Rebo wrote:Markus wrote:the officer aready carries a Mounted Gun, a backpack size radar, huge ammo crate, his own gun and a knife. of and loads of bacta.
what more could he carry?
I would have to say why does the officer have a mounted gun in the first place let alone ammo crate, or bacta? I’ve never seen an officer carry around heavy equipment like that. They don’t serve as semi-medic, semi-supply, and semi-heavy weapons in real combat unless that is their specific job and then they only do one. The team leader/officer isn’t the guy you want deploying and operating a heavy emplaced gun standing up for all the world to take pot shots at.
The (once deployed irretrievable mounted gun) should be given to heavy weapons or support. Give a decent weapon “small carbine” maybe to the officer with the smoke grenades and take away the ammo crate and bacta, because there are already medic and supply units.
Officers should have more logistic abilities related to squad support (like the radar and the spawn beacon they already have) without stepping on the toes of a class that already fills a role. It seems like they didn’t know what to do with the officer so they just gave it a little bit of everything.
I don’t think it would be unreasonable, but not really necessary for the officer to be able to call down an autonomous probe droid to support a full sized squad not just him and one other guy.
FSDev| Bandu wrote:Its not a bad idea really. However what would the rebel officer have?
Give them a protocol droid to distract and irritate them with BS long enough for the Stormtroopers to kill them.
The reason the officer has the mounted gun (eweb) is because we didnt want hundreds on the battlefield all at once. You can only have so many officers on the field at once so he gets it.
ShinjiKoon wrote:Like rebo says, you arent gonna survive for more then a couple seconds on a turret in combat, its a bullet magnet, you'd have to place it in an extremely good position, where it will most likely fall into a wall with the guy on it (or have they fixed this) Its just that the officers really dont have a good way to earn points, sure bacta and resupply is all good, but i think they should have SOMETHING capable of killing besides turrets and their pistols
They are bullet magnets cos they can be the most devastating weapon on the battlefield. Especially if your squad is supporting you with generators and shields. In which case you will survive for a long long time, unless you get flanked or if the enemy has a few medics chuckin multiple biotic/sonic nades at you.
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