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HEY GUNS: Oct 11, 2012; FOPTIMUS PRIME

Jobbo_Fett posted:

I think "The German Aces Speak" has a passage in it where he says he prefers matches for his cigars. I'd have to double check sometime.

while flying? come on, think of how unwieldy it'd be. :wotwot:

# ? Sep 2, 2016 20:30

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# ? May 18, 2024 11:01

Jobbo_Fett: Mar 7, 2014; Slava Ukrayini; Clapping Larry

HEY GAL posted:

while flying? come on, think of how unwieldy it'd be.

You can't light a cigar one-handed? :grin:

# ? Sep 2, 2016 20:32

HEY GUNS: Oct 11, 2012; FOPTIMUS PRIME

Jobbo_Fett posted:

You can't light a cigar one-handed?

brother, i bump into doorways on my way across the room

# ? Sep 2, 2016 20:44

StashAugustine: Mar 24, 2013; Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

HEY GAL posted:

brother, i bump into doorways on my way across the room

the first step is admitting you have a problem

# ? Sep 2, 2016 20:46

Jobbo_Fett: Mar 7, 2014; Slava Ukrayini; Clapping Larry

StashAugustine posted:

the first step is admitting you have a problem

She won't make 12 before hitting a wall

# ? Sep 2, 2016 21:17

spectralent: Oct 1, 2014; Me and the boys poppin' down to the shops

I've been drawing arrows on maps for the past two hours someone please send help.

# ? Sep 2, 2016 21:20

Jobbo_Fett: Mar 7, 2014; Slava Ukrayini; Clapping Larry

spectralent posted:

I've been drawing arrows on maps for the past two hours someone please send help.

The only help I could offer is my steam account name for MULTIPLAYER FUN!

# ? Sep 2, 2016 21:26

PittTheElder: Feb 13, 2012; Yes, it's like a lava lamp.

HEY GAL posted:

brother, i bump into doorways on my way across the room

put down the pike

# ? Sep 2, 2016 21:26

P-Mack: Nov 10, 2007

spectralent posted:

I've been drawing arrows on maps for the past two hours someone please send help.

It's 4:30 on a Friday and I'm pretending my swivel chair is a tank turret. If I sit up straight I can see over the cubicle and it's like I'm looking out of the hatch, watching the ridgeline for ~~if the boss's office is empty~~ anti tank emplacements.

# ? Sep 2, 2016 21:31

HEY GUNS: Oct 11, 2012; FOPTIMUS PRIME

(pew pew pew)

# ? Sep 2, 2016 21:32

xthetenth: Dec 30, 2012; Mario wasn't sure if this Jeb guy was a good influence on Yoshi.

And here I am cosplaying a security guard, watching four feeds of running programs while loving about online.

# ? Sep 2, 2016 21:33

Disinterested: Jun 29, 2011; You look like you're still raking it in. Still killing 'em?

HEY GAL posted:

brother, i bump into doorways on my way across the room

classic pikeman fodder

# ? Sep 2, 2016 21:39

HEY GUNS: Oct 11, 2012; FOPTIMUS PRIME

Disinterested posted:

classic pikeman fodder

why aren't you in the christianity thread, posting about bulls and decretals and poo poo

# ? Sep 2, 2016 21:42

Disinterested: Jun 29, 2011; You look like you're still raking it in. Still killing 'em?

HEY GAL posted:

why aren't you in the christianity thread, posting about bulls and decretals and poo poo

alright i'll do a post sometime about john of paris and giles of rome

# ? Sep 2, 2016 21:45

HEY GUNS: Oct 11, 2012; FOPTIMUS PRIME

Disinterested posted:

alright i'll do a post sometime about john of paris and giles of rome

or you can just hang out there and chat, it's been sort of slow over there lately

# ? Sep 2, 2016 21:46

spectralent: Oct 1, 2014; Me and the boys poppin' down to the shops

HEY GAL posted:

(pew pew pew)

My girlfriend says I'm not allowed to point my model turrets at things and make pew pew noises :saddowns:

Also verdict: It's taken me a bit to get used to it but HOI4 is definitely a lot less of a pain to play than HOI3 (bearing in mind it's still a paradox grand strategy sim so it's not really a casual play-for-five-minutes kind of game).

# ? Sep 2, 2016 21:58

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

Hey Gal how do you feel about Sarissas?

Would you try to put slingers in a phalanx?

# ? Sep 2, 2016 22:02

Rockopolis: Dec 21, 2012; I MAKE FUN OF QUEER STORYGAMES BECAUSE I HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO WITH MY LIFE THAN MAKE OTHER PEOPLE CRY

I can't understand these kinds of games, and not getting it bugs me almost as much as me being weird

If you play as the Japanese do you have to deal with your commanders assasinating each other? Might have to get it if so.

# ? Sep 2, 2016 22:06

HEY GUNS: Oct 11, 2012; FOPTIMUS PRIME

OwlFancier posted:

Hey Gal how do you feel about Sarissas?

like a pike, but from Ancient Times. might have been better balanced, and therefore more comfortable to hold.

quote:

Would you try to put slingers in a phalanx?

depends on how close together the phalanx dudes stand

# ? Sep 2, 2016 22:12

Elyv: Jun 14, 2013

Ancient Western armies at least generally had skirmishers, lightly armed and armored troops whose job in set piece battles was to harass the enemy army and break up their formations with projectiles, then fall back through the formations of their own heavily armored infantry and maybe flank or pursue a routing enemy. I think the Greeks used slingers in that role frequently.

