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someone make a fake rap battle between Wallenstein and Gustavus. alternatively, make a real rap battle between HEY GUNS and someone who's a huge partisan of Gustavus
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Elyv posted:alternatively, make a real rap battle between HEY GUNS and someone who's a huge partisan of Gustavus
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Jun 18, 2018 18:37
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Elyv posted:someone make a fake rap battle between Wallenstein and Gustavus. this is the whitest thing in the history of white people
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Jun 18, 2018 18:52
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Saw this video on Gyrojets. I haven't seen them actually fired before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJAXpyt8-oQ
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Jun 18, 2018 20:04
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Samuel Clemens posted:My name's Wallenstein, and I'm here to say Gustavus Adolphus doing a Scooter cover:"Hit me up with the poo poo that killed Tilly!"
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Jun 18, 2018 20:16
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 comments, My Dad?
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Jun 18, 2018 21:18
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Nenonen posted:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire#Etymology Blah.
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Jun 18, 2018 21:33
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Nenonen posted:
A role model to whom we can all aspire.
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Jun 19, 2018 02:18
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WW2 Data The final chapter for US mines is up, along with some trip-wire flares that I erroneously called mines. In any case, what are the lethal ranges of both AP mines seen today? What can reduce the lethal range down to only 10 feet? What are the differences in all the M2 variants? Do we get to see yet another Firecracker?! All that and more at the blog!
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Jun 19, 2018 04:02
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darthbob88 posted:Over-under on how long until it devolves into duels and lawsuits and people being thrown out windows is 20m. MC Heinrich is such a loving poser. He brags about surviving being thrown out of a window but it was only the second floor and he totally arranged to have that hay bale there.
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Jun 19, 2018 09:59
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Didn't even land in a dungpile!
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Jun 19, 2018 10:50
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This came up in the grog thread and I was wondering it myself: Are there any newer alternatives to John Toland's "Rising Sun" that gives a good overview of the whole war from the Japanese perspective but doesn't suffer from all the outdatedness and "Hirohito Did Nothing Wrong" stuff that Rising Sun has?
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Jun 19, 2018 17:29
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:This came up in the grog thread and I was wondering it myself: Are there any newer alternatives to John Toland's "Rising Sun" that gives a good overview of the whole war from the Japanese perspective but doesn't suffer from all the outdatedness and "Hirohito Did Nothing Wrong" stuff that Rising Sun has? Eri Hottas Japan 1941 does the start well but as you may imagine ends in 1941.
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Jun 19, 2018 17:42
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https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1009115524721242117 The milhist-knower-in-chief is at it again
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Jun 19, 2018 17:53
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The flintlock is a relatively simple design. Why did it take so long to be invented?
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Jun 19, 2018 17:54
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Mexico was a member of the Allies too you orange wannabe fascist.
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Jun 19, 2018 17:58
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I just learned I got a credit for my blog on PBS and that feels good 
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Jun 19, 2018 18:00
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Mycroft Holmes posted:The flintlock is a relatively simple design. Why did it take so long to be invented? it took a long time to be adopted because of production and supply issues, and because colonels have to pay for their regiments' stuff out of pocket that encourages inertia
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Jun 19, 2018 18:05
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Mycroft Holmes posted:The flintlock is a relatively simple design. Why did it take so long to be invented? What do you mean? It was a fairly clear end state simplified evolution of the wheel lock, which was incredibly mechanically complex. The snaplock was an immediate successor to the wheel lock in a couple of decades and used an indirect spark with a flint striker mechanism, and the only major difference for the flintlock was the sear to keep the gun cocked was a less expensive and more reliable.
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Jun 19, 2018 18:06
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:It was a fairly clear end state simplified evolution of the wheel lock, which was incredibly mechanically complex. they developed at around the same time actually
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Jun 19, 2018 18:11
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The flintlock was also a culmination of a lot of technological advancement and enhancements from the miquelet onward, like improvements in metalworking and changes in the lockwork itself (like the springs and their orientation). There was constant development before a large part of the Western world finally settled on one sorta standard lock, and even then all the other variants kept trucking around the world for another century or two until paper and metallic cartridges overruled locks.
