User:BattleGames1

Hello. I'm a 17-yr-old boy student hailing from New South Wales, Australia. I'm a very good-natured guy with a sense of formality about me. I'm a bit of an old-timer with regards to tastes (Old-fashioned TV shows, movies, cars, etc) but I also like the contemporary culture scene (OK it's mostly Japanese/Anime/Manga things but not that much really).

My Battles - Season 1 (all reserved)
1. Knights Templar vs Sipahi

2. Saladin vs Oda Nobunaga

3. MACV-SOG vs SAS (the latter not headed by Captain John Price as you might think; the former not headed by Alex Mason for the same reason)

3 (redux). Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam vs 26th of July Movement

4. Musketeer vs Janissary

4 (redux). Landsknecht vs Streltsy

5. Winged Hussar vs Mameluke

6. Julius Caesar vs Ramesses II

7. Miyo Takano vs Max Payne

8. JS Mirai Crew vs Somali Pirates

9. Social Welfare Agency vs GSG-9

10. Revy vs Niko Bellic

Rematch Interlude: Space Marines vs Forerunner Warrior-Servants

Battle I Want To Get Over and Done With/11. Sniper Showdown 1: Anaksha vs Ann Matsura

12. Shion Sonozaki vs Dexter Morgan

13. Highschool of the Dead Gang vs Dead Island Crew

Invasion Tournament Lead-In Battle: Bitterman vs Doomguy vs Duke Nukem vs The Ranger

Invasion of Stroggos
1. Strogg (Quake 2) vs Mobile Infantry (written by me)

2. Strogg (Quake 4) vs Covenant Empire (written by me)

3. Strogg (Quake 4 + Quake Wars) vs Separatist Droid Army (written by me with input from Tomahawk23)

4. Strogg (Quake 4) vs Shepard's Team (Suicide Mission) (written by BeastMan14)

5. Strogg (Quake 4) vs Project Freelancer (written by BeastMan14)

6. Strogg (Quake 4) vs Space Marines (written by Geomax)

7. Strogg (Quake 4 + Quake Wars) vs Terran Marines (written by Drayco90)

Strogg Invasion Force
8. Strogg invasion of Sera (Quake 4 + Quake Wars) - Battle vs COG (written by Drayco90)

9. Strogg (Quake 2) Invasion of the Mojave Wasteland - Battle vs New California Republic (written by Dr. Las Moore)

10. Strogg (Quake 2) Invasion of the Mojave Wasteland - Battle vs Caesar's Legion (written by Dr. Las Moore)

My Battles - Season 2 (all reserved)
13. Cuirassier vs Cossack

14. Sun Tzu vs William the Conqueror

15. Zande Warrior vs Celt

16. IRA vs Russian Mafia

17. Doc Holliday vs Ned Kelly

18. El Cid vs Tomoe Gozen

19. Irene "Rally" Vincent & "Minnie" May Hopkins vs Kane and Lynch

20. Aragorn vs King Arthur

21. Eastern Private Defense Academy vs Yakuza

22. Viktor Reznov vs Hiroo Onoda

Lead-In Battle: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 vs Battlefield 3

23. John Price vs Henry Blackburn

24. Roberta (Rosarita) Cisneros and Fabiola Iglasias vs John and Jane Smith

Extra Battle: Agent Smith vs Scarlet Rain

User Tournament: If Nerf Guns Were Real

Iron Man: Armoured Adventures Mini Tournament (might go ahead, might not - all depends on interest)
Iron Man (AA) vs

1. Iron Man (MCU)

2. Cyborg

3. Batman (Terry McGinnis)

4. Clark Kent (Smallville)

5. Iron Man 2099 vs Iron Man (Comics)

My Battles - Season 3 (if there is one; will reserve later)
25. Texas Rangers vs The Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency

26. Communist Party of China vs North Korean Army

27. Polish Home Army vs Blackshirts

28. Arditi vs Freikorps

29. Cesare Borgia vs Owain Glyndŵr

30. Viking vs Mongol

31. Delta Force vs Bad Company

32. Task Force 141 vs Shayetet 13

33. Hans Gruber vs Jean Vilain

34. Madlax vs James Bond

35. JS Mirai Crew vs USS Colorado Crew

36. Lara Croft vs Indiana Jones

Extra Battle 1: Robert Jacobs vs Christopher Stone (from Freedom Fighters)

