I admit that i swipe from favorite comic titles, we had Alpha Flight and Omega as rouges as well as some of their less well known villains

As long as there isn't a character called Captain/Major Maple Leaf, I'm sure all will be fine.

Cool group (no pun intended), dsumner. Here's a website you might find interesting: http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/qc/index-eng.htm

Cheers,
Tim

Black Bolt wrote on Jul 9^th, 2010 at 1:13am:


I try not to have my Canadian heroes, be the stereotypical maple leaf wearing Canadian.

Black Bolt wrote on Jul 9^th, 2010 at 1:13am:


My experience with Canadian law enforcement has been with the RCMP Emergency Response Teams (ERT), and Corrections Canada (Namely their IERT, and one of their Hostage Rescue Teams). A buddy of mine was contracted to do some extensive training for them prior to the Olympics.

Black Bolt wrote on Jul 9^th, 2010 at 1:24pm:


All I've got is a list of powers and names for them so far, and I've had some of them. I just never got around to actually working them up. I've had Chinook and Skybolt since my HS days, so they've got a more details worked out. Chinook is a RCMP Mountie, and Skybolt was a former Para, who's powers activated when he tried out for JTF-2 (I don't think very many outside of Canada will know who they are though).

I'm thinking the team would be based in Alberta, but I'm really not familiar with the larger Canadian cities. So, any help would be much appreciated.

Avatar wrote on Jul 9^th, 2010 at 4:07pm:


I've got it stashed way with the rest of my Champions stuff, I'll see about digging it out next week.

Either way, if you do Canadian heroes/villains the best ones are Puck and Sasquatch

(ok maybe not the best but my favorites)

SKYBOLT

Identity: Richard Knight
Aliases: None
Sex: Male
Age: 32
Place of Birth: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Marital Status: Married
Known Relatives: Natalie Knight (Wife)
Side: Good
Affiliation: Northguard
Known Associates: None 
Base of Operations: Ottawa, Ontario         
Level: 9
Training: Accuracy

Powers:
1. Power Blast: 1d20 damage, Range = 38", PR=1. 
2. Flight: 390 mph max speed, PR=1 per hour.
3. Heightened Endurance A: +13.
4. Heightened Charisma A: + 9.

Weight: 170 lbs.
Basic Hits: 4
Agility Mod: -
Strength: 13
Endurance: 25
Agility: 16
Intelligence: 13
Charisma: 23
Reactions from Good: +4 / Evil: -4
Hit Mods.: 6.336
Hit Points: 25
Healing Rate: 2.8
Power: 67
Damage Mod.: +1
Accuracy: +4 (+2 from training)
Carrying Capacity: 399 lbs.
Basic HTH Damage: 1d6
Movement Rates: 54” ground, 1,716" flight
Detect Hidden: 10%
Detect Danger: 14%
Inventing Points: 11.7
Inventing: 36%
legal Status: Canadian citizen with law enforcement authority.

Origin/Background: Canadian, Law Enforcement - Sky bolt is a former army Para, police officer, and member of RCMP's Special Tactics and Training (STAT) unit. Exposed to an alien mutagen, his body was transformed into a living bio-energy weapon. Currently Northguard's team leader.

Combat Tactics: He tends to use his fly to stay above the battle, allowing him a vantage point, while allowing him to hit targets with his power blasts.

Personality/Character Traits: Dedicated to doing the job, he's also the loving father of two small children, who sees his activities as a hero as part of doing his public service and making the world a better place for his family. He spends a good little amount of his "free time" raising money for what he considers worthy causes, everything from veterans organizations to battered women's groups.

Rogues Gallery: Cloud Breaker, Surge, Thundervolt

Well my team was...
Northforce

It was not a government team but operated well with them.

The team of heroes who operated out of a mobile floating base called Haven.

The team consisted of canadian heroes from all over, typically the worked in groups of three.

Sentinel Matt Hanson: electrical hero who was able to make ionized armor (like ice armor) and flew. , he also had a special converter that switched his powers to magnetics - Leader and electronics genius, builder of Haven.

Skyfire Maria Hanson - flame powers, explosive attack and fire flight.

Mammoth Paul Duwmar: super strong, tough, immune to cold with the ability to trample attack.

Arcticstorm Anne Butler: able to create cold versions of weather control, wind armor, flight with twice the power as normal.

Windracer Jason Sandstone - mystic superspeed and invulnerabity

Thunderbird Andrew Sandstone - mystic winged, fast, unusual sonic and animal telepathy

This team had it's internal issues and didn't always get along with one another.
They faced DrA's new all female Destroyers... Shapeshifter, Manslaughter and Skullcrusher (both females german, amazon-like versions), Mindmauler (human Russian), Frenzy (originally Vindicator) and Mirage.

Northforce along with my version of Justice Patrol (Pulsar, Smasher, Captain Cold, Archangel, Empress, Silver Knight, Psistorm and Triforce) took a beating and Haven was stolen from them.

So too were all the female members of the teams.

The rest was a long story, I'll be as brief as possible.

It pulled in the Crusaders, involved Nacht Island briefly, It was discovered DrA had nothing to do with it or the new Destroyers, though he was amused, he had let Shapeshifter go. It was also discovered that Nacht Island was exclusively the property of DrA and everyone had to leave.
The trail led to the tiny European country of Sobec in the mountain range valley north of Greece and east of Bolivia (I think).
Sobec's King was the superhuman Victor Hein (yes, Baron Heinrch from TBN a non-vampiric version) He sought to isolate what made superhumans special and create an army.
To everyone's horror they discovered Motivator was involved. It was a total fiasco.
The four heroines had been mind controlled into battling their friends.
The heroines were rescued but before the fight could be finished, Motivator left with Frenzy and Mind Mauler, King Hein threatened the heroes with an international incident. Heroes were called back and Haven was returned to Northforce.
It was a dissatisfying ending for most of the heroes.

But most of the villains involved got exactly what they wanted.

Northforce only appeared three times in my campaign (in a combat capacity).

They were fun, Quebecois eventually joined them and then they were friends with Crimson Guard from TEE

I thought this was goinG to be a thread about the comic book Northguard.

I have never seen a copy.  Just read about it in the Encylopedia of Super Heroes.

[I have the complete run of Captain Canuck, which has its own charms and warts. I'm always on the lookout for foreign super hero comics (not American comics about foreign super heroes). Would love to check out Northguard.]

I got all the Captain Canuck issues.  I don't know, too many reboots.  And it's too foreign 😄

Most of my campaigns have been set in Canada, and many of my PC's and NPCs were Canadian. I'm happy when I see Canadian super teams, although I think lots of people are trying to be Alpha Flight, which is a little weird. I don't worry about making an American feel American very often, so trying to make every member of a group iconic feels forced and a bit unnecessary.

As for Northguard - keep up the good work.

For my upcoming WWII books, my first set of Canadian super soldiers are Lancaster, Magnetic North, and Sunrise. If people like them, there are certainly more that can come and I hit at them in the first WWIISS book.

As for getting along with different parts of Canada, I don't know too many folks who actually dislike people from PEI, New Brunswick, or Newfies. They're just too damn much fun.

As for Ontario and Quebec, well, the notion that the West is no longer part of Confederation doesn't hold any more - that argument had weight back in the 80's and 90's when people were fuming over the ramifications of Trudeau's NEP.

RAMBLE