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feedmegin posted:The Norway harbour raids (I assume you're thinking of Narvik here) were well before Pearl Harbour happened, for what it's worth... Yeah, historical timelines go right out the window, simply because the player is going to be present for all of these listed events and I don't want them bouncing across the globe constantly. No matter where you start you're going to run into issues because the war proceeded simultaneously in multiple areas -- Normandy happened after Guadalcanal but before Leyte Gulf, for example. History is an inspiration, because it makes it easier to write plausible conflicts and mission briefings. But my war is not WW2. I'm barely going to be acknowledging that ground conflicts exist, and there will be no nazis and no atomic bombs (though the boss fight superweapons are a sort of A-bomb standin, I guess). FrangibleCover posted:There's the option of the later raids against Tirpitz and general coastal shipping in Norway, including the only time that one of Fisher's Follies sank a ship. quote:Since you have Indian Ocean down and seem to intend a sort of campaign where you circumnavigate the world, maybe you could have a mission based on the Indian Ocean Raid where you have to do your best to evade a greatly superior enemy force while transiting to Australia. It reintroduces the Kido Butai equivalent that defeated the player's team at Pearl Harbor as a significant threat even with all of your hard-won experience in Europe and breaks up the gameplay slightly. That makes good sense, thank you for the suggestion!
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^ Complete opposite of the Kingdom Come douche nozzle right there.
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LingcodKilla posted:Yes you can sign a contract to go into the navy and go straight to buds after boot camp. If you wash out they give you a few options, usually Nuke, CT or IT. Being an IT gives you a back door to serving with them again in a limited role as support. If you wash out again they send you to fleet with an open contract. That means pushing a broom or painting on a ship. CT?
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Crypto tech.
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You're welcome.
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Thank god for all the labels or who would know what it meant
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One of those guys needs a big DEBT label
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They forgot to make all the people in the bottom row white.
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I'll take one bag of prosperity if you please.
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Intelligence. Also where you find Navy linguists.
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zoux posted:
Wow that’s like a proto Ben Garrison
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Don Gato posted:Intelligence. Also where you find Navy linguists. CTI are the linguistic weenies CTN are network CTT technical equipment operators CTM maintenance for the equipment Fairly cush jobs in the reserves too.
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Don Gato posted:Intelligence. Also where you find Navy linguists. Rent-A-Cop posted:Crypto tech. LingcodKilla posted:CTI are the linguistic weenies
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zoux posted:
e: reminds me of this:
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For a moment I was wondering what they meant by 'the united states fought for spanish oppression'
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Also was the industrial oppression of Hawaii from US based corps
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It also seems to be leaving out the part where the us just kinda refused to leave the Philippines after liberating them.
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Agean90 posted:It also seems to be leaving out the part where the us just kinda refused to leave the Philippines after liberating them. Hey man, you're not one of the cool kids if you don't have a colony(s) to occupy and oppress. Edit: the best part about that onion article is the part about Belgium Ice Fist fucked around with this message at 18:37 on Aug 20, 2019 |
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Our Dumb Century is the best thing the Onion's ever done
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zoux posted:Our Dumb Century is the best thing the Onion's ever done lmao
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Assassination of Archduke Spreads Fear at Archduke Convention
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ChubbyChecker posted:
It's a simple and cruel joke, but have to admit "after a protracted firefight, during which many German units were forced to reload, Germany emerged victorious" made me chuckle.
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https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII/status/1163879529938657280 Ah yes, hello mein Furher, we hav made an oopsie
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Tbf weren't Soviet divisions smaller?
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Yeah a soviet rifle or tank Corp s was closer to what in the west would be called an infantry or armoires division.
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Part of this is the Soviet mobilisation effort, part of it is the reconstituting of divisions from destroyed ones, right?
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zoux posted:Our Dumb Century is the best thing the Onion's ever done Ottoman Empire Almost Declares War On Itself (instead decides to kick that particular can down the road into the 20s)
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:armoires division. The Fascists will fear the might of socialist cabinetry!
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Mostly the large manpower pool the Soviets could draw from, and the mass mobilization/total war footing the Soviets switched to. The nazis underestimated how deep Soviet reserves were, and it appeared to them that they were creating new divisions out of seemingly thin air.
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Saint Celestine posted:Mostly the large manpower pool the Soviets could draw from, and the mass mobilization/total war footing the Soviets switched to. The nazis underestimated how deep Soviet reserves were, and it appeared to them that they were creating new divisions out of seemingly thin air. Asoviogenesis Also that quote is from OKH CoS Franz Halder, who noted in his diary on July 3 that "this war is over" (also instrumental in the creation of the clean Wehrmacht myth) zoux fucked around with this message at 20:07 on Aug 20, 2019 |
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Hey folks, I could use some advice for the WW2 ships game I'm working on. I've sketched out a rough route, and corresponding historical battles/events, for the player to take over the course of the game: Honestly if you are doing an Ace Combat style fake-history then reach back to WW1; a Jutland three parter 'the run south', 'the run north', 'clash of titans', has been sorely missing from naval games. Just use heavy cruisers for the battlecruiser portion and come up with a reason for Battleship lines to meet in the Pacific.
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Thanks for the answers. It's quite interesting to think that such a cutting edge military force grew up out of an administrative quirk.
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I’m looking for a good winter coat and I thought maybe something milsurp would be cheap and effective but I don’t know what’s good and what’s not. Someone who knows field dress got any recommendations?
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fat bossy gerbil posted:I’m looking for a good winter coat and I thought maybe something milsurp would be cheap and effective but I don’t know what’s good and what’s not. Someone who knows field dress got any recommendations? Sorta depends on how cold the environment is. Check out Sportsman's Guide.
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My ex bought and wore a USMC jacket at a milsurp store and got beaten into hospital for it. I dunno how exactly to avoid that, but avoid it, or try to. Definitely don’t be a gay.
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The navy just switched uniforms from the blue grey NWU type 1. The outer shell jacket are all surplus now. Match that to the still current black thermal and you got a cheap bad weather jacket. Also not likely to beat up for it since lol navy
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:My ex bought and wore a USMC jacket at a milsurp store and got beaten into hospital for it. I dunno how exactly to avoid that, but avoid it, or try to. Definitely don’t be a gay. Yeah that, uh, doesn't sound like the jacket's fault.
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chitoryu12 posted:Yeah that, uh, doesn't sound like the jacket's fault. He was straight off a navy enlistment too for what it’s worth
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII/status/1163879529938657280 Yeah I love how quickly his opinion shifted: https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII/status/1146537043826302976 Narrator: He was.
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Tons of people thought the ACW would be wrapped up by the end of 1861
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