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Is the Federation effective as a military in Ground Warfare

yes
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no
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Against the moron's they fight "Form Square" would be all that's needed.
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Rob Wilson wrote:
Malecoda wrote:I don't think any sailors would be offended at someone pointing out that they are not soldiers. It's exactly that failure of division of labor that makes ST suck to high heaven. OK, maybe not exactly, but it's a contributing factor!
That and the use of Command Staff for every type of mission. Why have specialists when you have the Multi-tool officer? :roll:
Command staff for ground/away missions. That is a recipe for disaster that will happen no matter what...
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Against the moron's they fight "Form Square" would be all that's needed.
Yeah, but the twits wouldn't even be able to do that. The "Treknobabble" TM (Courtesy of Mr Wong) would mean they'd all get blasted to bits while still trying to give the command.

Come on, lets face it. The writers of the series are so enamoured with idea of gizmo science, they wouldn't listen to anybody who tried to tell them how to do it properly.
Command staff for ground/away missions. That is a recipe for disaster that will happen no matter what...
Well Baldy and Co have to have their screen time donchewknow. It's there in the contract :P Who cares about reality. This is SnotTrek, we don't need no stinking reality :lol:
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