Regarding the Weapon question... mayhaps -I just say mayhaps- WGA could release, as part of her General Accoutrements, additional sprues of optional guns, special weapons and other goodies for DF and .. IC. 😅
Ooh Rah preparing to "Get Some"
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@Steven StGeorges that would be cool. I wonder if they are still considering the addon sprues. I'm curious as to how well the first one sold.
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@Steven StGeorges I imagine accessory sprues must be something that's difficult to design. A full kit has a marketing identity and a target demographic, but an accessory sprue has to be something that can work on basically anything at which you throw it. The first one was in a wierd place where the picklehaub-and-gas mask heads were a suspiciously good way to create totally-not-DKoK, but the rest of the sprue was mostly super-generic without any obvious theme or identity.
I wonder what would sell better, a more dedicated kit, designed to make something in particular, like zombies, or post-apocalyptic scavengers, or something; or a more generalised kit that could be used to supply a wider variety of infantry weapons to a Death Fields team, something that was made to work with everything. (I suppose the latter would be a lot easier once there's an actual game in place and demand for types of weapons could be more easily gauged)
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@JTam YEah, that answers the ammo question. And looking closer at the pistol, I think the features under the barrel are likley lights.
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@Grumpy Gnome
Well that does sound very positive. I certainly like the concept, sounds like the execution is excellent as well.
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They could be perfect with some ODST-like helmet, only complaint about these beautiful minis are the rolled sleeves, very dangerous in some environments. I hope that there will be more sets, such a command/support and a female one.
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@Alessio De Carolis
1. You are perfectly correct rolling sleeves in combat is dumb.
2. The USMC does it all the time.
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@JTam Because we are cocky, arrogant, and dumb. :) Pass me my Crayons- I'm going in.
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@Battle Specter
LOL.
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@Grumpy Gnome
It's just the USMC variant of the Army Times. And just as trash.
If you want some interesting reading Google how dicked up the USMC's Force Plan 2030 plan is. Chesty Puller is rotating in his grave. You're brilliant plan is a dozen Wake Islands? Impressive.
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@Grumpy Gnome @JTam Love you guys, could`nt stop chuckling. On a positive side, I sure want that box when they get here.
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@Grumpy Gnome I think it setms from people trying to make fun of us by calling us Crayon eaters. Marines, being Marines, did the Marine thing and accepted this as a sideways compliment. Personally, I think the Army dislikes us because we do actually eat Crayons- that they use to write things with. It's a viscious cycle that really has no end in sight. We eat their writing utensils, they can't scribble mean things about us, we laugh, they make fun of our Crayon eating.
As to the rolled sleeves, it's more of a garrison thing, but I've seen Marines with rolles sleeves when deployed. It's not outside the realm of possibility. Also- a well rolled set of sleeves is a statement and challenge to everyone else. Remember, we combine blue and tan in a dress uniform with a white hat. This combination shouldn't work, but yet...
Also, thanks for reading the blog. Feel free to comment with your thoughts in there. If you disagree- I would like to know that as well.
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@JTam We SHouLD GeT RiD OF OuR TanKS, REduCE OuR ArTiLleRy aND AmpHIbS, AnD CUt InFAnTrY UnITs CaUSe ScIEnCE.
I think the command has been hitting the Crayolas a bit too hard. Anyone with half a braincell knows you don't cut tanks, infantry, and artillery to strengthen your force. Most of the accessory support jobs could be handled as billets as far down as the platoon level. If we think of this in a "space Marine" setting ala Aliens, you'd have to. Every Jarhead will need to be a trigger puller There won't be room for that dedicated supply guy or admin POG. Each of those jobs would be assigned to a Grunt as an extra job they'd be responsible for. Just maintain that idea in garrison, and you can cut total size, and increase fighting strength.
At least, that's what this Grunt thinks, and I admit I may bebaised and missing something crucial.
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@Grumpy Gnome
The every Marine is a Rifleman/Infantryman first is a myth. The Marine Corps is of course tooth heavy (doesn't have a lot of service support) because most of their logistics are handled by the Navy. And their Infantry is proficienct as any. But the USMC's POGs are as clueless at fighting as any other POGs. Have run into plenty of USMC air guys, S-1 types, and even artillerymen who couldn't run a gun to save their lives.
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@JTam Yeah, that is too true. My best friend from the Marines made friends with a kid from the Wing when that wing was training up as a provisional rifle company for a deployment to Iraq. They were basically going to be base guards for the Chairforce. During their workup, they trained as much like Grunts as they could. They only got about four months before they pumped.
Anyway, we're eating Chinese one night- He would come over and hang out to watch Anime with my buddy- and we got to talking about his FEX that they had just finished.
"Yeah, you guys know a lot more than we think," he said. "Like, I didn't know you had to know all that MOPP stuff, and land nav, and comm. We thought we were doing really good, and then we had to do our big FEX, and 2/8 was our Op-For. And they kicked our ass so bad. Like, I don't think they were even trying. They just cleaned us out."
Not a perfect quote, but not far off. Once the Wingers got to play with the big boys, they couldn't hang. Totally different mindset.
