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Steady aim, volley fire. There should be something for melee users of SL. I play a pikeman SL who leads by example and gets into the gruntwork to inspire ppl. But Noooooooo I get nothing. In the tree there should be something for us Meleers. Squad Leaders are Leaders, not synonimous with marksmen.

I agree with you whole heartedly. At least having to take Ranged support I got some + to ranged and melee defense. There should be some melee commands in with the Vollyfire and steady aim. Use the melee to help out your tanks and use the volly's to help out your ranged members.

we get + to defense on marksman support? wow, not a total waste.

Something like /unifiedcharge or something... fine idea... what exactly would it do? Just an extra attack round, like /volleyfire?

Question is, does it only work ifthe melee people are in-range of their targets?

If you just want a raw combat boost, /rally gives a pretty good +To-Hit to melee people as well.

but rally works for both melee and ranged as opposed to steady aim and volley fire.

I haven't given it much thought so here's somethings i jsut came up with since I really should mention something.

1)The charge Idea would be nice. Where we get temporary increase in speed and/or reduced damage from ranged.

2)an Ambush skill. something along the lines of increased damage and accuracy in the next round with high action cost. Causing confusion, blind, stance down.

I thought up of another one. Decoy. Target group member gets signfiicant reduction in attack but VERY signficant raise in defense. Combine with taunt and...

Steady aim, volley fire. There should be something for melee users of SL. I play a pikeman SL who leads by example and gets into the gruntwork to inspire ppl. But Noooooooo I get nothing. In the tree there should be something for us Meleers. Squad Leaders are Leaders, not synonimous with marksmen.