Malcolm 'Holdout' Allister's Commander application

[Kiroking]

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Kiroking

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Malcolm "Holdout" Allister

Make a list of links to all of your applications and (job)ban appeals, including whitelist and staff apps, within the last year. Also, provide "Ban reason; Verdict" beside each (job)ban link:

This will be my first application on CM, currently I have 0 bans and 0 notes and I am not planning on letting those numbers change anytime soon.

Do you understand that any player - even donors or staff members - can have their whitelist status revoked should they break our Server Rules or Roleplay Guidelines?

Yes I understand that I can be removed from the whitelist should I break the server rules.

Why should you be whitelisted?

Here lies the question, why should I be? Now I could write about a full paragraph highlighting all my traits and skills and competency but honestly I don't like to brag about myself and toot my own horn. Instead I am going to list the facts; describe myself, my reasons and my character Malcolm. Then everyone here can look upon it and decide if they want me to lead them through a round of CM.

Who am I

I am Kiro, I have been playing ss13 for the last 3 three years or so and have about six characters, five of which I currently play on CM, Malcolm 'Holdout' Allister is just one of them. I was playing on and off CM during the time of the Nostromo, though I really only started getting into playing properly this last year. Aside from that I consider myself a strategist and tactician, name a strategy game and I probably own it or know about it.

Who is Malcolm 'Holdout' Allister.

In one sentence; Malcolm Allister is a marine tried and true, with two tours already under his belt with no end in sight. In command roles Malcolm is a staunch leader, this is impacted by the fact that that whether he is your SL, your SO, or your XO, he still considers himself to be a marine rather than an officer. This does not mean he is going to ditch his duty as an officer to gear up as a standard then run off to the fighting, but rather that he has an entirely different view than that of an officer straight out of the academy. Malcolm generally has three priorities when it comes to a mission unless some new factor presents itself, they are;
1. The lives of those under his command,
2. The integrity of the USS Almayer,
3. The mission.

My reasons for wanting to be the Commander.

I want to do this for several reasons; I believe I can be a great commander who will lead the marines to victory rather than order them to charge into a meat grinder under threat of arrest by the MP’s. The people I have lead as an SL and XO have pushed me to try and go higher. Finally because we have too many commanders who use the same style of tactics, of heavy handed brute force, that generally require mass numbers and less coordination, which I don't find to be fun or tactically sound at all.

[shyshadow]

Yes. Very gud. I know you and you are pretty good at yer everything.

[Kiroking]

Three quick things I am going to say,
1. I will be playing command roles while this application is up over the next seven days so that anyone wishing to vote can observe/join the round and possibly see me in action.
2. I know I did not go into much detail in how I RP things, please post a scenario for me and I will respond.
3. I did say that I have around five characters I actively play on CM, while I would like to keep their identity's secret as I feel the role play in game is better for these characters when they are not linked to each other via my Beyond ID, If it is really needed to disclose these characters names I might.

[Kerek]

I like Malcolm's character and his leading style as XO and SL. You've got my support.

[Crab_Spider]

This man is a man's man, he has led me to my death, but I enjoyed it, he's coherent in what he does it I have memorial experiences with him as both an MP and Marine.

[PreacherCini]

Super competent leader. While he may make mistakes when he leads, everyone fucks up, and he learns from them. +1

[Challenger]

+1 and gimme an example of a briefing/IC interaction so I can discover some horrible hidden flaw you were hiding from us that changes our votes
no pressure

[Kiroking]

+1 and gimme an example of a briefing/IC interaction so I can discover some horrible hidden flaw you were hiding from us that changes our votes
no pressure

Been waiting for this,

Alright marines, We are here on Shiva's fucking snowball properly named so because its a fucking ice cube of a planet.

However it is a colonized planet none the less, and its in need of some help which is why we are here.

A few weeks ago the planet sent out a distress signal, Currently we are the first and only responders since any other USCMC ship is months away.

As for the colony itself we currently have received no response to your hails and scans show that their power system is offline, I think its safe to assume the worst men.

And then I go on to detail their assignments and so on.

[Symbiosis]

+1 - but what would you do in a situation where Comms were down and the Marines were taking heavy casualties?

[Kiroking]

+1 - but what would you do in a situation where Comms were down and the Marines were taking heavy casualties?

This is something I have dealt with before and have made plans against, so their are two scenarios here.

