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aphid_licker posted:That's my experience with CMANO. I splatter messily because I have no idea how many [ORDNANCE] I have to allocate to take out an SA-42069 battery, but erring on the side of overkill means I have nothing left for [MISSION_OBJECTIVE] so the next time in I use the minimum number I just learned, but it doesn't feel like I'm learning tactics really, I'm clearly just trial and erroring my way through. And next scenario I'm using stuff from a wholly different era and country so now I gotta start over. Yeah, I've only played the Northern Inferno standalone missions, but it sometimes feels like a game of chess where pointlessly losing a pawn can doom you. It's nice when it clicks sometimes though and I figure something out, like "ok, their ships have surface-to-surface missiles that make short work of mine, but they have no SAM support, so what if I turn off my active sensors and use the planes for spotting instead? Bingo."
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There's probably words for that kind of mission design, sorta open vs. everything has one correct purpose you have to figure out. I mean the big one is not giving me time before the mission to change my fuckin weapon loadouts if I wanna try something different.
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Dec 5, 2019 19:57
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Godholio posted:They don't even need to do that kind of poo poo. I loving HATE the F-14, but god drat this was well done.
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EvilMerlin posted:I loving HATE the F-14, but god drat this was well done. m-mm-..... MOOOODDDDSSSS?????
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The F14 is either the American Panther tank or the flying M14. I’m not sure which I want to roll with right now so pick your poison.
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Cyrano4747 posted:The F14 is either the American Panther tank or the flying M14. I’m not sure which I want to roll with right now so pick your poison. It has its own category, because neither the Panther or the M14 were deemed to be cool because of a movie.
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Dec 5, 2019 23:00
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I really don't want to sink money into this, but it looks amazing.
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NightGyr posted:Cartridge start from a button on the nose gear is the most cold war way to get going. The good ol' open palm slam on the video tape.
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Cyrano4747 posted:The F14 is either the American Panther tank or the flying M14. I’m not sure which I want to roll with right now so pick your poison. It looks cool as gently caress and the GI Joe toy based on it was awesome
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Smiling Jack posted:It looks cool as gently caress and the GI Joe toy based on it was awesome Cobra Rattler would like a word with you
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Nebakenezzer posted:I really would like to learn more about other nation's command and control systems. I'm really hoping that maybe they learned from the American/Soviet experience about PALs and being one point safe. I'm pretty sure a Royal Navy boomer captain can glass Moscow or Washington without needing any PAL.
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Smiling Jack posted:It looks cool as gently caress and the GI Joe toy based on it was awesome The correctest take.
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feedmegin posted:I'm pretty sure a Royal Navy boomer captain can glass Moscow or Washington without needing any PAL. Doesn't matter, he can't get a PAL anyway. 
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Smiling Jack posted:It looks cool as gently caress and the GI Joe toy based on it was awesome Swat cats
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McNally posted:It has its own category, because neither the Panther or the M14 were deemed to be cool because of a movie. F14s were cool before the movie
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Cyrano4747 posted:The F14 is either the American Panther tank or the flying M14. I’m not sure which I want to roll with right now so pick your poison. The F-14 is the American Arrow. If we'd just continued building them well into and past the Advanced Strike Tomcat project it'd rain donuts, cats would obey commands, and we'd have light speed travel by now. I love the thing simply because it's the one of the most inefficiently efficient planes ever built.
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Lightbulb Out posted:F14s were cool before the movie Yeah, the final countdown is great
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Dec 6, 2019 01:33
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I wanna compare that RIO with the Top Gun PC game from the 90s Does he still say "look at the pretty streeeaaamerrrs!!" in a mocking tone when you fire off all your missiles at once?
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Dec 6, 2019 01:57
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hobbesmaster posted:Yeah, the final countdown is great QFT
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Smiling Jack posted:It looks cool as gently caress and the GI Joe toy based on it was awesome Stupid USS Flagg was not to scale with it though!!!
