Lets create the Battalion
By
Knightward,
Posted on: 2012-09-18 05:53 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Sweet Zombie Jesus is that evil! No wonder they're a galactic menace!
Actually they already exist, they are from Korea and their cover is a mmo company called NCsoft......jus sayin..
A few ideas that I posted back in the golden days to differentiate them from other alien invaders, like the Rikti or the Nictus, all of which I still would've loved to see:
- The Battalion are silly. They're over-the-top hokey stereotypes of pop culture: pirates with peg-legs and parrots, or perhaps rugged-looking space cowboys who all look like clones of John Wayne. Or maybe just junk food mascots expanded to one hundred feet tall. Regardless, despite the fact that their appearances look like something people would never take seriously, they're just as nasty a threat as has always been promised.
- The Battalion are a fakeout. They'd last for one issue, maybe less, before it was revealed the real threat was stemming from the mass numbers of Incarnates freshly minted in preparation for their coming. The real "Coming Storm" was actually not the aliens themselves, but the Incarnate war between McDreamy and Poppa Smurf.
- The Battalion are doppelgangers. Since they've spent their history crossing space/time to devour Wells of other races and realms of possibility, they had cast off their physical forms and simply took the form of "strength". In order to represent this, enemies and even Arch-Villains in raids against them would share the appearance with players in the League fighting them.
I always thought these were kind of neat ideas, and was pretty sure the ones that actually appeared would be kind of generic and disappointing. I admit I would've taken generic to "never getting to appear, though". But yeah, those were my thoughts.
Its time for the forum to step in and do what we always wanted. Time to create the Battalion!
The Battalion melee minion has player character melee. They pick up a character and start swinging at walls. floors or other players. They have 4 robotic extra arms with Axe attacks. One is an Axe, the second is a bigger Axe, the third is a huge Axe, the fourth is a gigantic Axe. After defeating a melee minion players will begin to hear Nickelback in their heads.