Kineem wrote: ↑30 Nov 2018, 09:03
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Nice, yeah I heard about that on your comms. Tend to monitor Delta and Charlie a lot, even to the Pfc level cause they tend to have good info with reliable sources. ICly I tend to think that finding a "New" species would be a big deal and as such sometimes medals reflect that by purposely changing the wording from "humanoid" to say, Special Ops/CLF snipers/etcetra.
Thanks, I try. Personally, I see no reason to not give medals when I have the time. It's an aspect of the role that CDR's legitimately don't have the time for/forget sometimes and I try to avoid making those mistakes. There's generally always a few minutes of calm to award a medal (especially when you make formats for it).
Typically when I Commander I am almost always on the Scouting Squads comms (aka Charlie and Delta usually). As the game goes on, I expand into the other squad comms as needed.
Bravo generally being the last. Good SLs tend to get medals with me. People that are troublemakers....well...typically they don't.
Whenever something happens on squad comms like someone declaring a kill and I haven't been talking on it nor has a SO/XO for awhile, or a major event like a screecher dying and a squad declaring it's killed I tend to view those events as 100 percent true and usually give medals if I have the time or Add Note to make one later in the operation.
Another time I give medals is when I feel bad or saw something happen... for example, I saw a detachment of Alpha get wiped out but their Spec saved a couple of them despite injuries and being 1 vs 2'd. In that case, I gave the dead and wounded Alphas Bronze Hearts while the Spec got a exceptional service/valor medal.
I try to give meaningful medals with a bit of flavor to them. Still working on it, but I like adding that it was Falling Falcons, if it was recommended by a SO, the issuing commanding officer, and the date. Really sets the scene imo. Changing wording of xenos to 'terrorists' and such imo sometimes is something I'll do as I know ICly the op will be hushed up and medals can't be given denoting that particular enemy of the op.
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