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Syrian Lannister posted:Cobra Rattler would like a word with you Two things can be awesome. I had the cobra sr-71 knockoff and it also owned bones. Never got the skystriker or the rattler.
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Dec 6, 2019 02:36
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The GI Joe F-16 kicked rear end, fwiw.
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Minto Took posted:The GI Joe F-16 kicked rear end, fwiw. There was an F-16? I just remember an x-29 forward swept wing one apart from the F-14.
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priznat posted:There was an F-16? I just remember an x-29 forward swept wing one apart from the F-14. One of my best Christmas presents: https://www.yojoe.com/vehicles/93/ghoststriker/
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Minto Took posted:One of my best Christmas presents: https://www.yojoe.com/vehicles/93/ghoststriker/ Oh wild! That was after my time for gi joe, no wonder. The x-29 plane was also very cool. I didn’t have that but I did have the Cobra SR-71 and it was the coolest.
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priznat posted:Oh wild! That was after my time for gi joe, no wonder. I had the X-29, two Sky Strikers (the original plus one that was blacked out), plus this rarer gem: 
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I still have most of my GI Joe vehicles. I've got the giant black jet one setting in a trunk right next to my desk! 
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My parents wouldn't buy me action figures.
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My dad bought me that SR-71 for my 11th birthday. My mother, who had divorced my dad nine years earlier, gave it to Goodwill the next day because she said it was "disgusting military propaganda".
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BIG HEADLINE posted:I had the X-29, two Sky Strikers (the original plus one that was blacked out), plus this rarer gem: “Stealth” with external guns and wtf ever is going on up top. It’s like jeez did these guys ever study RCS Memento posted:My dad bought me that SR-71 for my 11th birthday. Well she wasn’t wrong about the last part
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Dec 6, 2019 15:01
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“Awesome military propeganda” would be more accurate.
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aphid_licker posted:I'm clearly just trial and erroring my way through. Isn't that the whole of milhist right there? Try something, get your rear end kicked. If smart: try something different next war.
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hobbesmaster posted:“Awesome military propeganda” would be more accurate. The author of the comic, Larry Hama, was a Japanese-American Vietnam War veteran (combat engineer) who had relatives imprisoned in the US camps during WW2. The comics were a bit more nuanced than a typical kids comic, to put it mildly.
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Smiling Jack posted:The author of the comic, Larry Hama, was a Japanese-American Vietnam War veteran (combat engineer) who had relatives imprisoned in the US camps during WW2.
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Lightbulb Out posted:F14s were cool before the movie Agreed: I was looking for images of Roy Fokker's Skull Squadron Valkyrie, but found this and it is a bit more on target Smiling Jack posted:Two things can be awesome. I had the cobra sr-71 knockoff and it also owned bones. Never got the skystriker or the rattler. Same, it still sits in a closet. Now that I've seen the OG GI Joe again, I realize that the pilot is wearing briefs outside his flight suit
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Nebakenezzer posted:
Debriefing finally making sense
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InAndOutBrennan posted:Isn't that the whole of milhist right there? Try something, get your rear end kicked. If smart: try something different next war. I’d say it’s more like insisting on fighting the next war just like the last one with a healthy dose of willful ignorance of why that’s a bad idea
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brains posted:I’d say it’s more like insisting on fighting the next war just like the last one with a healthy dose of willful ignorance of why that’s a bad idea Yeah but the next step is to adapt when fighting the last war again isn't working.
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Godholio posted:Yeah but the next step is to adapt when fighting the last war again isn't working. Just following up to Godholio for his userpic. Want more awesome Russian flags? Here are some awesome Russian flags: https://twitter.com/fabrice_deprez/status/1148559330310049792 I don't think any are as cool as atombear. However: https://twitter.com/fabrice_deprez/status/1148582776624623621
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Jesus. Today’s shooting at NAS Pensacola was done by Saudi military there for training.
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