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Jun 19, 2018 18:12
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chitoryu12 posted:The flintlock was also a culmination of a lot of technological advancement and enhancements from the miquelet onward, like improvements in metalworking and changes in the lockwork itself (like the springs and their orientation). There was constant development before a large part of the Western world finally settled on one sorta standard lock, and even then all the other variants kept trucking around the world for another century or two until paper and metallic cartridges overruled locks.
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Jun 19, 2018 18:16
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Jobbo_Fett posted:I just learned I got a credit for my blog on PBS and that feels good Nice!
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Jun 19, 2018 18:40
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Post-Roman empire, when did the state begin supplying arms and equipment to soldiers? HEY GUNS posted:tibetans and chinese people used matchlocks into the 20th c, because matchlocks own I'm on my phone right now but on my desktop I have a picture of an Indian soldier using a matchlock in WWII on my computer, pretend I put that here
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Jun 19, 2018 18:40
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Fangz posted:Saw this video on Gyrojets. I haven't seen them actually fired before. This channel is cool because the fat gently caress likes to pretend he's shooting antifa.
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Jun 19, 2018 18:48
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Marxist-Jezzinist posted:This channel is cool because the fat gently caress likes to pretend he's shooting antifa. Fortunately gyrojets are amusingly inaccurate
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HEY GUNS posted:tibetans and chinese people used matchlocks into the 20th c, because matchlocks own  Flintlocks will never die.
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Jun 19, 2018 18:53
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I had no idea the Civ series was so historically accurate
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chitoryu12 posted:
also that dude needs to clean his piece, if i had to do it at night in the dark so does he edit: also if supplies are an issue it's easier to make slow match than it is to find (buy???) flint
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Jun 19, 2018 19:01
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HEY GUNS posted:tibetans and chinese people used matchlocks into the 20th c, because matchlocks own Long barreled antique matchlocks were used effectively by the Miao in Guizhou to harass Qing garrisons, hampered only by the fact that the burning match would give them away at night.
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HEY GUNS posted:it didn't, the spanish were producing things modern historians call miquelet locks in the late 1500s Invest in a better musket or in a better uniform that your mistress likes...
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P-Mack posted:Long barreled antique matchlocks were used effectively by the Miao in Guizhou to harass Qing garrisons, hampered only by the fact that the burning match would give them away at night. did these people ever figure out the way you use that as a decoy though? Tie a rope to some tree branches, about human-height, and tie a few lengths of burning match to the rope, your enemy will think there's an army there
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Jun 19, 2018 19:12
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HEY GUNS posted:that, the smell, and the fact that they don't work in heavy rain are good arguments for anything other than a matchlock I'm sure Zhuge Liang does fake campfires half a dozen times over the course of Three Kingdoms. So someone must have tried it. But there wouldn't be much point since the Qing troops were probably going to respond the same way they would to anything else- by keeping their heads down behind the walls and wondering how they ended up in the rear end end of nowhere getting shot at.
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Jun 19, 2018 19:23
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SeanBeansShako posted:Invest in a better musket or in a better uniform that your mistress likes... hats big
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Jun 19, 2018 19:23
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"Make me a hat made from the fur of the most exotic animal from the new world and a feather *makes gap with both pointing fingers* THIS BIIIG!"
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Jun 19, 2018 19:29
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i'm sure we all remember the last time a famous mercenary subcontractor set up a back channel of communication with a power that was the sometime ally, sometime enemy of his own side https://www.thedailybeast.com/erik-prince-i-cooperated-with-mueller
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HEY GUNS posted:sorry man but wheellocks and matchlocks are cooler wouldn't everyone have carried some flint in their tinderbox?
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ChubbyChecker posted:wouldn't everyone have carried some flint in their tinderbox? edit: also both kinds of musket can be bad for your eyes but the one that makes me paranoid is the flintlock
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Jun 19, 2018 21:15
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chitoryu12 posted:
that dude is also wearing a leather jerkin
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HEY GUNS posted:that dude is also wearing a leather jerkin pity that the pic is cropped. now we don't see his rapier or the warhammer head on his gun
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