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bruci8578
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Hi, I have been recolecting lore from the villains I like, but I can't find it anywhere. Who is he? A leader of a mercenary team? Just another mad man? Mabe a lonely mercenary that got paid by Viper's secret agency team? Any information about Warlord is welcome! (I mean, he isn't an original character from the Online game, right? He needs some kind of background)
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Warwell has always bitterly regretted that he
missed World War II and the Korean War,
and was too young for the Vietnam confl ict.
He grew up listening to his father and uncles telling
war stories, and all he ever wanted to do with his
life was become a soldier.
Warwells interest in bloodshed sometimes
manifested itself in a violent temper and criminal
conduct (mostly assaults). Much to his parents
despair, he was expelled from several schools for
fi ghting, selling drugs, and similar antisocial behavior.
Finally they shipped him off to military school.
At last, he was truly in his element. He took to
military school like a fi sh to water, quickly rising to
the top of his class and achieving high marks in his
subjects. Th ough his record was marred by a fi stfi
ght or two, he never got in serious trouble again.
Th at wasnt because hed reformed, but because the
discipline of military academy life taught him how
to conceal his criminal conduct better.
Upon graduation, Warwell immediately joined
the Marines, where again he excelled. But a budding
military career was cut short when he was
caught selling military weaponry on the black
market with the help of a quartermaster. Warwell
escaped, killing a guard and his accomplice in the
process, and fl ed the United States to become a
mercenary. He spent the next several years fi ghting
for pay in the Balkans, Africa, South and Central
America, and anywhere else his military expertise
was needed and the money was good.
When an injury sidelined him for several
months, he began to dabble in arms dealing again,
and quickly found it to be far more profi table
and safer than fi ghting on the front lines. Taking
advantage of military and underworld contacts
developed over the years, he put together a major
black market arms smuggling and selling network,
raking in vast profi ts from stolen military goods. As
his fortune and power increased, he began hiring
scientists and engineers to develop his own line of
weapons, ones superior to standard government
models in many ways. Soon his biggest problem
was not being able to manufacture weapons quickly
enough to satisfy all his customers!
For all that, Warwell might have remained
a more or less ordinary, if powerful, underworld
arms merchant if not for a fateful day in 1991.
While on a combination hunting and birdwatching
safari in the African jungle, he came across what
he thought at fi rst was some sort of wrecked prototype
stealth fi ghter. He revised his opinion when
he discovered the remains of the pilot a bluishskinned,
red-eyed alien! Realizing hed found the
remains of a crashed alien starship, he quickly
called in his troops and had the entire ship lift ed
out of there and taken to his most private, most
secure facility.
Aft er studying the ship for months, Warwell
knew it was a godsend for him. With this sort of
technological resource, he could be more than just
an arms merchant. He could become a major military
force in his own right, a modern-day Alexander
capable of laying the world at his feet. He could
become... a Warlord.
Drawing on his own abilities as a military
systems designer and the skills of his corps of technicians
and engineers, Warwell designed a massive
suit of powered battle armor that incorporated
Earth and Blueboy technology, and a gigantic
fl ying, stealth technology-cloaked airship to go
with it. Christening himself the Warlord, in 1994 he
launched his fi rst attempt at conquest, attacking the
nation of Vietnam. Th ough eventually defeated by
an assemblage of various superheroes from around
the world, he satisfi ed himself that his battlesuit
had what it took to fi ght against the big boys. And
his strong showing only attracted more customers
eager for his ever-more-powerful weaponry. He has
continued to spread havoc and violence throughout
the world, oft en personally taking a hand in the
battles and wars he foments. Th ough not as direct
a threat to world security as the likes of Mechanon,
Takofanes, or Dr. Destroyer, he remains one of the
most powerful, and aggressive, supervillains in the
world.
He also has his own villain "team" The War Machine - Warbird, Warcry, Warmonger, Warhead, Warpath
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Ow Hi again Caliga! You should check my Warlord costume! Also, I already read that but I would like to read the full-story of it. Sadly I can't find that part "for free", and I don't really want to spend some precious money that would benefit me more than buying a book.
Wow that's a lot of info, is that from Champions Villains? Or is from another official book of Champions? Thanks anyway! Also, it is true that Warlord's original armor colour was blue?
The Warlords armor is large and bulky; wearing it, he stands over seven feet tall, with a proportionately broad figure. The armor itself is a shiny steel blue, and carries an enormous number of weapons.
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Wow thank you, so the armor is like the in-game one but blue instead of brown-red whatevercolor is it. That will help me to do the Warlord costume better, thank you! Any info about his armor is welcome too!
The "blueboys" in the crashed ship are Hzeel, an alien race which no one on Earth has heard of yet; but they've been scouting Earth secretly for decades, planning to seize it as a forward staging area in their protracted war with the Dorvalans, Ironclad's race (although the war started after Ironclad left his people, so he hasn't heard of the Hzeel either).
