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04-10-2009, 09:26 AM
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Thanks for the compliments...
I always thought the Joe team should have a couple more SEALs and Marines... I use to make chain of commands with all the Joe forces you might of seen them on other Joe forms but anyhow I added all sorts of members to the team because Hasbro left out some very important operatives and support personnel that should of been included like a Tank driver and gunner for the Mobat or a RIO for the Skystriker and so on.
So besides Gung-Ho, Mainframe and Leatherneck my marines would include Maelstrom (an E-5 Marine Recon Team Member with an M240 Machine Gun), Marauder (E-5 a Marine Rifleman) Hide and Seak (Marine Sniper Team Sniper and his Spotter) and a character code name that I seen somewhere else that I can't understand why hasbro hasn't used before Stitches (E-5 Navy Corpsman)
are the Divers you have Torpedo and Wet-Suit? if so why can't you use them as SEALs? Combat Diver is a SEAL MOS (or NEC is that we are talking Navy)... yes Hasbro cannot comprehend the notion that SEAL means Sea, Land and Air... they can't get past the idea of a diver in a wet suit however Combat Diver or Swimmer/ Under water demolitions is still a job a SEAL preforms.
I just have a hard time accepting the figure as a SEaL when it's design is as a diver. I like the new movie Shipwreck because that's a Land and Seal operator, it's got gear and outfit suited to both environments. That works as a decent SEaL figure.
Lack of Marines and support personal is something we've spent alot of time on. Even a guy like Short-Fuze has support people along with him. A mortar team is 3 or 4 right?
The snipers are missing their spotters, the tanks are missing the rest of the crew, the artillery teams... yeah.. anyways.. lol. The Flagg would need a crew of 2000 or more. There's the flight crews for the Jets, the maintenance crews for all the vehicles.
I'm adding a supply element to my Joeverse. This is the unit that resupplies the Joes in the field. That's something else that was always missing, how the vehicles get more gas and ammunition.
I have my Joe team divided into two parts: the sneaky/black-ops things and the armor/artillery elements.
The sneak/black-ops are the Rangers, Marines, SEaLs, SWAT and Special Forces guys.
The armor/artillery aren't used very often. They'd be used for Cobra Island invasions, re-taking towns that Cobra has taken, that kind of thing.
Now how to deal with the armor/artillery and the missing positions? I kind of take the Star Wars: Clone Wars approach. You have all these nameless Clone Troopers and Jedi generals. In my Joeverse, there are all these code-name-less Greenshirts with Joe Sargeants and Captains. Greenshirts make up the majority of the non-special ops infantry.
So Steeler is overall commander of the's armor element. Heavy Metal and Thunderwing would be next in line. Below them are the Greenshirt tank commanders.
My approach, alot of Joes got alot of promotions.
It's not perfect, there are still issues that pop up.
I'm leaning more and more towards all the Joes getting code-named. So the Mobat crews are all Joes.
I have yet to find a way to work it that I really like.
I really don't think that a unit like the Joes would, in reality, have armor/artillery units. It would be like the Rangers, who would get supported by the other elements of the Army.
Not even getting into the office elements that are missing from Joe, or the maintenance people that are needed to maintain the vehicles and repair them.
Airborne's traditional been shown as the gunner of the Dragonfly. But he's too cool a character to "waste" in that position. He's a airborne assault trooper, he should be jumping out of the helicopter, not flying in the gunner's spot. So there's a spot missing.
It's the non-glamour positions that are missing, and required to allow the Joes to function as they have been created (by the type of toys and "jobs").
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