# ? Sep 2, 2016 22:21

HEY GUNS: Oct 11, 2012; FOPTIMUS PRIME

Elyv posted:

... fall back through the formations of their own heavily armored infantry ...

cool, good

# ? Sep 2, 2016 22:23

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

Elyv posted:

Ancient Western armies at least generally had skirmishers, lightly armed and armored troops whose job in set piece battles was to harass the enemy army and break up their formations with projectiles, then fall back through the formations of their own heavily armored infantry and maybe flank or pursue a routing enemy. I think the Greeks used slingers in that role frequently.

I mean in the phalanx.

So that you have proto pikes and slingshot.

Essentially I know absolutely nothing about the HRE but at least something about the classical period so my closest analog for pike and shot is phalanxes and slingers.

All of (what I assume to be) the HRE chat goes completely over my head because I know absolutely nothing about renaissance european warfare. My knowledge basically stops during the middle ages and picks up at the first world war.

# ? Sep 2, 2016 22:40

Jobbo_Fett: Mar 7, 2014; Slava Ukrayini; Clapping Larry

Rockopolis posted:

If you play as the Japanese do you have to deal with your commanders assasinating each other? Might have to get it if so.

HoI4? No.

ASL? :ssh:

# ? Sep 2, 2016 23:08

Disinterested: Jun 29, 2011; You look like you're still raking it in. Still killing 'em?

HEY GAL posted:

or you can just hang out there and chat, it's been sort of slow over there lately

I'll give it a go but it loses me a bit when it's a 2 page derail about a local church's silverware or whatever.

# ? Sep 3, 2016 00:13

HEY GUNS: Oct 11, 2012; FOPTIMUS PRIME

Disinterested posted:

I'll give it a go but it loses me a bit when it's a 2 page derail about a local church's silverware or whatever.

dude, silly hats and elaborate silverware is extremely

important

# ? Sep 3, 2016 00:43

Disinterested: Jun 29, 2011; You look like you're still raking it in. Still killing 'em?

HEY GAL posted:

dude, silly hats and elaborate silverware is extremely

important

My college chapel had its silver and gold nicked by Cromwell.

# ? Sep 3, 2016 00:53

Disinterested: Jun 29, 2011; You look like you're still raking it in. Still killing 'em?

What a dick.

# ? Sep 3, 2016 00:56

HEY GUNS: Oct 11, 2012; FOPTIMUS PRIME

you can't make an omlet without committing war crimes

# ? Sep 3, 2016 00:58

Disinterested: Jun 29, 2011; You look like you're still raking it in. Still killing 'em?

HEY GAL posted:

you can't make an omlet without committing war crimes

The eggshell skull school of war crimes

# ? Sep 3, 2016 01:02

Nebakenezzer: Sep 13, 2005; The Mote in God's Eye

Disinterested posted:

What a dick.

Why do you think they were called roundheads?

# ? Sep 3, 2016 01:03

Disinterested: Jun 29, 2011; You look like you're still raking it in. Still killing 'em?

Nebakenezzer posted:

Why do you think they were called roundheads?

Bell-ends and cavaliers doesn't have the same ring, so to speak.

# ? Sep 3, 2016 01:07

HEY GUNS: Oct 11, 2012; FOPTIMUS PRIME

i still don't give a gently caress about your civil war

# ? Sep 3, 2016 02:35

Agean90: Jun 28, 2008

Does your war have proto-communists? No? Well then your early modern war ain't poo poo

# ? Sep 3, 2016 03:11

P-Mack: Nov 10, 2007

HEY GAL posted:

i still don't give a gently caress about your civil war

same

Agean90 posted:

Does your war have proto-communists? No? Well then your early modern war ain't poo poo

now we're talking

# ? Sep 3, 2016 03:23

Kei Technical: Sep 20, 2011

Agean90 posted:

Does your war have proto-communists? No? Well then your early modern war ain't poo poo

Is Maestricht not a thing?

# ? Sep 3, 2016 05:01

Raenir Salazar: Nov 5, 2010; College Slice

At Stalingrad when Manstein was trying to relieve the pocket, Paulus is commonly said that had he been willing to disobey orders he could have broken out; Soviet Storm seems to imply that the Germans never got close enough to the pocket for an attempt to have worked. Did the Germans have any capability of breaking out?

# ? Sep 3, 2016 06:29

Jobbo_Fett: Mar 7, 2014; Slava Ukrayini; Clapping Larry

Raenir Salazar posted:

At Stalingrad when Manstein was trying to relieve the pocket, Paulus is commonly said that had he been willing to disobey orders he could have broken out; Soviet Storm seems to imply that the Germans never got close enough to the pocket for an attempt to have worked. Did the Germans have any capability of breaking out?

I don't believe they did. The Russians had a bunch of tank and rifle divisions between Paulus and Manstein and the Germans didn't have enough of... anything in the area to change that. Just keeping Stalingrad supplied was costing thw Luftwaffe a lot in transports and escorts.

# ? Sep 3, 2016 06:41

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Agean90 posted:

Does your war have proto-communists? No? Well then your early modern war ain't poo poo

Levellers were extremely cool & good

# ? Sep 3, 2016 07:10

Tias: May 25, 2008; Pictured: the patron saint of internet political arguments (probably)

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gradenko_2000 posted:

1. What was the size of the Danish Army in WW1?

Embarassingly enough, the numbers have been lost. We do know 5,000 from the southern Jylland region were called up to fight for the Germans.

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Goatse James Bond: Mar 28, 2010; If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

Agean90 posted:

Does your war have proto-communists? No? Well then your early modern war ain't poo poo

Go Hussites :toot:

# ? Sep 3, 2016 07:46

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