Shania wrote:
Personally I don't thing welding doors like in aliens movie to reinforce them against breaching make any sense, doors are side open an only thing you need is internal lock and you never breach this door. And if you weld them, you loose sealing and risk decompression and you loose ability to move around your ship if you repel boarders.
So you can oped door with key, use hacking, cut whole door out, use breaching charge.
I think marines should have equipment and training for independent boarding action, clean up ships, plant charges, breach doors with charges, fights in vacuum, sabotage ship systems.
So you can disable ships only with marines, but that leave ship crippled, all door are blow up, that means problems with decompression, damage systems etc....but, if you want take ship intact or do less damage (more price money), so engineers come handy to hack doors, ship systems, security systems.
Imagine what happens if you went bridge or release gas.
Also what if we have infiltrator/assassin/stealth unit with hacking skills, something like ghost from starcraft.
Of course it reinforces doors. That's like saying welding elevator doors wouldn't reinforce them.
Anything electronic can be hacked and forced open. Welding would stop this obviously
These marines seem to all of a sudden be an nature battle group with mountains of equipment or boarding a ship.
Assault troops are more like light infantry and Gould be used so. Yes they would carry provisions for slightly different situations but carry weight is a soldiers biggest enemy.