— Brady ordering Misfit 1-3 to accompany him in Operation Guillotine.
Joseph Brady is a minor character that appears in Battlefield 3 during Operation Guillotine. He is the Captain of USMC unit Haymaker.
Biography[]
No politicians, no money changing hands.
Just two soldiers speaking the truth."
This section contains spoilers for Battlefield 3.
Brady is first heard at the start of the mission, briefing Quinton Cole by radio on his objectives and coordinating Haymaker and Misfit's attack on the city. He appears in person after Misfit 1-3 clears out the Khojir apartment complex, and notifies them that they are merging with his unit, Haymaker, for the remainder of the operation, and orders them to follow him to the Metropolitan Bank in a HMMWV. He leads the units through a tunnel and onto the highway as it is the fastest route, despite protests from Steve Campo about a possible ambush. When the convoy encounters a fuel tanker blocking the road, Brady orders the infantry to dismount and move the tanker themselves, but the PLR attack and blow up the tanker, killing several. Brady survives but is left behind on the highway while Misfit 1-3 storms the PLR positions on the overlooking bridge.
Brady is next seen at the bank, where he orders Blackburn and Matkovic to find a way through the back. After the pair secure the top floor, he leads the remainder of Misfit and Haymaker through the front entrance, securing the lobby. Brady then orders Misfit 1-3 to secure the vault and search for intelligence. From this point on, he is not seen afterwards in the game.
In Fear No Evil, when the remainder of Anvil troop links up with Misfit 1-3 at the bank, Ingham asks about survivors to which Campo responds that they are the only ones left, hinting that Brady may be dead.
Personality[]
Captain Brady seems to be a confident leader during Operation Guillotine, and remains calm in combat. When ordering Misfit 1-3 to secure intel in the basement of the bank, he says "Find it. Bag it.", implying he has total confidence that they will complete their objective. However this confidence often verges on the recklessness, at the cost of those he commands. His reasoning for driving through the PLR tanker blockade instead of taking a safer route is simply that "bypassing the ambush is the last thing the ambushers expect [them] to do".
Trivia[]
- In the Co-op campaign, Player 1 uses Captain Brady's third-person model (excluding the goggles) in some missions.
- His actor, David Menkin, also voiced Preston Marlowe in the Bad Company series.
- Brady's character model is very similar to the US Recon class in multiplayer. They have the same attire, but Brady wears a combat helmet rather than a shemagh, as well as ballistic glasses.
- Brady is one of two of the joint-highest ranking characters seen in-game, the other being Captain Cole, although the dialogue at the start of the missions suggests Cole is subordinate to Brady.
- At the roadblock where the PLR ambush the unit, Brady will stand against the oil tanker and is subsequently engulfed in the explosion, but is completely unaffected.
- In the game's novel, Battlefield 3: The Russian, Brady is described as being somebody that pushes his men hard. During Operation Guillotine, he drives with Blackburn's squad and a PLR prisoner in a HMMWV before being ambushed and, differing from the game's singleplayer, gets killed.
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