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Comrade Gorbash posted:That and all the best Marine powers require material components, but Logistics isn’t a class skill. wallenstein takes that at gen, but you need to look up the effects of the cha penalties for this class
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HEY GAIL posted:wallenstein takes that at gen, but you need to look up the effects of the cha penalties for this class  
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Nebakenezzer posted:Luftwaffe comedy: Normandy invasion 34,000 ft... did they pressurize the entire cockpit, or was it just a helmet/face apparatus?
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I need to know some other top picks in the Historical Oaf Draft
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Elyv posted:Oh this thing is absolutely comical. I'm on mobile or I'd post some choice quotes, but you really owe it to yourself to at least read the wiki page if you haven't. Wikipedia posted:However, James had a dilemma stemming from mutual distrust between himself and parliament. He feared that if he went to war, parliament would find an excuse to avoid providing the finance to support it. Parliament, on the other hand, feared that if they voted the finances, the king would find an excuse not to go to war. James died shortly afterwards, leaving foreign policy in the hands of Charles, who rather naively assumed that if he followed the policy parliament had advocated, it would provide the funds for it... Yeah, this was always going to end well.
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I'm unreasonably irritated that between all the iconic weaponry like pikes, halberds, greatswords, or firearms, they decided to spec this class on boring-rear end one-handed swords.
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Also why is a fantasy landsknecht dressed less flamboyantly than any real one? That art sucks and D&D 3rd Ed sucks too. "Threatening Demeanor" seems on point though.
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Tevery Best posted:Also why is a fantasy landsknecht dressed less flamboyantly than any real one? That art sucks and D&D 3rd Ed sucks too. I'm pretty sure that's from Pathfinder, which is what happened when some people thought 3rd Ed wasn't 3rd Ed enough.
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dublish posted:I'm pretty sure that's from Pathfinder, which is what happened when some people thought 3rd Ed wasn't 3rd Ed enough. Um, excuse me but Pathfinder fixed almost everything that was wrong with 3rd ed. that could be fixed within the confines of the D20 system.
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MANime in the sheets posted:Um, excuse me but Pathfinder fixed almost everything that was wrong with 3rd ed. that could be fixed within the confines of the D20 system. this is worse take than anything Keldoclock said
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MikeCrotch posted:this is worse take than anything Keldoclock said Not wrong but thats because you cant fix 3e without changing it to something that is so unrecognizable that it becomes something completely different and pathfinder was trying to fix problems while still getting that sweet grognard money. Even though I've had a lot of fun with pathfinder it is because I already had the rules mostly memorized so I didn't need to refer to the overly complicated rules much.
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Ensign Expendable posted:There was a sword in the one Marines ad I kept seeing in Canada somehow, so I assume they know swords. The officer sword model is the oldest in use by the US military
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Tevery Best posted:"Threatening Demeanor" seems on point though. MikeCrotch posted:this is worse take than anything Keldoclock said
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Y'all are messed up. Pathfinder is so much better than 3rd that I never thought anyone would think otherwise  Anyway, may I suggest we take this grogness to the Games subforum, it's sorta OT?
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PF can be better than 3rd while still being a bad game.
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nothing to seehere posted:PF can be better than 3rd while still being a bad game. Oh, I agree. It's just so much better that I wouldn't personally talk it down like that.
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now try to reload you idiot you child brain
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Tias posted:Y'all are messed up. Pathfinder is so much better than 3rd that I never thought anyone would think otherwise
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FastestGunAlive posted:The officer sword model is the oldest in use by the US military The Marine swords, officer and enlisted, are both actual weapons and are probably quite usable for their original intended purpose. The NCO sword is the same sword (at least form and fit, no idea about the metal quality but given modern steel is probably quite fine) that was issued in 1859 (it's mostly the 1850 pattern army foot officers sword) and the officer sword is modeled after an Egyptian/Ottoman cavalry saber from the 1820's just fancied up a bit. Having lugged the NCO sword around a bit I don't think there would be a problem killing someone with it if need be. It's light, fast and comfortable. e: AD&D for life, yo!
