I wanted a team of heroes for my pulp games to fight my Zeppelin Troopers.
So here they are.
Robby Ruckus's Sky RangersThe billionaire industrialist Robert “Robby” Ruckus recruited the Sky Rangers to fight organised crime and evil villains through out the world. Ignoring international boundaries and fight crime and evil, where ever it would emerge.
Robby took on this task after his family, wife and two kids, were murdered in a failed kidnap and ransom attempt.
He has used his vast fortune and the industrial capacity of his company to set up and out fit the Sky Rangers.
Robby Ruckus
His first recruit was his long time friend and personal Pilot Jamie MacDonald (Ex-Pilot Officer in the RAF). Robby and Jamie met during the First World War when they were both Pilots with the British.
Jamie
Other recruits are from various other places including ex-military demobbed from the army. Law enforcement officers fed up fighting criminals with their hands tied by bribery and corruption have a chance of fighting criminals on an equal footing with the Sky Rangers.
Having lost his own family to criminals Robby does not want to put the family and friends of his Rangers at risk. So he insists that they go incognito as Rangers. They all have to wear the famous Ranger Flying helmet that also covers most of their faces and instead of using their own names they all have code names such as Ranger Red, Blue, Green and Yellow etc. In the streets of most towns today, where the Sky Rangers operate, kids can be seen playing at being Sky Rangers with their home made helmets calling each other “Ranger Red and Ranger Blue”.
One of the most important recruits to the Rangers is Professor Hans Von Riddle. Robby helped Hans’s escape of Nazi Germany where he was wanted by the authorities for his views against their regime. Hans is a great scientist and inventor. He was a leading light in Germany’s scientific community prior to his fall out with the Nazis. He can turn his mind to almost any problem but his greatest expertise is in aerial technology. Has is responsible for designing and building some of the Rangers most important equipment.
(Pic of Prof Hans) Still to paint
The most important piece of technology that Hans designed and built is the greatest asset of the Sky Rangers. The “Sky Carrier” is the largest airship in existence. Originally designed as a prototype for the navy to replace their smaller versions. The “Sky Carrier” transports all of the Rangers any where in the world with all of their equipment. The “Sky Carrier” has the capacity to carry eight prototype Curtiss Float planes in internal hangers. There is also an internal hanger for a single Supermarine Walrus.
Curtiss Float Plane
The “Sky Carrier” is protected by numerous machine guns and two 37mm anti-aircraft cannons. It has the fuel capacity to travel half way around the world without stopping and has facilities and accommodation like a five star hotel due to the money put into it by Robby.
On the ground the Rangers only have the best of the best in term of weapons and equipment. Their standard firearm is the heavily Modified Bergmann / Schmeisser MP-18/I submachine gun, with box-type 20-round magazine. Professor Von Riddle has improved the design of this weapon to increase reliability and reduce the weight. To make it more suitable for the Rangers.
For heavier support the Rangers rely on the old reliable Lewis gun
That all for just now.
Still got alot of work to do and loads of further ideas.
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