>>9379380>I always liked the idea of the background grunt over the supersoldier so the nobodies appeal to meThis taste definitely developed over time for me.
>pretty much just gets whittled down in the end to the baddest supersoldiers, or at least the most resourceful botsCould be the inverse too, you'd want the tactical victory or the glory and muh promotions to take down a big-name heavy hitter than waste ammo on a D-lister - could almost imagine some semi-forced premise of "a-all the big-names are dead, the main cast is just rando losers and civvies/grunts on both sides now", almost like what many of us had to do as kids without the bigname guys. That's partly why Ramjet was special to me, I didn't have Optimus or Megatron Kreons, just a handful of blindbag ones from waves 1-4. Galvatron, Hot Rod, Scorp, and a bunch of randos who became important to me.
>Mid-level mooks just wouldn't make it through millions of years of warfareWouldn't they? Non-frontliners like science/tech/intel guys, scouts, transport, etc might survive just due to the nature of their work, and I have some hope in these mooks that they'd be #strongertogether when they're all doing something like, air defense or whatever. Like how some games have troop deployment cost- sometimes it might be better to have 10 Blades instead of 1 Thunderwing.
>I ramble but I guess my point is that even the nobody G1 bots must be badass enough to have survived so long in the first place, despite not having top billing in every episode/comic.I do too, no worries. But yeah, all the named bots are still survivors, and the bios generally give them some skill or have them above-average in some stat.
>most named bots are above-average in strength or intelligence, what's going onThe average bots are probs the ones we never see or hear about, I guess..? Come on, every character is someone's favourite out there, hopefully.
