Ukraine: The Aristoblyats

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Radical 90s Wizard: Aug 5, 2008; ~SS-18 burning bright,
Bathe me in your cleansing light~

Lol yea thats it, not sure how I forgot such an obvious name

# ? Jun 14, 2022 01:08

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# ? Jun 5, 2024 17:59

Shaddak: Nov 13, 2011

There's also the Janissaries series by Pournelle. A special forces unit is transported to an alien world, and they end up having to fight a Roman legion.

# ? Jun 14, 2022 01:11

Jimmy Smuts: Aug 8, 2000

Shaddak posted:

There's also the Janissaries series by Pournelle. A special forces unit is transported to an alien world, and they end up having to fight a Roman legion.

This sounds like the plot to Predators, but with the predators replaced with Romans.

# ? Jun 14, 2022 01:19

Joke Miriam: Nov 17, 2019

Ah, so military dadfiction is not immune to isekai.

# ? Jun 14, 2022 01:22

Orthanc6: Nov 4, 2009

Joke Miriam posted:

Ah, so military dadfiction is not immune to isekai.

Oh and how:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gate_(novel_series)#Anime

To keep this vaguely relevant, think of this as a picture of Japan's reorientation of military philosophy if after all these decades of pacifism a chance for a good ol' fashioned land grab popped up out of nowhere. Not that Japan is actually planning such a move, but Russia making itself international pariah #1 is certainly making Japan's claims on the Kuril islands more, intriguing for this century.

# ? Jun 14, 2022 01:34

Pine Cone Jones: Dec 6, 2009; You throw me the acorn, I throw you the whip!

# ? Jun 14, 2022 01:37

Kaal: May 22, 2002; through thousands of posts in D&D over a decade, I now believe I know what I'm talking about. if I post forcefully and confidently, I can convince others that is true. no one sees through my facade.

The Emberverse had a good twist on the genre: Three of the books featured a US Coast Guard ship off the coast of Nantucket that gets time-traveled to the bronze age and they set out to remake civilization from the ground up. The rest of the books feature modern society (specifically the Pacific Northwest) that is suddenly afflicted with "the change", where compression engines and electronics magically stop working and the world falls apart - apart from various folks who retain traditional cultural knowledge.

# ? Jun 14, 2022 01:38

zoux: Apr 28, 2006

Kaal posted:

The Emberverse had a good twist on the genre: Three of the books featured a US Coast Guard ship off the coast of Nantucket that gets time-traveled to the bronze age and they set out to remake civilization from the ground up. The rest of the books feature modern society (specifically the Pacific Northwest) that is suddenly afflicted with "the change", where compression engines and electronics magically stop working and the world falls apart - apart from various folks who retain traditional cultural knowledge.

Oh and members of the Portland SCA

# ? Jun 14, 2022 01:44

Kaal: May 22, 2002; through thousands of posts in D&D over a decade, I now believe I know what I'm talking about. if I post forcefully and confidently, I can convince others that is true. no one sees through my facade.

zoux posted:

Oh and members of the Portland SCA

Eugene becomes a hippie wiccan commune, Bend is controlled by cowboy barons, Corvallis becomes a merchant republic run by snobby professors, and Portland devolves into a cannibal society governed by Renaissance Faire - that's just cold-eyed realism.

# ? Jun 14, 2022 01:55

Quackles: Aug 11, 2018; Pixels of Light.

Kaal posted:

Eugene becomes a hippie wiccan commune, Bend is controlled by cowboy barons, Corvallis becomes a merchant republic run by snobby professors, and Portland devolves into a cannibal society governed by Renaissance Faire - that's just cold-eyed realism.

What about Ashland?

_{(For those who don't know, that's where they have the Shakespeare Festival.)}

# ? Jun 14, 2022 03:03

Arrath: Apr 14, 2011

Well that sounds rad

The Tilamook or Siletz take over the Newport region, right? Right?

Arrath fucked around with this message at 03:17 on Jun 14, 2022

# ? Jun 14, 2022 03:14

RFC2324: Jun 7, 2012; http 418

Kaal posted:

Eugene becomes a hippie wiccan commune, Bend is controlled by cowboy barons, Corvallis becomes a merchant republic run by snobby professors, and Portland devolves into a cannibal society governed by Renaissance Faire - that's just cold-eyed realism.

fucks sake. seems like everywhere I go someone is trying to get me to move to the PNW

# ? Jun 14, 2022 03:19

Jaguars!: Jul 31, 2012

I prefer the latest and greatest in the genre, uh,

code:

RUN AH_GEN.BAT

INITIALIZING
SEED # 615430
One Moment...

