[Proposal] Royal Marine Commandos

[Robbi]

arrr poor show Rudd

[[R-DEV]strima]

Originally Posted by Scot

If I'm not mistaken(which I could well be) you have to pass the Commando Course to support them Engy or Arty support, so are essentially a Marine, but just in your regiment(Royal Engies or whatever) rather than the Navy? Or am I way off?

Not quite, you can serve with the units without ever having to pass the course, although it is preferred, read into that what you will.

All Army personnel who's serve with the Booties are now issued a black on green commando dagger patch to identify who they are. If they pass the All Arms Commando course they get to wear the red on black dagger.

The all arms commando course is half the length of the full course but it is aimed at trained soldiers rather than raw recruits.

[LtSoucy]

Sorry to ruin the party boat here but, the Royal Marines are basicly a copy of the ingame British Facton. There camo is extremely close and there rifles, armor and gear is the same.

Well,they're a part of the navy..That makes them alot like USMC,as they're a branch off of the US NAVY

Sorry agent but everything about the USMC is 100% wrong, the USMC and NAVY work side by side but the Corp honors its seperation from all other branches. And everyone from the US that doesnt get that the Royal Marines are SF, look at the US Army Rangers.

[Smuke]

People are saying there pretty much UK Troops, well... they ARE UK Troops.
Big post coming when I get off the PS3.

[AnRK]

Originally Posted by Dr2B Rudd

^Northeners

/joke, big love to you marauding buggers

Pah! I'll have none of that! I've read at least one book all the way through!

[Smuke]

Here it is.

I know my fair share of the Royal Marines, and I do not like People saying the Royal Marines are from the Army, sometimes they hate being called matlo's (Unsure on spelling?). Anyway, Of course the Camo is going to be the same, as why would It be any different?

Originally Posted by Scot

If I'm not mistaken(which I could well be) you have to pass the Commando Course to support them Engy or Arty support, so are essentially a Marine, but just in your regiment(Royal Engies or whatever) rather than the Navy? Or am I way off?

No, One of 'The Rifle's Battalion's is attached to The Royal Marines, but only some have had to pass the 'All Arms Course' (This course is for anyone outside the Marines, but in one of the services, to earn there green beret, It's Only the Commando Tests, so it's only ten weeks)

The Royal Marines, are a amphious assault Unit, so in the ar on terror, there main uses are for mountaineering (They have been on many operations assaulting steep hills etc.) Also, their combat skills, and stamina on foot and in the mind.

The Royal Marines would be a hard faction to create, as its not necessarily the equipment, but the people using it that makes them so special.

The Royal marines, (I think) are classed as UKSF (United Kingdom Special Forces), and are not really comparable to the US Rangers (Not necessarily in skill, but in training and organisation)

The RMC's are the elite part of the UK Main forces, and are the Navy's version of the PARA's, and no they don't wear their berets in combat.

To be fair, the Royal Marines, in ranks and in equipment and how they operate, are closer to the Army than the Navy, I think the Army always regrets not taking the Marines as their own, as there such a respected force. The Marines, if Included in PR, will be pointless, as like many of you said, whats the difference in look between the Army and The Marines?

The Marines will probably the use the same helicopters etc. in Afghanistan as the Army, so except the Seaking (which Rhino correctly pointed out) Is going out of business in the near future. I think the main diffence between the Army, and Marines is there ethos, Army are more let's get the assets going, and Bootnecks (Their nickname) are more lets go in and fucking knock em cold. (Excuse langauge). Don't think im putting the Army down, I mean its my future career choice, but the Marinea are just plain better when it comes to assaulting a target etc. than the Pongo's (Army's nickname).

Sorry for the long post, it's quite a nice way to see for myself the views that I hold.

[Scot]

They ain't Special Forces, but they are damn near to it.

To get the Marines in PR is simple, get the Ocean(Smeg), then get the Landing Craft(well volunteered Smeg) and there you have Marines.

[gazzthompson]

marines arnt UKSF, well one company is in the Special Forces Support Group

[williejones]

i think the point of the thread was mainly to ask for some uk beach assult maps

[Jonny]

It seems to me that this faction would be rather easy to add to PR, just get someone to do a map. All you would need to do with any current map is edit it, you could even have army and marines on different layers it would seem. Well, any SF type map/gamemode anyway, Marines or not.

Now, how would the map be set up?

The Marines would be using little heavy equipment, for a start, it would mainly be boats and perhaps jeeps.
They would rely on a coordinated start to the battle and extensive use of shock tactics against an entrenched force, overwhelming them quickly or retreating if it fails.

The OPFOR would have access to heavier equipment, APCs, AA, tanks, IFVs, entrenched positions, etc. They would have to defend these places rather than attack.

To really make this interesting I would advise you to give the OPFOR a set of FOs around the area of an objective, these would be the ONLY spawn points. Their 'main base' would consist entirely of this objective, nothing else. There would be no other areas held by the OPFOR at all.

This way, you can let the Marines do what they seem to do best, hit hard and fast in a blitzkreig-style assault, with very light vehicles and quick transport. Perhaps even multiple operations bases if it would make sense on the map.

I also propose someone takes Bi-Ming, and edits it for this. The factions would remain the same, but with differences. The UK would get BOTH mains, with boats & jeeps, surrounded by no-go areas for the PLA. The PLA would have a single flag, the main town and current Bi-ming flag, this area would be littered with several mapper-placed FOs. 1 or 2 would be central bunkers, right in the town amongst the buildings, the rest would be outlying firebases around the outskirts, in the forests.

It would, ofcourse, need a special gamemode. This would involve the FOs being the only objective, and the flag being linked to their existance rather than the presence of soldiers. Once the FOs are all down, any remaining spawn points will be marked on the map as ammo caches currently are, with the same markers and everything. Once ALL spawn points are down then the attacking team will have won. The attackers need a limited number of tickets compared to the defenders.

A further possibility with this is to give the defenders a ticket boost at certain intervals, to represent reinforcements. If they run out of tickets before being reinforced then they will loose, if not they can fight for another 1/2 hour. The number of reinforcements will depend on the number of players at the time they are given.

Originally Posted by Dr2B Rudd

^Northeners

/joke, big love to you marauding buggers

Bloody southerner, with your expensive alcohol and almost total lack of even half-decent chippies. You just want the cheaper alcohol, dont you?