@Grumpy Gnome Yeah, I could never have done SF either. Line company Grunt- I was all about it. Don't know if the training would have threw me, but the swimming requirements for Recon would have tanked me. When STA opened up indocs, I was only a Sharpshooter, so I didn't qualify. By the time I got Expert, STA was closed. Tried for the Survival Escape and Evade course that goes on at Bridgeport, but at the time I was "too important to the platoon to lose." IE, I was the radio operator and scribe (damn my good penmanship). I was the ONLY volunteer in the platoon but they wouldn't send me. I honestly just wanted a course.
My dad kept trying to get the recruiter to convince me to go anywhere but the Infantry. He failed- miserably. Hell, I walked up to himm in the school lunchroom and said, "I want to be an Infantryman in the united States Marine Corps." Dad never had a chance.
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@Grumpy Gnome true scale kits may be true scale. Now I NEED to get a box for my own review to see if this guy has a point.
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@Grumpy Gnome I was messing with an old Defiance Games UAMC Marine last night that I intend to use in my review. If the Ooh-Rah guys are anything like them, I'll be happy. And judging from the pics on WGA website, they'll be pretty close. Not sure why you'd complain about "emaciated arms" in a kit that's more or less truescale. Really need a box or three.
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@Grumpy Gnome
Thanks for the link.
The comparison pictures are useful.
The opinions at the link are completely subjective and to my mind not particularly valid.
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@Battle Specter Do you know if any one actually got hold of that bloody great jeep we were promised but failed to get, He might have been a piece of work but his dam models were light years ahead. I loved that jeep.
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@Battle Specter
https://coffeeordie.com/marine-scout-sniper/
I had heard this rumor going around.
The decisions are so bad at this point it looks less like incompetent and more like sabotage.
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@JTam Effectively, closing the sniper school it's a totally idiotic move, how they'll think a modern army could handle enemies? I hope that these guys aren't the ones that think about sniping enemy's leaders as "ungentlemanly". A good sniper could resolve a LOT of dangerous situations, killing enemy officers or making hard the life for their soldiers, I know personally, given that in WWI my greatfather was wounded by an enemy sniper, and a lot of his friends weren't so lucky. Donj't know what they're intended to do with the corp, first they'd to get rid of their tanks (you know, "tanks are useless"), then the snipers, what then? Dismantle outright the Marine air force? Or get rid of the artillery, as some moron had pronosticated in the late '50s(they thought that missile would've replaced everything)?
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@Geoff Maybury That truck is pretty sweet, and based off a Japanese truck. (LINK)
Not sure if anyone got the 1/56 version DG made.
@Alessio De Carolis Dropping snipers is a dumb move. I'm hoping it's because individual Marines are lethal enough to compensate. One thing that happened after Fallujah was the enemy combatants tried getting war crimes trials against the Marines that were there (rumor has it anyways) beacuse so many insurgents were hit in the head. Many thought it was because they were executed. They weren't- the ACOG had that much of an impact. Given the nature of modern warfare, sniping is now something that the average Grunt should easily be able to do out to ranges of 1000 yards. This isn't to say that hits will always happen, but given the technilogical edge the average infantryman has in the US military nowadays, and having shot my last range with the RCO before I got out, I can tell you a well trained rifleman is going to hit you at 500 pretty much every damned time, and pick the body part inside of 200 (long range in a city).
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@Battle Specter The problem is that snipers are trained to be lethal, there's a reason exist (well, there was) a dedicated training for them, so they can be "educated" about every trick of the job. A normal infantryman has other specializations, and logically don't (or can't) have the time to be a dedicated specialist on this particular speciality.
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@Alessio De Carolis true. I'm just trying to rationalize why they'd dump the school. Having an entire Corps of people who can "fill the roll" is likely one reason. That and generals are, and I'm trying to be nice, kinda stupid. They get an idea in their heads, they love the idea, and they have the ability to make the idea law. So it becomes law. Not on the merits of the idea, but because they're a general, and shut up and do as your told. They never bear the pain of the mistakes, never pay the price for failure. That's left to the boys on the ground.
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But wait, there's more:
The USMC is about to do
Divest itself of relevancy. Anymore capabilities missing they might as well scrap the Corps and just use Naval shore parties to launch these missile systems they are currently so enamored with.
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@JTam Right, I was about to link the article when I saw that you'd saw it, it's a scandal,who need enemies when your brass are worst? Naturally, when a lot of soldiers would've been killed/maimed for those idiots (or worst) they'll say "Oops, we were wrong"!
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@Battle Specter That picture shows acording to the "Man" the first plastic models from the mould ,Eileen and myself ordered them, and the suits, Box of 50 each. Then "Buy Buy," hated him very personally, for belive it or not, the models they were ahead of the curve back then, and have not been surpassed to this day. Theres a real Irony to that, what say fellas.
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@Battle Specter @JTam So sorry guys, that the service that you two gave, is now being misstreated by those who should know better. I hope that the situation resolves over time and your beloved "Corps" returns to its hayday. one thing that this "Civilian Knows". is that for all of you serving and none serving,your dedication is constant, and in your own words, "Semper Fie" Marines. Love both Eileen and Geoff.
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