United States Colonial Marine Corps | Alien 

Look into my eye!

>Lebanon II I feel like this was a shout out to the Marines in Lebanon in the 1980s. >Canadian Colonial forces yay we got a mention lmao

Sounds like my SGT. 🙄

How do people feed themselves and the fleet in space?

"How do I get outta this chickenshit outfit?" 😁

Well... bit of a cheat... but remember how one Yautja clan ship ripped their transport appart with first salvo? :D

Morgan Freeman: "There was, in fact, something they couldn't handle."

The air-vents chitter in Xenomorph.

Yeah about that 🙄

Tbf to the platoon in Aliens, the incompetent leadership of Ripley, Gorman and Apone was most of their problem. Sending soldiers deep into enemy lines (into a de facto ambush) then taking away their weapons is going to screw any force over.

I love the corps!

until the xeno animals cut off the light...

@@waldirnacarath “Whaddya mean they cut the power? They’re animals!”

Giddawn th' ready-line!

And every Xenomorph encounter a slaughter

I assume that's how it would be done if assignments in space would become a reality. never change a winning team. and the usmc is one winning team.

@@phreakazoith2237 i had a little chuckle at the "six tank brigades"

Semper Fi Marine. And yup, pretty much.

I thought that was because it's the exact same organization just two centuries later and with more countries in the United States.

@@paulochikuta330 yeah, we just got rid of our tank battalions. Seems like you were referring to that.

The Lizardmen **Empire**?

They did hydra

Sad that in Frontlines we don't get much info on the SRA's lore. Maybe they can colab with the author again..

Personally I would love to see the different Protoss factions.

It's nice to see frontlines being mentioned in the wild!

I didn't think of that until now. Thats badass idea. In 2021 the Corps is a branch of the navy so the UNSC would include the Corps so it could be possible in another universe lol 😆

I mean, it's not really that helpful when the enemy can field a fleet for every one of your ships-of-the-line, always gains orbital supremacy, and responds to losing ground wars by rendering planets uninhabitable.

@@UnreasonableOpinions Yeah the UNSC manages to hold its own on the ground regardless. Space is where they really need a leg-up.

The UNSC troops are little better than untrained school girls. In the Halo series the Master Chief has to work almost alone because all the marines are useless.

Best part is that the only warship we see is nothing but a glorified amazon delivery drone. The US is so rich in can have a space transport drop off ONE platoon of space jar heads.

Like bolters from WH40k but smaller, faster-firing and with a larger ammo count

Spot on. Games like Aliens: Colonial Marines and even the newer Aliens: Fireteam Elite do not understand what the Pulse Rifle is. It’s not just a futuristic sci fi M4. This is a game changer. There would not be submachine guns or what have you post this thing. The Pulse Rifle ticks almost every box for military small arms it can. The Smart Gun even would be more of an anti-technical, overwatch platform more than anything. The M41A pulse rifle is a sub machine gun, a rifle, a squad automatic weapon and can also provide grenadier capability. As you said above these things have a 95 round magazine. That’s insane. The technical manual even has Marines using the grenade launcher as a pocket mortar. Hicks bringing a shotgun wouldn’t have even made real sense. He just likes extra weight. Even the flamethrowers would be situational at best in the face of the pulse rifle. When it comes to sci fi weaponry, the Pulse rifle is up there with Star Treks phaser and Judge Dreads lawgiver. True evolutionary weapons.

@@ilikesaying In effect, pretty much. However, Bolters in 40k are distinct in that their rounds are also propelled by jet fuel for extended/consistent ranged performance. There's normal propellant pushing it out of the gun, and then the bullet's thrusters propels itself after leaving the barrel.

@@stephenbolding8094 And all it took was a Thompson sub machine gun with a shotgun kit bashed underneath it

It RIPS Xenos to shreds

Well they technically did that for like half of Aliens Colonial Marines but I'm not sure anyone thinks that game counts.

@@aloden500 nope.... that game never existed....

@@Menaceblue3 Yes it *still exists* and I do play it. Okay that's not important. IF GEARBOX wouldn't have messed the game up it would have been an amazing title.

@@aloden500 Yes against Weyland Yutani PMCs... Marines way better.

The Colonial Marine Tech Manual goes over the USCMC's organization, weaponry tactics and doctrine. If your a Colonial Marine fanboy, you have to read it

Lookinnahmyeye!

Ah, corporatist dystopia, the Weyland Yutani Corporate execs must be reveling in their immunity, behind closed doors.

Perfect.

United Fruit Company Marine Corps.

​@@NODnuke45Well, Weyland-Yutani is technically not immune, they just cover up their tracks very carefully

And the UNSC Marines from Halo.

Even in Fallout, the US military’s combat armor was pretty similar to that of the Colonial Marines.

