Commando Archive
Thread: A Commando Is ....
Commando last time I checked was a member of an army. Not an army of one, a military force, trained by it, and equipped by it.
Commando teams in star wars have a purpose. Usually sabotage or protection of imporant assets.
The only commandos I ever saw in the movies carried...scout blasters. I think these should have been commando certs, not marksman.
I don't know, this whole thing is out of hand lately. Instead of giving everything to everybody, you'd think there would be defining class only equipment for each, purposes defined for each, and specific missions for each to achieve. This idea of running around as a one-man army is just nonsense.
Message Edited by SamuraiPanzer on 05-03-2004 11:17 AM
What about the rebel strike team on Endor though? They used carbines and rifles in addition to explosives.
You know, it's kind of funny. I've been thinking of the SW character most like a commando, and I've think I've figured out who it is: Dash Rendar.
Think about it, he goes in and does what it takes to get the job done employing skill and a variety of tactics. He has a flamethrower. He has a pistol that can shoot rockets. He kicks butt!
This just came to mind...
A commando is simply master marksman and a flamethrower.
A commando is anything BUT a commando.
A commando is a meat sheild.
A commando is important only to take down bases, with a job that takes 2 seconds to complete with no brainwork involved.
A commando is a fairly good skill point sink.
A commando is someone who will never stop fighting...
What should we be? Going with common sense and keeping along with the pattern in which 90% of the proffesions have is, we should reflect our prerequisites...There for, we should be a little bit of pistols, a little bit of carbines and rifles. BUT, since this game turned into KOTOR in Comp armor and combat medics, continuity need not apply.
In a game where little to nothing has a semi-decent porpose, with no continuity, and broken promises, the commando class is nothing but somehow alive. We all sure as hell have the heart of a commando, but the skills and capability arent there. The combat revamp will have to come eventualy, and when it does, that will be our time to shine. When you see TKMs and Fencers coming to our boards whining about how they get shot and die, thats the day were truely fixed. The day you see CM's and Rifleman come to our boards crying nerf, thats the day were truely fixed...but right now, we barely have our own commandos post, let alone anyone else...
Right now, things get put in the game that do nothing but gank us and make us more meaningless ( bomb droids ) and add no content or no porpose to the proffesions that get it. Right now, most melee and rifleman rule. Pistoleers with either bh pistols or smuggler df, can do some good damage with the geno.
The points it takes to master marksman and to get unarmed 4, does not justify a flamethrower that misses and does little damage in the real pvp world.
A commando is....the worst combat proffesion in the game... period.
hell yeah punisher, I've been playing commando since launch and we had to kill durni's with our FTs to level, Commando's broke all to hell
hehe,
Good to have the old punisher back ive missed your tone with the yay stuff with armor and revamp hehe.
What is KOTOR or what ever btw??
Message Edited by thepunisher286 on 05-04-2004 12:23 PM