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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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04-07-2009, 11:48 AM
zuludelta
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Bottom Section: a Little history to give you a sense of the character. I'm not sure how cheesy this can or should get.
That's another reason I passed on including flavour text (along with space-saving considerations). It's hard to write flavour text that will please every fan of the character (since we all have our ideas about how a character should be), and what may be cheesy or plain corny to some might be pitch-perfect for others.
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How did you decide on weapons qualifications? I'm not sure how guys become "expert at all NATO and Warsaw pact small arms" like back in the day. I don't know enough about military weapons qualification or expert special identifiers.
Coming up with a weapons qualifications listing was a bit of a pain. All four services do weapons qualifications differently. In the army, a soldier can get weapons-qualified for just about any weapon from small-caliber pistols to aeroweapons (there are even expert marksmanship badges for bayonets!), the USMC only issues weapons qualification badges for pistols and rifles, and the Air Force and Navy issue general marksmanship badges that cover all small arms. In the end, I sort of just mooshed them all together, type-classifying weapons by number of operators required (individual or crew served) and mode of trajectory (direct fire or indirect fire). I still applied the standard DoD three-tier grading system, in increasing level of proficiency, from "Marksman" to "Sharpshooter" to "Expert."
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I always thought of the filecards as snippets of their personal dossiers that Hawk would use to decide who went on what missions.
That's a good way of rationalizing the lack of a consistent format for the filecards back in the day. Maybe certain segements of the much larger dossier were the only ones to make it to the filecard.
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