A cutting op is when a ship runs interdiction on another ship by putting a boat in the water and boarding it. So I ask, what would be a more effective boarding party, a squad of ST troops, or a few Coasties/Navy boys?
Also, what if the 2 teams were racing to board a ship and had a
confrontation? Who gets dunked? What if the navy team was a marine detachment?
This would all be at sea, because it provides some more challenge then the usual ground fight. You've got to make the other ship heave to, then put a boat in the water, then haul ass to the ship without capsizing, tie off the boat, get aboard against some hostiles who would most likely be armed with fireaxes and wrenches, or whatever else is lying around (guns not too likely but very possible--this leads to another variation: is it a merchant ship, or a drug smuggler? You get the idea) and secure the ship. Which is the better navy?
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Anyway, one question. Will the ST team be using modern equipment, or Fed equipment (e.g. phasers)?
Anyway, one question. Will the ST team be using modern equipment, or Fed equipment (e.g. phasers)?
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You're joking, right? The ST force would be lucky to figure out how to direct the boat, considering the lack of touchscreens.
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Oh, the feddies use their regular shit. I wonder if they have any heavier equipment, such as body armor, and if so, they can use that too.
Hmmm, good point abt their piloting ability. OK, put them in the care of a navy Ensign and let them have a real coxswain (driver). The rest would have to be up to them. Which means they'd have to follow orders without philosophizing, and somehow get in and out of the boat without getting crushed.
I'm trying not to say too much or show bias, but your questions made it too difficult
Hmmm, good point abt their piloting ability. OK, put them in the care of a navy Ensign and let them have a real coxswain (driver). The rest would have to be up to them. Which means they'd have to follow orders without philosophizing, and somehow get in and out of the boat without getting crushed.
I'm trying not to say too much or show bias, but your questions made it too difficult
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What's the sea state? In any kind of weather the ST 'troops' are going to get themselves killed just climbing from the boat and onto the ship.
As for the effectiveness of the troops post-boarding, ST 'troops' have so little experince in close quarters fighting that one man with a fireaxe could clean their clocks in fairly short order. This is particularly true if the boarding party consists entirely of redshirts, which as we all know can be killed by anything and everything.
The coasties will do much, much better than Starfleet on account of their superior training, tactics, intelligence, and weapons.
The results of any contest between Uncle Sam's Misguided Children and Starfleet 'infantry' are so much of a foregone conclusion that I'm not even going to address the point.
As for the effectiveness of the troops post-boarding, ST 'troops' have so little experince in close quarters fighting that one man with a fireaxe could clean their clocks in fairly short order. This is particularly true if the boarding party consists entirely of redshirts, which as we all know can be killed by anything and everything.
The coasties will do much, much better than Starfleet on account of their superior training, tactics, intelligence, and weapons.
The results of any contest between Uncle Sam's Misguided Children and Starfleet 'infantry' are so much of a foregone conclusion that I'm not even going to address the point.
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