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What is the most powerful flying bug?
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🦋 15 3.71%
🦇 115 28.47%
🪰 12 2.97%
🐦 67 16.58%
dragonfly 94 23.27%
🦟 14 3.47%
🐝 87 21.53%
Total: 404 votes
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Vomik
Jul 29, 2003

This post is dedicated to the brave Mujahideen fighters of Afghanistan

lmao

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fanfic insert
Nov 4, 2009

:lmao:

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

Ardennes
May 12, 2002

Slavvy posted:

This sounds awesome tbh

It is hilarious about the passive-aggression from the Russian-Tsarist side about every random village that is taken.

To be honesty, I slightly absolutely hate everyone on social media following this war.

Buffer
May 6, 2007
I sometimes turn down sex and blowjobs from my girlfriend because I'm too busy posting in D&D. PS: She used my credit card to pay for this.
this war turned the entire internet into the paradox interactive forums, so I think hating everyone a little is a normal reaction

Cuttlefush
Jan 15, 2014

gotta have my purp

Ardennes posted:

It is hilarious about the passive-aggression from the Russian-Tsarist side about every random village that is taken.

To be honesty, I slightly absolutely hate everyone on social media following this war.

Only slightly?

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

https://twitter.com/yarotrof/status/1620868286987501568?s=20

Special Delivery to PUTLER!

Zedhe Khoja
Nov 10, 2017

sürgünden selamlar
yıkıcılar ulusuna

the soviets loved naming random tiny villages stuff like:
karl marx

communism

socialism

and everyones favorite: Bolshevik

no really it was their favorite. there's dozens of these things

Ardennes
May 12, 2002

Cuttlefush posted:

Only slightly?

Irony

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

Zedhe Khoja posted:

no really it was their favorite. there's dozens of these things

Only dozens? Think I was looking up one village name and got like 57 different results. Or maybe someone mentioned it somewhere.

Jel Shaker
Apr 19, 2003

tristeham posted:

georgians looking forward to do some ethnic cleansing of their own

they’re doing really well economically so idk why she wants to tip over the apple cart, georgina is stuffed with russian tourists and their terrible driving , only matched by the georgians terrible driving

Lord of Pie
Mar 2, 2007



plinkey no :ohdear:

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Very modern to make zelensky wearing a dress.

Zedhe Khoja
Nov 10, 2017

sürgünden selamlar
yıkıcılar ulusuna
making it out of sand was remarkably farsighted

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



I will be purchasing Atomic Heart in support of Russia.

Cao Ni Ma
May 25, 2010




glory to the shitters

Megamissen
Jul 19, 2022

any post can be a kannapost
if you want it to be

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Heil shitler

CODChimera
Jan 29, 2009

Lostconfused posted:

lol

https://twitter.com/albir2024/status/1620839147295617025

Didn't even start training Ukrainians how to drive these things? Are you serious?

Someone who knows German might want to check this, because, lmao.

lol the west really are loving around, kinda sucks for Ukraine but not as much as when the west abandons them completely

John Charity Spring
Nov 4, 2009

SCREEEEE

Zedhe Khoja posted:

the soviets loved naming random tiny villages stuff like:
karl marx

communism

socialism

and everyones favorite: Bolshevik

no really it was their favorite. there's dozens of these things


better than having a billion Washingtons and Unions and Lincolns all over the place tbh. these have some pizzazz

PoontifexMacksimus
Feb 14, 2012

Lostconfused posted:

lol

https://twitter.com/albir2024/status/1620839147295617025

Didn't even start training Ukrainians how to drive these things? Are you serious?

Someone who knows German might want to check this, because, lmao.

I never thought about it in that way before, but it's actually kind of hosed up that West Germany just kept using the Nazi naming pattern for their tanks. It's not like it's an ancient Prussian custom to name military things after cats, the Nazi propaganda machine invented the idea and West Germany just kept going with it, and we all decided that was normal??

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

Slavvy posted:

Heil shitler

OctaMurk
Jun 21, 2013

PoontifexMacksimus posted:

I never thought about it in that way before, but it's actually kind of hosed up that West Germany just kept using the Nazi naming pattern for their tanks. It's not like it's an ancient Prussian custom to name military things after cats, the Nazi propaganda machine invented the idea and West Germany just kept going with it, and we all decided that was normal??

who gives a poo poo, many countries just name their military equipment based on what sounds cool

Danann
Aug 4, 2013

https://twitter.com/TheIntlMagz/status/1620824122011025408

they should rename volgograd to stalingrad imo

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Zedhe Khoja posted:

the soviets loved naming random tiny villages stuff like:
karl marx

communism

socialism

and everyones favorite: Bolshevik

no really it was their favorite. there's dozens of these things


that’s what I do in Workers and Resources as well

Ardennes
May 12, 2002

OctaMurk posted:

who gives a poo poo, many countries just name their military equipment based on what sounds cool

Ah shucks look it looks like we looped back around to Panther, oh well.

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost
Just call 30% of things the Model 1 and hope it works out.

Orange Devil
Oct 1, 2010

Wullie's reign cannae smother the flames o' equality!

