“Each trade has their longstanding professional dilemmas. Every Fire Support officer wonders if one day, sooner or later, they’ll have to call in an airstrike on their own position to save the rest of their unit. Not a decision to be taken lightly, and particularly not with White Phosphorus. It was, apparently, a decision Stoker was happy to make. When he talks about what incendiary explosives can do, listen to him. He knows what he’s talking about. Quite what such a formerly senior officer is doing working as a humble frontline mercenary is anyone’s guess.”
So what did he do? Called an airstrike on himself? But he doesn’t have access to airstrikes.
And how does that tie to molotovs? Basically I think it is kind of bad the way this was phrased.
Stoker's lore
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As I understand his position, he was once a fire support specialist who had to choose between sacrificing his own fire team, or letting the whole platoon eat a d*ck. He chose to phosphorus bomb his own men for the bigger picture. Logically speaking it was the rational thing to do, but most men (understandably) wouldn’t have the gall.
Its not stupid because he was a former fire support officer. Just because he uses molotovs in the game and doesn’t have any airstrikes, doesn’t mean he couldnt have before.
That implies he wiped out his team with White Phosphorus, which is highly flammable on contact with air
That implies he wiped out his team with White Phosphorus, which is highly flammable on contact with air
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No, he sent the airstrike onto his own position to save his team.
That implies he wiped out his team with White Phosphorus, which is highly flammable on contact with air
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No, he sent the airstrike onto his own position to save his team.[/quote]
The only thing that bothers me is that his face is perfectly intact. You would think that him wearing the gas mask and his lore would imply that he burnt himself to a crisp. Nope. There s a thread where they took the mask off his model and hes completely fine. Unless of course they just didn’t bother modeling his face much because it wouldn’t be seen normally.
That implies he wiped out his team with White Phosphorus, which is highly flammable on contact with air
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No, he sent the airstrike onto his own position to save his team.[/quote]
Or an airstrike utilizing White Phosphorus. That’s a possible tie in. He also has an antenna sticking out of his back.
That implies he wiped out his team with White Phosphorus, which is highly flammable on contact with air
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No, he sent the airstrike onto his own position to save his team.[/quote]
The only thing that bothers me is that his face is perfectly intact. You would think that him wearing the gas mask and his lore would imply that he burnt himself to a crisp. Nope. There s a thread where they took the mask off his model and hes completely fine. Unless of course they just didn’t bother modeling his face much because it wouldn’t be seen normally.[/quote]
Yeah they probably didn’t model his face to have the scars tbh. I know in some of the past artworks or whatnot for him, he has burn scars on the side of his face and ears. [quote=“streetwiseSailboat;109493”][quote=“Octosquid;108420”][quote=“streetwiseSailboat;108356”][quote=“steelMailbox;20072”]"Not a decision to be taken lightly, and particularly not with White Phosphorus.[/quote]
That implies he wiped out his team with White Phosphorus, which is highly flammable on contact with air
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No, he sent the airstrike onto his own position to save his team.[/quote]
Or an airstrike utilizing White Phosphorus. That’s a possible tie in. He also has an antenna sticking out of his back.[/quote]
Nah not or, he did send an airstrike containing white phosphorus at himself.
[quote=“steelMailbox;20072”]“Each trade has their longstanding professional dilemmas. Every Fire Support officer wonders if one day, sooner or later, they’ll have to call in an airstrike on their own position to save the rest of their unit. Not a decision to be taken lightly, and particularly not with White Phosphorus. It was, apparently, a decision Stoker was happy to make. When he talks about what incendiary explosives can do, listen to him. He knows what he’s talking about. Quite what such a formerly senior officer is doing working as a humble frontline mercenary is anyone’s guess.”
So what did he do? Called an airstrike on himself? But he doesn’t have access to airstrikes.
And how does that tie to molotovs? Basically I think it is kind of bad the way this was phrased.[/quote]
That was before the London Dirty Bomb event, probably he doesn’t have a supplier or team of drones like Arty and Skyhammer or a Satelite like Kira and loves his molotovs because he’s a pyromaniac. (Even if they’re not traditional molotovs, I’m guessing making those would be cheaper than drones and payloads they drop)
Many characters in media that are depicted as pyromaniacs suffered from horrific and traumatizing burns themselves, they want their enemies to feel what they felt.
His mask could be just to cover a scarred face (Could someone show me how to spawn a character model? because Phantom actually has a face behind his mask, maybe Stoker too?)
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His mask could be just to cover a scarred face (Could someone show me how to spawn a character model? because Phantom actually has a face behind his mask, maybe Stoker too?)[/quote]
Phantom has a face behind his mask? Do you have any pics? Because that would be so cool.