-general supply (except for ammunition and medical supplies)
-Mortuary Affairs (formerly graves registration)
-subsistence (food service)
-petroleum and water
-field services
-aerial delivery
-shower, laundry, fabric/light textile repair
-material and distribution management
Granted, a Quartermaster (or any Soldier) can be moved to work in an Arms Room. But getting a weapon (even a rifle or pistol) out of an Arms Room is an absurdly hard task. You go through 3 different people just to get the keys.
.. or accept in a fictional universe a term we accept for one thing may have other responsibilities. Who is to say in a smaller base that quartermaster and armory officer could not be one and the same person.
While quartermaster is generally accepted as "supply officer" today, in the Imperial Russian Army for example quartermaster was tasked with intelligence operations. In the Royal Navy quartermaster is essentially the helmsman but in harbor controls the gangway onto and off of the ship.
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Better writing would be if he were using Mortuary Affairs' caskets to send destructive devices from training ranges home.... or something like that.
Just saying. There's a reason I don't use the books. They leave a lot to be desired.
I suppose it works in US just like it works in any other country (unless it's country like Somalia or Afghanistan, lol).
If you have criminal record, army doesn't want you. Doesn't really matter whether you were actualy sentenced, or not.
You may manage to pass psychological tests and whatnot, but if there is any record about your criminal activities, army boys will find it.
^That's about young Warlord's criminal assaults when he was young.
Writers really should do their homework.
This "quartermaster" thing, however, it's just an wrong naming.
This would be highly unlikely, but still possible, to steal weapons from military base. But only if corruption is really widespread, up to (and including) the base commander. Actually, in RP it would be material for a serious plot.
Now, the nature of Warrell's criminal record is not discussed in the entry quoted above; if he was never convicted in court of anything more serious than, say, misdemeanor assault or possession of drug paraphernalia, there would seem to exist no legal bar to his military service.
On a side note, during the Second Gulf War, the US Army did allow waivers for certain felony convictions, particularly the nonviolent sort, as they needed to inflate the ranks rapidly. Now that we're drawing down the forces, those personnel who enlisted with waivers are finding they're ineligible to re-enlist; further, there are more crackdowns on matters of personal appearance (new limitations on visible tattoos, for instance, or the rather controversial new guidelines for female hairstyles). You may find this useful if you want a character who was in the military, but was forced out for reasons other than serious UCMJ violations.
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Hold on, I'll lay it all out for you:
Bar to enlistment, in any branch... especially the Marines, which as the highest standards for enlistment. Drug involvement *might* get waivered (but selling them would not). Assault, and antisocial behavior is such a red flag that no right-minded military approval authority would ever allow this scumbag to even imagine wearing a uniform, ever- seriously, there is no 'go to the Marines or go to jail'. Not since the 1940's, and if anyone tells you they did this, they're a liar. Not to mention, 'antisocial behavior' is the actual LAST quality any service member needs. I don't care how good you are at 'combat', being an antisocial D-Bag is the fast track to nowhere.
Also, you do realize that military schools will not take certain youths, right? I mean, it's not a dumping ground for scumbags. Discipline problems are one thing. Violent drug-dealing sociopaths are completely different.
And considering what's happened this last week, 'violent sociopaths in the military' tends to be a bit of a delicate subject.
Wait, so... discipline from a military academy (yes, I've been to one) teaches you how to 'better conceal your criminal activity'? How? This is like saying that because you learned to take really good care of comic books that you developed a knack for poetry. It makes THAT MUCH SENSE.
Wait, what? When did he 'sprout' this ability?
Half-researched, half-though, inconsistent. Really, guys. You want to write something about the military, call a friend up who is IN the military and they'll tell you how it works.
I'll do it FOR FREE and supply you with every possible resource you could ever need.
Not true. These records are mandated to be available to any federal investigator/requestor, such as military recruiters.
These things tend to bother me, because 'military background' for many people tends to give them the impression they can make some violent bully out for blood. The Armed Forces is not a dumping ground for society's sociopaths, and people that are this sick in the head get filtered out quick, fast, and in a hurry. It's also kind of disrespectful when writers reach for this to make some 'militant jerk'. There's literally HUNDREDS of paramilitary organizations- Private Security Companies, Extremist Right/Left-wing groups, terrorist factions, etc.
It could simply mean that because he enjoyed the military life and the opportunity it gave him to be legally violent, he hid his true feelings. After all, the military does teach discipline and restraint, so why couldn't he apply this to controlling his more extreme tendencies? He wouldn't be the first psychopath to slip through military school. This doesn't mean that the rest of the military are like minded, but no matter how hard you try, some people will slip through.
Just me.