Commander Role - Roleplayer, Strategist or XO with a gun?

[kooarbiter]

Commander is whatever you want to make it. Roleplay as a retard? Go ahead.

Roleplay as a 1500's Monarchist man? Go for it.

Just don't ban shotguns, or try and limit the gameplay options for marines and everything else is pretty much free game man. But do know you'll be watched more than the other plays so maintaining any form of roleplay is good.

Also don't be afraid to leave your XO to do the job and go Roleplay, but don't take that as an excuse to go off and do fuck all. The XO's are looking for experience, give them the opportunity to take the lead. Those are the players who seek the CO Whitelist, so you might as well let em have a shot at it.

nah fam I just wanna play XO to stroke my e peen while still having someone to blame my failures and bad decisions on

[Bancrose]

nah fam I just wanna play XO to stroke my e peen while still having someone to blame my failures and bad decisions on

Understandable sir, Have a CM Day.

[Survivor]

Commander is all of these or none of these, with a bit of inbetween.

[Vispain]

Personally, I believe a CO is like a Operational Commander. He does the broad strokes while his XO and Lts make sure the shit gets done.

Being a CIC CO is fun, although you must rely on others. You can make those broad strokes but only step in and inform by necessity to see the plan and/or goal followed. Likewise, if you want to ground CO...fine. Just make sure you are STILL running the show even planetside. Check in with Req and CIC now and then. Relay orders to the XO and information to better adapt the flow of combat and operational ability of the battalion.
Being Ground CO is great, but you can't just take your hands off the wheel. I like to play CO like I'm responsible for my men, their performance, and the ship. Failure is bad, but losing the entire force of men and even the ship is worse.

[Slywater]

Bill Carson. 'Nuff said.

[WinterClould]

SO with gun tbh.

[Vispain]

SO with a gun...

Too bad they don’t lead as much as they charge

[WinterClould]

More specifically that one SO who demands to be deployed to the planet for "organization duty" of some kind, read: Yell over comms and charge the frontlines with my M41Mk1 and die a glorious death to get to Valhalla.

Meanwhile there's only the XO and 2 other SO's in the CIC. Our local CO hero decides the only rational and ideal place for him to lead is on the battlefields frontlines on first contact with the enemy where his white shinny hat will not stand out and totally not drive the xenos to target him, no sir re.

[Dolth]

Marines aren't receptive enough to make any kind of strategy viable.

RP is barely alive here, even for COs. (Naked tackling dude insulting? Woah I need to execute this marine!)

XO with a gun? In late game probably.

I personally think a CO makes sure everyone does his job. AKA constantly checking if anything goes wrong (medbay, req, tc/po) and fixes it through authority.

[WinterClould]

Commander baldie: (eng) WHERE THE FUCK IS POWER SOMEONE FIX THE POWER OH MY GOD WHY DOES THE CIC NOT HAVE FUCKING POWER.

This is the extent of the base line of CO rp. Anyone who can do better then that is better then an XO.

IF ONLY CO'S COULD SWAP THE BATTERIES ON AN APC THEMSELVES.

[Drackarus]

It all depends on how you feel.

I generally get my XO to focus on the ground operation while I focus on shipside situations, only stepping in if the XO is making questionable calls or I disagree with his orders.

Well, unless I'm in StratMasta9000 mode.

Yeah, the commander, by my understanding, is like the director of a school, and the XOs are the professors, if one of the professors do something that is wrong, the CO shall intervene, otherwise, he shall focus on the planning of the next set of actions.

[Mister Jeether]

Well, CO is basically a XO with fancier clothes, a revolver that can actually kill something, and with a license to kill anyone onboard that he pleases.

However, the CO's actions are weight much more then a XO's. For example, if you are being a dictator, and do shit that marines don't like, you'll probably cause a mutiny and get decapitated.

If XOs do somethin' that marines dislike... ehh, chances are, they'll shrug it off and move on.

[Awesomesauce935]

i'd think that the CO is best suited for roleplay, and as long CO and XO are confident that the XO can run the show on the ground, i'd expect the commander to be someone to command the whole ship, being contacted by medbay or engineering, and pestered by the CL and WO. Obviously they'd be expected to take to CIC business if required, but generally they'd let their second prove themselves, after all they're on the road to CO themselves.