Seven Samurai?

[Doctor J]

I just tried out SVN checkout # 16128 and seemed to have discovered an "off by one" bug somewhere.  I started a new campaign, and there are eight soldiers in the barracks.  Strangely, only seven of them are ticked - i am not able to add the eighth without removing a currently selected soldier.  The Firebird steadfastly shows "8 of 8", but when i go to the equipment screen there are only seven soldiers there.  What further debugging would help?

[Zorlen]

Maybe eighth is a pilot? :-)

[Doctor J]

I'm not paying a pilot to sit around and play solitaire while my brave soldiers are out in the elements!  They're going to grab their weapon and help beat the bushes!!

[Aiki-Knight]

Speaking of samurai, any chance we could have samurai swords made with alien manufacturing technology for our soldiers? The Kerr Blade is not easily used by agents, but a totally AWEsome samurai sword with similar sharpness would be just the best thing ever. I realize it's a bit of a fantasy, but a combat knife isn't going to "cut it" against the kerr blade. Is it wrong for me to suggest such a thing? I would absolutely flip if my agents could carry a katana (samurai sword) as their melee weapon.

[BTAxis]

There will 100% guaranteed not be a katana in the stock game, though you could mod it in if you could find (or make) a MD2 model for it. There is a kerrblade-based, human made monomolecular blade weapon though.

[blondandy]

the human-designed monomolecular blade is shorter, more like a wakizashi...

[Herbes]

idd the monomolecular have a huge similarity to a wakizashi (a short katana)