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 Oct 28 2009, 02:27 PM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 256 Joined: 27-July 09 From: Aurora Barrens, Denver Member No.: 17,433  |
Another important factor, you need to decide whether he was an officer or an enlistedman. If he decides to become an officer, he might learn to read (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
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Oct 28 2009, 04:37 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 1,755 Joined: 5-September 06 From: UCAS Member No.: 9,313 |
QUOTE (the_real_elwood @ Oct 26 2009, 05:04 PM)  The AAA corps have extensive security forces, and very highly trained rapid reaction squads, but not really an actual military. Some of the Japanese corps have some naval ships, but those are there ostensibly to protect their shipping fleet. The closest you'd come to that is the Aztlan military, which flies the Aztlan colors but because Aztlan is pretty much the same thing as Aztechnology, may as well be an Aztechnology security force. But the kinds of operations that the corporations typically act in don't lend themselves well to the same type of military that a nation would maintain. Any nation that has a naval force will likely have a contingent of marines to perform water-borne operations. Many of the triple A's maintain a military force that regularly see action in the "Desert Wars" competition. Edit: Taking place in the desert I guess you wouldn't have a marine focus though. |
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Oct 28 2009, 06:40 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 195 Joined: 7-July 08 From: Germany Member No.: 16,124 |
QUOTE (Prime Mover @ Oct 28 2009, 05:37 PM) Many of the triple A's maintain a military force that regularly see action in the "Desert Wars" competition. Edit: Taking place in the desert I guess you wouldn't have a marine focus though. I'd question if the "Desert Wars" teams are actually "regular" corporate military. IIRC Corporate Download doesn't give any unit sizes. And the unit sizes in the old Corporate Shadowfiles book are quite small: Aztechnology's force is described as "regiment or larger"; Ares has a "light regiment"; SK a batallion; the other corp's forces are listed as company-size or "none reported". So corporate military forces seem to be quite small. The only exception that I'm aware of would be a passage in one of the older OTT German books where the AG Chemie maintains an armored brigade to guard their plant* in Ludwigshafen. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohplease.gif) *(today's BASF headquarters, the largest chemical plant in the world) However Aztechnology would surely have access to Aztlan regular forces and Ares could requisition from KE's PMC division. Since Corporate Download is SR3 and Corporate Shadowfiles SR2: Are there any SR4 sources for the corp militaries yet? |
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Oct 29 2009, 12:26 AM
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Prime Runner Ascendant Group: Members Posts: 17,568 Joined: 26-March 09 From: Aurora, Colorado Member No.: 17,022 |
QUOTE (Orcus Blackweather @ Oct 28 2009, 07:27 AM) Another important factor, you need to decide whether he was an officer or an enlistedman. If he decides to become an officer, he might learn to read (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) (Just Tweaking Tymeaus there). Hey... Not all officers can actually read you know... and even Marine Infantrymen, if they have a care to, know how to plot incomming support fire, unlike some army troops that I know... (Giving Orcus a Hard time for being an Army Dog) Keep the Faith |
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Oct 29 2009, 12:26 AM
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Prime Runner Ascendant Group: Members Posts: 17,568 Joined: 26-March 09 From: Aurora, Colorado Member No.: 17,022 |
QUOTE (Prime Mover @ Oct 28 2009, 09:37 AM) Many of the triple A's maintain a military force that regularly see action in the "Desert Wars" competition. Edit: Taking place in the desert I guess you wouldn't have a marine focus though. Marines see a lot of action in the Desert... you would be surprised... Keep the Faith |
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Oct 29 2009, 08:54 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,705 Joined: 5-October 09 From: You are in a clearing Member No.: 17,722 |
Yeah, a desert is just a beach that doesn't know when to quit. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)
Consider Oxyrush as standard field deployment equipment. Oxyrush 5 gives 5 extra dice on fatigue tests, lets a character hold their breath for 2.5 hours, and costs a piddling 5 grand. Handy, that. In fact, nanoware makes good sense when you consider the non-invasive, mass producible nature of it. Just slap in a hive and your soldiers can have cycling benefits, like augmented healing, mental functions and fatigue during training, only to switch that out for a resistance to just about anything from disease to radiation to hostile nano-attack and sever trauma when they're deployed. And, if a soldier dies, just rip the hive out and install it in the next kid. Leave no 'ware behind. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sarcastic.gif) |
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