Chyll

Yeah, I wrote up most of my off-the-cuff response before I read the article.

Agreed, it wouldn't even be close.

Inexhaustible?
Hardly. At it's largest the trained cadre of the legions had a firmly known quantity. Let's pick, say, early empire.... what 30 legions-ish as the standing force - at least I remember Augustus' reforms putting it at 28. About 5,000 men in a legion, if memory serves? 140,000 men? Inexhaustible, huh?

(edit: ok, a quick search put it at about 50 legions when Augustus took power after the civil wars - assuming they were all at full strength, 250,000. still hardly inexhaustible.)

(further edit: not sure where that article gets its numbers of 11,000 in a legion... must be counting the tail and auxiliaries in the up front count. Still, not much of an exercise.)

Add in the auxiliaries and the numbers would go up.... How much? I don't know, but let's be generous and say 280,000 auxiliaries.

OK, the MEU.
Let's just talk infantry men,... a fast internet search tells me count on about 200 rounds per foot slogger on a normal load. (I think I'd give them a heavy combat load..., but let's not cheat.)

26th MEU has about 2,200 men

That's 440,00 rounds. Single shot at range... more than enough to take out most, if not all, the legions, and their auxiliaries depending on which numbers you use. (edit: yes, max range. If I'm assaulting, I walk up to no more than max and run some target range drills into the massed romans... if defending, nice high ground over open field......)

Not convinced? How about we add in the weapons squads in each platoon - SAWs with 4-6,000 rounds each? Couple of those... a 60mm mortar section....

Not convinced? An MEU likely would have an aviation unit... air power will win you battles against modern forces, let alone a Roman force.


That last bit is a nice over the top statement.

Romans were melee fighters... with some range in archers, javelins, etc.... the range of the modern firearm? Romans would never get near enough to take that gun. (edit:
Not even considering that the marine chest plate designed to stop modern firearms is going to turn aside a gladius, even if the Romans got close enough.)

Mine has consisted of getting called twice while I was in college half a country away and getting out of it, accordingly.
And then never getting called again for... oh, 20 years so far.

Bah. Put us... her, I meant her, out of our... her, I meant her, misery already.

That's it! Yes, it was you (I knew I'd remember if I saw the name again.)

Thanks for that, btw.

Thanks for the reply, and I wasn't trying to disrupt - just making a marginally tongue-cheek observation (also missed that it had been discussed when I scanned the thread - sorry).

Having played all the existing dark sets/ATs, blaster would be 'new'... but I tend to prefer corrs anyway. With existing power sets I'd probably lean dark/pain (that pesky I21 again stops me from saying dark/time. )

A DA/ tank would be fun to level again too, I suppose...


Yep, that's it - good stuff.

And I could, but with as little TV as I watch - my patience when I know a new episode is available is very short. I know I'd be frustrated trying to participate in conflict with viewing (more so as the TV is not in viewable position to the computer).
These last two are probably the most realistic options, and make me more comfortable.

Luckily I have time to figure it out.

Whew, good thing your opinion isn't the deciding one.

Right, I get that. I understand.

But, the entire idea that an incarnate becomes stronger than they've ever been and that means... there is nothing new of note to tackle with that solo power... just boggles my mind. An incarnate easily equivalent to a team of 8 (at a minimum) can only utilize that power when teamed with 16-24 equally powerful incarnates?

I just cannot fathom why some sort of alternate/solo/small team path wasn't envisioned from the start. It is a logic fail. (And no amount of winkies overcomes it.) A slower pace of rewards is fine and acceptable - we get merits slower for solo arcs than for TF now. I just do not understand the design decision, at all. And I never will.

(That said, I am happy to see something starting to appear with the sig arcs.)

edit: in terms of full disclosure, I enjoy the trials (even Keyes), and I like the story line (mostly - though I'd like to raid the evil resistance too ).

I'd quibble, that what you have listed really is the exploration of mankind...

But, I belive that an alien as captain would be a fine furtherance of exploring humanity - for both that character and for us as viewers.

Yep, I get what you did.

It is all on me. I never would have even messed with categories, and I don't think I would have linked the latter ones quite the way you did (novels and D&D together?). Something in my brain just locks when I try to figure where my suggestions would fit.

I won't pretend that I'm speaking for anyone else, but I would have just said - "suggest two swords".

*shrug* not logical to my mind.
Not a criticism, just not a structure I would ever have considered, and immediately trying to put swords into those buckets left me with... no suggestions.

Probably just a mental block.