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SeanBeansShako posted:You want a sphere of lead to slam into your gut and shred your vital organs bringing your clothing, skin and whatever dirt was around you and the owners mouth deep into a bloody new cavity? don't kinkshame
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Tias posted:Denmark is having a light blizzer, can we talk about cold in warfare? Give me your Simo Häyhas and your mountaintop bunker rushes! Canada has a military base at Shilo that was traditionally used for American and British cold weather trials, since the British didn't have any and the Americans couldn't be bothered to cart their tanks to Alaska. The funny thing is that the Canadians didn't bother testing the Valentine Mk.VII in cold weather until production was almost complete, despite all but 32 tanks of this type being sent to fight in the USSR. However, the Churchill I was tested in Canada explicitly in "conditions similiar to Russia" in early 1941.
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:That makes genocide unactionable. why does that follow they also were really in to slavery which we have now deemed unacceptable
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Milo and POTUS posted:I can't be only person to say ouch out loud. Like id be doubled over with broken ribs and air knocked out of me right? Could be worse 
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Yes, but not the fellow wearing it
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SeanBeansShako posted:You want a sphere of lead to slam into your gut and shred your vital organs bringing your clothing, skin and whatever dirt was around you and the owners mouth deep into a bloody new cavity? I think it was in this thread where i read a description of wanting to be an "Artillery shell blowing a load of shrapnel from above, all over a group of young hot dough boys"
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ughhhh posted:I think it was in this thread where i read a description of wanting to be an "Artillery shell blowing a load of shrapnel from above, all over a group of young hot dough boys"
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Saint Celestine posted:Did the owner survive? If he did not for long.
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HEY GUNS posted:how is that any gayer than the literature that was written during that war for real it was intentional, not the result of repressed lust
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MikeCrotch posted:Could be worse Les Invalides, right?
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Cyrano4747 posted:Les Invalides, right?
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I was gonna say "looks like Leonidas Polk's armor a-ha-ha-ha" but then I remembered Polk was a gigantic fatass and that does not look like a cuirass for a fatass.
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Why didn't the USA ever gently caress around with armored horse cavalry?
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Grand Prize Winner posted:Why didn't the USA ever gently caress around with armored horse cavalry? cataphracts of freedom
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Grand Prize Winner posted:Why didn't the USA ever gently caress around with armored horse cavalry? Small standing army, no real tradition of heavily armored horsemen to cling to, and until relatively recently, North America was heavily forested which obviously isn't ideal for heavy cavalry. Once we expanded further west into the plains heavy cavalry was also not ideal or necessary for the kinds of things the US army used cavalry for, which was primarily fighting natives in small-scale skirmishes and patrolling vast amounts of territory. Light cavalry/mounted infantry was all that was really needed.
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There's a big car racing event near my house this weekend, and as part of it the air farce sent one of their F/A-18s to do some fancy flying (https://www.adelaide500.com.au/the_attractions/program/375/australian_defence_force_display) Something I'd never appreciated before is just how hard it is to track a plane doing low passes. When the pilot wasn't doing loops and standing the plane on its tail, they were doing high-speed low passes and it's really loving disorienting on the ground. By the time the sound reached me the plane was already somewhere completely different, and my house is half a kilometre from the race venue (and presumably ground zero for the aerobatics). And yet, despite the incredible noise the engines put out, each time it came around for another pass I didn't hear a peep until it was practically on top of me. Another surprise was just how quickly the jet disappeared into the distance (the display ended with the plane flying straight up until it was out of view then presumably peacing out back to the airbase). Now if that was, say, a P-47 and it was strafing me, would I be able to hear it coming before its bullets started to land around me? I feel like I'm beginning to understand why German tankers were so wary of Allied air support.
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GotLag posted:There's a big car racing event near my house this weekend, and as part of it the air farce sent one of their F/A-18s to do some fancy flying (https://www.adelaide500.com.au/the_attractions/program/375/australian_defence_force_display) Eh I imagine the F/A-18 runs about 3x as fast as a P-47 so while there's probably some amount of shifting you probably aren't getting to "perceptibly and noticeably separate from its sound" speed in the 'bolt. There's also the fact that it'd be heading in toward you as opposed to horizontally at a specific distance. You'd still be hosed though
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Jamwad Hilder posted:Small standing army, no real tradition of heavily armored horsemen to cling to, and until relatively recently, North America was heavily forested which obviously isn't ideal for heavy cavalry. Once we expanded further west into the plains heavy cavalry was also not ideal or necessary for the kinds of things the US army used cavalry for, which was primarily fighting natives in small-scale skirmishes and patrolling vast amounts of territory. Light cavalry/mounted infantry was all that was really needed. Also armoured cavalry wasn't a sine qua non by the time the US came around. The French reintroduced the idea in the Napoleonic wars but I don't believe eg Britain ever used them in the field.