First scenario is I don't allow this to happen, either by making sure the marine casualties are minimized or by issuing a tactical retreat order. To Clarify this is not an emergency retreat and evacuate order, But more of a decision to have all 4 squads gather their wounded, dead and any material they can; sentry's, metal, guns, ammo and previously sent down supply drops. Once this is done all squads board their dropships and return to the ship for resupply, medical treatment, debriefing and reforming of the squads if they have lost their leaders. I have pulled this particular tactic twice as XO, It works extremely well and both times the xenos were just as weakened as the marines and made no attempt to stop our retreat and to impatient to wait for me to send the marines back down. Both times I did this ended with Marine victory's as the xenos would hijack a dropship often while I was briefing the marines on our new plan, then crash onto the ship to find every marine in the game combat able and waiting for them with all their gear from the planet.

Now for the second scenario, lets say its on ice colony and the xenos forced a retreat at LZ2 then killed everyone at engineering cutting power to communications.

First off, FUCK!!
Second off, its time for a full evacuation of the planet, The squad at LZ1 is going to be ordered to hold until the DS can get to lZ1 and whatever other squad that was lets just say at tcomms, can get to LZ1 and hopefully flank/breakthrough the incoming xeno onslaught. These orders would come in one of three ways; 1 CIC announcement 2 squad announcement from the over watch console and three a local radio because chances are I might be down their with the marines.

[Dolth]

No offenses meant but.

CM already has plenty of commanders ans currently I don't see how different of the usual we have you are.

Also, praising theories/tactics won't do much over unwilling marines and we both know that. Didn't see anything related to that.

Then your second scenario wields neither professionalism nor good tactics.

And finally I don't remember you being specificly a good lead.

-1.

[Kerek]

No offenses meant but.

CM already has plenty of commanders ans currently I don't see how different of the usual we have you are.

Also, praising theories/tactics won't do much over unwilling marines and we both know that. Didn't see anything related to that.

Then your second scenario wields neither professionalism nor good tactics.

And finally I don't remember you being specificly a good lead.

-1.

For the whole "There are plenty of whitelisted people" thing said, over half the rounds I play on CM theres no commander, and it used to be accesible for anyone, I don't see the point in that part of it.

I've had him in command a fair few times and hes done well and made the round fun, and he damn well tries to do his best.

Just what I thought.

[Kiroking]

No offenses meant but.

CM already has plenty of commanders ans currently I don't see how different of the usual we have you are.

Also, praising theories/tactics won't do much over unwilling marines and we both know that. Didn't see anything related to that.

Then your second scenario wields neither professionalism nor good tactics.

And finally I don't remember you being specificly a good lead.

-1.

If you wouldn't mind telling me what was wrong with the tactics and the scenario, id like your criticism. Also I am assuming my lack of professionalism is in regards to my cursing before the orders, I wrote that as Malcolm would say it cursing about the fact that 1 squad was wiped out and the other crippled in a retreat. In hindsight bad idea I realize that, however when I wrote the response I was playing him during a round.

[Kiroking]

Anyone else? scenarios, votes, questions, or anything?

[Snypehunter007]

Anyone else? scenarios, votes, questions, or anything?

Map: LV-624
Population: High

The CL comes to you demanding that the marines secure a priority asset if the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. The asset has a collar around its neck with the asset's codename: "Wiggles".

They give you the last known location of "Wiggles", the problem is, the marines are in contact with xenos and a being pushed.

What do you do?

(This is a multiple part question depending on your answer)

[Dolth]

Had busy days, sorry for the late answer.

Basicly Malcolm the main issue I find there is you're going too much with utopia. Having plans that might theoricaly works apparently suits everyone, unlike me. The main issue in commanding is the following, marines rarely listen for a wide amount of reasons stretching from the fight taking too much importance, logs being spammed, or just not giving any importance.
Everyone can bring up theories, and even if some are good, your main issue which you are NOT working on is having marines listenning. At least, from what I understand/see.
Then, (according to your second scenario), you don't order one squad to "flank" a "xeno oneslaughter". Unless you want your stranded guys to die, because there's a reason behind them being stranded. Obviously.

Now, my posts wields really nothing personnal with you, I actually don't know you much than that (which is odd btw). But if you aren't brining anything special and keeps to the usual (I am a Commander and I order people to do this that and this!!), that won't work any better than the usual and I dislike it. Anyway, you've got plenty of people vouching for you we'll see by ourselves later on I guess.

Also going planetside is a bad idea.

[Kiroking]

Had busy days, sorry for the late answer.

Basicly Malcolm the main issue I find there is you're going too much with utopia. Having plans that might theoricaly works apparently suits everyone, unlike me. The main issue in commanding is the following, marines rarely listen for a wide amount of reasons stretching from the fight taking too much importance, logs being spammed, or just not giving any importance.
Everyone can bring up theories, and even if some are good, your main issue which you are NOT working on is having marines listenning. At least, from what I understand/see.
Then, (according to your second scenario), you don't order one squad to "flank" a "xeno oneslaughter". Unless you want your stranded guys to die, because there's a reason behind them being stranded. Obviously.

