Yeah, but you can easily say that:
A: The shipside staff, MPs, and officers are not convicts. The ship itself is not in the hands of the actual rabble, they're just the ones being sent to the ground.
B: It would explain why the single tank is an old rustbucket and the Captain needs to get special authorization from the DEFCON system in order to: get OB shells, get a proper tank cannon, allow Req to bring up more supplies from the hold.
There is a strict, computerized system which determines how much of the equipment onboard the ship is actually allowed to be used. In a normal unit you'd think that, even were this system in place, the Captain would be allowed to authorize the use of more supplies in an emergency without needing to wait for a computer. But he can't, and the only explanation for that which makes sense is that HC cares more about saving money and supplies than they do about the actual lives of the marines on the ship. And that makes more sense if it's established that these marines are the dregs, and they're also worried about what they would do with that equipment. "You can't have a proper tank cannon because the computer says you don't need it" only makes sense if there's also the consideration of "the risk of these guys turning it back on the MPs is higher than the reward of letting them use it".
The main problem is that they don't really need that; the Marines get enough power behind them that it'd be child's play for them to overthrow command if they really wanted to. The tank alone could easily demolish CIC, and even if the TOs are loyal you still have the problem of the specs, especially grenadiers, the SGers (who are decently effective against groups due to the sheer amount of dakka they put out), and superior numbers in general.
I would not trust a convicted felon with a flamethrower.
Well if Falling Falcons are a penal battalion that means that all PFC are convicts that were given the choice of serving as marines or a execution.
A CM penal battalion concept is stupid, insane, and utterly at odds with the universe, reality, logic and sanity.
Colonial Marines, not Warhammer 40k.
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I always saw The USS Almayer as the worst the USCM has to offer, used more as a punishment destination for troublemakers, useless and outcast marines. Always sent to the most dangerous missions and assignments just to get rid of them but somehow they�ve managed to success all the way to *the current round*
Am I the only one who dislikes the results of this test? Rounds are much more meta and SL and SO seems like joke roles now cause almost everybody ungas.