ROGUE TIMEGHOSTS OF BAIKONUR
By
JOHN CLANCYDOVE

The PLAN GUERILLAS are transported back in
time to help the GOLDEN HORDE defend OSAKA from REVERSE
VAMPIRES of WALLIS/FUTUNA. They must use their future technologies 
of 

[*]CAPTURED SLR
[*]VULCANISED RUBBER
[*]REAGANOMICS

to improve society while preserving them with primitive available technologies.

_{Thank you Pine Cone Jones for your continuing updates}

# ? Jun 14, 2022 03:25

Kaal: May 22, 2002; through thousands of posts in D&D over a decade, I now believe I know what I'm talking about. if I post forcefully and confidently, I can convince others that is true. no one sees through my facade.

Quackles posted:

What about Ashland?

_{(For those who don't know, that's where they have the Shakespeare Festival.)}

Ashland gets wrapped up into the Central Oregon Rancher's Association, and it's on the frontier with the California death lands so it's pretty rough and tumble. Sadly the author doesn't go into how cool their heritage would be (he isn't actually from Oregon, and despite good research he misses things sometimes). However the "Station Eleven" book / TV show does feature a Shakespeare theater troupe in a post-apocalytic world, and I'd imagine they'd have been like that.

Arrath posted:

Well that sounds rad

The Tilamook or Siletz take over the Newport region, right? Right?

Newport and Tillamook get controlled by Corvallis and Portland respectively who run oxen-trains over the old rail lines to reach the coastal ports and do some trade with the Kingdom of Hawaii. But there's the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs and several Native American communities who get featured throughout Idaho, Montana, and Canada (plus some really confused Bronze Age folks who got swapped for the Coast Guard ship). Their cultural traditions as well as their relative isolation and close-knit community are all seen as key survival traits.

The political map changes and expands over time as characters explore the country (and even do some international anecdotes like when the British special forces raid the Tower of London in order to equip themselves to evacuate the royal family):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emberverse_series

Kaal fucked around with this message at 17:35 on Jun 14, 2022

# ? Jun 14, 2022 03:57

Herstory Begins Now: Aug 5, 2003; SOME REALLY TEDIOUS DUMB SHIT THAT SUCKS ASS TO READ ->>

Quackles posted:

What about Ashland?

_{(For those who don't know, that's where they have the Shakespeare Festival.)}

sacrificed by medford to the meth god for bountiful meth harvests

# ? Jun 14, 2022 04:32

Kazinsal: Dec 13, 2011

RFC2324 posted:

fucks sake. seems like everywhere I go someone is trying to get me to move to the PNW

jooooooin uuuuuusssssss

# ? Jun 14, 2022 04:40

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

Shaddak posted:

There's also the Janissaries series by Pournelle. A special forces unit is transported to an alien world, and they end up having to fight a Roman legion.

CIA backed mercs in the Congo grabbed from imminent death in return to be enforcers on an alien planet for a drug cartel. No, seriously, that's the plot.

# ? Jun 14, 2022 05:22

Hyrax Attack!: Jan 13, 2009; We demand to be taken seriously

Jimmy Smuts posted:

This sounds like the plot to Predators, but with the predators replaced with Romans.

That movie was a pretty good time at the theater

# ? Jun 14, 2022 05:27

SavageMessiah: Jan 28, 2009; Emotionally drained and spookified; Toilet Rascal

I remember reading a terrible book ages ago where tons of oil and other resources are discovered a little ways over the Mexican border so naturally troops are sent back in time to win the Alamo so that in the future those resources are in Rightful American Hands�. Naturally.

# ? Jun 14, 2022 05:42

RFC2324: Jun 7, 2012; http 418

SavageMessiah posted:

I remember reading a terrible book ages ago where tons of oil and other resources are discovered a little ways over the Mexican border so naturally troops are sent back in time to win the Alamo so that in the future those resources are in Rightful American Hands™. Naturally.

This is so on the nose it has to be a joke

# ? Jun 14, 2022 06:02

Vincent Van Goatse: Nov 8, 2006; Enjoy every sandwich.; Smellrose

SavageMessiah posted:

I remember reading a terrible book ages ago where tons of oil and other resources are discovered a little ways over the Mexican border so naturally troops are sent back in time to win the Alamo so that in the future those resources are in Rightful American Hands�. Naturally.

That was Clive Cussler. Don't remember the title but the rest of the plot was loving hysterically dumb.

# ? Jun 14, 2022 06:11

Alan Smithee: Jan 4, 2005; A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

Manifest destiny but with a time machine

# ? Jun 14, 2022 06:15

Alan Smithee: Jan 4, 2005; A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop/status/1536283940343914496?s=21

This is best cheese (the cheese was ordered off of postmates)

# ? Jun 14, 2022 06:20

Duzzy Funlop: Jan 13, 2010; Hi there, would you like to try some spicy products?

