I like the variety of weapons! In fact, I kinda wish there were more, but I appreciate the variety that is there. A shame there isn’t enough room for all that and more!
This might seems a bit risky, and maybe it is, but if anything were to need to get sacrificed from the weapon variety, perhaps it would be the M4/M16 type rifles and SAWs: save them for a compatible dedicated modern US forces set instead, that can be kitbashed against this set for more variety.
As an alternative, this looks like it would be a fun set of weapons bits to mix with the Wargames Atlantic Afghans, and maybe the AKMs, Dragunov/PSLs, and RPGs might better be moved to an Afghans II set (making use also of the currently digital-only Afghan conversion bits set), leaving these operators with the G32, M16/M4 and SAW options and freedom to kitbash between the Afghans II and operators?
I can’t help thinking that submachineguns, grenades, and shotguns are conspicuous by their absence, but again, those might best be saved for another, compatible set?
The variety of pistols might be gratuitous – I’m a civilian, though, do pistols get this much action in the Real World, vs. rifles and squad automatic weapons?
I wonder if this concept might be open to an “Operators I” and “Operators II” multi-set presentation, so that there can be more variety in bodies and heads (baclavas, shemaghs…), and a way to spread the selection of weapons out across multiple sets?
Whatever the best way to manage the weapon variety, this looks like it’ll be another great set, and it seems to me it’ll mix well with sci-fi bits from the Cannon Fodder and Ooh-Rah sets (and probably other Death Fields and Iron Core sets and sprues!)
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