What is The Greatest Generation (warisunlimited.wikidot.com)?

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The Greatest Generation (TGG) is a historically themed MUSH—a text-based multiplayer roleplaying game—set in the European military campaigns of World War I and World War II. The site at warisunlimited.wikidot.com is its Wikidot hub: a welcome page that explains the game's premise, links to in-character and reference pages, and gives the connection details you need to log in and play. It is not a general WWII history archive; it is the front door to a live roleplaying community.

What the game covers

The welcome page describes TGG as a game that "will take you through Europe's greatest military campaigns of World War 1 and World War 2." Players can join as a civilian caught in a conflict that tears their country apart, or as a soldier fighting for his beliefs. The stated scope runs "from the Battle of Britain to Stalingrad to D-Day."

At the time of the page's last edit (16 Sep 2014), the active campaign was tied to the World War I centenary and covered the opening days of the war in 1914, "from Mons to the first battles at the Ypres Salient." The page tags confirm this breadth: they include battle_of_britain, fall_of_france, stalingrad, gallipoli, guadalcanal, spanish_civil_war, winter_war, world_war_1, and third_reich, alongside character and log tags.

What you'll find on the site

The page organizes content into "Featured Pages," which function as the main entry points for players and readers:

Section What it appears to hold
The March of History Campaign and timeline material
Roleplay Logs Records of played scenes (rp_log, rp_logs, battle_log)
Character Pages Player character profiles
Letters Home In-character correspondence
The Fallen Memorial pages for killed-in-action characters (kia)
Poetry In-character or period verse
Field Manuals Reference documents (field_manual)
Help Files Game commands and guidance
Game Policies Rules and staff expectations (staff)
The Science of TGG Technical or systems notes
MUSHClient Plugin! A client plugin for the MUSHClient program
Sounds of WW2 Audio material

The tag list also shows named characters and factions (for example dimitri, lily, hmsviperous, usmc, navy, french_resistance), so individual character and unit pages are part of the site's structure.

How to connect and start playing

The page gives concrete connection instructions:

  • Host: darcness.net
  • Port: 6250
  • Fallback IP if the domain does not resolve: 50.46.126.98, port 6250

You connect by telnetting to that address and port—typically from a MUD/MUSH client rather than a browser. Once connected, the page recommends typing +help basics if you are new to MUSH commands. A FAQ is also linked from the welcome page.

A practical sequence for a first visit:

  1. Open a MUSH client (the site offers a MUSHClient plugin, which implies MUSHClient is a supported client) or a telnet tool.
  2. Connect to darcness.net on port 6250; if that fails, use 50.46.126.98 on the same port.
  3. Run +help basics to learn the command set.
  4. Read the FAQ and Game Policies pages before creating a character.
  5. Browse Character Pages and Roleplay Logs to see how scenes are written and logged before joining one.

Things to keep in mind

  • The page is dated. The last edit shown is 16 Sep 2014, and the campaign described is the 1914 opening of WWI. The server address and port are what the page states; whether the game is still running is not something the page itself confirms, so expect to verify connectivity when you try.
  • It's a roleplaying game, not a research database. The history frames the setting, but the content—logs, letters, poetry, characters—is player-created fiction within that frame.
  • Licensing: unless otherwise stated, site content is published under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5, so reuse should credit the source and keep the same license.
  • No pricing information appears on the page, so cost of play is not established by this source either way.

If your interest is period-flavored collaborative writing and text-based roleplay, the site's logs and field manuals are the quickest way to judge whether the style suits you before connecting.