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Phanatic posted:A squirrel shot with an assault rifle would be in bits and pieces. AR-15s are commonly used to hunt prairie dogs and those little fuckers explode when hit. When the primary cavity is larger than the target, you wind up with bits and pieces. This is a video of squirrels being shot with a 5.56mm rifle. Pretty decent example of what basically any rifle-caliber weapon will do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd83kYJMAVU Sometimes they just fall over and stop moving. Sometimes they blow in half and fly into the air.
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aphid_licker posted:Quality of life in Germany is a bit better tho, which let's please keep this way mmmkay?
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chitoryu12 posted:This is a video of squirrels being shot with a 5.56mm rifle. Pretty decent example of what basically any rifle-caliber weapon will do. Prairie dogs have to have such an interesting mythology. Bob and Ed, just hanging out on the prairie, shooting the poo poo, when all of a sudden Ed just flies to pieces, and then there's a loud noise. Bob just sits there, chewing the grass, wondering where Ed went. I think that's how Calvinism got started.
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Trin Tragula posted:There's a lot of British commemoration going on but our entire political establishment is currently eating itself in the omnishambles to end all omnishambles, so So basically we're doing the most appropriate possible homage to the mess that was the first day on the Somme then 
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Slightly off topic but interesting news report, possible Sikh or Indian soldier spotted in video gaming guilty pleasure Battlefield 1 gameplay footage as a player model for support. Also of note, cowboy looking hats for Scouts (possible link to Buffolo soldiers, the scout might be a African American vounteer as a placeholder?) and best of all you can just use a bolt action rifle without bolting on a tonne of poo poo to it.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Slightly off topic but interesting news report, possible Sikh or Indian soldier spotted in video gaming guilty pleasure Battlefield 1 gameplay footage as a player model for support. Also of note, cowboy looking hats for Scouts (possible link to Buffolo soldiers, the scout might be a African American vounteer as a placeholder?) and best of all you can just use a bolt action rifle without bolting on a tonne of poo poo to it. Yeah, looks pretty good for acknowledging the war wasn't just the Brits and Huns slugging it out in Flanders field.
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Jun 28, 2016 19:50
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xthetenth posted:Yeah, looks pretty good for acknowledging the war wasn't just the Brits and Huns slugging it out in Flanders field. Well, the French won't be in at release. The French. In a WWI game.
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Jun 28, 2016 20:13
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ArchangeI posted:Well, the French won't be in at release. The French are paid DLC. 
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chitoryu12 posted:This is a video of squirrels being shot with a 5.56mm rifle. Pretty decent example of what basically any rifle-caliber weapon will do. Note that most people engaged in the A squirrel hit with a rifle doesn't disintegrate. The bullet doesn't have room to expand and just blows through. The result is still ghastly but more in terms of a guy taking a cannon ball to the chest than an RPG.
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ArchangeI posted:Well, the French won't be in at release. Well. At least the British are in it
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ArchangeI posted:Well, the French won't be in at release. Well everyone knows the military history of France is just humiliating defeat after humiliating defeat endlessly through the ages, why would they be in a video game about fighting unless it was as comic relief?
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TaurusTorus posted:Well everyone knows the military history of France is just humiliating defeat after humiliating defeat endlessly through the ages, why would they be in a video game about fighting unless it was as comic relief? *gets gibbed by louis xiii*
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TaurusTorus posted:Well everyone knows the military history of France is just humiliating defeat after humiliating defeat endlessly through the ages, why would they be in a video game about fighting unless it was as comic relief? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7RHiyWHuV0 Well maybe he's just Corsican I guess Idunno
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TaurusTorus posted:Well everyone knows the military history of France is just humiliating defeat after humiliating defeat endlessly through the ages, why would they be in a video game about fighting unless it was as comic relief? I want to say the Free French cropped up in Battlefield 1942 at some point.
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ArchangeI posted:Well, the French won't be in at release. Alternately: The French are considered important enough to get sales as a DLC. Note that I'm not saying I like or condone EA's business practices. feedmegin posted:I want to say the Free French cropped up in Battlefield 1942 at some point. Pretty sure they were.
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They showed up in the road to Rome expansion, which also featured the Italians, of all the people Almost makes up for depicting the battle of arnhem as an American battle
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feedmegin posted:I want to say the Free French cropped up in Battlefield 1942 at some point. Yep, they were in the Road to Rome expansion as the Allied faction in Monte Cassino and Monte Santa Croce.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Note that most people engaged in the .223 does that on its own. A Hornady varmint round is a 55-grain bullet, M855 is a bit heavier than that at 62 grains but that's because they have a steel core. If 5.56mm is traveling fast enough when it strikes a target, it's going to yaw, fracture at the shoulder, and split into two or three pieces. When it doesn't, because you're firing at a long range out of a short-barreled M4, it doesn't fragment and has a much smaller wounding effect.
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In my experience a .22 LR is perfectly adequate for smaller varmints like squirrels and prairie dogs. Something like a coyote or raccoon you want something bigger.
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ArchangeI posted:Well, the French won't be in at release. Yeah but like the Ottomans and the Austrohungarians and the Italians are in, so... I'm pretty sure this is all so that they can sell a French focused expansion later, complete with Verdun map pack and Chauchats for everyone.
