actor with a huge moustache.

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

There was an international association in 1968, so not necessarily, but yes the Chuck Norris movie world would have maybe Michael Ironsides or Rutger Hauer as the former Spetnatz instructor.

Originally Posted by dcarson

And part of the deal with defectors to justify the pay they get afterwards is teaching this is what the OPFOR uses. So it makes perfect logical sense. Either that or he runs a ethnic restaurant and teaches a few promising students on the side to keep from getting out of shape.

Combat Sambo it is. A bombastic immigrant running a 'Spetznatz dojo', complete with colourful advertisements in Soldier of Fortune and Black Belt magazines, will be assumed, but probably not encountered in play, as CW3 Vargas, the character who learned neck-snapping is an NPC villain and he learned it some three decades or more before the game is set.

Incidentally, how do Warrant Officer promotions work? Does every WO1 become a CW2 in two years unless he indulges in carnal relations with a pooch, figurative or literal? And ditto for CW2 to CW3, except that takes five years TIG?

I assumed Vargas would have made CW3 before The Incident based on when he got his warrant, but if there is real competition before the promotion board and promotion to CW3 is not all-but automatic with time-in-grade, there are enough red flags with his personality and history to freeze him at CW2, even if he hadn't been proven to violate any regulations before his bust in 1999.