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03-16-2009, 10:25 AM | #3901 |
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Yeah, those designs look great. I like Rock 'n Roll.
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03-16-2009, 10:43 AM | #3902 |
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After which you have a group of Special Forces guys tied with you too, in interact with the natives. and those would be the guys that show up to pick you up, only you get on the chopper and go home they get off and stay there. It hard to say who is part of this unit. You could mix the survivalist types here. I don't know about Flint and Falcon, but Outback, Pathfinder, recondo. They are usually already in country and have a connection with some tribe or clan that they can rely on. Then there is the other component of the Joes that is a light infantry force like the Rangers. Delta generally tries to operate with a contingent of Rangers at the ready to come in as backup. Not that Delta is not tough, but they tend to get into situations that require a heavy hot extraction. They capture the guy and then all hell breaks lose, so they hole up in a biulding for two hours until the cavalry arrives. This where I think your Hit&Run and Grunt would fit in. Then there is the Armor aspect of the Joes which the new model of the Stryker Brigades works for them since those are based on smaller squad sizes. Artillery would have to be part of the HQ element. The joes also have a dedicated airwing squadron and there own version of the 160th SOAR (160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment ( Airborne ) ) which is very much the same as Delta. Enter Wild Bill. What seems to be missing is the intelligence aspect of what makes this all work. The CIA is involved in every mission. They have the connections, and the money. I don't know how the Joes are really able to gather enough info with just their dozen spys or so. It's interesting to read how the Delta guys have to do their own urban recon, and blend in with the crowd even if they don't have the neccessary language skills. This would make guys like Chuckles, Lady Jaye, and any others with serious language skills and disgiuses truly valuable. I wish I knew more about the SAD guys as they would add another level |
03-16-2009, 10:45 AM | #3903 |
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Perhaps it's changed in recent years, but IIRC, lieutenants commanding an SF detachment are about as rare as hen's teeth, even in a "normal" (non-Delta) SF unit. An officer has to be at least a 1st Lieutenant-promotable (i.e., have taken a Captain's Career Course/Officer Advanced Course) to qualify for entry into the Special Forces branch, and by the time he's fully branch-qualified, he'd be more often than not be a Captain anyway.
Now that I think about it, a platoon leader in the Ranger regiment is more likely to be a captain than a lieutenant as well, although in terms of structure, a ranger platoon would be very similar to a standard light infantry platoon. I think structurally, an SF detachment (and I'm just assuming, a 1st SFOD unit) has more in common with a SEAL platoon than a regular light infantry platoon. Your absolutely right which means Falcon should be a LT Colonel by now. He should have been promoted to Capt the first day he showed up. |
03-16-2009, 10:49 AM | #3904 |
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So in the Resolute 5 pack file card for the trooper it talks a lot about snake eyes, I got the vibe that the res BAT was actually supposed to be a Res Snake Eyes but they havent made the mold for SE yet so they stuffed it with a BAT... especially since they didnt bother rewriting the BAT file card to reflect how they will be in Resolute. That would also explain the "GIJoe vs Cobra" pack only having one Joe to fight 3 Cobras. Am I right here?
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03-16-2009, 10:58 AM | #3905 |
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So in the Resolute 5 pack file card for the trooper it talks a lot about snake eyes, I got the vibe that the res BAT was actually supposed to be a Res Snake Eyes but they havent made the mold for SE yet so they stuffed it with a BAT... especially since they didnt bother rewriting the BAT file card to reflect how they will be in Resolute. That would also explain the "GIJoe vs Cobra" pack only having one Joe to fight 3 Cobras. Am I right here?
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03-16-2009, 11:06 AM | #3906 |
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The funny thing about the state of infantry organization right now is the Army's been trying for the past few years to re-organize around the Stryker armored vehicle (just another example of the strange approach they've been using lately, organizing men around equipment needs, instead of vice-versa).
