Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Who IS Who

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PERSONALITIES OF GALLIA (FRANCE), THE IMPERIUM (AUSTRIA) AND SAXE RASCHSTEIN (SAXONY) and some for GERMANIA AND BRITANNIA too by Bill P.
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ROYALTY:
Gallian King: l'Roy Louis XV
Brother: Comte de Provence (Brigade des Carabiniers)
Brother In Law: Prinz Wilhelm von Saxe-Raschstein (Saxony)
Prinzessin Mercedes: Louis XV's Sister, Prinz Wilhelm's Wife (Saxony)
Imperium Empress: Maria Theresa
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GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS:
Gallian Foreign Minister: Prince de Charade
Charade's Secretary: Bernard
Gallian Minister of War: l'Duc de Formidable
Gallian Diplomat: Comte de Legerdemain
Gallian Diplomat: Comte de Rapprochement
Rpprochement's Doorward: Pierre La Port
Saxe-Raschstein Prime Minister: Graf von Bruhl
Imperium Foreign Minister: Count von Kaunitz
Gallia: Col. Enigma (??)
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COURTIERS:
Lady Diana Pettygree (from the Britannian Channel Island Pettygree)
Pettygree's Maid: Catherine
Pettygree's Valet: Henri (missing in Germania in 1756 now returned)
Lady Cherish Masquerade
Lady Belle Silhouette
Master Pastry Chef Jacques Torres
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SENIOR OFFICERS:
Gallian Marshall l'Duc de Broglie
Gallian Lieutenant General Chevert
Saxe-Raschstein General Major von Nostitz
Saxe-Raschstein General Major Graf zu Solms
Imperium Marshall von Browne
Imperium General von Schwarzenegger
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OTHER OFFICERS:
Brig. J.C. Fischer (Fischer Legion)
Col. Mirage
Col. Bercheney (Bercheney Hussars)
Rittmeister von Schill (von Schill Hussars von Saxe Raschstein)
Leutnant Blitzen: ADC (Prinz Albrecht Chevaulegers von Saxe-Raschstein)
Lieutenant Gardier: Officer in charge of Pettygree's cavalry escort
Capitaine Acheron de Vinnie (Compagnies franches de la Marine)
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OTHERS:
THAT WOMAN: Mysterious, one-eyed, elderly and peasant dressed offering advice to Pettygree. She appears at propitious moments and vanishes in an instant.
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FOR GERMANIA
Col. von Bungle
Gen. Schwerpunkt
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FOR BRITANNIA
Lt. Gen. the Marquis of Granby
Maj. Gen. Frye
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More as they are created.........
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Unused Names:
Deception
Cursarius (Runner/Raider)
Flabergast
Intrigue
Punctillious
Inuendo
Chaos
von Bluster
von Blunder
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5 comments:

abdul666 said...

Bill,
compliments & thanks for the compiled information. Hope other world-builders will follow.
But what about Milady de Winter?
Sincerely,
Jean-Louis

Gallia said...

Cher Jean-Louis,
Merci pour votre lettre.
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Unlisted characters of Hesse-Seewald including Milady de Winter are creations of Der Alte. He has quite a number of them such as the infamous Col. Bauer of the vexing Black Hussars, Milady de Winter of course who remains an enigma and we think dangerous, several politicians and lesser nobles of some Germanian petty states, Hesse-Seewald characters and so forth.

Anyhow, aside from the two Austrian (Imperium) fellows and Granby whom Der Alte created, the listed people here are the ones I came up with in The Seven Years' War Charge Project of twenty some years ago and then more rencetly within the past two years. Thus Der Alte has a similar cast of characters but they are not in a list. You can find them and read all about them over at OSW if you go to FILES there. Find the three folders entitled War of the Saxon Duchies. You will need several hours to read it all.

I find it interesting how each character, that is, the ones who have become active - have a special personality. I suppose I am somewhat influenced by Tony Bath's system of thirty plus years ago of how to generate characters which we see in a revived and new format in the last issue of Battlegames. However, I am too reticent to construct characteristics according to dice throwing. What if my favorites like de Broglie and Chevert turned out to be terrible? Ach! C'est mal! Yet, perhaps lesser characters might be created in this fashion and I could let the dice fall where they may.

Votre Obt. Servant,
Bill

Bluebear Jeff said...

When I find the time, I need to do something like this for Saxe-Bearstein & Stagonia (yes, I know that I left the "vile" out this time -- just testing all of you).

Quite a menagerie, Bill. Good work.


-- Jeff

Snickering Corpses said...

Reminds me that I need to take the history writeups that I did on my blog and store them into a file for later reference as well as adding some additional ones.

Bluebear Jeff said...

And I have to say it. Bill, my favorite character has been "That Woman" . . . but then I love a bit of mystery.


-- Jeff