Now, my posts wields really nothing personnal with you, I actually don't know you much than that (which is odd btw). But if you aren't brining anything special and keeps to the usual (I am a Commander and I order people to do this that and this!!), that won't work any better than the usual and I dislike it. Anyway, you've got plenty of people vouching for you we'll see by ourselves later on I guess.

Also going planetside is a bad idea.

I know I am dreaming big, and I have dealt with marines not listening before it happens half the time I play XO its a fact of life if you play command, the thing is the "utopia style" is how I would enjoy playing I am a leader that is just how I am, commanding with an iron fist is just not enjoyable for me.

Those scenarios were nothing that I thought up but instead from rounds I have played. The second scenario came from ice colony where two rounds in a row the squads at LZ2 and engineering were wiped out but the squads at tcomms and LZ1 were alive. The first scenario is one of my own but one that has proved its effectiveness twice and gave me two marine wins as XO, but I know why it worked during these two rounds so its not my go too strategy for every case of defeat or game.

Don't think I am going to to walk into this with some master crafted plan that will surely win the game if the marines listen, because nothing guarantees they will and no plan survives first contact with the enemy.

*Edit* Thanks for coming back with criticism and your reasons for voting against my app.

[Kiroking]

Map: LV-624
Population: High

The CL comes to you demanding that the marines secure a priority asset if the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. The asset has a collar around its neck with the asset's codename: "Wiggles".

They give you the last known location of "Wiggles", the problem is, the marines are in contact with xenos and a being pushed.

What do you do?

(This is a multiple part question depending on your answer)

I would probably squeeze the CL for more information this HVT, then ask him what his Corporation is willing to offer me in order to dispatch a squad that I need on the front lines to find and secure this HVT. Said offer would need to include something valuable enough to this operation that I would put any marines affected by this mission at risk. If he cant its a tertiary objective that I may handle at a later date.

[Snypehunter007]

I would probably squeeze the CL for more information this HVT, then ask him what his Corporation is willing to offer me in order to dispatch a squad that I need on the front lines to find and secure this HVT. Said offer would need to include something valuable enough to this operation that I would put any marines affected by this mission at risk. If he cant its a tertiary objective that I may handle at a later date.

The CL subtly "threatens" you with compliance, though they do offer a monetary compensation of half a million dollars for the service if that is the only thing that will motivate you.

There is a Admin online, so you might be able to trade in some money for something.

[Kiroking]

The CL subtly "threatens" you with compliance, though they do offer a monetary compensation of half a million dollars for the service if that is the only thing that will motivate you.

There is a Admin online, so you might be able to trade in some money for something.

When the CL threatens compliance Malcolm becomes irate, and with a hand resting by his holster he reminds this particular CL who does not seem to know his place that he is just an observer because this is a weyland yutani colony and that if it was up to him the CL office would be a shooting range while the CL himself was left at whatever star port we left from. The conversation is ended with the words "Now shove that bribe up your ass and get the hell out of my CIC, I have a battle to war to win" then he stares at the CL until he leaves.

[Snypehunter007]

When the CL threatens compliance Malcolm becomes irate, and with a hand resting by his holster he reminds this particular CL who does not seem to know his place that he is just an observer because this is a weyland yutani colony and that if it was up to him the CL office would be a shooting range while the CL himself was left at whatever star port we left from. The conversation is ended with the words "Now shove that bribe up your ass and get the hell out of my CIC, I have a battle to war to win" then he stares at the CL until he leaves.

The CL leaves with a scathing glare and whispers harshly, "This isn't over!" Later on, when the marines backed the xenos into a corner, the CL returns to the bridge. They just stand in a corner and observe. Suddenly a proximity warning from A.R.E.S. indicates there is ship boarding the Almayer! You hear gunfire outside of the southern CIC doors.

What do you do?

[Kiroking]

Drawing my weapon, I go over to the doors lockdown the cic, and call available forces to deal with the hostile boarders.

[Kiroking]

And the votes are in thank you everyone who voted, supported or gave me criticism.

[Kiroking]

The CL leaves with a scathing glare and whispers harshly, "This isn't over!" Later on, when the marines backed the xenos into a corner, the CL returns to the bridge. They just stand in a corner and observe. Suddenly a proximity warning from A.R.E.S. indicates there is ship boarding the Almayer! You hear gunfire outside of the southern CIC doors.

What do you do?

Drawing my weapon, I go over to the doors lockdown the cic, and call available forces to deal with the hostile boarders.

[apophis775]

Approved.