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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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06-02-2015, 05:26 PM
LowTech
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Do you have a separate Forward Observer team?
A separate JTAC team?
A separate ANGLICO team?
I could see this being a great use for the Joes in the modern battlefield as Fire Support / Air Support boots on the ground / Combat Controllers
This whole group of modern operators is sort of underrepresented. I am even a little unaware of who does what. It's not like there are only Air Combat Controllers going on every mission. The Army has it's own assets to do the same things.
That's the thing about Joe. There were some great filecards (and a whole bunch of crap ones too), but they were pretty vague on the esoteric specialties that existed in the 80's, never mind the explosion of specialties today. My approach has been to keep it general and not pigeon-hole a character into too precise a role. S/he can do one set of tasks in one of my worlds, and do another set of tasks in another world. That way there's enough flexibility to keep things fresh. I can let characters and plots drive stories and not be constrained by a list of qualifications.
I also find it more interesting to explore the clash of cultures. Joe is a mix of Rangers (light infantry raiders), Green Berets (weird advisers), SEALS (commandos at home in the sea), Marines (light infantry with a nautical bias) and all the extic add-ons like intelligence, comms specialists, CBRN specialists and technical geeks. Throw in the FBI (what do they do when they run the risk of intelligence contaminating their evidence collection?), make leaders with different backgrounds clash over how to solve problems, and the results can be pretty dynamic.
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