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Saint Celestine posted:Did the owner survive? I don't think anyone standing within three ranks behind him survived to be honest.
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GotLag posted:There's a big car racing event near my house this weekend, and as part of it the air farce sent one of their F/A-18s to do some fancy flying (https://www.adelaide500.com.au/the_attractions/program/375/australian_defence_force_display) Speed makes it tough for the pilot too - the -18 was probably going 500 knots or so, which is way, way too fast to effectively strafe something. WWII pilots usually tried to do their ground passes at somewhere between 200 and 250 kts. For a midcentury prop plane, you'll hear them a ways off, though it depends how low they're flying.
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Milo and POTUS posted:I don't think anyone standing within three ranks behind him survived to be honest. I hope the horse survived. But I doubt it so.
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Is there such a thing as a definitive history of the English Civil War?
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feedmegin posted:I mean you can just google the dude - Huh, according to the index of "Soldatisches Führertum", Dietrich von Hülsen's actual full name was Hans Jakob Fürchtegott Kasimir von Hülsen. That's quite the mouthful. should bookmark that site, just in case I want to get my hands on volume 5 (the one his short biography is in). Edit: Wait a minute, there are a Hans von Hülsen (mentioned above) and a Johann Dietrich von Hülsen, but none of those two has both names, like our Hans Dietrich von Hülsen-Haeseler. Now I'm really interested to hunt this source down to see if that story is mentioned in any of these biographies. Or if von Haeseler doesn't actually exist. Libluini fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Mar 3, 2018 |
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Kemper Boyd posted:This wasn't a common occurrance for most of recorded European history, though. Armies stayed relatively small after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, and in the 17th century you see armies doing that for a bit but then they shrink again because of logistics and finances. There's a good article in the Journal of Medieval Military History (can't remember the volume) about the army sitting in Venice getting ready for the 4th crusade, and while they caused some havoc iirc it had much more to do with feeding the army than any kind of casual killing of civilians. I think you're not entirely wrong about nationalism but there's a lot more going on Armies as carriers of disease doesn't really become an issue until sieges become significantly longer against much larger concentrations of people (i.e. the movement from castles to city-fortresses) and the use of gunpowder and explosives in general results in less discriminating effects.
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MikeCrotch posted:Could be worse It looks like the 'exit' was higher than the entrance. Large exploding shell fragment perhaps? Edit: Wait... Two holes in the back?
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8 Ball posted:Is there such a thing as a definitive history of the English Civil War? I mean there's not really a 'definitive history' of anything but let alone something as militarily /socially complex as that. Historians love to argue and the 'orthodox view' of anything changes every generation as up and coming historians establish themselves by overturning their elders. That's how historiography works.
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The Revolutions podcast oughta be a decent start.
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8 Ball posted:Is there such a thing as a definitive history of the English Civil War? Dianne Purkis' The English Civil War: A People's History is extremely my jam, but it's not an ideal introduction to the subject, as it assumes a basic knowledge of the timeline.
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8 Ball posted:Is there such a thing as a definitive history of the English Civil War? Civil War: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1660. by Trevor Royle would be my recommendation for an introduction to the period. It's a good narrative general overview.
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SeanBeansShako posted:I hope the horse survived. But I doubt it so. That horse did unspeakable things.
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13th KRRC War Diary, 3rd Mar 1918 posted:The day was rather dull and wet. During the afternoon CAPTAIN SETON-KARR carried out a very interesting reconnoisance in "No mans Land" and discovered new work within 50 yds of our line between POLDERHOEK CHATEAU and JERICHO.
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Taerkar posted:It looks like the 'exit' was higher than the entrance. Large exploding shell fragment perhaps? Presumably the cannonball that got the poor fucker on the bounce
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Note the two minor dents on the right which might have been spent musket balls or canister.
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HEY GUNS posted:found this dude while looking for art Pictured: ye olde mod reading the reports
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HEY GUNS posted:found this dude while looking for art So obviously you stopped looking?
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Nuclear War posted:So obviously you stopped looking? he's going on the powerpoint
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Mr Enderby posted:An army racks up a significant civilian death just by moving thorough the landscape, even without any violence whatsoever. It's hard for us to get our head round what a concentration of hundreds of thousands of people actually meant before there were logistics to support them. In a time before long food supply chains, an army is stripping away food from the surrounding countryside, with no quick way to replenish it. Soldiers are carrying disease, making GBS threads into the water supply in huge volumes. If the army stops for any length of time, outbreaks of typhus and dysentery are almost inevitable. Even if the soldiers are relatively friendly and well behaved, civilians are going need to stay behind closed doors to avoid falling victim to a bit of warm-up sacking. At certain times of year that can keep them away from the field at crucial moments, meaning losing the entire year's food crop. It just seems like depot's etc. are things that are pretty rare up until modern armies. Jack2142 fucked around with this message at 06:20 on Mar 4, 2018 |
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