PoontifexMacksimus posted:

I never thought about it in that way before, but it's actually kind of hosed up that West Germany just kept using the Nazi naming pattern for their tanks. It's not like it's an ancient Prussian custom to name military things after cats, the Nazi propaganda machine invented the idea and West Germany just kept going with it, and we all decided that was normal??

Ever thought about American helicopter names?

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

The Hopi will be a good helicopter hopefully.

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011


i want a putin calendar to always fill me with vengeance while i sleep with it on the other pillow by my face

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Some Guy TT posted:

i want a putin calendar to always fill me with vengeance while i sleep with it on the other pillow by my face

A true mega alpha premium chad black diamond class plus edition macho dude would get an Erdogan one too.

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

Orange Devil posted:

Ever thought about American helicopter names?

It's got the same ring as the tribal class of the royal navy.

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

OctaMurk posted:

who gives a poo poo, many countries just name their military equipment based on what sounds cool

That’s not really true though, naming conventions do have meaning. Take British and American SP guns. The Priest was so named because of the machine gun mount looking like a pulpit, but every gun since, Bishop, Sexton, Abbot, Paladin, the ill-named Crusader, held to that convention.

So, let’s look at German naming conventions. The Volksmarine named surface ships after socialist heroes, Rudolf Egelhoffer, Ernst Thälmann, Karl Marx, Karl Liebnecht, Friedrich Engels for example. If names are unimportant, the unified Bundsmarine would do the same right?

No, they renamed them after German towns, Grevesmühlen, Bad Doberan, Lübz and so on. Now, why would the Socialist state warrant renaming ships but not the Nazis?

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Ardennes posted:

Ah shucks look it looks like we looped back around to Panther, oh well.

After that there is no choice but to go to tiger

Reminder that their just retired IFV was called marder

It's replacement is the Puma, which was a heavy armoured car in WW2

Imo the bundeswehr is run by people who believe in the clean Wehrmacht and feel like they gotta hand it to their ancestors

mlmp08 posted:

Just call 30% of things the Model 1 and hope it works out.

I think of this as one of those dumb American things they just won't give up out of pride no matter how stupid and unwieldy it becomes, like imperial measurements

PoontifexMacksimus
Feb 14, 2012

Frosted Flake posted:

There are some really good ones. At least consider reading Civil War Logistics: A Study of Military Transportation and Civil War Supply and Strategy:
Feeding Men and Moving Armies
.

Hess is the only very good military historian of the American Civil War I've read. He's not writing about the brilliance of General Lee and the glory of Pickett's Charge blah blah all of that Shelby Foote stuff, but well-researched works grounded in the military sciences. His book on Field Artillery is the only worthwhile one on the ACW I've read and he revolutionized the discipline generally in his groundbreaking study of Rifle Muskets, followed by one on Infantry Tactics that upended 150 years of myth-making still repeated in popular histories. His books on logistics are worth a read both in understanding logistics generally, and the American Civil War specifically.

e: For example, the number of supply wagons per thousand soldiers was only twelve in the Napoleonic Wars but many times that by 1865. That's a pretty dramatic leap that's often overlooked.



This was titled "First Federal Wagon Train to Enter Petersburg after the Fall of the City". It was taken on April 3, 1865. The wagons are neatly arranged and the train stretches off as far as one can see into the distance along the street. That's a big difference from Confederate soldiers who were often too sick to fight from foraging green corn in the countryside.

Regarding Hess, what is the difference between those two books on ACW logistics if I can only procure and read one for the time being? Which to prioritize?

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

PoontifexMacksimus posted:

Regarding Hess, what is the difference between those two books on ACW logistics if I can only procure and read one for the time being? Which to prioritize?

One is strategic one is operational.

e: Let me check which real quick. “Logistics” is strategic, a good broad overview by transportation type, river, rail, coastal etc. “Supply and strategy” is operational, by area of operations, Kentucky-Tennessee, Vicksburg, Atlanta, Northern Virginia etc.

Frosted Flake has issued a correction as of 00:45 on Feb 2, 2023

tristeham
Jul 31, 2022

Ardennes posted:

To be honesty, I slightly absolutely hate everyone on social media following this war.

they should all be sent to the front lines

CODChimera
Jan 29, 2009

tristeham posted:

they should all be sent to the front lines

:hmmyes:

PoontifexMacksimus
Feb 14, 2012

Orange Devil posted:

Ever thought about American helicopter names?

*1960:s West German general reviewing a Bell UH-1 "Iroquois" and sighing wistfully about what could have been*

Frosted Flake posted:

One is strategic one is operational.

e: Let me check which real quick. “Logistics” is strategic, a good broad overview by transportation type, river, rail, coastal etc. “Supply and strategy” is operational, by area of operations, Kentucky-Tennessee, Vicksburg, Atlanta, Northern Virginia etc.

Thank you as always! I would start out with Logistics then...

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Cuttlefush
Jan 15, 2014

gotta have my purp

PoontifexMacksimus posted:

*1960:s West German general reviewing a Bell UH-1 "Iroquois" and sighing wistfully about what could have been*

Thank you as always! I would start out with Logistics then...

meanwhile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2DZ9k7E690

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