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03-15-2016, 01:43 PM | #20541 |
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Don't forget Sideswipe, basically the white version of Stretcher.
Yeah Stalker and Falcon are sort of lost in the role of Medic, so you really do have to count them out. Sgt Savage might suffer from the same fate if he indeed has Medic training.
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03-15-2016, 02:25 PM | #20542 |
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But it doesn't hurt to have your first shirt med qualed in theatre if you get busted up and pinned down.
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03-15-2016, 02:26 PM | #20543 |
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...this topic makes me want to buy a bunch of loose 30th lifelines and make medical " redshirts" out of them.
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03-15-2016, 02:47 PM | #20544 |
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Definitely need more medics. Do it.
Hell I remember how excited I was to see the Medi-Viper in one of those late issues. #147 maybe? He seemed like a no brainer when going through all the potential <INSERT Environment>-Viper still missing back in the 90s. Para-Viper being the other.
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03-15-2016, 03:03 PM | #20545 |
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and Jungle
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03-15-2016, 03:36 PM | #20546 |
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I really loved Para Viper as soon as I saw him... non diver eels are mentioned ( and a generic" air viper")several times in file cards yet it was a glaring hole in the figure roster. I still really like the wacky colors on the 25th PV
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03-15-2016, 04:14 PM | #20547 |
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Jungle of course!
Air Viper as well, I always wondered with the AVAC, if they are the ADVANCED CLASS what is the regular ones look like. The Club Air-Viper makes it worse. They look like Vapor and of course he didn't come in a troop builder set. The Air-Viper Commandos (With the CLAW) which look like traditional AVACs seems ok design wise, but there is also one that looks like a Strato-Viper. Which would you prefer? I figure an Air Viper would be a pilot, but then what about the non-Pilot Air troopers? Would they just be Air Troopers? What about the Red Vipers(19) vs the Cobra Pilot (Gas Mask) both listed as Air Trooper? Personally I think the Air Troopers can handle the Jet packs, Gliders, CLAWs. They would be enlisted. FANG Pilots can be Heli-Vipers or the Red Vipers. Those Red Vipers (Air Troopers) could be Pilot initiates. Sort of Red Shirted like college football until he's ready. But to earn the title "Viper" one has to attend Viper school. All Cobra pilots flying millions of dollars of equipment would be required to go through VIPER School. Here they learn valuable Infantry techniques to help them in Ground Support roles, and SERE survival due to the inevitability of being shot down. Once you make Advance Class you can fly the Firebat or become wing leader. Not sure who flys the Rattlers? AVACs? or just Air-Vipers? Lets say Air Vipers fly Rattlers too, but a Firebat is meant for the Terror Drome. This is only done by AVACs or higher as they might be given base commander duties as well? They are officers and they have Viper training. Next would be Strato then Star and finally Astro.??
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03-15-2016, 04:29 PM | #20548 |
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I use the retaliation "cobra Trooper" as an air trooper/ Viper they are sort of a basic troop but air themed and I have about a dozen.
This part of collecting and lore is really confusing. I squad army build 25th strato Vipers and AVACs, The Jet pack " Air troopers" and put the extra helmeted air trooper heads on DG Cobra commander bodies to make cobra air trooper officer who then fly my fangs, CLAWS... and like I said use the retaliation troopers as air vipers. the Para Vipers are a division of the Eels to me and I think the filecard says so. |
03-15-2016, 04:36 PM | #20549 |
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Snow Serpents and Sea Slugs are two other sub-divisions of Eels that spring to mind. I viewed the Eels as Cobra's gateway to "special forces," a bit like Rangers. Hooligans, misfits and $h1t disturbers recruited into the blue shirts or plain vipers, and from there started to specialize, either as vehicle crews or, if they were motivated, as Eels.
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03-15-2016, 04:55 PM | #20550 |
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I always saw the eels and Vipers as two separate competing paths of advancement, then the CGs being cross trained in both, with advanced degrees and sort of like the Cobra SS.
When it then gets REALLY confusing is when you have things obviously in either the Viper or Eels advancement paths yet they have a name suggesting the other like Ice Viper ( should be a Snow Serpent officer BUT that also exists) and the naming disparity for the para viper being an eel. in universe I just explain it as Cobra being purposely deceptive and convoluted for "Op Sec'... sort of like our Military has ALWAYS done lol. There needs to be a modern Sea Slug, I like that guy |
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