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Grand Prize Winner posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7RHiyWHuV0 Napoleon pretty much openly broken from Corsica after Pasquale Paoli, who he helped reinstall as the defacto dictator of Corsica grew suspicious of his antics in Corsica and booted him and his family out back to France. Napoleon spent most of the early French revolution trying to unfuck his family finances and estates in Corsica. Like he broke so hard, he changed the spelling of his family name. Fangz posted:Yeah but like the Ottomans and the Austrohungarians and the Italians are in, so... Usually the lesser known minor guys in these games are the DLC/Expansion bait, still hoping the French DLC will be earlier war focused for those red pants! SeanBeansShako fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Jun 28, 2016 |
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Ainsley McTree posted:They showed up in the road to Rome expansion, which also featured the Italians, of all the people No it doesn't. Also the Prince of Wales flying the frigging Stars and Stripes, if I recall correctly.
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Cythereal posted:Yep, they were in the Road to Rome expansion as the Allied faction in Monte Cassino and Monte Santa Croce. Which also added the Italians. The best part is that game's Assault class carried LMGs and used them as assault rifles (like BARs and Type 99s, with only the Germans having a proper assault rifle), so the Italians had to lug around Breda Modello 30s.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Usually the lesser known minor guys in these games are the DLC/Expansion bait, still hoping the French DLC will be earlier war focused for those red pants! There is another WWI FPS you can play which has plentiful support for red trousers...
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SeanBeansShako posted:Usually the lesser known minor guys in these games are the DLC/Expansion bait, still hoping the French DLC will be earlier war focused for those red pants!
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What if you shot an elephant with a tank gun though? Or a whale with a battleship gun for that matter
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Well, the aptly named HMS Brilliant did torpedo a couple of whales thinking they were submarines...
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bewbies posted:Or a whale with a battleship gun for that matter About 150 lbs of HE in that, right? ObLigatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_t44siFyb4
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Phanatic posted:About 150 lbs of HE in that, right? I misread the post you quoted and now I'm picturing a whale with a battleship cannon strapped on Maybe in Red Alert 4
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Phanatic posted:Prairie dogs have to have such an interesting mythology. Bob and Ed, just hanging out on the prairie, shooting the poo poo, when all of a sudden Ed just flies to pieces, and then there's a loud noise. Bob just sits there, chewing the grass, wondering where Ed went. I think that's how Calvinism got started. 
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There's a photo of Caterina Sforza's armor on this page. http://www.amicisantandrea.com/Eventi/2009/Mostra%20Forli/Mostra%20Forli.htm Can anyone who knows more about that time than I do tell me what the heck is going on where the neckline should be?
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Deptfordx posted:You've got me there. More Celestial Wizards than Bright one's I would have thought.
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HEY GAL posted:There's a photo of Caterina Sforza's armor on this page. Best guess: it's not a complete set so there would have probably been a gorget and pauldrons to cover up what the breastplate doesn't.
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Kemper Boyd posted:Best guess: it's not a complete set so there would have probably been a gorget and pauldrons to cover up what the breastplate doesn't. edit: supposedly St. Catherine, her patron, is engraved on the chest, but you can't see it in this photo. Anyway, in case anyone wanted to know what womens' armor looks like for real, it's...exactly like mens' armor. HEY GUNS fucked around with this message at 23:51 on Jun 28, 2016 |
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Phanatic posted:.223 does that on its own. A Hornady varmint round is a 55-grain bullet, M855 is a bit heavier than that at 62 grains but that's because they have a steel core. If 5.56mm is traveling fast enough when it strikes a target, it's going to yaw, fracture at the shoulder, and split into two or three pieces. When it doesn't, because you're firing at a long range out of a short-barreled M4, it doesn't fragment and has a much smaller wounding effect. A FMJ 55gn isn't even going to begin to fracture in a groundhog. Some varmeting specific rounds are made in that weight but you also see a lot in the 45 ballpark. Regardless they are designed to fragment in different ways than 55gn military FMJ. It really isn't comperable to other 556 loads. Same goes for a lot of hunting ammo. Talking about 308 deer rounds and 762 FMJ is two similar yet very different things.
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It honestly looks like it's been assembled quite literally rear end-backwards. I mean, with the arms holes cut like that she couldn't have moved her arms. But then, it also doesn't look like a back plate either... 
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FMJ is full metal jacket, which means the bullet is solid metal all the way through, as opposed to hollowpoint, which has a bullet that is partially hollow, right? We're not in TFR, please explain gun jargon if you're going to use it. I'm from a country that has banned BB guns so I have NFI.
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Splode posted:FMJ is full metal jacket, which means the bullet is solid metal all the way through, as opposed to hollowpoint, which has a bullet that is partially hollow, right? FMJ (or "ball") is lead totally covered in harder metal like copper except for the base (a 100% covered bullet is Total Metal Jacket). Soft points expose the tip so soft lead contacts the flesh first and expands. Hollow points have an exposed tip with a hollow space, which expands even more. Frangible rounds shatter on impact.
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Siivola posted:It honestly looks like it's been assembled quite literally rear end-backwards. I mean, with the arms holes cut like that she couldn't have moved her arms. https://myarmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=21152 1445-1450 milan  1490-1500, armor of ferdinand of aragon  1490-1500, composite, Brescia and Milan?  Hold the image of the breastplate in your mind and---for some dumb reason--slice a few inches off the top where the neckline should go and you have that shape. Edit: Or a 19th century curator hosed up. That is always an option
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