I'll just throw my name in as being not really interested in the OYW setting, but for a different reason: I've done pretty much everything within that setting.

Earth stuff on every continent? Check. Space stuff at every stage of the war? Yep. The Zeonic Civil War scenario coming from Gihren's Greed that ChaoticSheep suggested? At least twice that I can remember...
Crosswire40 wrote:Though honestly I don't know if playing as strictly the Federation would be a very good idea in a Victory Gundam roleplay. The Federation in Victory is crippled with corruption and outright inept leaders that strangle their own forces with Red tape. They're also using 30 year old mobile suits and ships that are even older then that.
They're vastly out preformed by the Zanscare military who despite being technically smaller are incredibly well armed and very well organized and led. So having a Victory Gundam roleplay that focused on the frontier Colonies would be pretty boring for the Federation characters who would get stuck with archaic mobile suits while Zanscare Players get all the cool stuff.
The Federation isn't quite that bad off, and I'm just going to quote myself responding to you from
the thread we had on Victory from a few years ago:
Nearly three years ago, I wrote:The Federation in Victory is in an interesting position. Their political leaders clearly don't give much of a damn about what is going on, but their military does to the point that quite a few of them either help the League Militarie on occasion (Such as by giving them ships or whatnot) or even to the point of units disobeying orders and fighting the Zanscares (Such as the Bagley Team, and much later on, Mubarak Stern bringing in IIRC three whole fleets). Of course, they seem to have no problems letting the colonies or civilian groups fight each other to their hearts content, and Zanscare military is essentially based on the Federation Forces that had once been based at Side 2 (The BESPA thing), so clearly not all of their military is still loyal to the government or they've gone native or whatever, but enough still seem to support the Federation...
All that said, the EFF is using outdated equipment (The Javelin, their main space MS, being 30 years old, and their ships are even older), but based on what we see of Stern's forces late in the show, both their troops and equipment are in no way ineffective. Most of what we see of Federation troops in Victory (And prior to that, in F91) shows them to be pretty well motivated and trained, able to fight pretty well against enemies with far more modern equipment under less than ideal circumstances. In the big battle that spans the last few episodes of Victory, it's a predominantly Federation fleet (With one or two League Militarie ships) that goes head to head with the Zanscares, and both sides seem to pretty much wipe each other out, so it's not like the Zanscares with all their modern equipment just brushed them aside. In short, the Federation military is still a force to be reckoned with, but the political side of the Federation that controls them is a bad as it ever is...
As far as the technical details of what the Federation would be using, if they'd still have F91-era stuff roaming around, that's another detailed subject entirely, but I wouldn't mind getting to run around in a Javelin.
