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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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06-09-2009, 12:54 PM
zuludelta
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
Loose Cannon
Hey I just saw the Rampart Image Zulu and he is damn near perfect except one thing you have his call sign as Topside.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Troynos
Rampart looks awesome. Perfect. Love that you gave him Stinger training to go along with the missile launcher he came with.
Heh. I wasn't gonna post the image until I had some other new ones to post along with him, but since the cat (or SEAL, as it were) is already out of the bag, here's Rampart for you guys who aren't getting updated via the RSS feed (or weren't fortuitously there to stumble on the image and filecard when I uploaded it... and thanks for the proofread Loose):
design notes:
- Pretty much a straight-up "modern translation" of the original character design, but I replaced his old jacket with a more contemporary "hard shell" cold weather military jacket. I also couldn't figure out what it was the oiginal character wore on his head. Best as I can tell, it was a tan/brown hood (probably from a sweater he wore underneath his jacket) with what looks like a sun visor to keep the hood in place. Seemed like an overly complicated arrangement, so I went with a more streamlined alternative of just giving him a
be-flapped patrol cap
.
- I'm surprised no one has brought up the issue of why all the machine gunners I've made (Rock 'n' Roll, Roadblock, Rampart) are armed with M60E4 (or MK43, if you're going by NAVSPECWAR designation) machine guns when the standard light/medium general purpose machine gun used by the US Armed Forces is the M240 (M240B for the Army, Navy and Air Force, M240G for the Marines). Bunch of reasons. My formative years were spent in the 1980s (was too young to remember anything from the 1970s), and my common-sense notion of "machine gun" was pretty much shaped by stuff like the
Tour of Duty
series,
Platoon
,
Predator
, and of course, GI Joe comics. As such, the "chunky" looking M60 is my preferred machine gun visual.
- By many accounts, the M60E4 is an inferior weapon to the M240B, particularly with the barrel. The M60E4's barrel is made of thinner material (a weight-saving measure) than the M240B's, so it needs replacement much more often in sustained fire conditions. Why then, has NAVSPECWAR preferred to outfit its SEAL teams and SWCC crews with M60E4/MK43 light machine guns instead of the M240B general purpose machine gun? Part of it probably has to do with the arcane government contracting process (maybe US Ordnance, the manufacturers of the MK43, have some pull with NAVSPECWAR?) but it also might be because for all its drawbacks and problems, the M60E4/MK43 is a much better weapon for direct action special operations. It's several pounds lighter than the M240B, so a MK43 machine gunner can carry more ammunition. Its dimensions also make it possible to accurately fire the MK43 from the shoulder, from an unsupported standing and kneeling position, much like an assault rifle. The M240B on the other hand, needs bipod or tripod support for accurate fire. In fact, in training, soldiers are told to never fire the M240B unless it's directly stabilized against a solid surface and should be fired unstabilized only
in extremis
. Also, I would think that direct action special operations would have less call for sustained machine gun fire in support of troop movements than conventional infantry operations, so the thinner-walled MK43 barrels are probably not as big a liability with the SEAL teams (and the GI Joe team).
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Loose Cannon
It's amazing how the NAVY NEC 9540 Course is available for SEALs specifically or Patrol Coastal. How do you get this shit to tie in so well Zulu?
Too much coffee and an undiagnosed obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Seriously though, a lot of this is stuff that I've had rolling around in my head for years now, so it's just a matter of applying that experience, knowledge, and trivia to the "GI Joe framework" (although doing research and keeping up with contemporary militaria also helps).
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