Beta plasma guns Marines (?)

[Ravick]

Ok... maybe this is just silly, but I guess it'd be cool to have two others Zdoom marine, one using the beta plasma rifle and the another using (the beta) BFG weapon. Since these weapons balls are already defined in the engine's pk3, they could be used by a predefined marine, just like all the ohters.

[Gez]

Is there any obstacle to users creating their own scripted marines? My impression is that the existing scripted Doom marines are mostly there for backward compatibility with when DECORATE wasn't as powerful as it now is and creating a new type of scripted marine was simply not possible yet.

[Graf Zahl]

The only reason may be that the marines contain some special coding to make their attacks resemble those of a real player.
But overall, no, there really isn't much reason to define new ones engine-side.