And the Imperial Guardsmen in warhammer

@@matthewhenderson8874 i want to send some guardsmen into a spacehulk

and the mobile infantry from starship troopers

Fanfic writers: "Allow us to introduce ourselves."

@@rexlumontad5644 yeah but it's not the same as seeing it on the big screen as canon.

@@michaelclarke3485 Oh ok but who would be willing to convince Ridley to make a movie or tv series exploring about those factions? Unless they pull a George Lucas who sold Star Wars to Disney and Disney has full reign of the franchise.

@@rexlumontad5644 well Blomkamp was set to make a new alien film exploring a bunch of new things maybe even going deeper into the universe set up. But Ridley killed it off because he wanted to make Prometheus. So there was a possibility it might have went somewhere.

@@michaelclarke3485 I see and man Ridley is a fool for not realizing the untapped goldmine to world build those organizations.

The Worf Effect. It's why, paradoxically the BadassTakeNoSh*tLatina dies in every movie of that nature.

In fairness the group frim Aliens was MASSIVELY understregth, probably intentionally by the corp

We are tough , I was killed by a support beam , a support beam FFS !

At least in Aliens it was probably intentional. They sent enough forces to confirm it was the Xenomorph species attack they had been presumably hoping for since they established a colony right next to the Xenomorph egg ship, made sure it didn't have the heavy support, numbers or specialist tools they would need to actually wipe out however many xenomorphs were made, but stand a reasonable chance of having enough survive first contact to get an infected individual or two back to the ship. All you need is to make sure the android declares the facehugged person needs to be put in cryo for medical reasons, and then as long as your android lives long enough to take off and get out, it's mission accomplished. Hell the part where they are a low-discipline ragtag team makes sense here - it would be the easiest group to blame if they got killed off for lack of support , as clearly it was a discipline issue. And if the main witness to WY's activities on the planet happens to also die in a suicide mission they can justify her going on, perfect.

An under strength under equipped unit with zero intel and outnumbered 200-1 under the command of a reserve washout and a corporate lackey who was actively sabotaging their mission. Is ambushed in close quarters by an enemy that is able to blend with the environment and is in an area that restricts their ability to use heavy/supporting firepower. That said unit still manages to wage a fight so bloody that the Xenos at the end didn't have enough guards left to protect their own hive says a hell of a lot in favor of those Marines abilities.

Anglo is English, not American. They did probably repeat the Chinese.

Who knows? If Ripley and Vasquez are typical women, maybe that timeline has more badass women than men.

@@FieryCheeze Because we see 12 Marines on screen in Aliens, in a 2:1 ratio of men to women. If the ratio in the overall Corps is 1:2.6, that would be highly unlikely. Also taking into consideration that in the real world current day military forces skew heavily male -- 1:12 in the US Marines, 1:6 across all branches. From a storytelling perspective, you wouldn't flip that around in the fictional setting and then show a group of Marines that's mostly male unless it's a major story point.

@@westrim The American and Chinese arms are separate, anyways; I wasn't saying that the Anglo-Chinese arm was the same as both the American and Chinese arms. It just seemed unlikely that China was meant to have both a Chinese arm and an Anglo-Chinese arm.

@@westrim anglo typically refers to any natively english speaking person

somebody wake up Hicks

That Technical Manual had some of the best fluff material in it.

@@species3167 actually that was from the aliens director's cut version. It was one of the few movies that benefits from the additional 20 minutes.

ooh now this is actually interesting, half decent show too

@@nikkity5491 yeah. Just wrapped up my binge with Seasons 1 to 3. Gonna start up with Season 4. And eventually...Season 5.

@@scarecrow108productions7 4 and 5 are ok , but aren't as strong as the other three at least to me

The setting of the book was much better than whatever the hell they did.

That's army, marines live off sheer bloodlust for civilian casualties

OORAHH

I've been waiting for this movie

Disney supposedly doing something with the franchise but don’t know what, I read they wanna reboot the first movie, god I hope not.

@@Jamal7070 oh god no

It's a guilty pleasure of mine as well. The customization is was great.

Apone: You secure that shit, Hudson!

Don't forget the Colonial Marines Technical Manual and the novelization by (who else?) Alan Dean Foster.

"You secure that sh*t Hudson!"

1986, original Alien was in 1979.

It is true that we never actually see any Navy personnel aboard the Sulaco, but that's probably because the movie focuses solely on Ripley and the Marines. The sailors (spacers?) were probably just doing their jobs off screen, and keep in mind that the Conestoga-class relies extensively on automated systems, which means that the only Navy personnel aboard would be the bare minimum required for the ship to run efficiently, and there's also the possiblity that they were androids commanded by a human officer.

@@TruePacifist201 I always though that, given it’s the future, the ship was almost entirely autonomous. So it just freed up everyone else for ground operations.