Ironik

That sort of thing does happen from time to time for covert ("black ops") soldiers. A perfect real-life example is that of Lt. Col. Robert Howard, whose decorations as Sergeant were modified because of the secret nature of his operations. From what I understand, he took his orders directly from superior officers outside the direct chain of command, what in today's corporate culture would be termed a "dotted line direct report." Officially he gets his orders from his direct superior, but in practice he gets his orders from the General.

My friend's dad had a similar situation when he was with FTD at Wright-Pat. (No, not the florists, the Foreign Technology Division. ) They worked in secret, so they actually received orders from someone other than their direct bosses.

It largely depends on the circumstances (mainly combat) and the era. In the US, there were a lot fighting Generals and Colonels through the years, decreasing as we get to the modern era. For example, Colonel Robert Gould Shaw (see the movie Glory) and General George Armstrong Custer, both fought in the Civil War at those ranks.

However, the most decorated US soldier of WWII was Army Captain Matt Urban who was often in the thick of battle. The two other most decorated soldiers were Army Private Audie Murphy (WW II) and Army Sergeant Robert Howard (Viet Nam). During WWII, Murphy was promoted up through the ranks until he became a 1st Lieutenant. He fought in battle at each rank level.

Lt. Col. William Darby was responsible for establishing the Army Rangers, and fought in combat at that rank. A couple years later he was killed in action while a General, after assuming command when the Brigadier General he was serving under was likewise killed.

In WWII, General Frank Merrill of "Merrill's Marauders" fame was a fighting general in the newly-established Army Rangers. (I see his commemorative sign all the time here in New Hampshire.) It should also be noted that Merrill's Marauders were the source of stories like The Dirty Dozen. That's because a number of the soldiers who volunteered did so to get out of the stockades or jails and went on dangerous, out-of-the-ordinary missions. So sometimes the movies do have a basis in reality.

If we don't get the two zones of space station and moon+moonbase, at the least I'd like to see the addition of three or four new tilesets for maps. With none of them being caves, please.

I'm hoping it will be like MA and SS, where we'll be able to choose different animations. I'd certainly make a character who used the flashier animations, but I also agree that a more subdued workmanlike version would be excellent to have, as well. I would build characters around each of those concepts.

punkguta also has a number of sculptors in his favorites list.

And this is why choice is good.

I hope this doesn't mean they are going to forswear a street fighter set, because I'd love to make a Scrapper(/Tank/Brute) who is a ghetto god back alley brawler.

On a related note, I changed Quickthorn's spines from the fugly originals to the supercool metal spikes, and now he looks just as I had imagined during his creation five years ago. The original spines were so repulsive to me that I didn't play him for the first couple years after his creation. Now he just looks awesome.

SS too? My my! I will have to log in Minotaurus and take a looksee.

I have long (as in 4 years) had Elvis as an alternate costume for Ironik, so I switched all the attacks over on that costume. With a gold color, they look awesome. That was a fun little Easter egg.