Does anyone run a "Phalanx"(/SD team)?

Yeah, the spartans done well, until the leader started letting everyone and their mom into the damn group and completely decimated the concept.

If you were to run a phalanx style team, what would your concept behind it be?

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TBH I hadn't given a concept much thought. Actually, I haven't done any RP in Cox before, or in many years actually. I was mostly using the term 'phalanx' loosely; thinking it might be fun to try to mow through stuff with a group of shielders for kicks.

Of course there's the possibility that I play on Virtue out of some subconscious desire to do a little RP for nostalgia's sake, and some interesting ideas popped into my mind:

I don't know the GR backstory very well, but it seems there's some dimensional travel involved in Cole's various nefarious activities; perhaps in one of these excursions his agents captured many Cimeroran's and brought the back to places like the BAF (or worse). A few soldier's manage to escape and now must work under the radar in a foreign land to discover Cole's plans and how it affects their homeworld. Rescuing other captives would make for another possibility. I'm also not sure how aware Cimeroran's are of Paragon - the general military/citizenry that is, so there's the process of discovering that as well. Then there's the return home (and subsequent ITF, because really, who better to beat Rommy than some returning hometown heroes) One advantage here is that we could have all 3 ATs available. OTOH it wouldn't necessarily have to be an all shield team, since there are probably ways to simulate a particularly powerful Immunes of some sort or another.

I think the man-hole cover is universal, and I've wanted to do a costume with that for a while on my brute, just for kicks. One way to work that would be using one of the gang groups in Paragon, or several. Some sort of special "problem solving" team for the Trolls or Warriors would be kinda hilarious. IIRC not too hard to approximate a costume like that? It could also just be a group of folks who took matters into their own hands.

Vikings, Barbarians, probably some other historical/mythological groups that could be a basis. You guys did Spartans already, so I'll leave that be.

I'm trying to think of concepts that could easily include power sets like elec, dark, etc. Most of those, if one were to be strict about concept, would probably rule out some sets? I don't really know the norm for something like that.

Oooh, I just thought of something else - maybe there is like a robot fight league (Clockwork for gold-side), but a few of the bots revolt and escape, there are tech/science ways to RP just about any powers I'd imagine.

I'm open to ideas though, would be cool to hear if anyone had a concept in the back of their mind.

I can't really think of a concept team that my shield brute would fit into though, that would be more of a "let's get together and stomp some TF #$% from time to time" sort of thing.

Actually that sounds pretty cool. Something about "goldside" appeals to my closet revolutionary.

Been rolling around a few ideas based on that, but nothing solid character wise at the moment. I like the idea of the leader/mentor having the literal shield, and by passing along his knowledge to a set of previously scattered and disorganized youngsters he's acting on the idea of a metaphorical shield as well.

It also gives a bit of flexibility for individual back stories - how they came to be a student of the shield, within certain boundaries, seems fairly open. Some could be Resistance or Destroyers, others could come from no particular group - I had one idea that had a young mutant who seems powerless (completely unaware of powers) until the first time he picked up a sword, and that event leads to him being on the run, hiding in the sewers until he encounters the leader of this group. Just a thought though.

@Infernus, you have plans to go redside with him at any point? Not that it matters for the above, but just for general teaming.

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