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Improbable Lobster posted:For some reason I think they're probably not as bad as neo-nazis are Well, you have the upside that Communists don't have arbitrary destruction of entire ethnic groups as one of the selling points.
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Oct 7, 2015 18:46
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Well, Stalinists have the arbitrary destruction of pretty much everyone, so :V
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Oct 7, 2015 18:48
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I've honestly wanted to buy a bunch of Elysian Drop Troops and paint them as WW2 Paratroopers because I think those colours would fit those models really well. Same with maybe painting a few Cadian's like US GI's or Marines, and I have looked into how to paint modern ACU's as well just to see if it could be done. But create a fully themed army using those paint schemes? I can't say I've ever really had that idea in my head. Mostly because of the cost and that playing 40k doesn't really interest me that much any more.
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So if that giant Tau walker is open-topped does that mean flame weapons wreck its poo poo? Or is this an instance of "what you see isn't what you get?"
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Decorus posted:Also for the record, I wasn't trying to claim that the US Marines were as bad as Nazis or anything. My point was that writing US MARINES on your Leman Russes is pretty stupid too. Absolutely, plus, with context, it's not so crazy to make that case. On the one hand, regimes and soldiers are not the same. So not every german soldier was some ideological racist and evil belligerent. If you want to get really perverse about it, if you take a late-war german soldier, you know, the guy who was a teenager when Barbarossa kicked off, who was facing a wall of angry-like-you-can't-even-loving-imagine Russians, who were pressing into toward Berlin, that guy is pretty heroic. After all, he doesn't have time for murdering prisoners and jews by the 1000s, he's too busy actually trying to protect his people. You look at US Marines, and there's a proud and good history there, but it's not perfect. The Phillipines in 1899-1902 was not a just war that worked out great. We committed every lovely act there was because the war became part of an ugly anti-guerilla struggle. The Vietnamese aren't crazy about us, either. I think it's to the credit of our *regime* that Mi Lai was considered a crime. But, unfortunately, it was pulling teeth to hold people accountable even for that, so it's an extremely unwelcome dose of reality, depending on where your head's at. Plus I find the Time + tragedy = derp thing incredibly irritating. Nobody is giving anyone poo poo for the Inquisitors that are written into the fabric of the 40k background, even though I'd make the argument that an 'Inquisitor' is exactly as evil as a nazi. Maybe perversely more evil since shooting/gassing is more humane than torturing someone to death or burning them alive. And nobody bats an eye at the British looking IG guys, with those hats and coats. I don't think Africans, Indians, and Chinese are real crazy about their interactions with people wearing that uniform, but nobody cares, because we just don't know any better. SRM posted:Yeah, I think that sums up what I was trying to say much better than I did. Like how the Imperials in Star Wars have enough Nazi-esque design elements and iconography to make you "get" that they're bad dudes without going full totenkopf. You mean other than how all the soldiers wear skull helmets and their logo is a Hagal rune? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS-Ehrenring#Design Though, kudos to Lucas for being a little clever about it. Anyway, IMO, agreed that bringing in the color and some aesthetic elements without the specific symbols is best for all kinds of reasons. Real war sucks. Playtime war should respect a certain abstract distance IMO.
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Thanks to the very striated dry brushing, this looks like it's made out of some kind of pink wood.
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Terrible Opinions posted:I live in the middle of nowhere so almost all of my games are through Vassal with friends who live in San Francisco. So yeah no outside required. San Fran may be giving me a biased view of wargaming, but their group has a staggering number of anime obsessed Stalin apologists. I'm going to say that's some weird artifact of vassal then. Anime+Stalin is just a  combo, anyway, anime is obsessed with the axis.
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Oct 7, 2015 19:02
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Please stop effort posting about how heroic the nazis were in the bad mini thread.
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I don't see what's wrong here, just a rad as gently caress Rogue Trader era Chaos Marine with a Nurgling buddy.
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SRM posted:I don't see what's wrong here, just a rad as gently caress Rogue Trader era Chaos Marine with a Nurgling buddy. I love the mini but Magnus Praeda posted:Thanks to the very striated dry brushing, this looks like it's made out of some kind of pink wood.
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Improbable Lobster posted:Please stop effort posting about how heroic the nazis were in the bad mini thread. What the hell happened here? There's some griffon and assault cannons and I think a Dark Eldar tank or something perished in there, too. ...is this WIP from GW sculptor table?
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Oct 7, 2015 19:34
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Improbable Lobster posted:I love the mini but I like it because of that. He's not just painted his armour, he's veneered it.
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JcDent posted:What the hell happened here? There's some griffon and assault cannons and I think a Dark Eldar tank or something perished in there, too. Scratch built Forgefiend, only $50 on ebay
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spectralent posted:I mean, your place, you probably have a better idea of what the local meta's like, but around here any wargamer rant about the soviets is always about how they're stupid hordes of conscript infantry with no experience and one brain between them, without enough guns and with vehicles that fall apart in a stiff breeze even if the actual stats are pretty good because everyone knows they couldn't really assemble tanks that good in a factory*. I once had a man say, after explaining his Soviet themed army "I've been told that in Russian there's no word for maintenance" Imagine my surprise, being a native speaker Esser-Z posted:A giant robot that's weak to rain! Also, that has to be hell on the pilots' ears. Lockheed Martin- Tau's new robot contractor
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BULBASAUR posted:I once had a man say, after explaining his Soviet themed army "I've been told that in Russian there's no word for maintenance" Well that's okay because soviet tanks weren't capable of surviving battles and if any of them did make it then inevitably they fell apart before the next one* and furthermore *You do have to wonder how this belief squares with the fact that there's still spectralent fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Oct 7, 2015 |
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Oct 7, 2015 21:58
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To be fair, they made a lot of T-34s over the years.
