Starscream's Brigade

Episode Name: Starscream's Brigade
Series: The Transformers (classic, 1980's), Season 2
Rating: Four and a Half Spotlights

Mission Briefing:
After another failed attempt to kill Megatron and take over the Decepticons, Starscream is exiled. But this time, the usually cowardly and partly-stupid Starscream is fighting back! He discovers the remains of vehicles from one of our wars*, and decides to make his own army. He steals the personality components of the Renegade Decepticons and installs them into the modified machines, creating the Combaticons!
The Autobots are brought into it somewhat when Starscream and the Combaticons take Jazz and Cliffjumper, but this episode's mainly about the Decepticons. Starscream is taking it all the way... but Megatron is not going to let his position be taken so easily!
Who will be the Decepticon Leader in the end?

Mission Report:
This episode is one of my all-time favorites. My favorite Decepticon finally stops being a chicken (for now), and takes it out all the way! It was an highly enjoyable episode, and it had a pretty good story. They even brought in the Autobots in a clever way!
But there was one major story flaw. In order to control the Combaticons, Starscream didn't install energy absorbers (think re-chargers) into them. They needed to capture five other Transformers to get the absorbers. In the end of the episode, all of them were charging up, though they only had 4 Transformers captured! Where did the last absorber come from? You might say "Starscream", but even he was charging up! So where did that last absorber come from?
Other than that, this was a very good episode, and I highly enjoyed it!

*I suspect one of the World Wars, but they never really said, and I'm no good with dates. I think they said in the intro-flashback that it was in the 1940's.