Alan Smithee posted:

https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop/status/1536283940343914496?s=21

This is best cheese (the cheese was ordered off of postmates)

Was getting strong Dahir Insaat vibes from that thing, but it appears they're serious with it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNLCa6isqJA

# ? Jun 14, 2022 06:41

therobit: Aug 19, 2008; I've been tryin' to speak with you for a long time

Kaal posted:

Eugene becomes a hippie wiccan commune, Bend is controlled by cowboy barons, Corvallis becomes a merchant republic run by snobby professors, and Portland devolves into a cannibal society governed by Renaissance Faire - that's just cold-eyed realism.

So basically nothing changed except no cars?

# ? Jun 14, 2022 06:43

aphid_licker: Jan 7, 2009

Duzzy Funlop posted:

Was getting strong Dahir Insaat vibes from that thing, but it appears they're serious with it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNLCa6isqJA

So how does it stack up to the Tesla autopilot

# ? Jun 14, 2022 07:49

Stravag: Jun 7, 2009

Identified it as a vbied and engaged, shooting up a Palestinian school or apartment building around the tesla probably

# ? Jun 14, 2022 07:54

Herstory Begins Now: Aug 5, 2003; SOME REALLY TEDIOUS DUMB SHIT THAT SUCKS ASS TO READ ->>

at :49 seconds it auto-targets a palestinian school, which clearly is some very advanced threat detection tech

# ? Jun 14, 2022 07:58

therobit: Aug 19, 2008; I've been tryin' to speak with you for a long time

Herstory Begins Now posted:

at :49 seconds it auto-targets a palestinian school, which clearly is some very advanced threat detection tech

Probably working as intended then.

# ? Jun 14, 2022 15:19

CainFortea: Oct 15, 2004

Arrath posted:

Well that sounds rad

The Tilamook or Siletz take over the Newport region, right? Right?

Tillamook becomes a barony for the kingdom in portland. And the protector of portland made barons out of biker gang leaders and street gang leaders. So you end up with knights with devices on their shields like "field sable with Harley rampant"

# ? Jun 14, 2022 16:22

Butter Activities: May 4, 2018

A lot of nice flat angled armor panels

# ? Jun 14, 2022 16:34

Marshal Prolapse: Jun 23, 2012; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

https://sprotyv.mod.gov.ua/action-grid/

Scroll down to Information Hygiene (well that's what google translates it too) and look at the picture of Olga. :lol:

Also as mentioned lots of interesting stuff to read.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sm1VjtQsXrQCf3o8h71Tr_2uiMkaG4HL/view

This one uses a lot of the Fallout guy images in it. :lol:

Marshal Prolapse fucked around with this message at 17:55 on Jun 14, 2022

# ? Jun 14, 2022 17:46

Arrath: Apr 14, 2011

SMEGMA_MAIL posted:

A lot of nice flat angled armor panels

Yeah I was thinking the same thing

# ? Jun 14, 2022 18:50

orange juche: Mar 14, 2012

They have detailed instructions on how to grand theft tank the Russians, neat

# ? Jun 14, 2022 19:03

Big K of Justice: Nov 27, 2005; Anyone seen my ball joints?

Duzzy Funlop posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNLCa6isqJA

The robot arm launching and retrieving drones ...seems very ... un-defense contractor-like. Make the drones disposable and put them in a tube launcher. There I eliminated complexity and created an additional revenue stream with "drone shell reloads".

Where's my consulting check?

# ? Jun 14, 2022 19:15

Sexual Lorax: Mar 17, 2004; HERE'S TO FUCKING; Fun Shoe

Marshal Prolapse posted:

https://sprotyv.mod.gov.ua/action-grid/

Scroll down to Information Hygiene (well that's what google translates it too) and look at the picture of Olga.

# ? Jun 14, 2022 20:43

Robert Facepalmer: Jan 10, 2019

Big K of Justice posted:

The robot arm launching and retrieving drones ...seems very ... un-defense contractor-like. Make the drones disposable and put them in a tube launcher. There I eliminated complexity and created an additional revenue stream with "drone shell reloads".

Where's my consulting check?

I dunno, that arm doesn't look _that_ substantial. I'm sure it'll break just by looking at it... There you go, at least TWO consumables for the same system.

# ? Jun 14, 2022 21:11

Marshal Prolapse: Jun 23, 2012; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Sexual Lorax posted:

# ? Jun 14, 2022 21:18

Pine Cone Jones: Dec 6, 2009; You throw me the acorn, I throw you the whip!

https://twitter.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1536853505050300416?t=VMD3MwavwyDmxwxPvaTkvw&s=19

# ? Jun 15, 2022 00:36

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# ? Jun 5, 2024 17:59

Murgos: Oct 21, 2010

Not that they are anywhere close to it but if you wanted to clear the rest of Ukraine of Russian forces threatening Sevastopol would do it.

# ? Jun 15, 2022 01:27

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