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Oct 7, 2015 22:03
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BULBASAUR posted:Imagine my surprise, being a native speaker I can't. There's no english word for surprise.
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Oct 7, 2015 22:07
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goatface posted:To be fair, they made a lot of T-34s over the years. Yeah, but it's never "T-34s had some reliability issues". It's blind repetition of propoganda on the same margins as 40k's "Tyranid guns are made of skin and often fall apart". Listen to a wehraboo and you'd get the impression that a T-34 was lucky if it made it off the factory line intact and spontaneously collapsed at some point over the next week.
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spectralent posted:Yeah, but it's never "T-34s had some reliability issues". It's blind repetition of propoganda on the same margins as 40k's "Tyranid guns are made of skin and often fall apart". Listen to a wehraboo and you'd get the impression that a T-34 was lucky if it made it off the factory line intact and spontaneously collapsed at some point over the next week. The only thing the T-34 had wrong with it was that the gearstick was harder to shift than the smell in a hobby shop. Other than that it was a drat near perfect piece of machinery. Edit: It had two things wrong with it. The other was that it wasn't a KV-2. I loving love the KV-2.
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Having seen both in person I remember the KV-2 distinctly because it was so massive. Almost as big as the Panzer VIII Maus and T-35 next to it. The T-35 looks the craziest in person though.
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Gapey Joe Stalin posted:The only thing the T-34 had wrong with it was that the gearstick was harder to shift than the smell in a hobby shop. Other than that it was a drat near perfect piece of machinery. Early T-34s (1941 and some 1942) did have reported reliability issues, largely with track breakdown and the engine filter; in the defence of these tanks, they were made while they were being invaded and I expect in that situation, QC evaporates (notably there were engagements during Barbarossa where early T-34s never fired a shot... Because they had no cannon shells delivered when they were attacked). Later T-34s were solid and dependable bits of kit, yeah.
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BULBASAUR posted:Having seen both in person I remember the KV-2 distinctly because it was so massive. Almost as big as the Panzer VIII Maus and T-35 next to it. The T-35 looks the craziest in person though. Tank big, so what
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Canyon is grand, so what
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Improbable Lobster posted:Please stop effort posting about how heroic the nazis were in the bad mini thread. I see a beak, a tail, chains guns, tentacles, and some sort of curtain with mold on it. What am I looking at exactly? This is very interesting.
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spectralent posted:I'm going to say that's some weird artifact of vassal then. Anime+Stalin is just a Weirdly, one of my old friend is a supporter of Russia and hates Japan because there is some racism against Russia in Japan. Hates Stalin too, I think, because he constantly makes facebook posts equating killings in Russia during WWII to killings of Jews. He also told his parents he was ethnicity Jewish; his parents aren't Jewish. He played Imperial Guard tank company using cheap Chinese knockoff T-35s. Probably bought the entire army for the same cost as 2 normal leman russes.
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I once painted a t-34 in ultramarine colors because I realized how much cheaper it was than trying to use GW tanks. I felt bad for it, though. So I never did it again.
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Terrible Opinions posted:I really wish that I lived where you do, in a nation apparently devoid of anime marxists. What magical land is devoid of nerd soviet apologists? The land of people with jobs not in IT?
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bunnielab posted:The land of people with jobs not in IT? I thought IT was all misoginy and libertarianism (ew). Or is it just IT startups, and everyone else (tech support drones and such) are waiting for the day when proletarian masses cast off their shackles and choke IT-illiterate bourgeoisie?
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Maybe he lives in a strange place where all the horrible misogynists and Libertarians have been replaced by anime Marxists with goatees. It's the only solution I can think off.
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No the misogynists and libertarians are at my job and on rpg forums.
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Terrible Opinions posted:No the misogynists and libertarians are at my job and on rpg forums. You say that like one isn't a subset of the other.
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hooman posted:You say that like one isn't a subset of the other. I'm sure you could find a female libertarian... somewhere.
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JcDent posted:I thought IT was all misoginy and libertarianism (ew). I know two people who do corporate IT and their departments fit the latter mould.
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JcDent posted:I thought IT was all misoginy and libertarianism (ew). I take it you read slashdot? It went from a site about technology and science to a site where the nerds jump over themselves to post "SJW" unironically in articles about women in IT. Don't get me started on their political views...
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JcDent posted:I'm sure you could find a female libertarian... somewhere. I met one once. It was a struggle to not just scream at her that if her ideals were taken to their logical limit she'd quickly be dead or worse, being an out of shape, medication dependent, unattractive person with no assets or real skills. Basically the only difference between her and other libertarians I've met was gender.
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