Commando Archive
Thread: I am what a commando should be.
Honruida wrote:
Commandos are elite soldiers, who should be an expert with rifles, pistols, heavy weapons with hand to hand skills too.
My new template.
Master Rifleman
Commando 0/0/4/0
Pistoleer 0/1/4/4
TKA 4/0/0/0
Now that's what a commando should be like in my eyes. I am still trying to figure out why we need Master Marksman if we don't get a rifle, carbine or pistol to use. I don't really count the LP as a pistol because we get no special skills with it unless you go up pistoleer.
All the more reason to call it a pistol eh? Its a pistol period. In this game commandos are experts with heavy weaponry, yes I think they should have a heavy carbine/repeater/assult rifle type weapon (SEALs carry such a weapon, a miniturized fully automated machine gun, not assult rifle but MACHINE gun that fires rifle bullets at high speeds and can be carried and used by 1 soldier.)
As for what a commando should be like, I don't think thats fully accurate. Meditation isn't really a commando type skill, you are pretty much a sniper with a pistol side arm who meditates as a hobby.
If you wanted to be a commando without BEING a commando then I'd go with
Master Carbineer - Commando 4/4/0/0 Medic 2/2/0/0 Scout 2/0/0/1
This gives you basic survival skills, terrain negotiation, heavy weapons support (with ability to use grenades), the ability to tend to minor battle damage, and drag incapacitated allies out of harms way.And your primary weapon is an assult rifle. This is pretty useless but this is what a commando SHOULD be. You still have master marksman which gives you basic knowledge of rifles pistols and carbines, along with unarmed 4 which is your basic unarmed combat.
Commandos in this game just aren't what they should be.
And I was talking about "real world" commandos not in game commandos. Meditation does squat in real life (besides calming your nerves, which I believe most snipers would need considering their style of combat)
As "soon" as they get it fixed i will master it. I tried it briefly in beta but could find very few FT's. I gave it a shot soon after beta but it was still hosed beyond belief. I then took a few months away from SWG out of frustration. As soon as I came back I started working on it again but only the FT tree is worth a damn so that's all i will keep for now.
Real world commandos can do a little bit of everything i know but what they put into this game for them is wasted. I went for meditate over novice medic so i can heal disease and poison.