/lit/ - Literature

Currently writing a fantasy version of Vietnam, with a few twists and turns.
>Ride-able Wyverns are helicopters
>Pyromancers are walking flamethrowers
>Combustion mages are there for the explosions.
>The more magic you use the more insane you become until you have to be put down.
>A mix up of 1700's and 1800's rifles
>Plate armor that can stop bullets for knights
>The common soldiers wear boiled leather and/or chain mail for protection should close combat ensue somehow.

Main Character enters the scene fresh off the boat as a newly recruited soldier with his boiled leather suit, a rifle, munition, and a short sword in a hellhole where the war has been raging on for the past 12 years. The contrast between new soldiers and veterans are stark. The story covers the remaining 7 years of the war through the Main Characters point of view as he goes through hell with his brothers-in-arms where some dies and others survive, but no one comes out the same man as they were going in.