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Just been reading the grens idea thread, Thanks Raiden!  :P

They've been talking about brotherhood and all that sort of stuff and in it came out the Dragoon battle partners idea.
I like this idea and think we should designate partners for each Dragoon.

As not everyone is on at the same time you won't always have your partners for events, in which event you can compromise like have three's or take someone else who's partner isn't around.
I think it would be cool and a great way of rp bonding with other Dragoons if they were your official battle partner.

That already is part of the squad, if you read the website, the paired fighting course is a requirement to gain rank in the Dragoons.

Vince is known for little more than his arrogance and ability to fight. His arrogance stems not from his ability, but the fact he is a Dragoon.

Personally, I think all Dragoons should have a fraction of corruptness in them, thinking in the back of their minds they are better than the 'rest' of the guardsmen. This is just an idea, but instead of roleplaying being in a great squad in a powerful army, I think it should be played as we're a powerful army 'assisting' a powerful army. All orders and rules would of course still be followed and dicipline is a must, but arrogance and a hint of defiance, I think, is appropriate for us.

Also, before the Dragoons were formed and Joe was explaining the concept to me, It felt a little familiar, like I was hearing about the Beseigers. Of course, we're better (  ;D ) But I think the brotherhood aspect is a strong part of the squad that was meant to be felt, but to me, isn't, i.e. Dragoon Brothers over everyone else, Squad comes first, etc.

Feedback :D

Oh, and I thought this was super cool, quoted from Vince Valentine in the Gren thread:

"Obviously this is the Dragoons way, we've all seen Vinny and th' Joe storm into a horde of enemies, competing to see who can take down the most."

1337 is us :D

-Vinny

Can someone give me the Dragoons website...
I seam to have an old one.

The Dragoon Website (Currently needs updating) (http://pieman.sonnexh.com/Dragoons/Home.htm)

Aye, in desperate need of updating. by the Website's standards, Vince is supposed to be first class :D

Another idea... standardisation of horse colours.
Having all the same colour horse would make things look better when lining up on horse back and such.

A couple of points a few of us had a talk about and we should cover here:

Respect and Discipline - Not just in combat and on the battle field, true, Dragoons are the some of the toughest fighters here but there are other aspects that need to be covered in order for us to stay ahead in the quality department. Respect for eachother as a dragoon and respect for the superiors or "the chain of command", now that doesnt mean turn into an emotionless social retard and bitch at people, it means follow the rules and listen to orders. This isnt a personal attack and isnt aimed at one perticular person, we all have traits of the above, lets just try and perfect it.

The Dragoon Catchphrase/Motto - We'll now be using a catchphrase thought up in game, aswell as the hand signals for orders and such, more details will follow in an in-game meeting.

Discuss people!

Wouldn't it be a nice idea to have some sort of special dragoon game? A game that entertains people but improves dragoons horse riding skills too? We could like build a small obstacle course made out of crates and the one moving fastest trough it wins? Could add a few objectives to it as well, just to make it harder.

Could hold a monthly jousting torny for the dragoons....

Could get a civy char as a horse trainer....
Role would be too train horses for the coming recruits, Squad would pay them a certain amount of Dubloons per horse trained.
It would give the horse more of a military feel and then if you leave them outside the barracks they might not die from some random snake...

It would have to be sorted out with the civy element if it is excepted.

A new way to identify the class of a Dragoon.  Such as an apprentice has the normal tan belt, and the Dragoon Master has a Dark Black Belt.  Sort of a way to signify combat ability much like Martial Arts belts.

That's not a bad idea..

Agreed, it is an interesting idea.

Imagining this was adopted by all squads as I suggested on the Grenadier Ideas Thread, for the purpose of representing inner-squad experience etc. (as you could have a Junior Grenadier having served as one much longer than a Regular), what would ordinary, unsquaded guardsmen do?

One problem with the belt idfea is that juniors don't wear belts.

Oh. And that too. I suppose that's the idea out the window then. :P

Well guess we should get all Juniors to regular.  Not like it's that hard to do anyways.  Can't throw an idea out if there's one problem with it. 

Kill all the juniors?

I rather dislike this idea. Respect through the squad should be just that, the class system is great, I like it, but expressing it through belt colors, I hate. Respect for a higher class ranking should be within the group of people lucky enough to know it, it shouldn't be expressed through belt colors to the rest of the covain force where people who are not apart of the Dragoons would know. Without the belt colors and ranking, it creates a small bit of mystery with Dragoons, which I find rather appealing. So, I would give this an "Thumbs Down."

The belt isn't a bad idea. Perhaps actually using them to signify whos better at an actual martial arts though, and not the dragoon rank? I know when KTD was the bujin Kai (or something ALONG the lines) they used to do martial arts classes. Maybe Kazuo could help with such?

We cant change the colour of the belts, they're part of the uniform.

I'm just following up Kurt's idea.

Couldalways wear an obi........ and dye it

You kow like a cermonial ribbon or whatever you want it for

Their ugly..specially for women

Just pretend does it matter belt is uni sex so is obi without bow on back of course

The Idea's dead let's think of something else :P

My point is the obi is too ugly for women to wear.. takes up half the chest.

And yes, now I've had my say move on to fresh ideas.

Any new ideas you dragoons are becoming extinct :D

Much like the Dragon... :o

Ermm, Err, How about'sa Dragoon morale song? Like on cold nights with sentries, those Dragoon voices could put a smile on our faces  8)

Not critising as such but some of the Dragoon Morales Honour and stuff seem to have disappeared as such. What you guys think? Honour is a cool thing for a Dragoon to have as a warrior :) But i never see it?

I've not noticed it missing. We still have the honour code in combat, which is followed just as much as it used to be. What exactly do you mean?

Nevermind man you guys fixed it what i eman was that you don't attack unarmed people,disbelieve in stealthy attacks and think the enemy should be taken head on.
If you know what i mean i would look up Samurai Honour code called bushido it explains it better what honour truly is

I suggest we do a roll call to find out how many Dragoons or aspiring Dragoons there are...
And then start recruiting more!

Make a recruitment poster explaining what we are about, and the perks of joining.  We also need to order custom armor for any new joining members.

The poster is already in the works. It shall be a work of artistic masterpiece!

NEW IDEAS TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE CLEAN THREAD.