User Tournament - Spy Warfare

Season 4 (if there is one; will reserve later)
1. ANZACs vs Rough Riders

2. Hua Mulan vs Joan of Arc vs Khutulun

3. Gang War: MS-13 vs Bloods vs 14k Triads vs KKK

4. Gang War 2: Jamaican Yardie Possie vs Mungiki vs Yakuza vs Russian Mafia

5. George Washington vs Frederick the Great

6. French Naval Commandos vs Detachment 10

7. The Beta Suiter (from TimeShift) vs Nathaniel Renko (from Singularity)

8. Sniper Showdown 2: Thomas Beckett (from the Sniper film trilogy) vs Simo Häyhä

9. John Marston vs Man with No Name

10. SEAL Team 6 vs Ghost Recon

11. Conan the Barbarian vs Cuchulain

12. Payday Robbers vs Macray Gang

Halloween Special: Japanese Horror Girls vs Sick Minded Slashers

Extra Battle: Nebuchadnezzar Crew vs SSS

Season 5 (if there is one; will reserve later)
1. Knights Templar vs Cataphracts

2. Kaizoku vs Barbary Corsair

3. Arminius vs Shaka Zulu

4. Matthew Perry vs Horatio Nelson

5. KSK vs SAS

6. Teutonic Knights vs Golden Horde

7. Russian MVD vs GIGN

8. Siris/Ausar (from Infinity Blade) vs Sir Daniel Fortesque

9. Ai Enma vs Hanyuu Furude

10. Cowboy Showdown: Tempestas vs John Marston vs Magnificent Seven

11. Tequila Yen (from Hard Boiled) vs Harry Callahan

12. Seven Samurai vs Merry Men

13. Frank Woods vs John Rambo

14. Wirawee Militia vs Wolverines

Extra Battle: Merida (from Brave) vs Robin Hood

User Warrior (Team)
The first signs of the Tempestas being active was during the American Civil War (specifically late 1862 when the Confederacy moved westward; also note that they were called Desert Foxes back then) acting as a spy network for the Union under the sponsorship of William Sherman. After several missions in getting intel to the US Army about where to site their defence lines so as to stop the Confederacy from expanding, the Tempestas were recognized for their actions with medals of bravery. However, this public display led to members of the group being targeted for assassination by enemy sympathisers and so, with the permission of Sherman, fled secretly to Venezio, where no-one can touch them.

By the time they reached the country, the news of the Union winning the Civil War reached them but the bad news was that they still had to flee from the assassins and Confederacy sympathisers. In Venezio, the Tempesta members were having a rough time trying to live in comfort and luxury mainly because crime and war were at a high rate and what the Caliph ruling the country at the time needs is a very skilled paramilitary forces. Having already been interested by what Western cultures can offer in terms of combat, it was no surprise that when the Tempestas stepped forward, they were immediately taken in.

Once in business, the original founders/team members started looking for fresh new recruits - strong-minded, rough-and-tumble men who were willing to use whatever resources are available to get their duties done whatever the cost. At first, a few burly ex-soldiers turned up but after resolving the crime rate crisis around the country, the application rate shot up dramatically. Leader of the Tempestas, Arnie Schwarz, eventually persuaded the Caliph to make the organisation be classified as a 'quasi-military organisation' in official records - and he was then also appointed as Minister for War (only sending out the Tempestas when the time was right). So for a majority of the time, the Tempestas acted as guardians to the country, and for the next 45 years, the Tempestas have been called into action at times as the prime line of defensive measures against oncoming invasion forces from either Mexico or in some weird cases, the US.

Within those 45 years, the Tempestas have also been recruited as paramilitary mercenaries, conducting reconnaissance missions abroad for other countries. When they are not hired by the military of any country or of Venezio, they act as the country's special police force - protecting the town from bandits and illegal fugitives - their greatest case involving 20 of the Tempestas against the James-Younger gang when the latter decided to do their business in the capital.

All in all, over 5000 people (mainly men but women were allowed in to) have signed up to join the Tempestas and under the rule of the Caliph and his successors, Queen Sheba Prist and Popess Delta Dryden, they have become formally regarded as one of Venezio's most hardworkingly efficient fighters.

However, in 1912, the Tempestas, after a conflict with another paramilitary force from England (later to be known as the predecessors of MI5) with the latter showing superior weaponry and with increasing metropolitanisation going around the country at the time, disbanded out of shame and fear that despite their tactics and training, they are not just able to keep up culturally and economically.

In terms of training and recruitment, the process to be a member is slightly long (over a year) but it is well worth it. First, the recruits undergo a ritual professing their rights and duties as a law enforcer, a sentinel/sentry and 'a soldier for the people'. Then, basic weapons training with the knives and guns begins - basically they will first be in the policing and defensive division first before moving onto the rough and tumble stuff. After a few months in, the trainee is then taught about the more complex techniques the Tempestas are required to have - agility, sharpness of mind, logistical analysis, all the stuff that makes the Tempestas so sharp, resilient and swift in their line of work. Then, another extensive weapons test is done before placing them in a simulation where the trainees have to fend off an oncoming invasion force. Once that is done and passed, a final ceremony takes place and new members of the Tempestas are included in the roster.

Normally for a Tempesta, they live their life as a normal person but they also have to abide by a certain code of conduct which allows for a life free from any of life's impurities - it is believed that once the bad habits go away, then a person's ability to think and act fast increases. To that end, they are chaste, honest, hardworking, trustworthy, reliable and most importantly incorrupt. In some respects, the Tempestas live a rather strict and Spartan-like lifestyle, but it is this lifestyle that combines civilian and military life into one cohesive structure that makes the Tempestas stand firm and strong as a team.

(From Nationstates DW contest profile with edits)