Why did you choose to mainly play in your specific Squad?

[Garrison]

Personally. I think people just choose squad preference cause they want to be in that squad for the name or the uniform color.

Maybe it's because I'm not much of a talkative marine, with the exception of SO, I've yet to see any consistent pattern in how each squad performs between rounds. To me they are just a assigned group of players with varying levels of robustness, obedience, and equipment load outs between groups/rounds.

[JJG]

Only reason I play delta is hoping for the robustos to be there. If I see a bunch of names I recognize, Murry, Murray, Masamune, Dolth, Kesserline, Hotshot and so on then I will stick with them exclusively. 5 of those guys in a group are probably worth more than 20 marines.

It's when the game becomes fun, because you usually don't get killed by incompetence but because of your own mistakes. It also makes RP a lot more enjoyable. I would happily risk my life in suicide charges to save any of them, but I wouldn't do that for some random baldie anymore. It's just not worth it to risk your life only to be rewarded with PB in the back.

[Hughgent]

I play Medbay Doctor as my squad most of the time. I like it because I am almost guaranteed a full round of gameplay. I'm terribly unrobust at the combat of the game.

But when I want a shorter round, I play medic and set my squad to none. the randomness of what I get assignment wise provides some nice variety.

You're all just health bars to me.

[Mister Jeether]

I play Alpha because If i somehow get set to aSL, they are much more likely to follow my orders then any other squad. Just look at delta, If you are a "who the hell are you?", They are likely gonna ignore you, while Command yells at you because "WHY IS DELTA NOT ON (insert location Here)".

[Griffith78]

i like delta because they have a lot of regulars, also they seem to get more action than other squads

[Gigazer]

Alpha, since it was the first squad I've been in and as well as had some shenanigans with some players in that squad, though not as friends but more as meet them and somehow created a bizarre situation. It is also a good place to practice equipment load-outs, attempting to git gud, and as well trying out other roles without too many expectations at the very least.

Besides, I could see that there are more Delta, Charlie, and Bravo mains than Alpha.... so yeah, just supporting the little guys.

[jackrkazi]

Alpha then Bravo. I was hoping to get sent to the front but we always get set on FOB duty.

Thing is I love running into people I’ve met from other sessions randomly, always sparks some nice RP moments. Extra points if we’re on FOB duty and have nothing to do but stand around and talk.

Once spent a whole round RPing with two random PFCs at the FOB while we listened to everyone else get mauled over comms.

[Huebone]

When I made my first character I went in depth and picked Charlie as my default squad. I never changed it.

Edit: Also. If you leave your squad preference to random, you are scum.

[Jarek]

Delta because rarely if ever do they get fob, and when they do it's never permanent. Sometimes Delta even gets priority Req line treatment and a faster deployment time than anyone else. Only as PFC though.

As literally any other squad role it's charlie, because they're basically delta but they actually listen to more than the sounds of gunfire and xeno screeches.

[Karmac]

Back when we were on the Sulaco and you got a random squad whenever you joined, I frequently got Delta, and back then it used to frequently consist of fairly robust marines as well as many folks that'd come to be good friends to me. Ever since I always saw Delta as the squad for me, stuck with it when they added the option to select a preferred squad and still do.

It's nowhere near as good or as reliable as it used to be, but most of the lads like John 'Spartan' Murry and such still roll in it, even if I have no idea who anyone else is, so it's got that going for it.

[David Stormwell]

Only reason I play delta is hoping for the robustos to be there. If I see a bunch of names I recognize, Murry, Murray, Masamune, Dolth, Kesserline, Hotshot and so on then I will stick with them exclusively. 5 of those guys in a group are probably worth more than 20 marines.

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Yea, these Marines including Jules and Warden are pretty dam Robust, although seeing them get C*cky is a pretty normal. And Even just anyone Who've I've seen in more then 10 gameplay sessions I'll risk my life to save.

But having some Random PFC is Always a warming feeling, having someone watch your back and if they don't ff you or run off is awesome.
Just be a brave person no matter what squad your in.

[JJG]

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Just be a brave person no matter what squad your in.

It's not that I dislike dying, that doesn't get me salty. But I dislike stupid deaths. Getting PB'bed in the back by some rando PFC after you tried to save his neurod squadmade, only to then just be left at the frontline to get dragged away 10 minutes after deployment is not fun.
Or having one alien walk into a group of 5 marines to neuro you and pull you away without any marine firing even a single shot, that is not fun either and it happens too often.

[Madventurer]

Mostly play with No Preference nowadays, since it doesn't make that much of a difference as a medic anyways: It always devolve into a mess when the frontline forms.

[carlarc]

Delta is my favorite squad, because not only it has about 60-80% of the combatant regulars I like to play with, but also because on Edwin I'm an unga dumb ass motherfucker and half the time I'm not gonna obey orders, so I go delta to make sure nobody expects that much of me. Delta also occasionally gets a lot of fun toys from command, unga rushes the hive at 12:20. (A lot less funny from the other side) I occasionally get other squads if I get non-PFC, but they're not as fun to be in when any of the things i typed out happen.

[TopeyDopey]

Red is nice.

Red is life

[Dolth]

It's nowhere near as good or as reliable as it used to be, but most of the lads like John 'Spartan' Murry and such still roll in it, even if I have no idea who anyone else is, so it's got that going for it.

<- Rolling delta since march/april 2015.

[Dorkkeli]

I play Bravo mostly nowadays, Delta got too blue (daba dee) for my liking. Chill, obedient muhreens all around.

[Pixcellent]

There was no contest. Yellow is in.

[Grubstank]

I don't presently play with a squad preference enabled (I like the variety drifting between squads) but delta has been one of my favorites to play recently. It's nice to have people behind you any time you senselessly unga rush in a particular direction looking for kills. I find that in other squads, the PFCs won't have my back if I initiate some sort of aggressive action -- even if that action is our standing order

[conthegodoffire]

Always been an Alpha guy, we da best.

[Drevenshekel]

When I first started playin CM I chose charlie because I like purple, then you sorta just grow into your squad as you make buddies and earn some personal renown. Charlie definitely has a certain "culture" to it that I enjoy, a good mix of RP marines and robust ungas.

[Avalanchee]

I started in Charlie, they are not retarded but they are not clever either.

When I got better at CMs I started maining delta, it wasn't a big change because back in the day C & D usually had the same orders according to the casual 'masked metarush meta' (Max sex/Crashed ship scouting, ETA/Lambda..)

And yeah, I played Delta for like a year now and like.. 2 months back I also started playing Bravo cause' Lyla Bennett and Mudder - call it metabuddying whatever, I like to cooperate with people I trust.

[simonset55]

Call me dad of bravo

Except i don't leave you when i have to go get cigarettes

[TopeyDopey]

Alpha gang

[CABAL]

Attachement to this squad by good frist impressions. When I first started playing, I played every squad just by pure RNG and as a newcomer baldie nobody cared to talk, help with mechanics and shit. Untill RNGesus dropped me into Delta. Robust players and medic who provided first defib.
I remember his name to this day: Tracee (I guess this is how this name is written?) "Angel" Parker.
Then it became habbit, Delta never got FOB, so that's enough for me.
I can't also forget that ICE round where I was SG that was a little bit too cocky and got captured by two xenos. Who mobilised themselfs and came to my rescue in underground? Delta. One of my rescuers said something like: "If you were Charlie, I wouldn't bother."