And while units like the ranger regiment are for the most part untouched by the whole ass-backwards "equipment dictates manpower allocation" phenomena, I can see that possibly changing in the future, as military equipment contractors start having a larger and larger say in how the military is organized. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if in the future, a ranger squad's composition will be organized based not on sound small unit tactics, but on how many people and how much equipment can fit inside the Army brass' new pet project (the SOCV/LSV). [here's where I go off on a little rant, feel free to ignore this portion] It's been a disturbing trend over the past few years, where commanders have been bending over backwards to accomodate companies like General Dynamics, Boeing, and Lockheed, sometimes at the cost of strategic and tactical flexibility. Part of this is because some of these generals are looking at fat consultancy positions at these same companies after retirement. This should be raising "conflict-of-interest" flags and I wonder why there hasn't been a bigger public outcry over this, especially since some of these commercially-motivated actions have directly led to the loss of soldiers' lives and gross overspending (the V-22 Osprey scandal probably being the highest profile example). |
03-16-2009, 01:06 PM | #3907 |
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So in the Resolute 5 pack file card for the trooper it talks a lot about snake eyes, I got the vibe that the res BAT was actually supposed to be a Res Snake Eyes but they havent made the mold for SE yet so they stuffed it with a BAT... especially since they didnt bother rewriting the BAT file card to reflect how they will be in Resolute. That would also explain the "GIJoe vs Cobra" pack only having one Joe to fight 3 Cobras. Am I right here?
I actually picked up the 5 pack a couple days ago. It's freakin awesome. Which means I finally got a Joe figure in the Duke, and hes is awesome. I agree about the BAT though, he doesn't really fit exactly into the pack (not complaining since I didn't own a BAT yet and this one's paint apps and color choices are fantastic.) And with the realistic approach to resolute I wonder if we will actually see BAT's in the show... I picked up the issue of GamePro with the GI JOE story in it and the magnet (woot) and I LOVE the new look of a lot of the Joes (in resolute). I will definitely pick them up when/if the make them.
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03-16-2009, 01:35 PM | #3908 |
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So I was wondering, which ARAH figures would make your top five or top ten list? I would ask who's you're all time favorite but that would be like asking a parent who his favorite kid is. You can base your choices on the figures themselves and anything about the figure's character that just makes him an awesome Joe in your mind.
I destroyed so many figures when I was younger, that I stopped liking them because they were so loose. But I loved em until they were useless. Number 1 was Snake Eyes V2. (Never Died went on every MIssion) Number 2 was Gung-Ho V1. (Dad was a Marine so he is my favorite of all-time always no matter what he wins forever) Number 3 was Storm Shadow V1. (He was the coolest toy when he came out and was only surpassed by SE v2) Number 4 was Firefly V1. Number 5 was Flint V1 Number 6 was the Twins (They are my favorite Cobras) Number 7 was Ripcord he had so much gear and was Camo Number 8 was Wild Weasel (He had a badass plane) Number 9 was Hawk V2 He being a General with a cool outfit made it for me. Number 10 was Hooded Cobra Commander I loved that guy. Other notables were Airborne, Torpedo, Zartan, Clutch V1, Stalker V1, BATS, Serpentor, Sgt Slaughter |
03-16-2009, 01:56 PM | #3909 |
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I think the sad truth of it that we are overstrecthed. The Stryker was the Army's solution to what they really needed to fight in a more urban environment. They built in the fact that they were planning for reduced troop strength when they sent it out for bids I'm sure.
But if planning for reduced troop strength was really on their minds, wouldn't developing force multiplication assets be a better investment? In my (admittedly non-professional) opinion, a solid Civil Affairs/Information Operations strategy coupled with intelligent and culturally-sensitive diplomacy and discreet, low-level special operations trumps the latest flavour-of-the-month weapon/vehicle and "shock & awe" any day of the week in counteracting an insurgency. The fact remains that some of the more influential DoD brass are in bed with major military equipment and manpower contractors (I use that as a figure of speech, of course, but then again, I wouldn't be all that shocked if they were literally sleeping with the CEOs... nothing surprises me anymore when it comes to how deep the profiteering mentality has worked its way into the upper echelons of the military) and that's led to acquisition and organizational decisions motivated by profit and the bottom line instead of strategic goals... in GI Joe terms, it's as if General Flagg and General Austin were working with M.A.R.S. and letting Destro dictate some of their strategy while at the same time subcontracting the Iron Grenadiers to beef up manpower. Last edited by zuludelta; 03-16-2009 at 02:06 PM.. |
03-16-2009, 02:46 PM | #3910 |
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