Maeglin Dubh said:
The problem with Star Trek is that land combat is boring. The Federation Military is just a sidebar to their Starfleet, and their lack of personal armor, ergonomically appropriate handheld weaponry, artillery, armored vehicles, and any form of grenade are just signs of their impending defeat by the Empire.
A Trek mod could be done, but you might want to enhance the factions' ground capabilities a bit. Its not as bad as you say, however.
Going just from memory, ground forces include:
Federation (24th century): ordinary officers with phaser pistols, marines/commandos/security with phaser rifles, what appear to be grenade launchers (
Insurrection), some odd kind of jeep (
Nemesis), and some bizzar type of transporter-using gun from DS9, if I recall correctly.
Klingons: melee and ranged infantry, light artillery. Might be some refferences to Klingon ground vehicles, but I don't think they've ever been seen.
Romulans: ok, they're every bit as bad at ground warfare as what you described above.
Especially sad since they're quite good at intelligence and space warfare.
Federation (23rd century): phaser pistols and rifles, limited body armor and helmets, possibly light artillery (didn't Kirk use a mortar once?)
It would be nice if you could include the Borg, but I don't know how you could incorporate assimilation into a mod.