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HEY GAIL posted:now try to reload  EDIT: We heard you like pike and shot, so we put a pike in your shot and a shot in your pike. Comrade Gorbash fucked around with this message at 13:40 on Oct 16, 2017 |
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HEY GAIL posted:and 4th isbetter than both of them Amen. The only one of the lot I will still play. As for actual content, would anyone like to read about Scottish mercenaries in Swedish service? I'm not certain of if any defenestrations took place, but at least one incident where some Scots were hired to perfor a sabre dance in front of the king of Sweden and kill him during it, but the sign to act newer came so the did the dance, received applause and buggered off.
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You still with Old Blue? Still coming to Grolle?
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Ensign Expendable posted:There was a sword in the one Marines ad I kept seeing in Canada somehow, so I assume they know swords. 
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HEY GAIL posted:You still with Old Blue? Still coming to Grolle? Still with GARS (and I think they are with Old Blue) but started a new job this August so no leave = no Grolle for me. Next year I will attend something though. At least now I have money for re-enactment stuff and Bolognese lessons.
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Every marine I've ever met has wanted to stab someone with a sword. Even the linguists. Especially the linguists.
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Murgos posted:The Marine swords, officer and enlisted, are both actual weapons and are probably quite usable for their original intended purpose. And then we get into edge geometry and distal taper and... 
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reminder that this was completely unironic marine corps recruiting commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62tnJtLBQzQ also I don't think i've ever seen a contemporary military sword that seemed like a legit weapon but I'm pretty ignorant on such matters
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Siivola posted:The designs are old and proven, but I wouldn’t trust a dress sword to be of proper steel. Odds are they’re made of stainless steel and far as I know, that’s rubbish for making swords out of. If you give an enlisted man a sword, they are liable to lose it in a ditch to carry fewer things, might as well give them a shoddy one.
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And officers don’t need swords in the first place so might as well get them something shiny and gaudy.
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Don Gato posted:Every marine I've ever met has wanted to stab someone with a sword. Even the linguists. Especially the linguists. Around marine biologists never relax, as we say.
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Siivola posted:And officers don’t need swords in the first place so might as well get them something shiny and gaudy. Like the F-35B.
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bewbies posted:reminder that this was completely unironic marine corps recruiting commercial: oooo dress blues and a sword! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dg3Us9ld2g
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bewbies posted:reminder that this was completely unironic marine corps recruiting commercial: wooooo dress blues with a swo-gently caress
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bewbies posted:also I don't think i've ever seen a contemporary military sword that seemed like a legit weapon but I'm pretty ignorant on such matters Smallswords and cavalry sabers came about after the flintlock musket and socket bayonet largely drove armor off the battlefield. Once that happened, if you were fighting on foot, speed mattered a lot more than anything else, so shorter and lighter was the way to go. You wanted just enough blade to stab someone in an important place as quickly as possible, and no more. Cavalry sabers were heavier, but again the goal was different. You needed enough reach to hit a man on foot from the saddle. You also needed enough weight that if you hit someone in the head, it would kill them without the blade breaking. After that, again, speed was more important than power, and lighter was better. By turn of the 20th century they really were useless in combat though, and just became a symbol of authority. So naturally they started being made out of cheap, light metal, with the look being the only thing anyone cared about. The design is fine, but the materials and build quality suck. They'll just break if you try to use it in combat seriously. You could probably get away with stabbing one guy who didn't expect you to do it; even a steak knife works for that. A steak knife is a good comparison for the quality of most modern dress swords, actually. Unless you spend a stupid amount of money to get a combat ready blade for some reason. On a side note, the katana stuck around in Japan for cultural reasons, but it also turned out to be a nice balance between the factors driving smallsword and cavalry saber design. A small sword is quicker, but a katana is almost as fast and has better reach. A cavalry saber is harder hitting and tougher, but the katana is a bit faster and heavy enough. For the brief window where Japan was modernizing their military and carrying a sword into combat was a reasonably good idea, the katana was a good one to have. Of course, they kept issuing full up combat ready blades well into the Second World War, which was a gigantic waste of time and quality steel. Comrade Gorbash fucked around with this message at 14:46 on Oct 16, 2017 |
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When was the last time a sword was actually used to make a kill in combat?
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chitoryu12 posted:When was the last time a sword was actually used to make a kill in combat? Depends on how you define "sword." If you're including machetes probably last night.
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Siivola posted:And officers don’t need swords in the first place Gratz, you just triggered the entire British Army's officer corps
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