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JaucheCharly posted:It was a spear, sry. gently caress!
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VanSandman posted:Something something Hey Gal works the Pole something
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Pornographic Memory posted:i saw this and felt like it would be pretty relevant to this thread's interests: A Czech army knife, you say Truga fucked around with this message at 15:41 on Oct 27, 2017 |
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Pornographic Memory posted:i saw this and felt like it would be pretty relevant to this thread's interests:
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HEY GUNS posted:against and for, at different times who here hasn't fought a pole or two
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check out my new name, thanks JcDent pew pew pew
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HEY GUNS posted:gently caress! Recently a guy was shot and killed with a crossbow in Dundee. An argument at a party got out of hand.
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HEY GUNS posted:check out my new name, thanks JcDent Not very honorable
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JaucheCharly posted:Recently a guy was shot and killed with a crossbow in Dundee. An argument at a party got out of hand. the early modern period will always be with us, just under the surface of our comfortable modern lives
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gradenko_2000 posted:Are "infantry guns" still a thing? I'm referring to a gun that you use in a direct-fire role that wasn't designed to be an anti-tank gun. https://gfycat.com/GivingPessimisticItaliangreyhound
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You're so far away from Hegelian Dialectics now.
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HEY GUNS posted:the early modern period will always be with us, just under the surface of our comfortable modern lives I don't know, it seems we're reverting to the period
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gradenko_2000 posted:Are "infantry guns" still a thing? I'm referring to a gun that you use in a direct-fire role that wasn't designed to be an anti-tank gun. I think they basically got replaced by a combination of air support, mortars, heavy machineguns, and AFVs. It's kind of awkward to lug one around in a modern mechanized military. But they still make HE shells for most tanks. And between that and the rest of the stuff you have, there's not a huge need to lob big explosive shells directly at things from a static position. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Oct 27, 2017 |
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Pornographic Memory posted:i saw this and felt like it would be pretty relevant to this thread's interests: You cannot tell me that this was not made to sell at a 16th century mall kiosk as part of a "vampire hunting kit"
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Pornographic Memory posted:i saw this and felt like it would be pretty relevant to this thread's interests: Huh, so you can make sure it's OK to eat meat, hunt and kill a meat source, and then butcher the kill, all with one handy-dandy multi tool.
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FAUXTON posted:Huh, so you can make sure it's OK to eat meat, hunt and kill a meat source, and then butcher the kill, all with one handy-dandy multi tool. All for only $19.99!
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Pornographic Memory posted:i saw this and felt like it would be pretty relevant to this thread's interests: What's 16th century Czech for Squall Leonhart?
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:What's 16th century Czech for Squall Leonhart?
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HEY GUNS posted:Strč prst skrz krk skrz my krk
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OwlFancier posted:I think they basically got replaced by a combination of air support, mortars, heavy machineguns, and AFVs. The Brits in particular love their hesh rounds as it tends to make a mess of anything it touches without modern composite armour and even then will certainly be a brown trouser warning for the occupants as it might be followed up before yours ears have finished ringing with a kinetic penetrator.
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I'm not sure if I should post this in the scale model thread or here, but Here's a article on the National Air and Space Museum restoring the wings of a He 219 'Owl' night fighter. In addition to all the work in what sounds close to macro-model painting, it also talks about the decision to restore the aircraft as it historically was, instead of it RLM regulation. (Apparently lots of 'spergs emailed to say the Balkan crosses were in the "wrong place" IE not the place where the RLM rules said they should be.)
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SlothfulCobra posted:You're so far away from Hegelian Dialectics now. If I served as an inspiration, that's only fair; I know poo poo all about philosophy and some poo poo about guns!
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When your halloween shopping sets off your pedantry:
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Disinterested posted:When your halloween shopping sets off your pedantry: You're probably the only one hoo noticed or cared
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canyoneer posted:You're probably the only one hoo noticed or cared
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I bought a cheap Union soldier costume for Halloween and I'm worried parts of it might be historically inaccurate.
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Disinterested posted:When your halloween shopping sets off your pedantry: It's a pretty dank helmet either way. Vincent Van Goatse posted:I bought a cheap Union soldier costume for Halloween and I'm worried parts of it might be historically inaccurate. Does it not include the katana?
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I bought a cheap Union soldier costume for Halloween and I'm worried parts of it might be historically inaccurate. Link Edit: https://www.halloweencostumes.com/child-general-robert-e-lee-costume.html Well... at least we don't have like, "Sexy confederate soldier costume" yet Saint Celestine fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Oct 27, 2017 |
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JcDent posted:I don't think they're a thing anymore, unless they happen to be in AVRE's or something. Currently, a infantry squad had man portable stuff like LAWs, RPGs and Carl Gustavs, as well as under-barrel grenade launchers to take care of MG nests and other stuff that you needed a stubby StuG for. And when you need something bigger removed, you get an MBT to roll in and deliver some of that 120mm goodness. And if that doesn't work/you're stuck in some shithole that doesn't have tank access, artillery and air strikes exist. Automatic grenade launchers fill some of that role between an under-barrel gl and a mortar and I think would be the most analogous to infantry guns, especially the WW1 light support guns like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_d%27Infanterie_de_37_mod%E8le_1916_TRP
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GreyjoyBastard posted:That's why everyone should have one for home defense I actually keep a warhammer by my bed, in case someone breaks in or something. Ok, I bought it after watching too much Game of Thrones and had to do something with it, once it had arrived.
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Saint Celestine posted:Link You fool! Don't------  oh no
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Huh. Been a while since I saw a Hitmen for Destiny avatar. Is Trixie Slaughterhouse for President still ongoing?
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A period accurate uniform with all the kit will set you back like ~$1200, although taking an 1855 Springfield and bayonet to a party is probably a bad idea.
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Anyone here know if the series about the US bomber crews ever got off the ground(hurrr)? It was called The Mighty Eight or something, to follow the Pacific and BoB.
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The Mighty Eighth in reference the 8th Air Force, and supposedly it's in production with a huge budget and should be out ~2019. EDIT: The name is a bit of an anachronism. It comes from the title of Roger Freeman's book about the 8 AF during World War 2 which was published in 1970 and was picked up as a nickname after that. Comrade Gorbash fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Oct 27, 2017 |
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Comrade Gorbash posted:Post-WW2, crew serviced recoilless rifles seem to have ended up taking over this role for pretty much everyone. They were generally designed for the anti-tank role, but were also used pretty extensively for direct-fire support. The US designed the M20 as an anti-tank gun in WW2 but by Korea found it wasn't effective against the T-34. It still turned out to be extremely useful against pillboxes, lighter armored vehicles, dug in infantry - basically the sorts of targets you describe. The M40 was used in similar ways in Vietnam. The Carl etc are basically a logical portable evolution of the recoilless rifle (firing principles are the same, capabilities are similar), which trades some firepower for mobility.
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That dude lives, kind of amazing how bad HEAT is at killing things that aren't armor.
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Overpressure makes most of the sound and visual effects for an explosion, but it's the fragments that kill. And HEAT warheads are not made to make fragments.
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Kafouille posted:Overpressure makes most of the sound and visual effects for an explosion, but it's the fragments that kill. And HEAT warheads are not made to make fragments. Well, sorta. If the pressure wave and subsequent vaccum was powerful enough...say... from a thermobaric, it could definitely kill.
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